The Royal Commission of Inquiry into COVID-19 has delivered a critique of former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s leadership and the Labour government’s handling of the pandemic, highlighting key failures that caused lasting harm to New Zealanders.
The report, released today, found that vaccine mandates, championed by Ardern and her administration, were applied too broadly and stayed in place for too long, despite a waning public health justification with the arrival of the Omicron variant.
From early 2022, “the public health case for requiring [vaccination] was weak,” the report stated. “In our view, some workplace, occupational, and other vaccine requirements were applied too broadly and remained in place for too long, which caused harm to individuals and families and contributed to loss of social capital.” This overreach, the inquiry concluded, eroded public trust in the government, fuelled social division, and even reduced uptake of other vaccines, undermining future public health efforts.
The inquiry was particularly scathing about the long-term consequences of these policies, which contributed to “the most significant civil unrest in Aotearoa New Zealand for some time,” referring to the 2022 occupation of Parliament grounds. The protest, which culminated in a violent attack on protesters by police, was described as a visible manifestation of the pandemic’s deep social and economic scars.
Ardern’s internationally maligned “single source of truth” comment also came under fire, with the inquiry noting it “contributed to a sense of mistrust” and was frequently cited by submitters as emblematic of the government’s top-down, totalitarian approach. While intended to combat “misinformation”, the phrase became a rallying cry for critics and undermined social cohesion.
The Labour government’s handling of lockdowns, particularly the prolonged restrictions in Auckland in late 2021, was another area of criticism. The inquiry found the decision to extend lockdowns disproportionately affected marginalised groups, including Māori and Pasifika communities, and exacted severe economic and mental health tolls. The government’s rationale for these decisions, ostensibly to improve vaccination rates among vulnerable groups, failed to consider other critical factors, such as waning immunity and international examples of earlier reopening with lower vaccination rates.
While the inquiry acknowledged initial lockdowns and border controls were effective in the early stages of the pandemic, it noted that poor preparation left decision-makers with limited options. “If New Zealand had better preparation and investment, it would have been less reliant on using lockdowns to eliminate Covid-19,” the report concluded, pointing to a lack of foresight in improving contact tracing and mask compliance.
The Labour government’s failure to engage directly with protesters, as recommended by the Chief Human Rights Commissioner, was also identified as a disastrous measure that further exacerbated public discontent.
So heads will roll then?
Worldwide, including NZ, none, not one, of those responsible for the shambles has been brought to justice or even reprimanded. No, they got away with it, and continue on to greater honours. Ardern for one. They should be in jail, but get damehoods, knighthoods etc instead. Pricks
Single source of LIES. You’re not welcome in this country Jacinda. Don’t EVER come back. You wrecked and divided us, committed economic sabotage, lined your pockets and then you laughed about it.
Glad you don’t believe in God because there is a special place in hell for people like you and your colleagues, minions and useful idiots Jacinda.
😡😡😡
Is that it? What about the effects of the covid vaccine, the deaths caused from it?
Oddly enough vaccine harms were not included in the inquiry’s terms of reference.
I can’t think why. Just an inadvertent oversight I guess.
Vaccines cause Autism by altering early gut health, and introduce heavy metals into the developing brain tissue so that such will not develop properly.
WHO / WEF / NWO are already euthanising the elderly, the Covid-vaccine damaged, and the Autistic in Canada and the Netherlands as reported in both the MSM and Alternative Media.
Trying to incessantly play down the criminality and complete disrespect for peoples human and democratic rights. Best thing that could happen is a clean sweep, with the low life globalists never allowed to take office in this country again, a complete reform of the so called police and the judiciary, an entrenched constitution and the dissolution of any kind of military in New Zealand.
These people have the memory of a goldfish. Let me remind these simpletons, while slightly longer Auckland was not the only major centre to have their own special lockdown.
The jab didn’t work against the Delta strain either you liars. Israel and the UK proved that. And that was before shots were rolled out here. Thats probably why Ashley and Chris James didn’t approve the shots. Ivermectin and other drugs did though. India proved that. After much hand wringing about India suffering from the Indian strain mid 2020,they got it under control, and it became the Delta strain so as not cause offense.
Wait a few years after the shock and awe, then gaslight the country is it?
“The Labour government’s failure to engage directly with protesters, as recommended by the Chief Human Rights Commissioner, was also identified as a disastrous measure that further exacerbated public discontent.”
Also the Police acting as jackboot thugs. F all of you police until an apology for that disgusting display instead of upholding our Rights.
It was Ardern who gave the order to attack and assault the peaceful protesters. To smash them in the face with batons. To destroy their belongings. To set fire to them and burn them out!
Many had children there. We have a name for that type of woman. That name is Bitch.
To our generation, the police have lost all credibility. I have made it very clear to my children. Never to forget what Arden did to this nation of well-meaning citizens whose only intention was to bring their concerns to the government.
Arden deserves no respect from anyone. Do not allow her into your place of business. If you see her in the streets, never let her forget what she did.
Thank you for that comment. But we should include all the criminals who colluded to make Godzone into hell: From the scum in the beehive to their highly paid grubberment advisors, their corrupt medical scoundrels and their police storm-troopers.
The well-meaning citizens of Godzone will survive but New Zealand will never be the same.
A lot of people lost a lot of valuable personal items to be noted
Trust Us
We are one
But at least Ardern had enough brains to get out
And leave the sinking ship to this Cheshire cat Hipkins
Who just the sight of like His counterpart is enough to infuriate
And vaporize the blood
J A should be paying a daily charge for oxygen use.
Remember National endorsed her actions,only criticizing her for not being fascist enough,They are all bastards.Never forgive them and all the self-righteous prats in the media and elsewhere that championed it
Uniparty
Two wings of the same stinking carcass
Two sides of the same coin
Not a dimes difference
Not everybody goes to heaven
Would You want to arrive and find Ardern there?
Devils advocate
Useful idiot
Yes indeed, heinous crimes against humanity committed by power-crazed midwit government officials does indeed tend to “erode trust”.
A prudent and caring PM and Labor Party would have requested more information before mandating the vaccine :- 1. Why no information on test results of MRNA vaccines? 2. Why was Ivermectin & hydroxychloroquine (both effective) never considered and even banned by some governments (ie Queensland) before the covid crisis? 3. Why was a scientific and medical analysis of the components used by Big Pharma in the mRNA vaccines, not requested beforehand? Worse how was it that every Party including National were in lockstep with the need for lockdowns which were subsequently proven totally ineffective and people lost their jobs for objecting to the jab? An enquiry with no teeth or prosecution capacity is hardly worth the paper its written on. Meanwhile those responsible, even those given exemptions, walk away scot free as people died and are still dying with turbo-cancers.
Reading through the report yesterday, I thought to do a word search….Emergency Use Authorization….nothing.
Funny that.
Jabcinda Arden what a despicable human being. But the truth will only come out when the corruption that allowed it is exposed. Things seem more hopeful than ever following Trump’s success and the amazing stream of announcements that have been covering issues that I never thought were going to get addressed so directly. It’d be great if the follow on consequences expose Ardern and the corrupt media and politicians and NZ Health who failed the NZ people.
“Contributed to loss of social capital” has to be the understatement of the century.
I am looking for the chapter within the report that explains why a GP requested vaccine exemption was duly declined. Was it only Healthcare workers who were gifted these without needing to meet the stringent criteria?
It wasn’t a ‘Labour-led/ Ardern Leadership’ at all- it was a Deep State Zionist inspired dictatorship, ALL OF WHICH WAS ILLEGAL AND NOW PROVEN TO BE MURDEROUS VIA SLOW KILL TECHNICAL CHEMICAL METHODOLOGIES!!!
ALL POLITICAL PARTIES EXCEPT FOR NZ LOYAL AND THE FREEDOM & OUTDOORS PARTIES ALL PARTICIPATED IN THIS!
How much Pfizer payments did the ‘players’ receive?
No Court of Inquiry will probably never find out!
What happened to the man who filed a police complaint against Chippy? That faded & disappeared…
Or the pastor who had his Christchurch home raided?
Where is Vinny Eastwood and Billy T.K. these days?
Has Liz Gunn (aka Liz Cooney) recovered from her police-induced injuries at Auckland Airport? Or, has she had to undergo unreported surgery?
Has ACC covered the police-induced permanent injuries of the Lock-Down Protestors who were on the grounds of the Parliament’s lawns 3 years ago?
National at the time said they were 100% behind Ardern and her Covid policies, that makes them as bad as her and Labour.
Where is the justice for those who died from the jabs, even dying on the ground in public with two police cars and three ambulances
attending did not get a friend of mine an autopsy. This was despite his body showing previous severe injuries from a fall off his bike riding home from the previous jab.
The cremation took place just two days after death, his family could not afford to intervene as they were all unvaxxed and the main bread winner lost her job for refusing the jabs. The scum medics could not cover it up fast enough.
This is not a one off incident. This kind of mistreatment and murder was the new normal In NZ.
No where in this enquiry does it say what punishments are to be given to the evil perpetrators of these horrific crimes against humanity. You know why there is no punishment? Because they tried to involve almost every one in it. Govt, Doctors, Nurses, Police, Councils, Media, Justice system, even businesses.
We still don’t have our rights back as unvaxxed in many cases cannot return to lost jobs, homes, relationships and friendships.
We are still open to discrimination if we need medical care or a dentist, and don’t feel safe in their so called “care”.
What we know makes us victims for life and we committed no crime.
This enquiry is treating deliberate planned genocide as some kind of slightly flawed social experiment.
So they can figure out how to get away with it better next time, just a study to make changes with, they don’t seem to get that we won’t forget what they have done to us.
What about the Infanticide of the innocents ? What about when jab caravans that were going around to schools and such jabbing 5-6 year olds ? I remember 3 fatalities in one day at one jab tent. You cant say the Govt. did not know the shots could be lethal because you see they crossed the line into condoning and directly participating in the Genocide when they made hush money payment to parents up to 450k in some instances and kept on jabbing. This atrocity is the biggest Crime Against Humanity so far in this century. All of those responsible have to be held to account in a special Court, Tribunal or another Special Nuremberg 2 Court sitting, one with gallows out back..
I have always said….all of NZ Politicians stood shoulder to shoulder with Jacinda the tyrannical egomaniac. All of them. Luxon was as thick as thieves with this WEF/WHO orchestrated this mass murderous experiment. So we are no better off now. I say, because we never hung the bastards this time, they will surely try it again next time. There needs to be a price paid by the politicians , and puppets like Bloomfield, Wiles, Baker , Hipkins among others.
Most of those involved have run a mile…..how many remain in their occupations today?
Chris Hipkins, Helen Petousis -Harris, Michael Baker….
Gone are the people of the pandemic days – Medical Council Chairman, the CEO of Health Quality NZ, the Director of Pharmacovigilence – CARM Centre for Adverse Reactions, the Prime Minister, the Director General of Health………all have retired, resigned, moved on or changed roles.
Would it not be appropriate to survey this group and ask the questions;
Do they stand by their decisions of the day? Do they concede the vaccine to have been ineffective in regard to transmission and protection from contracting the virus? Can they hand on heart admit that there was a “significant minority “ who were adversely vaccine injured and deserve acknowledgement and appropriate help???.
Here’s my ‘inquiry’ conclusion based upon personal observations since 2020:
Evil corrupt lying scheming depraved totalitarian narcissistic lunatic scumbags.
We no where they the scum live one day they will get a knock on their door ,that day is getting closer.
just a weak as cover up we knew it was going to be they always are
like they saying it was our choice what ever
they strip our rights poison us lets see what’s next
When the UK which is one of the main protagonists and world actors in destabilizing world peace
Uncle Sams bum boy
Starts to be bombarded with Russian missiles which is not far away
Ardern and the fishing expert will be back to face the music