In the beginning, a death of a person ‘with’ covid was treated very seriously indeed, as indeed perhaps it should, because a person has died.
The problem with that analysis though, is that it doesn’t look at the situation objectively, or examine the facts in a logical fashion.
Was the person in good health, despite the covid? or were they near the end of their life expectancy, with a weak immune system?
For those who think I’m been callous and uncaring, you might want to consider that we all have a limited time on earth, and that no one is immortal. Death is a path we are all going to take eventually. The older you are, the closer you are to moving on. (this why I don’t like wasting time, while I’m alive).
I’ve have recorded all the covid deaths in New Zealand from the first one on 29 March 2020. I have recorded their name, age, place of residence, date of death, etc.
As we have progressed from Alpha, through Delta to Omicron, it’s been getting harder to get any details at all, due to ‘privacy issues’. As of last week, there were 63 deaths ‘with’ covid.
Those 63 deaths include a guy who got shot and died at the scene.
then there’s the man who died of a stroke in quarantine, and another who died in hospital after been admitted for a trauma incident.
If the UK and Italian stats are anything to go by, the actual number of deaths who actually died ‘from’ Covid is around 3 – 12% of the total who died ‘with’ covid.
The main thing to note about New Zealand though, is a distinct lack of deaths ‘due’ to covid. (63 as of last week)
As of today though (this week), NZ officially has had 93 deaths to covid, from a population of 5.1 million.
The numbers have gone up dramatically in the last week, because they have ‘redefined’ what a covid death is.
The Ministry of health in their wisdom have ‘redefined’ a covid death as anyone who has died within 28 days of testing positive for covid.
“Deceased -Includes all cases that died who died within 28 days of being reported as a COVID-19 case. In some of these cases, the underlying cause of death may have been unrelated to COVID-19.”
While the world is distracted by the Ukraine affair, This happened to the Wellington protest about Mandates, and discrimination against the unvaccinated.
“The 2nd of March was the dawning of a new more violent era by the Ardern regime. The tyrant deployed the strong arm of her jackbooted Police thugs, who used tear gas, pepper spray, batons, riot shields, rubber bullets, sonic weapons and fire hoses on peaceful protestors on the grounds of Parliament.
Jacinda’s kindness in full force -BFD photo credit
If she was prepared to use violence on the steps of parliament then she would be prepared to use it anywhere.
Not even Robert Muldoon, who had the Bastion Point protest cleared with Police, dogs and batons and used the full violent force of Police to attack protestors during the Springbok Tour, used tear gas on citizens. Yesterday the tyrant‘s blue shirts did just that.
Yesterday was the day the tyrant showed that “Kindness” was just a slogan. Her new “kindness” now involves tear gas and batons.
Her refusal to address the protesters, followed by an assault by the police on largely peaceful protesters and their property is largely to blame for this. But it was not just Ardern. It was all of the politicians.
Christopher Luxon could have gone out and spoken to them. It would have been a great moment for him, showing he was willing to talk and negotiate. Now we know the truth. He’s a cowardly elitist who deserves nothing but opprobrium. This is as much on him as it is on the tyrant he supported.
I’ll be disappointed if anyone in the current MP lineup gets in at the next election. They’re like rabbits bewitched by the stare of a stoat.
Her Police Commissioner said he wanted to avoid violence but his shock troops visited that upon the protestors yesterday as they violently cleared Parliament’s grounds. They achieved yesterday the same result he said he wanted to avoid: what an idiot.
Whether Antifa-types were involved or not, the police actions today pushed people to their absolute limit and some cracked and pushed back. The tyrant had the temerity to then hold a press conference and blame the protestors. Talk about out of touch.
The protest was peaceful until the police moved in.
The complicit media cheered them on, and the tyrant stood at the podium of truth and lied as she has never lied before.
While she said police expected hostility, resistance and violence, “It is another thing entirely to witness it”. And boy did we witness it as the Police used tear gas fired into the crowd, pepper-sprayed media filming and used extreme violence and force while wantonly destroying property in an act of spite and vengeance.
Police destroying prperty -BFD photo credit
The violence was perpetrated by Police on protestors, not the other way around. At times during the protest when Police stopped advancing, we never once saw protestors advance on Police.
BFD photo credit
Jacinda Ardern caused this when she created two classes of citizens: she demonised, ostracised and cancelled people for making a choice to exercise their rights under our Bill of Rights.
She cut them out of society, cost them their jobs, their careers and their businesses. Why is she surprised that they set up a camp on Parliament’s lawn? Why is she surprised to see them refuse to leave?
It is Ardern who has radicalised these people, not three nice mums having Zoom meetings.
Ardern’s draconian policies are falling down around her. Her vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, vaccines, booster and lockdowns are all failing before our eyes. She can’t blame the unvaccinated for the huge outbreak as they were shut out of society.
This chart shows clearly that the vaccines, vaccine mandates, vaccine passports and mask mandates aren’t working. If they are working then explain all those vaxxed and boosted cases. You won’t be able to and neither can the tyrant.
But, like a true narcissistic tyrant who thinks she is not responsible, she stood there and declared that the people she marginalised as “Not Us”…they are them, the other people.
The “Team of Five Million” was a lie; so was “Kindness”. Yesterday we saw what her kindness looked like, and it was awful.
BFD photo credit
Yesterday we watched our democracy burn, and it was at the hands of the Police. If the tyrant thinks this is going to go away by bashing people and destroying what was left of their lives that her policies ruined, then she’d best think again.
She will literally have to hide now as people unleash ugly anger on an out of control tyrant who cannot see beyond her own lies and slogans. If she thought a few protestors heckling her at a school was bad, she hasn’t seen anything yet.
We are looking at an out of touch despot, desperately clinging to power through her mandates now violently enforced by the Police.
Rubber bullets fired by Police -BFD Photo credit
The Police have now destroyed any respect in them as they trampled old people, women and children. They tear-gassed people and pepper-sprayed children and journalists. They were the aggressors, and they can no longer be trusted. They abandoned their values and trampled our human rights. They disgust me.
Police Commissioner Coster should resign. It is obvious that he has been lying about wanting to de-escalate things, and instead plotted to visit hell on the protestors.
Jacinda Ardern and Trevor Mallard must go too. In fact, I hope the whole parliament is emptied of the cowards and quislings that infect the place.
Never before have I been so angry at a tyrannical government. I will do everything within my power to see the end of every party currently in parliament.”
It was much quieter today. The tension between the protesters and police has been de-escalated and the Police have simply been maintaining their routine guard positions all day.
The Police line
About every hour or so, a group of officers come out and relieve them. It’s all done to a strict routine, and it’s rather like watching soldiers on parade, as they march about in a very serious fashion.
Meanwhile, the local school children, etc, just walk casually thru the protest area, which speaks volumes about the goodwill of the protestors in general.
There were some very good speakers on the main stage today, and the occassional not quite so good one.
It seems the vibe of the protest seems to change a bit every day (no two days are the same), which is probably due to it’s dynamic nature.
I did spend a bit of time in the ‘Blues lounge’ and listened to some really good musicians. They were all strangers to begin with, but they played together well, like they had played together as a band for years.
That sort of encapsulates this protest. We are all strangers here and we are all different, but we have a common purpose and we all relate to each other very well. We have all suffered somehow, and we are all here for a reason, and what we believe in.
Thats it for now, I’ve volunteered to help out tomorrow and I suspect it will be a long, but rewarding day.
Uncoffined 
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