It came after the elevation of Chloe Swarbrick to the leadership. Davidson wasn’t at the press conference, Chloe told us, because it turns out she had Covid.
In watching the interview, although Covid ridden, Davidson looked and sounded perfectly well, although she was isolating, which is what we do, isn't it?
Well, some of us do. A friend of the kids had Covid the other day and hopped on a plane, the way I am sure many people do, and have done, for ages.
But the power of the narrative is still on display by some because we were convinced, or have convinced ourselves, that Covid, although affecting the vast majority of us in exactly the same way as any other flu-like, viral type condition, is different.
And one of the outworkings of getting Covid is some people ended up with what has become known as long Covid. Now, the research out this week from Queensland's Chief Health Officer is that long Covid does exist, but we need to stop calling it that.
Because, to use their words, it creates unnecessary fear and it's probably harmful. In other words, we have freaked ourselves out needlessly.
They studied more than 5000 people and found similar functional limitations a year after the event as they found with those who had seasonal flu or other respiratory illnesses.
In other words, it didn’t matter what you had, some people still felt the effects 12 months on, the same way it didn’t matter what you had at the time of infection, it still hit you the same way.
You might have lost your sense of smell, or you might not have. You might have been fatigued, or you might not have been.
But the fact you could take a swab and get a red line gave us all a chance to say "oh it's Covid, I'll isolate" for whatever the current rules were.
If it wasn’t Covid we reacted completely differently, the same way we had our entire lives until Covid came along, got a massive Government backed tag and reputation and messed with our sense of common sense.
We turned it, because we were allowed to, if not told to, into a “thing”.
Well, slowly, as common-sense returns and a slightly more real-world perspective evolves and the test results come in, we can increasingly see this period as some sort of out-of-body experience where we let fear play far too great a role.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
But the power of the narrative is still on display by some because we were convinced, or have convinced ourselves, that Covid, although affecting the vast majority of us in exactly the same way as any other flu-like, viral type condition, is different.
And one of the outworkings of getting Covid is some people ended up with what has become known as long Covid. Now, the research out this week from Queensland's Chief Health Officer is that long Covid does exist, but we need to stop calling it that.
Because, to use their words, it creates unnecessary fear and it's probably harmful. In other words, we have freaked ourselves out needlessly.
They studied more than 5000 people and found similar functional limitations a year after the event as they found with those who had seasonal flu or other respiratory illnesses.
In other words, it didn’t matter what you had, some people still felt the effects 12 months on, the same way it didn’t matter what you had at the time of infection, it still hit you the same way.
You might have lost your sense of smell, or you might not have. You might have been fatigued, or you might not have been.
But the fact you could take a swab and get a red line gave us all a chance to say "oh it's Covid, I'll isolate" for whatever the current rules were.
If it wasn’t Covid we reacted completely differently, the same way we had our entire lives until Covid came along, got a massive Government backed tag and reputation and messed with our sense of common sense.
We turned it, because we were allowed to, if not told to, into a “thing”.
Well, slowly, as common-sense returns and a slightly more real-world perspective evolves and the test results come in, we can increasingly see this period as some sort of out-of-body experience where we let fear play far too great a role.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
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But you bought into it mike, back in the day. I remember you asking ministers why they hadn't started lockdowns yet. By and large zb towed the jacinda line, although you guys were not as bad as the rest of them. Why didn't msm interview the swedish or the non govt approved health people that got cancelled? Most of us in the public could read overseas media who were challenging it.
Interestingly, the ‘we’ who seemed happily convinced that Covid was akin to Ebola & went along with the ludicrous idea that a vaccine that did not stop you from getting the virus, should be mandated, are also the same ‘we’ who also easily forgot basic biology & agreed men can become women. The rest of us didn’t & don’t suffer from such obvious cognitive dissonance. We understood & understand that our hard won human rights came on the back of wars that started from insidious & evil propaganda. People go to the extreme & declare what Labour did was nothing like Nazi Germany, but they conveniently ignore the fact the Holocaust didn't start with gas chambers, it started with language, PSAs, posters & a gradual shifting of the goal posts in terms of what was the accepted norm. And that’s what we saw here. Police were literally interrogating anyone who went for a walk outside their zone, or, God forbid, mountain biking or kayaking. All for a flu. But worse than this is the fact the overwhelming majority, including the so-called intelligent people, just went along with it & sought to actually destroy & publicly shame anyone who dared to question the narrative. That’s the part I will never understand.
Remember Dr. Simon Thornley? He and others like him are owed a huge apology and a medal for being the only people with the courage to stand up against what was blatant propagandism. Covid was never about health. It was about power and money. Governments and all the shareholders in Big Pharma were the only winners here. Look at Jacinda, an averagely intelligent woman (at most) who is now being to invited to Harvard, getting a movie made and a book written about her. Meanwhile, businesses are collapsing everywhere and school kids are addicted to social media, struggling with anxiety, and refusing to go to school. Yet, so few seem able or willing to join the dots.
Mike I’m a bit baffled by your note. So are you arguing that the world’s reaction was nuts, or some sort of power and money plot? I have recollections of news broadcasts at the time showing people dying in the US and Europe with bodies exceeding storage capacity such that they had to use containers. Was all this just part of the conspiracy? Was Boris so into it that he faked his infection that nearly killed him?
I see total global deaths to date from Covid are around 7 million people. Is this just immaterial? Or is it part of the conspiracy? Sweden with a population of twice that of NZ has had 27,000 deaths from Covid. NZ had less than 3,000. If we had adopted the same approach as Sweden maybe our deaths would have been closer to the same rate as Sweden - 13,500. Would that be ok?
I’m an old guy. I remember vaccines first coming to NZ in the 1950s. Polio was the big one. My brother almost died before being vaccinated of a related infection and still walks with a limp. Rabies was another…a shocking disease that has largely gone thanks to vaccines. Vaccines work! I got vaccinated for Covid so that when I did catch it some time later, I survived.
Mandates! If I go to hospital I want to know the nurse or doctor attending to me is not going to infect me. I want my nurse and doctor vaccinated, for everything! The complications from vaccinations are minor relative to the disease. If they don’t believe in vaccinations they shouldn’t be in the profession!
I’m no admirer of Jacinda but I think all this nonsense about Covid detracts from the important issues associated with her and her mates. Let’s get real. Fight the real battles…not the conspiracies!
Pneumonia is a leading cause of death in industrialised cities in China like Wuhan. They're heavily polluted which is why New Zealand company Meo Air has been selling masks to them long before the fake COVID crisis. There is zero reason to believe the Chinese that there was a virus or a new illness and every reason to believe in a conspiracy against all countries.
All of the death spikes in Europe and the UK were associated with WHO-approved and promoted research studies that overdosed petrified patients on toxic medications. In the UK deaths in care homes were caused by the administration of high doses of drugs like midazolam that are contraindicated w/ respiratory distress but are great for euthanasia. See Dr Sam Bailey's interview with Dr Klaus Könlein for full details.
Anon 2.32 More people die of the flu each year than died of covid. But it's just not.published. One person dies in nz every 19 minutes of something.
Did people die of covid or with covid? Remember that guy who got shot who wss listed as a covid death, along with many other examples.
There is now evidence long covid is mostly coursed by the vaccinations.
Why weren't we allowed the safe drug ivermectin but used successfully in third world countries ?
Why did so many medical staff receive exemption from the vaccine?.
Why were people with unmistakable side effects from the vaccine not listened to ?
What about all the people who got heart inflammation from the vaccine but had not had covid itself? Then there is the increase in melanomas from vaccines as recorded by Dr Angus Dalgleish the worlds expert in this cancer.
It was brave of you to introduce this topic Mike. Now up to about 15% of the population believe the whole thing was one massive scam little to do with health but rather, as mentioned above , power and control and money. Unreal but true.
Anonymous 6.30 PM, Thank you for your Ivermectin comment as new studies acknowlege the long standing benefits of Ivermectin in public health . ALSO most NZ meat eaters consume farm animals that are drenched with Ivermectin regularly until they are processed into food. NZ also claim to feed 40 million people worldwide and they are NOT all vegans .
As Trump was spruiking ivermectin, I want nothing to do with it.
As safe as the bleach he was recommending ?
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