Public hearings for the Royal Commission of Inquiry into New Zealand’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic begins today, launching a week of public hearings aimed at examining how the country managed the crisis — and how it affected its people.
Running through to Friday 11 July, the first session of public hearings — titled ‘Perspectives on the Pandemic’ — will hear from a wide range of organisations and individuals who lived through the ‘pandemic’ and its consequences. The Commission, chaired by Grant Illingworth KC with Commissioners Anthony Hill and Judy Kavanagh, is investigating how decisions were made and the impacts they had on the public.
Each day’s proceedings will be livestreamed, and recorded sessions will be made available on the Inquiry’s official website.
A key topic later in the week will be vaccine safety, set to be explored in detail on Thursday 10 July. That session will include opening remarks from Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, followed by an introduction to the topic and several video testimonies from members of the public, selected from submissions made to the Inquiry.
Several advocacy groups critical of the vaccine rollout are scheduled to present, including The Health Forum New Zealand, Voices for Freedom, and New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science. Their concerns and perspectives will be examined alongside testimonies from the wider public.
The Inquiry’s hearings this week mark the first step in a wide-ranging review of New Zealand’s pandemic experience. Findings from these public sessions will help shape the Commission’s final report and recommendations on how the country can better prepare for future emergencies.
Let the whitewash begin
And taxpayer funds flow
Just like the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in State Care, it will be an exercise in futility. The guilty will not be arrested, charged, put on trial and handed severe sentences – including asset stripping. As always, these whitewash hearings simply act as a pressure release valve where people believe something is being accomplished. Sadly, the reality is that people are still affected. People are still dying. It’s legalized murder, plain and simple. Even the organisations pretending to want justice are woefully inadequate by it calling for criminal investigations, charges and arrests, etc.
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Too right Kelvyn.
Sad thing is that these functionaries do not comprehend what whitewash does to a society.
Sweeping shit under the carpet makes the whole carpet slippery.
If the individuals had balls there would be recommendations for prosecutions. Zero chance that that will happen.
So it is up to these functionaries to cope with their own personal failure for real address.
It wont be a failure because crimes wouldn’t be addressed. Oh no. Society always will cleanse itself from abominations, one way or a n o t h e r. But public anger could be mitigated by proper procedures. Do these people know what damage they do to New Zealand by whitewashing crimes against the people?
https://realitycheck.radio/facethemusic/#perpetrators
And nobody who made the decisions will appear to justify what they did, and nobody will ask them to.
Hipkins drags out the old ‘conspiracy theorist’ package again. Oh well, business as usual, a change of tune would be a welcome justification to the huuuuge rort but maybe nobody notices the humdrum hypnosis …