𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕣𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕨𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕗𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒 𝕣𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕤 𝕓𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕝𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕣𝕖𝕨𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕖 ℕℤ'𝕤 ℂ𝕆𝕍𝕀𝔻 𝕤𝕦𝕔𝕔𝕖𝕤𝕤
𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕣𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕨𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕗𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒 𝕣𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕤 𝕓𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕝𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕣𝕖𝕨𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕖 ℕℤ'𝕤 ℂ𝕆𝕍𝕀𝔻 𝕤𝕦𝕔𝕔𝕖𝕤𝕤 ℝ𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕨𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕗𝕣𝕦𝕚𝕥-𝕔𝕒𝕜𝕖𝕤 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕣𝕪𝕡𝕚𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕕 𝕒𝕤𝕡𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕔𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕥 𝕣𝕦𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 ℂ𝕠𝕧𝕚𝕕 𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕡𝕠𝕟𝕤𝕖 – 𝕨𝕙𝕚𝕔𝕙 𝕤𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕤 – 𝕥𝕠 𝕨𝕣𝕠𝕟𝕘𝕝𝕪 𝕡𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕥 𝕚𝕥 𝕒𝕤 𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕘𝕒𝕝. I n a judgment delivered this week, New Zealand’s high court found that elements of the country’s Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) system, the cornerstone of our world-leading pandemic response, were unlawful. The decision dropped to a good deal of delight. One well-known conservative commentator wrote : “So the courts have found the lockdown was illegal, the vaccine mandate was illegal and MIQ was illegal, so can anyone name a major aspect of the response that hasn’t been found to be illegal?” That response is predictably mischievous – none of those mea...