Update: I have been told this morning that Police do now have the power to stop people to ensure compliance with lockdown under s71A(2)(c) of the Health Act 1956 However, anyone who isn’t Police has no power to stop a vehicle (except some limited other govt departments
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Peter Cresswell pc.blogspot.com A pandemic does not necessarily cause a recession on its own. It needs help. Historically, a pandemic has very rarely caused (or been correlated with) a recession: Did I say “rarely.” For the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, read “never.” So far. Why not? Because, as
As I wrote previously, the legacy media have long ago stopped even pretending to report the facts. Especially when it concerns President Donald Trump. But even worse than lying about things which did happen, the legacy media are straight-up manufacturing lies out of whole cloth. A viral story which was
Jacinda Ardern might brag about “going hard and early”, but the facts say otherwise. Ardern waited and dithered – most notably holding out until the very last day to cancel her grandstanding Christchurch memorial. Likewise, Ardern might also boast that New Zealand’s draconian lockdown “worked”, but there’s not much
Simon Thornley covidplanb.co.nz With much journalistic ink spilled over COVID-19, it is easy to forget that our policies of lockdown and social distancing are based on a belief about the lethality of the virus and its spread. This belief comes from interpreting evidence. Currently, two main ideas predominate.
It’s a pity the media didn’t take more interest in the COVID-19 numbers presented at the daily briefings, or in the modelling the PM used to send us into lockdown and keep us there. The mantra, “It’s a miracle more of us weren’t killed”, pays homage
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We are at Level 3 of New Zealand’s four-level COVID-19 alert system. New Zealand moved to Alert Level 3 at 11:59pm on Monday 27 April. We will stay in Alert Level 3 for two weeks, before Cabinet reviews how we are tracking and makes further decisions on 11
Press Release: ACT Party “The Government can encourage respect for the law and confidence in Police by releasing the Crown Law advice on the legality of the lockdown”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Today at the Epidemic Response Committee, the new Police Commissioner continued to stonewall on the issue of
Don Brash lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com First published in elocal Perhaps it is dangerous to write about such a fast-moving situation as the COVID-19 pandemic when what I write may not be published for 10 days or more, but at time of writing my strong impression is that the public believe
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com In his recent article The Coming Economic Crisis and its Political Consequences, Sir Bob Jones predicts New Zealand will have a change in government: “Have an election today and the government would bolt in, primarily because of Jacinda’s star power induced by the media’
