Of course NZ is lagging behind in Covid vaccinations – duh!

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Martyn Bradbury
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Chris Bishop and David Seymour are in a frenzy over our incompetent Health system not vaccinating enough NZers…

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern defends lag in New Zealand COVID-19 vaccine rate

The Prime Minister is defending a lag in the rate of COVID-19 vaccinations, highlighting how New Zealand is not in as desperate a situation as some other countries. 

The Ministry of Health published statistics about the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in New Zealand on Wednesday, showing the number of jabs administered so far sits at about 95 percent against the Government’s plan. 

Nearly every other country in the OECD is now ahead of New Zealand with their COVID-19 vaccine rollouts, with just Japan behind us. It’s got National “deeply concerned” for Kiwis while ACT worries about whether we’ll meet our targets. 

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…this is the underfunded NZ public health system we are talking about here!

Did everyone just forget about the Measles epidemic they oversaw?

Government inaction left door open to measles outbreak: Ministry of Health report

Measles outbreaks that put New Zealand children in intensive care before likely spreading to Samoa where children died could have been avoided if the Government heeded expert advice and closed immunity gaps fuelled by a racist health system.

…none of that has been fixed!

The Covid vaccination roll out will be just as wretched and until we start funding health properly it will remain so.

If we aren’t going to tax the rich and the corporations properly to fund public services, you can’t be shocked when this public services fall over!

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17 COMMENTS

  1. But the purpose of NZ is to enrich banks, corporations and opportunists, Martyn. So the agenda is being met quite well. Government handouts, subsidies, tax exemptions…

    I don’t think it mentions anything about the welfare of the populace in the handbook ‘Management of NZ Inc.’, that Jacinda abides by.

    In fact, in a brief moment of honesty, the National government removed all the welfare aspects of the Local Government Act 2002, and in 2012 replaced them with ‘construction of infrastructure’. So it really is old news.

    • So long as health, education, welfare, public housing, defence and so on and so on is taken care of first, wealthy people should in my opinion be rewarded for boosting and maintaining high levels of growth and productivity and wages.

  2. So we are lagging behind in vaccinating, whip- de- do. What concerns me more is the MIQ slip ups and the high risk countries with people still coming back with the virus intact despite the pre- testing regime which seems to be useless and highly ineffective. And are we keeping proper tabs on people leaving and coming back with the virus and who is paying for their quarantine when they do this as its not fair if us tax payers are footing the bill when they choose to tiki tour.

    • Planes leaving Australia to Auckland do they have international passengers from hi risk areas transferring onto the Air NZ flights in Sydney,Brisbane… at present ..are they keeping passengers from low risk areas separated from high risk areas.? or is it a jolly mix up ..

  3. We don’t even know whether so-called vaccines actually provide sufficient protection to make them worthwhile; nor do we know the medium-term and long-term side effects.

    It has all been done in a rush so that global corporations (or in the case of some of the ‘vaccines; local corporations) could make money. There’s nothing like $10 to $30 (US) to bring in the billions of dollars very quickly).

    On the other hand, numerous other killers -tobacco, alcohol, air pollution, water pollution, industrially-produced ‘food’ (and the diabetes it causes), poverty etc. get close-to-zero attention.

  5. “Nearly every other country in the OECD is now ahead of New Zealand “.

    We are only seven weeks in. Within the OECD nations, vaccination rate is generally proportional to death rate. With a toll of 26, people shouldn’t be surprised that NZ hasn’t acted with the haste of nations in Europe and the Americas. We are in a group with Australia, Japan and South Korea at the bottom of vaccination and death rates.

    We are not using the potentially blood clotting AstraZeneca, nor did we need to give legal protections against civil lawsuits to vaccine producers like they have in the UK. Other countries get to be the guinea pigs, we don’t.

    The test will come when we ramp up to cover the general population in July. But for those who want the borders open immediately, any vaccination rate is too slow.

  6. I have just spent 10 days in hospital for a blood infection. I was never sick enough to need help from the nurses thank goodness . The medical staff were marvellous but so stretched that some in the ward were in pain or needed toilet attention for far too long.
    My stay proved to me that our medical services could not have coped with a major outbreak and I understand why this government has been so over the top, with stopping covid. I am not blaming just this government as the underfunding goes back years.
    There are so many areas need fixing in different parts of the economy that we need new ways of raising money or except a lower standard of living

    • Trev I hope you are feeling better and I completely agree with your comments( as unusual as that is).

      • Thank you Bert . I reckon if we sat down for a beer there is a lot we would agree with but the pathway may be different.
        Now at home and being cared for by Nurse Maud with antibiotics through a PICC line for next 6 weeks. Starting to feel stronger but very tired.

  7. Or the 10 Bridges or narrowing the wage gap with Australia LOL, that was the Ponytalier and the Double Dipster spin, spin, spin Frankie. Don’t lose sleep Frankie, the P.M. will keep you safe at night.

  8. I was wondering , seeing as this “vaccine” seems to actually be a “gene therapy” gust how it relates to the process of genetic engineering. So I googled “covid vaccines and Genetic engineering” and the first result that Google presented said ” Yes 1 some covid Vaccines (all of them in circulation) are genetic engineering agents; Get over it! And then went on to say why that’s all right .
    We don’t allow GE crops to be grown here, why are we fighting over the opportunity to be be genetically modified ourselves?
    I will not be getting this injected into my body under any circumstances. It is not a vaccine as we know it. It is a completely different approach and it is wildly experimental. If you object to GE foods how can you contemplate the alteration of your own genes?
    D J S

  9. I don’t even like taking a panadol but I have concerns about the speed the vaccine was produced, the new strains of this virus requiring another stronger vaccine, the vaccine effecting our immune system, the false sense of security some medicines give people, the groups of people who cannot for health reasons take the virus, the long term effects, the open borders when and if we achieve herd immunity what ever that maybe as really does anyone know. We still don’t really know where this virus came from. So with so much uncertainty why do we really need to rush the uptake. I think we just need to be more vigilant and people need to use their common sense. Some people are trying to jab us all so they can flood our country with more people to suit their own financial gain. Too many people have hidden agendas and want to return to a so called normal life. I work in public health and too many NZers are using pills for everything. We have a take a pill mentality in this country and pharmaceutical companies are creaming it.

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