I asked for the evidence for Health New Zealand's policy of enforcing covid 'vaccinations' on their workforce...
...what I received was truly Orwellian.
The public would be forgiven for believing that ‘covid is all over’ and we need to ‘move on’.
Many of the politicians even believe that, not only is ‘covid over’, but that the mandates for the genetic injections either ‘didn’t exist’ or ‘weren’t relevant’ to the NZ workforce. I kid you not (see ACT’s policies for example).
How wrong can they be?
Many, many New Zealand healthcare workers - in various sectors - were unfairly dismissed (or forced to resign/retire) from their jobs, as a result of the ‘vaccine’ mandates enforced in November 2021. We will never really know exactly how many, because of the obfuscation of data and the stigmatisation, discrimination and coercion that the Government in New Zealand (and other governments) undertook. To date, around 900 nurses are registered with the NZ Nurses for Freedom group who are still fighting for recognition, compensation and maybe even a job where their skills and expertise have never been so much in need. And we all know why.
On 30th June, 2023, Health New Zealand (or to use their new woke Te Reo Maori name ‘Te Whatu Ora’) issued a long awaited ‘Pre-employment covid19 vaccination policy’ which stated that it was:
‘based on current covid19 disease epidemiology and vaccination evidence’
In this dystopian world, I don’t suppose we should be surprised to read in this ‘policy’ that any newly-employed healthcare workers coming into ‘close contact’ with patients, are still required to be ‘fully vaccinated’. Here is a screen-shot of one of these contradictory statement from the first version of this policy:
(Important note: this policy has been through various versions over the past few months but basically contains the same nonsensical argument).
Here is the screen shot of the latest version insisting that the injections are ‘best practice’ (not ‘mandated, as that Law has ended):
Bemused by this policy, and the lack of any citations (conspicuous by their absence) in the document, I asked through Official Information Act (FOIA equivalent) for the so-called claimed ‘epidemiological and vaccination evidence’ that this stance was based upon.
It won’t be any surprises to my fellow Freedom Fighting-Brotherhood that the response to my request was delayed after it’s initial legally-max 20 days. Then it was delayed again:
Upon receiving another delay, and feeling angry on behalf of the nurses and other healthcare workers who continue to be unfairly discriminated by this policy, I sent a complaint to the NZ Ombudsman, the regulatory body that is supposed to oversee the Official Information Act. My email was fired off at 16.17 on August 23rd, 2023.
WITHIN 24 HOURS, at 13.22 on August 24th 2023, I received the long-awaited response from Health New Zealand to my OIA (this was purely coincidental, you understand).
And you won’t believe the content of that response. (Or maybe, dear reader, you are getting used to this dystopian world by now)?
Yes, here was the response to my OIA (copied and pasted in full):
My initial question is whether Dr Neville Berry, ‘Interim National Clinical Lead Occupational Health for Health New Zealand’ (why ‘interim’ you may ask?) can actually read? That’s because, if we look at that first article cited as supposedly ‘evidence’ to support a policy that insists healthcare workers are ‘fully vaccinated’ we see that:
a) the article is focused on flu jabs, NOT covid
b) the article discussed the ETHICS of jab mandates (that’s the focus of this journal) (NOT the genetic/immunology science), and
c) the authors have clearly stated that their evidence does NOT support a jab mandate policy.
This is more than Doublespeak, it’s just utter nonsense! Here is the relevant extract from the article’s conclusion - for those who have lost patience with this bs:
I don’t have time to go into detail here of the other articles cited, some of you will already be aware of the excellent work such as
and colleagues regarding the UK statistics mentioned at the end of the OIA list. But the mental gymnastics that are needed to even come close to a normal, intelligent person claiming that these references could ever be used to force anyone to take an experimental, highly risky genetic injection, defies belief.However, briefly and working down their list:
The second article mentioned, published March 2022, discusses the results of a questionnaire in the UK which went to healthcare workers, asking them about the issue of vaccine mandates. So, what this possibly has to do with the current scientific evidence 18 months later in New Zealand, is beyond me?
The third article focuses on the flu jabs, published 12 months ago in Aug 2022. Again, this has no relevance for this covid policy.
The fourth article cited is the ‘famous’ SIREN Group study published in the NEJM March 2022, the methods of which included flawed PCR testing asymptomatic healthcare workers in the UK. The results at that time (seems like a lifetime ago) illustrated a ‘waning’ of effectiveness of the injections within 2 months and strong support for natural immunity. (I read a good analysis of this article’s shortcomings somewhere, back when it was first published, if someone wants to share it or a follow-up, please?)
The fifth article (also Mar 2022) was a study based in the Netherlands of community infections of covid. It also concluded that there was ‘rapid waning’ of immunity with the injections and that the results were ‘inconclusive’ and ‘further research was needed’. Um, the relevance to a New Zealand healthcare workers situation 18 months later is…?
The sixth article was from Nov 2022 based in Qatar and again based on community infection, using the flawed PCR tests and concluded that natural immunity was strong.
I think I’ll leave it there for now. If anyone wants to ask Dr Berry for his response to this, I’d be very keen to hear any explanation. There could have been an opportunity to ask him on Linkedin, if I wasn’t already banned from that platform, for sharing the BMJ Pfizer-Whistleblower article. Maybe Dr Berry would like to read that too?
The New Zealand Nurses who are ethical, critical thinkers, just want their jobs back. Their colleagues need them urgently as the system is overloaded. Patients are in desperate need of their expertise. Why is Health New Zealand still persisting with this insane policy that we all know is BigPharma propaganda? Has it got something to do with the amount of funding that BigPharma obtains from advertising in New Zealand, and regulatory capture of our hospitals?
Are they so inundated with a heavy work load to have made such a reply…
There seem to be no country left that is free from regulatory capture…
Do most New Zealanders just want to forget about the last three years?
I cannot forget…
update on this today - I had a call from the Ombudsman after I complained the response was the opposite of the Health NZ claim - I explained the above -and apparently it will be "forwarded for consideration". We won't hold our collective breathe over it.