Not to worry; they're bringing back face masks

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COVID deaths in New Zealand “soar”

Once held up as evidence that it is possible to suppress the virus, New Zealand's swift response to the pandemic and its geographic isolation allowed it to escape the wrath of the pandemic.

Jacinda Ardern's Government dropped its zero-Covid policy, which saw the nation nicknamed a 'hermit kingdom', last year once the population was largely vaccinated, with eight in 10 people now double-jabbed. Since then, the virus has spread.

Experts told MailOnline that previously low levels of infection in New Zealand due to strict Covid curbs is behind the high fatality rate now because the economically-crippling measures only delayed 'inevitable' infections that could have built-up immunity.

I don’t know who these “experts” are who are talking to the Daily Mail but, for once, they are expressing what common sense and real science predicted all along. New Zealand’s petty dictator didn’t listen then, and if she’s preparing to force her country’s citizens back behind useless masks she’s not listening now, but the Kiwis almost deserve this punishment, for allowing it in the first place.

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