Now, the COVID-19 virus spread like colonisation across the world. It was clear from the outset that in Aotearoa it would mostly affect tangata whenua and shut down businesses, forcing people into lockdown in their own whare. The COVID-19 pandemic amplified pre-existing racial disparities, having devastating impacts on the physical, economic, spiritual, cultural, and educational wellbeing of Māori communities, lacking the infrastructure to protect their whānau, remotely educate their tamariki, and remain in mahi during a public health crisis that shattered illusions of Te Tiriti progress.