Our Covid story is a story about the insidious creep of expert advice, unremarkable at first, but eventually turning lives into living nightmares simply because our Covid experts fly in the face of common sense.
No amount of pleading will get us off the PM’s recurring cycle of lock down, no lock down, lock down. Lock downs decimate businesses and employment and will eventually ruin the economy; cause more sickness and death by deferral of hospital treatments and health checks; and set back education.
Australia has resumed sending our ex-cons back home and on top of that, this month we welcome new batches of immigrants after the resettlement programme was frozen a year ago. And so, out of the kindness of our hearts (and flying in the face of common sense), we welcome untested potential Covid carriers into the country.
For some inexplicable reason, pre-flight Covid testing is not required before arrivals depart overseas. The logic appears to be that quarantine will catch Covid at the border. Out of kindness we ignore the fact that the border is our main source of disappointment in the government’s handling of Covid control, and the sole reason we rebound in and out of lockdown.
Media brought the numerous border leakages to our attention and said we should comply with lockdown to “keep us all safe” and “do our bit for everyone else”. Out of kindness, we ignore the restrictions on our lives and the economy despite the border letting us down again and again. How long should this madness continue?
The government has collected $6.7 million in fees for managed isolation (MIQ) and it’s owed at least another $1.5 million in overdue payments. RNZ calls them “returnees” but this is not true.
Out of the kindness of our hearts the taxpayer may have to wear the outstanding $1.5M of overdue MIQ fees on top of the full cost of arrivals who are refugees, diplomats or consular staff, or persons eligible on compassionate grounds, returning after a medical air transfer or rescue at sea, or being deported from Australia.
The PM promised that if we complied we wouldn’t go in and out of lockdown and we know she doesn’t lie, even when the facts say otherwise, because she promised not to.
Out of the kindness of our hearts, we won’t kick up a fuss about border indiscretions that release the virus into the community and cost money, jobs and lives. She knows best, doesn’t she? Along with her coven of Covid experts trotted out on a daily basis each time the proverbial hits the fan.
Every week we hear complaints from New Zealanders begging the media to print their desperate story of a loved one in the hospital or on their death bed where family are prevented from returning because there aren’t enough quarantine rooms available.
Out of kindness we will overlook the understaffed, under-policed MIQ facilities in the centre of our largest city allowing a quick trip through the fence for some essential food or liquor to oil the wheels of boredom. Kindness dictates but common sense points out the glaring errors.
This week we very kindly shut up shop for three days, after another border leak, meaning no income stream for ourselves or others. After nearly a year the experts still haven’t got the quarantine system right but out of kindness we will stay quiet about the threat of someone’s grandparent catching Covid at the local shops and dying.
We don’t have enough houses or jobs either, but let’s not let be petty about such small details that might deter us from welcoming new migrants. It’s not their fault, so let’s give them a warm welcome. Law abiding Covid-free New Zealanders can’t travel – arguably for years to come – but out of kindness we will stick to the plan of importing the virus and distributing it through leaky borders.
Out of kindness we will house new migrants, put food on their tables and clothes on their backs, educate their children and give them a job until eventually, they learn to speak English. We won’t complain about the economic burden on taxpayers whose numbers dwindle after each and every lockdown.
The experts in charge of directing our future are paid out of the public purse – meaning they are anything but independent and hesitant to suggest alternative Covid treatments because (a) they never thought of it first, and (b) they have reputations to protect along with government and pharmaceutical income streams to fund their latest research projects.
There are cheap, easily accessible treatments such as Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin, and the most recent product likely to lessen Covid symptoms and mortality is the Budesonide (steroid) inhaler, but in the last year the only Covid treatment Medsafe approved for NZ use is the partially tested Pfizer vaccine with 58 conditions attached.
Medsafe are reviewing other vaccines, but why approve partially tested vaccines and ignore alternative Covid treatments used successfully overseas? We have used these treatments here for decades on other illnesses giving us a safe treatment history.
Our Covid expert’s opinion, and the government’s promise, is that the vaccine is safe. But how do they know this when testing has only just begun? How can we trust them when all their promises to date have turned to dust – including the promise that if we didn’t comply with lockdown, 80,000 people might die from Covid? That lie left a permanent residue of fear even after we found out the numbers were incorrectly calculated.
We can be kind about the PM’s failed elimination strategy as she pins her hopes on an mRNA vaccine but common sense dictates more proof is needed for a technologically new vaccination process before public distribution is considered safe.
Others such as Doctor Dolores Cahill from the University College Dublin UCD · Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, School of Medicine, PhD are challenging the PM and her Covid coven’s theory of a safe vaccine. Cahill argues an mRNA vaccine is not a vaccine at all and that technically it is gene therapy. But splitting hairs over whether mRNZ is a vaccine or gene therapy is irrelevant given the Covid-19 mRNA vaccine is developed using an entirely new process.
While Pfizer and others such as Oxford-AstraZeneca race to produce a successful mRNA vaccine, we must make up our own minds about the safety based on the advice of reliable experts. As someone once said “when it’s not about the money – it’s about the money!”
Cahill is a scientist with Covid viewpoints not always scientifically accepted, but she notes one incontrovertible fact – the mRNA vaccine has not been sufficiently tested to be considered safe for everyone until Pfizer’s testing is completed in 2023.
Would our Covid experts consider it a kindness to develop a vaccine through human guinea pigs to prove the vaccine is safe for future elderly and vulnerable? Jacinda is all about kindness.
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