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It’s Life, Jim, but Not as We Knew It
KSK The rain continues in my neck of the woods. So far, four days and nights of non-stop rain and thick fog that blankets the area, and I cannot see the boundary. It could be a metaphor for the confusion and uncertainty that are obscuring the country. The landscape is
Is Japan Really Puzzling over Virus Success?
Eye Patch Jack Mari Yamaguchi treats Japan’s latest valley in coronavirus cases like it is some kind of miracle and goes searching for answers in this propaganda piece. Ignoring some other obvious factors like seasonality and ivermectin, she cherry-picks some ‘experts’ who thank vaccines, masks and teetotaling. Yes, this
Jab Mandates: Not So Much about Jabs as about ‘Papers’?
Dear Editor Saturday’s Government Jab Mandate Order says you need to be jabbed…. but actually no you don’t. You DO need to be registered, however. “Papers” anyone? The wide-ranging exemption is indeed a whopping win and there will be thousands of educators and healthcare workers breathing considerably easier
Letter to the Editor: Time to Review the Use of Ivermectin
Dear Editor The article by Thomas Coughlan notes (NZ Herald October 22) that the former Maori Party President Pem Bird has been quoted in Parliament as calling for more vaccine choice in his community rather than just the Pfizer vaccine. Perhaps this is because re-infection can occur with this vaccine
A Bridge Too Far
If you ever wondered, as I once did, how the Nazis took control of Germany so easily, now you have your answer. People just comply. They don’t think, they don’t question… they just comply. First it was lockdowns, to save the health service (while nurses produced Tiktok videos
You Can’t Vaccinate Your Way to Freedom
This Government and the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern are causing a mass delusion to visit itself upon the nation. The delusion is that somehow, by doing exactly what other nations around the world have done to battle Covid-19, that New Zealand will somehow get a different and better result. On
‘If You Want Summer, Get Vaccinated’ – Jacinda Ardern Sets the Target for Re-Opening New Zealand
Michael Plank University of Canterbury Shaun Hendy University of Auckland Michael Plank is a Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and Principal Investigator at Te Punaha Matatini, New Zealand’s Centre of Research Excellence in Complex Systems and Data Analytics.
COVID Pass in Lithuania and throughout Europe: Part 5
@gluboco Social Stigmatization This social stigmatization of opponents works. Opponents of vaccine mandates are muted with the label of “anti-vaxxers”, which in our post-Soviet society is seen as a person who is irrationally fatalistic, mystical, illiterate, selfish, anti-modern, and anti-science. That’s driven away most mainstream people who might oppose
Face of the Day
The measure of a man is whether he unites or divides. Today’s face of the day knows that humanity should be fighting Covid-19 not each other. We need more men like Dave Dobbyn to counter the ongoing and increasingly nasty rhetoric demonising the unvaccinated and isolating them. Read our
COVID Pass in Lithuania and throughout Europe: Part 4
@gluboco The Politics When Covid vaccines began in December 2020, political leaders in Lithuania emphasized that vaccination was voluntary. As vaccination rates increased in spring 2021 and development began on the Covid Pass, mainstream political views changed. Now, the consensus among all major politicians is that unvaccinated people should not
Dear Prime Minister, Why?
Health Forum NZ Facebook Dear Prime Minister 1) Why are we still using a PCR test amplified to 40 or 45 cycles to “test” for Covid, when we know (and the CDC and WHO have informed us) that such testing is fraught with a huge proportion of false positives? 2)
The Libertarian View of the COVID Vaccine
Let’s start with the classic definition of libertarianism in a nutshell. Basically, it’s you can do whatever you like so long as you cause no harm to others. Fairly simple, right? But note that under the classic definition “do” means actually doing something. That means I can refuse
Open Letter to the Prime Minister of New Zealand
Dynamite Information Satire Dear Prime Minister I am writing to you to ask for your assistance in answering some questions I have about the current state of our country in the hope that your answers and insights to those questions can be published widely amongst our people to better inform