Up to now, I tried to be calm, diplomatic and reasoned when talking to anti-vaxer. I have three such folks in my own extended family. But now that some nut cases are insulting Jacinda and comparing her to Hitler, that is it. I am over it. Let's go back to the beginning of the spread of Covid.
At the same time that all over the world, Covid was spreading like a grass fire, the measures that Jacinda took, knocked Covid on the head every time it managed to get into our country. Yes, tourist industries suffered. Tourism suffered everywhere in the world. To stop Covid we had to stop people with Covid entering the country. As a result, the rest of us here in New Zealand lived a pretty well normal life with the occasional lock down. Our situation was so so much better than it was in the rest of the world.
And what about crediting Jacinda for this success. You could argue that it was a combined effort of her and her government and some medical experts. Very true. What was different from almost every other government in the world is that the Kiwi government listened to the experts and acted accordingly.
Bisides if it had gone badly, we would have blamed Jacinda for the failure. So fair is fair. Her government under her leadership stopped Covid in its tracks. Without any reluctance what so ever, we can credit Jacinda for our amazing success.
And look at our economy. The governments of other countries favored business over people. As a result the level of Covid increases and trashed their businesses anyway. Here Jacinda looked after our people first and since Covid was so rare, our industry went from strength to strength. Talk about other governments having the opposite effect to what was intended.
Business that suffered and their workers were given a very good level of financial support.
Jacinda was criticized for not getting vaccines into New Zealand early enough. Let's have a look at this. The mRNA technology was new. People had been doing research on this for many years but to bring it to a state where it could be used in medicine would have taken at least a decade under normal procedures. The situation was desperate so they rushed the procedures through. Jacinda delayed the uptake of the vaccine until other countries had given millions of doses and it was clear that it was safe. Soon after that the vaccine was shown to be effective. Only then did we started to get vaccinated in New Zealand.
Sorry world. We used you as our guinea pigs and it worked. You have to understand that Jacinda's first priority is the safety and well being of the people of Aotearoa.
As for this comparison of Jacinda with Hitler, what utter nonsense. It shows the complete stupidity, hysteria, illogicality, ignorance and petty meanness, and jealousy of these idiots. Jacinda put in regulations to keep us safe and they have worked. In fact we are in better shape that almost any other country in the world. Hitler put in regulations to trap Jews, Gypsies and other populations he considered that didn't fit into the German ideal of racial purity and sent them to be gassed in industrialized gas chambers. Get a life, you morons.
Over time, the measures that the world finally took with shut downs, isolation, vaccination and contact tracing, has selected for viruses that spread faster but were less deadly. The selfish anti-vaccers, who refused to join the common effort to keep our vulnerable people safe, will now benefit from the efforts of the rest of us. Now, if an anti-vaccer catches Omicron, they are far less likely to die than if they had caught Delta or one of the other varieties of Covid.
And one last thought. I can understand how people could go down the rabbit hole and not wanted to get vaccinated. The mis-information is extremely pervasive on the internet and some of it is very persuasive. Someone who is scientifically challenged would have very little appreciation of the scientific process and how effective it is. But not to wear a mask???
Surly the most scientifically challenged amongst us understand the concept. Surly anyone that hasn't lived under a rock for all his life knows that some diseases are transmitted through the air. Generally the virus or germ attaches itself to wee droplets that a person expels from his or her mouth when talking, coughing, sneezing, singing or yelling (in increasing order of aerosol production). These droplets are inhaled by anyone in the vicinity. For heaven sake, wearing a mask will reduce your chance of catching or spreading the common cold and any other air-born disease, never mind Covid. Are you anti-maskers so angry that you are willing to catch Covid or are you just plain stupid.
If anti-vaxers haven't caught Covid yet, they may be OK now. Omicron is less deadly than previous varieties. Some of you will die but not as many as if you caught one of the previous varieties of Covid. Mean time those of us who are double vacced and boosted will likely only have mild symptoms if we catch Covid.
Lastly, look at the Stats, people. Let's say for the sake of the argument that the vaccine is ineffective. Here in New Zealand we have about a 90% vaccination rate. So, if the vaccine is not effective, people in the general hospital with Covid or in ICU with Covid should be in a ration of 9:1. In other words for every unvaccinated person there should be 9 vaccinated people. Say on some day, the ratio was 50:50. You would probably say that the vaccine was ineffective since half are vaccinated and half are not. I hope I don't have to explain further how wrong you would be.
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