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Americans in NZ: 'People treat us with empathy, kindness - and a certain amount of pity'

By Eleanor Black
NZ Herald·
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Not long after leaving managed isolation, American immigrants Dr Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell attended a rugby game at Wellington's Cake Tin, a venue with a capacity of 34,500 people.

"It was fantastic but at the same time my 'fight or flight' was on the whole time," says Mitchell, of being in close proximity with so many excited, shouting sports fans when a virus known to spread via spit droplets was scything through the world's population.

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