Dr Ashley Bloomfield steps down – he has earned his Knighthood!
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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I totally agree; my thanks to Dr Ashley Bloomfield for truly going above and beyond.
Well written, he did well.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.