The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday – 30th August 2021

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  1. New Zealander of the year launches scathing attack on New Zealanders

    In her latest column, celebrity charade researcher and fluorescent commentator Siousxie Wiles (Stuff, 2021) eviscerates those who dare to question the ‘expert’ authority of the current Covid orthodoxy, describing them as ‘screaming pundits’. This is not how one would expect a tolerant and open minded representative of New Zealand to behave in response to citizens asking valid questions during a national emergency.

    The New Zealander of the Year attacks the questioners as ‘uninformed pundits’ who because they are not experts in a certain field have no right to comment on the matter at hand. This is not advancing science or curiosity or discussion, amongst layman or those in the scientific field, it is just placing a group of people on a pedestal, the chosen ones, who are unaccountable and inaccessible to the public. It is an example of where self serving authority meets authoritarianism, where control is exerted to mask some inadequacy or further an agenda, where censorship is weaponised, where divide and conquer is very much in the toolbox, and where dissent in all forms is no longer allowed.

    Wiles goes on to make unsubstantiated and alarming claims in her article: that those who believe ‘lockdowns don’t work’ or ‘elimination is a fantasy’ are responsible for the ’emergence of more infectious and deadly Covid variants’; that ‘New Zealand is on the right course’ because of the quoted evidence of one journal article; and that ‘study after study is showing why we don’t want Covid-19 in the community in New Zealand’. Wiles puts forth a conjecture that Deep Vein Thrombosis may be somehow linked to Covid-19 while challenging anyone else who has a view or offers their thesis. Wiles is a crusading truth teller with academic chops while the inquisitive public are unclean, unvaccinated, unsophisticated and unimportant.

    Stuff. (2021). Blood clots suggest NZ on the correct Covid-19-course. Retrieved from
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/300392028/blood-clots-suggest-nz-on-the-correct-covid19-course

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