Alia Bee

Whooping cough / Pertussis. Some uninformed trolls were slinging around the tired 'misinformation' and 'anti-vax' labels this morning in response to a comment I made about what the research says about this illness. I've gathered a few key snippets from studies and articles that some might find interesting/useful/informative. 🧵

DONT PANIC !! 😂😂

This millennial would like Gen X to sit down. Does he understand what would happen to the world if we decided to do that?? Take a listen to this response. It is perfection! 👌🏼

My Timeline (because I foolishly refuse to be lied about): Jade’s post had been up for about an hour when I first saw it around 6.30pm on Sunday 15 March. It had lots of comments and likes already. Jade and I exchanged a couple of messages, and at around 8.30pm she sent me a screenshot showing a New Zealand political editor had sent a friend request to her. I didn’t see that message for about an hour. When I replied at 9.39pm, I said: “She must have heard about your post, right?” Jade responded: “Yeah a few others did too,” and sent through a screenshot of a text from another journalist. Both of those journalists know I did not give them the post. They also know where they did get it. At 9.50pm I tweeted that “they” would call “her” crazy because Jade had been warned they would. By 10pm, two MPs had messaged me asking if I had heard about Jade’s post. I continued tweeting about completely unrelated things including, for what it’s worth, a Marco Rubio meme. Monday 16 March I woke up and had forgotten about it. I replied to a tweet about something else, got annoyed about Keir Starmer’s attack on jury trials, watched Nicola Willis on Q&A while getting ready, and went to work like a normal person. At around 10.30am I remembered and messaged Jade to check how she was doing. At 12.06pm I saw that the account SuitandTie999 had posted a screenshot on X. I know the exact time because I sent it to Jade. I never posted the screenshot. I never even retweeted it. Later, I responded to a few people who asked if I had seen it etc. To be clear, due to the amount of notifications I get I only ever see a small fraction of them. Newsroom said someone replied to one of my tweets with the screenshot but I never saw it. At 2.20pm I tweeted noting that Stuff claimed they wouldn’t publish unsubstantiated allegations despite doing exactly that about Luxon the day before. I also pointed out people were already piling on and calling Jade “drunk”. At 12.43pm I tweeted: “Perhaps you all might understand my visceral dislike for Chris Hipkins a bit better now.” Ill-advised, perhaps. But hardly evidence of some coordinated “amplification” effort especially when I still had not shared the screenshots that others were circulating widely. I continued tweeting and retweeting about a range of unrelated topics. Once media outlets began suggesting I was somehow involved in a political operation, I publicly refuted it. I made one further post defending myself and then went largely quiet. Not because I had anything to hide, but because I was dealing with a flood of abuse across every platform. It was vile. The same media now wringing their hands about “toxic social media” played a direct role in fuelling it. At the same time vultures from across the political spectrum circled, contacting me for info or trying to get access to Jade. To portray this as a solely right wing thing is false because a few former Labour MPs and staffers definitely had schadenfreude. I’ve been online a long time. I’ve taken more than a decade of abuse for my views. But this week was particularly awful. People didn’t just criticise me, they attacked and they invented an entire narrative that I was orchestrating something. That I was using a long-time friend for political gain. And was some kind of shadowy operative. They were confident and gleeful. It was cruel. And none of it was true. I hope media, if they are serious about accuracy, will take a close look at this timeline and ask questions of each other about who actually received the post and from whom. Because the journalists who had it early know exactly where it came from. They also had every opportunity to correct the record once the conspiracy theories started. They chose not to. Cheers for that, ladies.

"The latest report on the COVID response is a lesson in how reckless spending can derail a country." — Marty Gibson @martyozone (quoting Christopher Luxon) Is the political debate around the COVID response missing the bigger picture? 👀 Media Matters looks at why National’s criticism keeps coming back to the same theme. Should the focus be financial… or something else? 🎥 Watch here: rcr.media/episodes/media… 🔗 Download your free copy of The People's Position: realitycheck.radio/the-peoples-po…

It only makes sense if you DON'T think about it. Brain-hurting absurdity.

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When you let your three year old write the lyrics for your next song. 😂

Sixteen years ago, one man stood alone on a grassy hill at a music festival in Washington State, USA, and started dancing by himself. People glanced over and looked away. Some laughed. His roommate leaned in and warned him people were filming him. He did not stop. Then one stranger got up and joined him. Then another. Then the hillside tipped. Within minutes, hundreds of people were sprinting from across the field to be part of something that, thirty seconds earlier, had been one man being laughed at in a field. Someone filming from higher up the hill said quietly: "See what one man can do. One man can change the world." The clip spread across the internet in 2009. Entrepreneur Derek Sivers played it at a TED conference to explain how movements actually begin. Not with the first person brave enough to start, he argued, but with the first person willing to join them. Collin Wynter, the man dancing alone, later said he had no idea he had done anything special. He was just tired of watching everyone sit still.

@Rockynz_1 I hadn't. Will check it out.

@AliaVFF Have you seen this page Alia? Vax a Nation facebook.com/share/p/1AsVLK…

If you're in Piha, you probably heard my WHOOP! echo down the valley. Yeeeeeehaaaaa! Another reminder that intelligent discussion, sustained pressure, public education, and a strong belief in what IS possible CAN pay off.

"The awakening that might come from some of the things in the report might create such a rise in the public that demand accountability." — Alia Bland, RCR/VFF Co-founder Could public pressure be the real path to justice and recognition? 🎥 Watch here: rcr.media/episodes/legal… 🔗 Download your free copy of The People's Position: realitycheck.radio/the-peoples-po…

Cap or tee?

We are THREE!!

"They stop short of saying the government's response and the government's actions are not the thing that has nuked the trust in society." — Alia Bland, RCR/VFF Co-Founder Did the government's pandemic response play a bigger role in the collapse of public trust than the report admits? Does downplaying it just prove a point and make it worse? 🎥 Watch here: rcr.media/episodes/legal… 🔗 Download your free copy of The People's Position: realitycheck.radio/the-peoples-po…

@locococo1905 I thought the deal was 'believe all women'? Me too?

Desperate Nats

I'm starting a parade. 💃🤸‍♂️🥁 Just me and the dogs right now. But I swear I can hear drums echoing through the Waitaks...maybe even a trumpet warming up. Feels like a night for a little frivolity. What’s everyone having for dinner? Chip buttys? 🍟🥪

@notmyname78 @RCR_NZ I've seen something similar doing the rounds in terms of what he did to his wife... These men are creeps.

@AliaVFF @RCR_NZ 🙏🏻 You are right! But Keiren will be installed and he’s just as bad 😩

Serious question for the politically obsessed… Is this just another Wellington media drama — or are we watching the start of a goneburger timeline? 🍔 How long do you reckon? Let us know in the comments 👇️ Want more bite-sized political updates? Start here 👉 biteme.news

@DesertCamel77 @TrudiNewZealand About five years.

@AliaVFF @TrudiNewZealand Bit slow, aren't they.

They Called Us Crazy. Kids Got Hurt. This is honestly one of the WORST things we have ever been proven right about. Because this was never just politics for us. It was about kids. And we screamed our concerns from the rooftops! We were watching what was unfolding in Israel in early 2021. VFF's Facebook page was permanently nuked for sharing this legitimate information published in mainstream media overseas. We were speaking directly to Kiwi families whose healthy teenagers suddenly had chest pain, heart inflammation, exhaustion, and repeated hospital admissions. I will never forget one particular call. A mum and her two teenage sons. All three of them experienced cardiac harm after their injections. Three people in one family. Hospitalised, terrified, and living with huge uncertainty. And what were many of these young people told? “It’s anxiety.” Just stop for a second and think about how disgusting that is. Kids who previously played sport, ran up hills, lived normal lives… suddenly struggling to function physically… and being told it was in their head. That level of gaslighting is a national shame. Kids do not normally have heart problems. They do not normally collapse with chest pain. They do not normally face lifelong cardiac uncertainty before they have even finished school. They do not normally go to sleep and never wake up. But this is the reality some families are now living with. And now, years later, we have mainstream commentators finally acknowledging that officials themselves were worried about myocarditis risk in teenagers and still pressed ahead with decisions affecting them. Five years too late. Five freaking years. What makes me FURIOUS beyond words is that there is still almost zero serious investigation into the full scale of what happened. We KNOW from emerging research that teenagers can carry cardiac injury subclinically. Meaning damage may sit there quietly… until one day it doesn’t. Is anyone actively looking for these kids? Or are we still relying on pathetic passive pharmacovigilance systems that miss huge numbers of cases? Because from where I sit, it looks like the latter. And while this myocarditis issue is finally being acknowledged, there are other massive questions the media happily ignored when we were raising them. Here are two places they could start if they are suddenly feeling brave. First. Helen Petousis-Harris and others repeatedly told the public that the spike protein produced by the vaccine was cleared from the body within hours. That reassurance was used to shut down legitimate concern. We now know spike protein has been detected hundreds of days after injection. In some studies, around 700 days. Seven. Hundred. Days. That's a LOT of hours, Helen. When we warned that these injections could effectively turn the body into a spike protein factory, we were mocked and censored by the media. The issues we raised made it to the podium many times. They KNEW exactly what we were saying because we were being closely monitored. So forgive me for not believing for one second that Hipkins, Ardern, Bloomfield and co did not know. They did. Now the obvious question is: What are the long-term consequences of that persistence? What do our health statistics show? Is anyone even seriously looking? Second. DNA contamination. This is not some fringe rumour or 'conspiracy'. Medsafe itself raised genotoxicity concerns in February 2021 when it issued 58 conditions relating to the provisional approval of the Pfizer vaccine. To this day, the public has not been allowed to see the answers to many of those conditions because of so-called commercial sensitivity. Arse-covering. Let that sink in. We injected an entire population at unprecedented speed… and key safety information is still effectively hidden. Because Pfizer's bottom line is more important than Kiwis' health. And through all of this, the media by and large did not investigate. They cheered. They ran PR campaigns. They promoted KFC vouchers. They spun Wheels of Fortune. They literally normalised paying Kiwis up to $1000 to take an experimental medical product. And now we are dealing with the consequences. A loss of public trust. Families living with uncertainty and inescapable worry. A generation of young people who may carry hidden health risks into adulthood. So yes. An apology is overdue. But not just a soft, polite acknowledgement that the “conspiracy theorists” had a point. What’s overdue is a proper reckoning with the culture that took hold during those years. A culture where questioning was punished, reputations were trashed, and enormous pressure was applied to get children to take an experimental injection with KNOWN risks. A good, hard look in the mirror. If the slow drip of truth now waking people up helps ensure this is never repeated… then I am here for it. I will happily reach for MY pompoms and neon lights to make sure this story is not shoved back under the ever-lumpier rug. Because the health of our kids should never have been collateral damage in a political messaging campaign. Not then. Not now. Not ever.

He's SO toast.