What will it take?

[Lilith7]

Most of us are well aware that they're anti mandate. And that there are several different groups. And that some have been abusing passers by & causing traffic problems, & what's worse shown either ignorance, disrespect or both by using a section of the Cenotaph to set up  either a toilet or shower.

They cannot seem to grasp that, while no one wants the mandate, there simply isn't another option - unless we want covid to spread even faster & further.

Those protesting might do well to look at recent history, in particular the effects of polio & TB & the rate of infections in earlier times compared to today.

My parents remember TB very well, and dont recall there ever being any mandates.
At least that vaccine worked, this one doesnt "work" to any degree for omicron.
I dont know of any other vaccine program in history that claims its only protection will make you "less sick". A "filthy" unvaxxed person is no more at risk of transmitting omicron to others than a vaxxed person is.
Michael Baker recently said on the TV (ironically as a correction to David Seymour) that the vaccine is 3% effective against omicron when Seymour was saying it wasnt "effective"
3% is neither here nor there, what a joke.
I got an email from act yesterday saying how the efficacy of the vaccine makes the mandates absolutely pointless.
We now have both Luxon and Seymour both asking Jacinda on making a path forward to dropping the mandates.
Time to end the mandates and unite NZ back.
No more star belly sneetches. Dr Seuss was on to something.

Very likely there wasn't a mandate for Measles, Polio or TB because people then had sufficient common sense to understand the damage those diseases could do & wanted themselves & their whanau protected against them as far as possible.

What they didn't have to contend with was idiots pushing half-baked ideas & blatantly misinforming large groups of gullible people via the internet.



Fairly obviously, some protection is better then none whatsoever.  One of that lot at the beehive had a sign claiming 'natural immunity' is approximately 94% (I think it was) effective against covid. 

With all due respect ACT had slipped down in the polls & David Seymour may say all manner of things.