Yesterday, the New Zealand Herald published the findings of an opinion poll it commissioned as a wave of the Delta variant oozes its way across the country, locked down now for weeks.

It will have been music to the ears of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, the High Priestess of Covid eliminationism (the High Priest surely must now be Western Australia’ Mark McGowan.)

The poll indicates that, despite the outbreak, and the lockdowns and disruptions they are causing, the denizens of the Shaky Isles are unshakeable in their devotion to the elimination goddess.

Almost half of the 1,000 people polled – 46...