Mark Freeman
Ministry of Health and Stuff staff in Wellington were the targets of silent protests outside their buildings this week.
Ministry of Health employees were confronted with photos of the vaccine injured as they entered and exited their building at lunchtime on Monday.
The photos were on signs created by the Health Forum NZ which tell the stories of New Zealanders reported to have been injured and killed by the Covid-19 jab.
The silent protest was attended by about 18 people. Organiser Mary Byrne of Freedom Alliance Wellington says the aim was to remind Ministry of Health staff that there are vaccine-injured people and that the issue can’t be brushed under the carpet.
“We wanted to take it right to the Ministry of Health so that the people working in there don’t start pretending that this hasn’t happened. A lot of them won’t be privy to the information that we’re exposed to because they’ll just be watching mainstream media, and they’ll be getting all their information from the Ministry of Health and government sources.”
Nearly all the ministry staff entering and leaving the building avoided eye contact or any other engagement with the protestors and didn’t stop to read the signs.
However, Ms Byrne says the signs will have unnerved some staff, who will be wondering whether they did the right thing in supporting the vaccine rollout. “We need them to be looking at the truth. We need them to be unnerved enough that they will go and take the time to look at the data.”
Earlier in the day, the protestors held media-related signs against the windows of the Stuff building in Wellington for the staff inside to read. Examples of messages were, “One-sided reporting is not journalism”, “Accuracy, fairness and balance? We wish!” and “Hiding information is lying by omission”. A few of the Stuff staff seemed to find the protest amusing.
Ms Byrne says the group took its message directly to Stuff to tell them they are not happy with Stuff’s one-sided reporting of Covid and the vaccine as well as their “over the top” attacks on candidates in the recent local body elections.
