Dear Commissioners, Grant Illingworth KC, Anthony Hill, Judy Kavanagh,
In respect of your Terms of Reference, if your purpose is to “learn from Aotearoa New Zealand’s experience of the pandemic to prepare for the future” then this is based on a false premise – covid was not as it appeared, and so the preparation for ‘another pandemic’ is meaningless.
In summary:
- The topic of “Vaccines, including mandates, approvals, and safety.” Have been covered in other Submissions that I have supported, read or been involved with. I know that by now the evidence supplied will be overwhelming and heartbreaking. You now have ample evidence that the vaccines were UNSAFE and INEFFECTIVE: counter to the propaganda that was heavily funded by BigPharma and our Government chose to unethically amplify.
- Lockdowns, especially the lockdowns of late 2021, were already known to be unnecessary, unethical and extremely harmful. This was especially the case in our country, where our population is sparse and individuals are already isolated.
- Testing and tracing technologies (like RATs or the COVID-19 Tracer app), and public health materials (like masks) were the main part of what has been termed the Censorship Industrial Complex: the Behavioural Insights Team (Nudge Unit) used these strategies to deliberately escalate fear in the population which in turn, increased compliance.
You will be aware that there are various psychological experiments and strategies where individuals’ thoughts and therefore behaviours can be manipulated; changed. Effective examples of this behavioural science that everyone will be familiar with, are the blunt phrases and raw images on packets of cigarettes, reminding people of the dreadful harm that smoking can cause to our lungs, or the unborn child.
Over recent years, these kinds of behavioural science strategies have grown more complex and ambiguous: supermarkets using certain smells or playing certain music to encourage specific purchases, subliminal messaging on radio advertising etc.
Ethical researchers, especially in healthcare interventions, embarking on experiments in behaviour change, endeavour to seek feedback and approval from those who are impacted. This is through informed consent. This is because healthcare interventions should never become advertising for profiteering commercial companies, but instead aim at outcomes that are for the public good. But who decides what is ‘public good’? This is an ongoing debate with (for example) the Charities Act NZ.
Commissioners may not be fully aware of the UK-based Behavioural Insights Team (The ‘Nudge’ Unit)? But the Commissioners WILL be aware of the global growing practice of Public Private Philanthropic Partnerships (PPPPs). It makes perfect sense for commerce to leverage behavioural science to increase profits for shareholders, why else would these corporate entities, and their tax-exempt foundations, partner with Government? So it should be of no surprise at all, to learn that when the Nudge Unit expanded globally, to more than 200 (known) entities and contracts worldwide, that included New Zealand’s various Government depts like MBIE and MoH and private companies too, like The Warehouse Group or Fonterra, which themselves were partnered closely with Government.
My strong recommendations to the Commissioners are as follows:
- Read the Nudge Unit’s MINDSPACE report (freely available online).
- Interview those involved with the NZ agreements with Government, unions, and private companies. For instance, Lee McCauley now of Tick Consulting (previously of the UK’s Nudge Unit) would be a valuable source of initial insights on this topic. Jane Kelley of NZ Health Group and others involved with the PPPPs and vaccine mandate exemptions would also throw some light on covert agreements made.
New Zealand was already vulnerable to exploitation by unethical pharmaceutical companies. Companies which have been found numerous times, globally, over decades in courts of law for falsifying data, fraudulent advertising and causing widespread death and harm as result of unethical business practices. During the covid era social media platforms and search engines like Google’s Alphabet, YouTube, Meta and Twitter (X) all acted in lockstep with Governments worldwide to censor and manipulate the “Safe and Effective’ message. And of course, NZ is one of only two countries worldwide which allow BigPharma to advertise, which in turn leads to heavy reliance upon that income from entities like ‘news’ outlets that ignore their moral and civil duty to be independent rather than captured.
The questions for the Commissioners are these:
- Where is the line between advertising and clinical interventions that have bypassed informed consent?
- What should the consequences be, when those lines have been crossed, not once, but multiple times, by multiple individuals and entities that ironically were formed to prevent that line being crossed?
- How can we address the harms from these crimes, and prevent these crimes from being repeated?
Today there are still many citizens, including those on the covid inquiry team, who are unaware that their behaviours have been manipulated during and since the covid era. When they realise the extent of the emotional exploitation, will these people be angry? What will the repercussions be? And to those who have recognised (but are perhaps unaware how) their behaviours were changed, and through the powerful emotions of shame and guilt would prefer to ‘forget it ever happened’, what of them?
How will the Government address this extremely divisive, unethical impact on Human Rights and bodily sovereignty? Will the Commissioners be brave enough to begin our collective healing journey?
Thank you for reading these Submissions and good luck with the difficult work ahead.
Republished with permission from the author’s Substack. Buy Ursula Edgington a coffee.
Thanks Ursula. My submission was in a similat vein. It took me until the last day of submissions to decide to get one done. I doubt it will make any difference to how a new pandemic would be responded to. Here it is
Submitted on 2025-04-27 16:28:20
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1 Please share with us your COVID-19 pandemic experiences related to the topics above, and your views on how pandemics should be
responded to in the future
Please provide your response below:
The whole covid response was a psychological operation against New Zealand citizens.
Fear was used as the motivating factor to get people to do what the government wanted.
Fear of covid itself
Fear of social stigma
Fear of making your loved ones sick
Fear of losing your income
Fear of not being able to socialize with friends and family
Fear of not being able to travel
Fear of not being able to visit others
Compared to, little to no advertising about positive actions people could take to reduce their risk. Sunshine and getting outdoors. Vitamin C and D supplements. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle and weight.
I believe that after the initial lockdowns of 2020 there was enough information to know that the virus was only really dangerous to the very elderly and vulnerable. I signed the Great Barrington declaration later that year and still strongly believe that was the course we should have taken. Focused protection for those that needed it and let the healthy working age population be free to go about their lives, contracting and recovering from covid as they would a cold or flu. Natural immunity.
Instead we got government propaganda about various detrimental actions they thought were needed to control the virus. Masking – it was known for years all the detrimental effects it would have on society. Besides the point that they cannot stop an airbourne pathogen. Lockdowns – of course making everyone stay home and paying them was going to have bad outcomes for peoples businesses and inflation, as well as isolation and mental health issues.
The division the government knowingly caused amongst the population was truly disgusting. Coercing and mandating people to have a new type of injection that most did not need is wrong. The messaging about safe and effective is disinformation. The jab does not stay at the injection site as people were reassured it would. The spike protein it encodes for is inflammatory. The encapsulated lipid nano-particles are inflammatory. It has very high levels of DNA contamination. It does not stop contraction and passing on covid as the official propaganda claimed.
By April 2022 the gig was up. Everyone could see that the unjabbed were no more likely to give them the virus than the jabbed. And most people that went along with vaccine passes and segregation probably started to realize what they were engaging in. Discrimination for no good reason.
And now as more and more harms about the mRNA platform become known we get silence from the media that helped the government (and all the other parliamentarians that went along) with the actions taken.
I have no faith that the main political parties will learn the lessons they need to. I certainly will do nothing that the so called experts – Tony Blakely, Michael Baker, Director General of Health etc recommend in the future.
I have lost faith in the health service in NZ, as they remain silent to the harms they saw and still see. No wonder there is workforce crisis.
A few years ago I was a selfish, science denying, granny killing, far right conspiracy theorist.
Then all that was memory-holed.
GC
Thank you
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Well said Ursula. Not a word of a lie. Unless I see genuine repentance from government and an acknowledgement of their participation in the crime against humanity known as covid19, I will never trust them to guide any public health initiative. We should be independent from the WHO and the UN which are arms of the globalist banking cartel seeking to eliminate the sovereignty of westernized nation states. Nz is a resource rich strategic piece of real estate that the globalist want to control and exploit.The only thing standing in the way of this stealth takeover are the sovereign citizens of our country. We must reject the who pandemic treaty, gene technology bill and all aspects of un agenda 2021 and 2030. We should repeal zero carbon bill which is a noose around our neck. Maori and tangata tiriti must come together and assert our existing laws against the corporate fascism that has infected our government regardless of whether labour or national were in charge. I suspect the inquiry will simply spray air freshener over the steaming feculent litter box that was the government covid response and tell the naked king there is a small speck on his tie that will wipe off with ease. We can only hope for more.
Virtue signalling, alive and well …”Aotearoa” New Zealand with the required mantra of a contagious obligate intracellular parasite?
Sad and vapid.
Sadly, the medical jabsters assault continues apace … and for quite literally nothing other than a manufactured narrative, dependent on rebadged conditions or simply sickness precipitated by shots, fed by a ridiculous RAT test masquerading as a ‘diagnosis’ serving the intellectually challenged.
In truth, a majority appear incapable of even beginning to appreciate and acknowledge the dept, breadth and depravity of the crimes that have occurred since 2020 in this bitter, twisted, murderous new age of Aquarius.
The ‘inquiry’ will provide, nay, cannot provide anything of meaningful substance other than ticking the box of a ‘process’.
I had to laugh about Janice Smart using the term “speed of science’, a complete oxymoron .. https://x.com/foundring1/status/1821706353301450926