Lockdown Protest in NZ

It’s been over a decade since I’ve been involved in a protest, but we live in strange times indeed. Our rights and freedom have been taken away from us on the pretext of a disease that ‘might’ kill us.

Fun fact -I’m 55yrs old, and have a 0.0128% chance of dying from covid, If you consider that I am in good health, that percentage is practically zero.

I’ve had a few sleepless nights about going, because they have been arresting organisers lately. (protests are illegal under NZ covid laws, but judges have been acknowledging our right to protest)

I gave the kids the option of coming along and they were quite excited by the idea. They understand whats going on quite well. We got there several hours early because my youngest was so keen to get there.

We were having a picnic in a park, which just happened to have thousands of other people there with the same idea, which is legal within the covid rules here.

The kids spent some time making some signs before the event really got started with some very inspirational speakers.

Some of the speakers were quite religious and spoke very candidly about the effects they see on the community around them. Another speaker was an Early Childhood Teacher who is about to lose her job, unless she gets a mandatory vaccination.

We then went for a protest march thru the local city center. It was quite a buzz walking with so many people of all different ages and races who had the same views as we did.

We certainly weren’t walking alone anymore, which is how its felt for the last few months.

It was also quite ironic that I was chanting “FREEDOM” on the march by the way, because I was campaigning in the last election for a ‘freedom’ party that sold out.

In short it’s the best thing I’ve done for months, and it feels like I’ve cleansed my soul.

A view from the UK on New Zealands PM (Jacinda Adern)

https://www.bitchute.com/video/snSglly9jZdl/

It’s pretty tense in NZ at the moment with enormous peer pressure been applied to get everyone vaccinated. The original target was 90% which has been exceeded in some areas, but the restrictions still haven’t been lifted.

The video is from a talk show in the UK which shows her in a rather unflattering light

It’s slowly becoming clear to the average person that their PM may be less than honest.

Covid in NZ -the current situation

The following is a comment from a prominent NZ athlete (Russell Coutts) who travels overseas a lot. It’s a very accurate picture of where New Zealand is now.

After experiencing what it’s like in Europe since May, it appears there are a lot of things being mis-reported in New Zealand. The media here seems set on promoting fear. It would be interesting to send a truly independent news crew offshore to report on what it’s really like in a more balanced way….I suspect most kiwi’s would be incredibly surprised.
If you doubt what I’m saying then turn on the TV and check out the full stadiums at various sports events overseas.

Check out the Premier League, Champions League or the recent Ryder Cup. The All Blacks just played against the USA in front of 40,000 fans in Washington DC.
The fact is that people are living with Covid offshore and although some people, perhaps many, rightly remain cautious, life has largely returned to normal in many places. But that is not what we are being told here in New Zealand.

The erosion of our freedom of choice, freedom of speech and the loss of precious time with family and friends and all the other negative aspects of a lockdown should be balanced against the health risk of Covid. Imagine if we had invested the 1 billion plus spent each week on lockdowns on improving our health system, education or roading (we had 8 road deaths in NZ last weekend).

It seems totally insane that double vaccinated people are terrified of meeting unvaccinated people. Is that how it’s going to be for the rest of our lives? What about the people that have health issues and can’t get vaccinated? Are they going to be banished from society? (for the record I’m double vaccinated)

Finally the fact that the NZ government has now said that even if Auckland achieves 90% double vaccination that it’s people may likely still be restricted from traveling at Christmas seems like a total nonsense.
(For those overseas people reading this, Auckland already has 93% first dose and 82% second dose vaccinated – the entire country has 87% first dose and 72% double dosed).

It’s also total nonsense and contradictory that double vaccinated people that have negative covid tests are being locked down for 14 days in MIQ (quarantine) whilst people with Covid are being allowed to self isolate in the community.

How New Zealand, a country where it’s people greatly valued freedom off choice…..how we even got to this stage of blindly accepting this sort of unilateral rule, power and dictatorship from our government is deeply troubling indeed.

Weekly roundup

The lockdown continues week to week and we now just treat it as the status quo. I dont bother listening to official updates about it anymore, because I’m assuming we will still be doing this at Xmas. The kids are just over it.

They have had to open up the schools again for senior high school students, because we are near the end of the year and they need to study for exams.
It’s possibly going to be a battleground of the vaxed vs the unvaxed, so I’ll keep a close eye on it when my daughter attends school again.

It was my birthday yesterday, and the kids set up a treasure hunt for me, which was quite fun.

Birthdays never do my diet any good, but I do generally go for a walk or bike ride everyday. We live on the edge of town so we always go out into the countryside for some piece and quiet.

It’s generally a struggle with teenage kids to get them out of the house and off their computers/phones, but today I suggested going to a local beach and they were in the car within 5 minutes, while screaming at my wife to hurry up and get in the car!