THE+TRIBUTE today releases Episode 3, featuring the story of Val, a young Auckland mother who developed myocarditis and severe ongoing symptoms shortly after her first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine dose in late 2021.
Before vaccination, Val maintained an active lifestyle—studying sport, playing regularly, gym-going, and enjoying family life with her young daughter. As an education worker, she faced workplace mandates requiring vaccination to keep her job and access normal activities.
“I waited as long as I could,” Val recalls. “By December, I had no choice if I wanted to keep my income, pay my mortgage, and live normally with my child.”
Social pressures labeling the unvaccinated as “crazy” and “selfish” also contributed to her decision, despite reluctance. Val proceeded to get the jab after her GP assured her adverse reactions were rare and treatable: “My doctor said, ‘We know what to do with it, so you’ll be fine.’”
Sixteen hours post-injection, while shopping, Val suffered sudden intense tachycardia—her heart racing uncontrollably. At urgent care, an ECG showed severity, leading to hospital referral. There, staff dismissed it as a possible panic attack, advising her to self-discharge and rest.
Symptoms worsened: chest pains, lumps, chronic fatigue, brain fog, blurry vision and numbness. Multiple emergency visits and a cardiologist initially downplayed her condition, even suggesting she go for a run—triggering rapid decline.
Val found support and information to manage her myocarditis, such as avoiding exercise, through family research, the Facebook group “Kiwis with Myocarditis and Pericarditis” (eventually removed) and New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science. Over a year later, specialist cardiologists confirmed scarring on Val’s heart muscle consistent with prior myocarditis.
A 2023 nationwide New Zealand study—the country’s largest vaccine safety assessment — examined over 4 million vaccinated individuals aged 5+ and confirmed an increased myocarditis/pericarditis risk after Pfizer vaccination, particularly in younger people under 30 (published in Drug Safety, Walton et al., 2023).
Val, 27 years old at the time, pursued self-managed recovery with rest, supplements, saunas, and hyperbaric therapy, plus insurance-covered access to private cardiologists and MRI’s. Vaccine mandates added to her ordeal, causing social exclusion—she nearly lost her job and faced barriers to services and events.
Three years on, Val reports gradual improvement—recently running, playing touch rugby, and planning netball—though occasional chest pains linger. As a solo parent, fear of recurrence persists, but her daughter motivates her forward.
A separate New Zealand survey of those diagnosed with myocarditis/pericarditis ≥90 days post-Comirnaty vaccination found over half reported persistent impacts on health, mental wellbeing, physical function and daily life (Te Whatu Ora report, September 2024).
“I’ve come to peace with my choice,” Val says. “But there should always be choice. I tell my story in every interaction to educate others.”
THE+TRIBUTE platforms New Zealanders’ personal accounts of COVID-19 vaccine injuries, highlighting harm, initial dismissals and recovery paths.
Commiserations to Val and family.
Sadly, the much-maligned ‘anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorists’ were the only people that saw this grotesquely obvious shit-show coming and tried to warn everybody.
I genuinely hate to say I told you so.
Truly tragic.
While I have deep empathy with individuals like her who have been pressured to get vaxxed (I lost my mother in a rest home and couldn’t say good-bye), I have a certain glee about the “I told you so”, and that is not because I was ostracized by various levels of society. Remember how the Gestapo dictatorship scared everyone, work, friends, neighbours, friends? I lost decade-old friends and such betrayal is hard to mend and will always be my single biggest accusation of recent governments. They played us out against each other. TERRORISTS!
It was in the end this young mother’s decision to place ‘money’ over health and even above her intuition. That’s what you get when you think these governments cared about citizens. Yes, sheeple didn’t exercise critical thinking, but what’s new? Certainly not to Darwinism.
On the other end of the scale sits the Bible, which also states that one should not place mammon over God’s decrees and how He will care about all who are not participating in rort, usury and crime. The rest will rot in hell (most alredy live in it but are too arrogant to feel it).
Having said all that: Welcome to waking up!
No job, mortgage or car is worth whatever time you have been allocated on this earth with your children. As terrifying as it is being threatened with losing your employment, being poor and destitute is something you CAN recover from in time. Heart scarring, sterilisation and alterations to your genetic code are irreversible.
Remember this next time they pull this sh*t again, and there WILL be a “next time” as they keep reminding/threatening us.
The fact that the people who perpetrated these crimes against humanity aren’t all skeletons right now, gently swaying in the breeze from tree branches, is exactly why they will do it again.
I can see a revival of the maori skill of Whiri.
You’re right Val, there should always be a choice. But the choice should never be between being browbeaten with labels of anti-vaxxer, conspiracy nut, selfish, right wing granny killers, also with the possiblity of losing income and homes or, taking a medicine that you don’t really want, that was already showing massive amounts of serious ADR’s with no long term knowledge.
Shame on everyone one of those nameless people on the MAAC that approved this shot, and still allow it to be given. Bet they are so glad that the ombudsman agrees with Health NZ that they should remain anonymous so ” they can continue to do their role without undue pressure from the public” even though he agrees that there is significant public interest.
Shame on you John Allen, and your predecessor. From their judgement.
“How likely it is that the disclosure of the information will cause the predicted harm?
The Ministry also considers that there is a high likelihood that this predicted harm will occur if the
information is disclosed. It believes that, once released, the information is likely to be shared
through social media, and therefore control of the information is lost. It is particularly concerned
about the information being obtained by people who want to confront, or even abuse, the
members. It notes that even if one member is targeted, the member is likely to advise other
members. This could have longstanding repercussions for the ongoing membership of these
committees. It believes that there is a risk that the expert community would lose trust in the
Ministry.”
I would say there wouldn’t be any of that if, they didn’t approve the shot in the first place when they could see the harm it was causing overseas, who were months ahead of NZ in rollout and, they had the massive list of ADRs from pfizer. They could at least have stopped it’s use early on. People are right to be angry and want to know who did this to the country. It is unacceptable they are anon at all. They should be fully open so any conflict of interest is known, and, accountable for their decisions. I do not buy the excuse that people would not want to be on that committee if it was public knowledge of the members.
Shame on Jacinda and all her helpers that manipulated the population. It was all pervasive on all platforms. And, shame on those in the health profession that gaslit you for so long.
Just shows you what utter scum these globalist politicians are and yet people still vote for these immoral, scheming creeps. I was in a financial position where I could tell filthy swine to “go to hell”. I never have or will be coerced by anyone into taking their experimental jab.
This poor girl was not so lucky. I sympathise with her and hope for a day we have honest government, that will do what they can, to make amends.