Labour’s decline in the polls has government diehards puzzled. But it can be dated to 17 August 2021 and the move to Alert Level 4
Today marks two years to the day that the call went out for New Zealanders who were travelling or living overseas to “return home”.
In those strange, dangerous days the pandemic was threatening to unleash so many unknowns: how short was the transmission window? How effective were masks and ventilation? And what did hospitalisation and death look like in a first world country?
