Digital Advocacy or Information Control? Navigating the Nuanced Realm of a Pro-Vaccine Campaign
A 30 second YouTube video with 331,000 views entitled “Look back to move forward – Royal Commission of Inquiry into COVID-19 Lessons Learned” is paired with New Zealand Government material promoting Covid vaccination.
The video, set to music, depicts joyous family scenes of people working from home and celebrating in their gardens and living rooms. It encourages people to share their stories as a means of moving forward and bonding.
If you click the link below the video offering more information, you are taken to this Health New Zealand website which encourages Covid vaccination from 6 months old and up. It also promotes new Pfizer booster shots, masking, and antiviral medication. It describes side effects from the COVID-19 vaccines as rare, despite the fact that reports of adverse effects subsequent to COVID-19 vaccination dwarf any previously reported vaccination side effects by a huge factor.
If you are viewing the video on a smart TV, a runner advises you to click on the title of the video for more information. When you do so, it gives you a series of options, the first of which takes you to a QR code which links to the same Health New Zealand pro-COVID-19 vaccine information.
The comments section below the video is turned off. Clearly the Royal Commission organisers don’t want us to be able to make public comments accessible to others or hold online conversations around the topic. They want to control the flow of information. The video turns up frequently as an advertisement on YouTube which interrupts your viewing. In essence, it manipulates the viewer towards a feel good framework and creates a bland narrative that obfuscates the issues.
A 30 second YouTube video with 331,000 views entitled “Look back to move forward – Royal Commission of Inquiry into COVID-19 Lessons Learned” is paired with New Zealand Government material promoting Covid vaccination.
The video, set to music, depicts joyous family scenes of people working from home and celebrating in their gardens and living rooms. It encourages people to share their stories as a means of moving forward and bonding.
If you click the link below the video offering more information, you are taken to this Health New Zealand website which encourages Covid vaccination from 6 months old and up. It also promotes new Pfizer booster shots, masking, and antiviral medication. It describes side effects from the COVID-19 vaccines as rare, despite the fact that reports of adverse effects subsequent to COVID-19 vaccination dwarf any previously reported vaccination side effects by a huge factor.
If you are viewing the video on a smart TV, a runner advises you to click on the title of the video for more information. When you do so, it gives you a series of options, the first of which takes you to a QR code which links to the same Health New Zealand pro-COVID-19 vaccine information.
The comments section below the video is turned off. Clearly the Royal Commission organisers don’t want us to be able to make public comments accessible to others or hold online conversations around the topic. They want to control the flow of information. The video turns up frequently as an advertisement on YouTube which interrupts your viewing. In essence, it manipulates the viewer towards a feel good framework and creates a bland narrative that obfuscates the issues.
Overlooking Rights for Regulation: A Critical Analysis of Public Discourse and Policy Decisions Amidst the Pandemic
Crucially, it doesn’t initiate a public discussion of key concerns. For example, the New Zealand Bill of Rights guarantees the right to refuse medical treatment and experimentation. It also guarantees freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and, particularly, expression. All of these rights were curtailed during the pandemic as the government set them aside and instead instituted vaccine mandates and lockdowns which were enforced by police action, threats of criminal prosecution and actual loss of employment. Moreover, the government censored discussion on social media platforms.
None of these crucial issues which require widespread social discussion and consideration are being directly raised by the Inquiry publicity.
There is no suggestion in the video that the Royal Commission is intended to respond to concerns or that its terms of reference need revising, rather it leaves you with the impression that the Inquiry process is all about picking the approach that the government will adopt during the next pandemic (referred to as “whatever comes next”). The implication of the Health New Zealand link is that this will be a simple process of choosing from among the past and current official COVID policies.
Echoes of Prejudgment: Questioning the Integrity and Objectives of the COVID-19 Inquiry Process
Clearly, there is a suspicion that those organising the Inquiry have already made up their minds what comes next and are just going through the motions without offering a clear idea of the huge issues at stake affecting not just health and the right to life but also social cohesion, employment rights, freedom of expression, the economy, and full disclosure of vital information.
The bias evident in this video underlines the need to completely revise the scope and personnel of the current Inquiry which was set up with very limited terms of reference by the previous government. The web address which leads to the actual process of making a submission on the terms of reference of the Inquiry at Covid19Inquiry.nz occupies a corner of the screen for just five seconds at the end of the video and is not actually directly linked. In other words, you have to copy it down and enter it into your device as a separate process, whereas a direct link to the Health New Zealand pro-COVID-19 vaccine information is available throughout the 30 seconds of the video as a website link and as a QR code.
The Royal Commission of Inquiry should be a process of restoring public trust, this cannot happen until a public dialogue is instituted. As we have repeatedly reported, the Covid years have been marked by a health crisis involving record rates of hospitalisation and death which are still continuing whose causes are little understood and hardly investigated. If the public are not trusted, but rather manipulated we are in for more of the same, perhaps worse.
Dr Guy Hatchard is a former senior manager at Genetic ID, food testing and certification company. Guy regularly posts on his blogsite Hatchard Report.com - where this article was sourced.
3 comments:
The vaccine obsession just gets worse and worse.
And of course the science behind vaccines is now so sophisticated that lay people simply don’t understand it so justifies not discussing with them or listening to them , just creating this veil of mystique and telling people what to do.
Cynical manipulation of the masses and an easy KPI to manage - how many does given as opposed to the proven efficacy in real terms removing variables that might also affect disease attrition.
Much easier to make a panic the masses about a disease in order to sell a vaccine rather than honesty as to what can happen if you take a vaccine.
This is going to be big test for the coalition government and Brooke van Velden, in particular, who is the Minister overseeing this.
If the inquiry turns into a pre-determined whitewash, despite all the requests for public feedback (a typical Labour ploy from the last 3 years), then we know that politicians of all stripes are sticking together on this.
It's important to get behind campaigns like VFF if we want to put maximum pressure on the government to hold a full and fair inquiry on ALL aspects of the pandemic, including vaccine efficacy and safety.
Much better spending your time listening to people like Peter McCullough on RCR radio, Dr John Campbell on U-tube , or NZDSOS website or the very many others who speak truthfully and are genuinely interested in human health as is Guy.
Years ago my GP, an alternative practitioner told me Big Pharma were run by largely psychpaths. At the time I thought this was a bit extreme. Now I fully believe it. How could you not. Vaccines are synonymous with corruption.
Anyway for some real free health advice from renowned cardiologist Dr McCullough, if you don't have time to listen to him yourself: Most long covid is caused by the vaccine and to counter this take the supplements
Nattokinase 2000 units daily, along with bromelain 500mg daily and curcumin 500mg 3 x daily. After 3 to 9 months this will clear your body of the spike molecule from the vaccine which is causing a multitude of health problems some of them being deadly. The above supplements can be blood thinners.
Thank you Guy for your article. It was however so infuriating it put my blood pressure up and you should have included some advice about reading it only after having prepared yourself by perhaps drinking some valerian, camomile or lemon balm tea.
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