The Medico-Legal Society of Victoria

**  Please note due to the uncertainty surrounding the Corona pandemic at this time, all 2020 meetings have been postponed until 2021 **

To view the Webinar that was held on August 25, 2020 please open the full page on the 'more information' link below and click on the link. The transcript is also available on this page.

**  Please note due to the uncertainty surrounding the Corona pandemic at this time, all 2020 meetings have been postponed until 2021 **   Steve...

Living with COVID19: The New Normal This year a beta coronavirus since named SARS-CoV-2 originating in Wuhan, (China), spread throughout the world causing a respiratory and inflammatory disease which has become known as COVID-19. This virus has infected millions of people, hundreds of thousands have lost their lives and many more have had their livelihoods significantly threatened. This pandemic has disrupted the way we travel, work, communicate and interact at all levels. The reality that we may never return to life ‘before coronavirus’ (BC) is becoming apparent. It is time to contemplate the ‘new normal’, life ‘after coronavirus’ (AC).

Mars is the most Earth-like world of the Solar System, characterised by uncanny similarities to our own planet, as well as stark differences – most of which can be understood by its smaller size. There is much talk today about the possible role of Mars as a lifeboat for our own planet. Aspirations among some of the world’s most innovative space entrepreneurs vie in the public imagination with now-discredited plans for wholesale one-way colonisation, with so-called terra-forming of Mars at the far end of the unreality spectrum. This talk argues that while human exploration of the planet is highly desirable, wholesale colonisation is not only unnecessary and impractical, but also unethical.

**  Please note due to the uncertainty surrounding the Corona pandemic at this time, all 2020 meetings have been postponed until 2021 **