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August 16th, 2021 
Awake Goy 
The government’s be kind mantra doesn’t extend to MIQ:
A Napier father caring for his sick 11-year-old in the US says they’ll swim home if that’s what it takes after being declined an emergency MIQ spot.
It comes after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern received an open letter on behalf of almost 2000 Kiwis abroad calling for immediate and urgent changes to the MIQ system.
Maddox Preston was just nine when he was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour. He’s had four brain surgeries and two rounds of chemo in New Zealand but the tumour keeps coming back.
“The prognosis wasn’t good but hey we gotta keep fighting,” his father Chad Preston says.
That fight led Maddox, now 11, and his family to fly to the US city of Houston six weeks ago so he could undergo potentially lifesaving treatment.
Now they’re stuck there, unable to get a spot…
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