MERS. SARS. The common cold. These are all coronaviruses. So why is COVID-19, the “Wuhan Flu”, almost universally dubbed coronavirus? It’s stupid, on every level. It’s like calling the Bugatti Veyron “car”. It might be the fastest, baddest of the recent crop, but it’s not the
Jordan Williams Executive Director New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union This is an article I never thought I would write, but in a paper just released the Taxpayers’ Union we are calling on the Government to massively increase expenditure. This is to combat what may be the largest economic shock to New
Please share this article with others as we all need to play our part to protect the vulnerable. I’m a GP in St Heliers and it’s really important we get the message out that if you’re worried about Covid19: * STAY HOME AND PHONE 0800 358 5453 * DO
On Saturday the Prime Minister sold us all a pipe dream. She said they were going hard and getting ahead of the virus, and that the goal was to “flatten the curve”. Unfortunately, politics and the desire of the Prime Minister to be everyone’s friend, rather than a leader,
An interesting paper has been presented showing an apparent link between COVID-19 hotspots and cooler temperatures. The authors state that the virus has “established significant community spread in cities and regions only along a narrow east west distribution roughly along the 30-50 N” corridor at consistently similar weather
Press Release: Regan Cunliffe Petition for the urgent removal of the epidemiological criteria for COVID-19 testing. Regan Cunliffe is petitioning for urgent removal of the epidemiological criteria for COVID-19 testing. Doing so would allow testing for those who meet the clinic criteria but do not meet the epidemiological
There has been a lot of talk about this virus thingy. In our daily meanderings we come across opinions covering all scenarios, “It’s not as bad as the flu”, “It’s only old people who die”, “It’s ok, we only have a few cases”, “The Governments aren’t
For a brief and wonderful moment, I thought I’d tuned in to a resignation speech from our Prime Minister, but no, it was simply a repeat performance of her speech on Saturday when she announced the latest knee jerk reaction of this inept government in response to the Covid-
The world we live in today has the greatest capacity in the planet’s history for information distribution. On that basis, one might expect us to be the best and most accurately informed society of all time. Except that our new found information technology is in the hands of every
People’s reactions to Covid-19 have been interesting, to say the least. There is my very good friend (a leftie, who is also a big fan of Jacinda) who says everyone is overreacting, and in the end, it is ‘only old people’. Tell that to Tom Hanks and his
Jacinda Ardern has announced: * All incoming travellers to NZ (except from Pacific Islands) after midnight Sunday must self-quarantine for 14 days. Nothing stated as to how this will be enforced or if there will be any legal obligation to do so or even any penalties for non-compliance. This
Clint Witchalls The Conversation The year had barely begun when stories started to emerge of a worrying number of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China, caused by a mysterious new “coronavirus”. The Conversation published its first story on the outbreak on January 13. At that point, it was spreading in China,
As we all know Tracey Martin is in self-isolation and being tested after being at a meeting last week with Peter Dutton, who is confirmed as having Covid-19. On Monday night, she was at a debate at Auckland University with several hundred people, including Jack Tame and David
Will Roger Waters, Lorde and other BDS scumbags stick to their principles, or beg shamelessly for access to the Covid-19 vaccine? Scientists at Israel’s Institute for Biological Research are expected to announce in the coming days that they have completed development of a vaccine for the new coronavirus
It was a hard one yesterday; my daily dilemma. I didn’t know who to feel sorrier for, the prime minister of Australia or his New Zealand counterpart. Mr Morrison, in the wake of yet-another UN special rapporteur’s profound injunctions, will need to find teachers fluent in all
The government seems to be at stage three in the four-stage plan. It won’t be long before we reach stage four. Since the government doesn’t seem to have a single clue as to what to do, I thought I’d do some research. Yascha Mounk provides some
