Israel was held up as the poster-child for the Pfizer jab. They very quickly vaccinated the majority of their population and then got hit by delta. Last month they began their 3rd shot round of booster jabs. A recent UK survey by the University of Oxford and the Office for
David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party is today proposing a COVID-Tracer app lottery to encourage people to use the app more. Instead of getting pinged to isolate, you might get pinged that you’ve won $1000. Today the Government announced compulsory app usage but the onus to ensure people
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Finally, we have had a sensible suggestion from a politician, and it wasn’t from Jacinda Ardern either. Aussie Prime Minister Scott Morrison has suggested we stop talking about cases. A focus on case numbers was very important when we knew nothing about this virus and whether our hospital system
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David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party is pleased to see mandatory scanning being put in place by the Government but the onus shouldn’t be on businesses to enforce it. Businesses have been through enough with multiple lockdowns, as well as a raft of other costs placed on them
Chris Hipkins’ claim there was nothing New Zealand could have done to secure Pfizer vaccines any earlier flies in the face of hard facts, says National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop. “Mr Hipkins might not like to admit it, but in his interview on Q&A this morning
Hannah Cox fee.org Hannah Cox is the Content Manager and Brand Ambassador for the Foundation for Economic Education. Brandon Rutherford was recently presented with a dilemma in an Ohio courtroom: get vaccinated or face incarceration. The 21-year-old was sentenced to two years probation for fentanyl possession by Judge Christopher
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David Seymour ACT Leader COVID response Minister Chris Hipkins has shown how unprepared the Government was for a Delta outbreak in an interview on Q+A this morning. Hipkins said, “Delta raises some big questions that we’re going to have to grapple with… it does mean our existing protections
If people think the mask exemption download/printout from the Covid19 website is going to get them into the supermarket maskless they are in for a shock as was my adult daughter at Countdown Riverbank Lower Hutt last night. She wasn’t approached at all and asked where her mask
All environmental decisions in New Zealand are to be based upon the precautionary approach first outlined as Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration 1992. In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or
The government’s Covid-19 message this week fuelled anxiety and fear when the country was locked down at very short notice. Panic ensued, with people clinging to the government’s Covid-19 elimination strategy of masking, social distancing, contact tracing and testing mandates. The six o’clock news the previous night
There is a show on Netflix called “How to Become a Tyrant”. The show looks at various tyrants and the techniques they use to gain and hold onto power. One technique that the show misses is what I call “Infantilise the People“. What I mean by this is effectively turning
The Telegraph UK has written a scathing opinion piece on Jacinda Ardern’s COVID strategy. Seeing that she has been, until now, the darling of the overseas media, it is a particularly savage piece. Read on and enjoy the turning of the worms, in all parts of the globe. Poetic
Andrew Bayly Shadow Treasurer For several weeks now, National has been highlighting the fact that, according to Budget documents, Finance Minister Grant Robertson has already blown $57 billion of a total $62 billion of funds set aside to deal with the Covid pandemic. We were highlighting this before the current
