“This is probably one of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with... It's just mentally and physically stopped me from doing anything.”
- 21yr old Kiwi Jess Tranter - In Conversation with Liz Gunn of FreeNZ
“I want people to be aware of what's going into their bodies and the effect it may have.”(2:00)
Before receiving her first Pfizer jab, Jess Tranter was a fit and healthy 21 year old with a passion for outdoor pursuits. Jess’s interests include snowboarding, rock climbing, hiking, and hunting.
Jess is an adventure tourism graduate and ski instructor and had been working off-season on a Queenstown farm looking after horses and children. She was also training to be a boogie board river guide.
Four days after her first jab while on a hiking trip, Jess experienced tightness in her chest, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, and vomiting. Jess describes the resulting helicopter rescue and hospital visits, her worsening symptoms, and the treatment she has received from the New Zealand medical profession.
“I was just really upset, and really scared, and really not sure what was going on, and I still am.” (17: 40)
Jess discusses her reasons for getting the jab (despite her misgivings) as being motivated by a desire to continue her career in adventure tourism, to attend social events with her friends, and to not miss out on life in general. She decries the coercive influence of vaccine mandates that overwhelmed her deep pre-vaccine intuition that the jab didn't sit right with her.
In a direct address to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Jess questions the ethics of vaccine mandates and provides an emotional testimony for the importance of honouring the inviolable human right to informed consent.
“Why are you making people do this? It's their choice, why are you taking that choice away? If you can't guarantee the safety of people's lives, why are you doing this?” (27:00)
Edit* Youtube censored our account, so you can watch the full interview here
Words by Nick Monks