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A hi-tech, low-tech arsenal

SCIENCE went hi-tech to find a vaccine, but we have to wear the low-tech mask until we have the hi-tech solution in our arms.

It can be a curse, but without technology we’d have millions more dead people.

We’d probably still be waiting for the Covid-19 virus to be identified and genetically understood.

Last week, our tone of exasperation and despair. (Remember Marelise? The young woman who cycled into a rugby post while her mom recorded the crash and her expression of bewilderment. The recording was posted on social media, went viral and the phrase earned its lasting place in Saffer-speak.)

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