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New Zealand extends Auckland lockdown in battle on Delta variant
By Praveen Menon
2 minute read
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern participates in a televised
debate with National leader Judith Collins at TVNZ in Auckland, New
Zealand, September 22, 2020. Fiona Goodall/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern participates in a televised
debate with National leader Judith Collins at TVNZ in Auckland, New
Zealand, September 22, 2020. Fiona Goodall/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
WELLINGTON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - New Zealand's biggest city of Auckland
will retain its lockdown for two more weeks in the battle on the Delta
variant of coronavirus, as the country pushes to step up vaccinations,
Prime Minster Jacinda Ardern said on Monday.
Once the poster child for stamping out COVID-19, New Zealand is now
fighting a Delta outbreak that has spread across Auckland and
neighbouring regions despite tough lockdown and border closures.
Ardern said there would be no changes to social curbs, the toughest in
the OECD grouping of 34 leading economies, that have run for 62 days in
Auckland.
"Any interim easing of restrictions ... will not work towards our plan
of minimising cases while we increase vaccinations," Ardern told a news
conference.
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"But the biggest thing that will make a difference right now, alongside
vaccines, is that everyone continue to comply with restrictions."
The lockdown in the city of 1.7 million began in mid-August, in the
effort to halt the outbreak.
Some curbs were eased to let people leave home and meet loved ones
outdoors in groups limited to 10, as well as permitting visits to
beaches and parks.
But schools, businesses and offices remain shut, and gatherings indoors
are not allowed.
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New Zealand's tally of infections in the current outbreak rose to 2,005
with Monday's 60 new community cases, consisting of 57 in Auckland and
three in the Waikato region.
The Pacific nation was among just a handful of countries to reach zero
COVID-19 cases last year, staying largely virus-free until the Delta
outbreak in August frustrated efforts to stamp out transmission.
Amid mounting political pressure to reopen the country and its economy,
Ardern switched from her tough elimination strategy to a model of
learning to live with the virus, much like rest of the world.
The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
N.Z. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
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HITHER AND YON
The COVID Reckoning Is Overdue
The damage done to children is manifest.
by SCOTT MCKAY
September 13, 2022, 9:19 PM
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (Alexandros
Michailidis/Shutterstock)
Boy, there sure is an awful lot of discrediting news for the Branch
Covidian crowd lately, isn’t there?
Sure seems like they put us through two years of hell for — if not
nothing, then certainly not much.
We can start in New Zealand, where the abject idiot Karen in charge of
the country essentially pulled an Emily Litella after destroying its
economy and trampling all over the civil liberties of the people, only
to … shrug her shoulders and mumble about individual choices.
Luke Rudkowski
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After discriminating and terrorizing her nation for not doing what she
wanted them to do, the Prime Minster of New Zealand FINALLY drops all
"health" mandates
This is the point where everyone should be asking themselves, what was
the point of all of this!?
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Jacinda Ardern is a classic neocommunist control freak who formerly
obsessed about climate change until COVID came along — and then she
closed off travel to New Zealand and put the whole country on lockdown.
She’s in a relationship with a TV presenter which produced a child
before a marriage (the wedding was postponed because of COVID, of
course), and — shockingly — she was reelected in 2020 in a landslide
thanks to fawning media coverage.
And after two years of dictatorial government, she just lifted all the
mask and vaccine mandates and said it’s up to the people. This after
forcing vaccines on the whole country (something which happened right
after a call with Bill and Melinda Gates). Oh, well.
Ardern ought to be run out of office on a rail. Will New Zealanders do that?
What else have we seen lately? Well, there was this…
A new pre-print study by nine health experts from Harvard, Johns
Hopkins, and other top universities found that COVID-19 boosters
administered to young adults cause 18 to 98 serious adverse events for
each COVID hospitalization prevented.
The study—posted Monday on The Social Science Research Network
(SSRN)—concluded that mandatory booster vaccination in college is
“ethically unjustifiable.” The paper is titled, “COVID-19 Vaccine
Boosters for Young Adults: A Risk-Benefit Assessment and Five Ethical
Arguments against Mandates at Universities.”
…
The nine medical scientists analyzed CDC and sponsor-reported adverse
event data, and found that vaccine booster mandates have likely resulted >>> in more harm than good.
“Per COVID-19 hospitalization prevented in previously uninfected young
adults, we anticipate 18 to 98 serious adverse events, including 1.7 to
3.0 booster-associated myocarditis cases in males, and 1,373 to 3,234
cases of grade ?3 reactogenicity which interferes with daily
activities,” the study stated.
The researchers estimated that “approximately 22,000 to 30,000 previous
uninfected young adults ages 18–29 years must be boosted with an mRNA
vaccine to prevent one Covid-19 hospitalization,” and argued that the
risk of serious side effects is much higher.
This ought to be very bad news for a whole lot of politicians who’ve
demanded vaccinations for kids. A perfect example of one who should be
made to pay a terrible price for his COVID insanity is Louisiana Gov.
John Bel Edwards, who, despite being told no on school vax mandates by
the Louisiana Legislature, pressed ahead until the politics of his vax
fixation became impossible.
The damage done to those kids whose parents listened to people like
Edwards is already beginning to manifest itself. The question is whether >>> that story will be told.
Because … remember this?
Public health officials are encouraging all American adults to receive
COVID-19 booster shots due to the emergence of the omicron variant.
Meanwhile, children are still receiving their first doses of the vaccine. >>> But online, some claim children face more risk from the vaccine than
COVID-19 itself.
“HUGE: CDC and Big Pharma Data Confirm that More Children will Die from
COVID Vaccine than from the COVID Virus,” reads a Nov. 21 headline from
the Gateway Pundit, a conservative website that has repeatedly shared
misinformation about COVID-19.
The article accumulated more than 3,500 shares within two days. Similar
claims have also been shared in standalone posts on Facebook.
As evidence for its claim, the Gateway Pundit cites an Oct. 31 Substack
newsletter from Toby Rogers, who also writes for the anti-vaccine
organization Children’s Health Defense. The newsletter claims “the Biden >>> administration plan would kill 5,248 children via Pfizer mRNA shots.”
Fact check:Former Pfizer VP spreads false claim about COVID-19 vaccines
and child deaths
USA TODAY previously rated False a claim that children are 50 times more >>> likely to die from the COVID-19 vaccine than the virus. This claim is
similarly wrong.
Public health officials say the vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech is safe and >>> effective at preventing COVID-19 in children ages 5-11. As other
independent fact-checking organizations have reported, the benefits of
the vaccine outweigh its known and potential risks.
Maybe the folks at Gateway Pundit ought to reach out to Daniel Funke,
the USA Today hack who wrote that “fact check” piece, and ask him for
comment.
There’s more, obviously. We could fill a library with the nonstop
idiocies of the Biden administration with respect to COVID. Its response >>> is an unmitigated failure on every level — Biden has overseen many more
COVID deaths than did his predecessor despite trampling on civil
liberties at every turn.
In one example, there was a court case heard en banc at the Fifth
Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday which went very badly for the
administration. Feds for Medical Freedom, an organization of about 6,000 >>> federal workers formed to fight Biden’s vax mandate as a term of their
employment, has been in litigation with the administration for nearly a
year, winning at the district level in front of a Texas judge but losing >>> the government’s appear to a three-judge panel at the Fifth Circuit.
But at the en banc hearing there were fireworks. Forgive the long
excerpt, but it’s just too good not to include all of this…
Some of the court’s jurists appeared skeptical in Tuesday’s hearing of
Justice Department attorney Charles Scarborough’s arguments the mandate
is well within Biden’s authority as chief of the federal workforce, akin >>> to the numerous CEOs of private companies who required their employees
to get inoculated against Covid-19.
U.S. Circuit Judge Rhesa Barksdale asked Scarborough if the case is moot >>> because getting vaccines is not ironclad protection against catching Covid. >>> “Even when you’re vaccinated you still have breakthrough cases of Covid. >>> It’s well known this is happening. So it would be moot and this case
would be over. Or at least it should be something we should consider in
the factors of whether an injunction is justified,” the George H. W.
Bush appointee said.
Expressing confusion at Barksdale’s suggestion, Scarborough said, “The
case is not moot. The vaccination requirement continues. And vaccination >>> continues to be the single best method for preventing serious disease >>>from Covid and hospitalization.”
U.S. Circuit Judge Edith Jones, a Ronald Reagan appointee, framed her
opposition to the mandate with a hypothetical.
“What is the likelihood the president would declare that all the
employees have to achieve a certain body weight within the next six
months?” she asked.
“I think the likelihood of that is extraordinarily small, your honor,”
Scarborough replied.
“Well, but everybody knows obesity is one of the biggest problems in the >>> United States,” Jones said, “related to many collateral health problems
and death. And that the daily consequences of obesity also affect the
workplace in terms of medical costs, absenteeism and that sort of thing.” >>> “So it seems to me that obesity is at least as big a problem,” she
added. “And it’s not transmissible. Whereas people who take the vaccine, >>> as you just acknowledged, can still transmit the disease.”
Then there’s the recent study showing a 92 percent success rate for
ivermectin in preventing COVID hospitalizations, which popped recently.
Meaning almost all of the crisis these people put their constituents
through was unnecessary. Imagine how this would have gone if common
antivirals had been made readily available to the public to treat COVID, >>> and then monoclonal antibodies made ready as a second line of defense
for the people hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin didn’t work for.
But as bad as things have been in the Western world, and as unjust as it >>> may be that some of the worst actors won’t be tossed out in disgrace for >>> their alarmism, stupidity, and tyranny, the man needing a reckoning more >>> than anyone else is none other than China’s fascist dictator Xi Jinping. >>> Yes, I’m calling him a fascist. China calls itself a communist country
but it’s far more properly termed a fascist one where the state controls >>> the means of production by running a corporatist tyranny. And that
tyranny manifests itself most flamboyantly in the mass COVID lockdowns
which are taking place even at this late date.
Residents under Covid lockdowns in areas across China are complaining of >>> shortages of food and essential items.
Tens of millions of people in at least 30 regions have been ordered to
stay at home under partial or full lockdowns.
“It’s been 15 days, we are out of flour, rice, eggs. From days ago, we
run out of milk for kids,” said one resident in western Xinjiang.
Authorities are scrambling to contain local outbreaks ahead of the
Communist party’s congress in October.
China’s zero-Covid policy requires strict lockdowns – even if just a
handful of cases are reported. On Monday China recorded 949 new Covid
cases across the entire country.
The policy has prompted rare public dissent from citizens and has also
been accused of stifling economic growth.
In Xinjiang a weeks-long lockdown in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous
Prefecture near the border with Kazakhstan has seen desperate residents
appeal for help on social media.
One post showed a video of an Uyghur man overcome with emotion, saying
his three children had not eaten for three days.
Xi comes up for “reelection” at a meeting of China’s Politburo next
month. The sycophants and cronies who populate that body wouldn’t dare
oust him for what he’s done to his people — from the inception of the
crisis to the nonstop lies about it to the privations and misery he’s
imposed — but they ought to. Frankly, they ought to do a lot worse than
just pack him off to retirement.
We’re far, far overdue for a reckoning on COVID. Across the globe, the
ruling class has been exposed as a cabal of idiots, charlatans and
despots of various stripes.
The reckoning will come, though. When it does it will be unpleasant.
Let’s hope some of it manifests on Nov. 8 in America.
The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19
) finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
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