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“Over-Covidence”, or One Lockdown Too Far?

“Over-Covidence”, or One Lockdown Too Far?

I began writing this week’s column on Sunday after the late previous night’s announcement that we Aucklanders had been sentenced to another seven days of home detention because some South Auckland clot couldn’t (or wouldn’t) follow instructions about self-isolation after infection with Covid-19. I

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Contact Tracing Data Missing; Past Performance Terrible

Contact Tracing Data Missing; Past Performance Terrible

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “Where is the Ministry of Health’s contact tracing performance results for February, and did they achieve the ‘gold standard’ of 80 per cent of community contacts isolated or in quarantine within four days from exposure, based on Dr Ayesha Verrall’s audit of

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There Is No Long Term COVID-19 Strategy

There Is No Long Term COVID-19 Strategy

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “ACT applauds and endorses the business people who have written to the Government today asking what its longer term COVID-19 strategy is,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “We’d all like to know, but at the moment we have the blind leading the

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The Vaccine (Dis)Information War

The Vaccine (Dis)Information War

CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org Information Satire DISCLAIMER: This essay is entirely the work of our in-house satirist and self-appointed political pundit, CJ Hopkins, and does not reflect the views and opinions of the Consent Factory, Inc., its staff, or any of its agents, subsidiaries, or assigns. So, good

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COVID Vaccine Scorecard: The Latest

Professor Deborah Saltman thethinker.co An Honorary Professor at Imperial College, London and the Universities of Sydney and Technology, Sydney, Deborah Saltman’s advanced capacity for strategic problem solving is underpinned by extensive experience in corporate and government enterprise, medical and health research and senior academic management. She has published

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There’s Got to Be a Better Way

There’s Got to Be a Better Way

ACT Party The Prime Minister is subtly but unmistakably shifting the blame for the latest lockdown to Case M, a 21-year-old man from South Auckland. Yes, Case M went to the gym after being tested, that is wrong, and there should be penalties for breaking such rules. However,

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Govt Must Release Contact Tracing Evidence

Govt Must Release Contact Tracing Evidence

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “The Government needs to release full details of the contacts made with the family of cases L, M, N and O at the centre of the South Auckland cluster,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Prime Minister is fighting an asymmetrical information war, drip

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Collins’ Comments March 2021

Collins’ Comments March 2021

Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz As Parliament fully resumes, and despite the difficulties of another Covid-19 lockdown again this week, I think it is important to remember that our first responsibilities as New Zealanders are loyalty to our country, its democratic principles, and our Sovereign as Head

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Vaccine Roll Out Looking Messy

The roll out of the Covid-19 vaccines is looking messy with high priority workers like South Auckland GPs being turned away, while DHB workers are vaccinated on a reportedly random ‘first-in first-served’ basis, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “My understanding is that too

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Jackboot Jacinda Channels Her Inner Stasi

Jackboot Jacinda Channels Her Inner Stasi

Jackboot Jacinda Ardern has channelled her inner Stasi, something all socialists have built into their gene pool, and started to implore that we become a nation of Karens: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has urged people to call out family and colleagues who are not following the rules of the alert

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