If you were one of many New Zealanders wondering why suddenly, out of the blue and with ZERO community spread, the Director-General of Health last week began reminding us that COVID-19 isn’t over yet and that we should remain prepared for another spike and organize masks, wonder no more.
As you are no doubt aware, moderately serious seasonal influenza was this year successfully rebranded as COVID-19. The world has been enthralled by it ever since. The first New Zealand lockdown (25 March to 13 May) was a seriously successful event for the socialist government. Not only was it widely
National Party suspicions around Govt response, conspiracy theories Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): National Party not constructive with conspiracy theories Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Government has well and truly stuffed this up Zane Small (Newshub): 50 New Zealand health experts urge political leaders to ‘resist temptation to scaremonger’ over COVID-19
First, it was no evidence to suggest masks are effective, then we had the great push for masks. Just yesterday morning Dr Ashley Bloomfield was on Mike Hosking’s radio show telling him off for suggesting that people who tested positive should be put into mandatory supervised quarantine. Director-General of
BFD readers could be forgiven for assuming that the legacy media are bought-and-paid-for members of the Jacinda Ardern fanclub. Who could forget, after all, the stomach-turning sight of a simpering Waleed Aly hugger-mugging for the cameras, or the legion of taxpayer-funded leftists vowing to move to New Zealand? Fortunately, not
After several direct statements, the WHO appears to be a lockdown skeptic – “What we at the WHO would invite countries is to do everything possible to not have these complete lockdowns… We think the Swedish approach has a lot going for it.”pic.twitter.com/aj3NFiEBc2 — Aaron Ginn (@aginnt) August
History tells us that forcing part of our population to wear yellow labels thereby effectively turning them into lepers never ends well… #COVID1984: Doctor Recommends Children Wear Yellow Badges If They Haven’t Been #Vaccinated https://t.co/qkPd6xMXyg — Geopolitics & Empire (@Geopolitics_Emp) August 11, 2020
Christopher Hitchens famously said of Margaret Thatcher, “the rodent slowly stirring in my viscera[ was] the uneasy but unbanishable feeling that on some essential matters she might be right”. I feel much the same way about former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett. Oh, how I detested Kennett when he was premier
Dear Editor Covid Returns Yeah right! Every thinking person knows that of course, it will, has and will again. Precautions and reactions are necessary but hands up all those who saw this coming. Jacinda Ardern and her party of socialists have no policies and an election is on the horizon.
In May I penned an article on the Prime Minister entitled A Piece of Work. You don’t expect a leopard to change its spots and in my view, she hasn’t. Her modus operandi leaves a lot to be desired. This is a woman who has no regard for
Andrew Geddis Professor of Law University of Otago Disclosure statement Andrew Geddis does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. The return of COVID-19 community transmission,
Jeremy Harris Jeremy Harris is a businessman and investor from Auckland, New Zealand. Dear Prime Minister, I supported the initial national lockdown and move to quarantined borders. Over the last 5 months the situation has changed markedly in four respects: * Firstly, the Infection Fatality Ratio can now be calculated to
This was going to be a boring little article about the government’s new rules about provisional tax penalties. I was going to recommend you read it after 11.00 tonight, particularly if you are having trouble sleeping. But I am going to have to leave that for another day
It was said that the New Zealand public won’t accept another lockdown, and here we are with Auckland back in lockdown. As night follows day, other regions will revert to curfew too. Like a case of Stockholm Syndrome, where the abused bond with their abusers, we the people never
