It’s been very quiet in the media about covid and politic’s here in NZ for the last few weeks. Restrictions got lifted just before Xmas, and life has sort of got back to ‘normal’ for most people over the Xmas/ New year break.
We have spent this time with other unvaxxed families and now have a good support group going with weekly picnic’s, etc. We have also started organising events for teenagers to get together.
We went to a ‘picnic’ today with the ‘The freedom and Rights coalition’. It was very much a concert with a market attached to it, and had a very relaxed positive atmoshere. Food was available and was often free.
They had several speakers, The first one was a mother of 3 children who spoke about the issues of bringing up her kids in an environment where they are now effectively second class citizens.
One of her children was a leading student at his school last year. The school has now closed, because half of the teachers aren’t vaccinated, and aren’t allowed to be teachers anymore, because of the mandates.
The second speaker was a black man who grew up in South Africa under apartheid. He left South Africa for a better life and now he see’s the same thing happening again here in NZ. He spoke candidly about losing his 13 yr old brother in the struggles that went on for 47 years. He also spoke about Nelson Mandela – Wikipedia and Desmond Tutu – Wikipedia, who he had known.
There was then a concert with several bands, then we all went for a march to stretch our legs. The public reaction was pretty positive with many cars honking their horns in support, with some enthusiatically leaning out of their cars in support.
NZ’s Prime Minister is reputably about to get married soon, but has effectively gone into hiding with lots of security. The wedding will probably be hyped up in the media to be a celebrity event of some sort, and this will probably happen in the coming week.
It will be cynically used as a diversion, because there are several deadlines happening next week. Police, Teachers, and Nurse’s are due to lose their jobs if they haven’t been vaccinated.
The vaccine rollout for 5 – 11 yr olds also starts next week, so it could be a bit rough out there.
Interestingly, The CEO of Pfizer has now admitted the first 2 vaccines are useless against the latest omicron version of the virus..
Uncoffined 
He didn’t say the vaccines are useless against the moronic variant… you have to read the words in the report carefully. They protect against hospitalization and death, as has always been the case. Anyone who believes a vaccine will keep a virus from entering the body and replicating isn’t understanding what is happening here. The vaccines insure the person has what’s needed to fight the virus. The trick is, the virus replicates so quickly, the body doesn’t have time to make enough antibodies before the virus overtakes the defense system, killing the host. Also, for the first time in recorded history, the virus releases a protein that slows the immune response so it can replicate unabated.
That’s why unvaccinated folks die and vaccinated folks don’t.
I respect your right to skip the vaccines, but I also believe we should make that choice fully informed. The vaccine was never intended to stop someone from being infected. That’s the media being the media; relatively stupid and agenda-driven.
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Thank you for a well reasoned and thoughtful comment.
It occurred to to me the other day that I have had every vaccine except this one. The reasonings are quite simple -it just feels wrong somehow.
In NZ, $100 million dollars has been spent in an unrelenting campaign to convince everyone that covid is going to kill them, so it’s not surprising there’s a lot of fear out there.
We have had 53 deaths in NZ ‘with’ covid. To put that in perspective, the road toll is @ 600 a year, and the suicide rate is about the same.
Of those 53 deaths, almost all of them are either very old and/or had a health issue.
One of them was shot, died at the scene, and tested for covid afterwards and was added to the official covid death toll as a result.
I’m 55years old, in good health and I have a 0.0128% chance of dying from covid according to stats from the UK.
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It’s no better here in the US. A lot of insanity for sure.
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