Pfizer Side-Effects

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In recent weeks it seems that a few people have begun to talk about adverse reactions to the Pfizer covid vaccine. A US court has ordered Pfizer to release a damning document that highlights over 100 different adverse reactions to the vaccine from around the world. Curiously there were a few others that were not listed which I think are common enough. Unlisted side-effects of the Pfizer covid vaccine are self-righteousness, stupidity, heartlessness and the loss of critical thinking skills.

Let’s take Duncan Garner as our first example. Having just received his second dose of the vaccine, he gets covid. Initially surprised he assumed it couldn’t be covid because he was already vaccinated. His religious faith took a hit when he discovered it was, but he managed to overcome this spiritual attack and move to comfort himself with the thought that things would have been far worse had he not been vaccinated. Conclusion? Get vaccinated says Garner. So he thought the vaccine prevented him from getting Covid. It didn’t. And now he expects us to get this marvellous vaccine because he thinks it will reduce the effects of the virus. Don’t take up a job in sales mate.

Then there are the clowns who complain about the protests. Newmarket’s retail boss Mark Knoff-Thomas labelled those protesting by marching down Broadway as ‘utter dickheads’ because it apparently ruined one of the busiest shopping days of the year. I wonder what he calls the people who shut down the shops for about a quarter of the year and who now are banning unvaccinated people from many shops around the country.

On a related note, we have Inangahua Community Board chair John Bougen frustrated with supposedly irrational attitudes of anti-vaxxers. Let’s leave the ‘anti-vaxxer’ slur alone this time. People who haven’t got the Pfizer vaccine are not all anti-vaxxers. If you don’t know this, it’s probably due to the little known adverse reaction of stupidity.

So what’s Bougen’s problem? Why are those choosing not to take the vaccine irrational? Well, unfortunately for him, it’s a case of the pot calling the kettle black. The only irrational one is Bougen. He is annoyed because those who have refused the vaccine are having a negative impact on business. Cafes have apparently lost staff and can’t open on certain days of the week. Chefs are no longer working at restaurants. The worst of all for Bougen is that employers have to foot the bill for four weeks pay for the staff who have refused the vaccine and are losing their jobs. How dare these people get four weeks pay? They’ve only been pushed out on their arse because our ever benevolent overlords have decided to mandate an experimental vaccine before they can continue in their employment. Why should they get four weeks pay as they begin to look for jobs that will allow the modern-day leper to apply? How dare we give them anything? They should be dismissed immediately. Who do they think they are trying to make their own medical choices? Bastards. They should be tossed on the street without a cent. Better still, they should have been held down and forcibly vaccinated so John Bougen can enjoy a flat white at the cafe of his choice.

This is a clear case of the damage the Pfizer vaccine is doing to the critical thinking skills of a number of New Zealanders. We treat people abominably and then we blame them for the results of our treatment. We accept the government’s injustice like docile sheep, and then instead of blaming the government for its evil stupidity, we turn on the poor sods who have already suffered job losses and then blame them for minor inconveniences to ourselves. We say they are ruining the economy because now we don’t have enough workers. We blame them for putting lives in danger because they are no longer working as St John’s volunteers because of the mandate.

I’ve even heard this sort of stupid thinking even amongst some Christians who think unvaccinated people need to just resign and let employers get on with hiring someone else. There is no compassion, no love, no care, no sense of the great wrong that is being done right now. No desire for justice. No understanding that not only are brave people losing their jobs, but they are also losing their rights to be free citizens in their own country. No haircuts, no date nights, no clay shooting club, no weddings, no family Christmas and the list keeps going on and on. There is only a sense of frustration that these people won’t just disappear and stop ruining our society.

And finally to the mainstream media for their stupidity. The New Zealand Herald had a recent headline: Young girl gets virus after hug with unvaccinated adult. The lead paragraph reads. “An 11-year-old girl got Covid-19 after “a fleeting hug” with an unvaccinated adult at a family dinner, leaving the family’s lives “disrupted” for three weeks, her mother says.” Sounds absolutely appalling, doesn’t it?

So the story? A young girl hugs a young man who was unvaccinated and carried the virus. Interestingly he did not know he had the virus, so it can’t have been bad – not like Duncan’s version eh?! The poor girl contracted the virus and ended up with covid and had to isolate. It was very disruptive apparently. Then we get the usual self-righteous lecturing about how the mother always follows the rules like a good little sheep, as well as the obligatory throwing the unvaccinated family member under the bus and the altar call to accept the gospel of vaccination. Then we are regaled with the fact that poor Shakyra had a compromising health condition and was born premature.

By this stage I was truly worried, I can tell you. In typical mainstream media fashion, my fears were only relieved 3/4 of the way down. Shakyra only had a runny nose and a cough. One wonders how this made it into our supposed premier newspaper. Imagine trying this 3 years ago. My daughter was hugged by her uncle who hadn’t got his flu shot. She got a runny nose and a bit of a cough. That would have been front-page news that. Riveting stuff. The real question is, why isn’t the headline “Two unvaccinated young people unaffected by Covid”?

Keep your eyes peeled my friends. As you do, you will surely see that these vaccine side effects of stupidity, self-righteousness and loss of critical thinking skills are worryingly common.

Which Character Do You Play?

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Recently I listened to N D Wilson talking about ‘story’. Some of his comments were extremely thought-provoking. Watch for instance his short film Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl. He portrays God as a great storyteller or playwright and we are living and acting as characters in His world play. What follows are not my ideas, but Wilson’s ideas which I am thinking about and musing on.

What kind of character are you? We all like to think of ourselves as heroes of the story, which we often think of as our story, but is that really the part we are playing? Who are you? Would you like the character you are playing? So often when reading great literature, watching good films, or even reading biographies of good men and women, we think of ourselves as playing the parts of heroes. We put ourselves in Corrie Ten Boom’s shoes. We imagine ourselves as an Atticus Finch standing up for the downtrodden and oppressed, or maybe a Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was involved in an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler.

But what part do we actually play? Imagine that you were watching a great movie on the madness of our covid times. Perhaps a tale of the small town or community you live in and how it responds to the pressure and stress of this worldwide issue. Would you like the character you play? Would you feel sympathy? Embarassment? Frustration? Disgust?

How would the average viewer see you? Would you be the leader who means well, but whose cowardice paralyses him from standing up against unrighteousness? Would you be a man whose principles are as malleable as plasticine which responds to the pressure from the forces that surround it? Would you be the businessman who knows what is right, but because of financial pressure bows to the evil and nonsensical laws that ban unvaccinated people from your premises? Are you a pastor who has segregated your church when your Lord never drives anyone away? Are you the woman who uses the apartheid vaccine certificates because a haircut is more important than standing against unrighteous partiality?

Well the truth is, we are in a story. We are in the great play of world history which began with creation and climaxed with Christ’s death resurrection and ascension, and is following a protracted denouement to his universal reign and inheritance of all the nations. You are in the play. Your actions now testify to the kind of character you are playing. Good characters grow and develop. They consciously submit to Christ’s lordship and live out the implications of that in the cameo role God has given them. Consider how your character can grow in boldness and righteousness in the time and situation God has placed you.

Encouragingly, there are individuals who are standing up against the divisive unrighteousness that our government is promoting. These are the characters who we would be cheering for if we were watching this on the big screen. For instance, take a look at Tried and Tested, and electrical safety testing, maintenance & repair business servicing the Wellington region. Support these types of people. Take your business away from those who discriminate. Let’s move from cheering the good guys from the safety of our sofas to practising righteousness and supporting the good guys in practical ways.

Apartheid in New Zealand

Today is a shameful day for New Zealand. We now have two classes of citizens. Those who are permitted by Mother Jacinda to have a little bit more freedom for being good little boys and girls and obeying Mummy. Then there are those truculent and dirty children who have refused to do what they are told because they think of themselves as free people and not slaves. These remain in time out. No freedom for you.

Our media are celebrating this as ‘freedom day’. Somehow I think that we will look back on this day and it will be given another name. Once again our bought and paid for whore media prove to be utterly useless in holding an out of control and incompetent government to account.

Think carefully about how you act in these times. The courage or cowardice you show in your treatment of others will be remembered for a long time. Sadly too many Christians in positions of leadership have shown that pragmatism rules over principles as wide and easy roads of compliance have been followed rather than the difficult and treacherous path of justice and righteousness. While the road of compliance is endorsed and celebrated by the majority at present, the audience we ought to be thinking of is our king. Explaining away being complicit with injustice to him is another thing entirely.

Ian Wishart on the Media and Covid

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Ian Wishart is asking some good questions at the moment. This is taken from his Facebook page.

Some of my media colleagues don’t like the criticism… but again I have to call them out for leaving key facts out of covid stories.

Late this morning news broke of a “fully vaccinated” person who tested positive in Christchurch after returning from a visit to Auckland.

Initially, media reported the case was fully vaccinated. All good.

But by the 6pm news that detail was missing from stories… and curiously missing from the Ministry of Health media release.

In fact tonight you will be hard-pressed to find any current news stories discussing the vax status.

Why is it relevant? Because the patient is a mother with three children under the age of 11. It’s highly likely she was fully vaxxed less than three months ago.

This scenario of the vaccine wearing off much quicker than the assumed six months is becoming all too common – I pinged Stuff last week for telling the story of a fully vaxxed Auckland man catching covid but failing to mention WHEN he had been fully vaxxed: JUST SIX WEEKS EARLIER!

A thunderstorm always begins with a few spits of rain… and then suddenly there’s a deluge. I think a covid thunderstorm is coming and many who have been vaxxed are going to get a surprise.

The media are constantly running talking points from immunologists and science communicators assuring the public that they will get at least six months protection from the vaccine and really minimize the risk of passing it to others. Clearly the communicators are not up to speed with the latest studies. Even the CDC has admitted this week that the vaccines are not preventing spread of the virus as expected and are not good enough to end the pandemic.

And yet, the Government, the Opposition, business leaders, talkback hosts and the news media are marching in lockstep to promote vaccine passports as the key to freedom. Or is it really a pathway from the frying pan into the fire?

1.6 million Aucklanders, with Delta silently infesting them, are about to get their vax passports and be unleashed on all corners of the country… unaware that the vaccines are not going to prevent them catching covid and spreading it – clearly as early as just six weeks after the jab.

National was right. We ARE going to have a covid Christmas after all.

If there was ever a time for the media to be asking hard questions about the unexpectedly short duration of protection from the vaccine, that time is now.

I really do feel like a spectator in the crowd as the naked emperor rides past to cheers from a crowd who have been let down by news media too timid or uninformed to investigate vaccine efficacy.

Don’t get me wrong…we can’t lock down forever and as I have said before, the vaxxed should be able to avoid the worst outcomes personally (albeit despite my calculations that most of the recent NZ Delta deaths have actually been double jabbed)…. but ironically it’s the vaccinated who are about to seed the biggest explosion of covid that New Zealand has seen yet… and the unvaxxed are going to cop it. Sure, most are unvaxxed by choice, but that just illustrates how surreal this crisis has become.

The bitter irony is that we have just divided the team of five million in the name of promoting a vax passport system that even Blind Freddy can see is going to be a Christmas super spreading disaster… and when school resumes in the new year everyone’s children will become fuel and it’s game on.

I hope I am wrong, but based on the UK, Israel and the USA I am not holding my breath.

The vax will help protect you from acute covid… but it won’t prevent you passing it on when you hug grandma at the bach. If anyone reading this seriously believes their vax passport is proof of immunity I have got last week’s winning lotto ticket for sale.

And finally., just as proof that the Christchurch case was fully vaccinated… here’s this morning’s story.

Memo to news editors: publish ALL relevant facts in every story. Stop forgetting to mention that the vax is wearing off early. Stop forgetting to mention that the double vaxxed are still dying. You want public trust? Tell all sides of the story.