OPINION: The coronavirus and its long-term effects continue to linger in Australia, under the radar of the public and officialdom alike.
One of the things researchers have discovered about COVID-19 is that it hangs around long after the acute illness has passed. And in its hanging around it can be even more debilitating.
It has been linked to higher risks and incidence of heart attacks and strokes. One epidemiologist said rather bluntly this week that it “eats your heart, and kills your brain”.In the early days of the pandemic, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was held up as a gold standard for her uncompromising leadership. Ardern was seen to be personally driving her country’s COVID-19 response.
In January, the van in which she was travelling was chased and forced on to a curb by anti-vaccination protesters.The co-leader of Te Pāti Māori , Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, said on Thursday that Ardern had been driven from politics because of constant personalisation and vilification in the most “demeaning form of politics we have ever seen”.
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