Covid is a time in history. We all remember exactly how we felt from the initial mention of a deadly virus and even more what happened to us after that. People considered rational, modern and educated succumbed to the greatest absurdities, fears and surveillance seen in this part of the world in our lifetime.
Prior to that WHO announcement, on 28 February, the first reports of computer modelling revealed that 80,000 Kiwis could die from this virus. Some Christians, so frightened, transferred their once unwavering faith in God to Big Pharma and began to believe in and obey their dictatorial leaders. There would be a dreadful death from this highly contagious pathogen. It’s so terrifying: you will suffocate. Exhausted medical staff will insert a ventilator tube down your throat to breathe in and out for you. Intensive care units, in crowded hospitals, run by desperate doctors and nurses will turn helpless intubated victims over every couple of hours.
No wonder many Kiwis were prepared to argue about a wonder injection that was on its way to save us all. The vaccine was the exit strategy. It became the issue that divided long-standing friends and family members. If people didn’t follow suit and do as they were told by doctors and politicians and get jabbed, then it was goodbye. People cruelly ostracised others who were mandated and lost their jobs. You have a choice: it’s over to you, but if you do not get the vaccine, you are not only cut off from your employment and income, you are cut off from my life.
The landscape in New Zealand has drastically changed. Truth has not emerged, so nothing is learnt. Helen Clark, former prime minister, weighed in about how Covid-19 originated, saying “We just don’t know,” since there wasn’t any “firm evidence”.
Much was written and discussed early on but since, most have clammed up. Conversations are stopped as people refuse to talk about what happened, let alone try to restore relationships. There is firm and ample evidence that everything about the Covid-19 virus and the vaccines was complete nonsense and people are angry. The leaders lied about everything: the origin of the virus, social distancing, masks, what they knew, what they didn’t know, existing treatments and vaccine efficacy and safety.
It wasn’t quite as dreadful as what the communists did to non-complying ‘peasants’ in Cuba.
No wonder many Kiwis were prepared to argue about a wonder injection that was on its way to save us all. The vaccine was the exit strategy. It became the issue that divided long-standing friends and family members. If people didn’t follow suit and do as they were told by doctors and politicians and get jabbed, then it was goodbye. People cruelly ostracised others who were mandated and lost their jobs. You have a choice: it’s over to you, but if you do not get the vaccine, you are not only cut off from your employment and income, you are cut off from my life.
The landscape in New Zealand has drastically changed. Truth has not emerged, so nothing is learnt. Helen Clark, former prime minister, weighed in about how Covid-19 originated, saying “We just don’t know,” since there wasn’t any “firm evidence”.
Much was written and discussed early on but since, most have clammed up. Conversations are stopped as people refuse to talk about what happened, let alone try to restore relationships. There is firm and ample evidence that everything about the Covid-19 virus and the vaccines was complete nonsense and people are angry. The leaders lied about everything: the origin of the virus, social distancing, masks, what they knew, what they didn’t know, existing treatments and vaccine efficacy and safety.
It wasn’t quite as dreadful as what the communists did to non-complying ‘peasants’ in Cuba.
Photo credit: Andrew Lopez.
But there was a measure of losing everything for many people in today’s Covid world: their health, income, relationships and a trusting way of living.
There has been massive public and political backlash against the virology community and public health in general, so we may be worse off now locally that we were prior to the pandemic,” said virologist Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Professor Baric said earlier, with uncanny precision, in 2018:
of what the next pandemic would bring: a rush for bogus antiviral treatments, vast profits for companies making personal protective equipment, a global economic crash, and a rise in conspiracy theories claiming that the pandemic was designed by scientists.
If people are so naïve to think about anything other than captured experts, bought politicians, wealthy elite, gene therapy, gain-of-function research, bioweapon/biodefense warfare and fraud and a traumatised public… Waking up to the harsh reality is going to be a massive shock.
Eliora is a fourth-generation Kiwi is a conservative voter and has worked in health. This article was first published HERE
6 comments:
In the same way that you wouldn't wear a life jacket to prevent someone else from drowning, you wouldn't get vaccinated to protect someone else from contracting a virus. In neither case is collective action necessary to protect the individual member of the collective, and it is illogical to suggest that it is.
Because of the glaring illogic of the "get vaccinated to save grandma" propaganda (i.e. only grandma getting vaccinated could save grandma) I was prepared to become unemployed for a year, because I knew full well we were being lied to (or at best, we were being told what to do by illogical idiots).
It is worthwhile reading about Samantha Bailey , a NZ doctor , who stood up for truth in accusing the medical establishment in .manufacturing a pandemic in order to make money . She also questioned the efficacy of the vaccine. Her web site was visited by 18 million people and she has been accused of spreading disinformation and fined$148,000 and cancelled from practising by the Medical council .
Read about this on Waikanae Watch today. Thank goodness we have some honest doctors. What about all the others . particularly those who got themselves exempted from the vaccine?
It is obvious Madame, that you have not heard of the term “herd immunity”.
That is what saves grandma when it is achieved. It requires around 95% of us (varies by disease) to be vaccinated.
Obviously we got nowhere near it with Covid and we’re still far from it with Measles and Whooping Cough.
Stand by for the next epidemic. It will be the toddler next door or the newborn across the road who suffer as a result of selfish political attitudes. Sadly that’s what happens after politicians get directly involved in public health.
"It is obvious Madame, that you have not heard of the term “herd immunity”".
Yes, I have heard of herd immunity. But if I get vaccinated, it's not going to protect anyone but me. That is the fundamental point. It is illogical to claim otherwise.
I didn't get vaccinated a) because I'd already had Covid and I barely noticed it, and b) the vaccine didn't prevent infection or transmission anyway.
Not only was getting vaccinated pointless for me, my getting vaccinated would have had zero effect on anyone else.
Not true Madame.
If you get vaccinated - plus most of the rest of us - then everyone who might be vulnerable to the virus will be protected.
That’s how herd immunity works.
Much much more than zero effect.
And that works even though your individual risk might only be reduced to say 10%.
It largely depends on whether the disease being vaccinated against is communicable between persons or not. For instance, tetanus is not, so individuals can only be protected from it by being themselves vaccinated - even if 99.999% of the population are vaccinated against it, any given individual is not covered. Smallpox is, so vaccinating most of a population reduces the risk of catching the disease from someone else. If over 90% of the population one lives amongst are vaccinated against smallpox, the probability of an unvaccinated person catching it becomes very small.
Note that I am saying nothing about the efficacy, or otherwise, of the vaccines against covid-19.
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