Letter to New Zealand From London : hold your course, be courageous

Letter to New Zealand From London, Plague Island, Exporter of Variants

Dear New Zealand,
I have been watching you, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Korea, Japan and others do your level best to suppress community transmission of the SARSCOV2 Virus and it's variants.
I watched as you did so to protect your peoples Right to Health, which you correctly and humanely set as critical to the health of your economy. Avoiding avoidable death and disease is the duty of the whole of the nation. Upholding a populations Right to Health is the legal and moral duty of every Government.
I watched as others chose not to take the same approach, chose not to adopt that sane attitude. And I watched as they did not avoid the avoidable harms you did avoid. I cried, along with others, as the human costs of that failure mounted, and continue to mount. The pain is immense. My heart aches for the loss of life, the additional disease, the missed treatments, the education disrupted, the broken businesses, the shattered lives.
On every measure, your populations health and your economy's are in better shape than those who wilfully allowed the virus to spread, to mutate and to wreak havoc.
Now, as Omicron reaches into your community, I note that Media in England is not urging your success. Pundits are writing articles whose subtext is hoping that you fail, hoping that you too will succumb, hoping that you will 'be more like us'. It ranges from outright hatred of your success to subtle hints that the 'inevitable' has finally arrived. Spite and fatalism abound.
Ignore them. They are callous, and wilful and ignorant. Their cowardice has cost us dearly.

Comparing Johnson to Ardern is impossible - two entirely different cultures, one a vulture, the other a dove of peace. A nuclear super power, and a nuclear dissident.
My advice, my prayer to you is that you maintain your diligent care for your population's right to health, in spite of these odious monsters that Rule in England and elsewhere. Be courageous.
The Virus is telling us we must work together to look after each other as human beings. Climate Change carries the same message. World poverty likewise urges we look after one another. Mike Ryan of the WHO constantly reiterates these two obvious messages.
We are all in this together, in this life. 
My kindest regards
Corneilius
London

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