New Zealand went into covid panic mode about Omicron yesterday, exactly as I knew it would, because people have been found in the community with Omicron. It’s notable that they are vaccinated.
It’s going to be one hell of a rollercoaster ride for the next few weeks.
They are already talking about a ‘review’ on Wednesday, which means that a new bunch of strict rules will be announced.
They never even followed their own “Traffic Lt system” when they put the whole of the country into ‘Red” mode.
For the record, New Zealand has 8 cases in total in ICU (intensive care unit) as of yesterday.
The health system certainly isn’t overloaded, which is a perquisite for going into “red” mode.
Fortunately for me, I’m on holiday with the kids right now, so I’m not having to deal with hysterical people if I don’t want to.
The TV and radio is turned off, because there will be endless ad’s telling me how bad it all is.
So while everyone else was panicking and rushing off to buy toilet paper, we were relaxing at a beach with several other families with teenagers and had a BBQ.
We were a bit more organised this time with 3 kayaks, and a boat.
It was heartening to see some of the kids have a go at stuff that they were initially a bit hesitant about. One of the teens had a go at wake boarding for the first time.
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,
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
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.
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
Written by a nurse… “Among all the vaccines I have known in my life (diphtheria, tetanus, measles, rubella, chickenpox, hepatitis, meningitis and tuberculosis), I want to also add flu and pneumonia.
I have never seen a vaccine that forced me to wear a mask and maintain my social distance, even when you are fully vaccinated.
I had never heard of a vaccine that spreads the virus even after vaccination. I had never heard of rewards, discounts, incentives to get vaccinated. I never saw discrimination for those who didn’t. If you haven’t been vaccinated no one has tried to make you feel like a bad person. I have never seen a vaccine that threatens the relationship between family, colleagues and friends. I have never seen a vaccine used to threaten livelihoods, work or school. I have never seen a vaccine that would allow a 12-year-old to override parental consent. After all the vaccines I listed above, I have never seen a vaccine like this one, which discriminates, divides and judges society as it is.
And as the social fabric tightens… It’s a powerful vaccine! It does all these things except IMMUNIZATION.
If we still need a booster dose after we are fully vaccinated, and we still need to get a negative test after we are fully vaccinated, and we still need to wear a mask after we are fully vaccinated, and still be hospitalized after we have been fully vaccinated, it will likely come to “It’s time for us to admit that we’ve been completely deceived.”..
Uncoffined 
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