Kate Hawkesby: Delta was always going to come to the South Island

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Oct 28, 2021 · 3m

I feel for the South Island, with their gradual waking up to the fact that Delta is real.

A couple of weeks ago I said to my sister, who lives in Christchurch, when she called me en-route from her pilates class to her café lunch, before probably going on to the hairdresser, that she was living in a parallel universe. I told her I figured the South Island was where the whole of NZ was 11 weeks ago, when we thought Delta was just a “somewhere else” problem. We smugly watched from the comfort of our crowded cafes as chaos unfolded across the Tasman and we thought – oh lucky us, it’s not real for…