"The pandemic is over" 
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We could talk about other counterfactuals of course (China for e.g.) but NZ is a fairly simple one. For what you are saying to be correct, NZ (and Australia, Vietnam etc) must be lying about their numbers
And that is a fascinating straw man, but not what I said 