How to Have a Better Pandemic

Diary of the last 8 hours and four months

8.35am

Death to tyrants, or at least the sort of tyrant that would eat little Piwakawaka eggs.

Death to you, rats of the maunga! I am back on the path, back in my boots, back on the trail, coming for your nasty-tailed selves.

It has been four long months since I was last doing this. Just 12 hours before I was due to go around with a re-up, the Prime Minist…