Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister Labour Party Yesterday afternoon, I announced that all of New Zealand will remain at Alert Level 4 until 11:59 pm on Tuesday 24 August. I wanted to take a minute this morning to explain why it’s so important we take this step to keep
David Seymour ACT Leader The wheels are falling off the Government’s response to COVID-19, it needs to show it is prepared to do more than just extend lockdowns. After the extension of yesterday’s lockdown, many people will be asking what steps are in place to shorten lockdowns that
David Seymour ACT Leader The Prime Minister needs to explain why the AM Show can broadcast, I can order ice cream to my apartment and people can order sex toys, but Parliament shouldn’t open. ACT believes Parliament should sit next week, or we should bring back the Epidemic Response
Among the many great characters created by satirical British comic, Viz, is “The Parkie”. Look out! He’s a Right Bloody Bastard! warns the strapline. And he is: he spends his entire career raging at anyone who has the temerity to play, walk their dog, lie on the grass, or
When the SARS-Cov-2 virus erupted in Wuhan in late 2019, its origin was a mystery. But knowing exactly where it came from, and how, was a vital piece of knowledge in knowing how to fight it. But the Chinese government immediately set about lying and covering up. Not only was
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In his The Shape of Things to Come, H G Wells describes “the curious sense of unconsciousness” of the calamity that was about to unfold in the summer of 1914. “The weather that August was exceptionally fine”, and countless Europeans holidayed with no notion that within a scant few years
By way of public service, I offer you ‘Desperate times call for desperate measures’: a (very) short essay proposing a more pragmatic response to eliminating SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 variant (designated ‘Delta’ – WHO) (Super-tricky virus) from New Zealand/Aotearoa.v2. It is clear that our glorious government has inadvertently
David Seymour ACT Leader The Ardern Government has had 18-months since the last Level 4 lockdown and there hasn’t been enough preparation done on testing and tracing. Thousands of people are lining up for testing for hours on end. Why wasn’t there a solution in place? Saliva testing
Andrew Lee University of Sheffield Andrew Lee is qualified in medicine from the University of Edinburgh. Following paediatric and tropical medicine training, then worked overseas running primary health care and tuberculosis control programmes in Afghanistan. Around the world, countries are having to strike a balance between COVID-19 cases and restrictions.
A significant part of the world’s population today is living with high levels of fear. Fear of death by Covid-19. Confronted by stories of hundreds of new “cases”, deaths and horrifyingly mutated variants that will eventually sneak in and get them, average people are losing the will to live.
The Government is going full retard and scaring people into compliance with their unreasonable and excessive over-reaction to the emergence of Delta; entering through their supposedly brilliant MIQ border controls. The same useful idiots are gracing our TV screens again, running the most awful lines about how “deadly” the Delta
David Seymour ACT Leader The infrequent wastewater testing needs to be explained by the Government. Wastewater has been tested weekly around the country. The last negative Auckland tests were taken on the 11th of August. Today we are told all wastewater results in Auckland are now positive, but there was
