For more than two years New Zealanders have been told they are in a health emergency. In fact, a worldwide crisis. Kiwis have been living in fear of catching a virus, being put on a ventilator or even dying an awful death. They were told 80,000 could perish. It slowly dawned on some that they have been grossly misled, as few people have got seriously sick, needed hospitalisation or died from Covid-19.
That’s good news, but it is reprehensible that Kiwis were told, and are still being warned, that Covid-19 is super dangerous and that we should remain living in fear. Exaggerations and downright lies by politicians and the medical profession replace any paranoia with anger and resentment. When what is happening is the opposite of what is being repeated online, on TV and radio, in the newspapers and from the podium of truth, then those touting misinformation become objects of derision and even revulsion. This is an enormous problem.
The country faces a real crisis – a crisis of trust.
It is difficult for the man and woman on the street to take on board that the world’s governments and health authorities in unison pushed for the general public to take an expensive and largely untested vaccine at the same time that they were banning cheap and possibly effective drugs.
Yesterday rationality went out the window. Ashleigh Bloomfield, the NZ Director of Health announced he is resigning from his role. He stated that the Covid-19 virus is now stable in New Zealand. In other words, Kiwis can relax. His important job is done. For a moment we believed him! Then we remembered that a couple of days earlier Ardern told us the virus is still raging and therefore the whole country must continue to be kept in the restrictive red traffic light system.
Division is still rampant whether or not masks save lives, and whether or not vaccine mandates and lockdowns prevent the virus from spreading.
Ardern is still promoting that vaccines save lives. Even with inconsistencies, the global vaccine movement trumps rational thought by ignoring vaccine injuries and deaths from the jab and the obvious fact that the vaccinated are catching and passing on the virus.
Fierce conversations have resulted in insurmountable division between professionals, families, friends, churches and parishioners, businesses, neighbours and employers. When trust is broken, it’s hard to reclaim what has been lost.
The unvaccinated specifically have been misrepresented as second-rate citizens by Ardern and treated abysmally by doctors and nurses.
People have been shunned, fired, vilified, excluded and treated like lepers when there was no medical reason to do so.
Kiwis have been robbed of their laid-back, ‘she’ll be right’, friendly attitude. It’s no longer alright. People are hopping mad with each other.
It makes you wonder why more ICU beds were not added to look after the thousands of Kiwis that the government had told us would need specialist intensive health care. Was it just Labour’s incompetence?
Perhaps Bloomfield and Ardern knew all along that extra ICU beds would not be needed? Their actions certainly did not match their words.
We simply do not trust anything they say anymore.
