An open letter to my vaccinated and unvaccinated whānau in NZ

By
Martyn Bradbury
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I’m watching the anger between the vaccinated and unvaccinated erupt on social media with a heavy hearted sadness.

The subjectively justified rage we feel towards each camp is a rupturing of the solidarity the universal experience of lockdown has generated.

This is what happens when the team of 6 million turns on itself.

The Woke scream any death of one Maori is a state sanctioned genocide on par with the homicidal murder of Squid Games.

The Death Cult Capitalists scream collateral damage in human lives is justified to open the economy.

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Those who are double vaxxed and are hurting are told their impatience is racist.

The disabled feel left completely out of the loop. Again.

Maori & Pacifika Health Authorities feel like they are being blamed for low vaccination rates yet haven’t been given the resources to run mobile clinics.

The unvaccinated are freaking out that every fear they ever had about the majority turning on them is eventuating.

Small Business is going to the wall.

The poor continue to suffer with 500% spikes in food banks.

Everyone is hurting and that hurt is driving desperation and fear which in turn feeds Facebook algorithms to vomit out hate.

To the vaccinated.

I know, I know, I know.

We have sacrificed, gotten double vaxxed and have accepted a de facto police state up in our grills robbing us of our liberty. We don’t understand why the fuck others are so stupid and won’t vaccinate.

That impatience risks being manipulated by the ZB Troll farm and turned into an ugly toxic malice towards those who haven’t vaccinated and I get it!

I don’t see my own beloved kid for a week at a time, I have this incredible new weekly political podcast to kick off but can’t because we aren’t able to film in the studio, I have missed my friends and can’t see my family!

I’m double vaxxed, I’ve ensured my family are double vaxxed and I’ve done all I’ve been asked yet here I am not able to lead my life because ‘others’ haven’t done the same.

It is infuriating to the point of rage but we can’t allow that rage to be manipulated into actions that exacerbate the inequalities in society rather than heal them.

Kindness means being kind to those you dislike immensely, that’s why kindness isn’t for wimps.

To the unvaccinated.

I’m lucky enough to have an eclectic mix of friends which means I have some antivaxx associates.

Some espouse theories they’ve read on Facebook which only serve to highlight their ignorance. Their belief that the vaccine will interfere with your DNA is akin to believing your car will float away because you have air in your tyres and air ‘floats’. They have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the vaccine works and have built a narrative around it.

That’s an indictment on our public education system not them as frightened individuals trying to make sense of the confusion and mayhem that has descended upon us.

Some have subjective views concerning their health being immune compromised, some have Conscientious Objector responses in that no State can force them to take a medicine (regardless if the medicine will save their life).

A few believe it’s all a one world conspiracy for Jacinda to take over the country with a secret socialist police state.

I suggest to those few that maybe their cannabis intake has reached peak lockdown.

To you my dear unvaccinated comrades, I’m sorry it’s come to this and hear your fear.

Know you will always be New Zealanders and we will always love you.

We just wish you’d get the bloody vaccine because we fear for your well being.

But know you are not outcasts, never to me or true Kiwis.

Our common bond as humans demands an intrinsic compassion that privileges us. We can’t lose sight that we are all in this together and that if the yawning chasm of inequality wasn’t there we wouldn’t be turning on each other with such ferocity.

The next few months are going to be frightening and many people will get sick. Get off Facebook and spend time with friends and family.

Being vaccinated protects you from Covid but it must also inoculate you from hate.

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  3. I know a family with stepchildren, who keep in touch with the other parts of their family, ie Mother who is fervent Maori. The father is perhaps part Pacific. He has his teenage children living with him but who also visit other family, keeping family ties. One daughter will not vaccinate because her mother does not approve. But the rest of the family who can, have done so. So how does that family deal with the daughter when she returns from a visit? Perhaps she is a carrier and can affect them all.

    The inability of people to accept the parts of the modern world like Netflix, air transport, cellphones, social media, and not see that vaccinations are just another relatively modern advance is a coward’s response. Few people cannot bodily cope with the injected virus in the vax. The rest who don’t want to front up can have a separate island for them as has been done in the past. A quarantine island like at Christchurch or Wellington. Drop in supplies and they can treat each other as their caring concern for others. They could all learn skills while they live in isolation, preferably to do with horticulture, the arts, and nursing.

    • Thing is you are all going to get it anyway just less severe if vaxxed for the most part just a case of when. So there is absolutely no reason to fear the unvaxxed, its actually the vaxxed which will be the hidden carriers go and have a read of the latest UK vaccine monitoring report.

      • 5100 unvaccinated dead from 5500 deaths in a week in the U.K. and you say the vaccinated are the issue? Have I got a psychiatrist appointment for you.

  5. Maybe the problem is not vaxxed vs unvaxxed, but the target of 90%. Does it really matter that much if 83% or 90%? Some months ago it was 70% – yes yes Delta if so much more virulent etc but it’s less deadly too. Even with 100% vaxxed ala Gibraltar there will be heaps of breakthrough. We need early home treatment, with rapid testing available to everyone. The problem is the false sense of security and hope 90% gives, the lockdowns will come back just like in Israel. This government’s focus on vaccine as our Jesus who will save us is a fools paradise with never ending booster shots and ADE to boot. Treatment has advanced in the last 18months but we are not discussing it at all for fear it might stop a few taking the vaccine. That’s just stupid and letting government off the hook- they just sit back and watch the vaxxed vs unvaxxed fight it out instead or having a plan to cope.

    • Stan, I feel at this time, our focus should be on the vaccination sprint. We’re not letting govt off the hook. We’re putting every effort into preparing our defences as a nation to go go headlong into the battlefield that is covid delta. Hold. We’re not fighting eachother. It is fear and fatigue. The next steps will be upon us soon enough. Hold the line

  6. Okay, so the alternative is no vaccination certificates and let the vaccinated and unvaccinated mingle. That’s so we are united as a country under your plan John? I’ll go with Jacinda on this one thanks.

  7. Is it an indictment on our public education system that everyone doesn’t have understanding of how vaccines work? Should that have specifically been in a science curriculum which every kid in school should have been exposed to?

    Or rather than that specifically, should we have approaches which develop in people tolerance, resilience, empathy and respect for experts, e.g. scientists. Along with critical discernment of course. Some of the lunacy around vaccines is scarcely unbelievable.

    Then again the limited part of their lives our young spend in schools suggests that that shitty attitudes and ignorance we’re all suffering from is fostered in homes and the big wide world.

    • Real empathy can’t be taught, you’re either born with it in spades or less, or not. Shallow/fake empathy can be taught, but it’s relatively ineffective

  8. Good post.
    Let no one forget that we are in this position because the govt has given the vaxxed a massive reason to hate the unvaxxed especially if Dhbs stall out sub 90 percent.
    That target has driven a bloody great wedge into society, over the NZ population we are potentially talking about a few hundred thousand people. Alienating that many people is going to get very ugly indeed.

    • As one of the alienated Anti-vaxers Cricklewood, your post is right on. I have only contempt for the obvious hatred of many of the vaxed. It doesnt intimidate me however. It instead motivates me to put the anti-vax message out there. I will distribute pamphlets, attend meetings, go to protests etc etc. The amusing thing however is that I ,after exhaustive scientific research, have come to the conclusion that the unvaxed have to fear more from the vaxed, because they leach their toxic jab on others around them, both vaxed and unvaxed I have seen first hand the the dire side efects from vaxxed peoples shedding. So I am equally keen to avoid any close contact with you !!!

      • The side effects of not getting a jab can be a wooden box and a 6ft hole .
        We had a family gathering of full vaxed people resently and no one was shedding and none were attracted to magnets and no extra limbs had grown ..
        I cannot wait for the passport to appear so that I can sit on the bus or plane or go to the cinema knowing that the person beside me is not potentially going to kill me .

      • Please share your exhaustive scientific research so we can all be safer and enlighten me on what shedding of vaccine looks like as I have been vaxed and dont what to infect the unvaccinated.

  9. The side effects of not getting a jab can be a wooden box and a 6ft hole .
    We had a family gathering of full vaxed people resently and no one was shedding and none were attracted to magnets and no extra limbs had grown ..
    I cannot wait for the passport to appear so that I can sit on the bus or plane or go to the cinema knowing that the person beside me is not potentially going to kill me .

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