Preparing my submission reminded me of the many hours I spent trying to make sense of what was happening to us in 2020. And then, as though the whole thing wasn’t really a big deal in the first place, it just sort of faded into obscurity and the populace at large just stumbled back to whatever normalcy we could find, relieved that the lunacy had come to an end.
So many questions remain unanswered. It was a dreadful, divisive and painful period during which families, friends and neighbours fell out with each other. Some rifts remain irreparable. Many loved ones died alone and forlorn. Many remain injured, some permanently disabled: not from the virus itself but from the mandated, untested, experimental vaccine.
In 2020, we were exposed to just how tyranny happens. Our usually benign government tossed out all pretence of fairness and democracy (while preaching kindness), turned on us and rose to extraordinary levels of overreach. We turned on each other and were encouraged to ‘dob’ our neighbours and family in if they didn’t follow the rules. They turned it into a matter of life and death and levels of fear most New Zealanders had never experienced.
We still see people wearing masks in supermarkets and often on the streets. Just a subtle reminder of how, for some, life will never be the same again.
But let us not forget, that it wasn’t just the appallingly inadequate prime minister and her inept cabinet at fault. Our parliamentary representatives of all parties ceased to represent us and slavishly followed the government narrative. What happened to our democracy? Why did our representatives sit on their hands and abandon us to be treated like criminals for wanting to live normal lives? Punished and chastised like schoolchildren for choosing not to be medicated by compulsion?
Then there was our mainstream media: The ‘professional’ public investigators that a democracy relies on to speak truth to power: to investigate and question. They meekly, no – actively and vigorously – deified ‘dear leader’, worshipping the ground she walked on, never questioning or investigating what by mid to late 2020 was becoming obvious: To most fit and healthy people, Covid-19 was nothing more than a minor ’flu.
I applaud the 31,000 people who took the time to make submissions. It’s been interesting to get feedback from friends and colleagues who couldn’t understand why anybody would bother. ‘It’s all part of the past now, you can’t change anything,’ they said. ‘It will make no difference anyway – nobody in power cares what we think.’
What a depressingly overwhelming thought that so many in our society hold that view. If we choose to simply do nothing, we deserve to get more of the same and please rest assured, without resistance, you can absolutely guarantee that it’s exactly what we’ll get. It’s only a matter of time and the ‘right’ excuse.
One night, we went to bed in our wonderfully appealing little paradise in the South Pacific, moderately worried about a virus we were hearing about that nobody seemed to know too much about. Next morning we woke up and went about our business but, by mid-afternoon, we were told that 80,000 New Zealanders could die. And, from that moment on, the nightmare from hell began under what can only be described as a dictatorship.
How quickly it all happened is shocking. Think about it. How the opposition parties went along with it is even more shocking. Again, think about it. The pathetic child-like rules we were forced to follow. The way we were talked down to on a daily basis. Think about it. The forced vaccinations and the losses of jobs, businesses and livelihoods. The daily numbers of new ‘cases’ and the extraordinary numbers being tested. Think about it and remember.
· The more you test the more you’ll find
· In NZ – over four million tests in 2021 reaching as many as 30,000–40,000 daily
· PCR tests (the Gold Standard) at 40 cycles will return almost 100 per cent false positives
· NZ (and most of the world) used 40 cycles
· Most people who died during Covid had comorbidities or were elderly (just like the flu)
· February 14–17: Auckland level three over three positives and the rest of New Zealand to level two
· August 17–October/November: Nationwide level four over one case in Auckland
· Zero cases in the South Island
· Auckland level three to four until December
August 2021: one positive PCR test in Auckland locked down the entire country.
Think about it and remember.
