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| 100 protestors outside the High Court Auckland this morning |
Has it taken a sick baby, at long last, to wake Kiwis up from their Rip van Winkle stupor/slumber and demand a fair go?
One would be hard put to decide whether it's 'Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand' or the NZ Herald which comes off worse in this sorry tale, but really the palm must go to Health - or rather, Sick Minister Andrew Little and his associates.
In case you're wondering, 'Te Whatu Ora' means 'the weaving of wellness'. Isn't that just heart-warming. But we fail to see how refusing uncontaminated blood to a sick baby is going to weave his wellness - or his parents'.
An urgent hearing has been set down to seek a resolution between Te Whatu Ora Health NZ and parents who have refused to allow blood from vaccinated people to be used in a life-saving operation for their baby boy’s surgery.
Justice Layne Harvey said today’s hearing at the High Court in Auckland is purely administrative to set the date for an urgent hearing.
Representing Te Whatu Ora, lawyer Paul White flagged the urgency of the case saying medical professionals have said the child with such a condition would have been treated several weeks ago in normal circumstances.
Bullying, Mr White! In another version of the story the baby's mother denied that the case is urgent. Serious, but not urgent. And sadly, Ardern,Robertson&Co, Death Dealers to the Nation, have done away with normal circumstances. Deliberately.
The parents’ lawyer, Sue Grey, said the case was different from other medical guardianship cases where parents are refusing medical care. For this one, she said, the parents want better care than what the state is offering.
There was no legal or other reason why Te Whatu Ora is refusing to consider the parents’ proposal as a solution, Grey said.
You have to read a long way down the story to arrive at the bit which states that 'the pair claimed they had more than 20 unvaccinated people who were willing to donate blood, but this had not been approved by the New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS)."
'The pair claimed' is a journalistic usage denoting people as questionable. And can't you just see the bureaucrats at the NZBS clasping their metaphorical clipboards in defence of their turf?
“Because they label my clients as conspiracy theorists, [their position] is that anything my clients say can be ignored,” Grey told the court.
White said Te Whatu Ora’s application to the court is ultimately based on the best interests of the child and what they view as medically safe.
He forgot to mention 'weaving its wellness'.
The reason why this case has come to court is because the two parties have reached what he called an impasse, White added.
Who called it an impasse? White, presumably. It took three journos to write this story and still they couldn't get the syntax right.
Justice Harvey set down an urgent hearing for next Tuesday, and encouraged the two parties to continue discussions in the meantime.
Rallies outside court
The baby’s mother told reporters she was doing this because it was her responsibility to do the best for her child.
She said having to deal with a court case was “massive” on top of having to feed twins.
But “I wanted to see the judge as well, and for the judge to see my baby.”
She said many people have shown support for their case.
“Kiwis are amazing, so many people I don’t know are showing so much love,” she said.
About 100 people gathered in support of the baby’s parents outside the front of the court’s entrance, holding placards and loud-hailers. Some recorded the ongoing scenes on their devices.
The baby’s parents and their supporters filled the small courtroom after waiting over an hour for their case to be called.
The four-month-old at the centre of the case sat in his father’s arms next to his mother.
More supporters were turned away by security officers after the public gallery was filled up and waited outside.
They mean it was the supporters who waited outside, not the gallery.
The NZ Herald understands Te Whatu Ora is seeking the guardianship of the four-month-old be shifted from his parents to the courts so consent to use donated blood in the required open-heart surgery can be given.
Te Whatu Ora is assuming the courts will give that consent. Is this a stitch-up, perhaps?
The New Zealand Blood Service’s website said blood was not divided by vaccinated and unvaccinated. It also stated there was no evidence there was any risk in using blood from a vaccinated person.
Like there's no 'evidence' of people dying suddenly or developing serious and crippling diseases after taking the jab. Oh, we forgot. There was that guy in Invercargill, right?
It was understood an urgent hearing would be sought soon after today’s initial appearance in the High Court.
A supporter of the parents named Kelly said she believed the case shouldn’t be heard.
”It’s appalling, it’s stressful on the parents and on the baby.”
Kelly obviously doesn't realise it's all about 'weaving wellness'.
Te Whatu Ora Auckland interim director Dr Mike Shepherd acknowledged it could be worrying when parents had to make decisions about their children’s care. “The decision to make an application to the court is always made with the best interests of the child in mind and following extensive conversations with whānau,” he said.
Unfortunately, the minds and the whanau involved are fallible and they do not have the rights of parents. And why have 'extensive conversations with whanau' if the family are not Maori?
Professor Nikki Turner, who is protecting 'Aotearoa'. So where's that, then?
Auckland University’s Immunisation Advisory Centre medical director Professor Nikki Turner told Newstalk ZB Covid-19 was widespread in New Zealand and that would be reflected in the nation’s blood.
“Almost all blood in New Zealand will have Covid antibodies in it so unless you’re going to refuse all blood, I can’t imagine how you’ll get round this,” she said.
Dear Professor Turner, it's not Covid antibodies the parents don't want in their baby, it's the so-called v*ccine.
“The next thing is that Covid antibodies per se are not in any way going to be a problem for the person receiving them, they’re just going to offer the person extra protection against Covid disease.”
Dear Prof, these parents do not believe Covid antibodies 'per se' or otherwise are going to be a problem for their child. It's the v*x that's the problem. Have you seen the blood clots that coroners are finding in corpses, including babies'? [
Turner couldn’t recall an instance when blood had been deemed ill-suited to be donated because the person had been vaccinated.
“From a scientific point of view, no I can’t think of anything that would make sense at all.
How about a common sense p o v, then, Professor? Or is common sense beneath an academic like yourself?
“I think it may be that people confuse the fact that the product in a vaccine is being injected into somebody but it’s not the product in the vaccine that is the response, the response is the body’s response to that [vaccine] that creates the immune response.”
Just who is confused here? Certainly not the parents, who are quite simply objecting to their baby being subjected to the response of millions, worldwide, to the so-called vaccine.
at the High Court this morning
Associate Health Minister Peeni Henare, also the responsible minister for the NZBS, said in a statement that the “health matter” was between Te Whatu Ora and the child’s whānau, and he said it was inappropriate to comment further as it was before the court.
Requests for comment from Health Minister Andrew Little were referred to Henare’s office. Covid-19 Response Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall could not be contacted for comment.
Typical. When it comes to confrontations and crises, this government and its ministers are increasingly out to lunch.
In an online video, the parents claim they are concerned blood containing a vaccine would be used during the operation needed by the four-month-old, despite their fears reportedly being dismissed by medical professionals and information published by the New Zealand Blood Service.
So these unnamed medical professionals and the NZ Blood Service can categorically deny that blood 'containing a vaccine' might be used during the operation on this baby? We think not.
In the video, the parents were interviewed by former TV newsreader Liz Gunn, who has repeatedly voiced Covid-19 mistruths and was seen earlier this year confronting a news reporter about claims of fainting children at an Auckland vaccination centre - a claim that was rubbished by health officials.
Of course Gunn's claims were 'rubbished by health officials' who were not presented in a pretty light. And how many 'Covid-19 mistruths', 'disinformation' and 'conspiracy theories' are now shown to be facts?
The parents say the child needs open-heart surgery after being diagnosed with “severe pulmonary valve stenosis”.
The New Zealand Heart Foundation described stenosis as when one of the heart’s valves didn’t open properly, meaning pressure and blood could back up and cause strain on the heart.
Syntax again. Groan.
However, the parents said they didn’t want the surgery to use blood that came from a person vaccinated for Covid-19.
The pair claimed they had more than 20 unvaccinated people who were willing to donate blood, but this had not been approved by the New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS).
'The pair claimed' ... - a journalistic means of painting people as questionable at best, dishonest at worst.
The parents, alongside Gunn, reportedly had a meeting with a doctor and a surgeon on the matter and their concerns were dismissed, according to the video.
The video, uploaded on Monday, stated Gunn’s interview was occurring on a Friday and the surgery was supposed to take place on a Tuesday.
The New Zealand Blood Service website featured frequently asked questions relating to blood donation and Covid-19 vaccination that included whether the vaccine was passed on through donation among other points.
The website confirmed any Covid-19 vaccine was “broken down” in the blood soon after injection and would not be transferred to recipients of donations.
“All donated blood also gets filtered during processing, so any trace amounts that may still be present poses no risk to recipients,” it said.
Concerning Covid-19′s spike protein, NZBS said it was present in “vanishingly small quantities” in the blood of some people for the first two weeks after vaccination.
“It is not found in the blood after this time period has passed. There is no evidence that this represents any risk to recipients.”
People who have been vaccinated with certain vaccines were required to delay donations until 28 days after vaccination. However, there was no stand-down period for those who had received the Pfizer vaccine, which had been widely used in New Zealand.
The NZBS website confirmed donated blood was not separated into vaccinated and unvaccinated sources because blood was filtered during processing.
Oh well, that's all right then. Isn't it reassuring to read such information from medical professionals who through the trials and tribulations of the COVID 'pandemic' we've come to love and trust? Dr Anthony Faustus Fauci comes to mind ...
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