Wednesday, July 28, 2021

A rounded view of New Zealand's Covid Saga

6,500 people were hospitalised for the flu in New Zealand, in 2019.

Flu deaths in New Zealand are typically 500 per-year.

Why weren't we terrified? Why didn't we demand ruthless lockdowns? Why didn't we cry out for experimental mRNA technology? 

Alas, it's amazing what people might come to believe when the government becomes their one source of truth.

The following is a sequence of clear red flags:

1. After designating 100 billion dollars for an elimination strategy, the government failed to seal the borders to protect that investment. Logic dictates that the military, or equivalent, should have been hunting for potential border leaks from day one to protect the investment. None of this happened. The borders leaked.

2. After the lockdowns, the government later explained that elimination did not mean elimination, and that eradication meant elimination, and that eradication was not possible. They knew that the public did not know that elimination doesn't actually mean elimination. The government effectively lied to enhance public cooperation for their lockdown strategy. That's manipulation - not representation.

3. The conversation on total costs and optimum health responses was ignored. Mental health issues, a badly damaged economy (which funds our health system), and quality of life and length of life issues, were all ignored as though Covid is the only principal concern. This is irrational and not standard practice for any health investment.

4. The initial mass-lockdown response was motivated by Neil Fergusson's models which are proven to be wrong. Neil Ferguson had a history of creating bad models that predicted mass disasters that never eventuated. 

5. The most powerful defence against Covid or any other virus is the general health of the populace, and immune health specifically. There was no education programme or direct investment to encourage, and facilitate, people to have more time for sunshine and exercise, stress control, and other. This made no sense.

6. Educated critics of the governments health response have been ignored, threatened and suppressed. This includes people with every imaginable credential. Note also, effective alternative medications, such as Ivermectin, have been omitted from the public conversation or government consideration.

7. Collecting data on Covid has been more political than scientific. People who died with Covid were recorded as having died from Covid, even for where the co-morbidities were overwhelmingly causative. 

The PCR tests were long known to deliver false positives, even over 90%, yet were still used to inflate apparent Covid case numbers. Government authorities have only recently admitted this.

8. Vaccines that are currently available are based on highly novel mRNA technology, and have had no long-term testing in humans. This is why the vaccines are classed as experimental. The long-term effects of mRNA vaccines are not known, and of course can't be known for some years to come. Animal trials on mRNA vaccines have previously led to serious damage and death in the animals. 

9. Informed consent (a prior condition of any experimental treatment) has been ignored over aggressive and one-sided marketing, and fear mongering. People have been encouraged to get the jab as soon as possible irrespective of personal Covid risks. 

Note, whether or not the current vaccines even reduce the spread of Covid is questionable.

10. Governments world-over are beginning to use social pressure to drive mass-vaccination. People have been 'officially' demonised for questioning the vaccines. People who refuse the vaccines have often been degraded as ignorant, irresponsible and selfish, and typically described as anti-vaxxer or conspiracy theorist. 

11. Existing statistics indicate clearly that covid-19 is no more dangerous than the seasonal flu, the latter of which kills about 500 New Zealanders every year. Covid in New Zealand has so far killed 26 people (with co-morbidities).

12. There is no clear evidence that masks work to suppress the transmission of Covid. (The airborne virus is miniscule compared to the weave of the masks fabric).

-To be fair, medical experts have long admitted that the masks are basically useless in themselves. However, they do serve the function of actioning a constant reminder of the lockdown levels, which in turn stops people from letting their guard slip on other levels, such as basic hygiene and social distancing.

13. The governments insistence on periodically locking down the entire country, at massive financial, lifestyle, and health cost, as opposed to the normal pandemic response which is to only isolate the vulnerable, has never made sense.

14. The government has not promoted (or ideally made mandatory) Bluetooth apps that allow for effortless, comprehensive and reliable mass contact-tracing. 

They have not employed video-intercom apps that allow people to make an immediate call on their phones, for preliminary diagnosis of a possible infection. Early identification and early treatment essentially eliminates all notable risk (pandemic over). 

Nor has the government employed rapid saliva testing at the borders so they can be safely opened for business and tourism. 

In other words, the government has inexplicably failed to employ the obvious measures that are available to us, that can immediately remove the need for emergency status lockdowns and mass-vaccination. 

Vaccination is unreliable to the end of controlling a pandemic. Evolving variants mean we are always playing catch-up. Herd immunity is practically impossible with vaccination, alone.

15. The government tells us what they're going to do (at least just before it happens), but they do not tell us why they're going to do it. 

The thinking and modelling behind the pandemic strategy has not been transparent, so intelligent and qualified [outside] experts, and innovators, have not been able to constructively criticise and contribute to the ongoing development of government policy, in any direct manner. 

Secrecy makes sense when you're fighting a war - but not when you're fighting a pandemic. 

16. The government has previously outlawed antibody tests to see who has had Covid, and therefore who has natural immunity. Antibody tests are still not freely available in New Zealand. No one understands why.

The result, is that people are receiving experimental vaccinations who will gain nothing from them, because natural immunity is far superior to vaccination-induced immunity. This is nonsensical, like the government is more interested in pushing vaccines for their own sake, than neutralising Covid.

17. The government has promoted mRNA vaccinations as the 'great solution' that can allow New Zealand to open its borders, while mostly ignoring more effective methods of pandemic management. This is a mistake.

Unlike natural immunity, vaccines are poorly variant-tolerant. Viruses survive by mutating and continuously generating variants. Hence we are forever playing catch-up with vaccines, just like with the seasonal flu. 

It is well understood that everyone will eventually receive Covid, no matter the national vaccination levels. Vaccines, at best, will only slow the spread to the inevitable. Both Israel and Iceland have recently provided clear examples of this. These nations were heavily vaccinated yet still could not contain their Delta outbreaks.

In short, this means that if you receive a vaccine then you do it for your own protection - no one else's. Your vaccination status ultimately protects no one but yourself, at best.

In spite of this, again, the government is promoting mass-vaccination as the solution. They are even promoting vaccination as a social responsibility which, most concerning of all, is being used to promote forced-vaccination onto the public. 

This is appalling, because not only are mRNA vaccines experimental (we don't know of the medium to long term risks. Only time can inform us) but there is no ethical argument for this move. Respect that when the government can force-medicate people against their will, or back them into a corner where they have no other practical choice, we have a serious human rights issue.

...and much more.

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And now the government expects me and you to accept their experimental vaccines. They can ask me again in five years time. It will take at least that long to get to the science that has been too obviously politicised by a government(s) whose credibility is now shot. 

I am not a conspiracy theorist - but my eyes are open.

Note: I will progressively add interesting and important links in the comments section.

-Andrew Atkin

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Dr Peter McCullough is a world leading expert on Covid prevention. I thought this NZ-based interview was extremely interesting. I urge you to have a look.

https://odysee.com/@voicesforfreedom:6/Dr-Peter-McCullough



Friday, July 2, 2021

New Zealand's Democratic Failure


We say democracy is power to the people, yet it is not. Technically, it's power to the majority. The other 49% does not have less power in a democracy - it has no power. 

Add to this, the fact that the vote in a mass-democracy is largely blind or a personality contest, with severely limited electoral options, and we can see that democracy is as much power-to-the-propagandist as it is power to even the majority. 

Democracy at its worst is a tragedy. This isn't news to those who have studied it. Indeed, this is why America, originally engineered as a restricted democracy, introduced a foundational constitution and the separation of powers (into legislative, executive and judicial), and constructed numerous independent states to facilitate the power of foot-voting.

-Personally, I believe foot-voting is the most important power of all to the end of creating a free and prosperous society. [2 minute video here]

Yet even America is failing as a once well-engineered restricted democracy, because the separation of powers is no longer so separate. Parallel infiltration of all departments by Leftists, including the media, schooling and Hollywood, is slowly driving America towards socialism and childish extremist ideologies. Alas, the separation of powers is cosmetic when the pay-masters have their hands in all the puppets. 

New Zealand:

For democracy to survive, especially if it's a pure democracy (like New Zealand), it needs to have a strong "moral constitution" within the culture of its people. To put it most crudely, the dominant 51% needs to be decent enough to vote above self interest, and in turn not vote to turn the other 49% into their personal slaves.

From here we can point to New Zealand's democratic failure. The clear majority - that is, those who own a home or have a mortgage - have functionally outlawed the construction of affordable housing, via oppressive government regulation [video explanation here]. 

Note: A new home normally costs about $200,000 to build on an urban fringe. However, New Zealand has artificially restricted land supply, so that a plot of raw land on the fringe has become inflated by the bidding-war from $20,000 to more like $500,000. Regulations on building materials, and other, have dramatically increased the cost of constructing a new house, as well. The cost of high-quality kit-set houses imported from China and elsewhere, would otherwise make a new 3-bedroom construction cost less than $100,000 - if only it were allowed to be that simple.

The majority will not vote for any political party that dares allow their personal house price to fall - and, of course, all major political parties have taken that order to protect their careers. 

In New Zealand, the majority's lust for wealth has induced them to believe that the resale value of their homes should radically appreciate, as though others don't have to 'lose for something' while they 'win for nothing'.

To be clear: If a private cartel paid off our politicians to run a protectionist regime on food, designed to make the sale price of food three times higher than it otherwise would be, then the public would want that cartel hung, drawn and quartered for such corruption. Yet that is exactly what's going on in New Zealand's property market today, and with comparably devastating results. 

The New Zealand property market gives a perfect example of a democratic breakdown. The majority has voted like pigs - not citizens. The far-reaching impact is now seen in both reduced and heavily delayed fertility, due to extreme mortgage and rent burdens. The New Zealand fertility rate is now below even replacement levels due to the perverse housing burden on youth. 

Yet, it's never been easier for the retired to live the good life and go on overseas holidays, etc. 

You will see that most retired people feel no need to think about the politically-engineered wealth transfer. The retired typically see their bonanza as a tax-rebate for a lifetime of hard work, and they embrace that rationalisation without testing their assumptions and putting things in perspective. In other words they just believe what they want to believe, as people so often do.

So we have a failure of democracy to do what's right, even on the most important levels. That is a failing state. A state that cannot even breed properly.

The hope for young New Zealanders will be in their ability to migrate to better places, where the political majority is more dedicated to doing the right thing. There are now great opportunities with the modern live-anywhere economy, so it will be interesting to see what kind of out-migration New Zealand suffers once the Covid-19 hype is over.

It will also be interesting to see how a "great replacement" affects New Zealand, over time. The nation might well fall into socialism, even dictatorial socialism, if New Zealand natives are replaced with, assumedly, more anxious migrants who care little for serious politics. The demographic changes could allow the power of propaganda to completely dominate the direction of the nation. We will see.