Darryl Betts darryllrbetts.wordpress.com In February I submitted an official information act (OIA) request for details of expenditure on Covid-19 advertising and messaging by the New Zealand Government. I received a response on 15 March and not surprisingly it was incomplete. The full response, with my request embedded
Leighton Smith Podcast Episode 147 BFD writer Dr Michael John Schmidt writes a weekly column for The BFD From the Desk of a Male Pale and Stale. Listen to his interview with Leighton below. Leighton reads from a couple of Mike’s articles/ letters to the editor published both on
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Voices for Freedom voicesforfreedom.co.nz What a funny old time it is to be alive right now. More and more people are awakening to the truth as reality unfolds before their eyes. People are seeing that the promises made regarding the safety and efficacy of the vaccine have been
Imagine you had the freedom to choose whether or not to get vaccinated. Imagine a New Zealand where ‘Unite Against Covid’ advertising doesn’t appear on MSM, social media, billboards and buses and isn’t written or talked about either. In other words, a perfect world, perfectly neutral about what
[…] some of the COVID-19 restrictions we face – like vaccine passes – could be dropped come April. […] The Government will also reconsider the restrictions Kiwis face too as Omicron spreads like wildfire. We still have a lot of COVID-19 rules in place that not everyone’s abiding by. […] The days
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
