NZ is at a bit of a crossroads at the moment.
Omicron will be in the country within a few weeks, and the Government is like a possum in the headlights with it’s indecisiveness.
In the meantime the PM is stressed out and just wants to get married.
The school year is due to start in a few weeks and the vaccine rollout has begun for 5 – 11yr old’s. On top of this is a shortage of teachers because of the mandatory vaccinations.
They are already making noises about delaying the start of the school year which is highly annoying because we had a 4 month lockdown last year which affected our kids education, and to some degree, their mental health
I’ve still been going to protests against mandatory vaccinations, but probably not for much longer. The crowd numbers are slowly dwindling and the average person on the street is literally scared to death of dying and aren’t open to reason. We have noticed thou that people are starting to get angry, and we think it’s because of the following…
Joe Public has been led to believe thru advertising, constantly changing narratives..
1/ Get the jab and all is good
2/ Get the second one, get a passport and you are ‘all good’
3/ That changed into ‘all good for summer’
4/ a third ‘booster’ is available if you want it
5/ you must have your third booster to keep your vaccine passport
6/ the third booster doesn’t do Omicron..
7/ to be continued…
At this rate, it’s only a matter of time before Joe Public realises he’s been had…
(bear in mind that in NZ, about 40% of people got the jab to keep their job, not for health reasons)
The hysteria is easily understandable, given that the government brought off the media with $55 million,
They have also spent $20 million on media advertising to convince everyone how serious covid was.
In some ways, the PM Jacinda Adern has created her own nightmare right at the start by abandoning the original Ministry of Health pandemic plan, took personal control, and followed the then current trend of lockdowns, which predictably, hasn’t gone well..
There has never been a cohesive covid plan in NZ, and decisions have been made according to what the polls tell them.
Given that the media has created mass hysteria in the last 2 years with headlines and stories that were never fact-checked, running the country by popular opinion was never going to be a good idea, which is why they are in a bit of a predicament of their own making.
This is why the rules have changed so many times, and everyone has got confused and over-comply to stay out of trouble.
This has led to companies firing unvaxxed people, and then not been able to replace them.
The question I ask myself thou, is which way will they go?
Blaming the unvaxxed is popular at the moment as demonstrated by the Canadian PM recently
Justin Trudeau blames unvaccinated for lockdowns – YouTube
Going for mandatory vaccination as Austria has.
Austria parliament approves mandatory Covid vaccination (rte.ie)
Ending the wearing of facemasks and vaccine passports as the UK has? (it starts about 8 minutes in)
It’s all yet to be decided by public opinion and the polls (health doesn’t come into it)
All of this potentially creates a lot of uncertainty, but since we now know the current covid laws are designed to punish the unvaccinated and not about containing covid, it’s much easier to work out what’s going on.
The way forward
This has meant a change in strategy for us, and we will concentrate on the kids well being and others in the same predicament.
I’m now part of a support group and have been organising sports events for unvaxxed teenagers, since they are now locked out of any official sports programs. A lot of these kids are now home schooled.
The good news is that we now have our own kids enrolled in an online school, which means their education won’t be put hold at the PM’s whim.
(This was a major worry for us, because discrimination is likely to happen at school).
It’s likely I’ll retire from work for a year or two, until the hysteria either dies down or moves back to climate change or something else.
So it’s now likely we will have the best house on the street, the best garden, and a freshly painted garage.
P.S. Oh, and I’ll be really fit from all the bike rides!
P.P.S I have a 0.0128% chance of dying from covid (thats from the UK stats), I’m good with that
P.P.P.S The kids have next to a zero % chance of dying from covid
Uncoffined 
The booster does help immensely on the moronic variant… or so research has shown in the US. Still, one has to wonder how necessary all of this is at this point. Moronic is more transmissible but much less lethal (again, according to research).
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As far as plans are concerned I think the PM and her buddys Chippy and Grunter have been conned by Wiles, Baker, Hendy and Jackson in particular that they know more than St. Ash and the MOH.
BTW why is Health Minister Angry Andy even more invisible than his hopeless predecessor David Clark.
Imagine Tony Ryall hanging back and letting others run his problems – would not happen.
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