This excellent article was contributed by New Zealand journalist Peter Drew who is clearly concerned & wants the word out. Please do share it far & wide. EWR
NOTE: the article has had over 10K views since posting … & 2.5K FB shares. It’s pleasing to see that many Kiwis are awake to what is going down.
By Peter Drew
Jacinda Adern
Prime Minister – New Zealand
Dear Jacinda,
I write this letter as a patriotic Kiwi with best intentions for my country and for the future health and welfare of my fellow Kiwis. You have a very difficult job at this moment in time. There can be no doubt about that.
There is a famous saying. “The first casualty of war is the truth”. Well, from what we are seeing around the world, the first casualty of a pandemic is not only the truth, but also rational thinking. That…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Apr 27, 2020 @ 13:48:38
It is hard to know where to begin in countering the misinformation in this article. I will restrict myself to 2 observations.
From the article: “the total rates of death in Italy during this COVID-19 period are not particularly unusual.” This is not true, the excess deaths in italy compared to the same time last year are very “unusual”:
https://towardsdatascience.com/covid-19-excess-mortality-figures-in-italy-d9640f411691
The mortality rate is almost certainly not 0.1%. Estimates from Germany, South Korea and Iceland where extensive testing has been done put it at around 0.3%-0.5%. So if we let it run wild in New Zealand we would be looking at 15,000 to 25,000 deaths from COVID-19.
The ambulance at the bottom of the cliff is only empty because of the fence installed at the top of the cliff.
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Apr 30, 2020 @ 04:04:51
numcrun, you are much too cautious…
This ‘Open Letter to Jacinda Adern’ does very much look like many ‘sponsored’ pieces by Russian propaganda outlets.
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