Studying 20th century history at university, I often wondered what it must be like to watch everything around you slide into the “Dark Valley” of totalitarianism. I wonder no more. Because I’m living it. Of course, it’s not on the scale of a Chinese in 1949 watching the
Dear Editor You really do have to wonder at the inability of journalists and opposition MPs to ask questions of this government. Here’s an example: Friday a week ago during Checkpoint with Lisa Owen on RNZ, Ashleigh Bloomfield said Covid-19 vaccinations were now up to 50,000 a week.
David Seymour ACT Leader The Prime Minister has her priorities completely warped if she thinks being last in the developed world for the vaccine rollout is pleasing. According to ‘Our World in Data’, New Zealand has fewer vaccinations per person than any other OECD country. In response to that, Jacinda
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David Seymour ACT Leader This Government’s vaccine rollout is reminiscent of a losing test cricket team desperately trying to increase the run rate as the days go by. The Government is assuring us that we’ll all be vaccinated by the end of the year but we’re currently
New Zealanders were promised that they would be at the ‘front of the queue’ but the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out continues to be behind schedule and poorly communicated, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “This was meant to be the ‘Year of the Vaccine’ but just like the ‘Year
Allen Rodrigo University of Auckland For almost 20 years, Allen Rodrigo worked on the molecular evolution of viruses, including HIV and Hepatitis B. His lab was involved in the development of computational methods for analysing the evolutionary history of viruses, including the timing of virus origins. He has been the
David Seymour ACT Leader After saying we would be at the front of the queue, New Zealand is now officially last in the OECD for the vaccine rollout. According to ‘Our World in Data’, New Zealand has fewer vaccinations per person than any other country. DHBs have now been told
Chief Science Adviser to the office of the PM, Professor Dame Juliette Gerard was reappointed last week for another three year term. Her first foray into the media was last weekend. Gerard was pleased about the reappointment, stating that the prime minister must be happy with her performance, before being
The cloud of circumstantial evidence around the “lab-leak” theory refuses to dissipate – and just got darker. From the beginning of the pandemic, there were accusations that the virus causing COVID-19 resulted from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That directly contradicted official claims that the virus emerged
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The government has quietly broken yet another election promise, resulting in thousands of critical workers being unable to enter New Zealand and migrant families separated, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “Labour campaigned at the election on establishing a 10 percent quota for critical workers in MIQ, saying
Logic, it seems, has never been a strong point of this government. Examples pop up every day to remind us that ‘joined up thinking’ is a completely foreign concept amongst our current ruling elite. Whether it be killing off any chance we had for surety of energy supply, boldly claiming
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While many of us felt the world wide response to Covid-19 was grossly exaggerated, we were probably willing to cut the authorities a reasonable amount of slack. Taking it too lightly was always going to be a hiding to nowhere if it all went bad. Just witness the garbage that’
