Chris Hipkins’ claim there was nothing New Zealand could have done to secure Pfizer vaccines any earlier flies in the face of hard facts, says National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop. “Mr Hipkins might not like to admit it, but in his interview on Q&A this morning
David Seymour ACT Leader COVID response Minister Chris Hipkins has shown how unprepared the Government was for a Delta outbreak in an interview on Q+A this morning. Hipkins said, “Delta raises some big questions that we’re going to have to grapple with… it does mean our existing protections
The government’s Covid-19 message this week fuelled anxiety and fear when the country was locked down at very short notice. Panic ensued, with people clinging to the government’s Covid-19 elimination strategy of masking, social distancing, contact tracing and testing mandates. The six o’clock news the previous night
The Telegraph UK has written a scathing opinion piece on Jacinda Ardern’s COVID strategy. Seeing that she has been, until now, the darling of the overseas media, it is a particularly savage piece. Read on and enjoy the turning of the worms, in all parts of the globe. Poetic
Eligible today, booked online in less than 2 minutes, jabbed in 3 days time. For our community. pic.twitter.com/4DrSb2jJTI — Clarke Gayford (@NZClarke) August 18, 2021 Read the article in full here. Comment on it on The BFD.
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
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
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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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
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
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
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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
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.
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
