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