It says something about the wonderful character of Kiwis that on the same day 2000 AntiVaxxer lunatics were marching in Wellington that we as a country hit the 90% vaccination target.
The vast, vast, vast majority did the right thing and got vaccinated while a tiny minority screamed and called it Nazi Germany and the wonderful thing is that the majority let the minority have their protest.
That’s how gracious we are in reality.
We will allow you your right to protest even though you are fucking stupid, prolonging lockdowns and possibly endangering the rest of us!
The 90% vaccination rate strategy has left us with one of the lowest death rates and hospitalization rates in the world and represents one of the greatest public health successes since seat belts in cars and the polio vaccine.
Jacinda’s 90% vaccination rate, a strategy her Maori Academics & public health officials decried as racist has worked!
Jacinda’s 90% vaccination rate, a strategy the Death Cult Capitalists screamed was evil because it put public health before private profit has worked!
Jacinda’s 90% vaccination rate, a strategy National and ACT denounced as unworkable has worked!
The Woke Left decrying the roll out as a genocide against Maori or the religious right QAnon lunatic antiVaxxers screaming Nazi?
The debt of gratitude this ungrateful bloody country owes Jacinda and Labour is immeasurable and watching the toxic hate vomited on her for saving us from tens of thousands of sick and thousands of deaths is honestly heartbreaking.
THAT is us at our Kiwi worst!
We beat Covid and then along came Delta.
We beat Delta and then along came Omicron.
We really have no idea how lucky we are.
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Well done NZ! Keep at it Kiwi
It is truly amazing that anyone can still give National or Act any credibilty. Their politicising of a pandemic is nothing short of disgusting.
Our success is not just due to Jacinda’s efforts and leadership but to her team of 5 million, with special mention of the essential workers – many on the minimum wage that National and Act want to lower or scrap.
Exactly, a team of around 200, expert epidemiologists, public health, economists, treasury, virologist, hospital and health board admin, doctors and politicians and civil servants, for which Jacinda is the spokesperson. This personalisation of attacks on Jacinda powerfully suggests an unpleasant misogyny in a vocal and ignorant and worthless subsection of New Zealand humanity, which would unfortunately seem to include some notorious commentators and not a few opposition MPs. Not that I am uncritical or forgiving of major failings of Jacinda’s government in global warming and the housing crisis.
A few weeks ago my brother, a permanent resident in Zary, Poland, emailed me asking me and my whanau to please DO NOT get the Covid Vaccinations. (He was too late, my whanau are all due for our booster shots mid January.)
Well a week later he contracted Covid, and after trying for 10 days to cure himself, he eventually admitted himself to hospital, and although he was put on a ventilator, the hospital staff could not save him. He passed away Monday morning, and was cremated on Thursday morning.
This is not the only sad part of this story, his adult son lives with him and was also unvaccinated. Fortunately his son has tested negative, and has now had his first Covid jab.
What I can’t understand is how an otherwise healthy, fit, intelligent man has lost his life because he believed the BS promoted by the Antivaxxers.
Covid is real, Covid is evil. Thank goodness 90% of us have listened and have made sensible choices. That is Freedom.
And MIQ is keeping Omicron at bay.
Is that good or bad though?
There are a lot of Kiwis who lack any form of critical thinking, and are therefore fundamentally stupid for want of a better word.
There are plenty who don’t understand detail at all . Whether it be at the most basic level, let alone the macro and micro level .
You also get the ‘a little bit of knowledge being dangerous’ type, and the equally dangerous, ‘paralysis through over analysis’ type. Both the of those groups usually fall into the anti-vaxxers camp.
However, not to worry. The National party have a new great white hope leader in Luxon!
‘Corporate Wiki’ informs us that he is extremely well read and possesses great in- depth knowledge on a wide variety of topics.
Apparently His list of favorite books include New York Stock Exchange bestsellers such as:-
1)How To Win Friends and Influence People
2)The Art Of The Deal
3)What Your Handshake Says About You
4) (Sequel) How You Can Make Your Handshake Work Better For You
5)The Art Of Speech- Making Using Cliches As A Marketing Tool
6)How To Corporate Buzz-Word Your Sentences to Sound Knowledgeable and Authoritative…Going Forward
7)The Art Of Picking ‘The Low Hanging Fruit’ Whilst Looking Like You Are Being Substantial
8)How To Develop ‘Silos’ To Ferment ‘The Low Hanging Fruit’
9) How to Articulate Colourful In-Depth Analysis With Just A Whiteboard And A Black Marker Pen
10) How To Prevent Profuse Forehead Sweating When Talking Out Of Your Arse
I’ll play along. What point would you like to discuss and where’s the science that supports this point. Lets crank the critical thinking gear into action. How about Martyn’s points regarding protestors possibly extending lockdowns or endangering everyone else. How is this possible and where’s the science that supports these points?
I won’t hold my breathe that this will get in or that you have anything to back your bluster, if it does.
Don’t just JAQ off, state a position and make your own argument in support.
Stop protecting and get on with it. My challenge, surely, is not that hard.
Think critically, because according to Grant, the AV crowd clearly cannot. Name your Covid issue, bring your science to the table, and we will dance the ‘critical thinking’ dance.
But as said before, and as your response has already shown, it ain’t looking likely…..
You’ve made my day.
Just talking to some friends last night. None of them vaxed. Bragging and laughing that they were having a night out in Auckland at a number of bars and not being asked for their vaccination passports which they obviously don’t have. It kind of makes a mockery of vaccination mandates, the push for vaccination and those of us who have done what we believe to be the right thing. With omicron on the way I think I’ll be spending a lot more time at home.
Covid’s Omicron variant can’t read vaccine passports.
Covid’s Omicron variant ignores vaccine mandates.
Covid’s Omicron variant doesn’t listen to people laughing at it, or bragging about being unvaccinated.
Covid’s Omicron variant does worry how dense the population is.
So does Jimmy Carr, who agrees with you Sylvain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQj6IgegGYo
Mike drop.
Being the middle of summer of course has nothing to do with our low death rates from this flu virus.
We have now had 2 winters and 1 summer so quoting the season as a reason for low numbers is you talking out of your a—- . I am no lover of Labour but up to 3 months ago they were spot on target . Obviously with hindsight thinks could have been done better but the book is being written as we speak . The wheels seem to have fallen of recently as the way for will be painful for one sector which ever way they call the shots and now we have a new version.
Those supporting the pretend Bishop Tamaki need to understand he hates Labour due to their support of abortion and homosexuality. He ctys for choice re the vaxination but does not support choice for women and gay . Those who follow him need to wake up before they fall victim of their own stupidity
“Those supporting the pretend Bishop Tamaki need to understand he hates Labour due to their support of abortion and homosexuality. He ctys for choice re the vaxination but does not support choice for women and gay . Those who follow him need to wake up before they fall victim of their own stupidity”
Excuse the pun Trevor but amen to that! Idiots.
Actually Jeremy the virus was here during our winter or are you carefully ignoring that fact?
This guy would still be alive if he didn’t get vaccinated
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-delta-expert-urges-people-to-get-help-if-needed-after-autopsy-links-dunedin-death-to-jab/BJVTXAVPRBML5OIIP5XII6MKUU/
One swallow does not make a summer . All vaccinations and in fact any medical procedure has a risk but when you look at the odds you stand less chance of dying from vaccine than by covid by a huge margin. This death was a result of poor management by the DHB rather than any fault of the shot
Disagree, I was simply stating his death is being directly attributed to the vaccine. I leave research using only one sample to the government (shutting down the country over one suspected coronavirus case, using the death of one eighty-something with covid (possibly) who had pre-existing conditions as proof of the fear we must feel, etc). The government goes even further into fairytale land and declares if they had not done what they had done then we would have all died. That if we don’t take their vaccine then we, will, DIE.
The sad thing is that this “one swallow” could have been avoided if there were enough information about possible side effects and if there were more attention given to them by healthcare providers.
Nicki Minaj’s friend’s testicles swelled up too Ethan.
Therefore, all male anti-vaxxers are doing the right thing to save the planet’s population by not having the vaccination.
How can you breed more little anti-vaxxers, if your testicles are the size of watermelons?
The population will decrease if anti-vaxxers take the vaccines.
Sorted.
Dear Mike,
Please don’t spread disinformation.
If the anti-vaxxers get Covid, but they had not had the vaccines, they will likely die.
If the anti-vaxxers get Covid, but they have had vaccines, they will likely live.
They have the freedom to choose to live or die and that is their God-given right.
It’s a binary choice.
Get vaccinated and have a much better chance of living through the Covid infection.
Don’t get vaccinated and run the higher percentage chance of death.
Also, worse than the freedom-of-death of anti-vaxxers, are the images of Nicki Minaj’s friend’s swollen testicles, ‘the size of watermelons’. I ordered a mental corkscrew online to remove this image from my brain.
This image is even worse than the thought of rows and rows of dead antivaxxers’ graves, with the same inscription on each cross “I told you Covid was a hoax!”
“Northland lags,” we keep hearing. What’s that all about? It’s about the lunatics who have been discouraging people from being vaccinated being successful. Northland is a pariah region largely through dumb pakeha.
“Non-Māori now significantly outnumber Māori among Northlanders who have not yet been vaccinated.
Northland’s high Māori population is often cited as one of the reasons for the region’s relatively low vaccine uptake — and the fact the region will soon be the only one stuck in the red traffic light setting — but some simple number-crunching by the Advocate shows Māori make up a minority of the region’s unvaxxed.
Ministry of Health figures show 9034 eligible Māori in Northland had not received a first dose as of December 16.
The number of non-Māori who hadn’t yet received their first jab, however, was significantly higher at 10,660.
While the ministry does not provide a specific figure for Pākehā, Northland’s other ethnic groups have above-average vaccination rates so the vast majority of those 10,660 can safely be assumed to be of European descent.
Only 136 Pasifika people in Northland have not yet had a jab, for example. Northland’s Indian community, the region’s next biggest ethnic group, hit the 90 per cent fully vaxxed target early this month.”
Northern Advocate 18-12-21
Northland DHB vaccination rates 17 Dec: 88.0% single dose, 82.3% double dose.
Non-Maori rates: 90.5% single dose, 86.9% double dose.
Maori rates: 82.4% single dose, 72.3% double dose.
Counting all unvaccinated non-Maori as European, then 10,660 of the European population in Northland of 101,986 translates to 89.6% single dosed. Not far from the accepted 90% benchmark.
Maori make up 31.3% of the eligible population in Northland, yet 45.9% of the unvaccinated. Not sure that pointing the finger at unvaccinated Pakeha really changes things for the better for Maori.
I’d kinda prefer it if if the majority of us could dictate what the minority of us can do – in this age of never-ending government dictates. But of course, this is not the case. The government dictates what we are allowed to do, or not, we have no say in these matters. Still, we can always be gracious and thankful for their kindness – towards those that do everything dictated of them!
Otherwise, another measure of success is life returning back to normal, which many thought would happen with an 80% vaccination rate, let alone a 90%+ rate. But alas, a return to normal seems even further away now than this time last year…..
It’s simple…..Just tell the virus to go way!… job done !!
It can be that simple, for those who own or control the media. They can make any situation or any person as problematic or as harmless as they care to choose. It is that simple and we, the people, need to decide if this dynamic primarily serves our interests or their interests….
Personally I am so over it. I have not watched a press conference in two months.
The never ending media blood lust, oxygen given to depressing little fuckers like Michael Baker who is surely a time warped flaggelant from the Black Death era and geeks like modeller Shaun Hendy who upon realising someone was actually interested in his boring as bat shit world, told us Auckland was staring down the barrel of 7000 covid deaths per year. For both these men we were only missing the chant of “bring out your dead”.
And with that goes our poll driven government who panicked and sent sick people to self isolate at home lest the miserably underfunded health system they completely forgot about collapsed as predicted and assured. But only for these poor people to die of this very disease at home because text messaging them to see how they were failed them with lethal consequences, as well as their families. Who would have thought?
Anyway, awaiting Aucklands borders to go back up in sheer terror with Jacinda getting out of Dodge like it was yesterday. Having said that, she probably never returned! Oh, and the “gamma” variety to emerge!
Is that your roundabout way of thanking Jacinda for keeping us safe?
No, just telling you I’m over it Bert.
Fair enough but just remember, nobody wanted “it”.
I might add Bert, that when our MIQ system fails, again, and let’s omicron out into the Auckland community, then what?
This government ensured no one quite knew how Delta got in and for Auckland to be locked down for 4 months.
Nor have they done anything different, it appears, with MIQ since Delta..
And that will become a typical story of the management of this pandemic. Never learn anything unless from the PM down, they are put in the spot light over it.
And I’m over the constant whinging of the supposedly poor management of our covid response. Seriously over the constant whinging. There is something very important here, given the statements of ACT and National, the MIQ facilities and management would have been perfect. However our hospital system overrun and probably a he’ll of a lot more deaths. You could always move to Europe, Australia or the UK.
Just to add, what would you do to stop such failures XRAY? 24 hour surveillance, ensure you know exactly where a variant is detected and tell the rest of N.Z.?
I am seriously interested in what you might do, not in hindsight but pre covid arriving into NZ
Sir Ian Taylor might beg to differ:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/sir-ian-taylor-politicians-and-officials-go-on-holiday-at-arguably-the-most-dangerous-time-in-this-pandemic/SNGH2DVEUYFRJ76TT3EO2QVQMM/
Good on him, who wants an absentee PM who thinks this is a bit of a lark. What sort of health emergency sees the government shut down the country, segregate society and then go on holiday?
Good on him, who wants an absentee PM who thinks this is a bit of a lark. What sort of government locks down the country, segregates society based on health status then goes on holiday?
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