It’s been eerily quiet in New Zealand on the covid/political front.
As of last week, the double vaccinated people can visit cafe’s and libraries, etc, as long as they have a current vaccine passport
Travel is now allowed out of Auckland for the next month. You need a current vaccine passpport, or if you are unvaccinated, a recent negative test for covid.
It doesn’t take much to work out thou, that the vaccinated are going to spread covid right throughout the country over Xmas, which will lead to an anti Auckland attitude. (vaccinated people can still transmit covid)
Meanwhile, there is currently a lot of confusion and weird stuff going on.
-Xmas parades are only open for families that are fully vaccinated and have the proper paperwork (vaccine passport), including the kids
-Churches have been excluding unvaccinated members from church services.
-Bussinesses and shops can’t work out the new rules, so they just over comply to any rules/ laws to stay out of trouble.
Throughout all this, I’ve been a member of a support group for unvaccinated people for the last few month’s.
In the last few weeks, I have met workers that have been laid off for not getting vaccinated, and others that have been excommunicated by their families and friends for even simply asking questions about the vaccine. Teenage girls in particular are struggling with the hatred out there.
There is a coming storm early next year thou…
-The borders around Auckland are only open until mid January
-The current narrative about the voluntary third jab will change and it will become ‘mandatory’ in order to keep that passport valid.
Parents were told to get double vaccinated, and that would be the end of it. A lot of adults then complied just to keep their jobs. They will think twice about a third one.
-They are going to put pressure on kids to get vaccinated, especially before school starts in February.
This could become a whole battle front all on it’s own. Parents are willing to get the jab for the sake of providing for their families, but are they willing to get their kids vaccinated for no good reason?. The Government has already signaled that unvaccinated children can’t compete in any event, like sports, music, etc, and organisations like Girl Guides are already intending to exclude unvaccinated children from events. This is all part of the overall coercion thats been applied to ‘do the right thing’
-Covid will be spread all over the country.
The rest of the country isn’t going to be impressed when lockdowns and restrictions are applied to them, due to the Auckland holiday makers been allowed to travel over the Xmas break.
2022 is going to be interesting. I’m not sure what I will be doing next year because of all this uncertainty. It’s possible I’ll be a stay at home Dad again, and will be home schooling the kids as I don’t want them to be treated as second class students at school.
I’m still working at the moment, but that can change at a moments notice. (it only takes a positive case at work and we are shut down for at least a week.)
Uncoffined 
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