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The experience is the opposite of what one feels by the image glut and sound bites of modern life, the psychologically destabilizing ether of digital distractions that can oppress the soul.

One Tasmanian doctor tells the BBC it is just a "good election sound bite".

“It was a last-minute pointed request meant to not generate a meeting, and then use it as a media sound bite,” Hamby said.

“He blocks out the sun against any of his critics. He controls the media cycle with one click on his phone, with one sound bite every single day.”

Trump’s time in the White House during the pandemic was fraught with stream-of-consciousness sound bites that often contradicted national or global health advisories.