The life Queenslanders have led with relatively few and unobtrusive restrictions will now end and be replaced by an emerging global order that hives off the vaccinated from the unvaccinated and accepts large caseloads as the price of doing business but knows not what will come of recent surges from the UK to Germany to Singapore and the drumbeat of numbers keeping steady time in the United States.

After the borders reopen, the Brisbane airport’s international terminal will come out of mothballs; flight rosters will begin to take shape, and reconnecting with the world and the rest of Australia will slowly resume …