Eliora: Who Will Be First to Break Rank?

All 120 MPs’ mouths seem zipped tight about the Covid-19 vaccination.

Many Kiwis saw through the Covid-19 nonsense. Thousands were horrified that not one sitting MP then, or since, has spoken out about how the country was seriously lied to concerning the m-RNA jab. This liquid that sent spike proteins around recipients’ bodies was obviously neither ‘safe’ nor ‘effective’. It was incredible that every MP, including the opposition members, backed a socialist government and a director of health’s unrelenting brainwashing. All kept zipped up, even when pregnant women were told it was not dangerous for them or their baby.

NZCPR Weekly: New Zealanders Under Siege

“I support the protest 100 percent. I don't agree with you that my rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are extinguished by a government declaring a pandemic. To me those rights are absolute. If anything, I would wish the protest be more intense given the damage Parliament has inflicted on the people I love and the community of which I am a part.”

- Rodney Hide’s letter to the ACT Leader.

On January 27, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern warned New Zealand that Covid modelling predicted an explosion of Omicron cases: “The range of modelling meant that we've undertaken scenario planning for as little as 1,000 a day to over 50,000 a day. We do not know whether or not we would reach such high numbers, but we must be prepared for that based on the international evidence. The best thing we can do is act preventatively so that means get your booster...” 

Karen Selick: GIGO Applies to Legal Opinions Too

Garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) is an expression often used in the computer world, but it can also apply to the legal world.

Take, for example, the jaw-dropping legal opinion expressed by David Beatty, professor emeritus of the University of Toronto Law School, when he wrote in last week’s Globe and Mail that vaccine mandates “are justified as a matter of community self-defence and justice.”

Professor Beatty has apparently swallowed an enormous dollop of intellectual garbage, so it’s not surprising that his output is a tad rotten.

The first of his defective premises is that “COVID-19 is a serial killer” that “has taken the lives of more than five million people.” He never cites the source of his data, so one can’t help wondering whether he is completely ignorant of the chicanery that has been exposed behind statistics such as this.

Derek Mackie: Wanted - Children's entertainer to promote Covid vaccination in under 12's

The following is an extract from a Situation Vacant advertisement published recently:

  

“Children’s entertainer wanted for a 6-week tour with the Ministry of Health (promoting vaccination). Would be wanted for 1-6 weeks from February 8th, depending on availability, and would visit 2 schools per day. 

…..please reply and let me know what your performance would be, previous experience and availability.” 

 Not satisfied with parents independently discussing and deciding on vaccinating their younger children, our socialist government has decided to assume this role. This is reminiscent of failed Communist regimes and their authoritarian approach to ensure compliance through propaganda in schools, universities and workplaces. 

It would appear that the MoH believes that making the kids laugh and have fun is the best strategy to ensure a high vaccination take-up rate. Maybe they plan to engage an adult entertainer to persuade reluctant parents. 

Guy Hatchard: Investigating the Science Behind Vaccinating 5-11-Year-Olds

An Indictment: Does the vaccination programme for teens and younger surpass the threshold for criminal prosecution?

D-Day for vaccinating 5-11-year-olds is upon us. If as a parent (or a politician) you do a google search “Is Covid vaccination of 5-11-year-olds safe?” you turn up a host of articles not only assuring you that it is safe and effective but also urging you that it is necessary.

First among these are the official NZ government information web pages. If you have doubts and persist by broadening your search criteria, the same kind of reassuring articles from a great variety of sources appear.

Shawn Means: Covid19 - Beating Ourselves with a Hammer?

When lightning struck the tree Homer Simpson sheltered under, hefting a sheet of corrugated steel for extra protection, he was inspired. The glowing bough crashing down struck him as a very magical piece of wood, and he should make a bat out of it. Bristling with bent nails after hours of hammering, Homer’s bat testifies to our human gift of improvisation using whatever tools we have like a trusty hammer. Surely, repeatedly whacking a problem with a familiar tool will solve it even if slightly dented and bent in the end.

Our Covid-19 toolbox has grown since March 2020 when the first extraordinary silence of a Level 4 lockdown blanketed New Zealand. Knowledge of the virus and its hazards for the vulnerable expanded considerably in tandem with a stunningly swift rise of vaccines and promising treatments. Yet, after some 18 months with scientists and clinicians furiously testing and trying other tools, New Zealand resorts to the same hammer swung in those first dim days.