Plan B While New Zealand commentators remain enamoured with lockdown, the rest of the world is thinking again… A member of the UK’s Sage group advising the government says lockdowns were a mistake. “Lockdown was a panic measure and I believe history will say trying to control Covid-19
Free Press The ACT Party As recently as last Monday, Auckland needed to stay at Level 3 for another week to defeat the virus. Yesterday it turned out that Level 2.5 was sufficient. New Zealanders want to trust the Government, but changes without rhyme or reason make it difficult.
Cheerleaders for massive, police-state lockdowns invariably justify their taste for authoritarianism by pious moralising. “It’s all about saving lives,” they self-righteously intone. “If it saves just one life, it’s worth it.” This is a hollow argument even on its own merits: the panic-mongers don’t,
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Seven people died on New Zealand roads on the weekend. That was not a headline story. But imagine if seven people had died of the COVID virus. We’d be back to full lockdown panic mode. From the beginning, back eight months, all governments were
Education Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Couple who called COVID-19 ‘manufactured natural disaster’ held ‘DNA activation’ event at Green School Katie Scotcher (RNZ): James Shaw looking for solution in Green School controversy Deena Coster (Stuff): Marfell School community tells minister ‘we’re shovel ready’ as Green School funding row continues
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
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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
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.
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’
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
