COVID-19
At Least Four in Five New Zealanders Will Have to Be Vaccinated before Border Controls Can Be Fully Relaxed
Nicholas Steyn Shaun Hendy University of Auckland Michael Plank University of Canterbury Nicholas Steyn is a Research assistant at the University of Auckland Shaun Hendy is Director of Te Punaha Matatini, a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence hosted by the University of Auckland. Michael Plank is a Professor in
Time to Review Lockdowns
Bruce Welsh New Conservative Board Member Let’s think again about lockdowns and their widespread impact. After one couple caused 500,000 people in the wider Wellington region to be in level 2 lockdown for a week, it is time to ask “are lockdowns the best response to Covid?” The
Show Us Your Schedule
David Seymour ACT Leader It’s time for the Government to start treating New Zealanders like adults and let us in on what’s really happening with the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Yesterday Jacinda Ardern admitted we’re getting the schedule for delivery of vaccines four weeks in advance. She
Hipkins’ Comments Staggeringly Naïve
Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins’ comments that ‘there’s no major downside’ to New Zealand’s slow vaccine roll out are staggeringly naïve, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “There are two ‘major downsides’ to being the slowest in the developed world to roll out the
Mainstream Media Play Catch Up 1: Lockdowns
Once again, the mainstream media are catching up to independents like The BFD. No, I’m not talking about the first rumblings of dissent with Jacinda Ardern (I’ll deal with that in another post): What I’m talking about is the mainstream media finally admitting the unthinkable. Unthinkable for
The Use of Ivermectin and the Various Studies around Its Use
Dr Pierre Kory is an ICU and lung specialist who is an expert on the use of the drug ivermectin to treat COVID-19. Bret Weinstein is an evolutionary biologist, visiting fellow at Princeton, host of the DarkHorse podcast and co-author ( with his wife Heather Heying) of the forthcoming
Things That Make Me Go Hmm
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A Letter Sent to the Government Yesterday by NZDSOS
NZDSOS New Zealand Doctors Speaking out with Science NZDSOS is a group of doctors, dentists and scientists who are concerned about the safety of the roll-out of the Pfizer vaccine in New Zealand and the lack of balance in the information being presented. They have written polite, insistent, and
Time to Just Say No to This Government
Gauleiter Jacinda Ardern has pulled her jackboots back on and is talking about compulsory app use and mask-wearing. She’s once again channelling her inner fascist: The Government is considering mandatory QR scanning in “high-risk” locations such as bars and restaurants, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says. Cabinet has
Government Adopts Act Policy Six Months Late
David Seymour ACT leader It’s mandatory for businesses to display QR codes, but not for people to scan them. Only the Ardern Government could continue this madness. ACT has supported compulsory scanning since January, but the Government is so complacent on COVID it’s sometimes hard to tell if
Letter to the Editor: COVID Dishonesty
Dear Editor I would like to thank you as one, or maybe the only, voice calling this wayward government to account. I am of the opinion that we are being lied to, or at the very least, our government are slaves to groupthink regarding the pandemic and the way forward.
Things That Make Me Go Hmm
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COVID Origins: A Timeline of Theories – Part 3
Kelli Ballard libertynation.com National Correspondent at LibertyNation.com. Kelli Ballard is an author, editor, and publisher. Her writing interests span many genres including a former crime/government reporter, fiction novelist, and playwright. Originally a Central California girl, Kelli now resides in the Seattle area. Editor’s note: More than
Govt Flexes Its Muscles in Wellington
Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org Barbara McKenzie has a PhD in German Literature. On Wednesday it was revealed that a weekend visitor to Wellington from Sydney, who had presumably taken advantage of the ‘bubble’ that has been created between New Zealand and Australia, ‘tested positive’ when he returned home. We are