If there’s one thing that’s characterised the Wuhan plague, it’s the astonishing incompetence of so many governments and bureaucracies. Despite their conceit that it’s their place to run our lives to the level of ruling just how many people we’re allowed to have at weddings
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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
covidplanb.co.nz Only two days after the New Zealand government announced mandatory mask-wearing rules the much-awaited Danish mask study was published, and it is conclusive; masks give no statistically significant protection from COVID-19. Here’s the study: acpjournals.org Results: A total of 3030 participants were randomly assigned to
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When the shop girl who works in A-Z Fashions tested positive for COVID-19 last week, the first the other tenants knew of it was when the TV cameras parked up outside on High Street, with reporters asking how they felt about sharing facilities, such as bathrooms, with a person who
Trump and Biden are chalk and cheese on many issues of public interest but the top priority for Trump when he took office was national health. On his COVID-19 election, Biden warned of a “dark winter ahead.” Biden endorses mandatory face masks but is torn about lockdown simply because his
A hapless Auckland commuter says she was accosted not once, not twice but three times (by five different people) for not wearing a face mask inside the Britomart train station. The use of masks or face coverings is mandatory for: * people travelling on public transport services in, into and out
Kerry Grant banana-boat-boy.com On the weekend I read two cleverly written articles by New Zealand’s Pandemic Guru Siouxsie Wiles – “The astonishing, life-saving power of immunisation” and “Koch’s postulates, Covid, and misinformation rabbit holes.” To her credit, she appears to know her stuff, but I said “cleverly” written
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Dr. Roger Hodkinson, MA, MB, FRCPC, FCAP, CEO Medical director of Western Medical Assessments “I would remind you all that using the province’s own statistics, the risk of death under 65 in this province is one in 300,000. One in 300,000. You’ve got to get a
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When governments and bureaucrats gleefully seized the opportunity for a naked power-grab enabled by the Wuhan virus, critics argued that not only do such authoritarian responses as lockdowns not work, but that the concomitant toll in other diseases and suicides would be even worse. The evidence still shows the inefficacy
According to the media and her own breathless propaganda, Jacinda Ardern “eliminated” the Wuhan plague in New Zealand. If that’s the case, though, why is New Zealand exporting the virus to Australia? There are fears COVID-19 could have been brought into the country from New Zealand after a locally
