Dame Jacinda Ardern says she will provide evidence to assist the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Covid-19 response.
This week there was speculation about whether the former prime minister, who is living in the United States, would be called to give evidence at the inquiry, which resumed in Auckland this week.
A spokesperson told The Post she had every intention of providing evidence, if asked to.
“When did you first become aware that the Pfizer vaccination, while very effective at reducing harm from Covid-19 to the recipient, did not significantly reduce risk of transmission for the Omicron variant?”
This is critical as the vaccine mandates and restrictions were based on numerous statements by the PM that they were necessary not to protect yourself, but to protect you from infecting other people. Traditional childhood vaccinations do indeed prevent you from getting infected and infecting other people, but the Covid-19 vaccine did not. Hence the policy rationale for the mandates and restrictions was very flawed.
It looks likes the impact of being vaccinated reduces Omicron transmission by between 15% and 30% which is not zero, but not much.
Now it was more effective (but now 100%) at preventing transmission for earlier variants, so I think the initial decisions were made in good faith. But my criticism is that as the virus evolved, the policy response did not follow the science.
So this is why I want the RC to look into when the PM and Govt was first aware that the impact off transmission was relatively low, and the time that lapsed between that awareness and what they were saying in public and their policy response.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders
This is critical as the vaccine mandates and restrictions were based on numerous statements by the PM that they were necessary not to protect yourself, but to protect you from infecting other people. Traditional childhood vaccinations do indeed prevent you from getting infected and infecting other people, but the Covid-19 vaccine did not. Hence the policy rationale for the mandates and restrictions was very flawed.
It looks likes the impact of being vaccinated reduces Omicron transmission by between 15% and 30% which is not zero, but not much.
Now it was more effective (but now 100%) at preventing transmission for earlier variants, so I think the initial decisions were made in good faith. But my criticism is that as the virus evolved, the policy response did not follow the science.
So this is why I want the RC to look into when the PM and Govt was first aware that the impact off transmission was relatively low, and the time that lapsed between that awareness and what they were saying in public and their policy response.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders
5 comments:
If we all knew immediately, or close enough to, that the jab was not a vaccine, just like we knew pretty early in the piece that Covid, like other colds and flus, was only a risk to those with comorbidities, then Jabcinda/Stalinda (take your pick) definitely did. She knew that people with autoimmune diseases, diabetes, heart disease, chronic inflammation, and obese people were most a risk. People who were never part of the very short, incomplete vaccine trials. All this info was readily available before the jab was even rolled out here.
Yet she, her govt, John Key and David Seymour peddled the lies anyway.
We know this was never about health. It was about power and money.
Had it been about health they would have talked about sleep, nutrition, exercise, and not offered KFC as enticement to get a jab that caused more harm than good to those it was supposedly meant to protect.
All of them should be charged with criminal nuisance and thrown in prison. They trod on our basic human rights, and destroyed our social norms, community and economy for nothing.
Further, there should be a law against that contemptible, morally and ethically repugnant woman getting rich off our misery.
Please acknowledge to remove your comment about John Key and David Seymour, they were in Opposition . Hardly a reasonable accusation.
John Key said in 2021:
“I made it really clear that if you want to get vaccination rates up to a level, you cannot do that by doing what the government is doing, which is no plan and no clear strategy of when we're doing these things.
"If you want to get the young people who are not being vaccinated to be vaccinated, take away some of their rights: Rhythm and Vines, nightclubs, bars, Air New Zealand flights - very quickly you will find that those young people will be vaccinated."
David Seymour - always pro the jab & initially the mandates (but then started gained some cognitive development) - said most famously:
“"I've had a few people saying I know someone who is a big admirer of ACT and isn't getting vaccinated and I've personally spoken to some of them," Seymour said.
"And said, mate, get vaxxed.
"Don't be a dickhead."
And he made numerous comments on FB disparaging anyone who disagreed with him, claiming he had read all the research. Which he clearly hadn’t, or if he had, chose to ignore. That makes him just as culpable.
Farrar needs to get educated. What evidence was there that the Covid-18 vaccine reduced harm to the recipient? More vaccinated people suffered severe illness, injury & death than anyone else.
As Mark Twain said, ‘The truth has no defence against a fool determined to believe a lie.’
Essentially everyone in a uniform was told to get jabbed or lose your job.
How many of those who were compulsory jabbed suffered, and still suffering from myocarditis ?
Disgraceful demands - I don't know how Ardern sleeps ar night.
She should have accepted her admitted Imposter Syndrome and walked away from the job.
Now too scared to be seen in her home country ?
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