By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – November 1, 2021 If you look at a detailed map of the world and compare data being given for Covid-19 cases, you will notice that the most heavily vaccinated countries with the most restrictive policies in place are after nearly two years the countries that are experiencing the most difficulty with combating the virus. The few countries in the world that have either isolated themselves from the world, or are too poor to have much interaction have fared the best. Island nations with restrictive policies have managed to delay their experience until recently. New Zealand, an island deep in the South Pacific, up until recently was held as the model for the rest of the world to follow. From the outset, New Zealand enacted rigid lock downs, masking, distancing, and strict limits on movement within and without of the Country. It also in essence shut it self off from the world with few exceptions. When vaccines became available, New Zealanders for the most part embraced vaccination as a means to reopen. Currently with 75% of the population fully vaccinated, one would think that New Zealand was most certainly the model for defeating Covid-19. If only the rest of the world would follow their example. Up until the beginning of August, New Zealand had escaped any serious out break of the virus, and then reality came visiting. Countries and even the people within, have become so intertwined with the outside world that while isolation is about the only effective means of defeating a virus, people cannot survive in total isolation forever. As New Zealand was forced to open up to the outside world Covid-19 came calling and swept away all the barriers that had been erected. New Zealand, as we have locally, felt the first real surge of Covid that has swept through most countries with ease. The government will reassert its authority and erect all the previous restrictions, tell its citizens 75% fully vaccinated is not enough and shoot for 90% while failing to inform its population that this will not work. The lessons learned in China, Israel, Singapore, Australia, and even here in the United States will not be enough to over turn two years of propaganda spewed forth from Government health, the media, and many of our thoughtless leadership. The Pandemic is no longer about your health and likely never was. It would be easy enough to become one of the many unquestioning people in the world and go to sleep. Most governments are corrupt and not to be trusted until a dose of personal skepticism is in place and each individual has the opportunity to evaluate unimpeded that which they have been told. Vaccine passports and any other hurdles surrounding the current virus are meant to control, not to make you "safe". A political solution to solving our issues with the virus will never be an option for success. Big Pharma, the CDC, and the WHO have too much moneyed interest at stake with no liability to allow any deviation from quickly vaccinating as many people as possible in order to make vaccine profits extend forever.