The global COVID-19 pandemic has not only transformed our daily lives but also brought a new set of challenges to our mental and physical health. One of the more subtle yet widespread issues is the disruption of sleep, a phenomenon now referred to as “Coronasomnia.” This condition highlights the increase in sleep disturbances linked to the stress and anxiety caused by the pandemic.

What is Coronasomnia?

Coronasomnia is a term coined to describe the surge in sleep problems that have arisen during the COVID-19 pandemic. It reflects the interplay between coronavirus-related stressors and insomnia, encompassing a variety of sleep issues such as difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or experiencing restful sleep.

Pandemic Stress and Sleep Disruption

The pandemic has introduced numerous stressors that contribute to sleep disturbances:

1. Health-Related Anxiety: Concerns about contracting COVID-19 and the health of loved ones have significantly elevated anxiety levels, making relaxation and sleep more difficult to achieve.
2. Economic Instability: Job losses, financial uncertainty, and economic challenges have added to the stress burden, leading to increased sleep problems.
3. Social Isolation: Lockdowns and social distancing measures have led to feelings of loneliness and isolation, negatively impacting mental health and sleep quality.
4. Routine Changes: Shifts in daily routines, such as remote working and home schooling, have disrupted regular sleep schedules, contributing to irregular sleep patterns.
5. Increased Screen Time: Greater dependence on digital devices for work, education, and entertainment has increased screen time, which can interfere with the body’s natural sleep-wake cycle due to exposure to blue light.

Insights from Research on Coronasomnia

A detailed study published in the Nature and Science of Sleep journal provides valuable insights into the prevalence and nature of sleep problems during the pandemic. Key findings include:

• Increased Insomnia Rates: There has been a noticeable rise in the prevalence of insomnia and other sleep disorders since the pandemic began. Many individuals who previously had no sleep issues have reported new or exacerbated problems.
• Mental Health Link: There is a strong connection between mental health issues like anxiety and depression and the occurrence of sleep disturbances. Those experiencing high levels of pandemic-related stress are more likely to suffer from Coronasomnia.
• Vulnerable Populations: Certain groups, including healthcare workers, individuals with pre-existing mental health conditions, and those undergoing significant life changes, are particularly susceptible to sleep issues during the pandemic.
• Potential Long-Term Effects: The study suggests that sleep disturbances caused by pandemic stress may have long-term consequences, potentially leading to chronic insomnia and other health issues if not properly addressed.

Strategies for Managing Coronasomnia

To combat Coronasomnia, a multifaceted approach involving lifestyle adjustments, stress management techniques, and professional support is essential. Consider the following strategies:

1. Establish a Routine: Maintain a consistent daily schedule with regular sleep and wake times to help regulate your internal clock.
2. Optimize Your Sleep Environment: Create a comfortable and relaxing bedroom environment free from distractions like electronic devices and excessive noise.
3. Reduce Screen Time: Limit exposure to screens, particularly before bedtime, to minimize the impact of blue light on your sleep cycle.
4. Practice Relaxation Techniques: Engage in relaxation activities such as meditation, deep breathing exercises, or gentle yoga to reduce stress and anxiety.
5. Seek Professional Help: If sleep problems persist, consult a healthcare professional or sleep specialist for guidance and potential treatment options.

Conclusion

Coronasomnia has emerged as a significant issue during the COVID-19 pandemic, affecting millions globally. Understanding the relationship between pandemic stress and sleep problems is crucial for developing effective coping strategies. By addressing underlying stressors and adopting healthy sleep habits, individuals can mitigate the impact of Coronasomnia and enhance their overall well-being.

For more detailed insights and research findings on Coronasomnia, refer to this full article published in the Nature and Science of Sleep journal.

Professor Michael Plank of Covid-19 Aotearoa Modelling and Te Punaha Matatini is a mathematical biologist and epidemiologist commissioned by the New Zealand government to deliver mathematical modelling of COVID-19 in support of the pandemic response.

Today, he advised us all to roll the genetic dice one more time and get another COVID-19 mRNA vaccine to avoid winter illness. Is he up to date on the risks for the individual and humanity? Let’s find out.

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A team of doctors at the authoritative Harvard Medical School is offering us another opinion in the journal The Neurohospitalist under the title “Fatal Post COVID mRNA-Vaccine Associated Cerebral Ischemia”. The study discusses a case of a thirty-year-old female recipient of the Moderna mRNA Covid shot who subsequently developed circulatory and inflammatory problems in her brain followed by a fatal stroke. The authors conclude:

“The side effects of COVID-19 infection and vaccination are still incompletely understood….clinicians should be aware of presentations like this one.”

Individual risks are growing with each vaccine

As we pointed out in our last article, the medical authorities really don’t know what is causing a surge in winter illness coming on top of our already overwhelmed hospital system. In an interview with Jamie Morton of the NZ Herald, Professor Plank references new so-called FLiRT variants of the JN.1 Covid strain. Rather than pressing the fear button and urging one more throw of the COVID-19 vaccine dice, Professor Plank might have drawn upon a couple of principles from Virology 101.

At this point in the pandemic, the biggest drivers of COVID variation are actually COVID-19 vaccines. The more Covid vaccines, the more Covid variants. Variants are running into uncountable millions. Among them, Covid variants that evade COVID-19 vaccines are set to flourish and spread.

Secondly, as we have referenced previously, repeated doses of Covid vaccines cause Vaccine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (VAIDS).

Thirdly, as is now admitted in the scientific literature, the more mRNA COVID-19 vaccine doses you have, the more exposed you become to serious risks, including heart disease, stroke and cancer.

We reported just days ago that prominent vaccine advocate Dr. Vinay Prasad is now suggesting that the evidence shows the risk of serious illness following mRNA Covid vaccination outweighs any potential benefit.

The gene illusion that is killing us

Possibly, Professor Plank doesn’t read the Hatchard Report. Nor does it appear that Jennifer Doudna, inventor of the CRISPR gene editing technique. Doudna is an unrepentant advocate of our individual and collective biotechnology future. In her book “A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution” Doudna says:

“Armed with the complete CRISPR toolkit, scientists can now exert nearly complete control over both the composition of the genome and its output.”

On a more sober note, Doudna continues:

“The power to control our species’ genetic future is awesome and terrifying. Deciding how to handle it may be the biggest challenge we have ever faced.”

But don’t think that means Doudna has embraced precautionary thinking, she describes belief in the safety of gene editing as the “scientific consensus” and continues “….have no doubt, this technology will — someday, somewhere — be used to change the genome of our own species in ways that are heritable, forever altering the genetic composition of human kind.”

In fact Doudna has no doubt that critics of rampant gene editing are fools, she is appalled by their ignorance. And concludes “human gene editing would almost assuredly never have the same catastrophic consequences as the detonation of a nuclear weapon”.

Doudna was writing in 2017 before the pandemic. Her assurances of safety were worthless. The millions of pandemic deaths that have scarred the world had not yet happened in 2017, but already an obscure laboratory in Wuhan was busy using Doudna’s CRISPR techniques to perform clandestine experiments to enhance coronaviruses. In effect, they were busy weaponizing a version of the highly infectious common cold. Gain of function experiments that would end up editing humanity.

The New York Post yesterday published an article entitled “Explosive emails show top NIH adviser deleted records, used ‘secret’ back channels to help Fauci evade COVID transparency“. Newly uncovered documents show those responsible, including Anthony Fauci in America conspired to cover up the truth about Wuhan and the origins of Covid. Well they might, that truth is just as explosive and devastating as nuclear detonation. As in war, millions have died as a result of CRISPR gene editing.

We have only just begun to realise how much humanity has been edited.

We have reported on the health effects of the pandemic and the Covid vaccines, but the true extent of the violent effects of the pandemic and our response to it are extraordinary and far reaching.

A lengthy article in the New York Times is entitled “How the Pandemic Reshaped American Gun Violence”. To assess the impact of the pandemic years, the New York Times created a map of every gun homicide in the United States since 2020, using data collected from the police and news media accounts by the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive.

The analysis revealed that gun deaths spread like a virus into new neighbourhoods during the pandemic: An additional 8.7 million Americans now live on a block near a gun homicide — a 23 percent increase from the pre-pandemic years.

Whilst gun violence is rife in America, we don’t have any cause for complacency here in lightly armed New Zealand. We too have suffered an unprecedented rash of violent crime and behaviour.

So can we lay some of the senseless violence and destructive behaviour at the feet of Covid vaccines? Short answer: no one knows. Suffice to say that the genetic mechanisms in our cells support not just our health but also our behaviour and crucially our consciousness.

I sat having my haircut a few days ago as the hairdresser sagely informed me that health all comes down to genes. This popular notion that we need to get our genes corrected is an illusion. That is the last thing we should be doing.

There is a fine line between truth and illusion, between empathy and hatred, discrimination and prejudice, and between humanity and the pitilessness of animal predatory behaviour. How our genes keep us on the right side of kindness is unknown. Our knowledge about the effect of gene editing on consciousness is still a blank slate. On that blank slate, like the entrance to Dante’s inferno, we should write “abandon hope all who enter here”.

Truly as Doudna said “The power to control our species’ genetic future is awesome and terrifying” but not in the sense that she meant ‘awesome’. We should rather reference the awesome shadow of Hiroshima and the Holocaust, and so should Doudna now if she has any post-pandemic common sense and wisdom of hindsight.

So there is at least one New Zealand official who is prepared to put their little finger up above the parapet. Coroner Sue Johnson has ruled that the death of Dunedin man Rory Nairn from post-vaccine myocarditis may have been prevented if he had been given more information before consenting to the Covid mRNA vaccination that later claimed his life. Her report highlights failures in informing the public of risks.

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If you thought there might be some justice coming down the pipeline, think again. Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell received a referral from the Coroner asking her to investigate. She has now issued a report. This identifies glaring failures of vaccination providers to inform consumers of the known risk of myocarditis and the urgent need to go to hospital if you had chest pains, but then concludes there is no need for disciplinary action due to the unprecedented circumstances of the worldwide pandemic.

Join with me in a deep groan of agonised incomprehension. How could this white washing happen?

Last week Stats New Zealand released the Births and Deaths update to March 2024. In summary:

Our birth rate, which was stable from 1975 to 2013, has declined 30% since that time. Last year the birth rate declined by a further 4%. Down by 2,500 births. The total fertility rate was 1.52 births per woman, down from 1.65. You need this figure to be around 2.1 to avoid population decline.

Our infant mortality has plateaued, reversing the previous decades long trend of gradual improvements.

Gratifyingly, our death rate declined compared to the previous year to 37,623 deaths, down from 38,835. However, this is still well above the pre-pandemic rate. We have calculated the rate of excess deaths allowing for population changes. Compared to the five years before the pandemic, the last five years have seen a cumulative total of 3,529 additional excess deaths.

To put this in perspective, the total is equivalent to 69 Christchurch Mosque Attacks or 18 Christchurch earthquakes. It is also 9 times higher than our current homicide rate. If you put these astronomical figures next to the refusal of the Health and Disability Commissioner and hundreds of other officials, parliamentarians, and medicos to take any disciplinary action, you can re-appraise it as an extraordinary act of looking the other way faced with a stealthy but deadly plague of serial killers in our midst.

Especially worrying is the lack of detail in the births and deaths report. The break downs are limited to age, sex and ethnicity, not by cause of death. We don’t know what these people are dying from. We know from hints that cardiac deaths and cancer deaths are up, but by how much and in what categories? Without this information you can’t craft any appropriate response to the health crisis. Hospitalisation and disability rates are admitted to be way up and out of control, but again the official stats are limited to things like emergency response times. Why this lack of detail?

We have recently reported snippets of overseas data. For example from leading UK oncologist Professor Angus Dalgleish which suggests reactivations of melanomas, lymphomas, leukaemias, colorectal, and kidney cancers. A Japanese study indicates increases in all cancer types after the third mRNA Covid booster. Dr. Frizzelle of Otago Medical School let slip in a recent interview that the rate of colorectal cancers in young NZers accelerated in 2022. How serious are these trends and how concerned should we be?

We are getting a lot of waffle from mainstream media. For example from Stuff newspaper “What illnesses are currently making Kiwis sick?” And the NZ Herald says “Why is everyone sick right now?”. These offer us a potpourri of what the Stuff health correspondent Hannah Martin refers to as ‘the usual winter culprits’—coughs, colds, flu, COVID-19, whooping cough, and RSV. Is this the extent of it? No.

If you want a reality check, try the 2023 emergency response report of Hato Hone St John ambulance service. In 2014 there were 99 ambulance call outs per 1000 people. In 2023 there were 130 ambulance callouts per 1000 people. That is an alarming 16% rise over 2019 and steady compared to 2022. These increased call outs are not for coughs and colds and they are not going away.

So why aren’t alarm bells ringing in the corridors of power, the medical establishment or the public arena here or overseas? Part of the answer was revealed by the UK Daily Telegraph last week in a piece of real investigative journalism entitled “The four-step ‘playbook’ the NHS uses to break whistleblowers“. The authors interviewed doctors who raised patient safety concerns. They recount how they were confronted with systemic bullying and harassment from managers and colleagues along with a culture of cover-up. The article covers multiple cases where:

“Law firms and private investigators are also often brought in to investigate the whistleblower, who is then told they are being suspended. Years of internal investigations, disciplinary hearings and legal battles typically follow, until medics succumb to the personal, professional and financial pressure and quit. Many doctors who have decades of expertise in their field and distinguished careers are reduced to depression and suicidal thoughts by the situation they find themselves in. Some sign non-disclosure agreements, enabling them to return to work if they promise to keep their mouths shut, others try to fight back through the High Court or employment tribunals, and others leave the NHS for private hospitals or quit the medical profession altogether.”

The evidence collected by The Telegraph suggests NHS employers are more likely to investigate the conduct of whistleblowers than the issue they have raised. Of the 52 medics interviewed by this newspaper, 41 said their own conduct was put under investigation. They were all subjected to counter-allegations after raising concerns.

One typical example involved Jasna Macanovic, a consultant hepatologist at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, who raised concerns with the Care Quality Commission about an “innovative” dialysis technique being used by her colleagues, which she said amounted to harmful experimentation. The CQC visited the trust to investigate, and within days of inspectors departing, Dr Macanovic was herself put under investigation. Ultimately Macanovic was cleared, but only after months of harassment.

Such ‘investigations’ often involve intimidating police interviews of the whistleblower. Another consultant told The Telegraph the investigative processes “give hospital management unbelievable power with no accountability. Essentially the NHS trusts investigate themselves, mark their own homework, and they become the judge, jury and executioner for the whistleblower all in one go.”

The four step process outlined and documented by the Telegraph is as follows:

Step 1: Investigate the whistleblower

Step 2: Bully and intimidate

Step 3: Weaponise General Medical Council referrals

Step 4: Demotion, disciplinary action and dismissal

The parallels with the treatment of the many conscientious New Zealand doctors struck off or suspended for advising their patients that COVID mRNA vaccines came with risks are obvious. Likewise, the Health Service whistleblower Barry Young who simply asked why so many people died after COVID-19 vaccination. He still faces court prosecution rather than any sort of internal assessment of mortality data.

The Health and Disability Commissioner should have noted that many doctors did tell their patients to beware of unquantified Covid vaccine risks. History is on their side. They have been validated by research findings and public health data. They should be acknowledged and praised, instead they remain sidelined, impoverished and discarded by the Medical Council of New Zealand who should have been reprimanded by the Commissioner.

At the root of the absolute refusal of the New Zealand medical establishment to acknowledge the failings and extent of the problems associated with mRNA vaccines is an appalling ignorance of the ABCs of the risk and safety profile of genetic interventions. We have documented some of these in our articles collected at GLOBE. It is time to speak up en masse.

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What Sort of Future Should We Be Planning for Ourselves?

You may remember a couple of months ago that a man in the US received a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig. This was the result of years of research and animal genetic modification carried out by multiple teams of researchers at a cost of many billions of dollars. In late March, the operation was hailed as a success and heralded by the world’s media and scientific journals as a beacon of hope for all people awaiting transplants. The prestigious scientific journal Nature announced it opened the door for an era of xenotransplanted (animal to human) organs.

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The recipient, Richard Slayman, died suddenly a few days ago, just five weeks after being pronounced well and being discharged from hospital. His doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) said on Sunday “there was no indication his death was a result of the transplant”. Please forgive my scepticism and crudity, but this reminds me of Peter Sellers as Dr. Clouseau in a lift who creates a bad smell then leaves someone standing next to him to take the fall.

To add insult to injury, following Mr Slayman’s death, Joren C. Madsen, Director of the MGH Transplant Center emphasised the significance of Mr Slayman’s contribution to medicine saying “Mr. Slayman becomes a beacon of hope for countless individuals suffering from end-stage renal disease and opens a new frontier in organ transplantation.” I suppose to say anything else like “we got it wrong” or “we are not sure what went wrong” or “this is a setback for xenotransplantation” or even “sorry, we overhyped this” might have dried up MGH’s funding.

I think you can see there is nothing routine or even conceivably financially viable about a procedure carried out on one person that absorbs billions of dollars and fails. To say that this will benefit “countless individuals” is just baseless hype. There is currently no basis to suggest that any such procedure will become viable for large numbers of individuals or more importantly no indication that it can be made to work safely for even one individual.

In another billion dollar misstep, after years of questionable research on animals, a Neuralink implant has mysteriously become detached from the first human patient’s brain. The patient, Noland Arbaugh, underwent surgery in February to attach a Neuralink chip to his brain, but the device’s functionality began to decrease within the month after his implant. Some of the device’s threads, which connect the miniature computer to the brain, had begun to retract.

According to the Guardian report, Neuralink, which Elon Musk owns and which was valued at about $5bn last year, has widely touted the success of its first implant, positioning itself as a world leader in brain-chip technology. Although the device is still in its early stages, the company’s disclosure brings more attention to the untested and complicated nature of the experimental procedure.

These are two cases of hugely costly invasive implantations carried out on single volunteers that have ended in setbacks or death. As you know, we are concerned at the Hatchard Report about another failed genetic intervention, (which increasingly looks like a genetic implantation), carried out on billions of individuals, in most cases without their informed consent and in many others against their will.

This brings me to a paper published in the journal Vaccine in April entitled “COVID-19 vaccines and adverse events of special interest: A multinational Global Vaccine Data Network (GVDN) cohort study of 99 million vaccinated individuals” whose co-authors include or own Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris of the University of Auckland. We have commented on the worrying findings and deficiencies of this paper previously including its failure to investigate cancer incidence and other possible adverse effects, but I thought you would like to know that even ardent vaccine advocates are weighing into the debate on our side.

Vinay Prasad MD MPH is a hematologist-oncologist and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco. He runs the VKPrasad lab at UCSF, which studies cancer drugs, health policy, clinical trials and better decision making. He is author of over 500 academic articles, and the books Ending Medical Reversal, and Malignant. He has analysed the paper on his YouTube channel and other blogs and is currently preparing an academic paper on the subject.

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Dr. Prasad comments that this paper shows a number of very concerning safety signals across a number of domains including myocarditis, ITP (immune thrombocytopenic purpura), Guillain-Barré syndrome, Bell’s Palsy, ADEM (acute disseminated encephalomyelitis), pulmonary embolism, febrile seizures and more. More importantly he picks apart the methods used in the study and concludes that it significantly underestimates the rate of adverse effects.

Dr. Prasad goes on to describe the paper as ‘unnerving’ because it shows that the harms of the mRNA Covid vaccines clearly outweigh the benefits for many age cohorts and possibly most cohorts. On this basis he questions the wisdom and ethics of the medical authorities who mandated Covid vaccines. His short video (linked above) is well worth a view and remember this is an eminent vaccine advocate speaking out and blowing the whistle on the unthinking and unconscionable decisions of our medical tsars and physicians. You can’t sanitise this sort of behaviour, we have been lied to and now that the truth is coming out, no one wants to own up.

At the Hatchard Report, we want to maintain a commitment to positive solutions. In my book Your DNA Diet (to order go here), I outline the four areas of life that we can directly control ourselves: Experience, Behaviour, Food and Consciousness. We have referenced in other articles improved routines involving adequate exercise and rest; lighter, more nourishing natural food choices; and a routine of meditation, breathing exercises and yoga postures, but what kinds of practices can improve Experience?

There is a fundamental rule of experience: ‘what you pay attention to grows stronger in your life’ or rather ‘what you see is what you become’. The converse of this is expressed in the saying: ‘where is the time for the unwanted?’ In the field of experience we have to exercise discrimination. It is easy to fall into patterns of experience that are undesirable, especially in the internet era. There are two ways we can control this.

Firstly the most powerful path to wisdom is to follow the joy. Respect that inner voice which tells you if something is good. A walk in the morning sun by the beach is healing. A concert, a play, a get together with friends, a celebration of achievements or a milestone should not be postponed. Our choices should favour joy.

Secondly, if you know something is wrong or not useful, but you still feel compelled to participate, the technique to deal with it is to postpone. Maybe it feels too hard to decide to stop smoking altogether, but you can easily say to yourself I’ll postpone smoking for today, and then tomorrow, and so on.

I was strongly reminded this week of the need for faith, hope, and charity. Faith is a choice, hope is a necessity, and charitable actions that help create a brighter future should not be postponed.

An update from the Covid Royal Commission of Inquiry

This week my closest friend and colleague from university days passed away from cancer. It came on very suddenly, with no time to say goodbye or offer support. Although we both agreed about the lab origin of COVID-19 because of our mutual connections with the biotechnology research community, unfortunately, we differed in our attitude to the COVID-19 vaccine. My friend trusted his doctor’s advice.

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The effects of gene editing cannot be contained, any mistakes can spread without limit and persist through generations. Nothing highlights this more than the very long tail of the pandemic. Highly vaccinated countries are still suffering elevated rates of excess deaths and record levels of hospitalisation years later. The BBC reported in March for example: “Sick people leaving workforce at record highs“.

When I spoke about my friend’s death to an acquaintance working for the health service, they mentioned their friend and others who had similarly passed away unexpectedly and too soon. They asked me, “Had I heard of the term sniper alley?” and explained that it is as if we are all in a narrow alleyway being shot at from a hidden location. You never know who will be hit next.

Mainstream media is full of tragic cases these days. This article in the New Zealand Herald entitled “Bowel cancer rates rising among New Zealanders under 50 years old, driving calls for even lower screening age” is typical. The article reports a study showing that rate of early-onset bowel cancer increased steadily in New Zealand between 2000 and 2020. In other words, in common with many Western countries, more people under the age of 50 are tragically diagnosed with bowel cancer. The rate had been increasing by 2.3% per year.

The study covers the twenty-year period prior to the pandemic, so why am I writing about it? One of the authors of the study, Professor Frank Frizzle, revealed to the Herald that the rate of increase has suddenly accelerated beyond the study period into 2022. He also said that little is known about what is driving the increase here and overseas. This is particularly concerning since young people are smoking less and eating less meat, previously identified risk factors for bowel cancer.

If Frizzle is looking for obvious causes of the long term pre-pandemic trend, he might investigate a recent article from the Brownstone Institute entitled “Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death” or he might read this very recent study entitled “Exposure to pesticides and risk of colorectal cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis” which found an association between insecticide and herbicide exposure and colorectal cancer.

However, neither of these possible risk factors has suddenly accelerated in 2022, so why have the rates of bowel cancer been accelerating recently in New Zealand? We don’t know because publicly available Health Service cancer data only goes to the end of 2021. In fact, we don’t know why our hospitals are overcrowded. We don’t know which specific disease rates are higher. Apparently, Professor Frizzle has more up-to-date information, but we don’t. The public is left with gossip from inside the medical profession that we are now living in sniper alley, tragic tales in mainstream media, and heart-rending personal anecdotes like mine and yours.

For the record, a study of cancer mortality in Japan was published in the journal Cureus in April entitled “Increased Age-Adjusted Cancer Mortality After the Third mRNA-Lipid Nanoparticle Vaccine Dose During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan”. The study found that following vaccination with a third mRNA vaccine dose in 2022, researchers observed “significant excess mortalities” for all cancers.

Well, you might think, we have an ongoing public inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic taking place here in New Zealand, surely that is going to take note of overseas research findings and answer our questions? Short answer: Not likely based on present evidence. Professor Tony Blakely, Chairman of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Covid Response, issued a public statement on 7th May summarising progress so far with the move to revise its terms of reference. He managed all 900 words without once mentioning COVID-19 vaccine injury.

Blakely identified ‘vaccine effectiveness’ as a topic that might be included in the inquiry, but despite receiving a petition containing over 35,000 signatures expressing concern about vaccine safety, these risks are not mentioned once in his progress report. Professor Blakely seems determined to keep mum and continue to swim against the tide of concern. Despite being an epidemiologist, Prof. Blakely doesn’t mention what has been described elsewhere as the baffling association between excess mortality and Covid vaccination rates. Is he the right man for the job? You tell me.

The New Zealand Herald reprinted an article from the UK Daily Telegraph on Wednesday entitled “AstraZeneca withdraws Covid vaccine, months after admitting rare side effect“. Let’s have more honesty like this. The article preamble notes that 9087 doses of the vaccine were administered in New Zealand, with 319 recipients reporting adverse effects. In the UK, it is officially linked with at least 81 deaths. 50 injured recipients are currently engaged in a class action against the company. These figures are likely to be the tip of the iceberg.

In New Zealand the predominant vaccine has been the mRNA Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. 65,000 adverse effects have been reported to Medsafe, and Pfizer has admitted that there are side effects, including myocarditis, a form of heart disease. A prospective study in Thailand found measurable cardiovascular effects in a staggering 29% of subjects receiving the Pfizer vaccine, but this COVID-19 vaccine has not been withdrawn (review more links here). It is still being promoted here as ‘safe and effective’. New Zealand remains stuck in the COVID dark ages.