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# Letter to the Editor: Blame Games
- URL: https://goodoil.news/letter-to-the-editor-blame-games/
- Published: 2021-10-14T22:05:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-10-14T22:06:27.000Z
- Author: Letter to the Editor
- Tags: COVID-19, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:31

Dear Editor

So the Maori activists want to lock us all up at Level 4 again – and are using the *NZ Herald* to achieve it!

The front page in today’s (Oct 15) *Herald* features a photo of Rawiri Taonui. It refers to him as a “health analyst.”

> “We’ve passed the threshold, and it’s Maori who are paying the price,” health analyst Dr Rawiri Taonui said.   
>  
> NZ Herald

But did you know he’s in fact a [Maori activist and co-editor](https://www.masseypress.ac.nz/books/conversations-about-indigenous-rights/?ref=goodoil.news) of the book, “*About Indigenous Rights: The UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People in Aotearoa New Zealand*“?

> Meanwhile, a coalition of Maori health organisations in Auckland is warning many Maori will die unless the Government returns to a Covid-19 elimination strategy. …  
>  
> “That will no doubt result in loss of lives, with Maori being a major casualty,” they said in a statement.  
>  
> On Monday Te Pati Maori called for Tamaki Makaurau, Auckland, to be put back into level 4, and level 3 for the rest of the North Island, until eligible Maori were 95 per cent vaccinated.  
>  
> “Failure to do so is committing our people to death by Covid,” co-leader Rawiri Waititi said. …  
>  
> [nzherald](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-delta-outbreak-dont-panic-says-ashley-bloomfield-as-expert-says-elimination-now-highly-unlikely/IPAZKULTGYYX6Q6LZZAEQMGWQ4/?ref=goodoil.news)

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