Home Medical Management Plan for Mild Covid-19 by Dr Sandhya Ramanathan
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History To “Vindicate Swedish COVID-19 Strategy”
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Cannabis Legal Reform – Arguments for and Against: Part 3
James Farmer QC jamesfarmerqc.co.nz LEGALISATION OF CANNABIS SUPPLY AND USE WILL ELIMINATE THE BLACK MARKET The short answer to this proposition, based on North American experience, is no. The longer answer, however, is that there are two effects of legalisation, both of which make the present effects of
Face of the Day
WHO told him to wear a mask. I don’t know. Who told him to wear a mask? WHO told him to wear a mask. I don’t know who told him to wear a mask! Why don’t you tell me who told him to wear a mask? Sigh…
100 Days COVID-Free?
I hope Mr Hipkins doen’t tell me off, but some things about our ‘South Auckland family’ don’t add up. Is it alright to talk about it? After all, the repercussions are destroying the livelihoods of many of our Auckland friends and costing the country billions, so everything should
Cannabis Legal Reform – Arguments for and Against: Part 2
James Farmer QC jamesfarmerqc.co.nz MEDICINAL CANNABIS IS NOW LEGAL AND SO CANNABIS FOR RECREATIONAL USE SHOULD BE ALSO In a separate article from her Herald piece (published in The Irish Times, 16 September 2019), Professor Cannon refers to a book written by a former New York Times journalist,
Translating Civil Servant Speak
You’ve got to love how civil servants fight back when they are being maligned by their political masters. When faced with mounting embarrassment and public discord over the failures at the border both Chris Hipkins and Jacinda Ardern said that their “expectations weren’t met.” Ignore for a moment
Cannabis Legal Reform – Arguments for and Against: Part 1
James Farmer QC jamesfarmerqc.co.nz I have consistently believed that cannabis is a harmful substance and that people who use it for “recreational purposes” would be more sensible to choose a healthy form of recreation that doesn’t put them and those dependent on them, i.e. their children
Do We Really Need Yet Another Lock Down?
Ananish Chaudhuri Simon Thornley covidplanb.co.nz The authors are members of the Department of Economics and School of Population Health respectively at the University of Auckland. The views expressed are their own. During the Vietnam war, the well-known (and Kiwi-born) journalist Peter Arnett is supposed to have quoted a
When In Doubt, Play the Race Card
We don’t know much about the South Auckland family at the centre of the latest COVID outbreak, except that they are of Pacific Island descent. This is hardly a surprise in South Auckland, where a large part of the Pacific Island and Maori communities reside. But their ethnicity is
My Wuflu Test
On Tuesday this week, I woke up with a runny nose. It was completely my fault: I went to bed very late Monday night without having had the heater on during the evening, or at night. Having turned soft by living too many years in Auckland, and the fact my
Wild Goose Chases and the Blame Game Used to Hide the True Picture
Have a care for Chris Hipkins. He’s in the hot seat at the moment because the ‘COVID Queen’ Jacinda Ardern can’t ever be seen to deliver bad news, so it’s up to poor old ‘Chippy’. And there has been plenty of bad news of late. The virus
Flip Flops from Government Continue
First, it was no evidence to suggest masks are effective, then we had the great push for masks. Just yesterday morning Dr Ashley Bloomfield was on Mike Hosking’s radio show telling him off for suggesting that people who tested positive should be put into mandatory supervised quarantine. Director-General of
Tweet of the Day
After several direct statements, the WHO appears to be a lockdown skeptic – “What we at the WHO would invite countries is to do everything possible to not have these complete lockdowns… We think the Swedish approach has a lot going for it.”pic.twitter.com/aj3NFiEBc2 — Aaron Ginn (@aginnt) August