Edgar Allan Poe may have loathed “those little slices of death”, but sleep is even more crucial to us than food. We can survive weeks without food — no more than a week without sleep (the record is 11 days). There’s a reason sleep deprivation is classed as torture. But,
Dear Editor The article by Thomas Coughlan notes (NZ Herald October 22) that the former Maori Party President Pem Bird has been quoted in Parliament as calling for more vaccine choice in his community rather than just the Pfizer vaccine. Perhaps this is because re-infection can occur with this vaccine
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Health Forum NZ Facebook Dear Prime Minister 1) Why are we still using a PCR test amplified to 40 or 45 cycles to “test” for Covid, when we know (and the CDC and WHO have informed us) that such testing is fraught with a huge proportion of false positives? 2)
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Dynamite Information Satire Dear Prime Minister I am writing to you to ask for your assistance in answering some questions I have about the current state of our country in the hope that your answers and insights to those questions can be published widely amongst our people to better inform
Dear Editor I have a permanent ban on The BFD, but we are at such a critical point in NZ’s history that I need to write. I am a medical specialist in a DHB. I have now had both doses of the mRNA Pfizer jab, against my better judgment
Your GP is not allowed to discuss the Pfizer vaccine in relation to your health. The government and the governing body for GPs expects every eligible New Zealander to get jabbed. End. Of. Story. Every eligible New Zealander must receive the Pfizer jab. The sole exemption granted is for an
NZ Midwives fighting government mandates. Please share to support our midwives.
righttolife.org.uk Nearly 1,700 medical professionals have written to the Health Secretary, Sajid Javid, to oppose the legalisation of assisted suicide, saying that they will not end a patient’s life, even if asked to. Ahead of the debate on Baroness Meacher’s Assisted Dying Bill in the
Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz Shock and sadness after death of British MP I am sure we were all shocked and saddened to hear of the death of British Conservative MP Sir David Amess last week. It is a sobering reminder that we live in times where there
John Rofe Private Investigator Dear Politicians, You must bring an end to the deceptive and misleading information about Covid-19 which is leading to multiple deaths and destroying many thousands of small businesses and jobs. If you open up the economy without changing your failing policy then based on overseas experience
The Government has finally got its act together and adopted National’s policy calling for MIQ spots to be allocated for critical health workers, says National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford and Covid Response spokesperson Chris Bishop. “National has been calling for this for months,” says Stanford. “We know there
Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader and Health spokesperson The ACT Party says today’s decision to give 300 MIQ spaces to health care workers is months too late and they should be able to self-isolate. Health care professionals, who are double vaccinated and have tested negative to COVID, are
Dear Editor I wish to alert your readers to how far our medical system has been compromised. I have stage four cancer. I have been living with it for 20 years. I am still alive because I take responsibility for my own health and decisions. This has set me offside
Ananish Chaudhuri Simon Thornley University of Auckland It is widely recognised that the recent vaccine mandates go against s.11 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 providing citizens with the right to refuse medical treatment. However, it is also clear that the right may be circumscribed in
