Robin Westenra
https://seemorerocks.is/
Dedicated to the dedicated nurses, midwives and ambulance staff and to mandated practitioners.
We have been told that the Pfizer mRNA ‘vaccine’ is “safe and effective” and would protect against Covid-19; that it would protect against serious symptoms and keep people out of hospital.
Now we have a crisis in our hospitals ‘because of Covid’. The truth is that in this country at least 80 per cent of people in hospital because of Covid have been vaccinated.
The data from Australia are even more stark. I came across the following this morning:
It appears that we have a crisis in our hospitals and it is getting worse. For example, this: Dunedin Hospital closed to visitors.
Dunedin Hospital is no longer accepting visitors to any of its wards because of an outbreak of Covid-19, combined with increased pressure on capacity. Visitors were turned away from the hospital yesterday after the restrictions were implemented at 6pm. Southern District Health Board chair Pete Hodgson said there had been an outbreak of Covid-19 at the hospital, which was the reason it had to close the doors.
I wish to start with some anecdotes from people that we know:
PATRICK’S STORY
I have a healthy 78-year-old friend who we have been worried about for some time as he has had three doses of the “vaccine”.
A few weeks ago he had very sore feet and was getting round in woolen boots. We immediately suspected blood clots.
He had several on-line consultations with his doctor who could only suggest he bought some special boots but showed little interest in investigating further: something that has become the rule, rather than the exception.
When he finally had to crawl to the bathroom and couldn’t walk his family phoned for the ambulance.
The ambulance staff did not believe that he was in pain and couldn’t walk until they accidentally kicked him in the foot and he yelled out in pain. He was sent to Wellington hospital in our region and indeed, he did have blood clots, all to do with his smoking or his age and nothing to do with a vaccine booster of course!
He had an operation involving the transplant of veins that appeared to be successful; he was recovering and was, according to his nurse-daughter, due to have a second operation on his second leg on the Monday.
We learned that on the evening before he was diagnosed with Covid-19 and was put into isolation where he has remained for the week.
During that time he has had no symptoms of Covid other than being irritable and stir-crazy from the isolation.
The latest news is that he has been transferred to Hutt Hospital – the one that, as you will see, is having its largest wing closed down soon.
All this is because of a shortage of operating room staff at Wellington hospital. So he was down for an operation on Monday (because it was urgent) and by Thursday there is apparently no staff to do the operation.
CEMETERY WORKERS
We have another friend who has worked outside for 35 years as a gravedigger – the one who reported that in his career he has never buried so many people as he has over the past months, especially following a ‘vaxathon’ last year.
He was done out of a job because he refused the vax and as far as we know has not been reinstated despite reports of a shortage of crematorium and cemetery workers.
They will never acknowledge or admit that cemetery workers have been mandated out of their jobs but instead produce human interest stories like this: “I respect these people who are buried here” – graveyards call out for volunteers
Public and community-run cemeteries around the country are struggling to recruit staff and volunteers.
So, folk just don’t want to do the job any more?
Is that it?
THE UNVAXXED NURSES
We have anecdotal information that after an unspecified (but considerable) number of nurses in the hospitals walking out of their jobs because they would not succumb to the vax, not one has been allowed back to their jobs.
In an interview recently Liz Gunn said that, far from people returning to work, more and more are leaving the sector because the demands continually increase so that those who have received three doses of the mRNA shot will be regarded as “unvaxxed”.
All the while, it seems that staff with COVID symptoms are allowed to work but are not allowed to be unvaxxed.
A well-known figure in the movement and my former doctor, René de Monchy had this to say when I asked him:
As to my situation as mentioned in the article, it is indeed so that on 18 November last year I was told that I was not able or permitted to work any more and the hospital said I was not allowed anywhere on the DHB grounds, which would be considered a criminal offense…
A colleague of mine who is a gynaecologist and was working in the same hospital has not been able to work anywhere in hospital or do locum work as a specialist or as a doctor in general, because he is unvaccinated. (edited)
So we have a crisis in the hospitals due in good measure to Jacinda Ardern sacking the most dedicated nursing staff.
This is further illustrated by this story: another acquaintance had to go to Accident and Emergency with a kidney infection not responding to antibiotics.
Although she was regarded as urgent she was shunted off to a room where she was left for a long period of time.
She noted that there were very few nursing staff and they were being moved from Emergency to other areas of the hospital.
The nurse said they were reducing the number of staff in A&E – they already couldn’t cope and reducing numbers would be diabolical.
There have been accounts in the media of staff having to work very long shifts.
There was a story of a woman working in a small resthome, maybe 50 people, having to work three days in a row and grab some sleep in between without going home for 36 hours.
She reported after having been at work for two whole days having to stay on because no one turned up to relieve her.
Changes are being made to our work visas that allows the fast tracking of immigrants in professions where there is deemed to be an acute shortage – medical professionals, builders, project managers, engineers, dentists…
Nurses are not on this list.
A Swedish nurse reported she cannot practise nursing here because her qualifications are not recognised in New Zealand, despite the fact that Sweden probably has among the highest standards of nursing in the world.
Another Indian doctor who is working with immigrants in a poor neighbourhood reported she had to go “through hell” to get her qualifications recognised. She reported being bullied and generally treated very badly.
AN INTERVIEW WITH STEVE OLIVER
Perhaps the clearest example of how run down the health system is comes from an interview of Steve Oliver with Liz Gunn where he describes his friend having a heart attack in front of him:
Getting only an answering service on 111 that said they were over capacity and to go to a GP, he set off taking his friend to the hospital in Whangarei.
When they got to the medical centre, they tried ringing emergency; the phone rang for an hour and a half without being picked up.
His friend started to get anxious and instead of being sedated was told they would ring the police and have him thrown out on the street.
They managed to finally get an ambulance and when they got to the hospital there were staff everywhere with clipboards whose only concern was if he had any Covid symptoms.
Steve Oliver was told the hospital was 150 per cent over capacity and his friend would be better to go home and see his GP.
After sleeping for two days, the earliest he could get a PHONE consultation was Monday. The heart attack happened on the previous Thursday. Other comments were that:
- Health practitioners are still being mandated when we are being told the mandates are over. The exit from the health profession is because people don’t want to take the boosters.
- The hospitals let people go to work if they have Covid symptoms. How will that stop people getting sick?
- The response from staff to questions was ‘no comment’ or that they can’t do anything other than just deal with the fallout.
- People are unaware that this is going on until they need the system.
THINGS ARE ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE
While we are seeing that there are greater levels of hospitalisations of the vaccinated and deaths are constant compared with when we had the original Wuhan strain of Covid, things are only going to get worse.
We have not reached flu season yet.
This prognosis came out a couple of days ago from a modeller (who have proven to seldom get things right): Covid-19: Hospitalisations could be higher in second Omicron wave
Older people are expected to be on the list of people who will be eligible for a fourth dose of the vaccine later this month.
“Offering a fourth dose of the vaccine as we go into winter for those groups is a really good way of mitigating the risk.”
This report from February from Dunedin Hospital which has just closed its wards to visitors is fairly typical of hospitals across the country. (Visitor access changes to southern hospitals)
Hawke’s Bay describes an increasing number of people admitted to hospital with flu although it has to be asked how they distinguish influenza from Covid seeing they have very similar symptoms.
In any case it is leading to a call for people to get the flu jab although there is evidence that it can only make matters worse. (Spike in people admitted to Hawke’s Bay Hospital with flu)
As at Monday, there were 10 people in Hawke’s Bay Hospital with influenza.
Four days later, there were 33 people in the hospital with influenza, with one of those patients requiring intensive care support. It comes during the same week the hospital’s ED reported its busiest days on record with almost 200 presentations on both Monday and Tuesday. Now we come to the big story.
THE IMPENDING CLOSURE OF HUTT HOSPITAL
In the midst of a dire health crisis, it was announced that the Wellington region’s second largest hospital, the Hutt Hospital is closing its Heretaunga Wing, which houses 79 per cent of the beds and services and 25 per cent of the region’s capacity as well.
It contains the children’s ward, the maternity wing, the coronary care unit and other wards and services.
The reports say that the DHB used a 10-year-old seismic assessment to persuade the Hutt City Council to go easy on it in May 2021. Hutt Hospital to clear building after it is declared a quake risk Unclear how long services will stay at quake-prone Hutt Hospital’s Heretaunga Building
Of special interest is the birthing unit.
If closed that would leave no maternity services in the Hutt Valley and people may have to go elsewhere where services are already stretched to the maximum.
Everyone, right up to Health Minister Andrew Little, says they want to keep a hospital in the region but reality on the ground paints a different picture.
There was talk of shifting birthing to te Awakairangi, a unit owned by the Wright Family Foundation (a charitable organisation), but this was mothballed last year due to lack of funding. (Much-loved Hutt Valley birthing centre set to close next month)
And a motion to this effect was voted down by a majority nine members of the board at a special meeting just a day or so ago.
Hutt Valley DHB declines to make maternity services move a priority
However, as the following article makes clear, the problems are not confined to the Hutt Valley but are across the region.
We are blithely told that services will be transferred to other hospitals. However, there are problems in Wellington as well: Wellington hospital staff shortages at ‘critical levels’ in midwifery, nursing, allied health
That leaves the only other hospital in the region – the small Porirua Hospital. However, the media reports,
“18 per cent of health workers at a Porirua Hospital are absent as the impact of the outbreak continues to grow outside Auckland.”
WHAT ARE THE ODDS?
If you thought the problems were limited to the Hutt Hospital you would be wrong.
Within a very short period of time three other hospitals that I know of were singled out for partial closure – all because they are prone to earthquakes.
Firstly there is Wellington Hospital where they have discovered they have to move its emergency department “because its structure might fail in a quake”. (More shaky hospitals: Wellington emergency department deemed earthquake risk)
And Hawke’s Bay Hospital’s newest buildings (built in 2004) has been found to be “earthquake-prone” just a month before the Hutt Valley and Wellington announcements. It has been reported that they cannot install their new MRI scanner. (One of Hawke’s Bay Hospital’s newest buildings was found to be earthquake-prone)
Of course it is all a big coincidence and anyone who recalls the 1931 Napier earthquake will realise it is shaky.
But have you heard of any earthquakes in Auckland?
Within a day or so of the announcement about the Hutt Hospital it was announced that the Galbraith building is earthquake prone – just 20 per cent of the New Building Standard. (Building at Middlemore Hospital confirmed as earthquake prone)
Again, we have a hospital catering for poorer parts of the population that includes a maternity wing.
In 2019 they were going to scrap the building but once again it is in the headlines. The timing is amazing.
The Hutt Hospital issue has had quite a lot of press but the situation with the other hospitals are, on the whole, well hidden. However, this was reported:
Seismic risk assessments exposing widespread shaky hospital issue
Isn’t it strange how at a time when the health system is in dire crisis and losing staff at an amazing rate, that policies are being enacted that will reduce facilities and that will cause a major reform of the system?
Is this by design? This is how they would go about collapsing a health system that was already in a parlous shape.
THE REST HOMES
The situation in resthomes, which was previously almost intolerable, has only got worse. NZ Health Group Managing Director on inadequate funding for home and community support that contributes to staff shortages and affecting future age care options. The article reports that the New Zealand Health Group, the largest provider of home support services, has had to suspend referrals in Auckland, turning away 20 to 30 a day due to the lack of registered nurses needed to supervise carers.
Furthermore they report the vaccine mandate took out more than 400 caregivers and they have lost about 20 per cent of nursing staff to district health boards over the past six months because of the pay gap.
In this regard, a friend’s mother has been in hospital taking up bed space that is already in short supply while they look for a bed in a resthome.
However, there have been none available anywhere near where she lives.
Another friend has a friend in a Lower Hutt resthome reported the old people are underfed and going hungry.
I have looked to see if these shortages are affecting the private hospitals as well.
However, I can find no indication of any problems being identified in the media connected the private system.
QUESTION: If staff are succumbing to Covid in the public hospitals would this not affect the private hospitals as well?
But that is not what we hearing.
Are we being herded into the private system?
A GOVERNMENT SHAKE-UP OF THE HEALTH SYSTEM IN THE MIDST OF CRISIS
A major health reform in the midst of a grave crisis?
In response to the article above, Lower Hutt mayor Campbell Barry said that the hospital board needed to take a strong stance about retaining health services in the Hutt Valley while it still had the power to.
This is because the decision-making powers will be transferred to the new government-controlled organisation, Health New Zealand, next month. (Major health sector shake-up: DHBs scrapped and new Maori Health Authority announced)
Just like this government relies on a ‘single source of truth’, its response is always to regulate, legislate and centralise.
DEBT
All of the above points to a problem across the sector with funding, from private resthomes to the public health system.
Debt across all the health boards reached $237 million in the last financial year, compared with government predictions of $210 million.
Some of the hospitals badly need input, as shown by this article: Whangarei Hospital: Leaky roofs, dodgy lifts, waiting lists and Covid-19’s here.
It is unclear what the government has spent on Covid – on propaganda, buying in vaccines and what have you – I recall a figure of 100 BILLION. I came across the following official item that is designed to confuse as much as it is to reveal: Controller update on government spending on Covid-19.
To put a $237 MILLION debt into context, in 2020 the government expanded its money printing (QE) to $100 BILLION. Covid-19: Reserve Bank expands QE to $100 billion
According to the debt clock, New Zealand’s national debt (which represents 42 per cent of GDP) stands at NZ$120 billion with interest payments of $5 billion.
To put this into perspective, NZ cannot rely on a petrodollar backed by a huge military. And it does not earn enough from dairy and tourism (which has been closed down for two years) to make ends meet.
It does not take a genius to realise that this situation must have a huge effect on the public health crisis.
We can cover hospital debts only by still more borrowing.
Or we can tighten our belts, but it will never be enough.
Conclusion
I am leaving it up to readers to decide how to interpret what I have reported – the degree to which the health system is collapsing or is being COLLAPSED.
Perhaps the fact that they announced the closure of several hospitals all within a short period of time is just a giant coincidence?
Perhaps the fact that we have a shortage of nurses, cemetery workers etc is just happenstance?
That is what the media would like you to believe.
They will go anywhere in their explanations other than mentioning the mandated health workers.
They simply don’t exist.
But I for one don’t believe in ‘coinkydinks’.
Perhaps I can finish with the following?
- We do not know what Jacinda Ardern signed up to with Pfizer in 2021.
- We do not know what she signed to in America in the last week.
- We do not know what Jacinda talks about in her daily breakfast discussions with former PM Helen Clark. (Helen Clark on Jacinda Ardern at the White House – how it works and why it matters now)
But I can tell you what has been revealed about Helen Clark, who after being prime minister of New Zealand cut her teeth at the UN and other globalist organisations: She is listed as a major participant of a WEF “Preparing for the Next Pandemic” stakeholder meeting at Davos.
You can find out more at AmazingPolly’s video, BOOM! Caught Red Handed Planning Monkeypox Pandemic.
I think I will leave things there.