I love the way you say things, how you write with such patience. It's difficult for me to show much patience with extremists of any form. And as David said below, it is super-confounding.
Comparing the people that marched to white supremacists, are in fact very radical and divisive. Why? Is your commentary based on any actual facts from any of the people that were present? No, it’s completely biased. As a senior Covid-19 expert, internationally acknowledged, I can tell you, some of those people are very up to date, on actual data and reports or papers concerning the vaccinations.
I for one, was asked to critique the Moderna vaccination, for 6-11 years old, internationally by Covid-19 peers.
Some that marched, as well aware of my critique. Some are waiting for the Novavax vaccination. Did you know Ardern sent out letters to employers, to tell employees there is no longer any medical exemption for people?
I certainly wasn't intending to imply that the protesters were white supremacists. The focus of my commentary wasn't on the majority of the protest at all, but on the presence of disturbing elements as part of that protest, and the links of those disturbing elements to the American far right.
Interesting how people are drawn to such a range of claims when they are suspicious of the virus origins, vaccines, lockdowns or mandates to start. Sad to see the Trump, Q-anon and misogyny on display at the protests in Wellington. PS you spelled one word wrong: satantic...
That's what has disturbed me so much - people have been drawn from all sorts of opinions about Covid-19 and with all sorts of reasons to be uncertain about vaccination and have somehow ended up normalising violent and far right language. (Typo now fixed).
Great commentary, Melanie. It's a super-confounding issue and you're helping me make sense of it. So thank you!
Thank you, I really appreciate that.
I love the way you say things, how you write with such patience. It's difficult for me to show much patience with extremists of any form. And as David said below, it is super-confounding.
Thank you. I think it's easier to be patient with more distance, but also my life experience has given me a lot of practice with patience.
Comparing the people that marched to white supremacists, are in fact very radical and divisive. Why? Is your commentary based on any actual facts from any of the people that were present? No, it’s completely biased. As a senior Covid-19 expert, internationally acknowledged, I can tell you, some of those people are very up to date, on actual data and reports or papers concerning the vaccinations.
I for one, was asked to critique the Moderna vaccination, for 6-11 years old, internationally by Covid-19 peers.
Some that marched, as well aware of my critique. Some are waiting for the Novavax vaccination. Did you know Ardern sent out letters to employers, to tell employees there is no longer any medical exemption for people?
I certainly wasn't intending to imply that the protesters were white supremacists. The focus of my commentary wasn't on the majority of the protest at all, but on the presence of disturbing elements as part of that protest, and the links of those disturbing elements to the American far right.
Interesting how people are drawn to such a range of claims when they are suspicious of the virus origins, vaccines, lockdowns or mandates to start. Sad to see the Trump, Q-anon and misogyny on display at the protests in Wellington. PS you spelled one word wrong: satantic...
That's what has disturbed me so much - people have been drawn from all sorts of opinions about Covid-19 and with all sorts of reasons to be uncertain about vaccination and have somehow ended up normalising violent and far right language. (Typo now fixed).