Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Last week I received a letter from my children’s school district. “We
We’ve all been bombarded with weeks and weeks of “sustained propaganda” about how safe the vaccine is, or how by taking the vaccine it will allow us all to have better possibilities. But what if I told you that the majority of patients in an Israeli hospital, with the
BFD commentators are a smart bunch. Recently a commentator made the fair point that the UK’s sudden reduction in Covid cases after removing restrictions could be explained by people having fewer tests. As I say, that’s a fair call. But it’s pretty difficult to use the same
Nick Chater Warwick Business School, University of Warwick As vaccine uptake starts to wane, stories have began to emerge of people who refused the jab ending up in intensive care, ruing not having had the vaccine, and subsequently dying. These cautionary tales are certainly attention-grabbing, but is it right to
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Treating ordinary citizens like criminals? Welcome to Jacinda Ardern’s world. She’s really acting all Stalinist. This is just the start of implementing gulags for the non-compliant, (after the obligatory show trials of course). But why don’t the media get up them when they suggest shit like this?
Tiger Tiger, a tenacious, surprisingly well-educated animal, living and working in the real world. Having to come up with staff wages every week sharpens the senses. As we are daily browbeaten by bobbing heads and flapping hands across New Zealand and Australia to mask up, get vaccinated, maintain social distancing
Hannah Cox fee.org Hannah Cox is the Content Manager and Brand Ambassador for the Foundation for Economic Education. I recently relocated to Atlanta for work, and I’ve spent the last few months trying to put my life together again. When you move, a great deal of time goes
When I was a teenager, we used to joke about “Queensland: the Police State”. This was, after all, the era when, as the Fitzgerald Inquiry showed, Queensland police and politicians were neck-deep in vice and corruption. The Bjelke-Petersen state government banned public assemblies without permits and police mounted military-style raids
Someone suggested last week that my lack of medical degrees or appropriate academic credentials invalidates my opinion on Covid-19, ranking me behind the experts. An interesting observation. It is true that I am medically and scientifically unqualified to comment on Covid-19 but equally, I am entitled to hold an opinion.
Jacinda Ardern was on Seven Sharp on Thursday night extolling the virtues of rolling out ankle bracelets for returning Kiwis in order to monitor their compliance with MIQ policies: She repeated this assertion on The Project as well: A trial will be held later this year. Ardern said it will
Michael Plank University of Canterbury Michael Plank is a Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and Principal Investigator at Te Punaha Matatini, New Zealand’s Centre of Research Excellence in Complex Systems and Data Analytics. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has
Not since Rousseau’s (probably apocryphal) “great princess” wittered, “Let them eat cake!” has there been such an ostentatious display of the disdain of the elite for the masses. It was as if the Capitol elite of The Hunger Games had decamped to party on the world’s most exclusive
New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern likes to witter about “kindness” and New Zealand’s “team of five million”. Ardern also likes to pontificate about New Zealand’s “international responsibility”, no matter its relative size. The international chattering classes love to heap praise on Ardern for her supposed “Covid leadership”
Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says the announcements from the Government around reconnecting New Zealand to the world are a step in the right direction, but speeding up and effectively rolling out the Covid-19 vaccination programme is the most important thing to do right now. “As we’ve been
