As our last three releases have discussed, vaccine exemptions were widely granted to health service personnel. Now we will discuss the wider pool of evidence which suggests that the government strenuously sought to hide the extent of serious vaccine injury from the public whilst systematically suppressing the voices of those who had doubts about vaccine safety.

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Warning: you may find the information in this release disturbing.

As we have reported, according to an OIA recently released, and one corroborating OIA from a year ago, vaccine exemptions could have affected as many as 11,005 employees and contractors within the health service. A lot of detail is missing, but one thing is absolutely clear: the government sought to hide and obfuscate what was happening.

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On 2 March 2022 National MP Chris Bishop submitted a written parliamentary question to Chris Hipkins:

“How many people, if any, who are covered by mandatory vaccination orders have been granted exemptions from mandatory vaccination, broken down by month, and by the type of role the mandatory vaccination covers?”

Chris Hipkins replied with the information that a total of 2,607 temporary exemptions were granted to health and disability workers during November 2021 to February 2022 for a maximum duration of four weeks.

Yet on 11 February 2022 Rachel MacKay, of the Ministry of Health, Group Manager, Operations, National Immunisation Programme submitted an affidavit to the High Court concerning the granting of vaccine exemptions. Inexplicably, MacKay only supplied the court with information stating that by January 2021 450 applications for significant service disruption vaccine exemptions had been submitted of which only 11 had been granted. In effect, she left the court uninformed about a process of granting thousands of health service employee exemptions which was by then in full swing at the Health Service. Information which would have been very relevant to the case in hand.

Both MacKay’s testimony and Hipkins’ written parliamentary reply contrast with information provided in the September 2022 OIA which showed that the number of exemptions granted by then had ballooned to 6,706. By August 2023 an OIA said that 11,005 workers were covered by vaccine exemptions with the proviso that the Ministry of Health was unable to ascertain exactly how many of these actually remained unvaccinated.

Meanwhile McKay’s testimony indicates that by 27th January 2022, the Ministry of Health had received a total of 1,792 applications for temporary medical vaccine exemptions from the general public on the grounds of ill health and/or prior vaccine injury of which 569 or 32% had been granted.

A temporary exemption did not mean that a person necessarily remained unvaccinated, the exemption carried an expectation of vaccination with an alternative type of vaccine such as the AstraZeneca vaccine and/or the administration of a vaccine as soon as possible in a hospital setting with appropriate staff present.

The November 2021 Criteria, Clinical Guidance [for vaccine exemption] stated “There are very few situations where a vaccine is contraindicated and, as such, a medical exemption is expected to be rarely required.”

By January 2022 Medsafe had received 51,710 reports of vaccine injury of which they judged 2,447 were serious. The actual totals were likely far higher than these. As we have reported previously, Medsafe itself had noted that approximately 90% of vaccine injuries remain unreported.

In fact, the process of applying for a vaccine exemption required the support of your doctor and/or a specialist (even if this was acquired, 68% of applications were refused). As a result, a great many people, some of whom were injured by their first shot, were turned down on principle by medical staff who had been schooled by the above directives to believe exemptions would be rare events. Therefore many people at great risk of injury never succeeded in even submitting an application for an exemption.

More than 2,000 reports by people who failed to gain an exemption have been made to various NZ support groups. These make for very depressing and extremely concerning reading. Despite the huge volume of 51,710 Covid vaccine side effects being reported to CARM which was greater in number and far more serious in nature than all other past flu vaccine injuries combined, Medsafe choose to maintain that most injuries were unrelated to vaccination and they have continued to maintained this stance to this day despite the unprecedented rise in excess deaths.

There were however a small number of injury types admitted by Medsafe and widely reported in the scientific literature known to be related to Covid vaccination. These included myopericarditis and anaphylactic shock. Therefore it comes as a considerable surprise to note that a number of people suffering from either one of these conditions after their first Covid jab were refused a vaccine exemption by Dr. Ashley Bloomfield who personally oversaw the exemption process.

Myopericarditis has a well known long term prognosis reported prior to the pandemic, with a 3 to 5 year expectation of serious complications which in a significant proportion of cases can become fatal. From this perspective, refusing a vaccine exemption to a person already suffering myopericarditis likely to have been vaccine-induced, might appear to be an action which risked causing further serious injury or even death.

So did people in fact die as a result of Covid vaccination? The last available Medsafe safety report “Adverse events following immunisation with COVID-19 vaccines: Safety Report #46 – 30 November 2022” lists 64,829 adverse events, including 3,688 serious events and 184 deaths reported proximate to Covid vaccination. As of August 2023, Medsafe only admits that 5 deaths have actually been caused by Covid vaccination. This does not of course include deaths as a result of long term adverse effects of Covid vaccination. There have been more than 10,500 excess deaths in NZ during the course of the pandemic, only 3,200 of which have been associated with Covid infection.

So is Medsafe’s assessment of only five vaccine-related deaths reasonable and do they themselves believe their own estimate or did the government instead engage in a systematic campaign to suppress any possible association between Covid vaccination and mortality?

I have received a number of reports that, in the early months of the vaccine rollout, the government paid substantial sums, of the order $120,000, to families of children who died subsequent to Covid vaccination. Reportedly, payments were dependent on the families in question signing NDAs (Non-Disclosure Agreements) preventing them from discussing the circumstances of these payments or any association with Covid vaccination. These reports are only secondhand and cannot be confirmed firsthand for obvious reasons, but I have received them from people with standing in society who have expressed great concern.

Quite apart from the ethical considerations of contacting a family who has just lost a child (rumoured in some cases to be within hours of the death) and asking them to remain silent, there are serious concerns about the legality of any such NDAs. It is well understood in law that a person who has signed such an NDA, or is contemplating signing such an NDA, is entitled to seek legal advice about its meaning and effect. Even if already signed, there may be grounds to repudiate an NDA yet retain the payment, if any or all of the following applies:

(a) Illegal contract – The government is probably under a legal obligation not to suppress evidence of vaccine harm. If this happened, then the NDA itself might be an illegal contract.

(b) Misrepresentation – A party to a contract may cancel that contract if that party has been induced to enter into it by misrepresentation, whether innocent or fraudulent. Depending on what was said prior to the entry into the NDA, it may be possible to cancel the NDA. Furthermore, the party would not be automatically divested of any monies received under the NDA.

(c) Undue influence or duress – Duress involves illegitimate pressure which coerces a party to enter into a contract. Undue influence is concerned with the unfair exploitation of a relationship. A parent in the days after the sudden and unexpected death of their child is likely not to be in a fit state to enter into a contract concerning that death.

If you feel you may have suffered in any similar way or are directly aware of some who have, we are happy to forward any query in confidence to a qualified party who may be able to assist you or others affected.

Quite clearly, if the reports of payments are true, the government was making very strenuous efforts to suppress discussion of vaccine safety. It did this in a number of other ways:

• By threatening doctors with suspension or disbarment if they publicly raised questions.
• By funding reports from the likes of Te Punaha Matatini falsely asserting that vaccine injury, natural immunity, and the lab origin of Covid were conspiracy theories.
• By refusing to acknowledge, against the evidence, that a novel biotech procedure derived from gene therapy experimentation was in any way more risky than traditional vaccines.
• By hiding the large number of vaccine exemptions granted to medical staff who had doubts about Covid vaccine safety and also requiring them to remain silent.
• By liaising directly with social media sites such as Youtube, Google and Facebook to censor discussion of vaccine safety.
• By repeatedly asserting incorrectly and against the evidence through public pronouncements, advertising, advice, and media payments that the Covid vaccine was proven safe and effective.

How could it be after a three month trial whose results were already equivocal? How could it be given the tsunami of CARM reports?

The hiding of evidence of harm went even further than this. Leaked data from Wellington Hospital Region we have reported lays out an 83% increase in hospitalisation from heart attacks and a forty percent increase in strokes. No one in authority has ever denied these figures. Rather than a revealing public discussion, a fierce hunt was immediately instituted to pinpoint and silence the source of these leaks.

Clearly any public knowledge of the dramatic and unprecedented rise in hospitalisation for a wide range of disease types which began before Covid infection took hold in NZ but after Covid vaccination began in February 2021 would have posed a grave threat to the government’s safe and effective narrative.

In fact, the progressive collapse of the NZ health service due to the increasing incidence of disease posed a similar threat to the so-called government podium of truth. An article published by Newsroom dated 9th October 2023 based on extensive Ministry of Health documents sourced through an OIA paints a disturbing picture of occupancy rates over 100% and long waits at EDs and at hospital ramps for ambulances before urgent patients could be seen.

Health Minister Verrall disputed the reliability of some of the figures provided to her by Te Whatu Ora, but frontline doctors and nurses, however, told Newsroom the data confirmed what they were seeing with their own eyes. The figures reported by Newsroom were only released in August after the involvement of the Ombudsman two months after Verrall’s June refusal to release the figures. The data is damning and the government’s efforts to hide the evidence is doubly so.

On reflection, it becomes clear that, from early on in the pandemic, proponents of radical biotechnology innovation had hijacked the processes associated with the government’s pandemic policy. These advocates and so-called experts had, for whatever reason, decided that it should be allowable for medical authorities to mandate vaccines that had not passed normal long term safety and effectiveness testing, yet pass them off as safe and effective. In other words, they were using their influence to encourage and even coerce risky biotech experimentation on the public. Apparently the government agreed with them so fully that they have done and continue to do everything in their power to hide what is going on.

We may have a chance to influence the make up of Parliament over the course of the next few days. It is worth reflecting that MPs are our representatives. The idea that information can or should be systematically hidden from the public is the opposite of democracy. There is a powerful argument here. If we return our current political parties to parliament they may think they can continue to hide hard facts from us and mandate medical risk. NZ First is calling for a wide ranging enquiry into the Covid pandemic response. This is not only long overdue, but it seems to us to be essential if we are to find a safe way ahead.

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The government granted 11,000 vaccine exemptions to Ministry of Health employees whilst refusing exemptions to the public, the private sector and other ministries.

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What does this mean? The implications are finely drawn by a comment in the Daily Telegraph yesterday:

“My GP requested an exemption for me based on prior very severe hypersensitivity reactions to a different vaccine within the NZ schedule. Based on the family history, we all had suffered similar impacts to varying degrees from the same vaccine. The request made by the GP for exemption from the Covid vaccine was declined.

“Relative 1 took the Covid vaccine only to be diagnosed with Thrombocytopenia (a well known side effect). Relative 2 received the vaccine only to be admitted to hospital with psychosis and acute kidney failure. Relative 3 is now under cardiology specialist care along with a friend diagnosed with Bells Palsy post vaccine receipt.

“Maybe the (now surplus to requirements) Covid Exemption Team can sift through all of the medical classifications relating to ALL known adverse vaccine responses that have been added to the patient records post receipt of Covid vaccine, identify and contact the patients and determine their individual status of health since their vaccine adverse reaction/s. Never has there been a single mention in the media of the 64,000 plus patients for whom reports were lodged via CARM for adverse reactions. This should be addressed with urgency!”

This is a personal testimony. Contrary to the reports appearing in the papers that Covid vaccines saved lives, they took lives.

Refer to our article “The New Zealand Health Debate – Fact Checking Ayesha Verrall vs Shane Reti“. According to the OECD there were 10,672 excess deaths in New Zealand between 2020 and 2023, only 3,200 of these were deaths with Covid.

Refer to our article “The Ministry of Health Granted Vaccine Exemptions to Hundreds Among Its Key Staff” which reports that highly vaccinated countries like New Zealand had high rates of excess deaths, while nations with low rates of Covid vaccination had very low rates of excess deaths, almost zero.

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The dead have no voice but their families have a right to justice.

How did it come about that the lives of the public were recklessly put at risk? An extraordinary doctrine of our sitting parliament took precedence over learning, knowledge, and common sense. We were told that it was dangerous to do your own research. Incredibly, the nation swallowed this canard because of misplaced trust in our elected representatives.

It was and is a very quick and easy matter to look up official statistics, add up a few columns of figures, and find out, contrary to the repeated claims of so called government experts, that New Zealand is not leading the world in Covid outcomes. We are comfortably mid table in excess deaths for the pandemic as a whole, but right now in 2023 third highest in the OECD.

Everyone knew that Covid vaccines were developed over three months when vaccines were normally tested for ten years. This meant there was no testing of long term safety. We now know from our own New Zealand excess death figures and those of other highly vaccinated nations that there are many long term adverse effects which are serious and sometimes fatal. We have covered research into these in the pages of our reports and unlike our government routinely cited scientific references.

If we had been encouraged to do our own research in learned journals of science, instead of accepting that adverse effects of Covid vaccines were wicked conspiracy theories, we would have quickly found out that there was already by 2018 a long list of known adverse effects of mRNA vaccines very similar to those that tens of thousands of New Zealanders reported suffering.

Instead of laughing, accusing and gaslighting the victims of vaccine injury, there would have been widespread alarm, soul searching, and probing questions.

New Zealand became a victim of a new form of colonial oppression.

Pharmaceutical elites in America and Europe were dictating our health policy. Our government signed agreements that not only gave them immunity from prosecution, but gagged us from asking questions or doing our own investigations.

New Zealand has a long history of independence, but that chapter was closed in 2021. We came under foreign domination. Perhaps it was that generations grown up on video games had become inured to killing and death, accepting it as normal. Perhaps it was that we only had time for headlines, slogans and tweets, and no longer read long format information. Perhaps it was that we had become distracted by the pace of life and its seductive images of enjoyment to the extent that we were content to leave the hard decisions to others.

Whatever the cause, we have allowed ourselves to be hog-tied and left blind to oppression.

Our political process has become so superficial that all the elected parties blindly follow the leader. Ardern we know about. Chris Luxon mandated his party for the jab and brooked no public dissent. David Seymour likewise insisted that all his ACT MPs were fully jabbed and kept mum. For mystifying reasons, the Green Party believes that young people under 30, the group which research shows are particularly vulnerable to vaccine-induced cardiac injury, should be re-vaccinated as a priority.

Do none of our 120 MPs read? Do they get their opinions from newspaper headlines, who governments and commercial pharmaceutical interests pay to only carry one story? Are we that dim?

Crucial to this tale of woe, is our own failure to speak up.

11,000 Ministry of Health employees granted vaccine exemptions means that 11,000 kept silent. I don’t begrudge them their vaccine exemption, but I weep at their silence. Silence is the common coin of dictators, previously bought with oppression. Today silence is bought at the flick of a switch, turning off the right to publish on social media. Silence is bought by the stroke of a pen on a gagging order or the threat of professional expulsion, cancellation, or loss of employment. Silence is bought by the transfer of money from government coffers to media moguls.

In 2022 109 extra people died every week in New Zealand, not because of Covid, but because of Covid policy which was protected from scrutiny when our Prime Minister traded her reputation of empathy and kindness for a lie at the so-called podium of truth. She asked us to keep silent, and told us that it was a sin to ask questions.11,000 kept their silence.

Whatever party is elected over the next week, they are inheriting a poisoned chalice. The health problems they will be inheriting are likely to be ones that they themselves helped to create. Problems that run as deep as our genetic makeup, whose remedies are not yet understood.

The first tasks of government need to be a halt to vaccine fanaticism and coercion, a mea culpa, an inquiry, repudiation of the WHO international pandemic agreement which will further cede our sovereignty, repeal of the Therapeutic Products Bill and the constitutional entrenchment of the New Zealand Bill of Rights to protect us from future government overreach. We will only get these if we free ourselves from the shackles of silence and speak up loudly and clearly.

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Whilst the Government Threatened the Public With Police Action if They Asked for Exemptions

Ursula Edgington PhD, who writes under the title Informed Heart on Substack has sent me a partial breakdown of 6,700 medical staff granted vaccine exemptions provided through a 29th September 2022 OIA H2022009529. It appears from the OIA HNZ00023978 dated 2 August 2023 that we reported yesterday that the actual total may be as high as 11,005. This figure includes over 1,500 administrative managers.

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The health service employs around 80,500 staff. This means that as many as 14% of MoH staff were granted exemptions. Previous mainstream media coverage accessible to the public has only reported that a total of 81 vaccine exemptions (not the actual 11,005) were granted to Ministry of Health staff.

This completely misleading media coverage gave the impression that Ministry of Health staff had almost to a person willingly taken the mRNA vaccine with the exception of 2,400 workers who euphemistically ‘left their jobs’ as a result of mandates.A far smaller number than the 11,005 medical personnel and administrators who secretly received vaccine exemptions and retained their jobs in the health service despite being unvaccinated.

Many dutifully vaccinated members of the public were left with the false belief that they were joining shoulder to shoulder with a health service totally united behind Covid mRNA vaccines. This erroneously strengthened a belief in the false ‘safe and effective’ government narrative. Many who failed to meet vaccination requirements may recall being refused permission to visit loved ones in hospital or care facilities, whilst we now know unvaccinated staff and doctors might have been treating them.

So why did so many MoH staff apply for vaccine exemptions?

They might have read a 2018 paper authored by Drew Weissman and published in Nature entitled “mRNA vaccines — a new era in vaccinology”. Yesterday, Weissman shared the NZ$1.7 million Nobel Prize for medicine with Katalin Karikó for contributing “to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health.”

In this paper, Weissman listed a number of very serious adverse effects that had resulted from prior mRNA vaccine trials. These included:

• Local and systemic inflammation (including the lymph nodes)
• Widespread biodistribution throughout the body and persistence of expressed immunogens (similar to what happens with vaccine-induced Covid spike protein).
• Stimulation of auto-reactive antibodies (associated with thyroiditis, type 1 diabetes and liver disease)
• Toxic effects of novel nucleotides and vaccine adjuvants (similar to that causing vaccine-induced myopericarditis)
• Development of autoimmune disease (including skin inflammation, joint pain, digestive disruption and swollen glands)
• Development of oedema (build up of swollen tissue in legs etc.)
• Blood coagulation (clotting) and pathological thrombus formation (known to be associated with strokes and heart attacks)

Weissman suggested that his research had found ways around these problems. We now know he hadn’t. All of the above are common adverse effects resulting from Covid mRNA vaccination now widely recognised in the scientific literature that we have been citing in our regular reports. He was promising the cure of multiple diseases, but this has turned out to be only hope and hype.

A close reading of Weissman’s 2018 paper reveals that he was subtly stating the case for widespread experimentation on human populations. He wasn’t to be disappointed. Two years later mRNA Covid vaccines were approved for general use in the whole world’s population, based not on sound trial results, but mostly on assurances from authority figures like Weissman.

The motivations are unclear. It is certain that thousands of medical personnel, researchers, and regulators including executives in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields knew of the researched risks. Many also rapidly and correctly concluded that the Covid virus came from a laboratory. However there were trillions of dollars of profits at stake stretching into an imagined biotech future.

Rapidly a well established pharmaceutical public relations and lobbying machine with a global reach sprang into action. Its aim was to suppress any discussion of known risks. It succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of those aiming to profit from the pandemic. Many corporations and individuals have become fabulously rich and/or renowned as a result.

We can now conclude that instead of wealth and fame some are deserving of notoriety.

Exactly who knew what and to what extent some pushed a vaccine they knew to be very harmful and sometimes fatal is to a large extent unknown. Whatever may be judged by way of culpability in the future, it is imperative that those who realise the extent of the problem speak up publicly now.

The secret programme the government initiated to grant vaccine exemptions to thousands of Ministry of Health employees contrasts with the public stance of Chris Hipkins who was the Minister of Health and for the Covid-19 Response from 2020 to 2022. In November 2021 Hipkins complained to RNZ there were people who were aggressively demanding vaccine exemptions. He said:

“Anybody seeking to exert pressure [to gain a vaccine exemption] in the way that we have seen is a matter that the police will be involved with if necessary,”

Hipkins said he was going to establish a central process for approving medical vaccine exemptions. We now know that 11,000 exemptions were granted to people working for the Ministry of Health (headed by Hipkins), whilst almost no exemptions were granted to members of the public and those working in other professions. Even people severely injured by their first Covid vaccine were routinely denied an exemption by the then Director General of Health Dr. Ashley Bloomfield.

Hipkins’ centralised process appeared to be a system designed to deny vaccine exemptions to almost everyone applying other than 11,000 privileged Ministry of Health employees. Simultaneously the General Medical Council was cracking down on any doctors informing the public of vaccine risks and threatening them with suspension and disbarment. The media were repeatedly reprinting the false safe and effective narrative derived not from research but from PR hype. Jacinda Ardern was firming up her policy aim to create a two tier society—vaccinated and unvaccinated. Under this kind of pressure, families were being torn apart by what is now known to be calculated disinformation.

The wheels of this unprecedented level of social control and disinformation were being greased by billions of dollars of government funding sourced through additional borrowing which will have to be repaid by future generations.

This should be an election issue, but you can measure the integrity of our current crop of wannabe political leaders by the refusal of almost all to discuss these issues. In case we think that the enthusiasm for Covid vaccination was limited to the Labour Party, it wasn’t. A source I believe to be reliable inside the National Party has leaked the information that leader Chris Luxon mandated all National MPs to get vaccinated. I wonder what they think about that now? Luxon has told members of the public that he doesn’t want any unvaccinated voting for him.

It seems that the control of personal health choices was a policy endorsed by all parties. There would not have been any different outcome under any of the currently elected parties. Under a different government the situation might have been even more restrictive. It is time for change. The NZ Bill of Rights needs to be entrenched as a constitutional principle in order to provide some protection from government overreach in future.

Whilst Hypocritically Insisting That the Public Be Vaccinated

An OIA HNZ00023978 dated 2 August 2023 asked the following question:

“According to the legislation at the time in 2021, there were operational exemptions available for those who were not getting vaccinated against Covid 19. Your website outlines the process of applying for an operating exemption under clause 12a. How many requests were received? How many were approved by the ministry?”

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Matt Hannant, Interim Director, Prevention, National Public Health Service, Te Whatu Ora replied:

“From 13 November 2021 to 26 September 2022, a total of 478 applications for Significant Service Disruption exemption (SSD) were received. 103 applications were granted, covering approximately 11,005 workers. Please note that it is not possible to provide the exact number of workers that were covered by SSDs. This is because it was possible for an organisation to submit an application to cover more than one worker.”

So exactly how many Ministry of Health staff and associated contractors benefitted from the vaccine exemptions?

I have made enquiries and found some staff prepared to leak information. One source has told me that 95 consultants in the Dunedin region alone benefitted from vaccine exemptions. Another source has pointed to a group of doctors working in Northland who arranged among themselves to remain unvaccinated. The total appears to run to hundreds and possibly more.

It seems that those granted exemptions were restrained by gag orders. In other words, they could not tell anyone that they had been granted exemptions—it was a secretive process that the Ministry of Health was anxious to hide from the public.

In any case, any doctor advising a patient that mRNA Covid vaccination might be risky faced disciplinary action and many were actually suspended.

So medical staff allowed themselves to be manipulated into a position whereby, if they were unvaccinated themselves, they were still required to advise their patients to vaccinate—a recipe for widespread hypocrisy in the health service.

This process was certainly approved by Dr. Ashley Bloomfield who himself gained considerable notoriety by refusing vaccine exemptions to those among the public severely injured by their first jab, insisting that they continue with a vaccination schedule. Given Dr. Bloomfield’s close working relationship with Jacinda Ardern and Chris Hipkins it is quite likely they were both aware of the process and approved it. The opposition leaders were also likely kept in the loop.

The criteria for granting exemptions apparently entailed an assessment concerning how vital staff were to the working of the health service. In other words, senior figures and those holding key surgical positions could actually insist they remain unvaccinated and continue to be allowed to work. Whilst unvaccinated nurses for example could not gain exemptions and lost their positions.

If senior staff who wished to remain unvaccinated had spoken out publicly, the issue of Covid vaccine safety might have been given a public airing. Instead the Ministry of Health and the government kept a lid on all and any discussion. It did so through liaison with mainstream and social media outlets to censor content and through tight control of staff.

So why did senior medical staff choose to remain unvaccinated?

They may have been aware of a 2019 paper in Frontiers in Oncology Journal entitled Gene Therapy Leaves a Vicious Cycle which reported:

“…gene therapy has been caught in a vicious cycle for nearly two decades owing to immune response, insertional mutagenesis, viral tropism, off-target activity, unwanted clinical outcomes (ranging from illness to death of participants in clinical trials), and patchy regulations.”

Despite this evidence of prior harm and the misgivings of senior medical consultants who were in a position to make a reasoned and evidence-based assessment of risk, you may think that the vaccine was in fact safe and effective. It wasn’t, as subsequent research has demonstrated. Incredibly, against the evidence, the government is still encouraging the public to get vaccinated.

As someone who has analysed social data over the last fifty years, I do sympathise with the doctors who opted for caution. That would be a normal reaction to new medications. It takes years to assess safety. So how unsafe is the mRNA Covid vaccine? Extremely unsafe.

The 2023 excess death data across OECD nations.

The top most highly Covid vaccinated nations in the OECD are in order Portugal, Chile, Canada, Iceland, New Zealand, Spain and Australia. Their average percentage of the population vaccinated is 91%. Their average rate of excess deaths so far in 2023 is 12% above the five year historical average.

The least Covid vaccinated nations in the OECD are Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Poland, Estonia, Czech Republic, Hungary and Switzerland. Their average percentage of the population vaccinated is just 63%. Their average rate of excess deaths so far in 2023 is 0% compared to the five year historical average. In other words, they have averaged a normal death rate.

Anyone who suggests that the death rate among the unvaccinated is higher than the vaccinated is running against the tide of evidence. This view doesn’t fit with the international data.

The standard way to resolve this inconsistency would be to refer to prospective studies which assemble two groups, vaccinate one group and leave the other matched group unvaccinated and measure what happens over a significantly long period. In the normal course of vaccine approval this would have been done for around ten years prior to approval. No one has done this.

In the Pfizer trial the unvaccinated control group were all vaccinated after a few months ensuring that long term comparative outcomes are unavailable. In any case, during those few months more people died in the vaccine group than the unvaccinated control group. There are also many studies now published differentiating the outcomes of the vaccinated and unvaccinated that we have reported including journal citations.

So just how concerning is the excess death problem?

According to the OECD there were 1.2 million excess deaths in 2022 among their member countries which had a combined population of 1.2 billion. A rate of one excess death in every 1,000.

Now it is becoming accepted that both Covid and Covid vaccination began their lives in a biotech lab, it doesn’t seem to much matter what proportion of excess deaths are due to Covid and what to Covid vaccination, but for the record in 2022 there were approximately 200,000 deaths with Covid in the OECD. In summary, OECD excess deaths not attributable to Covid were one million in 2022 alone. This probably extends to a few millions worldwide, about the same as the annual deaths during World War one.

You can see why it is so important for those involved in creating Covid policy and enforcing mandates (which includes all of the currently elected 120 politicians) to make sure that everyone continues to believe that more unvaccinated die than vaccinated because otherwise their narrative that Covid policy is saving millions of lives falls completely apart.

In this light we can now assess the motivations of those still poking fun at the vaccine injured or accusing the vaccine hesitant of seeking to undermine the government. The Disinformation Project for example, funded by the Prime Minister’s Office, who, in common with many politicians, have described vaccine injury as a conspiracy theory. They are trying to hide their own mistakes which have undermined the health of the nation.

For the last couple of years the Hatchard Report has had a simple lament “no one in authority seems prepared to ask why excess deaths are occurring at an unprecedented rate”. Deaths are in fact a very stable staple of life. In a normal year there are no excess deaths. Insurance actuaries spend their lives calculating how many of us will die and when with great accuracy. They set life insurance premiums accordingly. Right now, actuaries must be having some sleepless nights because something has gone terribly wrong that has not happened at any other time during the last 100 years outside of war and conflict zones.

A great many people are falling sick and dying, when they should be alive and well.

The Ministry of Health has been hiding these disturbing facts while quietly and hypocritically acknowledging their staff have a right to avoid these risks. They have not just gaslighted the public, they have recklessly put their lives at great risk. This has broken families and communities, pitting one against another. It has caused tragedies affecting families across the nation, while the Ministry of Health and the government are going through tortuous and secret processes in order to conceal what is happening. Moreover they have plans to continue to roll out more experimental vaccines.

As you know, public health is my major concern. Little is possible without robust health. So the most important question is, what alternatives are available to solve the public health crisis?

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This release augments my interview on Reality Check Radio’s Breakfast with Paul Brennan earlier this week and my presentation to the NZDSOS conference on Saturday, 16th September. As election campaigning heats up, it is worth taking a cool look at what is being claimed by wannabe leaders for their proposed policies, and what else could we be doing.

Our political leaders and the nation’s medical administrators have fallen short of explaining to the public what has gone down, not so much during the pandemic but post pandemic—what is happening now. The long wait lists for surgery and the appalling response times for emergency treatment are not so much a reflection of a health service in disarray, but primarily the result of a massive increase in illness among the general population.

Heart disease, cancers, strokes, reproductive health issues, neurological illness, mental health episodes, immunological deficiencies, disability, and excess mortality have been increasing at rates never seen before. We have repeatedly reported on these. For example, the rate of hospitalisation for heart disease has increased by 83% and strokes by 40%. None of these frightening developments have been mentioned during the election campaign.

Let us leave aside for the moment a discussion of the root causes of this tsunami of illness, which will include Covid infection, long Covid, Covid vaccination, Covid lockdowns, and biotechnology experimentation in various proportions.

National, Labour, ACT, and the Greens are promising to increase funding, reduce wait times, increase access to screening and treatment across the spectrum of disease, build more hospitals and fund more drugs, control our borders and incentivise preventative measures including vaccines, train more doctors and import more personnel from overseas. A lot of promises, but can they deliver and will they work?

The sad truth is that the scale and scope of these conventional approaches to rescue the health service will fall far short of the required remediation. Winning the election is going to be a poisoned chalice for whomever is elected because of the huge scale of the problems and the limitations and deficiencies of the approaches currently being used by the health service. Approaches funded and promoted by parliament are in some cases complicating and even causing our health problems. These are the same approaches that all political parties are planning to increase rather than modify or augment.

According to scientific studies, what really can improve health outcomes?

Food

Improving diet is a powerful approach. Many studies show that the benefits of fresh fruit and vegetables for health are not only significant but they are very large. Research published in 2015, with 150,000 participants over 32 years, found that vegetarians live longer. Even a tiny 3 per cent increase in protein from plants led to a huge 12 per cent drop in risk of death from cardiovascular-related disease.

A study published by the BMJ found:

“Participants with Covid-19 who reported following ‘plant-based diets’ and ‘plant-based diets with pescatarian elements’ had 73% and 59% lower odds of moderate-to-severe COVID-19 severity, respectively, compared with participants who did not follow these diets.”

A 2017 review found organic food consumption reduces the risk of allergic disease and obesity. In organic agriculture, the use of pesticides is restricted.

“Epidemiological studies have reported adverse effects of certain pesticides on children’s cognitive development at current levels of exposure.”

Herbs have a long history of safe and effective use in medicine. A randomised placebo-controlled trial published in April 2021 found improved outcomes for Covid-19 positive patients treated with a range of Ayurvedic Indian herbal preparations.

Behaviour

A study conducted in the UK found that shift workers, who typically suffer from disrupted bio clocks and fatigue, were three times more likely to be hospitalised with Covid-19.

A study of 48,000 adults in California published in the BMJ found that regular exercise reduced the risk of severity, hospitalisation, and death from Covid-19.

Other studies show that taking time for enjoyment, variety, and relaxation impacts positively on health and happiness.

Consciousness

Multiple studies show traditional methods of developing consciousness including Yoga, Qigong and Meditation have the potential to improve immunity. A 2012 study of heart patients published in the prestigious journal Circulation entitled “Stress Reduction in the Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease” found that during a five year follow-up those who were randomly assigned to a deep meditation programme decreased 48% on a composite measure of heart attacks, strokes and death compared to health education controls.

A five year study of health insurance statistics of 2,000 people practicing a meditation technique found that both inpatient and outpatient medical utilisation was more than 50% lower than the norm or matched controls, and was lower in every category of disease. Reductions included 87% less heart disease, 55% less cancer, 87% less neurological disease, and 65% lower metabolic disease (including diabetes).

Will the government summon the courage to modify their approach?

If funded by our health service, the very large effect sizes of approaches such as those above would greatly alleviate our current health crisis. However, there has been a huge historical resistance to introducing effective natural approaches to healthcare. Over the years in the past I have made a number of approaches to our healthcare authorities which have been acknowledged as sound but rejected for funding.

In one case for example in the nineties, the chairman of a committee at our Ministry of Health, charged with introducing new health initiatives, praised my presentation but said such measures would never be supported because “the resulting massive improvements in public health would reduce doctor incomes”. How he managed to tell me this and still sleep at night escapes my imagination.

I think you can see that our medical authorities and elected politicians are caught in a medical economic system that is not just reluctant to change but determined to defend the limitations of its pharmaceutical basis. In fact, health is determined primarily not by what drugs we take or surgeries we receive, but by our diet, behaviour, hygiene and mental equanimity.

There is little understanding of this in parliament. National and ACT are planning to deregulate biotechnology experimentation—the underlying cause of the pandemic. Labour and the Greens have already passed legislation which will limit the availability of safe herbal treatments. This indicates a worrying trend towards the control of our health choices, a disregard for safety and risk management, and a willingness to enforce medical experimentation on the public.

The massive and unprecedented health crisis we are currently experiencing is due to the implementation of medical interventions based on biotechnology experimentation. This approach has inherent dangers which need to be addressed. Unless and until our politicians move beyond the pressures exerted by pharmaceutical lobby groups, we will not make progress with public health targets and national well being. This may be new territory for politicians, but success will elude them and the good health of the nation will remain out of reach until that step is taken.

National party leader Christopher Luxon and Health spokesperson Dr. Shane Reti have announced financial incentives payable to doctors if they vaccinate 95% of those registered in their practice. As well as standard doctor payments for vaccination, which were $75 per jab during the pandemic, under National’s plan, doctors will be paid an additional $10 per person bonus as long as they can persuade 95% of their eligible patients to receive jabs by June next year.

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The average NZ GP has around 1350 patients, which could bring in an additional $10,000.

For those hoping that the pandemic gravy train and the medicalisation of politics would stop under a National government, think again. We remember that Labour’s road to perdition began with Jacinda Ardern’s promise to vaccinate 90% of the population. Luxon intends to finish the job and up the ante to 95%. Despite his best efforts to sound reasonable, Luxon has given us another glimpse into his long held prejudice against anyone who wants to manage their own health choices.

Bonus payments to doctors achieving vaccination targets is just a step away from the coercive mandates which evolved under Ardern. The proposed payments will only add to current incentives to prioritise vaccination, come what may. You can hear the ringing of cash registers. They will further push informed consent onto the back burner at a time when new studies are revealing mRNA vaccines are associated with adverse health outcomes.

Politicians are no longer able to deny we are in the midst of a health crisis like no other.

The misleading remedies they are offering involve blaming everything bad on Covid and everything good on new vaccines, whatever the research says.

An article published by RNZ yesterday suggests “Covid may have permanently damaged people’s immunity,” saying

“Covid infections are putting people at higher risk of diabetes, strokes, heart disease and other long-term illnesses – but experts warn it may be decades before the full impact is known.”

The article encourages us to mask up, utilise CO2 monitors, and install ventilation systems ASAP. It quoted a Northland ED doctor Gary Payinda who ‘suspects’ based on very high rates of admissions and serious complications from normally mild conditions that Covid may have damaged people’s immunity. He refers to the “latest research” which he claims without attribution “showed vaccination halved the risk of cardiac problems post-infection” [???].

I hope you noticed the incongruity. New Zealand has a vaccination rate of around 90% which according to Payinda should reduce cardiac problems, but we have a 83% higher rate of cardiac events, according to leaked hospitalisation data, since we began Covid vaccination programmes. It doesn’t fit together does it?

Our massive increases in hospitalisations here in NZ for cardiac events, strokes, kidney damage, miscarriage, etc. began in 2021 after the vaccine rollout, but before Covid arrived on our shores in anything but very isolated outbreaks. The evidence for vaccine harm is irrefutable (watch here).

Dr. Payinda probably hasn’t read my last few articles which report carefully designed published studies showing that

• mRNA vaccination increases susceptibility to viral and bacterial infection among the young.
• Vaccine induced myocardial injury is 1000 times more common than the rate admitted by the government and their medical authorities.
• The spike protein persists for up to six months post vaccination
• Immunity from natural infection is 13 times more effective than mRNA vaccination at preventing Covid infection and 7 times more effective at preventing hospitalisation.
• Cancers are rising dramatically in tandem with Covid vaccinations

There has been deafening silence from Luxon and the whole current crop of politicians on the studies of vaccine safety that we have been analysing and reporting every week. Both Labour and National are calling for more doctors to solve the health crisis, but inexplicably failing to discuss a significant cause of our health crisis—their coercive policies to promote novel mRNA vaccines.

In a recent trial, 1 out of 50 recipients of the new Moderna Covid XBB.1.5 mRNA vaccine suffered a medically attended adverse event subsequent to their vaccination. The question is: do you think these are good odds? If 2% of people crossing a road were hit by cars would you take that route? Those are our current odds, but you wouldn’t know it if you listened to our politicians. We are not talking about weighing up marginal relative risks here, there are significant large unprecedented short and long term risks to health.

Yet vaccine safety is off the table when it comes to talks at hustings and press conferences. Today’s announcement of financial incentives shows vaccination safety is not just a no go area, apparently if there is some political leverage to be gained by talking up vaccines to a misinformed public schooled for the last three years to fear Covid infection, then it’s still OK to keep the public in the dark about vaccine adverse events.

Payments to scientists, experts, and doctors to change their minds or keep quiet seems to be the flavour of the month. According to a letter sent by the Chairman of the House select committee on the coronavirus pandemic to CIA Director William Burns on 12th September 2023, a senior-level CIA officer has testified that his agency tried to pay off six analysts if they changed their support for a lab-leak origin and said the virus jumped from animals to humans.

The extreme efforts to hide the lab origin of Covid is entirely relevant to today’s article. If Covid infection and vaccination both originated from a lab, the whole paradigm of biotechnology is to blame for our current drop in public health. This makes it all the more inexplicable that the National Party and ACT are pledged to deregulate biotechnology experimentation.

If they are elected, we will only have ourselves to blame for what happens next. We have entered an age when it pays to be alert. A 2022 study of the Prevalence of Accident Occurrence Among Scientific Laboratory Workers found:

“Among 220 participants recruited in our study, 99 participants (45.0%) have had accidents during their lab work. 59.6% have been exposed once, 32.3% between two and four times, only 1.0% between four and six times, but 7.1% more than six times.”

A USA Today Investigation into bio-laboratory safety uncovered hundreds of mistakes. It found:

“Vials of bioterror bacteria have gone missing. Lab mice infected with deadly viruses have escaped, and wild rodents have been found making nests with research waste. Cattle infected in a university’s vaccine experiments were repeatedly sent to slaughter and their meat sold for human consumption.”

No general pandemic investigation such as that currently progressing through the US House Committee with wide terms of reference is being proposed in New Zealand. Last night the National Party was riding high in the polls on 39%. The only party currently scoring more than 1% that is questioning the safety of novel biotech vaccines and asking for an investigation is NZ First on 5%.

With its latest incentives to vaccinate, National is doubling down on the very policies that have caused the most damage to our health over the last three years. Instead, vote for a party prepared to examine the evidence and face up to past mistakes. If we are not healthy, we will not be happy, wealthy or wise whatever other policy initiatives are introduced.

For the last two years behind the scenes, I have urged those planning to set up parties and run for election on platforms designed to address the pandemic, to band together under common agreed policies. This hasn’t happened. There are several new parties who have failed to register in the polls despite their best efforts. At this point in time, there are very good reasons to vote tactically, otherwise, our voice may not be heard. It is becoming very clear now that without elected representation we may be condemned to three more years of medical dictatorship and burgeoning ill health.