Writers at the Alor.org blog have been reporting the signs, the early warning shots, that the medical technocrats that now play an insanely over-extended part in Australian life, are hinting about a return to the past, with lockdowns if the present new wave of Covid, which surprise, surprise, is coming in the winter, just like the annual flu, does what it has done in other jurisdictions. New Zealand is a test case here, so above all else we should pay attention to what our essentially communist Great Reset neighbour is doing.
New Zealand is experiencing over 11,000 Covid cases a day and rising, and at present is returning to the mask fetish. The “danger” level on the Covid moral panic scale is now “orange” and could go to red alert freak out mode, at any time under New Zealand’s Great Reset version of Karma Harris, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. It has not happened yet, but in the Covid New World Order, lightning strikes not only twice in the same spot, but an infinity of times.
“Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern asked that people remain vigilant in wearing masks, getting booster shots and isolating if they had the disease.
She said the measures were straight-forward.
'(Isolate) if you have Covid - that markedly brings down the infection rates of others,' she said.
'Your household isolating with you is equally important. Mask use and vaccination. Those are three things that will have some of the biggest impact on our numbers.'
'They are the most important things we can be doing right now, far and away above the extra measure [of] gathering limits which in this environment will not have the same impact.'
Ms Ardern, who was speaking from the Pacific Island Forum in Fiji, said Ms Varells would outline further measures on Thursday.
Health authorities are concerned many Covid-19 cases are not being picked up because wastewater testing indicated a wider prevalence than was being reported.
On Wednesday New Zealand had 11,464 new cases of Covid reported in the community and 29 Covid-related deaths.
The seven-day rolling average of community cases is 9710 – this time last week it was 7591.
There were 67,926 active cases in the community.
Covid-19 modellers say community cases could reach 20,000 in the coming weeks, which will likely mean many more deaths.
Dr Michael Plank told the New Zealand Herald that the country was 'definitely in a second wave' putting a strain on medical resources.
'It's got potential to be quite a serious one. Hospitalisations are rising sharply now and that's concerning because the health system was already stressed with winter illness and flu,' he said.
Dr Plank said mask use would remain critical for flattening the curve of the outbreak.
'We are probably still better at using masks here than many places who I think have fallen out of the habit,' he said.
'That's not to say there isn't room for improvement because there is and masks will be crucially important for flattening the wave.'
The same pattern seen before is present, so be warned, it is coming as sure as Christmas, but unpleasant with no gifts to open.