The BFD Video: Virginians Wisely Begin Ignoring Northam’s Tyranny
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Covid-19
Brave New World Makes No Sense
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Simplicity of idea is always desirable. But the idea still has to make sense. A professor reported on RNZ says: “I think the pandemic spells the end of the neoliberal era and I think the idea that government should be small and inactive and everything
Don’t Let COVID-19 Become Another WMD, Warns Ann Coulter
Despite the assiduous propagandising of the Xi regime, propaganda all-too-willingly parroted by nutters in the West all-too-ready to believe anything they read – especially if it blackens America’s name – there is no doubt that SARS-CoV-2 originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Beyond that, though, it gets murkier. Inadvertent transfer
Epidemic Response Committee | NZ Parliament – 19 May 2020
Live meetings of the Epidemic Response Committee of the New Zealand Parliament. The Epidemic Response Committee was established on 25 March 2020 to consider and report to the House on matters relating to the Government’s management of the COVID-19 epidemic. Learn more about this committee and browse committee documents:
Modelling Work Was ‘‘a Scenario’’ – Not Reality
A little over two months ago, in early March, 50 infectious disease experts signed off an editorial published in the New Zealand Medical Journal calling on politicians to “avoid scaremongering” over the impending COVID invasion of this country. Some of their colleagues had been beavering away for the best part
Daily News Roundup – 19 May 2020
Newshub Reid-Research poll Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern goes stratospheric, Simon Bridges is annihilated Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Politically Simon Bridges is a dead man walking Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Simon Bridges still confident he will lead National into election despite personal poll rating below 5 percent Jenna Lynch
The BFD Video: Tucker: America Is Splitting into Two before Our Eyes
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COVID Shambles Continues
Last week as the government took its foot off our throats and allowed us the partial freedom to move around and socialise again, the move to Level 2 came with the usual admonishments about what would happen if we took too many liberties with this new found freedom. Most of
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Depressing read about how dictators around the world are using #COVID as a cover to quash their opposition https://t.co/DOYUaqOeo3 — Dr Siouxsie Wiles (@SiouxsieW) May 15, 2020
Daily News Roundup – 18 May 2020
Budget, economy John Armstrong (1News): Jobs, jobs jobs or spend, spend, spend? Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Political Roundup: A homecoming or still adrift – how radical is Labour’s budget? Audrey Young (Herald): National’s uphill battle on a Budget for a crisis (paywalled) Peter Dunne: An extraordinary but pedestrian budget
Level 2 Lockdown Madness
I have fared pretty well during Levels 3 and 4, leaving home infrequently, only to make trips to the supermarket where, after one or two teething issues with keeping my distance from other shoppers, I encountered no real problems. Being in lockdown in a town with no reported cases, the
The BFD Video: Beijing Wants to ‘Split Australia’
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Was New Zealand’s Coronavirus Lockdown Legal?
Kris Gledhill Auckland University of Technology As New Zealand approaches the end of its strictest lockdown period, a debate has begun about whether it was legal in the first place. This is important because people are being prosecuted for breaching the lockdown. Naturally, lawyers are getting involved, so things are
Comparisons with Sweden
Using computer models, doomsayers predicted disaster for Sweden if it didn’t lockdown. Swedish journalist Johan Norberg reports what has actually happened. At last we’re getting a debate about Covid-19 modelling. When people finally got to look under the hood of the famous Imperial College study, they found twisted