New Zealanders are fed up with two years of government interference and are inspired by the success of the Canadian truckers’ freedom convoy’s pressure on authorities to ease and drop Covid mandates. This week the premiers of the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta announced plans to end several Covid policies, including the divisive vaccine passports – the same thing New Zealand protesters want.
Momentum has been steadily growing to support desperate people finding ways to avoid the mandates that, based on overseas experience, do not curtail the spread or severity of Covid.
What started as individuals choking over the Covid nonsense thrust down their throats – scan in, get boosted, mask up everywhere you go and don’t expect to go anywhere if you’re unvaxxed – has turned into a national protest.
If the government Covid mandates did what they were supposed to do, will someone please explain why Covid cases are rising instead of dropping?
It all began when unvaccinated citizens were labelled as second-class lepers and businesses were instructed to turn away this new underclass of customers. Business owners were desperate to find workarounds to the Vaccine Pass. This was demonstrated to me after the last lockdown, when the owner of a local beauty service pursued me out onto the pavement, quietly begging me to return in 20 minutes when the half dozen goggle-eyed women who overheard me stupidly admitting that I did not have a vax pass had completed their treatments and left.
Underground businesses are popping up with good operators doing well from word-of-mouth advertising. I have a new (better and more cost-effective) hairdresser who now works from home after choosing not to get vaccinated.
I did feel very sorry for my local coffee shop owner when I sat outside to enjoy a sit-down coffee and chat with a friend last week but could not supply the all-important Covid Pass the owner wanted to scan. Thousands of dollars in fines if the inspector turns up, he anxiously exclaimed, both our eyes darting sideways in search of a Worksafe employee. He hung around chatting for much longer than normal in an obvious attempt to retain his loyal customer base. Driving customers away is bad for business but don’t expect the Ardern government to acknowledge it. They have already damaged his business and he cannot afford to be further pinged.
The Covid madness has slipped into nonsensical minutiae. A MSM publication offered advice supplied by a well-known Covid expert idiot on how to safely celebrate a child’s birthday: hold the party outside, keep the event as small as possible, only invite children in the same childcare bubble and don’t invite unvaccinated adults. Don’t have a birthday cake, instead give an individual cupcake to each child with their own candle to blow out, oh, and please print off a QR code for guests to scan in.
The media are doing their bit to keep the Covid fear-mongering alive, ensuring adherence to Covid mandates, which are about demonstrating public compliance.
Convoy 22 protesters represent everyday people, but there is an assortment of troublemakers and attention seekers grabbing media attention. It’s unfortunate but not representative of the thousands of New Zealanders depicted in this video.
Here is a link to a New Zealander familiar with the protest because he has visited over the last few days and attests that they are largely peaceful and good-natured. If they are peaceful, why are politicians so afraid of them? It’s because citizens have the power to make or break political careers and politicians know it. The public holds the political power to unseat lying politicians.
Politicians from all parties want the protesters to leave Parliament grounds. They are afraid to come out and listen to their concerns.
Speaker of the House, Trevor Mallard, issued protesters with a notice ordering those camping on parliament grounds to pack up or risk being trespassed, and also arranged for additional police to be on hand on Thursday morning to physically constrain if necessary.
Media sit on their hands reporting inaccurately or not reporting at all, but if they had asked politicians and Covid experts about the overseas countries gradually dropping Covid mandates, would a protest have been necessary at all?