Few public servants have become household names like Bloomfield.
His calm performances, his stable grip of communication and immediate recall of vast tracks of real time information marks him as one of the greatest public servants ever and his results speak for themselves…
…Ashley was part of a public health response that history will hold up as exemplary.
Sure there were mistakes.
Sure there was a challenge to the State where Health trumped all else and many other departments were rubbed up the wring way.
Yes the DHBs were useless in their community outreach and one wonders how a Māori Health Authority could have performed differently, but overall, he did a remarkable job.
He made real time decisions when we were running blind and his proffesionaloism and intelligence saved us.
The most extraordinary part of his performance was the jaw dropping bile and toxic hate rage that was vomited up upon him every day.
I’m not talking valid criticism or clever social media burns, I’m talking insane asylum sewer level radioactive invective that once read can’t ever be cleaned away.
The vile shit thrown at him for saving our collective lives is bordering on outright lunacy.
He represented our best, the toxic outrage represents our worst.
Thank you for your service Dr Ashley. There will always be parts of rational NZ who will welcome you and who are genuinely grateful for your leadership at a time of huge crisis.
I’ve never seen someone earn a Knighthood before.
Ashley did.
Kia kaha.
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In spades !
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I totally agree; my thanks to Dr Ashley Bloomfield for truly going above and beyond.
I guess if big government is your religion, you’re pro segregation and don’t believe in bodily autonomy. The yes, he’s the man.
OMG. He is a health official who follows science and lead a health response for a global pandemic. He wasn’t a cabinet minister. Pro segregation my arse.
“Follows science”
I thought religion was something we followed and science something we questioned
Wheel, forced vaccinations to those seeking exemption after severe adverse reactions. And yes, pro two classes of citizens, ie. segregation. Authoritarian through and through.
Off white Possibly well named and true going by the tenor of the comments you sing.
Authoritarian is selling power cos after a referendum voted against it . Now we are suffering a severe reaction with the costs. So now two classes of citizens, the rich and the poor because of a dictatorship government. And for this he was knighted.
Sounds like John Key’s autobiography.
Well written, he did well.
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No he does not.
He did his job, he did it well, but it was his job. Give him a nice bonus, a good reference and watch him go elsewhere.
The Sirs/Dames should be handed out to the nurses, janitors, doctors, and support staff in hospitals. But hey, they did not get to be on Telly everyday during out lockdown Soap Opera.
Pfizer claimed that Bloomfield took 6 weeks to return phone calls to discuss vaxx roll outs, hence why David Clark, former Health Minister was not happy with him.
Speak to many hospital nurses and/or doctors regarding his performance in reducing their workloads, and improving their work conditions during the on-going pandemic — they are not impressed with him either.
Bloomfield had time to play rugby, dance, and give numerous media interview — but, visiting areas worse affected by Covid — he was too busy!
100% RB
He did his job a lot better than many others representing the government so he deserves more recognition.
Bloomfield is too good for a knighthood now that knighthoods tends to be bought by rich listers or politicians, rather than earned.
However agree that everyone on the ground in our medical system in particular those that have dedicated much of their lives to getting qualified and helping others, also deserved recognition, like the doctors and nurses.
saveNZ I’ve been thinking that Dr Bloomfield mightn’t be rich enough to be getting a knighthood because they go to the rich, and to dodgy pollies and he’s not one of them either.
RB, don’t forget the Supermarket workers! If it were at all possible there should be a medal struck for all the ‘essential workers’ who saw us through and continue doing so, but I’m sure the logistics of that would be daunting to say the least.
Agree Bratwurst. The only people that deserve knighthoods are pillars of society. Sir John Key, Sir Roger Douglas, Sir Bob Jones, Sir Ron Brierley would all object to a public servant socialist, being given a knighthood.
Agree. Doing your 6 figure paying job well should not be a knighthood ( and This applies to all blacks , judges and politicians as well)
Masks don’t work,
Masks work
Same guy, different day
Fully agree Andy – Pfizer claimed that Bloomfield took 6 weeks to return phone calls to discuss vaxx roll outs, hence why David Clark, former Health Minister was not happy with him.
Speak to many hospital nurses and/or doctors regarding his performance in reducing their workloads, and improving their work conditions during the on-going pandemic — they are not impressed with him either.
Bloomfield had time to play rugby, dance, and give numerous media interview — but, visiting areas worse affected by Covid — he was too busy!
RATs don’t work
Nex minute…. stealing RATs from people clever enough to know that they do
” He made real time decisions when we were running blind and his professionalism and intelligence saved us ”
Yes and he got paid extremely well for doing his job at over $ 500.000 a year and preformed his contractual responsibilities.
I personally like Bloomfield for his humility and ability to laugh at himself. He’s not perfect but I watched a number of times where he had shit shovelled all over him and he took it like a champ. Also he worked his ass off to be basically shoved aside at the end.
So good on you Ash, hope you do well in your next endeavour!
Masks dont work. Yes they do. Myocarditis is not an issue. Yes it is.
The vaccine is 95% effective at stopping transmission and infection. No it’s not.
The unvaccinated will overwhelm hospitals and they will die. No they wont.
Only the vaccinated cant transmit the virus. Whoops yes they can.
Yep he followed the science alright.
He did a mediocre job and is leaving a health system in disarray let’s reward him handsomely and turn him into some Covid Cult deity for being great behind a podium.
It’s interesting to read the comments from so many of the negative losers that come here, all bunched together where there is some positive praise and rational comment called for. They don’t know what to do with themselves – wankers – I can be as irrational as you! Sting me and leave Sir Ashley? alone.
I wonder how the hospital nurses and doctors feel being lumped under the loser tag…greywarbler?
Greywarbler, calling out human rights abuses is not being negative. It’s essential. And it’s not going away either.
True Greywarbler, it’s as if they had to cancel one of their protests at parliament to get on this site. And so many of them are specialists in the subject of a disease based on their studies that the “earth is flat”
These same people believed this fucking vile…
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/nzme-radio-apology-and-payment-for-clarke-gayford-after-baseless-lies/STP77BZVUHRRSGBSVVIGE54B6E/
So let them post their ridiculous nonsense(non medical) and enjoy the knighthood of Sir Ashley.
Perhaps he should have fucked up the country, as that’s what Key was knighted for.
No!
Ardern bailed on covid the health issue in September 2021!
It became a economic issue after that. Because 250+ CEOs wrote her a letter.
Since then, he’s been bullshitting.
Tane You are so uncompromising. I hope you will be a knight without peer when you hold sway in your domain, or now if that is the case. Encouragement and recognition is good, pour encourager les autres. What is that phrase in Maori? Could you tell me as I am sure you would know. Thanks in anticipation.
The last act of this control freak as he was fleeing office was to bully councils into fluoridation. More pseudoscience, more evidence-free interventions, and more drugging people up to the eyeballs even if they don’t need it. Good riddance pencil dick, take your little mask with you.
This psychological abuser and his foot soldiers kept insisting ‘the science had been settled’. Science is never settled, what they were talking about was winning narrative management. Bloomfield was a shill for big pharma, nothing more, and big pharma coerced the world of the healthy into taking an untested, unproven vaccine and then tried to stop the release of the vaccine data for a hundred years. The Nazis experimented on the world as well.
Let’s wait. There is more in this story to pan out. It leads with the GOP re-taking the house in November at which stage the first layer of the Onion get peeled.
Well said greywarbler. Bunch of no-hoper losers here like Eggsteins and Donnarummas, Fuckwit Nats that can’t stand it that that Ashley worked with Labour to keep New Zealanders safe, when the rest of the world’s hospitals were swamped and countries’ medics were piling dead Covid corpses into cold-storage shipping containers. I’ll take Ashley’s science over a bunch of keyboard fuckwits’ Facebook rabidhole lies and junk medical “knowledge”.
Next they’ll be telling us that Trump was robbed of an election, 9/11 was an inside job, Labour insiders planted Todd Muller’s MAGA hat and Cameron Slater is benign and misunderstood.
XstraightXedgeX, Pedro, BG, Mosa, Off White and Andy, 6 duckwits flying in formation, a mass of inbred genes, 12 shared braincells spewing hatred behind their keyboards, but without Trump’s or Luxon’s alluring personalities or their limited grasps on reality.
Mike, that’s very judgy of you, perhaps a little karenish too. Luxon is as much of a douche as Ardern, as is Seymour btw. I can guess how you went straight to Trump, he lives within you. And I’m not only behind a keyboard, I’m in the real world too and my message has never changed, unlike the experts, who’s message is ever changing. Remember when the vaccines worked? Neither do I.
That’s very “Off-white” supremacist of you? Are you a bit precious about your saviour-of-the-white race, Mr Trump? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53212685. Afrikaner descent are you “Off white”?
It’s true Mike, his message has never changed, he is always right and the intelligent scientists are always wrong., even though his message would not last the test of time.
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