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Feb 5, 2022·edited Feb 5, 2022Liked by Bartram

The vaccination of those 18+ in Auckland is over 95%. Beyond Auckland it is 93%. Our narcissistic PM has stoked irrational fear and used it to drive the masses to vaccination stations. While we have some environmental advantages like low density living, and high UV due to thin ozone coverage, we also have try tinder in the form of high rates of obesity in Maori & pacific island ethnicities and low all-population seroprevalence on account of operating like a hermit kingdom for two years.

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My observations as a resident of Auckland, is that (as noted by our MSM) testing and scanning rates dropped significantly this month. The most hilarious part was "expert" Michael Baker expressing surprise. Another example of why nation wide public health measures should not be left exclusively to "science experts". They have no understanding of trade offs or behavioral drivers. I remain firmly of the belief that the maniacal new isolation policies especially have been implemented to DRIVE non compliance. They know the severe outcomes of Omicron have been very low in every country that reports, so what better way to show "success" than to have cases remain lowish relatively. All they need to do is to keep the massive propaganda spend going along with Baker and his bedfellows Wiles, Jackson and Hendy, and the vast majority here are obsessed with fear. Many folk, especially in our neurotic capital city, now sporting double masking (which was part of the Omicron propaganda program - including mandatory for all kids in schools 8yr old and up). Booster rates are comparatively high (although probably a fair chunk of the early uptake is mandated sectors - health, education, immigration) but the worst indicator to me is the <12 kids jab rates. Sample of one class, my own 10yr old - teacher got a show of hands, he was one of only 5 not had first jab, only weeks into it being approved.

NZ continues to pursue ideology over science even in the face of many countries we USED to compare to (England, Scandinavia, Israel etc) now either completely removing or partly removing mandates, passes, masking etc. The criminality of doing everything they can to destroy the control group (unjabbed) and avoid any real chance of natural immunity is incalculable. I am really not sure that NZ is redeemable morally, but in terms of health outcomes, we (our authorities) are setting ourselves up for what I believe could be cataclysmic destruction of the general health of the population. It is very depressing to say the least.

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I have a question that I would like to run past Bartram and other experts on this substack – I am not a scientist, but am a trained horticulturist. Back in December 2021 when Omicron was the new variant du jour, I was out in the garden and noticed one of my variegated plants had begun to revert to its plain green precursor. A penny dropped: if over-hybridized plants do this on a regular basis, as they do, could a manipulated coronavirus do the same thing?

More recently, it has been suggested that Omicron might be 2 years older than the original SARS CoV-2 virus. Could it be that it has simply reverted, just like a variegated plant, to the simple, non-deadly, cold virus that it was before it was hybridized in the Wuhan lab?

(Apologies if this is the thickest theory you've ever heard...)

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Absolute FUCKING GENIUS!!!

When faced with huge vax injuries... what do you do? Of course - you trot out Long Covid and blame everything on that hahahahaha .... and how do the CovIDIOTS respond?

They rush down to the Booster PopUp .... hahahaha

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/coronavirus-mass-disability-event-warning-as-huge-numbers-diagnosed-with-long-covid/OEP4TH56WJJRZP7RWOFXFVSQ6I/

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Ok, so now we’re at 13K cases daily! With infection rates amongst the vaxxed currently running about twice that of unvaxxed… By and and large seems to be very mild - not much more than a bad head cold. But, oh my, the country is in a spin! Sigh. Poor misled sheep, wondering what the hell is going on. I have nothing but contempt for our present administration…

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Do you not think NZ will get the very high Omicron case numbers we have seen elsewhere? Today 17 Feb official detected cases are 1160. But I see signs that the infections will be much higher. For eg all those turning up at the big hospital in South Auckland a day or so ago (assuming for non Covid reasons) 10% tested positive. This may indicate 10% of the population of South Auckland are infected. Our test positive rates are increasing rapidly. Testing numbers are going down. More and more people are indicating their displeasure with the approaches of government indicating to me that perhaps less and less people inclined to go and get tested.

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