Similarly three cases in Ballarat was bad enough but better than the four of Friday.

Small mercies.

There is also the hope of health professionals that this might be the start of some stability in numbers.

But whatever way you look at it, this virus is out there and just waiting to go rampaging through populations.

Small as the numbers might seem, the only thing that stands between it attacking the old and vulnerable is the collective effort of distancing and social isolation.

We have done this before and can do it again.