As more and more people understand that Jacinda's COVID response is a grand illusion, nearly every day brings another bizarre disaster showing we benefited from good luck, isolation, borrowing and printing, rather than good management. A million Kiwis offshore know anyone can quarantine an island. I mean, it took 100 million years of continental drift, but the work was already done for this Government. We've now entered a Wonderland where the Red Queen is talking backwards, and a million Kiwis are locked out of their country in the cruellest abrogation of any State's responsibility to its citizens that anyone has seen in a modern democracy in a century, and it is shameful.