Why We Don’t Need a Second Royal Commission C-19 Review

My review won’t be submitted because it does not fit the Royal Commission [RC] criteria for submission and I do not believe a more comprehensive review with a new unbiased panel is justified.

Just under $74B was set aside for Covid-19 [C-19] and more than $10M was spent on the Royal Commission enquiry. It makes no sense to throw good money after bad, which is not said to demean the high personal cost paid by thousands of victims of the Labour Government’s C-19 lockdowns and mandates.

But this is the right time to move on with an avalanche of overseas studies providing data not previously available.

A public admission that C-19 dissidents were right is but a fleeting win that won’t lessen the loss and grief of victims of the unswervingly hideous C-19 policies.

Those who know the truth need no further convincing and those who don’t are not worth our time and effort because they will fight tooth and nail against the truth anyway.

The truth won’t bring back the dead, fix the vaccine injured, reunite broken families, silence lying media or smack the faceless bureaucrats around the ears because their thoughtless, heartless policies cost jobs, homes and livelihoods, nor will it dent an evil woman’s damehood. The knowledge that she can’t show her face without public derision is some justice; she failed us and must live with herself.

The truth is a precious thing not to be lightly squandered on recalcitrant, recidivous offenders, but lovingly nurtured in the knowledge that it will mature in its own good time.

This is a good time to put the past behind us and move on. We owe it to the next generation to use our time and money to rebuild. After years of squandering, let’s spend resources wisely.

Here is my review which will not be submitted because it does not follow the RC guidelines. It is written as a testament to the nonsensical power wielded by a manipulative few who inflicted physical, psychological and financial damage on the many.

Background

1. The C-19 years are the most reprehensible, repressive and medically manipulative of any government in NZ history.
2. A future government facing a similar pandemic should be given access to reliable data on NZ’s C-19 strategies and outcomes.
3. Each C-19 action and directive of the government, its departments and relevant authorities must be reviewed on legal, medical, social and financial legitimacy grounds.
4. The previous Labour Government had no appetite for a genuine and thorough C-19 investigation, directing the Royal Commission [RC] toward a non-adversarial, narrow and subjective review.
5. The coalition Government elected in 2023 has an obligation to the thousands of New Zealanders disaffected during C-19 beginning with border closures preventing overseas New Zealanders from returning home to be with family, sick and dying loved ones and attend their funerals. The government’s C-19 edicts left many jobless, social pariahs, financially destitute, injured or dead.
6. We took early advice from the World Health Organization [WHO] and China regarding our C-19 response which smacks of political over-reach, data unreliability and financial motivation.
7. The FDA granted approval to production of the new C-19 vaccines under emergency use authorisation under the provision: “For the FDA to issue an EUA, there must be no adequate, approved, and available alternative candidate product for diagnosing, preventing, or treating the disease or condition”. The effectiveness of repurposed drugs to treat C-19 was actively suppressed because had it been widely known that safe and reliable C-19 treatments existed the expensive mRNA vaccines would not have been authorised.
8. Public health is the priority of a public health system including the individual right to choose traditional and natural therapeutic remedies. The government and medical authorities attempted to restrict access to alternative remedies through the 2022 Therapeutic Products Bill which only failed after a change of government.
9. Pharmaceutical companies received huge financial benefit from the development of new mRNA vaccines and anti-virals targeting C-19 and the countries signing up for supply suppressed information about alternative treatments including repurposed drugs used in combination with other drugs. Ivermectin was described as “horse de-wormer” and NZ doctors prescribing it were threatened and disbarred. Ivermectin’s low cost and long safety record made it medically and financially attractive but pharmaceutical companies don’t profit from an out of licence product.
10. The long suffering NZ public deserves a much better return for their investment of upwards of $10M into the RC on C-19 than the current RC enquiry provides.

The aim of the RC enquiry into the C-19 pandemic is to “prepare New Zealand for future pandemics,by providing recommendations based on the key lessons learnt from our COVID-19 experience”. How can we learn a lesson when we cannot analyse NZ C-19 data because:

1. Not all data are made public; and
2. Some data are no longer collected. In March 2023 the Coroners Amendment Bill was passed allowing death certificates to record cause of death as “unascertained natural causes” instead of requiring more information or referring the death to a coroner for further investigation.
3. The government, its departments and the NZ Medical Council actively discourage public debate of C-19 policies.
4. The RC has no interest in challenging the government’s decision making because their review is non adversarial.
5. The government and authorities such the NZ Medical Council and NZ media must be held accountable for their actions that destroyed lives and careers.

Public trust in the government was heavily eroded because of C-19 policy as demonstrated by their severe trouncing in the 2023 election. Some government actions were found illegal, and others cannot be medically, financially or socially justified.

The RC are not asking the right questions.

1. The C-19 government directives listed in government C-19 failures below do not provide long term benefits.
2. The government’s C-19 campaign failed when we failed to sustain zero Covid.
3. The vaccination programme failed when the vaccinated and boosted got sick and died.
4. The government’s contract with Pfizer for the supply of the experimental mRNA vaccine is the cornerstone of the C-19 strategy failure and must be made public.

The findings of the RC are unreliable.

1. Prof Tony Blakely, chair of the RC, was a public health adviser during C-19 and is therefore biased.
2. Blakely worked with public health during New Zealand’s Covid response, authoring the paper “Elimination could be the optimal response strategy for Covid-19 and other emerging pandemic diseases” with Michael Baker and Nick Wilson of the University of Otago, published in the BMJ in 2020.
3. When Prof Tony Blakely was interviewed by Mike Hosking on 8 February 2024 he said the RC investigation only wants answers to the following questions:
   1. looking back, what were your experiences, and
   2. looking forward what are the lessons we have learned?
   3. These questions serve no useful purpose save as red herrings to divert public attention from questions eliciting informative, useful answers.
   4. Opinion is subjective and can be manipulated as was demonstrated by the government’s use of mainstream media to promote its C-19 strategies and censor dissenters.
   5. The RC must ask questions producing scientific answers if the RC report is to be the basis of a future pandemic strategy.
   6. Currently the RC has two members, Tony Blakely and John Whitehead, CNZM, KStJ after the third member, the Hon Hekia Parata, stepped down at the end of 2023. Whitehead was interviewed by Michael Laws on the Platform in February 2024 and said the RC enquiry is non-adversarial and non-public because it is “trying to draw out a lesson” and “we were not set up not as a sort of blames enquiry but as a lessons-learned enquiry, you know we’re trying to focus on what’s the lessons going forward…” But how can the RC learn a lesson without objective enquiry? In the absence of relevant data, the RC is simply gathering public affirmation that the government’s C-19 propaganda still works.
   7. RC members would have to stand down and be replaced by independent and unbiased members if an independent and unbiased review was to be performed and relied on for the basis of a future pandemic strategy.

Medical modelling predicted 80,000 NZ C-19 deaths and was the basis of the massively disruptive and expensive C-19 strategies. That prediction was wrong and did not justify the extreme measures taken.

The media provided daily government broadcasts including the government statement “We are your one source of truth” to promote a one truth government strategy and censor dissenters. Instead of rigorous evaluations, alternative C-19 therapies were dismissed out of hand as conspiracy theories delivered by conspiracy theorists – some of whom were experts qualified to speak on the subject.

1. Funding the Public Interest Journalism Fund and The Disinformation Project is unjustified and government funding should cease forthwith.
2. Mainstream media abandoned their traditional role as the fourth estate challenging government edicts and took up the role of fifth columnists aka government paid stooges.

The NZ Medical Council suppressed C-19 discussion and supported the government narrative. Medically qualified members were not allowed to debate C-19, forced to agree or risk being de-registered for speaking out publicly or prescribing Ivermectin. Doctors were permitted to exercise their clinical judgement and prescribe drugs off-label for every other condition except C-19.

Government C-19 strategy failures.

1. Disregarded the importance of natural immunity which is traditionally the first line of defence against infection and disease. The Epoch Times quoted a C-19 study reporting natural immunity offers possibly seven times better immunity than vaccine immunity because it provides “stronger and longer-lasting protection against infection, symptoms, and hospitalization compared to vaccine-induced immunity,” wrote Dr. Anneli Uusküla, with the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Tartu, and her co-authors.
2. Discouraged the use of alternative and natural medicine in all stages of the pandemic but particularly at the outset when NZ offered no early treatment. Instead infected people were sent home to isolate and wait for the vaccine.
3. Border closure including quarantine hotels, refusing overseas New Zealanders entry home and separating family members for months and some for years.
4. Lockdowns with instructions not to speak to neighbours and the invention of the “bubble” which distanced and alienated family members and created distress and mental health issues for individuals lacking family support.
5. Social distancing using arbitrary distances that varied from country to country but had no scientific basis for preventing C-19 transfer.
6. Masking which the public still does today because they mistakenly think it prevents transmission. The Epoch Times reported on a peer-reviewed study, published in the journal Epidemiology and Infection on Nov. 13, analysing mask use among 3,209 individuals from Norway. Researchers followed them for 17 days, and then asked the participants about their use of masks. The team found that there was a higher incidence of testing positive for COVID-19 among people who used masks more frequently.
7. C-19 vaccination was claimed safe and effective knowing clinical and long-term trials were incomplete.
8. Despite the dubious legality of vaccine mandates some hospitals still have them today.
9. Publicly persecuted the unvaccinated.
10. Banned repurposed drugs such as Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine as C-19 treatment.
11. Prescribed newly developed anti-virals like Remdesivir without publicly disclosing possible serious side effects such as kidney failure.
12. Government ministers refused to meet with the Wellington protesters.
13. Government and media misrepresented anti-vaccine mandate protesters as “anti-vaxxers”. MP Michael Woods in parliament described the Wellington protesters as a “river of filth”.
14. Excessive force was used by the NZ police to evict legitimate vaccine mandate protesters from parliament grounds.
15. The tacit approval of police to local gangs setting up roadblocks on public roads to prevent people from travelling during lockdowns.
16. Exemptions to the vaccine mandates were almost impossible for the public to obtain from Ashley Bloomfield, but we later discover over 11,000 exemptions were secretly given to government employees.

Lack of early treatment for C-19 patients.

1. Information about vitamin and mineral supplements and repurposed drugs used successfully overseas to treat C-19 was suppressed in NZ. We were sent home to await the arrival of experimental, fast tracked and not completely tested vaccines.
2. Vitamins C and D, Zinc, Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin which received the 2015 Nobel prize for its profound and lasting impact on global health were inexpensive and successful treatments.

The Pfizer vaccine is not safe.

1. The vaccinated and boosted caught Covid and some died.
2. Health authorities refused to acknowledge vaccine injury.
3. Official government numbers of vaccine deaths and injury are understated when compared to numbers collated by the NZ vaccine injury support group NZ Voices for Freedom.
4. The NZ government did not act on information contained in Pfizer’s records when Pfizer was forced to publicly release vaccine trial data it tried to hide for 75 years.
5. The NZ public was not told experimental mRNA vaccine clinical trials were incomplete and long-term effects unknown when the vaccine was claimed to be safe and effective.
6. Repeat Covid infections and Long Covid is a characteristic of the vaccinated and boosted to the max.
7. Excess deaths recorded in heavily vaccinated countries began at the same time the mRNA vaccines were rolled out.
   1. The findings of Benn et al. 2022, that COVID-19 vaccination does not lead to lower all-cause mortality;
   2. The findings of Voices for Freedom who assisted over 3,500 New Zealanders to date experiencing vaccine injury and death.
   3. The research and findings of NZDSOS.
   4. The research and findings of US group FLCCC Alliance.

The Pfizer vaccine does not work.

1. NZ health authorities said the vaccine meant “you won’t catch Covid and you won’t die” which was not true.
2. A recent (Feb 2024) overseas study published in Frontiers in Immunology and discussed in The Epoch Times found mortality among the vaccinated was 70% and unvaccinated mortality was 37%. The overall survival rate for Covid infection is two times higher in the unvaccinated group.

Effective early C-19 treatments were not considered.

1. The American FLCCC Alliance recalled the early days of Covid-19 in April 2020 an initial group of ten people, including eight esteemed doctors, met to discuss Dr Paul Marik’s protocol for treating Covid-19 which soon came to be known as the MATH+ Protocol — Methylprednisolone (a steroid), Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Thiamine, Heparin and several additional co-interventions.” It was saving nearly every critically ill COVID patient in Dr. Marik’s Norfolk, Virginia ICU).
2. In November 2921 Cureus reported on C-19 treatment with hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), zinc, and azithromycin (AZM), also known as the Zelenko protocol, and treatment with intravenous (IV) vitamin C (IVC) have shown encouraging results in a large number of trials worldwide. In addition, vitamin D levels are an important indicator of the severity of symptoms in patients with COVID-19.

Excess deaths in highly vaccinated countries.

1. The CDC quotes the CDC estimate 942,431 excess deaths in the US since 1 Feb 2020. (Shibin Ali writing for The Hill 7 Jan 2024.)
2. Insurance companies say the same. In the Hill article CEO of insurance company OneAmerica said his company has the highest death rates he’s ever seen with death rates primarily in the 18-64 age group, similar to other US insurance companies and consistent with CDC data.
3. The increase in NZ excess deaths coincided with the C-19 vaccine rollout.

“If governments had done nothing out of the ordinary: if they had not announced a pandemic, had not responded to a presumed pathogen, had done nothing other than what we normally do when we have a high seasonal mortality in the winter, then there would have been no excess mortality. Nothing special would have happened … The measures that governments applied … many different kinds of assaults against people … definitely and quantitatively caused excess mortality in many jurisdictions and at various times during the pandemic period … The Covid-19 vaccination campaign itself definitely caused excess mortality in definite peaks that are … directly associated with various vaccine rollouts“.
~ Professor Denis Rancourt

NZDSOS Rancourt et al: Covid-19 Vaccine-Associated Mortality in the Southern Hemisphere.