Commentary
Aldous Huxley once compared “a walk in the country” to a religious-like pilgrimage. “To commune with the fields and waters, the woodlands and the hills,” he wrote, “is to commune, according to our modern and northern ideas, with the visible manifestations of the Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe.” Now, thanks to the most recent variant of SARS-CoV-2, the Delta variant, that commune is, yet again, under attack. The wisdom Huxley spoke of has been replaced by the “wisdom” of the experts. In Australia, such experts are testing the limits of human patience.