New Zealand appears terrified by the latest variant of COVID-19.

Omicron has been shown to be highly transmissible although, sounding like one of the original Transformers, it is potentially less harmful than Delta and is still ultimately COVID.

Indeed, Omicron is effectively the same Coronavirus infection you have been fighting for the past two years, just weaker.

The problem, as always, is the way our officials pervade fear through all media outlets.

Sounds awful; more transmissible, may not be able to be controlled by the vaccine and – although preliminary research has found Omicron is ‘less likely to cause severe symptoms, including death, than Delta’ – COVID Omicron sounds essentially like a watered-down, vaccinated version of COVID Delta.

‘Omicron is spreading throughout the world much faster than Delta…’

Let it; the world is eventually going to succumb to COVID-19 and if Omicron does not plan to kill as many as Delta would have, I say let Omicron take control.

Message to National Media: Please, quit scaring folk with your sombre daily talk of ‘New Cases of COVID’ and ‘National Spread of COVID’, ‘COVID … COVID … COVID…’; it is unnecessary, we are now officially 90% vaxed thus COVID numbers are irrelevant and do nothing but unsettle people – talk about COVID Hospital Admissions, talk about how ill COVID is making the unlucky few, talk about how tired healthy people are of hearing about COVID because seriously, nobody cares anymore for your sensational scaremongering.

Omicron, the less-harmful Transformer, you deserve about as much regard as the piece of shit I just flushed down the toilet.

 

 

Article by Tim Walker

Edited by Moran Meets

Photography by Dee Eye

 

New Zealand’s struggle with COVID-19 continues to make increasingly less sense.

While the rest of the world has been ravaged by the COVID pandemic, accepting this new virus as part of life, in New Zealand, we are still feverish in our denial that we have lost the Coronavirus battle.

The New Zealand Government months ago assured the people that, once we reached the fabled ‘90% vaccinated’ mark, COVID would lose its hold over us and life in Godzone could return to normal.

Yeah, that was never going to happen.

According to some sources, the nation’s eligible population – this number keeps changing, mind you, as a broader populous is continually being included in the stat – reached 90% double-vaccinated last week; according to other sources, New Zealand’s double-vaxed populous has been at around 89% for over a week now.

The point is, Jacinda and her elected government of political losers tim-walkers-election17-ii/  are so focused right now on public perception, how they appear in the eyes of the rest of the world that, although it’s not official, nothing short of COVID elimination is going to suffice for our beloved Cindy.

The reason this is such a ridiculous – nonsensical – strategy is this: PM Ardern, for how long do you need to be able to show the world that you achieved ‘COVID-negative’ status before you reopen your borders to the world and allow your prized Dictatorship to become again COVID-positive?

There is no sense in fighting a virus that, within years, will have been through 90% of the world’s population.

We’ve done as you asked, Jacinda, now how about keeping one of your promises and allowing us to get on with our lives?

 

 

Article by Tim Walker

Edited by Labour Intensive

Photography by Percy P Shinn