Covid death rates have reached record highs in New Zealand as the country faces a new Omicron wave, despite high levels of vaccination. MailOnline has the story.
Weekly virus fatalities hit 151 in the seven days ending July 16th, compared to 115 in the worst week of the previous flare-up in March, according to Health Ministry data. It means the country’s current mortality rate is twice as high as the U.K.’s and four times higher than the U.S.
In the latest 24 hours, all 26 Covid deaths occurred among over-60s — the group known to be most vulnerable to the virus.
Omicron sub-variant BA.5 is driving the current wave. Another 64,780 cases were confirmed last week, although authorities say the true figure will be much higher.
Once held up as evidence that it is possible to suppress the virus, New Zealand’s swift response to the pandemic and its geographic isolation allowed it to escape the wrath of the pandemic.
Jacinda Ardern’s Government dropped its Zero-Covid policy, which saw the nation nicknamed a ‘hermit kingdom’, last year once the population was largely vaccinated, with eight in 10 people now double-jabbed. Since then, the virus has spread.
Experts told MailOnline that previously low levels of infection in New Zealand due to strict Covid curbs is behind the high fatality rate now because the economically-crippling measures only delayed “inevitable” infections that could have built-up immunity.
Data from Oxford University-backed research platform Our World in Data show five people per million in New Zealand were dying with Covid every day in the week to July 21st — up by a third from the previous high of 3.68 in March.
For comparison, in the darkest days of the pandemic, similar rates in the U.K. and U.S. sat closer to 19 and 10, respectively. However, both countries are now logging much lower death counts. The U.K. is recording two deaths per million people each day, despite up to one in 15 people being infected. Meanwhile, the U.S. is suffering just one Covid fatality for every million people, a quarter of the scale seen in New Zealand.
Reported infections in the latest wave do seem to be falling again now. But the number of deaths being high despite vaccination and the mildness of Omicron does raise serious questions about the effectiveness of vaccination.
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This article, even just the headline alone, should wipe the smugness right off of Saint Jacinda’s face.
I wish something would !
Sweden said “judge us in a year or two”.
I remember Johan Giesecke, the man employed Tegnell, being interviewed by Sky News Australia (Murdoch owned, vaguely lockdown sceptical at a time when no-one was) talking about the isolationist approach taken by Aus and NZ. Giesecke said something along the lines of “you might think you’re doing well now, but how are you going to get out of it?….well, that’s your problem”.
But Giesecke, Tegnell and all of us at LS/DS are just nutjob conspiracy theorists and granny-killers, we never predicted any of this.
Yes, for me, it was nerve-racking at times being on a contrary side when there was so much societal pressure and such an outright sense of threat. Two years on, I’m glad I stuck with my views, joined the FSU and became a DS donor. LS/DS was a literal lifesaver. I was in absolute despair at what was going on! I also discovered the wonders of The Fandom Menace and all the other anti-woke people on YouTube!
It’s interesting that the friends I’ve remained close to are all lockdown sceptics and we all continued to spend time with each other. The divide even among people over the lockdowns and related restrictions is now bigger than the old remainer-leaver paradigm.
There was huge disobedience though. One of the best moments I had during the lockdowns was when I visited some friends who worked in a hotel. It had just reopened to guests in 2020 while all the track and trace fascism was at its peak. I didn’t have to register my name when I walked into the building, I walked into the bar and the wonderful bar manager shook my and and hugged me and his wife ran over and gave me a hug and a kiss. That was so important, psychologically. And we’re all alive and well! And no one in the surrounding village or any of the guests ever died from COVID-19!
The owner was really good to his staff. He told them that if they couldn’t afford their rent and were struggling with money (no tips to top up pay), they could all move into the hotel for free and use the food and drink for free, since it was going to go past the sell-by dates and have to be got rid of otherwise, so many of the staff lived there together throughout the lockdown!
I feel some sense of schadenfreude towards Ardern. She’s another WEF graduate and was in lockstep with most of her WEF compadres who enthusiastically embraced lockdowns. I feel desperately sorry for the people of New Zealand who are now suffering for the demonstrable utopian totalitarian incompetence of most WEF graduates. I mean, who of any of the known graduates who went into politics hasn’t been authoritarian and incompetent? Merkel enriched her own country, but wrecked the EU and helped drive out the UK, Macron is an authoritarian fool in and out of the closet, tolerated as the least worst choice of president, Trudeau is an intellectual vacuum, Ardern is a failure, Newsom only survived the recall because California is full of crazed Democrats, Matt Hancock eventually was chucked out – albeit for his hypocrisy, not his failure as Health Secretary, Pete Buttigieg is a joke. Only Viktor Orbàn has any credibility…
Totally agree. This shitshow has driven people apart but also brought them together. Funny, we know a sceptical hotel manager who gave some of my family a very warm welcome in covidtard Italy.
You speak for me and many more, DomH75. A terrifying time, in so many ways.
“It’s interesting that the friends I’ve remained close to are all lockdown sceptics”.
Yes, I was afraid of that. These crooks have done a bally good job of dividing families and communities against each other, for me on of their worst crimes. I’m glad some people at least benefitted from the hotel food that holiday makers should have had.
For my part, i feel sorry for the British police officers who went to work in NZ to get back to proper policing – and got landed with her, and this shambles.
Thank you Dom very well put and certainly in those very dark times my daily shot of LS was indeed a life saver and as I’ve said here many times before literally stopped me from going mad. So thank Toby and all at TDS and indeed to all you guys on this platform.
Unfortunately as it’s by no means over we still need each other more than ever.
(Aus??? Surely Oz…).
Prescient indeed!
Those teeth! Damn! They actually look superimposed! Nope, I don’t feel in the slightest bit guilty for mocking this evil creature.
When will the rest of the world get it? It is currently not possible to create a vaccine for a cold. While buying a drink earlier today I overheard some idiot saying to his mate “Just recovered from Covid. Can’t believe it. I’m triple jabbed so thought I was safe”. The guy was a healthy looking twenty something. I couldn’t help it. I turned around and said “You were safe, until you took three shots of an experimental (and this is where I couldn’t resist the finger quotes) ‘vaccine’ that you did not need. You’ve ‘recovered’ (more finger quotes) because you are at no risk from Covid, but you are from the experiment you’ve taken part in”. My intervention, strangely, didn’t appear overly welcome, but we’ve somehow got to get these morons thinking for themselves.
…yes, I don’t start anything but I will not take any crap…and we have to nip any foolishness in the bud….
was proud of Mr Gum today, he went to the local butchers which is quite small, a man was standing outside the door and when my husband tried to get past he said he was next in the q…mr Gum asked him why he wasn’t in the shop, he replied ‘only three are allowed in’….long story short, this man went in when one came out, Mr gum followed him straight in..so he made four!! Then horror of horrors two more came in…Mr Gum said it was marvellous!!
Sadly, even in Yorkshire, some people don’t have commonsense. Of course, he could’ve been one of those “out of towners”…
(I wish I’d overhear stuff like that, sadly I never seem to…).
Is it not the middle of winter in the southern hemisphere? Do respiratory diseases work differently down there?
Dont get me wrong i’m all for a bit of Jacinda bashing but this has a whiff of ‘dog bites man’ journalism about it (standard fare for Mail Online these days). Yes I get the vaccine angle, that they are meant to prevent serious illness and death, but we have known that’s not the case for quite a while now.
Im not being facetious here. Unless we get back to normal thinking that respiratory illness and death increase in winter then there is always the risk that we’ll be bounced back into another lockdown.
No doubt she’s in the “something must be done” club. As an aside, it might be worth asking the undertakers what the level of trade is like in a typical winter. Quite a few family funerals have taken place at that time of year, in my case.
From another part of wintery Southern Hemisphere, positive tests, hospitalisations and deaths continue to drop. Seven day average deaths attributed to covid now about 4 in a population of about 60 mill, in other words nothing. The power of post infectious immunity! Most people have had a cold, but even the previous covidians start with “ the kids brought a cold home from school and gave it to me. Just a cold, not covid”, this without testing (here you have to pay for it). Even the 3 jabbers are displaying no interest in another, many openly saying enough is enough. While I was travelling in UK and Netherlands in june(no vaccine or other covid paperwork requested at any point) all covid rules dropped in SA. This was a turnaround, seemingly due to impending court action brought by civil society organisations, government apparently advised they would lose on medical and legal grounds. People very keen to get on with life. More worried about increasing number of others they know having heart attacks or strokes. Who would have thought?
This virtual slap in the face of Jackie A is most definitely necessary. Of course it is not surprising that a respiratory virus is causing illness and in some cases death in the middle of winter down under.
But NZ was held up to the world, alongside China, as a shining example of how hiding under the bed meant you could “beat the virus”. They were going to keep NZ shut until they had a vaxx and come out completely unscathed and the severe lockdown would have been worth it. All they did was postpone the inevitable and prove the utter, utter failure of both lockdowns and this chemical injection they call a vaccine. This point must absolutely be driven home a million times over, as even now, a corona-infected 4x vaxxed and pfaxlovided US president is being presented as some type of proof that all these measures worked…
Their hubris came back to bit them, basically. It was pride before the fall.
The fact that NZ is now doing worse than Australia, also in the middle of winter, is however important. Either way, the moral of the story is you can’t kick the can down the road forever. Sooner or later, the ferryman wants his money and he’s gonna get it.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/protests-planned-by-brian-tamaki-led-freedom-and-rights-coalition/NVFLLUSGM6TZXWDX3EICRIMBME/
First person to receive compensation for wrongful death caused by AstraZeneca’s covid vaccine speaks out
https://www.newstarget.com/2022-07-22-first-person-compensated-astrazenca-vaccine-death-speaks.html
A 48-year-old rock singer named Zion was killed by AstraZeneca’s covid-19 vaccine and a string of misdiagnoses and medical malpractice in May of 2021. When all was said and done, neurosurgeons at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle linked Zion’s death back to the experimental vaccine. Zion received the vaccine and began suffering from migraines and occipital neuralgia just eight days later. He suffered a serious reaction that was not properly treated, that ultimately led to slurred speech, loss of balance, seizures and a brain bleed.
His fiancée, 38-year-old Vikki Spit, became the first person to receive compensation for wrongful death caused by the controversial covid-19 vaccine.
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…but haven’t we been here before? What will stop this madness?
Because all that will happen is they’ll re-introduce some measures, then the next ‘booster’ and carry on like before!!
I’m so fecking weary with it all…..
Ooh, I thought they might. How’s the “saintly” one doing then? You know, I think some of these WEF types might possibly have quite a hard time when people start to cotton on to their crimes against humanity…
“But the number of deaths being high despite vaccination and the mildness of Omicron does raise serious questions about the effectiveness of vaccination.”
Well I never blow me down with a feather. When are we going to stop pretending these poisonous experimental jabs are doing anyone anywhere any good? Please just STOP.
A phone call with my sister-in-law in Western Australia yielded the information that “New Zealand and Australia have been very strict(!) with their regulations to protect their indigenous populations who are very susceptible to Covid”… She believes that too.
I hadn’t heard that reason before.
She, of course, is quadruple vaccinated and would lockdown at a moment’s notice. Her daughter and family in Melbourne ditto. We won’t be going the Australia anytime soon.
A comp chart expressing their disastrous approach well.
In the UK early on in the pandemic, I remember one SAGE scientist, I think it might have been Edmonds, suggesting that lockdowns would not save any lives just delay the deaths a little to “flatten the curve” and ease pressure on the NHS. As the weeks of lockdown turned into months the narrative changed to the idea that lockdowns “save lives”. In reality they have indirectly contributed to many more deaths. New Zealand tried to hold back the tide but in contrast to wise King Cnut, their Queen was just as unhinged as her courtiers.
I am a compassionate person with bags of humility but Jacinda Ardern is someone who’d I’d pay to see facially paralysed by the Covid vaccine. Sadly I very much doubt she’s ever even had one.
All comes back to this interview with Giesecke in April 2020:
https://unherd.com/thepost/coming-up-epidemiologist-prof-johan-giesecke-shares-lessons-from-sweden/
Indeed, looks like Sweden ultimately won the lockdown debate once and for all.
“Covid death rates have reached record highs in New Zealand as the country faces a new Omicron wave, despite high levels of vaccination.”
versus
“England’s latest Covid outbreak was slowing down a fortnight ago, according to official data from the ONS, as it once again peaks without masks or restrictions.”
I wonder if there is a lesson there for those wanting to learn?
It was predicted that NZ could stay in isolation for ever, that when it did open up the sort of natural immunity to CoV 2 gained in open Countries would be absent from NZ and when the inevitable infections started, they would hit hard.
It also shows just how useless the pseudo-vaccines are compared with natural acquired immunity – not just useless, actually dangerous in increasing vulnerability.
Will ‘lessons be learned’?
Their hubris did not age well at all, it seems. Can you say, “I told you so!”
Meanwhile, in Sweden….