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# Dear Ministry of Health
- URL: https://goodoil.news/dear-ministry-of-health/
- Published: 2021-10-10T21:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-10-11T00:36:45.000Z
- Author: Elsie Gee
- Tags: COVID-19, Fun Stuff, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:31

I have a cartoon book that was created several years ago, entitled “Dear Teacher”, bought for me when I had a class of primary children myself.

It was a humorous compilation of supposedly real written excuses supplied by parents for their child’s absence or non-completion of homework etc, and it was hilariously illustrated to highlight the often semi-literate, badly spelt wording of each particular excuse.

> “Dear Teacher, I am sorry that Johnny wasn’t at school yesterday as he had tripped over a loose broad on the floor of his room”.

You can imagine the accompanying picture, where a rather blowsy, blonde, intoxicated young woman is just languidly taking up space on the floorboards of a child’s room; no questions asked.

Recently, amid the current Covid situation here and the ongoing pleas for more people to get vaccinated, a new group of excuses has begun to surface, and I can only imagine the creation of a similar book somewhere down the line.

Irrespective of individual opinions from *BFD* readers about the vaccine itself, or the rights or wrongs of pushing the vaccination message on a population, here are just a couple of comments that raise the eyebrows somewhat.

Take a caller to a talkback station last week – the father of a girl who has a multitude of piercings and is covered in tattoos. When he asked her why she didn’t want to get the vaccine, her straight-faced reply was that *“she was scared of needles”*. He was clearly happy to highlight this anomaly!

![grayscale photo of smiling woman wearing beige crew-neck shirt](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/sn1voxr_waa.jpg)

Clearly, this attractive teenage girl is afraid of needles. Photo by Tamara Gore. The BFD.

Another story is from a Christchurch suburb which apparently has the lowest rate of vaccination in the country. One 50-ish woman sitting on her doorstep, looking as though she has had a hard life, and with beer and cigarette in hand, is frightened of what she might be putting into her body if she has the vaccine, saying, *“I’m scared it’s going to kill me. I just don’t trust it.”*

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/1633727991945.jpg)

ALDEN WILLIAMS/STUFF

Humans are strange beings indeed.