An update on the NZ covid drama

As of this week, New Zealand has finally worked out that their first lockdown was successful, only because it was a fluke. (Lockdowns have never worked anywhere in the world so far).

This has put the NZ Government in a bit of a pickle, because they originally locked the whole country into a very strict level 4 lockdown because of only one confirmed case of the delta variant.

The MSM (main stream media) have been running horror stories 24/7 on their behalf, which has the majority of the population scared witless. (The Government paid out $55 million to fund the media thru these hard times as long as they behave)

(For the record their have been 2 deaths from the delta variant, a lady in her nineties, and a rather unhealthy guy in his fifties, from a population of 5 million).

This means the Government is having to back down from lockdowns while trying to maintain their credibility, while also praying that the positive case numbers don’t go thru the roof.

In order to justify the abandoning of the lockdown strategy, they are therefore going to insist on an improbably high % of the population been vaccinated. In another words, they will make their problem, the populations problem.

However, they have several problems of their own making. They promised that NZ was at the front of the queue for vaccines, when in reality they weren’t, so the rollout has been slow. They have now resorted to bribes such as free taxi rides or a chance to win a holiday.

Originally, we were told that there needed to be a gap of six weeks between jabs but this has now been reduced to three weeks. This adds to the impression that they are just making up ‘facts’ as they go along.

An actual target hasn’t been said by the Government, which is rather typical these days because then they can’t held to account. 90% has been mentioned by their rather idealistic health expert.

That ‘target’ probably wont happen before Xmas 2021, if ever. The present stats are here.. COVID-19: Vaccine data | Ministry of Health NZ

The end result of all this is dividing the country into the vaxxed vs the unvaxxed.

At this point in time in general, people in their twenties and younger are genuinely scared by the whole experience.

The middle aged are far more pragmatic, and typically only wear a mask to pacify the paranoid ones that walk amongst them.

The older generation which includes the the ‘baby boomers’ generally agree with lockdowns inversely proportional to the state of their health.

In theory, vaccines shouldn’t be an issue, because if your vaccinated, then you have nothing to worry about , and if you didn’t vaccinate, thats your problem.

but now it’s dividing family members and friends, and it’s going to be a big issue if & when the schools reopen.

This is just crazy and I’ve covered this before…The case for vaccinating children – Uncoffined (wordpress.com)

At this point, NZ schoolchildren have been stuck at home for eight weeks. They struggle with a lack of routine, stability and structure. Schools are struggling to get kids motivated to join any zoom meetings. Attendance is typically well below 50%.

If the schools ever reopen this year, teachers are going to have a hard time trying to get the kids focused and get them ready for end of year exams.