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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

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Was New Zealand’s Coronavirus Lockdown Legal?

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

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Comparisons with Sweden

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

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Video: Epidemiologist’s Take on COVID-19

Video: Epidemiologist’s Take on COVID-19

Dr. Simon Thornley Dr. Simon Thornley covidplanb.co.nz * Deaths due to coronavirus have been exaggerated * Mean age of death – 80 years old If you enjoyed this BFD article please consider sharing it with your friends.

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A Frosty Political Climate

A Frosty Political Climate

LionRed The author is based in the UK at the moment (ex-pat Kiwi) and travels the world as a consultant in developing countries working on business development. As a result, he is totally cynical about NGOs, the UN and WHO etc. He is regularly exposed to contact with governments

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Pandemic Caused by Ardern’s Soft and Slow Response

Pandemic Caused by Ardern’s Soft and Slow Response

George On March 17, eighteen days AFTER the first COVID-19 case was discovered in New Zealand and twenty one days BEFORE total border quarantines were introduced, the PM described the first $12.1b Covid-19 response package as “the largest package she ever expected to announce as PM”. Well

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Madness

Madness

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The NZ Herald recently highlighted the suicide of a young self-employed butcher who saw his life’s work go down the drain by the utterly insane edict that meat could only be purchased at supermarkets. The farcical rule was subsequently wiped but here’s

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The BFD Nightcap

The BFD Nightcap

The South African government made it clear that government aid in the pandemic will for all intents and purposes be limited to Black South Africans. They were even taken to court for it, and won against Afriforum. Now, they send their State Broadcasting corporation to poor White Squatter camps and

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Stranded Tourists Hit With Government Fees

Stranded Tourists Hit With Government Fees

We’ve all seen the sob-stories from nongs who decided that, even when the looming scale of the Xi Plague had become obvious to everyone who wasn’t funded by Chinese state media or on the WHO junket, hey, they still had time to take that cruise. Even as

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Lockdowns Are Hurting the World’s Poorest Workers

Lockdowns Are Hurting the World’s Poorest Workers

As Eric D. July observed at the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdowns, “folks with guaranteed jobs are telling people that can’t work they have to be imprisoned in their houses for an indefinite amount of time”. Not one of the people mandating lockdowns and at the stroke of

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A Porous Border With No Vaccine Will Keep us in Lock Down

A Porous Border With No Vaccine Will Keep us in Lock Down

Hope for the best and plan for the worst is my motto in a sticky situation, and so I wonder about the government’s plan to extract us from COVID-19 lockdown. We could be stuck for years repeatedly escalating and de-escalating the COVID-19 levels because the government

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Union Backs Morrison over China

Union Backs Morrison over China

Australia’s biggest union has broken ranks with the Labor Party and sided with the Morrison government over China. The Australian Worker’s Union has thrown its support behind Morrison’s push for an international investigation into the origins of the Xi Plague. Countering criticism of the government from Anthony

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