The way I see it
Phase Two of the Royal Commission of Inquiry is reviewing key decisions made by the New Zealand Government regarding the COVID-19 response during 2021 and 2022.
New Zealanders suffered from bad advice, coercive propaganda, censorship and heavy handed policies.
Media, propped up by the state, played a big part.
New Zealand bowed to overseas advice in the name of public safety and implemented it with a militant approach. Science integrity was set aside, emergency powers were abused and dissenting voices were squashed.
In communication
Jacinda Ardern’s words,“We will continue to be your single source of truth” - will go down in history as a disgrace.
Journalistic principles:
“Journalists are trained to report and interpret the news with scrupulous honesty by striving to disclose all essential facts and by not suppressing relevant, available facts or distorting by wrong or improper emphasis.” Journalist Code of Ethics - E tū
My name is Keri molloy. I am a journalist.
I was distressed to see these principles abandoned.
At the 2022 Wellington protest, reporters were seen looking down from the Beehive balcony on ordinary New Zealanders gathered below. In the cold embrace of Jacinda Ardern, the accredited journalists adjusted their long lenses and cut and pasted government untruths and slurs to deceive the public. Ardern never ventured down to ground level to speak to those who begged her to stop the vaccine mandates. We never got all sides of the story. Journalists earned the nickname presstitutes.
It was shameful.
In health
The core principle of “Do no harm” was tossed aside by the Medical Council of New Zealand.
The Medical Council of New Zealand and the Ministry of Health adopted the advice of an outside body, the World Health Organisation (WHO), without apparent diligence.
The Medical Council of New Zealand then embarked on a policy of silencing doctors and penalising any who raised concerns about the Pfizer vaccine.
The Medical Council issued a “guidance statement” to doctors, in April 2021, stating “there is no place for anti-vaccination messages in professional health practice”, then it enforced it vigorously, censoring information the public needed.
Doctors were told they should promote vaccine benefits not highlight risks. A doctor talking about the risks associated with vaccination faced disciplinary action.
The Medical Council now argues it was never a compulsory standard but the “guidance statement” was regarded as law. The statement said that doctors should use the Ministry of Health website as their “sole” source of vaccine information”. It said there was no place for anti vaccination messages in professional health practice, nor any promotion of anti vaccination claims.
Public trust in the Medical Council of New Zealand and Ministry of Health was harmed.
There are now calls for comprehensive safety studies and a halt in the distribution of the mRNA vaccines until further data is available.
Excess mortality, negative efficacy, and widespread DNA contamination associated with COVID-19 vaccines globally have led to international calls for an immediate moratorium on the vaccines.
The myocarditis risk was well established by November 2021 but the NZ government continued its safe and effective mantra.
Medsafe recorded 20559 serious reports of severe reactions to the Covid 19 vaccines. Healthy young men were affected. Health NZ released a study post vaccine cases of myocarditis and pericarditis where 59 per cent of those in the study were still having chest pain more than 90 days later.
Medical Council hardball tactics
The Negative Efficacy of COVID-19 mRNA Injections Has Been Demonstrated
The Inquiry
Phase 2 of the Inquiry will focus on the use of vaccines, including mandates, approvals, and safety, lockdowns and testing and tracing technologies and the role of the private sector.
Submissions close on 27 April 2025.
NZ Royal Commission COVID-19 Lessons Learned
Terms of Reference released for Phase 2 of COVID-19 Royal Commission - Bell Gully
The Inquiry will review decisions made by the government in New Zealand’s response to COVID-19 during 2021 and 2022. These include any decision that:
has a potential or actual significant impact on large numbers of people - tick.
the use of vaccines, including the use of vaccine mandates - tick
the approval of vaccines, and vaccine safety - tick
the use of lockdowns, including the extended Auckland/Northland lockdowns in September 2021 - tick
The NZ Government hid behind the WHO and its blinkered science.
New Zealand’s Ministry of Health was misled into sidestepping evaluation processes and it denied public transparency by censoring the health community.
It also suppressed the use of repurposed drugs to advantage the pharmaceutical industry.
Overall, it violated public trust by depriving individuals of the opportunity to make informed decisions. The advice given by the WHO should have been questioned and tested.
Informed consent involves full information about the possible effects of a medical procedure. This was denied in the government’s strategy.
The government proceeded with its mandates and lockdowns in spite of the fact that the vaccine failed to stop infection or transmission.
We were coerced into accepting a medical intervention at the risk of losing our jobs.
Those who fought back were derided as conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers and tin foil hatters.
Looking back, it seems that dividing the community cruelly into vaccinated and unvaccinated was not aimed at reducing transmission, it was simply designed to coerce people to be vaccinated, whether they chose to or not.
The government’s policies, based on poor science and vested interests, created social division and impacted health, education and business activity.
There was significant social and economic disruption.
Communication
Pfizer executive Janine Small admitted in 2022 that the company didn’t have data on whether the mRNA gene technology prevented transmission.
The New Zealand MInistry of Health confirmed, in response to a request made under the Official Information Act, that “reducing transmission was not an outcome measured in the trials of the Pfizer vaccine”.
This was one of the important things that Ardern and her ministers omitted to tell us.
And knowing this, Ardern implemented a system on the basis that two classes of society were necessary, implying that the vaccinated could not spread the virus and that the unvaccinated were a risk to vaccinated.
We were told that about 95 percent of people who have received both doses of the vaccine would be protected against getting COVID-19 symptoms’, that COVID-19 vaccines were ‘the most well-studied vaccines ever made’ and that there was lots of data to show the Pfizer vaccine had been thoroughly assessed for safety.
In fact, the government’s hard-line measures were based, at best, on the flimsy hope that the COVID-19 vaccines were safe and effective.
The New Zealand Government implemented coercive, and misinformed policies that undermined the principles of ethical evidence-based medical practice.
We can justly ask what the biggest source of mis- and dis-information was?
‘The Disinformation Project’, funded by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, was terrifying because of its war on enquiry and blanket attacks on those who questioned government policy.
The project, supported by the University of Auckland, helped stoke toxicity. It ceased operating in October last year but its website is still live and its current statement, accusing many New Zealanders of conspiratorial beliefs, makes a chilling read:
“In 2024, it’s clear that the disinformation networks established or expanded during the pandemic are deeply connected to far-right, neo-Nazi, and accelerationist networks and actors – both domestic and foreign.”
This vitriol illustrates the toxic culture created by the government to further its COVID-19 policies.
The level of mudslinging undertaken by The Disinformation Project was, ironically, an example of the hate speech that it was accusing others of committing. That this project was funded by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet shows the depths of manipulation used by the government to further its COVID-19 policies.
Weighing it up
A homeware retailer has been fined more than $200,000 for selling ‘unsafe products’. Products included children’s pyjama sets that did not have fire hazard information in the required spot or in the online descriptions, and hot water bottles that did not provide instructions about safe use and storage. How does this precautionary action measure up against the random approach taken to COVID-19 vaccine safety?
Our government accepted assurances from the WHO that serious adverse effects from the vaccine are very rare.
A Citizen Petition submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on 20 January 2025 calls for the suspension or outright revocation of Pfizer-BioNTech’s Comirnaty used in New Zealand.
The petition alleges violations of regulatory processes, raises serious safety concerns, and ultimately concludes that the vaccines were “unlawfully approved.”
Citizen petition demands FDA revoke approval of Covid-19 mRNA vaccines
A further petition asks the NZ Government to release the original contract between Pfizer and the government for the supply of the COVID-19 vaccines.
This should have been made public when NZ bought the vaccines.
The government bowed to the argument that release of the information would unreasonably prejudice the commercial position of Pfizer.
https://petitions.parliament.nz/8890fa1e-7b77-4b3b-7cdb-08dcb057b576
Aly Cook, whose son was injured by the vaccine, has petitioned the government to ban all pharmaceutical advertising in New Zealand media.
Who calls the tune?
Pharmaceutical companies have spent millions on advertising their products in New Zealand over the past five years.
An Official Information Act request in 2021 showed that pharmaceutical companies contributed about $23.9 million to TVNZ's advertising revenue over a five-year period.
Additionally, the New Zealand government spent about $35.09 million on promoting the COVID-19 vaccine across various media platforms.
A report by industry research firm Intron Health claims the return on investment for drug ads is as high as 100-500 per cent, depending on the drug.
Vested interests resulted in self-censorship by the media and huge profits for Pfizer.
A Call To Ban All Pharmaceutical Advertising Direct To Consumers In New Zealand Media | Scoop News?
Recommendations
This Inquiry should generate change in the governance structure to accommodate informed consent, freedom from overseas influence and protection from corporate profit-driven motives.
This Inquiry should encourage New Zealand to immediately remove COVID-19 vaccines from the market to prevent further loss of life and injury. There should be accountability for harm incurred.
New Zealand is one of only two countries (with the USA) that allows direct-to-consumer drug advertisements. The Inquiry should recommend that this be stopped.
Jacinda Ardern, now acting out kindness on the world stage, is yet to acknowledge vaccine harm or apologise for her divisive policies. This Inquiry should encourage her, and Ashley Bloomfield, to address their part in breaching individual human rights and overriding the medical principles of ‘do no harm’ and ‘informed consent’.
In my view the med council (MCNZ) needs a shake up from the top down. The legislation that established the MCNZ was primarily focused on protecting the public from unsafe/unethical heath workers. This protection took the form of a strong governance of medical education/accreditation and robust systems to respond to compliants about medical professionals. During the pandemic the MCNZ untethered itself from its founding legitastation and joined the public health madness that was the covid pandemic. Way outside of its breif.
I know, I was there.