The phrase “Covid-19 Wave 2” is now official in Australia. It began in the south-eastern State of Victoria three weeks ago as a result of allegedly negligent community transmission of the virus through security breaches in the hotel quarantining of returned overseas travellers. Victoria is reaping the impact of Covid-19’s Reproduction Number—its R0—a figure I wrote about in March. Covid-19 is as close to a sloppily efficient biological weapon as they come. It punishes societies without tight population controls, meaning the Free World. Each case can potentially infect 2-6 other people. Victoria’s Wave 2 came with an R0 above 2. The State’s chief health officer is hoping for an R0.5. Only in that way can 500 daily infections halve and halve repeatedly, to maybe…