Covid-19
As a Doctor, Here’s My Message to Anyone Who Thinks It’s OK to Deny Medical Treatment to Those Unvaccinated against COVID
R. M. Huffman rt.com R. M. Huffman is a physician, author, and observer of culture. Some doctors are openly discussing refusal to treat patients who decline, for whatever reason, to get the jab. This would set a dangerous precedent and shatter fundamental tenets of medical practice. An insidious sentiment
The Threat Must Be Really Bad…wait…what?
Paris police beat woman who tried to go shopping at the mall without a vaccine passport.pic.twitter.com/twZiKIpX2P — Syrian Girl ??? (@Partisangirl) September 4, 2021
Forgotten Freedoms Fade Fast
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young
Why Can’t the Ruling Class Trust the People?
“Nudge theory” is the idea that the hoi polloi are too stupid to be left to their own devices so it’s up to their “betters” to herd them with carrots and sticks. This has been the ruling conceit of the elite classes ever since Plato grumbled that all that
Stop Making COVID Look like an Apocalypse
Harry Hunt Tuesday 17th August, I hear the ding of my phone. Ah yes, of course, a community Covid case. Exactly what we needed. The news started an hour earlier just to make sure everyone got their fix before six. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t
Betrayal of Science?
Angus Aardvark There was a time when scientists felt an obligation to ‘Science,’ acknowledging that they themselves ‘stood on the shoulders of giants’. Because of that, they felt obliged to openly debate things that did not fit previous views in order to expand human knowledge as they passed the baton
Government Drops Vaccination Ball Again by Failing to Approve Auckland Pharmacies
New Zealand’s low vaccination rate can also be credited to late and lazy engagement with primary care providers such as pharmacies, says National’s Health spokesman Dr Shane Reti. “From when the Covid vaccine was first approved for routine vaccine fridges on May 28 this year, the pharmacy credentialing
Australian Health Minister Quietly Backs Ivermectin
How ever did we win World War II? Were we always this fearful and risk-averse? Or are we reaping the grim harvest of generations raised in padded cells by an obsessively safety-first culture? Once, at least some of us seemed to really believe that “Who Dares, Wins”. The ruling creed
Dear David and Judith
Woody Greetings David and Judith I wish to address your approach to Covid-19 and more specifically your position on vaccinations and treatment for Covid-19. You along with the Labour government seem determined to push for vaccination of the populace of New Zealand as the only solution to this virus. Never
Fairness for Vaccine Rollout Needed
David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party is calling on the Government to have a fair approach to vaccinations after it was revealed “priority access codes for Maori” are being handed out that do not require a booking. The virus doesn’t discriminate on race, so neither should the rollout.
Why Are Australian Health Authorities Silencing Doctors in the Pandemic?
Elisabeth Taylor mercatornet.com Dr Elisabeth Taylor is a graduate from the University of Sydney and Commonwealth scholar with a PhD in Medieval Women’s History from Cambridge University. She now works as a researcher, writer and speaker, presenting on issues relating to gender and sexuality. Australians who rely on
Middlemore Mistake Creates Massive Risk
David Seymour ACT Leader The 91-year-old left for hours in a room with a COVID-19 positive patient has today reached out to me, furious at the risks he was exposed to. The elderly man with underlying health conditions, and two other patients were in a ward when a fourth patient
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We Are the World’s Fools
For most of the last year or so of the Covid pandemic, New Zealand and Australia have looked on the United States with smug contempt. The shoe is very much on the other foot, now. We here in the Antipodes remain under the harshest lockdowns outside of a welded-shut apartment