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Experts Slam Government’s Border Testing

Experts Slam Government’s Border Testing

Public health experts are slamming the debacle at the border: Auckland University Professor of Medicine Des Gorman rated the Government’s response as “somewhere between two and three” out of 10. “I’ve seen health systems manage medical emergencies worse than this but it takes some doing,” Gorman told Hosking.

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Covid Disruptions

Covid Disruptions

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The news that Auckland was being ordered into an Alert level 3 lockdown for three days, and the rest of New Zealand into Alert Level 2, came as a blow to a country that is still struggling to recover from a lockdown assessed as “the

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Know Us By Our Deeds – Bungling the Borders

Know Us By Our Deeds – Bungling the Borders

The Prime Minister has exclaimed that we should know them by their deeds. We’ve covered their deeds with housing, their deeds with flu vaccinations and the Prime Minister‘s lying. Now, with the community transmission outbreak sweeping Auckland, we should know them by their deeds at the border: Newshub

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Pay Up, Boomers – Business Leader

Pay Up, Boomers – Business Leader

Way back in April (1st, no less!) I suggested that perhaps it might be condign for the older generations to pony up for the devastating economic and social costs of pandemic responses that are designed mostly for their benefit. The suggestion did not seem to go over well with many

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Irrationality

Irrationality

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A Greg Harford, described as the Chief Executive of Retail NZ which is apparently a shopkeepers association, had an article published on the Stuff website. Specifically, he called for building owners to subsidise his members for their decline in sales and losses due to the

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You Can Only Shout “Look! Over There! a Virus!” for So Long

You Can Only Shout “Look! Over There! a Virus!” for So Long

There is a spectre stalking Australia and New Zealand – no, not just the Wuhan pandemic but a killer even worse which is following in its wake. But while the media and politicians can’t stop yammering about COVID-19, they politely avert their eyes from its shadow. Probably because it’s

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The Fallacy of New Zealand’s Pandemic Police-State

The Fallacy of New Zealand’s Pandemic Police-State

In contrast to the fawning adulation of the legacy media, venerable think-tank the American Institute for Economic Research has cast a jaundiced eye over the reign of Jacinda Ardern. Suffice to say, they’re not much impressed. For months we’ve heard the cry: oh how wonderfully New Zealand dealt

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We MUST Say NO to Another Lockdown

We MUST Say NO to Another Lockdown

It’s become clear this week that we’re going to see more cases of COVID-19. Nobody should be surprised. That’s how a virus works and only somebody extremely dim would expect anything different. 100 days without community transmission is, to be kind, a false negative. Before knee-jerking and

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