Late last year, with lockdowns, Vaccine mandates, and V passports becoming mandatory, it was a very lonely place with no future, if you weren’t getting vaccinated for whatever reason.
The social ostracisation was enormous. People were fired from their jobs, churches turned away their own members, families been torn apart, and all of this happened just before Xmas when families traditionally get together.
One particular couragous man stood up against the segregation and discrimination, and decided to do something about it.
ANZAC day here in New Zealand (25 April), is the day we remember those who served in the First and Second World War, but never returned.
Meanwhile, the mandates have gone for now, but it wasn’t what the Government really wanted. It only occurred because of protests, falling polls, and a failing covid crisis narrative that they have milked for far too long.
The court case against mandates for Defence force personell may have been won, but the unvaccinated members are now been ‘performance managed’ out, in a classic case of the Government doubling down.
Most of the ANZAC parades were therefore cancelled around the country because of fear mongering by the media and Government pressure on it’s civil servants not to attend, hence the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Police, weren’t there to remember the fallen.
Given all this, my family and I attended the dawn service anyway, as a mark of respect for those who served. The parade was a lot smaller this year with just the band, Fire service, and the St John’s ambulance service. It was followed by a very short commemoration service.
It was pleasing that a large number of the general public came and paid their respects, and also reassuring that the vast majority of them weren’t wearing masks.
The service itself, it was a lot smaller due to the non-attendance of most Government services
P.S. The photo’s are a bit substandard because they were taken at 6AM in the dark without a flash. Luckily, my oldest daughter is studying photography this year, so with a bit of help I’ll get better at it!
Ah, I can still hear the popular refrain from two years ago, “we have to follow the science!” Well, let’s see how closely we have to follow the science now that science has spoken on mask mandates: The word “useless” works. I’m not going to suggest we get all snarky about this. If you were […]
With the mandates mostly gone, the hysteria’s mostly been replaced with confusion, regret, and a realisation that everything’s been crazy for the last two years.
The only holdouts tend to be office workers who work from home, and retired people, who are socially isolated and rely solely on the MSM (main stream media), which gives a rather distorted view of things.
This is illustrated beautifully by the event which happened to friends of ours..
“A group of mostly home-schooled children & parents visited Auckland Museum on the first day the vax mandates were dropped. They’d been shut out for 8 months (with lockdown). The kids were so excited. The first people entered showing their mask exemptions & were told: you need to wait here while we “verify these exemptions”. They never came back. What happened next was unbelievable. They locked every single entry and exit from the building. No one could get in or out. Not one person came out to talk with the group. Internal communication quickly labelled the gathering as “protestors” but there was no protest, simply a bunch of kids really wanting to see their favourite exhibits. People tried 📞 to figure out what was going on. No one seemed to know. Simply put, the staff were paralysed over not having a policy for dealing with multiple mask-exempt visitors on their premises. Disappointed, the group left after a 1.5 hour wait & the doors reopened an hour later.”
This link is from a non MSM source and is very accurate.
Local clubs and organisations are now trying to rebuild their depleted membership numbers. It’s likely that those that regretfully turned away the unvaccinated will be forgiven, while those who did it with glee, not so much.
We have since visited an organisation that has shown some contrition over the whole mandate thing, but in general we are keeping to ourselves and supporting the businesses and people, who have supported us throughout the whole mandate thing.
Uncoffined 
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