So what living with the virus means in a country with a population of 17 million—which is roughly only just about three times New Zealand's size—living with the virus means that 21,336 people have died from COVID, and many more, including my family, are suffering from long COVID. And, sure, the shops and the restaurants and the bars may be open, but the virus is going rampant. In the last 24 hours, they had 77,000 new cases—77,000 cases in a day. So 1,500 people in hospital, with 215 seriously ill in ICU, and that means that living with the virus means for so many that they can't actually live life at all, and every day families lose loved ones, and they have since the very first day this pandemic started.