Alex Davis is a business executive and director of several companies in New Zealand and overseas. Over the last decade, the West's long and successful relationship with rationality, empiricism, obj
Jacinda Arden has made Covid-19 and her government’s response to it the core of her (public) focus: this is, after all, the “year of the vaccine”. Ironically Ardern was initially hesitant to mandate vaccinations and was on record as recently as mid-year opposing the use of vaccine certificates. However,
Information Opinion By now it is clear that the government’s response to Covid is manifestly political. Although this government talks about “listening to experts” it does anything but. When you commit to listening to experts you need to honestly listen to all experts rather than cherry-picking those that support
Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com Over two weeks ago in my article, “Both of NZ’s Post COVID Futures Are Bad: Part Three. Our Political and Academic Leaders Need to Admit They Made a Terrible Mistake” published on June 3rd, I predicted that New Zealand could not keep COVID-19 out.
Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com What about a vaccine? For those pinning their hopes on a vaccine there is some bad news. Firstly, a vaccine is not likely to be ready until mid-2021 at the earliest and New Zealand has chewed through over $10.9 billion dollars in 10 weeks.
Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com Future 2: New Zealand eliminates COVID-19 and becomes a South Pacific Prison for its Citizens If we somewhat heroically assume that New Zealand does somehow eradicate COVID-19 then what? Returning to the house burning metaphor, having burned down our own house to treat bed bugs
Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com After ten days of no new COVID-19 cases many New Zealanders are likely to be feeling a mixture of relief and complacency. The country dodged a bullet – now there is just the journey back to normality. However for those prepared to look honestly at the
Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com When the government compelled New Zealand into lockdown on March 24th most New Zealanders, desperate for any kind of decisive action, were relieved. Whether you believe the government’s decision to lock down the country was justified (I argue here and here it was not)
Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com On March 17th, eight days before New Zealand entered lockdown, Professor John Ioannidis, one of the world’s most cited medical researchers, published an article warning that the world was rushing into a series of panic-stricken responses to COVID-19 on the basis of data that
Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com In late March, just days after first denying she was going to force the country into lockdown a lugubrious looking Jacinda Ardern waved around the “flatten the curve” graphic and told us that if COVID-19 was unchecked “our health system will be inundated and thousands
Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com New Zealand just recorded a further four Coronavirus deaths. That brings the total to nine (as of 14 April 2020): * Woman, aged 70’s with an underlying health condition. * Female, aged 90’s with an underlying health condition. * Male, aged 80’s with an underlying
Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com More and more evidence is emerging that the Coronavirus is far less dangerous than previously feared and the real threat is the hysterical (over) reaction of the world’s political elite to the virus itself. The list of medical professionals and researchers questioning the official
Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com Like me, you have probably received an email from your bank in the last week reminding you that “they are here for you.” You’ll have also likely observed that these emails are long on comfort and short on substance. The big four Australasian banks
Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com Alex Davis is a business executive and director of several companies in New Zealand and overseas. He has included a lot of links to substantiate his opinion. In particular, this Swiss site which contains a large selection of articles on COVID-19. Alex originally offered his
