NZ Green MP Golriz Ghahraman has been accused of “shar[ing] the modern-day blood libel” and peddling “a vicious lie designed to smear the Jewish state” when she accused Israel of deliberately excluding Palestinians from its COVID-19 vaccine roll-out. Ghahraman shared on Instagram the claim that Israel is “a world
Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Spare a thought for climate scientists: no longer the go-to experts for scary headlines. The epidemiologists have taken over. 2020 started well. The usual apocalyptic summer headlines. Then bang: they were gone. For thirty years climate scientists have led public debate and focused political minds. No
Make no mistake, Kiwis are being softened up for another lockdown. As the rest of the world suffers resurgence of the CCP Virus, including new strains of the virus, here in New Zealand we are now so far behind the rest of the world in dealing with the Chinese plague
Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and nine books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of
Stacey Rudin aier.org Stacey Rudin is a writer, activist, community leader, volunteer, and former litigator active in the grassroots movement to ensure future pandemics are managed in accordance with established public health guidelines. An avid tennis player and reader, Stacey lives in Short Hills, New Jersey. At any anti-lockdown
I’ve already written at some length about how the Australian state of Victoria descended into a medically-induced tyranny. Using the ridiculously-over-hyped excuse of what, on all available evidence, is very, very far from the deadliest pandemic in modern history, Victorians meekly, even gratefully, submitted to an elected dictatorship never
Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz What happened to hard and early? Why has it taken so long to bring in pre-departure COVID-19 testing for travellers from countries with high rates of COVID-19 infection like the UK and the USA? Now there is the threat of a faster spreading
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Lisa Martin Public and Digital Diplomacy Embassy of Israel in New Zealand Coronavirus knows no borders, as has become all too clear, and countries the world over are all facing the same challenges to public health and their economies. From the outset of the pandemic, Israel emerged as a leading
Covid Plan B covidplanb.co.nz The architect of New Zealand’s elimination strategy for COVID-19, Michael Baker, criticized former “Bachelor” star Naz Khanjani for implying her mild experience of COVID-19 was the typical experience. He said her comments were “dangerous” misinformation, and a “fallacy”. Yet a reality TV star
Kerry Grant banana-boat-boy.com On the weekend we heard the sad news of a perfectly healthy Florida doctor, Dr. Gregory Michael becoming sick and dying within 15 days of receiving the Pfizer’s Covid- 19 vaccination, with his wife confirming his healthy status prior to this event. Heidi Neckelmann stipulated
January 11th 2021 A happy new year to all my readers (both still in the North Island). Well, what has happened since my last letter on Christmas Eve? Brexit came and went, and the UK has a trade agreement with the EU. The apocalypse promised by the remainers failed to
Covid Plan B covidplanb.co.nz A WHO-commissioned meta-analysis of Ivermectin shows that using this generic medicine in hospitals leads to a 83% reduction in covid mortality (95% CI 65%-92%). The WHO is understood to be waiting for the results this month from three trials before issuing a recommendation.
Dr. Martin Kulldorff aier.org Martin Kulldorff, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research centres on developing new epidemiological and statistical methods for the early detection and monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks and for post-market drug and vaccine safety surveillance. 1. Public health is about
Raymond Zhong Paul Mozur Aaron Krolik The New York Times Jeff Kao ProPublica propublica.org This story was originally published by ProPublica SERIES:CORONAVIRUS The U.S. Response to COVID-19 ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as
Covid Plan B covidplanb.co.nz Our letter to the NZ Herald regarding the recent story on our NZ Journal of Primary Health Care (https://www.publish.csiro.au/hc/Fulltext/HC20132). Vaccine caution We recently wrote a scientific article in a leading medical journal which featured prominently in a
