As we enter into another year, excess all cause deaths for the first six weeks of 2023 in New Zealand are running at 700 deaths higher than the long term 2010 to 2019 average (as reported by the authoritative Human Mortality Database which tabulates official New Zealand government data).

Allowing for an increase in the population of New Zealand since 2019 of 269,000, excess deaths are running approximately 17% above 2019 rates and 24% higher than the excess death rate over the same six week period in 2022. In other words, the rate of excess deaths appears to be accelerating. That should be alarming and certainly cause for discussion and analysis, but apparently, no one in authority cares.

Quite the reverse actually, government experts are busy trying to hide what is going on. New Zealand vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris and epidemiologist Michael Baker have been giving interviews to the international press to refute widely circulating claims that the New Zealand excess deaths might be related to mRNA vaccination.

A March 9th USA Today article masquerading as a Fact Check (???) concedes 2022 New Zealand all cause mortality was actually 10% higher than 2021 but quotes Michael Baker who says:

“There is no evidence that COVID-19 vaccination is causing excess mortality. Quite the contrary, high vaccination coverage in New Zealand has prevented many deaths that would have occurred if this virus had circulated before the population had the opportunity to be vaccinated.”

Helen Petousis-Harris goes one step further telling USA Today:

“The fact that vaccinated people are less likely to die than unvaccinated people directly refutes this fantasy”

Baker and Harris omit to mention the recent data released by the New Zealand Ministry of Health revealing that in 2022 boosted individuals disproportionately suffered increased deaths when compared to the unvaccinated (check it out here). Petousis-Harris didn’t present evidence to support her claim, and USA Today didn’t ask for it. Her university position and her record as a paid Pfizer advisor was enough for them. So much for USA Today as a fact checker, it merits an F grade or something lower.

Petousis-Harris also conveniently forgot to tell USA Today about her RNZ media interview in October 2022 in which she said:

On a fourth booster: “I wouldn’t be running out to get myself boosted. I don’t think it would be particularly useful. I don’t see any evidence to suggest it is going to benefit me.”

On the Moderna bivalent booster: “I think that the expectations for the new bivalent vaccines exceed the evidence. Probably not a lot [of protection against Omicron]”

So 2023 New Zealand excess deaths are running up 17% on the long term average, on track to top 2022, but our local experts are scurrying around shilling for the government line that there is nothing to see here. How could that be? You tell me. I’m puzzled and I’m not alone. Substack commentator Steve Kirsch reports: “New Israeli MoH study shows COVID vax increases your risk of death over time“, but the authors of the study blame not the vaccine but something they call the ‘Healthy Vaccinee Effect’ (HVE).

Put rather crudely, HVE theory suggests that people were about to die but received the Covid vaccine and as a result their health picked up. Four months later their fate caught up with them and they died anyway. None of this stacks up statistically and doesn’t match the data, but faith in mRNA vaccines is so high among those highly paid to administer, promote, and research them that almost any crazy argument is acceptable to hide the rising excess deaths and make Covid vaccines sound wonderful.

You can see what is happening can’t you? Unlike Petousis-Harris, the authors of the Israeli study are obliged to admit that people are consistently dying in the months post vaccination. So they make up an argument that fits their ‘vaccines are wonderful’ narrative, even if it doesn’t match the data. All this makes you wonder what on earth is going on. Have these people lost their marbles? Do they think that we are so dumb we won’t notice?

At this point in time, the evidence for the dangers of Covid vaccines is utterly overwhelming. Sometimes we naively think we can use logic, data, and scientific evidence, to persuade Covid vaccine proponents of the dangers, but this is not working out. Like addicted gamblers, they are unable to change tack, they are placing their same dud bets again.

As a result, we are faced with a situation fraught with multiple potential dangers whose final outcomes are very uncertain. It is a perfect storm of factors and no one in authority wants to know:

• Excess all cause death rates related to vaccination are increasing
• The scope and volume of biotechnology experimentation is growing
• The range of vaccine injuries is expanding to include rare conditions
• Governments are doubling down on mRNA vaccine promotion

If there is one thing the pandemic data should have told us by now: don’t mess with DNA—it is the anchor that our whole life depends on. DNA is the vital part of the integrated physiological network that supports health, consciousness, and everything that makes us human. How DNA achieves that is little understood and in fact largely unknown, but one thing is clear: DNA achieves this automatically without our personal intervention.

In the process, DNA makes trillions and trillions of healthy decisions on our behalf every day. mRNA vaccines do the reverse. They constrain the DNA deep inside the cell nucleus to express itself differently, overriding natural immune responses in the cells affected. According to eminent geneticists writing as early as January 2020, disastrous outcomes are inevitable including total system collapse.

This results from a perfect storm of factors, particularly including suppression of immune efficiency. Another factor is contamination of Covid vaccines with left-over expression vectors used in the manufacture of mRNAs. Recently reported assays could point to contamination levels 100-fold higher than originally proposed and imply trillions of replication-competent DNA circular plasmid molecules per vaccine dose. These could possibly be responsible for turbo charging cancers and/or bacterial infections.

The safety research to investigate these possibilities was never undertaken. If you go to threads dealing with vaccine injury you will see multiple cases of septic shock following Covid vaccination, which can result in amputation of limbs. The tenor of these reports is that simple infections like flu can suddenly turn into rare life-threatening diseases as in this case reported in the Herald this morning (without mentioning mRNA vaccination). If the immune system is suppressed, total system stability of physiology is at risk.

Our health depends on a healthy relationship between our DNA and the global biosphere. The quality of our food sources and water, climatic conditions including sunshine, rainfall, wind, temperature, the air we breathe, seasonal and daily routines, family and social interactions all play their part, but overriding all of these factors and commanding the dance of life, DNA is the silent controller of immunity. DNA is orchestrating health, it is automatically doing so through the instrumentality of all the laws of nature. If you think you can do better than that, think again. The data is in, mRNA vaccines alter the way DNA expresses itself and that can be fatal. They don’t work, more than that, they are very dangerous. Death is stalking mRNA vaccination.

Unprecedented elevated excess death rates in highly vaccinated countries around the world, including ours, are continuing, but health authorities are still looking the other way or worse, trying to normalise sudden unexpected death. People of working age are dying suddenly and unexpectedly, but health authorities are very keen that we don’t think it unusual.

Divya Simon, 31, a New Zealand rest home nurse, had her third booster vaccination, next morning she felt unwell. She had chest pains and dizzy spells and was unable to work, classic symptoms of an mRNA vaccine reaction. Two days later, she suffered a massive heart attack, and the following day she died in ICU. Incredibly the coroner has ruled that this was not related to the Covid mRNA booster.

The coroner found that an angiogram had been unable to determine a cause of the cardiac arrest, nor did Simon’s medical records throw any light on the cause, but the coroner discounted any role of the vaccine on the advice of the pathologist who vaguely ascribed a cause of death, saying it was “likely due to an underlying weakness [??] in the coronary arteries”. In other words, no one in authority knows why she died, but they don’t care as long as it is not the vaccine.

The Centre for Adverse Reaction Monitoring (CARM) came to the same blame deflecting conclusion. During the two years of Covid vaccines in New Zealand, CARM has only admitted that two deaths are due to vaccine induced injury. It has continued to stonewall any suggestion of vaccine involvement despite our excess deaths running at unprecedented record levels.

A Forensic Files episode reveals just how strange this is. Pre-Covid, a pathologist is depicted struggling to determine the cause of a sudden death of a young person. She says she is determined to get to the bottom of it because sudden death of young working age persons is so unusual—at the time you couldn’t leave it superficially investigated. It is no longer unusual, but the authorities are unconcerned to look deeper.

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Edward Dowd, Hedge Fund Manager, and finance data analyst has clearly demonstrated in his book “The Epidemic of Sudden Death in 2021 and 2022” that the employed population of the US has had worse health outcomes in disability and excess death since the introduction of Covid vaccines. Normally the employed have the best health outcomes. If it’s not vaccine related what is it? Why are the authorities not asking why? Dowd’s answer:

“They know why and they are in cover up mode for the greatest biomedical health catastrophe ever implemented in the history of humanity.”

New studies are being published every week which point to the causal involvement of mRNA vaccines in record hospitalisations and death rates from a range causes, but they are being ignored. Alarmingly, scientists are realising that some adverse effects are very common indeed. We know about myocarditis and acute kidney injury following Covid vaccination, here are some hints about what else is happening:

Brain Injury

An article in BBC news today recounts the harrowing experience of a British Olympian women’s rugby sevens player Abi Burton who experienced persistent mental health episodes following her return from the July 2021 Olympics including depression, seizures, and manic aggression. Eventually, she was diagnosed as psychotic and sectioned to a psychiatric hospital.

Fortunately, a member of the staff was a specialist in autoimmune diseases. After tests, Burton was diagnosed with autoimmune encephalitis, which occurs when the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks the brain. According to a clinician, this is a very rare neurological disease that presents major challenges for clinicians worldwide to diagnose and investigate. A glance through current references shows it is suddenly becoming a more common topic. Why?

Multiple investigators are reporting an association between autoimmune encephalitis and mRNA vaccination, including the following:

Acute encephalitis after COVID-19 vaccination: A case report and literature review

A case of encephalitis following COVID-19 vaccine

Case Report: Anti-LGI1 Encephalitis Following COVID-19 Vaccination

A Possible Case of Autoimmune Encephalitis After mRNA COVID-19 Booster Vaccine: A Case Report

A study just published 6th March 2023 entitled “Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Real-World Data Analysis” identified over 6,000 patients with diabetes who received a COVID-19 vaccination and compared them to 20,000 diabetes-free controls who were vaccinated. Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) were more likely to experience eight severe adverse events than controls including: cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, encephalitis myelitis encephalomyelitis, Bell’s palsy, lymphadenopathy, ischemic stroke, deep vein thrombosis, thrombocytopenia, and pulmonary embolism. The authors recommend careful monitoring of severe adverse events in patients with T2DM may be necessary, especially for those related to thrombotic events and neurological dysfunctions after COVID-19 vaccination.

Rugby player Burton was almost certainly required to be vaccinated to attend the Olympics in Japan, but the BBC article makes no mention of this. Consequently, we have no idea whether her health difficulties with this formerly very ‘rare’ illness were in any way related to Covid vaccination. We do, however, know that patients with diabetes are being prioritised to receive Covid vaccination because they are considered to be at risk from Covid. It now appears that Covid vaccination is exposing them to a range of severe risks. The authors of the T2DM study point out the risk is highest for those receiving the Pfizer mRNA vaccine. Why on earth are we continuing to offer it?

Covid Vaccines Affect Women of Child-bearing Age

We have reached the point now where the hugely powerful technique of meta-analysis can be applied to multiple studies of single disease categories. A meta-analysis of 16 previously completed studies published 2nd March 2023 entitled “COVID-19 Vaccination and Menstrual Disorders Among Women: Findings from a meta-Analysis Study” has found that following Covid vaccination:

24% suffer menorrhagia—(heavy bleeding lasting more than seven days).

23% suffer oligomenorrhea—(infrequent periods, fewer than 6 per year)

16% suffer polymenorrhea—(period intervals less than 21 days).

Combine this with the reports of mathematician Igor Chudov and others who have posted multiple reports of reduced birth rates in the EU and highly vaccinated countries around the world in the year following Covid vaccination and you know a problem is being swept under the carpet. It needs to be acknowledged and investigated.

An article in the NZ Herald yesterday admits that our department of health is not very good at investigating anything. They seem to specialise in making figures look rosy for themselves, even if it means cutting a few corners and hiding some unfortunate truths. Tell me about it. Covid vaccines are increasing our risk of death, but the government doesn’t want us to know. Against all evidence, they are encouraging everyone over thirty to get another booster. Like a gambling addict, they are rolling the dice again and again on our behalf.

Damaging revelations from UK Health Minister Matt Hancock’s 13th December 2020 private WhatsApp messaging show just how much the UK government sought to manipulate the public and their own party. Tory MPs were against stricter lockdown measures, but Hancock messaged his media advisor Damon Poole:

“We frighten the pants off everyone with the new strain [Covid Alpha]”

Poole: “Yep, that is what will get us proper behavioural change”

Hancock: “When do we deploy the new variant?”

After his television interviews in January carrying the same fear-based messaging running up to the vaccine rollout, Hancock received congratulations from a supporter that he had ‘come over well’ and that ‘a well handled crisis of this scale could propel you into the next league, and break you through in terms of public perception.’

Hancock also moved to exclude dissenting voices within the group of SAGE scientists advising the government. Talking about Dr. Jeremy Farrar, he said

“He needs to be either inside the tent and onside, or outside…”

Were Hancock and Other Leaders Around the World Right to Press the Fear Button?

Remember, at the time, we were seeing pictures of morgues overwhelmed in New York City. Accounts were being published of mass deaths among the elderly in many countries, including Italy. We now realise that these deaths were not evenly spread. NYC had a huge surge in deaths, but nearby Boston did not. They had a rash of asymptomatic cases. Bergamo, Italy had an 800% increase in excess deaths, nearby Po Valley did not.

A closer look reveals an alternative possibility—a panicked pandemic response may have been helping to drive deaths up. Foreign health care workers abandoned their posts in Italy, while fearful relatives (the traditional elderly carers in the Italian family system) stayed away from those stricken. The elderly are particularly vulnerable and can easily succumb to changes in their routine, especially when given an added dose of fear.

To illustrate the effect of fear, psychologist Martin Seligman performed an experiment in the 1960s which demonstrated that helplessness and resignation to fate can be learned. Seligman subjected dogs to the pain of repeated electric shocks (not something that can happen now). They were offered no escape from the repeated administration of pain. The dogs were transferred to a holding pen where there was easy access to an escape route, but when the shocks started up the dogs did not try to escape because they had been conditioned to believe they were helpless. They just lay down and whimpered. In contrast, dogs who had not been conditioned to accept pain as inevitable took the opportunity to escape when the shocks began.

Seligman subsequently found that the way people view negative events that happen to them can have an impact on whether they feel helpless or not. It is not just possible, but certain, that Hancock and many other politicians’ repeated conditioning of the public and health care workers led to the belief that Covid was inevitably deadly. This left many feeling helpless and maybe even giving up their fight to survive infection.

‘Learned Helplessness’ Might Have Played a Part in Perpetuating the Pandemic.

Seligman’s early work has led to a greater understanding of trauma and helped us to understand why victims of trauma can suffer behavioural afflictions for years afterward. They may continue to fear the worst even when the original cause of the trauma has disappeared. They may feel threatened and compelled to take evasive action, even when there is no longer any threat, just because of some sensory trigger that reminds them of past events. They may be stuck with their sense of helplessness and nonsensical responses, even when informed that there is no cause to fear anymore.

At this point in time, we have certainly entered that phase of the pandemic when the actual danger that Covid poses is very low, but the fear of it remains high. Many people are still obsessively masking, demanding more shots, and blaming the unvaccinated. Research has shown that mRNA Covid vaccines are ineffective and even dangerous to health, but many feel compelled to reject this information. They have been conditioned by repeated publicity to cling to the idea that they are being and will be protected in future by repeated inoculations, when the opposite is actually the case.

Fear and stress is known to have an impact on physical and mental health. It has been linked to increased incidence of cardiovascular illness, depression, cancer, etc. The number with long term sickness and disability in the UK increased by 462,000 between 2019 and 2022. Young people are particularly affected. A remarkable rise whose causes remain uninvestigated by authorities. The causes are likely to include long covid, covid vaccine adverse effects, and pandemic stress, although the proportional allocation between these potential causes is unknown.

Importantly we need to know how to escape from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Learned Helplessness is a mental condition that ‘cages’ our psychology. We become trapped by false expectations of failure. I spent a year in the 1990s helping people in Armenia with PTSD following the massive earthquake which killed 25,000. PTSD symptoms are inclusive of learned helplessness. It is amazing how meditation administered on a mass scale (we taught 35,000 people to meditate) can rapidly reverse the symptoms of PTSD (I discuss this in my book Your DNA Diet). We also need a political solution.

What Are the Political Lessons?

It is also important to understand that governments around the world (in conjunction with global organisations like WEF, WHO, and pharmaceutical interests) egged each other on to more and more extreme positions on the possible effects of Covid. To justify their policies, politicians including our own, pointed to other countries saying ‘we can’t be wrong, look they have reached the same conclusions as we have.’ In reality, it was a case of the blind leading the blind and vice versa. This is one of the common pitfalls of globalisation. News stories from distant countries describing the effects of policy or events, often do not contain sufficient context or data to justify any conclusions.

It now appears likely that it was the official response to the pandemic, especially the Covid vaccines, that have been responsible for far more deaths than Covid itself and are still driving excess deaths higher. Ministers like Hancock, as well as Ardern and Hipkins here in New Zealand, placed undue reliance on exaggerated press reports of isolated worst case outcomes in foreign individual settings. This gave rise to wholly false modelling of potential pandemic deaths. The statistical analysis of outcomes on a wider scale was telling a different story—Covid was no more deadly than flu.

The extremism involved in the public messaging struck a chord with those in positions of authority in the medical profession. Look at this thread for a run down on how this evolved to become an almost fanatical faith in Covid vaccination and a determination to enforce compliance whilst ignoring or even hiding safety signals. Something that is still continuing. The very people charged with protecting health, were betraying the trust placed in them.

Our democratic institutions have been placed under enormous strain by the pandemic, their inherent flaws have also been exposed. Routine elections (every three years in New Zealand) mean that politicians cannot be judged by long term outcomes. Politicians often experiment by implementing extreme ideas or flex their inexperienced muscles on ill thought out policy. Naive leaders who have gained election through their PR skills rather than competence, find themselves completely at sea when governing a nation. Many leaders like Jacinda Ardern and Nicola Sturgeon have then simply walked away leaving a mess for others to address.

Historically, Life Was a Natural Balance Between the Individual and Social Interest.

Society was formed from a complex set of personal interactions and transactions between individuals, families, and groups. In the modern world, there is increasing emphasis on the individual and increasing isolation of individuals from society. Modern appliances, housing, working environments, and lifestyles free many from the need to directly interact with others. Therefore many have abrogated social responsibility and unthinkingly look to the elected government to hold society together, an endeavour in which politicians are singularly ill-equipped to succeed.

Collectively we have come to suffer from learned helplessness. We falsely believe that only the government is capable of deciding matters pertaining to health and employment, whereas previously, many functions of society were formed by day to day decisions and actions of members of society (ourselves). Gradually governments have extended their influence and power. We are going cap in hand to governments to ask them to fix things which previously were outside of the government remit. For example, during the pandemic (and starting even before) individual health choices about treatment have been transferred to governments who act as proxies for pharmaceutical interests. This includes a process of bureaucratic centralisation, which removes decisions from local areas and people.

We will not succeed in changing the situation unless we both change ourselves and reform the rules through which society functions. There are many stakeholders in society that governments have begun to ignore. Parliamentary privilege allows politicians to lie with impunity. They are not subject to the same norms of behaviour that we are. Moreover politicians have felt free to overrule human rights hard won throughout the history of society.

We need to step away from the sense of dependence on multiple vaccines that don’t work and have actually made the problems worse. Health care systems are overwhelmed around the world. The problems are not caused by Covid, but by our response to it. Fear is a powerful weapon that was launched irresponsibly. The consequent trauma cannot be reversed by doing nothing or continuing the faulty narrative.

Admit mistakes and apologise. Compensate injured people. Halt biotechnology experimentation. Entrench the New Zealand Bill of Rights. Prevent companies from enforcing medical mandates.

We have witnessed an assault on freedom, the break up of families, economic decline, a rise in crime, injury and fatality on a massive scale. It can no longer be business as usual. The data from governments around the world, including our own, shows what is going on. Learned helplessness is standing between us and reality.

Guy Hatchard, Ph.D., was formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID, a food testing and certification company (now known as FoodChain ID).

Guy is the author of Your DNA Diet: Leveraging the Power of Consciousness To Heal Ourselves and Our World. An Ayurvedic Blueprint For Health and Wellness.

The first two months in 2023 present us with a turning point in the legal arguments around Covid-19 vaccination in New Zealand.

To: The Hon. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins

Two publications by the Ministry of Health itself present evidence that within the government there is knowledge that the Pfizer mRNA Covid vaccine cannot be regarded as safe and effective. Therefore from this point in time forward, there is no credible legal defence that the government can advance to cover its failure to openly inform individuals and the public at large of the inherent health risks of Covid vaccines.

Up until this point in time, the government’s public announcements, including your own under the previous administration, relied on the argument that the government is ‘following the science’ and monitoring international Covid journal publishing. This was never credible, but allowed room for a fanciful defence (certainly a weak argument) of ‘accident, ignorance, misapprehension, or misdirection’ in any possible legal case brought under criminal or civil law. This can no longer be the case.

Firstly a preprint paper was published on 3 February 2023 in the Lancet authored by our own Ministry of Health “Adverse Events Following the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine (Pfizer-BioNtech) in Aotearoa New Zealand”. The paper reveals there is a statistically significant association between Pfizer mRNA vaccination and both Myocarditis and Acute Kidney Injury (AKI).

Acute kidney injury (AKI), also known as acute renal failure (ARF), is a sudden episode of kidney failure or kidney damage that happens within a few hours or a few days. AKI causes a build-up of waste products in your blood and makes it hard for your kidneys to keep the right balance of fluid in your body. AKI can also affect other organs such as the brain, heart, and lungs.

The study examined the comprehensive medical records of 4 million NZers. There were 1778 more cases of AKI than predicted from historical pre-pandemic rates. An alarming rate of 1 case for every 2,200 vaccinations. In addition to AKI and Myocarditis, researchers also found elevated rates of blood clots and platelet damage.

Secondly, information concerning mortality in 2021, 2022, and 2023 correlated with vaccination status has been released by Te Whata Ora—Health New Zealand following a Freedom of Information (OIA) request. The figures are signed off by Astrid Koornneef, Interim Director of Prevention, National Public Health Service.

The released figures include all NZ registered deaths by month. The figures show that for the last six months of 2022, 80% of all people dying in New Zealand had received Pfizer mRNA booster shots. Yet according to official government figures updated 14 February 2023 only 73.2% of those eligible (18+ years) have received a booster. In other words, booster recipients are disproportionately represented among registered all-cause deaths. For more analysis refer here.

These two data sets certainly point towards serious risks associated with Pfizer mRNA Covid vaccination and stand in need of further investigation. The first only investigated outcomes within 21 days of Covid vaccination, the second indicates serious effects persist in the general population past 21 days. Taken together these point to a need for analysis of the causes of the current high rates of hospital admissions and deaths with reference to vaccination status.

Despite the ongoing need for more investigation, the results are sufficiently concerning according to ordinary standards of vaccine risk assessment to require an immediate halt to vaccine administration. This has not happened. Instead your Minister of Health, Ayesha Verrall has announced a new booster shot for everyone over 30. Verrall did not reveal the concerning new safety data to the public. Instead she has urged people to receive the vaccine as a priority.

Findings of this type are not unique to New Zealand, increasingly publications in learned journals are highlighting concerns about Covid vaccine safety. There is much academic debate in progress which has received little or no coverage in New Zealand media. Your government appears to share the burden of responsibility for a lack of balanced coverage in NZ mainstream media.

There appears to be a misapprehension among NZ health professionals concerning the reliability of biotechnology vaccine manufacturing standards. Data points to huge variability in safety by vaccine batch. The following chart records serious vaccine injury and death by batch number in the USA sourced from publicly available VAERS data sets. You can see that the number of injuries varies hugely by batch. A few injury numbers are similar to those recorded following flu vaccination, but most batches lead to injury volumes considerably higher, up to 14 times higher.

As early as January 18 2021 Orange County California medical authorities flagged an unusually high pattern of injury and death associated with a single batch they had been administering. Pfizer should have immediately alerted New Zealand authorities to such anomalies. They probably had a contractual obligation to do so. Now that it has become a matter of public comment, it should not be possible to continue to assert Covid vaccine safety. New Zealand has a code of Good Manufacturing Process for pharmaceuticals. This includes a requirement for uniformity of pharmaceutical medicine contents and action. Apparently, Pfizer Covid vaccines do not meet our code.

The scientific evidence concerning the lack of Covid vaccine safety has not reduced the stitched up action of government intelligence services, the police, and Te Punaha Matatini’s Disinformation Project in coordination with media and social media to monitor and reduce the reach of those raising pertinent questions. As you know, under the Prime Minister’s office there is interagency coordination for mis/disinformation monitoring and response. This involves multiple government departments. If these programmes and participants are not fully informed of the legitimacy of concerns about Covid vaccine safety, this amounts to misdirection and possibly harassment on the part of the Prime Minister’s office itself.

I and many others believe New Zealand has struggled to define its relationship with unregulated global influences in the modern era. There is much scope for commercial and geopolitical misdirection even via established channels of medical, military, and political cooperation. We need to be more alert as a nation to our own sovereign and economic interests especially when we consider health and the legal protections that have been afforded to multinational interests like Pfizer and others.

You are newly appointed to a position of power and influence. You have stated that you intend to reconsider the policies followed under your predecessor. It was therefore very surprising to find your Minister of Health doubling down on vaccine requirements against the weight of her own department’s findings. I urge you to look into this very thoroughly. As a trained lawyer, I expect you realise that going against the weight of safety evidence is very much a betrayal of the trust the public has placed in the government.

I hope you will announce a revision and retraction of Covid response policies in the light of the new evidence that is being published. Apparently New Zealand has acquired 1.7 million doses of Pfizer bi-valent vaccines. Why? Have you considered returning them as not fit for purpose? The weight of evidence points in that direction. Evidence that is accumulating by the week in learned journals.

It seems clear that we have passed a point where policy mistakes can be described as accidental, if continued they will appear to be deliberate. The public stands in need of an honest explanation. It may take courage to speak out, but doing so will be a mark of integrity and genuine concern for health and safety.

Yours sincerely

Guy Hatchard PhD