Last year, we were stuck in a lockdown for a long 4 months.
The kids were stuck at home with nothing to do. The schools were closed and weren’t set up for online schooling.
The kids were getting a few hrs of school work per week. The weeks dragged on and I could see that the kids were suffering from the isolation and a lack of motivation and structure in their lives.
To help resolve this, I brought some skateboards online.
We watched a few video’s on google, then we went out each day to a cul de sac and taught ourselves how to ride them.
As is always the way, the kids moved on to other things, but at least I had gotten them off the couch!
That left just me, and 3 skateboards to choose from.
I chose the longest board we had to learn on.
It should have been the easist to ride, but it didn’t work out that way.
I perservered with it for the last few months, and I was quite useless at riding, until I realised that that cheap skateboard I was using, was half the problem..
It turns out that it flexes a lot in the board itself, which makes it hard to control. I swapped over to a more expensive board and then it all just sort of clicked for me.
I’m now able to ride quite reliably now and get to places, like a local pro-choice cafe.
P.S. I’m still jumping off it to stop thou, because I haven’t got the slowing down bit sorted yet..
“As predicted, right on schedule, the Government has moved the whole country into the red light setting, choking off any recovery that might have happened. Make no mistake, this has been planned all along and you’ve all been softened up.
This prediction was made on the 5th of January:
A Covid-19 modelling expert says New Zealanders could expect an Omicron outbreak to occur in around 18 days if cases of the variant at MIQ continue to skyrocket.
The risk of Omicron entering the community is “very high” as daily cases at the border overtake the number of new cases in the community, University of Canterbury Professor Michael Plank said.
And now we have yet another failure of the MIQ system. Another failure of the vaccines and the vaccine passes that they told you were designed to halt the spread of the virus.
We haven’t dodged it at all. The expert was wrong, again. And yet here we are, with the entire family from Nelson and almost every other person infected with Omicron, described as fully vaccinated.
Has the penny dropped for you yet? It certainly hasn’t with our idiot Government who think that they are going to stamp out a virus that no country on earth has managed to stamp out.
They’ve ignored their own rules that say the red setting is for when the hospital system looks like being overwhelmed. Given that there are zero people in ICU anywhere in the country, this is contrary to what we’ve been told red is all about.
Bizarrely, and ignoring all the evidence around the world regarding Omicron the tyrant stood at the ‘podium of truth’ and implored everyone to get jabbed and get boosted. Let’s see how that has worked for Israel:
The Israeli Ministry of Health announced this week that more than 72,000 people tested positive for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, the largest rise in infections since the start of the pandemic.
Total active cases in the country rose to nearly 400,000 people, of whom 533 are currently hospitalized in critical condition, according to a Jan. 19 statement posted by the country’s health ministry.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned this month that CCP virus cases are expected to increase rapidly amid the spread of the Omicron variant, as he presented government data that indicates two to four million Israelis are predicted to be infected with COVID-19 during the current outbreak.
“Information presented at a cabinet meeting indicates that in Israel, overall 2–4 million citizens will be infected in the current wave,” Bennett’s statement reads.
Epoch Times
Yet Ardern claimed at her press conference that “The difference to previous outbreaks is we are now well vaccinated and well prepared.”
Last week she said this:
“The evidence tells us that while 2 doses of the vaccine makes a huge difference for the Delta variant, it’s the booster that will help get us through Omicron” pic.twitter.com/x3dxKcAg2x
Israel was well vaccinated, and on to their fourth dose. New Zealand has barely started the third dose. You’ve all been conned. And still, they lie:
“The evidence from overseas suggests [Omicron] moves very quickly,” Ardern said. “Red will make a difference.”
NZ Herald
Red won’t make a blind bit of difference, just you wait and see.
Ardern said the focus was now on getting people their boosters. The Government is sticking to the four-month gap between the second dose and booster but that would be continually reviewed.
The COVID-19 vaccines have largely failed in stopping the transmission of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, especially for the most recent Omicron variant, so the vaccine mandate should be thrown away, according to Dr. Peter McCullough.
“The vaccines themselves have basically now become obsolete as the virus has continued to mutate,” McCullough told NTD’s “Capitol Report” in an interview broadcast on Wednesday. “So at this point of time, the vaccine mandates have to be dropped across the board.”
McCullough said some recent studies have shown the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines dropped significantly with the new variants.
“There’s a paper by Young-Xu in JAMA, the prior Delta strain that was only about 20 percent covered by the vaccines. Vaccines were very ineffective against Delta,” McCullough said.
The study, which is peer-reviewed and published on the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) last month, found that during the high-Delta period, the estimated vaccine effectiveness was 62.0 percent in the first month and decreased to 57.8 percent by month three. The decrease in vaccine effectiveness accelerated after month four, reaching a low of approximately 20 percent in months five through seven.
“And now a paper from Hansen from Denmark, and from the UK public health security report indicated, against Omicron the vaccines are basically ineffective,” McCullough continued.
The Danish study, a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed, found that vaccine effectiveness against Omicron was initially 55.2 percent and 36.7 percent for Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, respectively, but waned rapidly over time. By comparison, vaccine effectiveness against Delta was significantly higher and better preserved over the same period.
Epoch Times
You all bought the lies and now the debt to the truth that those lies incurred is going to be paid by you. Your jobs are on hold again, your businesses are going to suffer and all because the Government stupidly followed the failed strategies of the rest of the world and lost their collective minds. Worse still, they brainwashed you all into believing that they knew what they were doing.
They don’t, and they never have. They have constantly flown by the seat of their pants and this time Omicron is going to expose them for the frauds they are.
The Government doesn’t trust you. We know this because they mandated vaccinations. They forcibly medicated you and told you it was better for you. Then they brought in their evil and divisive vaccine passes and created two classes of citizens, and gloated about doing it.
Soper: “The new system of course it does create two types of New Zealand citizen”
Ardern: “I wouldn’t define it in that way”
Cheng: “You’ve basically said this is gonna be like…two different classes of people”
Well, how have those vaccine passes and the segregation worked out for you all? Not well at all, with most of those getting Omicron and those infected since the pass system segregated our society having been fully vaxxed. Again, this was something I warned you about.
More proof that the Government doesn’t trust you is the fact that instead of doing what almost every other OECD nation in the world did by making Rapid Antigen Tests easily available, they put onerous restrictions in place in order to ration the tests. If you wanted a RAT test then you had to be treated like a plague carrier and you could only do the test at pharmacies.
Now with Omicron upon us, we still have test rationing in place and, bizarrely, they are still using PCR tests when the CDC has stopped using them because of false positives. WHO also recommends 20 cycles for the PCR test to avoid false positives, yet NZ is using 45 cycles.
RATs are still not going to be rolled out everywhere, they will only be available at some testing stations. And to prove they are rationing, only available if you are symptomatic. The bottom line is this, the Government doesn’t trust you to test yourself AND they have a very limited supply of test kits and testing capacity.
So, here we are more than two years into the pandemic, billions upon billions more in debt and not a single new hospital, not a single new ICU bed, not any increase in headcount of medical staff, in fact, their mandates have culled hundreds of health care workers out of the workforce. It’s all been an evil and nasty joke on you all.
If you aren’t angry yet, you bloody well should be.
Now, if you go and get tested and come up positive you will have to isolate for 24 days, along with others in your households. That is a clear incentive to not get tested.
And to rub salt into the divisive wounds the Government created, Grant Robertson wants to kick the unvaccinated even harder.
I’m sick of the lies, I’m sick of hearing about Covid, I’m sick of hearing from Jacinda Ardern and Ashley Bloomfield.
Say no to mandates, say no to vax passes, say no to testing, say no to masks. They are not for your health, they are meant to control you. Complying just encourages them. Furthermore, the evidence is non-existent that any of that actually works, just pull your heads out of the sand and look at the rest of the world:
“Would we be so stern toward people making similar or worse health choices to smoke, drink alcohol or not wear a helmet when riding a bike? Over 85,000 Americans die annually from alcohol, yet we don’t have the same public health fervor or requirements to save those lives. Let’s encourage vaccination rather than activate the personal liberty culture wars that result in people becoming more entrenched in their opposition.”
Epoch Times
If it were about health then alcohol and cigarettes would be banned. This has never been about health, it’s always been about control, and most of you ceded control of your own lives to the Government under the guise of public safety.
New Zealand went into covid panic mode about Omicron yesterday, exactly as I knew it would, because people have been found in the community with Omicron. It’s notable that they are vaccinated.
It’s going to be one hell of a rollercoaster ride for the next few weeks.
They are already talking about a ‘review’ on Wednesday, which means that a new bunch of strict rules will be announced.
They never even followed their own “Traffic Lt system” when they put the whole of the country into ‘Red” mode.
For the record, New Zealand has 8 cases in total in ICU (intensive care unit) as of yesterday.
The health system certainly isn’t overloaded, which is a perquisite for going into “red” mode.
Fortunately for me, I’m on holiday with the kids right now, so I’m not having to deal with hysterical people if I don’t want to.
The TV and radio is turned off, because there will be endless ad’s telling me how bad it all is.
So while everyone else was panicking and rushing off to buy toilet paper, we were relaxing at a beach with several other families with teenagers and had a BBQ.
We were a bit more organised this time with 3 kayaks, and a boat.
It was heartening to see some of the kids have a go at stuff that they were initially a bit hesitant about. One of the teens had a go at wake boarding for the first time.
Omicron will be in the country within a few weeks, and the Government is like a possum in the headlights with it’s indecisiveness.
In the meantime the PM is stressed out and just wants to get married.
The school year is due to start in a few weeks and the vaccine rollout has begun for 5 – 11yr old’s. On top of this is a shortage of teachers because of the mandatory vaccinations.
They are already making noises about delaying the start of the school year which is highly annoying because we had a 4 month lockdown last year which affected our kids education, and to some degree, their mental health
I’ve still been going to protests against mandatory vaccinations, but probably not for much longer. The crowd numbers are slowly dwindling and the average person on the street is literally scared to death of dying and aren’t open to reason. We have noticed thou that people are starting to get angry, and we think it’s because of the following…
Joe Public has been led to believe thru advertising, constantly changing narratives..
1/ Get the jab and all is good
2/ Get the second one, get a passport and you are ‘all good’
3/ That changed into ‘all good for summer’
4/ a third ‘booster’ is available if you want it
5/ you must have your third booster to keep your vaccine passport
6/ the third booster doesn’t do Omicron..
7/ to be continued…
At this rate, it’s only a matter of time before Joe Public realises he’s been had…
(bear in mind that in NZ, about 40% of people got the jab to keep their job, not for health reasons)
The hysteria is easily understandable, given that the government brought off the media with $55 million,
In some ways, the PM Jacinda Adern has created her own nightmare right at the start by abandoning the original Ministry of Health pandemic plan, took personal control, and followed the then current trend of lockdowns, which predictably, hasn’t gone well..
There has never been a cohesive covid plan in NZ, and decisions have been made according to what the polls tell them.
Given that the media has created mass hysteria in the last 2 years with headlines and stories that were never fact-checked, running the country by popular opinion was never going to be a good idea, which is why they are in a bit of a predicament of their own making.
This is why the rules have changed so many times, and everyone has got confused and over-comply to stay out of trouble.
This has led to companies firing unvaxxed people, and then not been able to replace them.
The question I ask myself thou, is which way will they go?
Blaming the unvaxxed is popular at the moment as demonstrated by the Canadian PM recently
Ending the wearing of facemasks and vaccine passports as the UK has? (it starts about 8 minutes in)
It’s all yet to be decided by public opinion and the polls (health doesn’t come into it)
All of this potentially creates a lot of uncertainty, but since we now know the current covid laws are designed to punish the unvaccinated and not about containing covid, it’s much easier to work out what’s going on.
This has meant a change in strategy for us, and we will concentrate on the kids well being and others in the same predicament.
I’m now part of a support group and have been organising sports events for unvaxxed teenagers, since they are now locked out of any official sports programs. A lot of these kids are now home schooled.
The good news is that we now have our own kids enrolled in an online school, which means their education won’t be put hold at the PM’s whim.
(This was a major worry for us, because discrimination is likely to happen at school).
It’s likely I’ll retire from work for a year or two, until the hysteria either dies down or moves back to climate change or something else.
So it’s now likely we will have the best house on the street, the best garden, and a freshly painted garage.
P.S. Oh, and I’ll be really fit from all the bike rides!
P.P.S I have a 0.0128% chance of dying from covid (thats from the UK stats), I’m good with that
P.P.P.S The kids have next to a zero % chance of dying from covid
Uncoffined 
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