Many New Zealanders are unaware but recently we Kiwis were invited to respond to NZ Royal Commission COVID-19 Lessons Learned | Te Tira Ārai Urutā
The purpose being – to learn from Aotearoa New Zealand’s experience of the pandemic to prepare for the future.
3 days before the deadline there had been only 7,300 responses
However by the deadline over 31,000 responses were received!
That is over 31,000 voices and experiences
I have spoken to many people since who did not know about the commission but resonated with some of the stories I shared.
This might seem like a small number but proportionately it is huge!
We are many and we are strong.
https://thehealthforumnz.co.nz/
https://haveyoursay.covid19lessons.royalcommission.nz/royal-commission-covid-19-lessons/make-a-submission/
This was my response
I am a semi retired mother of 10 children plus 8 grandchildren. My husband is American and has elderly parents, daughter and extended family in New Mexico.
During the pandemic we were isolated from all of our families. My youngest daughter was at University in Kentucky and we were unable to visit her, nor she us, for nearly 3 years. During this time she went through a lot of extreme emotional distress, a rape trial, and also fractured her spine. I was not able to be there for her which added to her trauma.
My husband’s elderly mother became very ill during the border closures and mandates and we were unable to travel back to see her. She died & was buried without her only son being there, something which distresses him to this day. He will never forget the government overreach which prevented him from spending those precious moments with his mother.
Due to the mandates, lockdowns and border closures it took us nearly 4 years to be able to travel back to see family in the States, and for my daughter to come home.
We were in the middle of moving from Nelson and beginning our house build in South Otago when the first lockdowns began. The process of moving and building was extended for a ridiculous amount of time and became the most stressful activity that either of us have ever endured. From hold ups of products, shut down offices, restrictions on tradesmen etc etc it took over 2 years to build a house that should’ve taken less than 6 months.
My husband is profoundly Deaf, caused by in utero maternal steroid injections, he also now has Lupus and subsequent kidney disease. Consequently he was very wary about the experimental covid19 vaccine. In fact his doctor warned him not to take the jab as it could kill him.
I also do not accept vaccines of any sort without research. So neither of us were prepared to accept the govt coercion tactics to take this mRNA jab. We were subsequently isolated, bullied, harassed by friends, family, neighbours etc
Due to my husband being Deaf the mask wearing mandates made his life impossible as he depends on reading lips for communication. He could not understand what people were saying and his level of frustration and isolation increased a thousand fold.
I am a sexual abuse victim and suffer from PTSD. Wearing a mask is an impossibility for me as it puts me into a state of complete panic and unable to breath.
We both exempted ourselves from mask wearing and had to fight on a daily basis to enable us to have access to shops, supermarkets, etc. We were victimised, refused entry, and humiliated.
When I was at the supermarket it was announced over the loudspeaker that an unmasked person was in the supermarket. Another time a teller refused to let me through his checkout. Said it was his prerogative not to serve me as I was not wearing a mask. Other shoppers would question us.
It never stopped!
We have many Deaf friends and they all struggled and endured so much during this period which isolated them even more than usual.
During the lockdowns we were made to feel like criminals for visiting family. My son was working away from home for 10 days at a time. His wife had a broken ankle and 2 small kids, plus his sister and young baby lived there too.
We were the only ones who could help but we were always under fear of being caught so any visit felt very clandestine.
We had an elderly friend who lived a few blocks from our house. She lived in a back section and was so alone and isolated and scared. We had to rescue her and surreptitiously get her to our house for her to have some company and to try and lift her spirits.
We had neighbours coming on to our property abusing our beliefs.
I could not go to my aunt’s funeral as I was not vaxxed.
My daughter was very ill with Hyperemesis gravidarum and I had to drop her off at the hospital twice and not go in to support her.
We were not allowed to go to cafes, restaurants, hairdressers, as we were not vaxxed. Anything we did had to be done in such a furtive manner that we felt like we were the criminals. We refused to play the game and would not use the ‘app’, we would not ‘sign in’ either as I did not want my personal details left out in public view, and because of this we were abused by supermarket watchdogs who used their overreach of power and control to bully the likes of us.
We have watched friends die soon after they were vaxxed, and are still watching people die & remain damaged from the aftermath of the so called vaccines. The escalation of cancers, brain tumours etc among our friends is astronomical and completely abnormal.
We felt so strongly about the government overreach that we joined the first Freedom Convoy from Bluff to Picton on February 6th 2022.
I will never forget the community that formed then. The gratefulness from people we passed along the way that we were making a stand, the friendships we made during those days which continue to this day, still fighting for our freedoms.
I will also never forget the abuse we received from fuel station owners who refused to serve us, the shopkeepers who would not let my husband to get parts for our vehicle along the way all because he was not wearing a mask.
I will Never Ever forget the horrendous unfolding of events and the police abuse at Parliament Grounds – that we were forced to watch online because we could not be there – once again we couldn’t cross the Straits because we were not vaxxed! It was horrendous watching our community being physically & psychologically abused by the likes of Trevour Mallard, and being reduced to a River of Filth by Jacinda Adern.
We were not Filth. We are a mix of so many different Kiwis from all walks of life, strong and standing up to the bullying and brainwashing!
My first husband was killed in a traumatic tragic accident. I experienced over 10 years of sexual abuse at the hand of of my father. I know Trauma. I know Trauma too well. But nothing, not even that can amount to the trauma and stress we endured during the years of the Covid19 mandates and lockdowns.
My levels of PTSD have escalated hugely over these past years. I am triggered on almost a daily basis and writing this response has dredged up so much anger, hurt, distress, emotional damage, that can’t be forgotten.
To this day I cannot watch Jacinda Adern, Chris Hipkins, or any of the other lackeys that were performing on the main stream media, without wanting to vomit or going into a panic attack.
No-one can tell me this is over.
No one can tell me it is in the past
I will never ever forget what we went through
I Will Never Forget
As I personally believe this was an orchestrated pandemic, creating a world wide dearth of humanity, just to increase the financial gains of a few, I do not believe it is necessary to plan for a ‘real’ pandemic. We need to be awake and watchful for those that might once again try to control the narrative and the population through coercion and control!
This must never be allowed to happen again.
