Staying calm amidst the coming storm

New zealand is still in a state of flux these days in the aftermath of covid hysteria.

Covid, or rather the reaction to it has destroyed and/or disrupted most people’s lives in some way.

-Most people now have family members that they don’t/won’t talk to anymore. -Mandates that either forced people to take the jab or lose their job. -Adverse reactions to the jab. These don’t officially exist here, but the chances are that anyone in New Zealand knows someone who suffers from a bad reaction. Myocarditis is a common one. -Even religion wasn’t immune with churches turning away some of their own faithful.

Some amends have since been made and those who were cast out, are now been accepted again.

The Government had used covid as a cover to ‘redesign society’ and push through rather idealistic ideas as to how we should live our lives. They are still trying to do this, but resistance is growing, and they are losing ground in the all important polls.

They have tried pushing the fear of monkeypox, since covid doesn’t cut the mustard anymore, but people just aren’t buying it.

Everything seems to have changed in the last two years or is still changing, which has sweep people off their feet leaving them confused, with nothing constant in their lives anymore to cling to. The situation reminds me of the lyrics of a song by Bob Dylan -The times are a changing. (written in the turbulent times of the 1960’s in the USA)

The uncertainy about the future and rising inflation is causing people to think twice about spending.
It feels like NZ is about to go into an economic depression. Some people here would still dispute this, but all the warning signs are there, and the economic damage and debt from the lockdowns has to be dealt with eventually.

It’s still common to see mask wearers, even though it’s now commonly known to be a dumb idea. The main culprits tend to be ‘look at me’ virtue signallers.

The mandates are slowly, and quietly been withdrawn. the latest one to fall is for the Firefighters

https://www.nzpfu.org.nz/news/government-removes-firefighters-from-covid-19-vaccination-mandate/

Health workers are still mandated..

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300456924/covid19-1300-unvaccinated-health-workers-stood-down-from-dhbs

Which causes staff shortages in hospitals

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/469274/nurses-warn-more-lives-at-risk-if-health-staffing-crisis-not-addressed

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/06/middlemore-s-dhb-pay-local-gps-up-to-1400-an-hour-to-help-take-pressure-off-emergency-department.html

There’s still some weird stuff going on, like bribing staff to get a flu vaccination..

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/469442/bribery-works-doesn-t-it-hotel-stay-offered-to-raise-dhb-vax-rates

In conclusion, I think inflation and recession is going to cause a lot of pain, and covid will be yesterdays news.

Best batten down the hatches

The aftermath from mandates and Vaccine passports.

The article below was written by an Australian writer, but they could just as easily be writing about New Zealand.

“If Covid was a battlefield it would still be warm with the bodies of the unvaccinated. Thankfully the mandates are letting up and both sides of the war stumble back to the new normal.
The unvaccinated are the heroes of the last two years as they allowed us all to have a control group in the great experiment and highlight the shortcoming of the Covid vaccines.
The unvaccinated carry many battle scars and injuries as they are the people we tried to mentally break, yet no one wants to talk about what we did to them and what they forced “The Science“ to unveil.
We knew that the waning immunity of the fully vaccinated had the same risk profile as others within society as the minority of the unvaccinated, yet we marked them for special persecution.
You see we said they had not “done the right thing for the greater good” by handing their bodies and medical autonomy over to the State.
Many of the so-called health experts and political leaders in Australia admitted the goal was to make life almost unlivable for the unvaccinated, which was multiplied many times by the collective mob, with the fight taken into workplaces, friendships, and family gatherings.
Today the hard truth is none of it was justified as we took a quick slide from righteousness to absolute cruelty. We might lay the blame on our leaders and health experts for the push but each individual within society must be held accountable for stepping into the well-laid-out trap.
We did this despite knowing full well that principled opposition is priceless when it comes to what goes inside our bodies and we let ourselves be tricked into believing that going into another ineffective lockdown would be the fault of the unvaccinated and not the fault of the toxic policy of ineffective vaccines.
We took pleasure in scapegoating the unvaccinated because after months of engineered lockdowns by political leaders blinded by power, having someone to blame and to burn at the stake felt good.

We believed we had logic, love, and truth on our side so it was easy to wish death upon the unvaccinated.
Those of us who ridiculed and mocked the non-compliant did it because we were embarrassed by their courage and principles and didn’t think the unvaccinated would make it through unbroken and we turned the holdouts into punching bags. Lambie, Carr, Chant, Andrews, McGowan, Gunner, and the other cast of hundreds in prominent roles need to be held to account for vilifying the unvaccinated in public and fueling angry social media mobs.
The mobs, the mask Nazis, and the vaccine disciples have been embarrassed by “betting against” the unvaccinated because mandates only had the power we gave them.
It was not compliance that ended domination by Big Pharma Companies, Bill Gates and his many organizations, and the World Economic Forum… It was THANKS to the people we tried to embarrass, ridicule, mock and tear down.

We should all try and find some inner gratitude for the unvaccinated as we took the bait by hating them because their perseverance and courage bought us the time to see we were wrong.
So if mandates ever return for Covid or any other disease or virus, hopefully, more of us will be awake and see the rising authoritarianism that has no concern for our well-being and is more about power and control. The War on the Unvaccinated was lost and we should all be very thankful for that.”
unknown author

The pressure has eased right off here in New Zealand, my job is secure again, and I can now easily renew my drivers license, and other certs required for my job. My daughter can now sit her drivers license. The only difference from pre-covid times is that the kids no longer attend a public school.

The Vaccine passports are quietly disappearing on 17 July.

The Data says What?!

The stupidity continues dispite overwhelming evidence

Below is a post I’m sharing from Voices for Freedom

Shared from https://www.voicesforfreedom.co.nz/blog/post/data-says-what

May 20, 2022
How many times in the last 18 months have you heard the line spouted that the Covid vaccine lowers your chance of becoming unwell enough to be hospitalised? Or, that you’ll be less likely to catch the coof in the first place?
Before anyone has a conniption and feels compelled to yell MISINFORMATION!, let’s take a look at the Ministry of Health’s OWN data.
There is a running tally of 7 day averages being published by RNZ. It’s worth a visit. There you will find charts like this one.

This chart displays the percentages of people who have (or haven’t) been vaccinated and how many doses they’ve received.
It also shows the same breakdown for the case numbers by vax status and the hospitalisation rates as well.
We have been told since late 2020 that this product is 95% effective.

The actual trial results quickly morphed into something different that was then promoted by the media and our government officials at every opportunity – day and night on TV, radio, internet, newspapers, text messages, emails, phone calls, magazines, posters, billboards, flyers, and from medical professionals, scientists, politicians, so-called ‘experts’, influencers, and anyone with a ‘professional’ role or a mouth in their face. It was inescapable, feverish, and well past the threshold of obsessive.

We were told that:
❌️ The vaccines were safe and EFFECTIVE.
❌️ The vaccines would prevent sickness, hospitalisation, and death. (Remember that gem of a press conference, Jacinda, where you said “you won’t get sick and you won’t DIE”? We do).

https://odysee.com/Jacinda-Spinning:d548fb6f0c3439c34fafe042c9b84b1ceb7e5b7a?src=embed

❌️ The vaccines would protect those who got them as this was a ‘Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’ dont you know!
❌️ The unvaccinated would be a threat to the vulnerable and society as a whole; clogging hospitals and spreading disease… They needed to be silenced, shamed, and shunned.
Now, let’s look at the data. The facts. What actually happened.

Their OWN data shows that the vaccine-free make up 7% of the population, but only 2% of the new cases, and 6% hospitalisations. That ‘dangerous’ group is UNDER-REPRESENTED in both the case and hospitalisation stats. Awkward.
Moving on to the fully vaccinated crew. The twice-jabbed make up 26% of the population, 26% of the new cases, but 37% of the hospitalisations. They are OVER-REPRESENTED in one of the most serious categories – being hospitalised. They are, in fact, MORE LIKELY to land in the hospital than those without a jab. Uh oh.
Then there’s this graph.

It shows the rates of hospitalisation per 100,000 people in the population. In this data we can compare how many people from each of the groups (Under 12/Ineligible, Unvaccinated, Partially Vaccinated, Fully Vaccinated, and Boosted) ended up in hospital.
Again, it is clear from the data that the fully vaccinated are ahead of the race (and not in a good way) with 2.3 cases per 100,000 compared to 2 per 100,000 in the unvaccinated.
If the 95% effective claims were correct, the bars showing the fully vaxxed and boosted people should be near pancake-level; a small fraction of what they actually are – around 5% of the unvaccinated group.
But they’re not and you’re not being told about it.

Instead, we are still being bombarded with messaging to get shot up with more, and more, and more ineffective products.
Where is the mainstream media on this? It would appear they’re too busy shouting mis- and disinformation at anyone trying to sound the alarm and shine a light on the facts – just like they have the whole way along. Shame. On. Them.
What will these charts look like in the months to come as the narrow ‘immunity’ conferred by the vaccine wanes even further?
How much negative efficacy or increased risk will we see? When will the unintended consequences become so obvious that they’re no longer able to be swept under the rug?
All we can do is watch, wait, and share information like this in the hope to inform those still thinking that more is best.
Stand up. Speak out. Be on the right side of history.

REFERENCE: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/450874/covid-19-data-visualisations-nz-in-numbers

an update on NZ’s Covid obsession

I’m only posting the link to the article below as part of a time capsule, as it shows very clearly how pointless the mandate thing was / is at this point of time, and how it’s become political and not about health.

As for me, I’m rather over the whole thing, and would rather concentrate on things that matter, like been a really good dad to my kids and giving them the best possible start in life.

At this point of time, NZ’s prime minister is in the USA desperately trying to be relevant somehow, if only someone actually important would talk to her.

The ‘orange’ they are referring to in the link below is the ‘traffic lt’ system which was thought to be for containing covid, but was actually designed to persecute the unvaccinated. (ref note 1)

https://thebfd.co.nz/2022/05/25/orange-for-the-win/

Note 1

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/10/new-zealand-not-prepared-for-omicron-outbreak-expected-in-matter-of-weeks-experts-warn