Monthly Archives: November 2021

Tim Walker’s Anti-Vax IV

Presumably an effort to appease New Zealand’s anti-vax malcontents, Government is now considering offering incentive to the remaining unvaccinated.

In New Zealand the COVID vaccine is cost-free thus has no disincentive and surely, the incentive, in which the vaccinated 80-or-so percent have been revelling now for months, is increased likelihood of continued good health.

Uncertainty surrounding the stability, credibility, also efficacy, of the vaccine is preventing a minority from accepting it; odd, given that anyone who is not dead must be aware that, since the COVID-19 vaccine was pervaded throughout the world (admittedly, causing harm to an unfortunate few), people have basically given up on ‘suppression’ of the virus.

New Zealand Government’s most overused idiom, new ‘cases of COVID’ have never been higher than they are now so, yeah, we are relaxing restrictions because, that’s right, most people don’t care because they are vaccinated.

Most people did not waste time holding out to be tangibly rewarded for simply being looked after because, well, most people are not dicks.

A common anti-vax protester slogan – ‘Keep Your Hands Off Our Kids!’

Great, but we’re not worried so much about your kids, it’s you, the negligent parent, who needs vaccination, not your kids; hell, leave your kids at home, well away from Government hands, for all we care, it is you who is threatening our country’s prosperity.

Regarding prospective incentive, piquing interest was $100 in further cash pay-outs, also electronics because, you know, can’t put a price on life and all that.

Realistically, most of these people are dickheads; I know their kind, too, contrary for the sake of being different, causing a problem just so they can feel important.

I am done with this; these shitheads don’t want to get onboard with the rest of their nation, they’re willing to die for their cause, whatever – Government, fabricate a legal document, supplanting all that Hypocritic Oath bullshit, have these idiots sign it, fine, if they contract COVID-19, they can deal with the virus’s full extent, they can do it devoid of hospital care, so New Zealand can go forward – preferably without its populous of malcontents.

Over 18 months now, I have been estranged from the life I was building for myself in Asia; seriously, by year’s end, if we have not progressed as a nation, if we are not past this pointless talk of ‘lockdowns’ and imaginary ‘border control’ with some impending ‘traffic-light’ system, you better believe, I’m going to come out whooping some anti-vax butt.

Look at the bigger picture; see the world, not just yourself.

 

 

Article by Tim Walker

Edited by Pass Toff

Photography by Gut Tin Cranky

 

 

Tim Walker’s Inflation III

Here’s a worrying trend: the only thing keeping up with inflation in New Zealand right now, is the property market.

Gosh, that’s like taking two boots to the face in one kick.

Which do we consider is the more devastating blow; money in New Zealand becoming worth progressively less, or the fact that buying a house in New Zealand now requires more worth-less money than ever?

This issue began with a misunderstood, undervalued and underappreciated, minimum wage; for whatever reason, many young Kiwis leave school with few qualifications thus, often while they get their life sorted or begin the process of working their way up to bigger things, they will take a menial job at a lower wage.

Minimum wage.

Here is the misunderstood part: there is nothing unfair about the minimum wage, it is simply a low wage intended for inexperienced workers reflecting their lack of formal education and/or qualifications.

Minimum wage is not supposed to be a lot of money and, certainly, it is not supposed to result in financial freedom; it is supposed to be a safety-net for those folk who are still young enough to have minimal expenses and who are unable or just unwilling to dedicate themselves to the forging of a career through years of study and/or training.

Problem with the Government right now, in fact, problem with every bloody Labour Government in memory, presumably an effort to elicit that ‘younger-working-class’ vote, they seem forever to be raising the minimum wage.

As somebody I know once pointed out, all that is achieved by raising the minimum wage is the increasing of inflation; it sure as hell doesn’t making living easier, anyway – all it effectively does is increase the cost of living.

How can successive Governments not understand this?

They have Economists, Finance Ministers, and other currency-savvy people on their team; how can they not comprehend an aspect of currency which I managed to glean in Fifth Form Economics class (which was, incidentally, the one School Cert subject I did fail)?

Seemingly, in New Zealand, we like to compare ourselves to big sister in the west, Australia; problem there is that she has over five times the population that we do, thus she has over five times the commerce, five times the cashflow, five times the everything, so how the hell can this whinging piss-ant of a younger sibling ever be expected to live up to big sister?

We can’t, we need to stop trying; need to stop thinking we need to.

Here it is, guys, a basic formula that, even as a snotty-nosed fifteen-year-old on the way to failing School Cert Economics, I could understand; bigger wages lead to bigger consumer demand which leads to bigger living costs which lead to bigger housing market which leads to bigger requirement for money which leads to bigger demand for increased wages…

Bigger, Bigger, BIGGER, BIGGER!

…Cool it, minimum wagers, either do the work and secure a higher paying job or simply, learn to live within your means, stop demanding; stop complaining and be happy.

Easy.

 

 

Article by Tim Walker

Edited by D Marn Ding

Photography by Fie Nance-Sez

 

Tim Walker’s Nonsensical

You are free but still under strict regulation, you can do whatever you need but only if it complies; you are not infected with whatever it is that has the rest of the rest of the nation in mortal fear, yet you are being forced to play by the same silly rules as they are.

It is basically what I’ve been preaching all along; in New Zealand, Government control, for a while now, has been out of control.

Supermarket staff who refuse to bag your goods ‘due to COVID’, after handling them all throughout the checkout process and after supermarket shelf-stackers have handled them while doing God knows what else to them; extra packaging of products – for what?

The old ‘always wash your hands after touching the tap after washing your hands’ mentality.

Maintaining a sizeable gap between you and the next person in the queue, unless you know that next person or you are outdoors, because it is only people you don’t know who can transmit COVID and only indoors; we must always keep the kissing of strangers to outdoor situations.

Maintaining a ‘lockdown’ situation where, nobody really cares anymore thus just like NSW months ago the only difference it makes is to penalise those well-behaved people who do follow the rules and therefore who don’t have COVID-19; while the shithead gang members, meth dealers and prostitutes, who never cared for the rules, continue to spread this virus without concern.

Canterbury Anniversary Day, today, no COVID in the South but, like so many other southern events, our Auckland-focused government does not hesitate to further crush us with cancellation.

Government propaganda, scaremongering, has led most people into a mortal fear of COVID-19 – if it’s in the air you’re going to catch it and if you catch it, you’re going to die from it.

Realistically, statistically, worldwide, COVID hospitalises around one in a hundred people, killing one in a thousand; few months ago, New Zealand had barely 100 cases of COVID-19 and hospitals were already full.

This mortal fear of the virus, in New Zealand, has meant that, when COVID shows up in somebody’s circulatory system, although generally asymptomatic they will be, they panic; with panic comes increased breathing and with unnecessarily increased breathing comes restricted airways – causing further panic hence pointless hospital care.

Our socialist cum communist government is keeping otherwise jobless folk employed by having them fulfil meaningless tasks such as loitering around and ‘monitoring’ testing stations as others furiously fill test tubes with wastewater to test for COVID-19 while others stand guard at entrances of buildings to ensure nobody is standing too close to anybody else, then using a positive wastewater test to further scaremonger low-vaccination areas into the ‘double-shot’ culture that most Kiwis are embracing.

Health officials are complaining that people ‘positive for COVID-19 are staying home and not being tested’ but, shit man, is that not the ideal scenario – contract a virus, keep to yourself, deal with it like you would any other virus – as though the health sector are encouraging people to bring to A&E their breathing difficulties…?

So much of what is happening at the moment makes no sense and the rational thinkers among us are growing increasingly frustrated.

We need to embrace this double-shot mentality because this shit is ridiculous; most of us know it is ridiculous, too.

Worldwide, this COVID game has become more about politics than about personal health; public perception and agendas have taken priority.

Double vaccinate and let’s get this shit done.

 

 

Article by Tim Walker

Edited by Tu Qwik

Photography by Noah Thyme