An infuriatingly consistent aspect of the mainstream media’s COVID coverage was their determination to prematurely credit a country with a wildly successful set of policy interventions.
While there has been no track record of universally accurate predictions or expectations, the desire to claim victory as far back as spring 2020 has led to subsequent embarrassments as trends change.
Naturally, New Zealand is no stranger to such untimely praise, with the BBC in July 2020 doing an in-depth look at how New Zealand became “COVID free.”
Of course, it was because New Zealand “…locked down early and aimed for elimination” and achieved “effective communication and public compliance.”
This is really the whole problem in a nutshell, isn’t it?
Assuming that elimination was possible through effective communication, compliance and early lockdowns ignores the inevitably that COVID will eventually spread throughout the population, whenever you “open up.”
Elimination of COVID throughout the world is and always was impossible, and therefore Fauci’s assertion that COVID could be “eliminated in certain countries” was inane and virtually impossible.
So how successful has New Zealand been in eliminating COVID in the long term through effective communication, public compliance and early lockdowns?
Well. The numbers speak for themselves.
When the BBC wrote the article explaining New Zealand’s remarkable success in eliminating the virus, they were averaging 1.5 cases each day. It’s now 2,918 cases each day.
That’s an increase of nearly 195,000%.
Elimination is a pipe dream.
No matter what policy interventions they’ve added, no matter how many early lockdowns they’ve tried, COVID has not been eliminated.
Remember how New Zealand’s amazing tracking and tracing system allowed them to identify transmission that could have only occurred via aerosols? And recall how all of the pre-pandemic guidance on masking suggested that masks could not stop aerosols? Did that stop New Zealand from using mask mandates to try and continue their elimination goals?
Of course not!
The following are the currently enforced rules on face masks in New Zealand:
- As a general rule, you should wear a face mask whenever you are indoors. The exceptions are at your home or your place of work if it is not public facing. Your employer may encourage you to wear a face mask even if your job is not public facing.
- When it is hard to physically distance from people you do not know, we encourage you to wear a face mask.
- Everyone must wear a mask that is attached to the face by loops around the ears or head. This means people can no longer use scarves, bandannas or t-shirts as face coverings.
We know New Zealanders are complying because the BBC assured us that their success was due to population compliance, but the survey data backs that up as well:
Mask wearing has been consistently high since the mandate came into effect in August, yet cases have exploded anyway.
None of it has mattered.
And this isn’t an insignificant increase. New Zealand’s now reporting more new cases adjusted for population than the United States, and identical numbers to the United Kingdom:
Working perfectly!
Elimination Through Vaccination
In the previously referenced interview, Fauci said that the most successful way to “eliminate” COVID was to reach extraordinary levels of vaccination uptake in the population.
While the Our World in Data download hasn’t been updated in the past week, over 88% of the population had received at least one vaccination dose in New Zealand by February 15th.
The numbers are even more impressive when considering only those over 12 years of age. 95% of everyone over in that demographic has been at least partially vaccinated or booked their appointment. 94% are fully vaccinated:
Nearly 2.3 million people over 12 have been given boosters, roughly 53% of that entire population.
Clearly those incredible rates of uptake must have been enough to maintain the “blanket of herd immunity” that Fauci claimed would be achievable with 75-85% of the population vaccinated.
Not exactly!
Whenever you reference the dramatic failure of Australia or New Zealand to maintain “zero COVID” lockdowns and “elimination” strategies, adherents to the cult of inaccurate expertise will respond by claiming their goal was only to eliminate cases until widespread vaccination.
By allowing for vaccines to blunt the impact of cases, these countries would prevent surges in hospitalizations. We already saw that this was wildly off in Australia:
But what about New Zealand? Maybe they’ve been able to successfully stave off any surge in severe cases due to their exceptional vaccination rate:
Well. Not exactly.
Hospitalizations have risen dramatically since January and continue to rise significantly each day.
News reports from New Zealand sound like those from any generic location in the US where local doctors report concerns of hospitals being overwhelmed:
Authorities anticipate Omicron will become the predominant Covid-19 variant in New Zealand within just two to four weeks of it being introduced into the community – and hospitals are bracing to be “swamped”.
Dr John Bonning, a frontline emergency department doctor and immediate past president of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, said EDs were already under “enormous duress”.
So their elimination strategy did not prevent a dramatic increase in cases, nor a concerning, overwhelming surge of hospitalizations.
And deaths, while thankfully still low, have increased in recent months as well:
New Zealand’s supposed “elimination” through their zero COVID policy has completely collapsed.
Mask mandates, as their own research indicated, have not prevented surges. Elimination until vaccination has not prevented surges. Zero COVID has been an unmitigated failure, as any rational person would have known and suggested as far back as summer 2020.
They’ve maintained an unearned sense of superiority, exemplified in this quote from the BBC’s story:
He says it is “a bit of a puzzle for us at a distance to understand why” with the UK’s extensive scientific expertise and health care, “you haven’t looked at the evidence and worked out a pattern like New Zealand’s”.
The UK government has previously defended its coronavirus strategy, saying its approach was “being guided by the science.”
That undeserved attitude can no longer be maintained.
The policies that never had the slightest possibility of long term success, the policies that Fauci claimed could be successful in “certain countries,” have turned into yet another example of the delusions of hubris.
While many areas are lifting mandates, they’re doing so without acknowledging the underlying flaws in their strategy. Iceland’s health ministry summed up the inescapable reality of COVID while announcing an end to all restrictions:
“Widespread societal resistance to COVID-19 is the main route out of the epidemic,” the ministry said in a statement, citing infectious disease authorities.
“To achieve this, as many people as possible need to be infected with the virus as the vaccines are not enough, even though they provide good protection against serious illness,” it added.
Until they understand and accept those sentiments, there will always be excuses for politicians and public health officials to bring back their prized, ineffectual interventions.
New Zealand is the latest in a long list of countries to be hailed as showing the world the “right” way to prevent surges; to keep COVID under control.
But as with masks, vaccine passports and “early” lockdowns, zero COVID never had a chance of working — despite the endless media and expert praise.
As always, Eric Feigl-Ding had absolutely no idea what he was talking about:
Every time.
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I know how to reduce the COVID rate to zero!!!
Population reduction down to Zero!!!
Oh, whoops, a little too much, to soon?
Right, right, ok then, well, lets see….
How about we just reduce it down from the current 8 Billion and change down to about 500 Million??
That will be like a 94 or 95% reduction in population and also the COVID cases!!!
And whoever tests positive, we can just recycle them too!!!
Problem solved!!!
My neighbor, aged 80, was scheduled for brain surgery Friday until she tested positive for Covid antibodies. Now, the surgery is April 6.
I offered her horse paste, again. She laughed, but declined after a thought or two.
We talked about how evil all of this really is.
She asked me point-blank if I thought her vaccinations led to the tumors. I told her I thought so, but only God knows.
She is just glad she has no real symptoms… headaches. She’s fatigued and a bit dizzy, but no pains.
I’m thankful for that too.
Those evil bastards.
Ghost; I don’t know your neighbor but, give her my & my wife’s blessings. These are not easy times for folks of any age. We are seeing the same scenario playing out here.
To those murdering evil bastards in your last line. May you all be hunted down & be held accountable for your murdering & genocide of innocent people. I have to ask one and all, where the hell are the protectors of our justice system, i.e., law enforcement, attorneys & all these judges from bottom to top.
Now there is something peculiar , another leftist WEF/ NWO Schwab /Soros funded Government Head full of shit regarding the plandemic Control !
Now after SHIT SHOTS fucking up the population majority we still don’t hear how fucking worthless they and their massive tyrannical boot on the populations neck are .
Wow the KIWI’s and Aussies I knew in my shipboard & oil rig days would have kicked some serious ass over this bull shit
It’s almost as if New Zedlands recent ban of firearms was about something other than Public health and safety.
Yes, it was obvious at the time that happened. I lived in NZ until July of last year (from late 2010). That 2019 incident was obviously a set up to push NZ farther down that road, just like an all the other “Western” countries. Too many over there have blind faith in the current PM although some are beginning to get a suspicion that something is not right. That hardy bunch of about 5% that have not had the jab are likely the main ones there reasonably aware, although a fairly large amount of the ones that took the jab only did so out of fear of loss of a job and bankruptcy (not appreciating truly appreciating the risk to heir lives they took).
Talked to my MSM Information Slave sister in law in Denver today. Two of her otherwise healthy friends have just “suddenly died” of heart attacks and strokes. At this juncture what’s the upside of pointing out the bread crumbs of the real potential for jab=sudden death to the MSMIS? Their ego will never accept they were played.
Who cares about their ego? The only thing we should care about is how fast they cease to exist.
All these deaths may flood the housing and used car market bringing prices down . Except where they stoke out behind the wheel or lay dead in the house for a week or 2
‘Flop’? Goal. Perspective.
Had everyone everywhere done nothing the faux virus would have been gone by May 2020. We now know the goal and preventing or curing a virus was not the goal. Bend over folks there is more coming your way.
This is what happens when the best thing they could do not to make things worse is nothing and they couldn’t even do that.
The Notavx strikes again.
Sometimes I wonder if the people who destroyed the world through their lockdowns have ever read Edgar Allan Poe.
All these graphs and charts are all based on the fraudulent and manipulated PCR tests. Not only do the tests not discern between live and dead genetic material the cycle counts are never documented or even consistent. The term “cycles” is itself purposely vague. The term cycle should be replaced with what it actually means, exponent. Each cycle doubles the the genetic material markers, so it is an exponential graph growth
Assume your sample has 2 genetic particles that are amplified exponentially.
25 cycles: 2 to the 25th power
Yields 33,554,432 genetic particles
33 million
35 cycles: 2 to the 35th power
Yields 34,359,738,368 genetic particles
34 billion
45 cycles: 2 to the 45th power
Yields 35,184,372,088,832 genetic particles
35 trillion.
TLPTB know that the dumbed down plebs do not comprehend exponents, so they laugh in the face of the small fringe minority that understand the scam of the seasonal flu made to look like some fucking death bomb. All I can do is watch and shake my head at it all.
Flop you say?
I’d rather watch Paige Spiranac give us a golf lesson on how to hit the perfect flop shot,
or, as she says, “Flop it like it’s Hot”
Holy Schnikeys. I recommend expanding to full screen. Yowzah.
FWIW, the Instagram video she posted has better rez, but I can’t log in to that.
So, the fuzzy rez YT version will have to suffice.
Enjoy, fellas. Even if you don’t like golf.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysJ6ygOddzo