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
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
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
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
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
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
Police say the vast majority of people are sticking to level 4 lockdown rules. Andrew Coster, Police Commissioner, said cops received 684 online breach notifications from the start of lockdown to 5pm yesterday. About a third of the alleged breaches were from the Tamaki Makaurau area, roughly in line with
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” George Santayana famously wrote. Australians, by and large, are quite ignorant of their history. They have been condemned to repeat it, in the 2020s. After 230 years, Australia has reverted to being an island prison. And, in an echo
Neil Clark rt.com Neil Clark is a journalist, writer, broadcaster and blogger. His award winning blog can be found at www.neilclark66.blogspot.com. Macron was billed as the ‘moderate candidate’ in the 2017 French presidential election but there’s nothing moderate about this authoritarian who has transformed France
David Seymour ACT Leader The day has arrived where businesses will rightly need support from the Government after they’ve been forced to close but the rainy-day fund has already been raided. The Government has been dipping into the $50 billion COVID fund, with $515 million on school lunches,
If you were to believe the mainstream media and the bootlickers of the Covid dictators, Sweden is an irresponsible mire of death and disease. Sweden has steadfastly resisted bringing down the Covid jackboot. For that, it has been painted as crazy and irresponsible. We’re lectured that Sweden has reaped
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With the latest lockdown, Jacinda Ardern is effectively holding this country and therefore its people to ransom. She is holding businesses and livelihoods to ransom. She is holding the economy to ransom. She is, by her actions, pretty much holding the share market to ransom. None of this bothers Ardern
