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If MIQ Is a Joke Then Self-Isolation Is Full Retard

If MIQ Is a Joke Then Self-Isolation Is Full Retard

Donald Digby As part of our return to New Zealand and after serving the required time interned as a guest of the government, we then needed to complete 3 days in “self-isolation”. To be honest I hadn’t given “self-isolation” much thought at first. When you’re coming home from

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Here be Dragons

Here be Dragons

Pish Posh “Here be Dragons” is a phrase used by cartographers to describe the wild, faraway, uncharted corners of a map. With the announcement of vaccine apartheid, New Zealand has launched into these wilds. Here be Dragons. Jacinda Ardern attempted to sugarcoat New Zealand’s shameful entry into vaccine apartheid

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Hanlon’s Razor

Hanlon’s Razor

Louise M Diack Governments have an unfortunate habit of getting things wrong and failing to change course, even as developing events demand they should. Rather than level with the people of the country, they double down and keep spinning in the hope people won’t notice. Of course, the people

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Orange Is the New Black

Orange Is the New Black

I am confused. I thought that, when we entered the new ‘traffic light’ system, we would be getting more freedom… well, some of us would be anyway. Instead, the whole country is at ‘orange’, except for the bits that are at ‘red’. There is no such thing as a ‘green’

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Judges Need to Be Asking These Questions

Judges Need to Be Asking These Questions

Ananish Chaudhuri Martin Lally Ananish Chaudhuri is Professor of Experimental Economics at the University of Auckland. Martin Lally is Director of Capital Financial Consultants. Vaccine mandates for Covid-19 are proving to be controversial. Consequently, New Zealand’s recent mandates have faced court challenges already and one expects more such challenges

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Consent or Coercion?

The writer has absolutely zero desire to be part of a vaccine trial that has not yet run the full trial course but the fascists running our lovely country have configured the rules to make it all but impossible to live a normal life here if one is part of

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It Looks Like Omicron Causes Milder Illness

Hamish McCallum Griffith University Hamish’s areas of expertise are: the ecology of infectious diseases, conservation biology and quantitative ecology. These are very early days in terms of our understanding the Omicron variant. What is known is that it has a large number of mutations, particularly in the spike protein

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MAGA: A Special Members Only Discounted Offer

MAGA: A Special Members Only Discounted Offer

This is a high-quality face mask made in Canada complete with two activated charcoal filters for maximum safety. Adjustable elasticated ear pieces, shaped for comfort. The perfect Christmas gift for the rebel in you or your friends. Special Offer for BFD Members Only. $29.00 PLUS POSTAGE. NOTE:  Free postage

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As Aucklanders Anticipate Holiday Trips, Maori Leaders Ask People to Stay Away from Regions with Lower Vaccination Rates

As Aucklanders Anticipate Holiday Trips, Maori Leaders Ask People to Stay Away from Regions with Lower Vaccination Rates

Dion O’Neale Andrew Sporle Emily Harvey Steven Turnbull University of Auckland Dion’s research is in the area of network science and complex systems, including spreading processes on networks. Andrew Sporle is a social researcher who works mainly for my own research and analytics companies but I also teach

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Traffic Lights Still Not Ready to Go

With less than 48 hours before New Zealand moves to the traffic light system, Labour still hasn’t put in place key elements to make the system work, National Covid-19 Spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “Jacinda Ardern announced the traffic light system over a month ago, yet key elements are still

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Ten Things Better than Vouchers

Ten Things Better than Vouchers

David Seymour ACT Leader It’s great that the Government is issuing vouchers for businesses still alive after the lockdown, but here are the top ten things they could have done, or still do, for business. 1. Order the vaccine on time so that New Zealand would not be one

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Quite a Few Tools

Quite a Few Tools

Kay O’Lacey wokejoke.nz Information Satire In a joint announcement this morning involving the PM and James Shaw, the Princess Ardern Government of Aotearoa NZ (PAGANZ) have revealed a new energy-saving initiative. “James has been using his time in MIQ most productively, and we’re really pleased to share

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COVID-Variants

COVID-Variants

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Stuff’s Blast from the past on Vax Mandates

I know that we here at The BFD like to poke fun at our woke colleagues over at Stuff, but let’s be fair: once in a while they do publish something of merit. In this case, an opinion piece from the last days of innocence before Pandemic Panic swamped

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