The final day came and went for nurses, midwives, teachers, and firefighters to get vaccinated or loose their jobs.
It appears that most of the teachers capitulated at the last moment.

The firefighters got a time extension until the end of the month. It’s not hard to work out why -most of them are volunteers that are spread all over rural NZ. You only need to lose the only qualified fire truck driver, and you have a huge problem.

There are two large protests that are scheduled for the coming weekend.

The ‘Mother of all protests’ organised by the Freedom and rights coalition on Saturday.
It’s pretty self evident what they are protesting about (the clue is in the name)
There last protest backfired somewhat -They created massive traffic jams, which created a lot of anger because the average person simply treated it as an inconvenience without looking into why they were protesting.

The ‘Father of all protests’ organised by ‘Groundswell’
These are the farmers and growers that are protesting about unworkable regulations that could put farms out of bussiness, It’s also about the government trying to take the water supply systems away from towns and cities and handing control over to the indigenious people (Maori’s). (I am 5/32 Maori by the way)

We were led to believe there would be a big announcement on the 29th November, about Xmas for Auckland which has been locked within it’s own borders for months. However, out of nowhere, the Goverment announced in a piecemeal way that travel out of Auckland would be possible over Xmas. (they really had to do this, otherwise, they will lose their base voters trust).

As per usual thou, the arrangements dont make logical sense.
Vaccinated people can travel as long as they have a vaccination certificate to prove it.
Unvaccinated people must have a negative test to prove they are covid free before they can travel.

The pfizer vaccination doesn’t stop the transmission of covid to other people, and merely reduces symptoms at best. This means they are going to spread covid all over the (relatively covid free) country, and it’s the double vaccinated who will be responsible for doing this.

These announcements were probably done in order to get the pressure off the Goverment, and logic wasn’t a priorty.

One of the conclusions we can gather from the events of this week is simply this..

When they fired 1300 Healthcare staff for not complying with the vaccine mandate early this week, obviously the covid pandemic can’t be a big deal, and the compulsory vaccination mandates are actually about something else.

This is a well written rap song describing the situation in New Zealand at the moment (contains offensive language)

A week in Auckland, New Zealand is a long time these days, because you just don’t know it’s going to pan out. We have now been in a strict lockdown for the last 12 weeks with no certainty of when (if) it will end.

The general population did as they were told initially when the lockdown started, even if they didn’t agree with it, and meekly obeyed the Prime minister Jacinda Adern.

However, she has started to go off the tracks, and has been applying peer pressure to get everyone to get vaccinated. To this end, she has tried to get the vaccinated to ‘encourage’ the others to get the ‘jab’, as well as heavily implying unvaccinated people will have less rights after the lockdown.

Unfortunately for her, Youtube has a good memory even if some people don’t. It’s plain to see from the link below she has lied.

She kept implying that if Auckland got to 90% vaxxed, we could move on…..

But then she came up with the ‘traffic light system’ which moved the goal posts just when was about to get 90%

Since then, she has kept saying there will be an announcement ‘next week’ with everyone eagerly expecting good news. They have done this too many times now, and patience is wearing very thin.

Protests are now commonplace, even if the MSM don’t report them, and it’s not possible now for Jacinda to go somewhere without protesters turning up.

In my dealings with people this week, I’ve had several people talk angrily about our PM without any prompting. (these are people that never normally talk about politics.

In short, New Zealands love affair with their prime minister is over.

In the coming few weeks, it’s just going to get harder for the PM (Jacinda Adern). Their are more protests planned about lockdowns, but also about radical new leglislation that they were trying to rush thru parliament while everyone was concerned about covid.

As we get closer to Xmas, the pressure will ramp up exponentially, because having NZ’s largest city under lockdown over the xmas holidays just isn’t going to be something the average person will stand for.

The next month will be dramatic, just how much, I’m not sure.

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.