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The Case for the Defence, M’Lud

The Case for the Defence, M’Lud

I haven’t had The Vax. Not even the first one. Sorry. There, I’ve said it. And of course, I am hiding behind a nom de plume so my employers, clients, suppliers, ISP, bankers, friends and relatives don’t drag me out onto the street and kick me to

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The Worst May Be Yet to Come

The Worst May Be Yet to Come

I have just come back from the supermarket. It was a depressing experience. On my way out, a young man walked in through the entrance, followed by an old hag, screaming, “He didn’t scan in! He didn’t scan in!” I find this kind of behaviour so terribly depressing.

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Bloomfield’s Gone Mad with Power

Bloomfield’s Gone Mad with Power

Watching Ashley Bloomfield and Jacinda Ardern continue with their draconian lock down of a third of the countries population reminded me of this scene from The Simpsons Movie: Ashley Bloomfield’s actions regarding the lock down of Auckland bears an uncanny resemblance to Russ Cargill‘s lock down of Springfield.

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The Speech Jacinda Ardern Should Have Delivered

The Speech Jacinda Ardern Should Have Delivered

David Seymour ACT Leader Speech from David Seymour to Central City Business Association, Christchurch, 5 pm Tuesday October 5th. The Great Tack Kia ora tatou, We have reached a turning point in our COVID response. Our earliest ancestors were navigators. Through extraordinary feats, they found these Islands in the Pacific

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Doom Porn of the Day

Doom Porn of the Day

Professor Shaun Hendy is prophesying Covid gloom and doom for New Zealand. The Prophet of Doom: “Now we have an uncontrolled outbreak in Auckland…cases will get out…Level 1 is probably gone…we’re not going back to that, we’re going to have to have public health measures

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I’m a Pediatric Brain Surgeon and I’m Concerned about the Impact of Delayed Diagnoses on My Patients Due to COVID-19

Sheila Singh McMaster University Sheila Singh is a Professor of Surgery, Neurosurgeon, Scientist, and Director of Cancer Research Centre, McMaster University The incidence of brain cancer in children in Canada is three in 100,000. Brain cancers are treatable when they are localized but prognosis worsens and they become less

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Apply the Rules Equally or Not at All

Apply the Rules Equally or Not at All

Conserve NZ It seems that many people want to hold faith leaders Brian Tamaki and Peter Mortlock accountable for backing protests that they consider to be potential “super spreaders” of Covid-19. So if people see this as a justifiable position, then there is another public figure who needs to also

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Government Must Buy COVID Treatments Now

Government Must Buy COVID Treatments Now

News from Merck that their antiviral pill, Molnupiravir, reduces the chances that patients newly diagnosed with Covid-19 will be hospitalised by about 50 per cent is incredibly encouraging and should prompt the New Zealand Government to urgently contract for this drug and other next generation Covid treatments, National’s Covid-19

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Think like a Domino

Voices for Freedom Yesterday, I took one for the team. I listened with gritted teeth to our Dear Leader (and her trusty public health sidekick), telling us how they’ve “bin” working hard to create us a new framework. We’re moving away from “elimination” ( and don’t you know

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