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The Cost of Lockdown Was Too High

The Cost of Lockdown Was Too High

New Conservative New Conservative asks, “Two years on from the first lockdown, how well have lockdowns served us?” The initial Covid elimination policy had the goal of limiting pressure on our hospital system from covid patients.  This has been successful.  Even now with high numbers of Omicron cases we are

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Take the Masks off and Save the Children

Take the Masks off and Save the Children

From the earliest days of the pandemic, I noted a curious and deplorable phenomenon: the young were being sacrificed to save almost solely the very, very old. I called it “the Moloch Option”. Not long after, I wrote that we had moved from Moloch to Tlaloc — the Aztec deity who

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Dear David Fisher, Senior Writer, NZ Herald

Dear David Fisher, Senior Writer, NZ Herald

Guy Hatchard Dear David We haven’t met, but a letter from yourself to the editor of the Daily Telegraph has been forwarded to me. In this letter, you say you are writing about “disinformation and misinformation relating to Covid-19”. You mention me as “someone who commonly misrepresents facts”. You

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This Is Not Normal and No One Should Accept It

Aaron Kheriaty brownstone.org Aaron Kheriaty, former Professor of Psychiatry at the UCI School of Medicine and Director, Medical Ethics at UCI Health, is a Senior Scholar of the Brownstone Institute. From the lepers in the Old Testament to the Plague of Justinian in Ancient Rome to the 1918 Spanish

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Open Letter to David Seymour

Open Letter to David Seymour

Colin Parkinson First up I would like to acknowledge that you appear to be standing out as a voice of reason in parliament. While there are issues that I strongly disagree with you on, I would like to give you credit for asking some very excellent questions and raising some

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Freedom: This Door Swings Both Ways

These past two years have been tough. I have fought to challenge the prevailing narrative, knowing deep in my heart that I would be proved right. There have been many people who expect me to fight for them and their freedoms. They’d email and say that we should do

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We Have Three Copies of  A Jab in the Dark to Give Away

We Have Three Copies of A Jab in the Dark to Give Away

We are running another fantastic giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of A Jab in the Dark: Covid Vaccines and the new Health Dictatorship by Ron Asher. On the 1st of May, we will give away three copies to three lucky BFD members. We will use an

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Ashley Bloomfield: We remember him well… “Dr Bloomfield always wanted to stay until New Zealand was in a good place with coronavirus. That time is now.” NZ Herald Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD. If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads

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China Locks Down Its Financial Hub

China Locks Down Its Financial Hub

Jordan Schachtel brownstone.org Jordan Schachtel is an Independent investigative journalist. Some 25 months after their infamous Wuhan lockdown, the Chinese government has launched an even more ambitious lockdown campaign, this time in Shanghai, the country’s biggest city. This time, the stakes are even higher. The Shanghai lockdown is

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Why Are Some So Keen to Ditch the Things That Kept NZ Safe?

Dougal Sutherland Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Dougal is a registered Clinical Psychologist with 20 years’ experience working with children, teens, families, adults, and organisations. He has a PhD in Psychology and a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Psychology, both from the University of Otago. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

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How’s That ‘Zero COVID’ Thing Looking, Now?

How’s That ‘Zero COVID’ Thing Looking, Now?

Sometimes, declarations of victory are, like rumours of Mark Twain’s death, not just greatly exaggerated but ludicrously premature. Who can forget George W. Bush triumphantly declaring “Mission accomplished!” in 2003 — when 18 years of grinding insurgency, including the rise of ISIS, lay ahead? Then there’s the Chicago Daily

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It Is Better to Be Feared than Loved

The polls are showing that people don’t love the tyrant any more. People now openly despise her and there are even banners being flown around the skies of Auckland telling the tyrant we don’t love her anymore. What is a tyrant to do when the populace won’t

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

Is this really saying what I think it is saying? Ditto NZ. Just another reason to stay the hell away from doctors.https://t.co/GUr6LVYkaj — Larry ?? (@lazzaNZL) April 3, 2022 If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the

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The Two Faces of Fauci

The Two Faces of Fauci

Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of

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The Cure for What Ails You

The Cure for What Ails You

Dan Sanchez fee.org Dan Sanchez is the Director of Content at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the editor-in chief of FEE.org. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been experiencing some serious “apocalypse fatigue.” For the past two years the news has been dominated

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