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MIQ Lobby Debut a Depressing Debacle

MIQ Lobby Debut a Depressing Debacle

This morning’s debut of the new ‘virtual lobby’ system for MIQ allocation was both depressing and a debacle, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “The virtual lobby system used for the first time this morning solves nothing and has just created even more angst amongst the thousands

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Govt Gives up on Elimination

Govt Gives up on Elimination

David Seymour ACT Leader If the Government moves Auckland to Level 3 today then it needs to be clear with New Zealanders that it has given up on the elimination strategy. During the first lockdown, the Government kept New Zealanders in Level 4 based on the four-day average of

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Govt Leaves Expats Out of Team of Five Million

David Seymour ACT Leader More than 22,000 New Zealanders in the MIQ waiting room within hours of it opening have shown why locking down and locking out is unsustainable. The demand for MIQ is now clear for the first time. Twenty-two thousand is 110 times more than daily

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Notes on COVID Vaccines in Young People

covidplanb.co.nz There have been reports of deaths in New Zealand teenagers within weeks of being administered with the Comirnaty product. It is concerning that there has been a concentration of unusual fatal events in teenagers in a short space of time, coinciding with the roll-out of the

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The BFD  Comment of the Week

The BFD Comment of the Week

As part of our drive to keep our comment section the best in New Zealand we showcase each week an example of a top-notch comment that adds value to The BFD. Today’s comment was written by Sunnyjim Thank you Sunnyjim for taking the time to craft such an

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Ich Bin Ein Aucklander

When John Fitzgerald Kennedy was handed the speech which had been produced by his advisors, the one he was supposed to read to the colossal crowd gathered on the free side of the Berlin Wall on June 26, 1963, he instead ripped it up and wrote his own. The fellow

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Update on COVID-19

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com It’s been eighteen months since New Zealand’s first Covid-19 lockdown was imposed on the country, so let’s look into what we have learnt. There have now been four major lockdowns, three caused by breaches of the Government-run border security system.

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Masks to Be Compulsory When Making Love

Masks to Be Compulsory When Making Love

Information Satire John Black stuffednz.net Under new Covid-19 regulations, masks will be legally required during ‘intimate relations’. Government minister for Covid-19 Hysteria, Dwayne Numpty said the new laws were necessary as “sexual relations are a vector for virus transmission. There was a spike just last Saturday, after

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The Government Is Flying Blind

The Government Is Flying Blind

In March 2020, Jacinda put us all into lockdown. At the time the whole pandemic was bewildering but she told us that if we locked down once and got on top of the disease, it would be best for the economy in the long run. “Do It Once, Do It

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None of Your Business

None of Your Business

Chris Penk First published by The BFD 20th June 2020 The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. None of your business Perhaps the most telling remark on either side of the argument about the lockdown’s length came

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Lockdowns For Ever?

Lockdowns For Ever?

We all know that Jacinda Ardern is a dissembler. Her favourite tactic, when faced with tough questioning, is to waffle on with meaningless babble, jargon and most importantly focus-grouped slogans to push her agenda. When that fails she turns to ridicule of the questioner or labelling such questioning as

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