Sinbad

The worst contradict'n of the COVID-19 response was the simultaneous promotion of protecting the vulnerable while enforcing policies that often harmed them most

[Sinbad @SinbSinbad]

3/6. As a retired immunologist I fervently disagree with a blanket lockdown being extended. #COVID19 is here (locally and globally), won't be eradicated or eliminated and will likely become endemic. That has to be our starting premise.

[Sinbad @SinbSinbad]

@TheNzRocketeer @Toothless71 @winstonpeters @nzfirst If I need to take out citizenship to vote so be it, I'll think about it. But if ppl think place of birth or a piece of paper defines who I am or my sense of identity/loyalty then they are in no position to lecture me on citizenship.

[Sinbad @SinbSinbad]

@PronouncedHare A bit late to change the rules for those of us who predate Apr 1974 when Norm Kirk effectively ended the settler era

[Sinbad @SinbSinbad]

Comcom Grocery report (2026). Adding a 3rd big supermarket won’t fix NZ grocery costs. Duopoly margins stay high; another corporate just means more regs protecting incumbents and a race to bottom on quality. We need a plural, distributed economy for NZ.

https://t.co/RFqlioV1dp

[Newstalk ZB @NewstalkZB]

NZ grocery prices among the highest in the developed world - report

https://t.co/TPSMzEFod1

[Sinbad @SinbSinbad]

@cre8d Listservers!

[Sinbad @SinbSinbad]

@Mick_O_B @RCR_NZ Its not targeted protection -its the assumption of universal guilt! Like fitting GPS speed limiters on all cars because some drivers speed. One logic enables the other. Where will it end -totalitarianism?

[Sinbad @SinbSinbad]

@cutaway_cafe Defund the police

[Sinbad @SinbSinbad]

@cutaway_cafe Defend the police; equity over equality; and modelling

[Sinbad @SinbSinbad]

CHB/Tararua have much in common with the same core issues. I'd support an HB unitary council of 2 halves -Urban & Rural Wards (distinct sub-councils) with ring-fenced decision-making and fixed number of seats, regardless of popn size! https://t.co/8C9AYdGFFU

[Sinbad @SinbSinbad]

@Suitandtie9999 Apologies for speeding, officer. It was just the drinks!

[Sinbad @SinbSinbad]

@PronouncedHare @aniobrien Stuff isn't reporting news, they're too busy workshopping fanfiction

[Sinbad @SinbSinbad]

@kiriceilidh @PronouncedHare And I would have thought the Lowland Clearances had a more profound impact on early Scottish migration to NZ whereas it was Canada that largely benefitted from the Highland clearances, Waipu aside

[Sinbad @SinbSinbad]

@aniobrien @hznry and why is an inherently apolitical issue being turned into a political one. Why are individuals aligned with the broader left-leaning media/political ecosystem defending MaikiS, surely an affront to the founding principles of the Left.

[Sinbad @SinbSinbad]

“By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.” (George Orwell, 1984)

[🧬Maxpein🧬 @maximumpain333]

Carl Jung wrote: "The more intelligent and self-aware a person is, the more they suffer from the general unconsciousness of society."

This is not a badge of honor. It is a recognition of the weight carried by those who cannot unsee what they have already seen. This is the psychology of the deep thinker and if you recognize yourself here, this one is for you:

The architecture of alienation. It starts early. The child who asks why adults say one thing and do another. The one whose questions are always labeled as "overthinking." Nietzsche described these people as "free spirits" — essential for progress, but wandering in a wilderness everyone else refuses to enter.

Research by Dr. Elaine Aron suggests approximately 20% of the population processes information more deeply and notices subtleties others completely miss. In a world that rewards speed, this depth can feel like a disability.

The frequency of truth. Deep thinkers operate on a different wavelength, the frequency of truth rather than the frequency of comfort. Most people live without ever questioning the fundamental assumptions of their own existence. But the deep thinker has glimpsed behind the veil.

Like Plato's prisoner who escapes the cave and returns to share what he saw only to be rejected and called a troublemaker—the deep thinker carries the burden of the witness. They see the masks, the exploitation, and the pain that everyone else has agreed to ignore.

The emotional sponge. Deep thinkers do not just observe emotions, they absorb them. They feel the anxiety of a stranger as if it were their own. They perform enormous amounts of invisible emotional labor — checking in on people, listening, supporting, acting as the unofficial therapist of every room they enter. And yet the relationship is almost always asymmetric. They give at a depth most people cannot match. They live with the quiet loneliness of being the strong one, the one everyone leans on, but no one thinks to ask: "Are you okay?"

The mask of normalcy. To survive, many deep thinkers learn to wear a mask, laughing at jokes they do not find funny, feigning interest in conversations that feel hollow, modulating their intensity to avoid being too much. This is not deception. It is survival. But the cost is enormous.

Maintaining the split between the complex private self and the simple public self is exhausting. And the mask, while protective, makes true connection nearly impossible. You cannot be fully known while hiding.

The wounded healer. Jung wrote about this archetype; the person who transforms their own brokenness into a source of healing for others. The wounds of rejection and misunderstanding become sources of deep compassion. The person who has felt most unseen becomes the most gifted at seeing others. But the challenge is learning to give without emptying yourself completely, to love others without losing yourself in the process.

The alchemy of solitude. For deep thinkers, there is a crucial distinction between loneliness and solitude. Loneliness is the pain of disconnection from others. Solitude is the joy of connection with yourself. In solitude, the deep thinker finally breathes. The noise of the world falls away. The internal landscape becomes clear. Isolation transforms into introspection and that is where the real work happens.

The revolutionary act of authenticity. In a world that profits from insecurity, choosing to be genuinely yourself is a radical act. When a deep thinker chooses authenticity over performance, it creates space for others to do the same. It gives people permission to be real in a culture that rewards shallow.

If you recognize yourself in any of this, stop apologizing for your depth. You are not broken. You are not too much. You are not too sensitive. You are awake in a world that prefers to stay asleep. Your sensitivity is a superpower. Your intensity is a strength.

✨🙌🏾💫

[Sinbad @SinbSinbad]

@aniobrien
re: More advice ignored, Hipkins prioritised vaccine targets over safety

McAnulty repeatedly interjects that "it was never the target" / "never an official [target]."

And she still didn't get the hint

[Warnock's @WarnocksNZ]

Dame Jacinda Ardern & Kieran McAnulty (most transparent govt ever) admit to never having a official vaccine target despite Jacinda having whiteboard in her office saying 90%🤔

Then go on to gloat & mock doubters.
This was never ever about health, its vain young criminals. #nzpol

[Sinbad @SinbSinbad]

I have already commented on Ian Town's contradictory positions re myocarditis here (NB: the above is not from Town's affidavits):

https://t.co/fDDxG2QAh8

[Sinbad @SinbSinbad]

Alia has a great post https://t.co/l51fQbmXha
but we can go one better. The following is Crown expert evidence used in the Kids Case from early 2022 (Judicial Review of paediatric vaccine rollout)

[Alia Bee @AliaVFF]

💉🫀 FROM "RARE" TO MEASURABLE... 🫀💉

They’re talking about myocarditis again this week. Good.

Better late than never, and I'm here for it!

I hope Hipkins (and Bloomfield, Ardern, McElnay, Verrall and others) are squirming – hard.

This is a doozy, which will no doubt trigger a scramble!

Take a look at this slide from NZ research not yet published...

It was presented at a New Zealand university in mid-2025. The table shows the rates of myocarditis following each dose of the Covid injection.

Underlined red are results showing significantly elevated rates of myocarditis and pericarditis following vaccination, particularly in the first week.

Some of this data is available in aggregated form in the public domain [1], showing roughly twice the background rate of heart inflammation in the six weeks following vaccination, based on hospital discharge data across eight countries.

This slide, however, shows New Zealand-specific data in much greater detail:

• Around 4 times higher than background in the first week after dose one
• Around 16 times higher after dose two
• Around 11 times higher after dose three

Alongside this, a global comparison, likely from the same dataset, shows:

• Around 2 times higher after dose one
• Around 9 times higher after dose two
• Around 4.5 times higher after dose three

These are very strong associations.

The magnitude of the increase, the timing within days of vaccination, and the dose-response pattern all support a causal relationship between vaccination and these events.

The story we've all been told about this product being safe is a total lie.

What's worse is that they ALL knew. Our People's Report timeline [2] shows exactly what they knew and when, especially relating to our teens.

These people have blood on their hands.

I'm not giving this up until the consequences start to flow and those harmed are given the acknowledgement, support, treatment, and compensation they deserve.

Hipkins, your time's up!

[1] https://t.co/CKDqkyrdMQ
[2] https://t.co/WKEJKwny1c

[Sinbad @SinbSinbad]

The following is my response in my 4th affidavit to this case noting at [9] that "It appears to be a slide from a powerpoint presentation to the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee at the CDC."

[Sinbad @SinbSinbad]

@Mick_O_B @chrishipkins @winstonpeters Very well said.

To lose a child is bad enough, to lose it to a vaccine that never had the risk-benefit is doubly so. And for Hipkins to be so glib with the truth and a no-show at the RCoI must cut deep.

[Sinbad @SinbSinbad]

The more I hear Hipkins talk the more I hear him throw Bloomfield, and, now, Chris James (Medsafe) under the bus. At some point someone is going to explode. Poli's can smear poli's but when you do it to professionals expect blowback. 🙏

[Suit and tie @Suitandtie9999]

Chris Hipkins fails to provide a clear answer to a very straight forward question from Ryan Bridge:
Did "you know at any point there was a risk to young people from a second jab, or was the first time you learnt of that information on the day you removed the mandate?

[Sinbad @SinbSinbad]

A question that would distinguish critical thinkers from consensus-followers in medical/graduate programs:

Would you mass vaccinate for a highly mutable and transmissible virus in the midst of an active pandemic? Explain your answer and any carve-outs.

https://t.co/nu8uTz7Ssi