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Health
More Questions Than Answers from 1pm Presser
David Seymour ACT Leader The Prime Minister’s 1 pm announcement brought good news about the situation but also questions about the Government’s response. For the most part tests are negative, and genomic sequencing points to only one cluster, while contacts traced so far are mainly in Auckland. We
What Is the True Vaccine Breakthrough Rate? The CDC Doesn’t Want You to Know
Jonathan Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Over a recent 12-day period the Milwaukee Brewers had nine players test positive
What Kiwis Need to Know about the Vaccine Roll-Out
We are in lockdown for two reasons; because the border has failed and because nearly 80 per cent of the country has still not been fully vaccinated, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “The Labour Government claimed last year we were ‘at the front of the queue’. Given what
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Ardern Says, ‘Let Them Use Nasal Swabs’
Marie Antoinette said, ‘Let them eat cake’. Jacinda Ardern says, ‘Let them use nasal swabs, saliva testing is for cowards’. As this progressive government shows it’s really regressive in practice the people line up for the torture test like good little lemmings. Sir Brian Roche said in a report
An Update on COVID-19
Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister Labour Party Yesterday afternoon, I announced that all of New Zealand will remain at Alert Level 4 until 11:59 pm on Tuesday 24 August. I wanted to take a minute this morning to explain why it’s so important we take this step to keep
We Need a Clear Path Out of This
David Seymour ACT Leader The wheels are falling off the Government’s response to COVID-19, it needs to show it is prepared to do more than just extend lockdowns. After the extension of yesterday’s lockdown, many people will be asking what steps are in place to shorten lockdowns that
Massive Nurse Shortage Hits Houston—Weeks after 150 Unvaccinated Nurses and Hospital Workers Fired
Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
Blast From the COVID Past Shows How Far We’ve Fallen
In his The Shape of Things to Come, H G Wells describes “the curious sense of unconsciousness” of the calamity that was about to unfold in the summer of 1914. “The weather that August was exceptionally fine”, and countless Europeans holidayed with no notion that within a scant few years
Why I No Longer Think We Can Eliminate COVID – Public Health Expert
Andrew Lee University of Sheffield Andrew Lee is qualified in medicine from the University of Edinburgh. Following paediatric and tropical medicine training, then worked overseas running primary health care and tuberculosis control programmes in Afghanistan. Around the world, countries are having to strike a balance between COVID-19 cases and restrictions.
Can a Free and Open Society Allow Vaccine Passes?
David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. Western societies, at least up to very recently, have distinguished themselves by their commitment to two fundamental principles. The first is the principle that social life is open
Victoria: Where the Young Die in Secret
Victoria has become the police state of Australia. Last year the socialist Andrews government placed Melbourne under curfew for the first time in its history. Not even in the darkest days of WWII was such a dramatic stripping-away of basic human rights ever imposed. Now, he’s doing it again.
While You Are Locked down You Have Time to Make a Submission
Bob McCoskrie National Director Family First The Government set a deadline date for submissions on the bill to ban “conversion therapy” of less than 4 weeks – the shortest time possible. They basically don’t want to hear from you, are not actually interested in your view, and are hoping you’
What Did They Do to Prepare for Delta?
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government needs to tell us what it did to prepare for a Delta outbreak, so there is hope of ending this lockdown in days not weeks. At the Health Committee two weeks ago, Chris Hipkins could not give one example of what the Government has
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