So, New Zealand publishes 33 deaths due to COVID. These deaths include a person that died from a gunshot wound, and a bunch of others that died from their underlying medical conditions. The Gunshot Wound death just highlights, in a way that is easily understandable to most people, that wherever the numbers can be inflated, they will be inflated. Sure, Dr Bloomfield mentions that they will track this somehow in a way that the figures are all explainable, and wont be manipulated or misconstrued. Besides, (he says) it is the World Health Organisation that wants NZ and every other country to count these numbers in a way that may make them seem higher, so when such a reputable organisation requests this, there is no need to think that there is anything strange about counting Gun Shot deaths, or heart attacks, or cancer deaths as anything but COVID deaths. Except when I go to the WHO website and look at their stats, I see they already have the data feed up showing 33 deaths in NZ due t...