Russian to conclusions
We’re generally good sports, but overnight the population of New Zealand has been dragooned into a game of invisible paintball that is already straining our concept of fair play.
Omicron gives everyone a fifty-fifty chance of getting splattered, according to the experts. Catch it, and chances are you take a bunch of friends and family down with you into home isolation. Everyone else carries on playing unless and until they succumb – but with an ever-diminishing level of certainty about pretty much every normal activity they try to undertake, from buying bread to sending their children to school.
The new system
