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New South Wales Health Minister Brad Hazzard has announced he will be quitting politics. No, that’s not thunder, that’s the sound of New South Wales clapping.

Hazzard’s carry-on during the pandemic was a disgrace.

The former science teacher bullied and belittled the public as if they were recalcitrant students.

Anyone who questioned mask mandates was “a wacko”.

Commentators who questioned government decisions didn’t “base their commentary on any logic whatsoever”.

People who hesitated to get vaccinated were “extremely selfish”. They lived “in another universe” and should “wake up”.

Hazzard was rude, pompous and just plain wrong about so many things.

Many people will be upset that Hazzard leaves public life without being held to account for the way he treated people during the two years of the pandemic.

Forceful

On July 29 last year, Hazzard said:

“If you think you can not have a vaccine just because you don’t want to have a vaccine, well you should think about what you are doing to your family and to the community.

“And I would say even more than that, what a hide you have, what a ridiculous position.”

A lot of people did think they should not have to have a vaccine just because they didn’t want to have a vaccine. It’s called bodily autonomy — a concept Hazzard continually mocked.

Hazzard’s nastiness to the unvaccinated was cruel, and based on a Big Pharma lie. People were right to be wary of the jab. It didn’t stop transmission at all.

As recently as December, a smug Hazzard was hectoring people:

“I want to say this. We are still hearing that people are declining to get vaccinated, they know better, they are watching social media, stop, forget it. Get off the social media. Switch off your social media and switch on reality and go and get a booster.”

Minors

And he was pushing the jab on kids.

In December last year, Hazzard was telling parents:

“The mums and dads out there, the best gift you can give your 12-15 year olds for Christmas or New Year is to get vaccinated.”

He even set up a stadium as a vaccination centre for children. Mums and dads were not allowed to go in.

“I want to stress that our children will be well looked after once they are inside. They will be literally ushered… they’ll be looked after every moment. So mums and dads feel secure. The opportunity is there, but really you’ve got to grasp it. Grasp it with both hands.”

Wise parents grasped their children’s hands and took the opportunity to keep them as far from Health Hazzard as possible.

Hazzard oversaw harsh lockdowns, separating families and destroying lives all the while stoking fear of the virus. And yet the fear was massively overplayed.

Obfuscation

Three days into 2022, Hazzard was forced to admit that at least 50 per cent of Covid hospitalisation figures in NSW included people in hospital for reasons other than Covid.

For example, a person who went to hospital because they had a broken bone and, incidentally, tested positive for Covid while at the hospital, was recorded as someone hospitalised because of Covid.

Hazzard used those inflated numbers to scold the public for not following directions and for failing to comply with lockdown orders.

Anyway, that’s all Pfizer under the bridge now.

Hazzard is sailing off into the sunset without apology or reckoning.

Ironically, Hazzard’s decision to quit politics came on the same day that a news.com.au survey of 50,000 people found more than half either regretted getting vaccinated, or were unvaccinated and happy with their decision.

Only 35 per cent out of more than 50,000 people polled said they were vaccinated and would make the same decision again.

Not a single person said they were unvaccinated and regretted the decision.

So many “wackos” glad they didn’t listen to Hazzard’s condescension and fear-mongering.

So many dutiful citizens — jabbed once, jabbed twice, jabbed three and four times — who wish they hadn’t listened to Hazzard at all.

Anyway, he moves on now.

Good riddance.

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Originally published at The James Macpherson Report.

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