Some Thoughts about Super Saturday: Get vaccinated!!

Grace and peace

This Saturday is Super Saturday: Get vaccinated!!  And I have been asked by the diocese and by Jan Tinetti our local Labour list MP based in Tauranga.to help spread the word. You can find out more here about Super Saturday: Get vaccinated!!  here. Even if you are already double jabbed, we all have a role to play to get our vaccination rates up to a level up well over 90% for all ethnic and age groups in Aotearoa-New Zealand.

  • Higher vaccination rates mean better we are better able to keep ourselves, all our families- whanau, and all our community safe. Especially the most vulnerable, what ever their age, who have underlying health issues like asthma.

  • Higher vaccination rates are about keeping our hospitals open for all who need medical care. Overseas experience shows us that when hospitals and health care providers are swamped with Covid cases then other people who need medical care struggle to get it, and the outcomes are worse. And this is about keeping doctors and nurses and all who work in these places safe and well, physically and mentally.

  • Higher vaccination rates mean that we can get back to some kind of normal church sooner rather than later.
    Higher vaccination rates mean that Auckland in particular can be let out and start living life a little more normally again. It means that my daughters might be able to come home for Christmas from Auckland. that is not looking likely just at the moment.          

I know some of you have questions and are hesitant. Which is fine. But I encourage you to find good sources of information and get vaccinated.
This vaccination is and will continue to save lives here in Aotearoa and around the world.  Nearly all our current cases in NZ are un-vaccinated people.
This vaccine is way beyond experimental. It has been given to hundreds of millions if not billions of people around the world. It has gone through all the safety tests. It continues to be monitored by authorities around the world. Some wonder why it was approved so quickly - it went faster this time because governments were keen so funded it all and sped up the bureaucracy. The testing process was the same - careful and thorough. The side effects are well known. It will not change your magnetic fields. It is saving lives right now.

For those who are not sure about the vaccine I offer this article "Siouxsie Wiles & Toby Morris: As summer beckons, your vaccine questions – answered". . Siouxsie and Toby have been my go to for reliable information for the last lots of months.
 

So I ask you, if you have not received either of your doses, make this Saturday the day to get it done.

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