Matawera Paniora: mate nui nā te kapi ārai mate nui?
Hei whakakaha i te mōrearea pea o te huaketo koronavīra, ka kī tonu ngā pāpāho mō te "mate pāwera Paniora" o te tau 1918.
E ai ki te puna, e ai ana kua kawenga tēnei mō te mate o waenga i te rua tekau miriona me te kotahi rau miriona tāngata.
Ko te mate e kīia nei ko te "māte Hapanihi" e whakaarohia ana puta noa i te ao hei mate urutā kino rawa atu i
ngā wā katoa, ā, he taunakitanga ka taea e tētahi huaketo te tango anō i ngā miriona oranga.
Engari, he aha tā ngā puna pūrongo hītori e kī ana? E whakaatu ana rānei ēnei puna pūrongo hītori i te mea ko
te huaketo mātūtū te take i mate ai ngā miriona tāngata? Anei ētahi kōrero pono mō tēnei take:
Ko te kupu "mate huaketo Paniora" i ahu mai i te mea i puta mai i Paniora ngā pūrongo tuatahi mō tētahi mate huaketo kino.
I muri i te ngaru tuatahi o te mate i tīmata i Hui-tanguru 1918, i whai ake he ngaru tuarua, he tino kino ake, i Akuhata 1918.
Kāore i te mōhiotia te take, engari i pā nuitia tēnei ki ngā pakeke rangatahi, hauora, ā, ki runga rawa atu
ki ngā hōia nō ngā whenua maha – ehara i te hunga ngoikore, māuiui, kaumātua rānei, pēnei i mua.
I tino rerekē hoki ngā tohu i waenga i a rātou.
E ai ki te kaituhi pāpāho hauora a Hans Tolzin, kāore i taea te whakapūmau i te ariā e mea ana nā tētahi
huaketo mōrearea i puta ai te mate huamata Paniora, nā te mea kāore i pāngia e te tangata!
I rahua ngā whakamātau i Boston me San Francisco ki te whakawhāngai i ngā kaihoe hara me ngā
mauhere whare herehere ki ngā rerenga o ngā tāngata tino māuiui. Kāore i māuiui tētahi o rātou.
Ko te takenga ā-taiao me te huarahi anō hoki kāore i tino mārama, ā, kāore i te noa.
E ai ki tēnei, me puta tata i ngā wā kotahi te mate huaketo ki ngā whenua maha puta noa i ngā kōinga o te ao.
Heoi anō, e whakapono ana he hua te "mate pāwera Paniora" i te ngoikore o ngā rauemi, i te hiakai me te
parahanga i muri i te Pakanga Tuatahi o te Ao, engari he hua hoki i ngā werohanga ā-whānui.
I mahia ēnei i runga i te rahi, otirā i waenga i ngā hōia, hei whawhai ki te mate pōtaka, te mate tifoī, me te mate urutā.
I te wā o ngā mate nui i puta nā te mea i kīia ko te "mate huaketo Paniora", i pūrongo motuhake ētahi kaitirotiro matua o
taua wā, pērā i te Christian Science Monitor me Eleanora McBean, e kī ana ko te hunga kua
werohia anake i māuiui ki te "mate huaketo Paniora".
I huna, i whakamana hoki ngā pānga tino kino i puta i ngā werohanga kāore i te pono, mā te "mate huaketo Paniora".
Whakakapi: Ahakoa i ēnei rā, ka whakamahia ngā kōrero mō te "māwhero Paniora" hei whakawhānui i te mataku me
te wehi, ā, hei akiaki i te iwi kia whiwhi i te kano.
Heoi, ehara tēnei i te tauira o tētahi mate urutā ā-ao i puta mai i ngā huaketo, ā, nāna i mate ai ngā
miriona tāngata, ā, ka taea te hoki mai i ngā wā katoa.
Engari, he tohu mārama kei reira i whai wāhi nui, mēnā kāore i tino whakatau, ngā
werohanga ā-nui o taua wā ki tēnei mate whakamataku.
Nō reira, e ngā kaimātakitaki e arohatia ana: ko te hunga e noho mōhio ana, kāore e
pāngia e ngā whakamataku e ārahi ana e ngā hiahia!
Nō reira, tēnā koa whakamōhio i a koe anō me ētahi atu mō ēnei papakōrero hītori hira.
Ka kitea e koe ngā pārongo kua rangahaua pai i roto i ngā puna kua whakarārangihia.