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d="2ffb" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/dear-jacinda-ardern-prime-minister-of-new-zealand-e8dc2f5450e"> <div> <div> <h2>Dear Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand</h2> <div><h3>A Covid-19 testing plan for Kiwis, Aussies, and the world</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*vwIkjwyukWBYOXZrR8QpHw.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="15e4">Australia and New Zealand have world class universities. With your support, and the right resources, they’d crack a plan, make it happen, and deliver up the virus’ definitive transmission blueprint in next to no time.</p><p id="8f40">With the virus’ own GPS system, showing just how it gets around, the medico boffins would have unprecedented insight into how that little bastard works. Oops, sorry. SARS-Cov-2 and Covid-19. Two little bastards.</p><p id="2063">Anyway, plug this GPS update into the Health and Economy control panels on both sides of the ditch, and you could have two of the safest little countries in the world, and both could be open for business again, sooner rather than later. Share it with your 191 fellow country leaders, and the benefits would be enormous — for all nations, and humanity.</p><p id="1b6e">What do you reckon?</p><p id="c734">I’m not on the Nobel committee, but apparently they do joint awards, so why not a couple of neighbors helping the global community? Just saying…</p><div id="c203" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/open-letters-to-prime-ministers-ardern-and-morrison-from-a-nobody-444d80b71c05"> <div> <div> <h2>Let’s Do This One Thing to Combat Covid-19, Globally</h2> <div><h3>A detailed picture of how it spreads will help all nations</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*XWDo5xf3nOhzZK1DUxlELg.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="c0ef" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/the-trump-effect-6347385cc27"> <div> <div> <h2>The Trump Effect</h2> <div><h3>The health and economic impact of the virus is attributable to leadership</h3></div>

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Dear Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia

A Covid-19 plan for Aussies, Kiwis, and the world

Photo by thom masat on Unsplash

Dear Prime Minister,

cc: Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand

Strewth, mate, you guys have had it rough lately. Here’s an idea that might help, in a letter to Prime Minister Ardern. (It’s a bit prolix, sorry. If I had more time, it’d be shorter). Anyway, maybe have a chat with her. Doing it together would be awesome. Or, in one country, working together.

You’ve already ramped up your Covid-19 testing. That’ll help, but all that talk about businesses ‘hibernating’ for six months or more can’t be going down too well. If you give this testing lark a bit of nudge, and get it up to Germany’s rate of 200,000 a day, you’d get it done in four months, plus a bit. Or get behind the Kiwis, and do it in 3 weeks or so. Either way, mass testing should, I reckon, be done differently than elsewhere. The world’s first full-population testing regime would help deliver better health and economic outcomes for both countries, and the world (as outlined in that letter and an article).

Australia and New Zealand have world class universities. With your support, and the right resources, they’d crack a plan, make it happen, and deliver up the virus’ definitive transmission blueprint in next to no time.

With the virus’ own GPS system, showing just how it gets around, the medico boffins would have unprecedented insight into how that little bastard works. Oops, sorry. SARS-Cov-2 and Covid-19. Two little bastards.

Anyway, plug this GPS update into the Health and Economy control panels on both sides of the ditch, and you could have two of the safest little countries in the world, and both could be open for business again, sooner rather than later. Share it with your 191 fellow country leaders, and the benefits would be enormous — for all nations, and humanity.

What do you reckon?

I’m not on the Nobel committee, but apparently they do joint awards, so why not a couple of neighbors helping the global community? Just saying…

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