Victory for Protestors in New Zealand as Jacinda Ardern Announces Plans to End Restrictions and Vaccine Mandates
New Zealand will lift COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions after the Omicron peak has passed, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said, as protesters occupying the parliament grounds again clashed with police. Reuters has the story.
Inspired by truckers’ demonstrations in Canada, thousands of protesters have blocked streets near the parliament in the capital Wellington for two weeks with trucks, cars and motorcycles, piling pressure on the Government to scrap vaccine mandates.
Ardern refused to set a hard date, but said there would be a narrowing of vaccine requirements after Omicron reaches a peak, which is expected in mid to late March.
“We all want to go back to the way life was. And we will, I suspect sooner than you think,” Ardern said at a weekly news conference.
“But when that happens, it will be because easing restrictions won’t compromise the lives of thousands of people – not because you demanded it,” she said, addressing protestors.
Leaders can, to save face, claim that it’s not because of the protests, but the truth is the protests have reminded governments that they cannot expect to ride roughshod over people’s liberties and bodily autonomy and face no backlash or disruption. Now let’s see if the protestors can keep the pressure on and bring the end-date forward and ensure the lifting is comprehensive.
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All power to the “normal” people of New Zealand.
Victory will be yours.
Winning the argument = victory; winning the war on people – “The Battle Rages On” …
Is this what passes for victory these days? Imagine if V day in WW2 was Hitler going “Ok… fiiiiiiinneeee. I’ll stop the war, but I’m keeping all I got!” There will be no victory until these tyrants are all in prison.
100%!
Correct. There must be a reckoning everywhere.
My mantra remains the same:
Never forgive.
Never forget.
Never again.
Forgiveness is important, IMHO. My position is “no forgiveness without punishment”
I accept the sentiment.
I’m afraid I’m not ready to forgive.
The relationship between state and citizen has been fundamentally altered by Johnson and his cabal. Their actions will speak to us for generations. Lockdown has become established – even accepted as a tool of social control. The hysterical MSM and a public scared of its own shadow will demand it as soon as anything ‘scary’ rears its head in future. Some people will be wearing masks forever.
I think it was JFK that said ‘Forgive but never forget’. I’m not sure I’ll ever e able to forgive any of those that took a hand in promulgating the events of the last two years.
Forgiveness is important, but it must go hand in hand with payment for the damage done. Ardern and others need to spend the rest of their lives in prison.
Completely agree – there must be justice at the end of all this or the tyrants would have gotten away with their crimes and will be emboldened to do it again some day.
Thing is..re ‘the lifting of vaccine mandates’…did those who have been coerced into having the jabs actually realise that ‘vaccine mandates’ would be temporary? I don’t think they did before they were injected with something that’s not temporary, but permanent, and something their bodies can never get rid of. I want to feel happy about developments, but the unease just won’t go…
I don’t think the plan was to keep them temporary. Remember what Dan Andrews said about regular vaccines being ‘normal’.
Plus the official story is those who took one for the team and did their bit for others. Contrasted, of course, with the selfishness of the unclean, the filthy devils that they are 😈
What utterly shameless arrogance!
NZ will open up when Ardern says so, not when the people say so? Even if tens of thousands were put at risk because the country opens up, it is not up to Ms Bossy Boots to determine that – she is a servant of the people, not a ruler. This message cannot be repeated often enough, in particular to voters/taxpayers – they are there to serve us, not the other way around.
As for compromising lives – with an admirable covid death rate of 53, but a vaxx death rate of 147, if Ardern were really concerned about not compromising lives she’d have ended the vaxx mandates yesterday.
But she is their ruler. She is their King John. They inherited their freedoms from us. Now they know how hard our ancestors (and theirs of course) fought to be free.
Why do you think every major western leader is keen on mass immigration from countries with literally no concept of freedom never mind a well recorded history of it?
That fact sank in with me shortly after Merkel pronounced her “Wir schaffen das” nonsense and said Germany could take 1 million refugees every year for 20 years. No one in the media questioned why she expected the war in Syria to carry on for 20 years. Yep, they wish to import cheap labour who have less experience with and conception of democratic concepts. Instead of blaming people being imported, it would be better to educate them to the fact that they too are seen as puppets and have them join the cause of putting ‘people’s representatives’ back in their box.
I don’t agree. Stop them from entering. They are being imported because they are unable to learn these things. The third generation Turks in Germany view themselves as Turkish. That’s why they are there.
And the biggest far right terrorist group in Germany is not a German neo-Nazi group, but the Turkish Grey Wolves!
Just an exercise in importing votes; Blair and Brown knew that it “worked” – they just lied about doing it.
Because that’s supposed to be the easy way to fix the problem that the economy will eventually run out of workers due the fact that most of the women routinely poison themselves to ensure that they can be free to work instead of busy with getting children.
That’s obviously hair-brained in the long run but good enough to kick this can down the road for now.
That may be part of the rationale. But the main goal is to damage the concept of the nation state.
We can survive a lower population, the solution to which is more babies. But when half your country has no connection with you, your history or your culture, you can only solve that with a civil war.
This is more than cheap labour. We can get that from eastern Europe after all. This is about deliberate demographic damage to a country with a proud history of individual rights.
Exactly!
In my opinion, that (my statement) is an ex post factum rationalization by the ruling caste to enable them to believe it’s all controlled and good for them. In reality, Europe is (relatively) underpopulated and has been free of major wars for a long time, hence, people used to a less pleasant environments simply come here. That’s absolutely classic evolution: Species or (in this case), tribes, which outcompete other tribes wrt reproduction will eventually replace these.
They’ll eventually come with force as well.
I don’t disagree. All the more reason to discuss it. We are far from finished.
Defeatism is never a sensible option. But immigration law (or enforcement of it) isn’t going to solve this problem.
Indeed it is.
Do those individual human rights extend to the peoples from countries that have been invaded by other countries who have become pawns in a supra national corrupt corporations power grab. It is naive to suggest that these under developed countries are responsible for their lack of individual rights. The lands of “The free and the Just” are responsible for huge amounts of gun and drug smuggling along with finacial hedgemony. The USA for example is responsible for the overthrow of dozens of democratically elected governments by destabilising them. All countries that allow their corrupt corporations to interfere with the governing of countries are also guilty. People turn a blind eye to their government bombing another country, then whinge when refugees turn up at their door.
Precisely; if you cannot convince the electorate of the worth of your “policies”, import a class of people who, by and large, become dependent on the largesse of the “State” – no prizes for guessing who they then vote for once they become enfranchised citizens.
I don’t always agree with George galloway but he made a good point about the importance of a 2nd amendment. They need one for that bitch!
Remember why the 2A is there. It is to forcefully remind them of the importance of 1A 😉
The ones high on power just can’t let it go can they? They must set the date and they must have the last word… Protestors should absolutely not give in and definitely not after so many lies.
I always said “the vaccine” was medically worthless, before one even started considering the dangers of it. But these numbers are damning. Out of interest, where did you get the number of vaccine deaths for NZ … and where can I get them for other countries?
These “leaders” are like spoilt adolescents. Ardern is nothing if not churlish in the way she addresses her citizenry, and Trudeau is just plain unspeakable. I just hope that the majority of their inhabitants will now see these people for what they really are.
They already do. They don’t yearn for freedom. Most people never do. They’ll take safety and protection over freedom and personal responsibility any day of the week.
Makes me hate these pussies just as much, but some say we should have empathy with them as victims of SAGE et al.
Yes. I agree. Which I do with family members etc.
But we have to vent our spleens somewhere 😉
“New Zealand will lift COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions after the Omicron peak has passed”
3 weeks to flatten the curve?
peak in cases? hospitalisations? deaths? until the peak of pressure on hospitals is over? until the peak has passed and cases are down to x% of the peak?
don’t trust her. its just some lies to get you off her back for a while
Peak Jacinda, presumably, IOW, after the horse-faced harpyie as ceased to be the president Xi of New Zealand.
it’s about data not dates, when the data is good, it’s about dates. Think this is what they call psychological warfare.
I wish all good citizens of New Zealand. Keep it up. We here at DS know very well why she has started to fold.
The day of reckoning for these tyrants grows ever nearer.
I’d like to suggest egomaniac Schwab be the first to suffer a slow, agonising death. Then, all his minions like Turd-eau, Macaroon and Hardon can see what they have coming.
What about the visitors to the WEF that we don’t know about, the ones with the real money and the power.
Believe me, every Rockerfeller and Windsor would also be up for the chop. Not to mention that sanctimonious Irish arsehole, Bono. And not forgetting serial school-skiver Greta Thunderbirds.
Now arrest Ardern for high treason against the people of NZ.
New Zealand is an interesting experiment — hugely vaccinated population with no prior immunity.
Currently they’re at about 2,500 new cases per day (remember, they’ve only got a population of 5 million people, so that’s equivalent to about 35,000 cases per day in the UK)… And at the moment the disease is primarily located in south Auckland).
Something to watch closely…
Is it not the case that as they head into autumn/winter illness will rise naturally so will she just not say, oh dear me – not yet?
“not because you demanded it”
Bollox. Nothing would have happened had these people not taken to the streets.
As it is, Arden’s idea of lifting restrictions won’t be the protestors idea of lifting them. She’ll drag this out for as long and painfully as she can.
Expect to be back on the streets folks. Good luck.
New Zealand have winter on the horizon and the looming prospect of the rho variant to contend with yet…
Don’t let that “thing” that has called the shots for the last two years in NZ get away with it!
We’re being pretty stupid in this country by “letting” the likes of BJ still be in just because he has relaxed the rules a bit. If we allow this to continue, the abuse WILL start again. This is just the “reward” phase before the next round of mental torture starts.
She should AT LEAST resign and if there was any justice in the world, she should AT LEAST be spending the rest of her life in prison.
It annoys me when people like mark Dolan on GB News say ‘thank you Boris’ for lifting restrictions. He was going to impose plan B after Christmas, it’s the back benchers that he needs to thank, not that spineless young global leader!
You don’t thank anyone for removing immoral restrictions based on zero scientific evidence. We remind them at every chance what they did was illegal.
Immoral, yes. Illegal? What laws did you have in mind?
But when that happens, it will be because easing restrictions won’t compromise the lives of thousands of people – not because you demanded it,” she said, addressing protestors.
How many lives in New Zealand have really been “compromised?” Add up all the lives lost to suicides, drug overdoses, delayed treatments and diagnoses, etc and you would find that the State’s “cure” killed and harmed many more people than COVID did (and I’m not counting any lives lost from vaccination). Also, I’m sure the average or median age of a COVID victim in New Zealand is 80 or older.
And many were coerced into taking it. she needs taking out!
“But when that happens, it will be because easing restrictions won’t compromise the lives of thousands of people…
She means won’t compromise the thousands of politicians, poison pushing (tv) doctors and nurses 3rd party affiliates. If I was down under I would get my money out of the bank asap. Btc, gold and silver with 3 months money of cash at hand at least until March 2023.
This would be more appropriately worded as Arden commits to nothing, asserts that her policies have been right all the time and hints at a possible lifiting of (some) restrictions end of next month and – of course – voices her contempt for the citizens of the state which has fallen prey to her.
This woman is clearly incapable of understanding both that she’s just a fallible human being herself and that other human beings are not just pawns she gets to move on a chessboard in whichever ways suit her. With leaders like that, democracy needs no enemies.
Woman? Doubtful.
I strongly suspect it is the exact opposite. As with the smoking ban here some 15 years ago, what it did was define the boundaries. It demonstrated to our social engineers how little fight most people have in them.
NZ, Australia and Canada have clearly been targeted along with the UK and US. All four of our former colonies have our own history as theirs, including Magna Carta and all the rest.
But NZ, Australia and Canada seem further along the path to destruction than us or America. But we are all being gradually dismantled. Hardly surprising given our very long history of caring about personal freedom. A very serious impediment to globalist plans.
But I do worry all we have done is demonstrate few will fight for freedom.
As far as England goes I think they did well to lock down primarily over winter, bloody awful marching/occupying in 0 degrees and soaking wet. Although Canada has shown this may not be the case – Imagine trying to lock us down for this summer, it’d carnage in Eng (I hope at least).
I think it would be carnage all over the UK to be honest.
You will note that in 3 weeks no truckers in the Canada protest or I suspect anyone dancing the Haka have caught, been hospitalised and/or died of covid. Almost as if the restrictions are completely unnecessary… Weird, I thought they would be clearing bodies daily they way their “leaders” carry on.
Indeed. Where are the bodies, generally speaking.
The key demographic, noticed by many, is the lack of deaths among the homeless. Sleeping rough and eating poorly with addictions to boot. Not the healthiest demographic. But no reported deaths.
Or the Amish!
Or deaths of people in African nations.
It’s not only there. Eg, there are more-or-less unregulated refugee camps east of the Polish border in a country which never had any Corona measures. These should be hotbeds of anything resembling a dangerous and easily communicable disease. It’s not only that they’re not, but also, the very same people who claim to think Corona measures are absolutely essential wouldn’t mind all these so-called refugees coming over here in the slightest.
So I can buy Kiwi wine and apples again! And more importantly, this is a retreat for the forces of death.
Spent her way through the stack of Yuan, she’ll crack down again when COOFS-22 is released and a fresh stack appears.
Rebuild some credibility to tighten the screws even further after the Summer.
As told by/blamed on the WHO then, to which most major countries will sign away their sovereignty soon.
As Jordan Peterson put it, when you take a step back, they’ll take two steps forward.
She should get the same treatment as that Romanian tyrant in 1988.
In Canada there are no blockades anywhere, except for police blockades, and there are few if any protesters walking around. But Trudeau just said that he will keep his emergency powers because of potential future blockades. Can someone send help?
How would you know there had been a pandemic if there had been no:
If they tested people who go to Hospital within 28 days of a positive test for the common cold, there would be a ‘cold’ pandemic!
You wouldn’t. Without the above, it would just have been like a normal flu year – maybe a bad flu year, but nothing out of the ordinary.
Why? You were winning, right?
Who the f does this woman think she is?
This is a step in the right direction. However, Jabcinta needs to resign or be kicked out of office. Then she needs to be held accountable for her actions and, where relevant, her inaction. The punishment for same needs to match the severity of her crimes.
Just as they Lockdown in step so they are all faking Easing Off in step.
. Orders from the “Schwab-Gates Bunker”
Don’t be fooled – brace for the next attack:
Lifestyle, bank balance, inflation, green fascism and nasty legislation stealthily taking away Human Rights.
Government officials should not be allowed to attend any meetings that are not minuted. We have high level officials from all over the globe attending what amounts to secret societies, where corrupt corporations and individuals influence government decicisions. These societies have no liability for their action. “Democraticaly elected” officials have no business meeting these people in secret. It is treasonous behaviour. If they attended masonic meetings we would be outraged.
Ardern should be tried. Vile communist woman
I’m here in N Z and very shortly I fear force is going to be used to remove us protesting the mandates from Parliament. The government claims they are not listening to the protests but the truth is they have been reminded that not everyone agrees with their Draconian approach. A recent poll has rattled them showing up to 30 percent are solidly with the protests and they fear a poll backlash. Typically they have still not admitted a single fault in their pandemic response and probably never will. That is the real problem, they could do it all again. It is all not over, sadly. It has probably just begun.