Derek Mackie: I can't catch Covid - I'm inside, sitting down and eating!

I’ve been trying to fathom one of life’s great modern mysteries. 

Not quite up there with “Is there a God?” or “What happens when I die?” or even “Is the Universe infinite?”, it is nonetheless a contemporary enigma that needs solving, in my opinion. 

 Why can’t you catch Covid, sitting down, without a mask, in a public eating place? 

 I only ask because many months of observation has confirmed that people who religiously wear face-masks everywhere, outside and in, standing or walking, alone or in a crowd, are perfectly happy to whip them off when seated in public eating places. 

I’m principally talking about cafes and restaurants here, which seem just as busy as ever, even though current daily case numbers are hitting the 10,000+ mark and deaths have never been higher. 

Guy Hatchard: Covid Vaccination Injury Gag Orders Are Denying the Public Informed Consent

We are just now becoming more aware of gag orders affecting reporting of adverse effects following vaccination.

Apparently, hospital administrators are keen to avoid any publicity that might suggest an increased incidence of cardiac events and other common Covid vaccine side effects.

Their motivations for this are unclear, but we have previously noted a lack of New Zealand data for specific conditions. I have received a number of anecdotal reports from hospital staff and patients around the country concerning high rates of hospitalisation and death attributable to vaccine injury.