New Zealand is a place of refuge from Covid-19. Now for the rest of the world

Being Zion is a funny thing. It’s an archetypal idea, the place of refuge free from whatever threatens or contaminates the rest of the world. Chinese mythology gave us Yaochi, the Emerald Lake on Mount Kunlun, where the mother goddess resides. Hollywood zombie films typically feature a “safe zone”, or the tantalising prospect of one. And the Bible gave us Zion, David’s blessed city. To this list we can now add New Zealand, Aotearoa, “the land of the long white cloud”. In the course of the…

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