Australia has been told that it needs to move on from its “fascination with zero cases” of the CCP virus and return to pre-COVID-19 normality, a health expert has said. Prof. Shitij Kapur, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Melbourne, said the nation had done a good job with the handling of COVID-19. However, it has left Australians stuck in what he termed a “golden cage.” “I use that metaphor because it looks wonderful and shiny from the inside, and you are clearly protected from the things that are outside coming in,” he wrote in the Australian Financial Review (AFR). “But of course, you can’t leave.” Kapur said breaking free of the cage was now a dilemma for Australia and warned that the option of waiting for the virus to die down in the rest of the world, in order to leave the cage, was impossible. …