KIWIS CRUSH COVID --u. s. diddles and dies

 Letter to the Terre Haute Tribune Star

Feb. 25, 2021

Mark Bennett’s excellent profile of Dr. Norma Nehren and New Zealand’s straight-forward response to COVID-19 (TH Tribune-Star, Feb. 20, 2021) should make us all rethink deeply held prejudices in regard to where our personal freedoms end and our social responsibilities begin. 

We have lost 500,000 Americans to COVID; New Zealand, 26. Twenty-six!

— Gary Daily, Terre Haute

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And it's worth asking, which "personal freedoms" have contributed to this enormous 26 v. 500,000 gap?  Does personal freedom in this context mean ignorance, anti-science false fears, laziness, plain selfishness or just all of the preceeding?