The Briefing Room
General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: Hoodat on August 13, 2022, 07:35:06 pm
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New Zealand: Mugged by Covid Reality
RAMESH THAKUR AUGUST 13, 2022
n the first year of the pandemic, a team from Otago University in New Zealand (my former university) published an interesting study that provided some explanation for the strong public support for lockdown measures. This support came despite known or predicted collateral harms, including loss of livelihoods, elevated mortality from neglect of other diseases and ailments, “deaths of despair” from greater loneliness, and police abuses.
The answer, they said, is the moralization of restrictions in pursuit of a Covid eradication strategy. People did not take kindly even to mere questioning of the restrictions. With many governments, for example the British, deploying state propaganda to the full to instill fear of the disease and shame all effort to question restrictions, the moralization deepened into sacralization.
This offers a plausible explanation for why people who so warmly embrace the moral framework of diversity, inclusion, and tolerance in social policy settings, ended up supporting vaccine apartheid for those hesitant to get jabbed by shots with worryingly thin efficacy and safety trials before approval for public use.
Jacinda Ardern’s government further reinforced New Zealand’s collective moral fervor by proclaiming its doctrine of the health ministry as the “single source of truth” on anything to do with coronavirus, including public health interventions.
With the passage of time, as evidence mounted of the folly of Zero Covid policy and the accumulating harms it was causing, the New Zealand government was trapped in a prison of its own construction and found it difficult to change course, even after the futility of the entire program became obvious in the data. . .
https://brownstone.org/articles/new-zealand-mugged-by-covid-reality/
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. . . When the far more infectious if less lethal Omicron variant struck New Zealand, therefore, the vaccines developed to combat the original Wuhan strain proved unfit for the purpose of controlling the spread. New Zealand’s cases and deaths really took off in mid-February 2022, despite a vaccination coverage of 77% of the entire population by then (Figure 1). In addition, the greater vulnerability of its population to new viral strains produced some sort of a catching-up effect in the Covid-related case, hospitalization, ICU and death numbers (Figure 2).
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By August 2022, New Zealand’s cumulative Covid-19 cases per million people had surpassed the US and was on track to catch up with the UK and EU. Australia was ahead of all of them. . .
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Whether in China or in KiwiLand, the "Zero Covid" policy slows the accumulation of people with resistance to Covid. KiwiLand is probably much more dependent on imports and tourism than China is, though.
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Robert W Malone, MD
@RWMaloneMD
New Zealand's 2022 Data is out...
It looks bad... really bad!
(https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1627629100193181696/F6Nie5gp?format=jpg&name=small)
3:07 PM · Feb 20, 2023
Story: New Zealand's 2022 Data is out... (https://pharmafiles.substack.com/p/new-zealands-2022-data-is-out)... The above graph shows the number of COVID-19 Deaths by Age and Vaccination Status - the red bar shows COVID Deaths of boosted patients.
But since 72% of the population is boosted, the other side will argue that the majority are boosted, which is why the number of deaths is higher (i.e. base rate fallacy). Also note that I simply took a screenshot from the official government site.
But if we look at the All-Cause Mortality data per 100K of each vaccination status, we can see that the blue bar (boosted) started outpacing from March 2022 onwards. Within the last six months of 2022, boosted patients died almost four times compared to the unvaccinated and fully vaccinated.
It looks like the Booster was the Kill Shot! ...