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Today’s comment was written by David Theobald. Thank you David for taking the time to craft such an interesting comment.
Over the last couple of days, the stuff we are being fed at lunchtime has just got incrementally more bizarre.
Bizarre on a global perspective with Sunday’s ramping up of ‘measures’ to ward off a rebranded head cold when the rest of the world is admitting the game is up and is getting rid of useless restrictions on people’s lives. Outside New Zealand (and Western Australia) it has been recognised that all the constraints on day to day living and, more importantly, individual autonomy have been for naught.
Anecdotally, the former Foreign Minister of Israel (one of the most jabbed countries on the planet) has had four Pfizer shots and is now COVID positive – whatever that really means (the cover has already been blown on the +ve PCR = a case scam). Last night it was reported that ‘a number of people’ attending a music festival in Hamilton are ‘COVID’ cases; one had to have a vaccine pass to gain admission to listen to dreadful music, and by extension be double jabbed to obtain said pass. The flight attendant on the flight to Nelson was jabbed up the wazoo and masked. Etc, etc.
On a slightly larger, but still observational basis, one can look at the UK. The UK has approached the pandemic not as a single entity but with four different degrees of severity of restrictions. England has toed a (slightly) less draconian line than Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. Boris resisted lockdown at Christmas 2021 but Sturgeon cancelled New Year and Drakeford in Wales is nuts. Scotland has had vaccine passports for various social settings for months (but is about to get rid of them)etc. etc. The graphs chronicling deaths per 100,000 with or from COVID over the course of the pandemic can be laid on top of one another and you can’t see any light between the lines.
All these NPIs……..do not work.
Bizarre locally when on Monday the mask rules (Oh, masks make no material difference either – see what I did there?) were ramped up. I went into a shopping mall for the first time in 5 months yesterday and made a purchase from a department store therein; all sans mask and nobody even noticed. Yesterday, apparently – I didn’t watch – the Stages (or was it levels or strata – who cares?) of what we (sic) do next were outlined by an Associate Health Minister. Those with the intestinal fortitude to view this tell me it was a train wreck of a presentation with nobody (including, seemingly, the presenter) being able to understand what was going on. And then at tea time, we had the RAT issues and the confiscation of legitimately purchased goods from private concerns by central government. This cannot be a good thing.
All this indicates that current COVID policy is entering the area of defying gravity. It is all predicated on non-facts or facts of dubious moral standing and is currently being kept afloat by lies. As your (well, certainly my) mother told you, if you tell a lie, you end up telling a bigger one to cover it up and eventually it will all come tumbling down. This is what we have in our future – I hope.
The only fly in this particular ointment is Matthias Desmet. I am sure most here will know of this chap’s theories as to why this is all happening. His mass formation stuff seems very plausible to me and, in principle, but perhaps not every detail, I think he is right. This means that the 30% or so of the population who think the 1 pm stuff is our only salvation will just double down no matter how bizarre and nonsensical the new rules become. The middle 60% will just follow because that is what they have done all along. This leaves us 10% to keep making a noise to try and make sure the 30%ers don’t get what they think they want.
The only slight glimmer of hope comes from history (quelle surprise) in that all totalitarian regimes (for that is what we are heading for) eventually implode. But it is usually a very rocky road to get to that happy place.