David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s announcement that it will hit pause on vaccinations for 48-hours is the most nonsensical decision it could make. We are bottom of the OECD for vaccinations. Our low rates of vaccinations is what has put us most at risk of a Delta outbreak.
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s decision to put New Zealand back into Level 4 lockdown is incredibly disappointing and shows it only has one tool in the toolbox. Delta has been a gamechanger worldwide. We need to know if the Government has strengthened our defences in preparation for
Frank Furedi rt.com Frank Furedi is an author and social commentator. He is an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent in Canterbury. Author of How Fear Works: The Culture of Fear in the 21st Century. The government’s use of scare tactics to convince people to
Proponents of forcible vaccination like to couch their authoritarianism in the language of public health and “the greater good”. But so did some of the world’s worst tyrannies. “Public health” has an indelibly bossy streak which must be continually brought to heel if people want to stay free. Of
Zachary Silver Jonathan Peng robohub.org Zachary Silver is a High School student studying at Taipei American School in Taiwan. Zachary has been interested in robotics since he was introduced to it as a middle school student, and has created robots to compete in global competitions for the past five
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Brooke van Velden ACT Health spokesperson A report this morning that all PHARMAC staff, rather than clinical experts or those with patient experience are making decisions about life-saving medicines is astounding. Is PHARMAC using staff as de facto focus groups for funding decisions? Every year ill people cross their fingers
Instead of apologising for his comments on One News on Saturday calling the Cancer Society “off the planet” Andrew Little has doubled down in a tweet exchange on Sunday and again name called the Cancer Society, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “The Cancer Society is a beloved
Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news The next time someone asks you to compare your sober questions and caution about Wuhan Flu vaccines to the wonderful history of eliminating smallpox, polio, etc., you may point them to this article. It’s blissfully ignorant to shrink-wrap decades of medical advances in infectious disease
Margaret Somerville mercatornet.com Margaret Somerville is Professor of Bioethics at the University of Notre Dame Australia School of Medicine (Sydney campus). She is also Samuel Gale Professor of Law Emerita, Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Medicine, and Founding Director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law Emerita
righttolife.org.uk Immediate skin-to-skin contact increases a premature baby’s chances of survival according to a new study. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, co-ordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO), found that this method, known as ‘kangaroo mother care’ (KMC), has the potential to save the lives of 150,000
Tiger Tiger, a tenacious, surprisingly well-educated animal, living and working in the real world. Having to come up with staff wages every week sharpens the senses. As we are daily browbeaten by bobbing heads and flapping hands across New Zealand and Australia to mask up, get vaccinated, maintain social distancing
Someone suggested last week that my lack of medical degrees or appropriate academic credentials invalidates my opinion on Covid-19, ranking me behind the experts. An interesting observation. It is true that I am medically and scientifically unqualified to comment on Covid-19 but equally, I am entitled to hold an opinion.
It’s not that often we feature a video during the day but this is one that we think deserves a wider airing than our usual evening video slots. What we have here is a very powerful address that was given by Cool Change NZ co-founder Grace Curtis. Cool Change
Neil Miller taxpayers.org.nz Andrew Little is frustrated at the health system – again, that’s hardly news these days – but this time he has a very good point. Facing an incredibly hostile crowd of GPs at their conference, the Minister of Health said he was struggling to get his
