One month after ACT and their counterparts in Canada did — and for some strange reason exempt ‘large events’ from that. But better late than never.
(National Party media release)
Time to get New Zealand back to normal
With Auckland past the peak of Omicron and the rest of New Zealand approaching that point, Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon and Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop say the Government should take immediate steps to get New Zealand back to normality.
“Life has been tough for Kiwis these past couple years. It’s time for us to move on and start thinking positively about the future Kiwis can build for themselves and their families,” Mr Luxon says.
“Kiwis have done the right thing – over 95 per cent of us are vaccinated and, importantly, 85 per cent of people in every DHB aged over 60, our most vulnerable age group, are boosted.
“As we come through the peak of Omicron, it’s time to phase out restrictions and allow people to get back to normal. This is particularly important for businesses, which have often borne the brunt of restrictions like gathering limits, vaccine passes and scanning in.”
Mr Bishop says the Government should immediately:
- drop all scanning requirements for businesses and scrap vaccine passes for all but large indoor events;
- get rid of all vaccine mandates for young people aged under 18, and;
- move to a five-day isolation period.
Once the border reopens to Australians on April 13, the Government should then:
- scrap the Traffic Light Framework altogether;
- abolish pre-departure testing, and;
- phase out all vaccine mandates, with health workers to be phased out last.
“Vaccine passes and mandates made sense under Delta. They don’t under Omicron.
“The public health rationale for vaccine passes just isn’t there anymore, and they are now putting unjustified limits on people’s rights. It will be logistically impossible to apply the vaccine pass system to Australians anyway, and we’ll be a month on from the Omicron peak by then.
“The mandates have created a real sense of division in New Zealand. Many unvaccinated people have been excluded from society – 13-year-olds who can’t play rugby with their mates, people who have lost jobs, and people unable to go out to dinner.
“The Government’s instinct should be to remove restrictions on normal life as soon as they’re no longer justified, not to hang on to them until there is zero risk. Of course, if the risk changes in the future we can always put the Framework back in place.
“Isolation periods for people who get Covid-19 and their household contacts will still be important to limit spread, as well as rapid antigen tests which National has campaigned on for months. Mask-wearing will remain important indoors.
“But overall, we need to send the message that life is returning to normal.”
Barbara McKenzie said:
“Isolation periods for people who get Covid-19 and their household contacts will still be important to limit spread, as well as rapid antigen tests which National has campaigned on for months. Mask-wearing will remain important indoors.
“But overall, we need to send the message that life is returning to normal.”
The “new normal”, he means …
hyden said:
Yip, this event(testing ground) worked well for Klaus and co, they have seen what they can do, now its time for the next crisis(problem reaction solution). Never ends with these prats
Paul Scott said:
Indeed, If only the psychopaths could have told us two years ago just to hate orange and Putin man, we need not have had all this. Luxon is entirely unlikeable and unelectable. The vaccine passes were about teaching us who was in control. Did you ever see a vaccine pass that prevented a viral cold?
Robin Cameron said:
Yes please, stop everything. New Zealanders are in hell and still there – no job, no business, no education, no home, on the breadline, damaged from the vax, or dead. Hundreds and hundreds. Who even goes to dinner?? Fake media tries to tell us all the time that things are OK – liars.
Stop the vax, stop the testing, open the borders, stop the mandates, stop the red light tosh (full of discrepancies and confusion as it was),. It is the vaxxed that are filling the hospitals and infecting the unvaxxed, Check out the statistics – you can get them from expose uk, as well as plenty of info from doctors – Bosshe, McCullough, Malone, Vern Coleman to name a few – on bitchute and rumble. Continued boosters will see your immune system weakened and eventually you will suffer AIDS. Yes hospitals will continue to fill with sick vaxxed people – ivermectin has now been shown to treat successfully.
What an insane narrative – last year Auckland locked down for weeks for ONE case, this year opening the borders with thousands of cases and nearly a thousand in hospital. This does not make sense. Stop this pantomime!
Luxon is too late – could have spoken up months ago – and on the right matters, but did not. He is a creature of the NWO – only interested in power. He does not tell the truth. He has no plan. He has no mana.
Paul Scott said:
Robin, yes absolutely.
Robin Cameron said:
Thanks Paul and people. AND – take the bloody masks off!!!
Brian Johnston said:
Luxon and Bishop talking like they are doctors. One bis publicity stunt. quite sickening.
NZ has handled the whole covid thing wrong.