Letter to the Editor

Health a priority?

Our Government is so concerned with our health and wellbeing, we were placed under Level 4 isolation. We keep being told that we will not return to life as it was. Why not? Is it because Bill Gates – a eugenicist who says we must depopulate to 500 million planet-wide –is saying that until a vaccination against Covid-19 is produced and the 7 billion people on the planet are vaccinated, it will be unsafe to socialise again?

We read that he gives funds to the research laboratory which owns the corona virus patent, so we ask: Should we follow the money when considering the cost of 7 billion vaccinations?

Many New Zealanders are in good health, but that is being compromised, in our opinion, by Government policies such as compulsory fluoridation and the continuing threat of GE foods. We have presented our submission to FSANZ against some GE-modified foods being allowed into the country. Many have produced scientific evidence saying we must be cautious on the GE front, and wait until there is evidence that it is safe.

Others are flagging how the proliferation of genetic engineering technologies like CRISPR could threaten us with pandemics that are worse than Covid-19.

Our concern is the apparent dissonance between looking after the health of our seniors and those with compromised immune systems, and the non-protection of everybody’s health by even considering GE modified foods/organisms.

Our Government seems concerned with our health such that NZ is closed down with many facing financial ruin, because Covid-19 affects the elderly and immune system-compromised. We now expect blanket protection against glyphosate and GE modified foods/organisms that may adversely affect the health of the whole population, not just a sector.

Beverley Aldridge/Kathleen Pattinson
Seniors’ Voice, Otamatea
(Abridged)