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    Dragons to slay

    Aug 22, 2021 4 minutes
    JANE CLIFTON

    As The Hobbit author JRR Tolkien observed, it does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations if you live near one.

    New Zealand, with the extremely live Delta variant of the Covid dragon rampaging next door, is now finding out whether its calculations have been adequate – not least its political reckoning.

    It’ll be a while before it’s known how far Delta has spread from the first case discovered at large in Auckland, but already it has caused a salutary outbreak of hindsight. It always seemed inevitable Delta would get loose, but something changes in the human psyche when near-misses keep

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