I saw on the news that Northland has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country.
This doesn't really surprise me as we have a high percentage of idiots up here as well going by the input into Neighbourly by uneducated conspiracy theorists.
I'm not sure whether the high percentage of Maori in Northland is the issue or whether it is just a rural and insular way of thinking. It is of concern though that a number of Maori educational leaders are resistant to vaccination (and who bloody well won't be resistant to the virus) thereby putting students, co-workers and family at risk.
I listened to Jesse Mulligan interviewing Prof. Tony Blakely from Melbourne last week.
In this interview Blakely recounted how, when he was living in Rawene he used to visit the cemetery and was shocked at the number of Maori graves from 1919 of people who died in the Influenza epidemic. He said that the government of the time basically stuffed up in its speed and effectiveness of getting vaccination to Maori and rural New Zealanders. He was complimentary to the Ardern-led NZ government in its efforts to vaccinate Maori, Polynesian and 'at risk' communities. Short of tying people down and stocking them with a needle everything posable is being done.
"Stupid is as stupid does" said Forrest Gump and he's right. It's such a shame that our stupid people are being influenced by others with their own agendas that are at odds with what is good for our country.
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Once a fool has made up his mind there is not a thing you can do.
Hey, where's the next windows post?
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