By Roger Childs
South Africa’s Pass Laws were a key element of the Apartheid era. All your documentation — details of race, employment, address, etc. — had to be in one book (dompas) and this could be checked at any time. The authorities were really only interested in the passes of non-whites, to see if they were in the right areas. The dompas were designed to protect the ruling whites who were a minority of the population.
Now we have our own Pass Laws of a different sort related to covid so-called ‘vaccinations’, and surely this breaches the Human Rights of the unvaxed.
As we all know, you now need a vax pass to use libraries, galleries, museums and other public buildings in most areas; and in all areas to go into a café; eat at a restaurant; visit a hairdresser; take part in certain sports; go to concerts or fly on a plane. Has anyone, anywhere caught covid selecting books in a library or taking part in a Parkrun?
It was a pleasure on a recent trip to New Plymouth to be able to use the local Library where they have a “come one, come all” policy, unlike the KCDC where we have the draconian Pass Laws being applied. The Kapiti Council has even recently revoked the outdoor table license of the Perching Parrot Café in Paekakariki because the owner was not enforcing the Pass Laws. (Although operating ‘takeaway only’ she was allowing everyone who bought food to sit at the table outside the premises — horror of horrors, the KCDC couldn’t allow that! No, they must walk 50 metres to a public seat!)
So around the country the non-vaxed are being discriminated against and denied many basic rights. This is in direct contravention of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which New Zealand has signed up to.
The fundamental question though, is why are these people seen as a threat?
There is no verifiable evidence that having two of these so-called ‘vaccinations’ provides protection against getting and transmitting covid 19. The recent massive increases in cases among the heavily vaxed populations of Britain, the U.S., New South Wales and Victoria strongly suggests that jabbing people with these experimental substances is an expensive waste of time.
Percentage figures regarding effectiveness seem to be just plucked out of the air and apparently the answer to waning vaccination effectiveness is to get a booster — then another, and another. Thus saith the Pfizer sales force.
Surely it’s time to get rid of the ridiculous New Zealand pass laws and return to treating all citizens as equal human beings.
The solution to this appalling travesty is two words “Become Ungovernable.”
Let’s hope the safety catch has been applied and most people can see what a joke it has all become. You have to feel sorry for them to be so demented to make so many ridiculous requests and some still cannot see through it.. They will have to come out with something that will truly wake them up like making the rivers run upstream
When you refer to breaches the Human Rights of the unvaxed, which article(s) do you mean? Article 13 where everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state?
Vaccines are encouraged for all so the consequences of catching covid are reduced (nothing to do with getting and transmitting covid 19). The unvaxed are prohibited from many public buildings as much for their own health as for the vaccinated, because vaccinated people can still pass the virus on, however the symptoms if the unvaccinated get the virus will be worse.
We have laws and policies to discourage smoking for the health of the smoker, and ban smoking inside public buildings for the safety of non-smokers. This too could be considered a breach of Human Rights, but Article 25 of the Universal Declaration says everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family.
The first sentence of your second paragraph makes no sense. With the amount of spike protein shedding that those injected with the Pfizer substance have (and your employer has admitted it happens), the second sentence of your second paragraph could be correct, but where are the studies? There is a difference between encouragement and coercion.
“The unvaxed are prohibited from many public buildings as much for their own health as for the vaccinated”
Restricting the rights of people supposedly for their own sake is a very slippery slope. Paternalism is bad for many other reasons but one is that it assumes that the state has the ability to accurately define and identify harm – which is challenging at the best of times and may be impossible. This is one reason why informed consent and doctor-patient autonomy is such an important principle. Covid-19 is a good example because response to Covid-19, or whether you even get it, is highly dependent on the individual regardless of whether they have taken the vaccine or not.
I’m also not sure your smoking example is relevant. I doubt whether the smoking ban exists only to protect the individual – more likely it is justified by the impact on others (direct effect of second hand smoking) and indirect impact through health system burden.
Bottom line – the suggestion that the vaccine is being forced for the good of the individual is just an excuse hauled out when people are confronted with the fact that there is no ethical or scientific justification for mandating the vaccine.
Time these councils took better care of their citizens ratepayers and residents.
They are elected after all.
Time we just all rocked up and stepped into the library and pool
Time we spoke the truth to these paid out puppets .
Lots of new cars here I think it’s the trickledown effect of payouts for crimes against humanity.
Take note
Who has a new car a new boat a bach makeover and much more.
I agree completely on the pass laws thing. It is profoundly wrong. However, to then assert that the rapid increase in infection rates shows the ineffectiveness of vaccination is also profoundly wrong. The covid virus has mutated again. However, beneath the headline numbers, what is becoming rapidly apparent is that despite its greater virulence, it is causing way-fewer and shorter term hospitalisations. In the UK, despite omicron now accounting for something like 90% of infections, the numbers in hospital with covid has remained stationary. What is more, 80% of those in hospital with a covid infection, are not actually in hospital because of covid, but because of other reasons. Vaccination has proven very effective at preventing serious illness.