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Could We Please Have Jacinda Instead? (There Goes The Fillmore Bus #2600Hz)

The title refers to wishing our political leaders had properly managed the pandemic from its very start and throughout, protecting all of their citizens with policies based on science so as to prevent contagion and deaths, while demonstrating empathy for those who lost loved ones — something New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern did spectacularly well for her country. The figure in the subtitle denotes the frequency of the sound that would allow, until the early 1980s, to create an open telephone switch line that could then be used to put through a long-distance or international call free of charge, here figuratively signifying a long-distance S.O.S. call being placed from the United States to Prime Minister Ardern in New Zealand.