JL
Want to visit your preferred dentist or physiotherapist but, because they remain – after 10 months – mandated, you can’t?
You might find this more astonishing when you realise you can, however, still have a sports massage, visit a beautician and hairdresser, partake in aqua aerobics with Gran after picking her up at the village, and sweat it out with any number of unvaccinated people at the local gym.
You can sing to your heart’s content at church and then go clubbing.
Where, you might ask, is the logic, when the health system is said to be under such strain, that untold trained allied health professionals remain unemployed.
Nurses and doctors are still unfairly quashed by this ever-so-kind Labour Government alongside chiropractors, dentists, dental hygienists, clinical dental technologists, dental technologists, dental therapists and oral health therapists, dietetics, medical laboratory scientists, anaesthetic technologists, medical imaging technologists, radiation therapists, midwives, occupational therapists, optometrists and optical dispensers, osteopaths and paramedics, pharmacists, physiotherapists, podiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists.
Maybe a throwaway comment from vaccinologist Associate Professor Helen Petousis-Harris might help us understand the reasoning.
In an RNZ story midwives asked officials to justify ongoing Covid-19 vaccine mandates.
Petousis-Harris has brow-beaten us with the sad idea that health can only come at the end of a hypodermic needle for nigh on three years now.
Thanks in part to her excessive assertions, huge booster hesitancy is flipping the bird to her and her ilk.
More concerning to them though will be the decline in take-up of actual and effective vaccines for the likes of measles because of the distrust they have engendered.
In the RNZ story Petousis-Harris did not say mandates should continue for midwives because of increased risk of transmission, or elevated levels of health concern for them, or for those who, heaven forbid, come into contact with them.
She said, and I quote:
“I would actually have some reservations if somebody wasn’t prepared to vaccinate themselves that they might not be so prepared to support their clients getting vaccinated.”
Now Petousis-Harris has the ear of the NZ Government. Covid-19 Response Minister Ayesha Verrall was also interviewed in the story but once again refrained from saying anything of any use.
Maybe someone out there can tell us the legality of the Ministry of Selective Health continuing to prevent New Zealanders from earning a living and providing for their families based on what they may or may not say.