BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE From early in the pandemic, once the confusion over testing had been sorted out, there seemed to be universal agreement on the following. We need vast testing. When someone tests positive, there should be a concerted effort to seek out those with whom the person had contact. Those
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
Gabrielle Bauer brownstone.org Gabrielle divides her time between writing books, articles, and clinical materials for health professionals. She has received six national awards for her health journalism. She has written two books—Tokyo, My Everest, co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Prize, and Waltzing The Tango, finalist in
The Government’s move to bring forward the reopening date to international tourists is overdue but welcome news, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop and Tourism spokesperson Todd McClay say. “It’s pretty simple – the risk isn’t at the border anymore and allowing fully-vaccinated travellers to
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Prime Minister is holding on to Covid-19 longer than the saga of whether Ross and Rachel were on a break. We know Jacinda Ardern loves standing at the podium and making announcements. We know she needs Covid-19 to keep voters in a
Has the death count from Covid-19 been exaggerated? A new announcement from medical bureaucrats in the US only deepens well-founded suspicions. This US announcement joins the recent quiet — while we’re all distracted by the Ukraine war — announcement by Ashley Bloomfield that New Zealand is also reviewing its
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Labour’s Covid-19 response has always followed the science – political science. Three days after a TVNZ poll found 75 per cent of voters believed we should open the borders to negative tested travellers immediately, Labour has brought its reopening date for visitors forward by
Police have announced, well nothing. They can’t work out what sort of substance they say was thrown at Police on February 9 in Wellington. But we all know what that substance was, their own pepper spray, yet the Police double down on their lies by now blaming protestors for
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura As we get used to living with widespread Covid, microbiologiest Siouxsie Wiles is calling for a new way to track how much of the virus is in the community and what variants. She says in the UK they regularly test a representative sample of people,
Dear Editor https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/03/data-from-delta-and-omicron-outbreaks-show-1-in-15-unvaccinated-cases-were-hospitalised-significantly-more-than-vaccinated-cases.html I read the article above with interest. The article quotes Dr Leighton Watson, a mathematician as stating, “But
Veteran ambulance chaser Carolyne Meng-yee had an article in the NZ Herald yesterday that was heavy on emotion and very light on facts. The regime is obviously shocked by faltering poll results, so they’ve deployed more dis-information about the Wellington protest. Speaking for the first time since
Government Your Main Source of Lies! I am an anti vaxer I am selfish A conspiracy theorist Full of misinformation I am more likely to die And to be hospitalized I’m also a white supremacist With possible terrorist ties Now that’s not nice! I am actually a Granny
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Andrew Mahon mercatornet.com Andrew Mahon is a Canadian-British writer based in London who has written for the Spectator, the Daily Wire, Conservative Woman, New English Review, Brexit Central, Catholic Journal and others. George Orwell invented the term “groupthink” for his dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-Four, first published in
Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz A quote from That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis arrived in my inbox yesterday. If you haven’t read it or the rest of the trilogy, I highly recommend you get a hold of them. But back to the quote. One of the protagonists,
