Category: NZ politics

Catching Wild Pigs

Karl Marx once said, “Remove one freedom per generation, and soon you will have no freedoms and no one will have noticed.”
 
One day while the class was in the lab, a professor noticed one young man, kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.
 
The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him that he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country, who were trying to overthrow his country’s government and install a new communist regime.
 
Then, the student looked at the professor and asked a strange question,
 
“Do you know how to catch wild pigs?”
 
The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punchline. The young man said that it was no joke.
 
“You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free food.
 
When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. At first, they are scared, but when they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence.
 
They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side.
 
The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.
 
Suddenly, the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.”
 
The young man then told the professor,
 
“That is exactly what I see happening in many countries. The governments keep pushing us towards Communism/Socialism and keep spreading the free corn out in the form of programmes such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income,   Free / subsidised Rations , Caste Benefits, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops, welfare entitlements, medicine, drugs, etc., while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time.”
 
One should always remember two truths:
 
1. There is no such thing as a free lunch, and
 
2. You can never hire someone to provide a service for you, cheaper than you can do it yourself.
 
If you see that all of this wonderful government ‘help’ is a problem confronting the future of democracy, there is hope.
 
If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then God help you when the gate slams shut!
 
Most of the problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are now outnumbered by those who vote for a living

A Nation Divided and Misinformed Cannot Progress. It is Time for Scientists to Set the Record Straight

Shared from the Hatchard report.. https://hatchardreport.com/a-nation-divided-and-misinformed-cannot-progress-it-is-time-for-scientists-to-set-the-record-straight/

On March 29, 2021, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, then Director of the US CDC, reassured the American public and the world on MSNBC “Vaccinated people do not carry the virus, and don’t get sick.” She was lying.

Emails obtained under a freedom of information request show that as early as January 30, 2021, soon after the vaccine rollout began, she was fully aware that vaccinated people were getting sick with Covid. At the time, she was referring to these as ‘breakout infections’ in her private correspondence.

So why do people in authority like Walensky blatantly lie to the public? After all, she is not alone, we have a whole host of public figures in New Zealand who similarly feel unconstrained by the truth.

In July 2021, I was invited to participate in Covid-19 discussions with New Zealand experts. As a result, I wrote dozens of detailed emails sounding the alarm about vaccine safety and efficacy to many prominent Government advisers, all of whose names have featured prominently in the media. I received the following replies, among others. Without exception, to a significant extent, they sympathised with my concerns based on the scientific references I submitted:

“…the vaccines are only in their first iteration. Israel is effectively Pfizer’s real life laboratory…” and my comment: by inference NZ was also being subjected to an experiment, we were known to be lab rats.

And

“…..We are like lemmings walking towards and off the cliff – it seems very dire for anyone with kids and hoping for their future.”

And

“you are right that studies have also shown that high vaccine coverage will not…contain outbreaks.”

And

“I share your concerns about long-term effects of Covid-19 and the need to consider these.”

And

“…the uncertainties are large. I agree about the importance of trying to keep an open, evidence-informed debate about future options.”

And

“Our knowledge base is incomplete and will continue to be incomplete as the virus evolves”

And

“I think you may be right that opportunities should be taken to promote preventive health measures”

I have to presume that our government received similarly cautious advice. Certainly, the Skegg Committee report to parliament recommended frequent review of the outcomes of Covid response and newly published papers. So why didn’t the government undertake reviews? Why did they close the door on myself and others who were asking questions? Why did they order social media to cancel open debate?

Why Are None of These Privately Cautious Scientists Speaking Up Publicly Now?

Why did Ardern, Hipkins, Bloomfield, and Verrall tell the public mRNA vaccines were completely safe and effective, contrary to the cautious advice of their experts? Why did they institute coercive mandates resulting in loss of employment and schooling? Why did they tell the technocrats and bureaucrats in the health service to switch into high gear and deny the existence of mRNA adverse effects? Why did they institute saturation advertising and paid media coverage promoting ideas they knew to be false?

More to the point, why are government ministers still doing it? Dr Ayesha Verrall, our Minister of Health, still has a pinned tweet on her Twitter feed (a pinned tweet is the first you will always see) originally posted May 10, 2020 saying:

If you read scientific papers, you will realise that Sweden, who avoided lockdowns, did get a lot right. A literature review and meta analysis of 32 studies in July 2022 found that lockdowns in 2020 had little to no effect on Covid mortality around the world. As a result, Sweden’s no lockdown policy resulted in better economic outcomes and better educational outcomes. Crucially prestigious Pew Research concludes that the Swedes emerged from the pandemic a more united society as a result.

So New Zealand will not be awarding Nobel prizes for medicine anytime soon, but our health minister still wants us to BELIEVE contrary to the evidence.

It is hard to escape the notion that Ardern was a person with fanatical beliefs who changed who we are as a nation for the worse, dividing us along false lines.

Ardern ignored scientific advice, she used PR tools and coercion to enforce her own opinions against the cautious tone of her advisors. She aligned herself not with the New Zealand people but with overseas commercial interests and avowed globalists. In this, incredibly, she received the support of all parties and politicians.

It is hard to say anything new about this sorry situation except to ask how can we reunite as a nation? I have received private letters from some in our scientific community thanking me for speaking up, but now can you also please speak up publicly? Perhaps you were coerced into towing the government line as many were, but now the damage has to be repaired. We have become a polarised nation. No nation divided and misinformed can progress. Covid policies and mRNA vaccines have left us sick, dispirited, ignorant of facts, and poor. It is time to do the right thing and set the record straight.