NZ Initiative nzinitiative.org.nz Wellington, 23 July 2020 – New Zealand needs to ‘raft up’ with other COVID-free countries while building stronger border capabilities, according to a new report by The New Zealand Initiative. And a voucher programme for helping returning Kiwis cover the cost of managed isolation could help
Prof Worzel It was a tactic used during the last days of the Roman Empire. The ruling powers provided free ‘bread and circuses’ to the people to distract them from the harsh reality that resources both moral and physical were running perilously low. Rome’s once renowned military might was
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COVID Plan B covidplanb.co.nz In a stunning interview, Professor Carl Heneghan from the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford says: “If you follow the New Zealand policy of suppressing it to zero and locking down the country forever, then you’re going to have a problem… This
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What is becoming undeniably clear in the Wuhan pandemic is that the worst depredations of the virus have been enabled by the stupidity and incompetence of governments and health bureaucracies. Besides the original epicentre in China, there’s the horror-show in New York, run by a Democrat governor and mayor.
Sir Stephen Tindall signed a letter to governments, asking them to tax millionaires more. His timing in signing that letter could not have been worse. Now everyone that knows about it will call him out for the hypocrite that he is, asking to be taxed more while workers in his
We face an economic disaster, the likes of which most have never experienced in their lifetime. The financial blowout is the result of Jacinda Ardern’s decision to lock down healthy people and businesses, as well as the policies of her socialist Labour Government’s out-of-control spending and borrowing. The
Michael Plank, University of Canterbury Alex James, University of Canterbury Audrey Lustig, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research Nicholas Steyn; Rachelle Binny, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research and Shaun Hendy Stringent border controls and mandatory quarantine give New Zealand a good chance to remain free of COVID-19 for months to come, according to
Conspiracy theories flourish where those in power lie and obfuscate. The Wuhan pandemic has been characterised by official lies and cover-ups from its very beginnings. But if the Chinese government and its cronies at the WHO lied and misled the world and generally screwed up royally, other governments and authorities
I generally listen to Newstalk ZB, on the basis that they are slightly less wet and biased than the other news media. I am a big Hosking fan, but most of the rest of them leave me reasonably cold, or at best only lukewarm. So imagine my surprise when I
ODESSA, Texas — The inhaled steroid Budesonide is being hailed by one West Texas doctor, Richard Bartlett, as the ‘silver bullet’ for COVID-19. Midland Memorial Hospital seems to disagree with him, telling us Tuesday that there is no such thing a ‘silver bullet’ for the virus. But Bartlett’s patients credit
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Victorian premier Daniel Andrews is clearly besotted with the Chinese communist party. Not only does he happily trouser their filthy lucre, he’s copied their response to the Wuhan virus slavishly. Lies, cover-ups, evasions, political cronyism, police-state authoritarianism, locking people up in their apartment blocks. So far, no journalists or
National Party Henry Cooke (Stuff): Judith Collins looks to stabilise chaotic party in first reshuffle Richard Harman (Politik): Collins browns National Audrey Young (Herald): Impressive reshuffle by new National leader Judith Collins (paywalled) Luke Malpass (Stuff): The end of the triangle and National’s road ahead Jane Clifton (BusinessDesk): The
Nikki Kaye and Amy Adams retire from politics Audrey Young (Herald): Live: Revolt – National Party MPs Nikki Kaye, Amy Adams quit politics RNZ: Nikki Kaye announces she is quitting politics Audrey Young (Herald): Exclusive: National Party MP Nikki Kaye quits politics Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Nikki Kaye to ‘make announcement about
