Daren A. Wiseley mises.org Daren Wiseley has a J.D. from Indiana University. More of his work can be found at choosewiseley.org. Over a year ago, the covid panic shook the world. We were told it would only be “15 days to flatten the curve” as businesses were
Masks have become the yellow stars, the keffiyehs and the awareness ribbons, all rolled into one, of the Wuhan plague. Despite the spurious appeals to “science” (the evidence has been and remains at best equivocal, most reliably negative), the real reason for mask mandates has at last been laid bare:
Time and again, the authoritian politicians and bureacrats pushing lockdowns have assured us that “it’s science”. Which is bullshit, of course. Their supposed “science” has in fact always been merely computer models – computer models which have never borne the slightest resemblance to reality. On the other hand, reality has
For all her faults, Gladys Berejiklian is emerging from the pandemic dumpster fire as perhaps the only Australian politician with even half a commitment to freedom. While the rest of Australia’s premiers keep their fingers hovered over the lockdown buttons, like so many bureaucratic swords of Damocles, and PM
If some prognosticator had predicted, two years ago, that the world would be facing apparently unending global travel restrictions and government-enforced vaccines, we’d surely have laughed in their faces. More fool us. Because that’s exactly where we are, today – and there’s no end in sight. Not
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government has been quietly moving some prisoners up the list to receive the COVID-19 vaccination without any consultation. Prisoners were all part Group 3 along with most of the general population, but a new document shows that some have been moved into group two.
There’s an old saying in journalism: if it bleeds, it leads. That is, the media are more likely to report the extraordinary. “Man bites dog” is a far more interesting story than vice-versa. The only problem with that is that it leads to a very skewed worldview for
Dear Editor What are we not being told about the sudden, unexplained death of health executive Pauline Hanna on 5 April 2021? The news media is reporting today (15 May) that police are talking to a masseuse visited by the husband of the deceased. They have also spoken to the
The government, yet again, have been caught out playing fast and loose with the law during their haphazard pandemic response. First, it was the lockdowns that were illegal, and now it is the vaccine rollout: The Health Minister is making an urgent law change after a High Court judgment ruled
The Auditor-General’s audit of the government’s vaccine roll-out presents a very worrying picture of a lack of progress and significant concerns about whether it will achieve its goals at all, says National’s Covid-19 Response Spokesperson Chris Bishop. The Auditor-General states that he is
The Government should be doing more to make sure people who use our MIQ facilities are paying what they owe in a timely manner, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. National has figures which show the Government was owed almost $7 million in overdue invoices from MIQ guests,
I have been driving around Wellington in the last couple of days. Traffic is abysmal, as usual. Stop start, stop start… but there are billboards all over the place advertising the Ru Paul show. Tell me, New Zealanders… do you really think, in the middle of a pandemic, it was
The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak George Orwell, “1984” I’ve long been a proponent of the efficacy and safety of vaccines. I have my “shots” regularly, including the annual flu vax. I’ve long disdained, and occasionally, futilely,
