Why is Auckland council encouraging people to dob in to police those not wearing a face nappy? Read the bottom line, they are not referring to people on public transport they are referring to people generally. Is this yet another case of an over “simplified” announcement that Jacinda is going
The circle of those who we can trust now no longer includes the Ministry of Health, and is just the Prime Minister and her ministers, according to our one source of truth: The Ministry of Health has launched a review into the communications botch-up that led to 700,000 people
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righttolife.org.uk A coalition of 434 human rights organisations have backed an International Manifesto for the Right to Life in response to abortion provision sections in the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) Global Humanitarian Response Plan: COVID-19. The plan calls for increased funding and prioritisation of abortion services
Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org For so many months, it’s been nonstop bad news on business closures, arts trashed, museum shuttering, unemployment, missed surgeries and diagnostics, plus rising loneliness, drug overdoses, depression, and suicide. Every day has been as dark or darker than the previous one. And yet here
Dr Oliver Hartwich nzinitiative.org.nz Walking around central Wellington, more shops are boarded up. On Lambton Quay, two bank branches recently disappeared. Just as the two Burger Kings on Lambton Quay and Courtney Place. Walking down Featherston St, there are empty shops every 40 or 50 metres. Reports from
Press Release: ACT Party “An interview with Taiwanese Digital Minister Audrey Tang shows the way to making elimination of COVID-19 affordable through a Wellbeing Approach,” says ACT Leader David Seymour “ACT has been saying for months that New Zealand should look to Taiwan’s approach to managing COVID-19. I have
Roger Partridge nzinitiative.org.nz In mid-April, German sewerage experts were allowed through New Zealand’s tightly controlled border with the country still locked down at Alert Level 4. At the time, Wellington ratepayers were paying nearly $100,000 a day to ferry wastewater by truck from the city’s
This government is all over the place like a mad woman’s poo when it comes to lockdowns, the use of masks and COVID strategy. Jacinda Ardern informed the nation at the very start of the pandemic that the government would be pursuing a COVID strategy of flattening the curve.
Greens fund private school Luke Malpass (Stuff): Hypocrisy, thy colour is Green Chris Trotter (Interest): From safe bet to Shaw loser Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: The Greens’ private school funding scandal Stephanie Ockhuysen (Stuff): James Shaw invited to see mouldy, leaky state schools after million-dollar grant to private school
I am not going to mention the current C-word. You can do your own comparisons, particularly with the figures for the 1957 Asian Flu as European countries are now down to single-figure daily deaths and the Unites States figures are declining as expected. The information here comes from the National
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Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org It’s happened to quite a number of us. We write against the lockdowns for all the incredible economic, psychological, and institutional carnage they have caused, and how they have shattered our expectations of our rights and freedoms, and our presumptions about what government has
If you’ve been following COVID news you will have noticed conflicting stories about Sweden and it’s non lockdown approach. One side says Sweden is a basket case and the other says Sweden will eventually be proven right. On the former side we have Jesse Mulligan and on the
