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Mandatory confusion

Besides causing death, long-term illness and indefinite home detention, Covid-19 turns out to play merry hell with its sufferers’ workplace safety, in unexpected ways.

The much-pilloried woman who went on an illicit whistle-stop tour of the North Island accompanied, did she but know it, by the delta variant, may have have had a compelling reason for evading the authorities for so long.

Officials are being fascinatingly coy about the nature of her employment, but former MP Hone Harawira has claimed to have some idea as to why she didn’t want to give account of herself. “She didn’t want to get hammered.”

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