In Monday’s post, Australian PM Scott Morrison is quoted as saying: “Shifting our focus from just case numbers, to actually looking at how many people are becoming seriously ill and requiring hospitalisation will be increasingly what matters. After all, this is how we manage all other infectious diseases.”
So how many have been hospitalised because of the China virus in NZ? According to this table on the Ministry of Health website here, the total since March last year is 148. Of these 19 went into an Intensive Care Unit. All except 26 recovered (in fact one of these did recover and died later.)

Last September we asked the Ministry of Health how many had been hospitalised during the year to 30 June 2020 from a variety of other viruses out there.
The answer was:
“The number of publicly funded hospital discharges in 2019/20 with these primary diagnoses were:
A08-A09 Other gastroenteritis and colitis of viral, infectious and unspecified origin = 12,087
A15-A19 Tuberculosis = 237
A37 Pertussis = 60
A39 Meningococcal infection = 120
A87 Viral meningitis = 362
A97 Dengue = 55
B05 Measles = 574
B20-B24 Human Immunodeficiency Virus [HIV] disease = 8
B34.2 Coronavirus infection, unspecified site = 13
B50-B54 Malaria = 21
G00-G03 Bacterial meningitis = 188
J09-J11 Influenza = 3468
J12-J18 Pneumonia = 15,565“
So by any objective standard, Cv has been vastly over-rated. The politicians in this government love it, being a great distraction from other issues, but at huge cost to mental health, livelihoods and the economy.
Oh dear.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-delta-outbreak-had-an-anti-vax-pamphlet-tell-police/WMYX3J4A44BKG5EX77T7YBWTHY/
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They don’t want people challenging the Jacinda government line…
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