In a week dominated by enormous blunders by the government in their handling of COVID-19 and one where they inflicted lockdowns on the population, does anyone see anything missing from this week’s Herald cartoon roundup?” August 16 illustration Peter Bromhead Herald on Sunday August 10 illustration Guy Body
Election date Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Decision day looms for Jacinda Ardern as Winston Peters threatens retaliation if election not delayed Richard Harman: Peters hints at constitutional challenge to PM Jane Patterson (RNZ): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to announce decision on election date today Claire Trevett (Herald): Return of Covid-19
We don’t know much about the South Auckland family at the centre of the latest COVID outbreak, except that they are of Pacific Island descent. This is hardly a surprise in South Auckland, where a large part of the Pacific Island and Maori communities reside. But their ethnicity is
Kate Hawkesby points out what is becoming increasingly obvious. The government is taking advantage of COVID to avoid having to be held accountable for its incompetence. I know of four families who lost teenagers to suicide these past school holidays. […]Our suicide rates in this country should be of no
On Tuesday this week, I woke up with a runny nose. It was completely my fault: I went to bed very late Monday night without having had the heater on during the evening, or at night. Having turned soft by living too many years in Auckland, and the fact my
The chickens are now coming home to roost. The Government setting out to eliminate COVID was a huge miscalculation. This was never a realistic option. It’s on a par with their Kiwibuild pledge. The Labour politicians seem divorced from reality, even the three or four that have something resembling
Dr Oliver Hartwich nzinitiative.org.nz At the end of this week, New Zealand is back in a situation we hoped to have left behind. With Auckland in lockdown and the country on alert, COVID-19 is back. Perhaps the virus entered on some refrigerated goods. However, the Director-General
A friend travelling to work on the first day back in lockdown said he was shocked at the huge police presence manning roadblocks to stop people entering and leaving Auckland City without good reason and controlling the huge volume of people waiting for COVID testing. Most of them were clueless,
Another way in which we know that ‘moderate’ and ‘conservative’ Jacinda Ardern is really a figure of the hard left is her disregard for the rule of law in her handling of the COVID ‘crisis’. It doesn’t seem to have concerned her that the first lockdown had no basis
Have a care for Chris Hipkins. He’s in the hot seat at the moment because the ‘COVID Queen’ Jacinda Ardern can’t ever be seen to deliver bad news, so it’s up to poor old ‘Chippy’. And there has been plenty of bad news of late. The virus
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This article has been translated from German and was originally published in the Swiss magazine Weltwoche (World Week) on June 10th. The author, Beda M Stadler is the former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern, a biologist and professor emeritus. Why everyone was wrong The
Really? Announcing Pakuranga College had a case when it didn’t is a pretty massive mistake. https://t.co/9FIhnKQNYA — Simeon Brown (@SimeonBrownMP) August 14, 2020
The Prime Minister, the Government and the Director-General of Health would have us believe that last week’s announcement about masks and the Director General’s very public COVID test were just a coincidence and had nothing at all to do with the outbreak in South Auckland. To quote
