For millions of people throughout most of the world, COVID-19 remains just as much of a threat to public health as it was a year ago and so many of us still find ourselves waiting for enough of our fellow citizens to get vaccinated to make our normal lives safe again.
But while that situation may describe what most of the world has to deal with, there are some outliers like New Zealand and Taiwan that made impressive strides in stamping out the spread of the virus last year.
And in New Zealand's case, that successful pandemic strategy has apparently opened the door for a live event that the rest of us are still months away from.