The doubts about vaccines, mandates, and other elements of the public health response were seeded by the same actors. Those doubts actually manifested as public policy in a number of countries, leading to hundreds of thousands of more deaths than otherwise may have occurred. The protest on the Parliament lawn over the past few weeks was not an isolated event, nor was it new, and nor was it unique to us. But it did happen here, and those were New Zealanders out the front. New Zealand has remarkable levels of social cohesion, which has enabled us to get through the pandemic so far with one of the lowest mortality rates in the world. But there is another virus—another global pandemic—which we, with our breezy "She'll be right" attitude, have almost no immunity to.