As we move closer to a possible change in the alert level, I can’t help wondering how the COVID-19 responses all over the world might have been different if the people at the forefront of managing them had not been career bureaucrats, politicians and academics – all of whom
Press Release Ministry of Health Today New Zealand’s total number of COVID-19 cases has increased by 9, made up of 7 new confirmed cases and 2 new probable cases. There are no additional deaths to report and the total number of COVID-19 related deaths remains at 12.
Most left-wing politicians, bureaucrats and academics don’t have ‘skin in the game’ as most of the ‘Left’ have never owned a business or understand how the free market functions; for the left to possess that knowledge is contrary to their Marxist ideologies. To the far-left, money grows
Mark How is it that people throughout history have allowed themselves to be conned into following ideas that have devastated their nations? Let’s have a look at one way that can happen. Imagine I am a high school social studies teacher (or whatever it is called now), and I
Last week I asked readers to share their views from their Lockdown windows. Life has changed for all of us. I want to put together an article made up of views from readers’ windows while in lockdown. Share with us all the view from your lockdown window. window@thebfd.co.
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Press Release: ACT Party “The Government must release a damning report on the Ministry of Health’s ability to do contact tracing”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. Otago University infectious diseases physician Ayesha Verrall recently audited the Ministry of Health’s contact tracing capabilities. The Ministry received the report a
ACT Party Free Press It’s Cut And Dried Since we went into lockdown, two things have become clear. The danger of COVID-19 is much less than first thought. The Prime Minister said without the lockdown ‘tens of thousands would die,’ but the curve was flattening even before the
We’ve all seen it, from every news source. Gleeful accounts of the day’s new high score. The lead articles on all the legacy media sites, whether TV, online or print, are all about big scary numbers. ‘20,000 dead in America’, ‘Highest Roadtoll for a Decade’, ‘Coronavirus Cases
“Today, sometime after 10.30 am Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her Cabinet will make the decision of their careers” reads the first paragraph of the front-page report, but that’s not true. The decision of their careers was to ignore the advice of New Zealand’s top epidemiologists,
Reported in the NZ Herald 19 April: “Health Minister David Clark said that in the next eight weeks, the Government expected 75 million items of PPE to be delivered into New Zealand, including 17 million masks, more than two million gowns and coveralls, and 13.8 million gloves”. Wow! That’
Press Release: New Conservatives As the Lockdown has progressed, the signs of further state control over New Zealanders’ freedoms by this Labour, NZ First and Green coalition is becoming ever more apparent. We are seeing the state give itself more power, both through the suppression of civil liberties and the
Like good little socialists, we happily allowed the government to lock us up in our homes, venturing out only to buy groceries or indulge in very loosely defined “exercise”. Not being specific about boundaries makes it very easy for self-appointed community police to dob us in to the real
The Green Party really does have very little grip on reality. First of all, Julie Anne Genter is proposing ‘pop-up’ cycleways and footpaths, in order to make social distancing easier, when we all know that the best way to practise social distancing is to stay in the car. These
