Covid-19
The Economics of Freedom
I have written in The BFD recently about the decline of western Anglosphere nations through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. And that how, through a collapse in confidence, and also in morality, we have meekly accepted the suspension in civil liberties deemed by governments to be ‘necessary’ under
Daily News Roundup – 30 April 2020
Winston Peters is back, Ministry of Health proposed complete border shutdown Jane Patterson (RNZ): Winston Peters back on his podium with Covid-19 border closure bombshell Henry Cooke (Stuff): Peters takes on officialdom Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Winston Peters comes back with a splash Richard Harman (Politik): Reminding us that NZ
Do the Negative Social & Health Implications of Lockdown Outweigh the Benefits?
Gerhard Sundborn covidplanb.co.nz Gerhard Sundborn is a Senior Lecturer Population and Pacific Health at the University of Auckland. With Covid-19 bearing down on New Zealand, and fears of an overloaded health system and a death toll numbering many tens of thousands, the Government moved swiftly to implement a
Ardern Ignored the UN’s Own Advice
Last October – just one month before the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Wuhan – the World Health Organisation issued advice to governments on “non-pharmaceutical interventions” in the event of a future influenza pandemic. Conspiracy mongers will have a field day with this, but it really does seem a coincidence. Given
The BFD Video: Dr. Erickson COVID-19 Briefing
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Atlantic Magazine: Hurrah for Pandemic Censorship!
P.J. Gladnick papundits.wordpress.com A note to Atlantic magazine: George Orwell’s 1984 wasn’t meant to be a how-to guide… A couple of people writing at The Atlantic magazine see a fantastic silver lining in the current coronavirus outbreak. Jack Goldsmith and Andrew Keane Woods see the
Green Misanthropes Celebrate Global Death
It takes a special kind of creep to celebrate a global pandemic that’s cost the lives of some 200,000 people. But then, we already knew that greens are special kinds of creeps. And they’re not holding back in celebrating death and misery in the name of holy
China Bullying 1: Trying to Strong-Arm Australia
China is behaving with imperial arrogance as governments around the world echo the fury of ordinary citizens at Beijing for its lies and cover-ups which (perhaps intentionally) unleashed the Wuhan pandemic on the world. Having grown used to bullying and punishing its own people the instant they step out of
Criticism of the Lockdown
Daphna Whitmore rdln.wordpress.com Since I wrote Corona fevers and the madness of models, criticising the lockdown in New Zealand, there have been many comments and some objections to the article. Some of these have been discussed in other forums but here I will try to respond to a
Backlash Brewing
Bob Jones, in a recent article on The BFD, had this to say: It’s a sorry scene ahead of us and I say again, by election-time the Jacinda lustre will be replaced by despair and anger with the obvious electoral outcome. I agree wholeheartedly. The backlash has already started.
COVID-19 Update: 29 April 2020
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
The Virus War and Its Aftermath
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Everywhere the war analogy is used re the fight against coronavirus. Probably within a year we’ll have a vaccine. But all about us will be economic devastation, record unemployment and despair. History says that will induce two political consequences. One, as is evidently already