We have lost 53 Kiwis to COVID. And this is undoubtedly a tragedy, and my heart goes out to those families and to those who loved them. But putting this in a global context: Ireland has suffered the loss of 6,228 people—Ireland, an island with an almost identical population to New Zealand. In the UK: 158,000 deaths, equivalent, when adjusted by population, to 11,752 Kiwis we could have lost. But, of course, none of these countries are 100 percent directly comparable. The closest comparison still sits in the thousands of deaths to date.