OPINION
Mark Freeman
As Sir Ashley Bloomfield basks in the glow of his recently-bestowed knighthood, he continues to promote the myths of the government’s ‘kindness’ during the recent “pandemic” and New Zealand’s low mortality rate. Some people are keen to hear his fictionalised account of the Covid era, but others haven’t forgotten the harsh reality of his tenure as director-general of health.
About 200 people attended a talk by Bloomfield in Upper Hutt at the weekend, and around 25 people from Freedom Alliance turned out to protest outside the venue.
Audience members arriving in the half hour before the meeting started were greeted with banners, including “Safe and effective. Yeah, right!” as well as signs showing photos and testimonies of vaccine-injured people.
Protest organiser Bryce was unimpressed with Bloomfield being knighted for services to public health. “The cheek of Bloomfield even getting a knighthood. I just cannot believe the amount of backhanding that is going on with these clowns – handing themselves awards […]”
Another protester, Tania, asked why vaccine injuries are still being ignored. “It’s actually so disrespectful. Why has Bloomfield never addressed that or deaths like Rory [Nairn’s]?”
Protester Mary said Bloomfield shocked ordinary New Zealanders with his cruelty when he was director-general of health. “He wouldn’t give exemptions to people for the Covid mRNA injection even though they had suffered an anaphylactic shock with their first jab. He wouldn’t let pregnant New Zealand women, even those stranded in third-world countries, come home to have their babies. And he happily shut children out of sports and social life.”
Inside the building, Bloomfield spoke for about 50 minutes to an overwhelmingly supportive audience, including a few wearing face masks. He talked about the kindness of the government and New Zealanders throughout the “pandemic”. He claimed New Zealand had been successful in handling the pandemic and that the country had experienced a decrease in mortality in the last 3 years – a viewpoint that Dr Guy Hatchard refutes.
One audience member, James (not a Bloomfield supporter), called the talk “sickening”, while another, Ian, said, “It turned my stomach to hear his lies and to see pretty much everyone there just lap it up.”
Bloomfield’s talk was followed by a handful of soft-ball questions, but no opportunity was given for questions of substance.
In response to John’s video, Lynda Wharton of the Health Forum NZ commented online:
I have been at the coalface of the trauma induced by Ashley Bloomfield for the past two years. In response to a call out from me prior to a meeting with the Human Rights Commissioner I received TWO THOUSAND emails from New Zealanders whose lives were shattered by Ashley Bloomfield’s refusal to grant medical exemptions to New Zealanders for whom a shot of Pfizer held the potential for a lifetime of suffering or death. Many people who had taken dose one and suffered serious injury such as heart attacks, strokes, myocarditis, paralysis and more. … Ordinary New Zealanders have absolutely NO IDEA of the crimes that were committed by our government during this shameful period of our history. Two years on The Health Forum NZ continues to work with chronically injured New Zealanders, most of whom have been denied ACC and are now too sick to work (possibly ever again), teenagers living with potentially permanent heart damage and people of all ages completely broken.