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
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
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
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
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
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
History tells us that forcing part of our population to wear yellow labels thereby effectively turning them into lepers never ends well… #COVID1984: Doctor Recommends Children Wear Yellow Badges If They Haven’t Been #Vaccinated https://t.co/qkPd6xMXyg — Geopolitics & Empire (@Geopolitics_Emp) August 11, 2020
righttolife.org.uk The number of assisted suicide and euthanasia deaths in Canada rose by more than 25% in 2019 and made up 2% of all deaths in the country last year, according to a report released by the Canadian Government. Health Canada’s first annual report on Medical Assistance
The Prime Minister has said we would know them by their deeds. Last week I looked at the debacle in housing. Now we can look at another debacle, this time with flu vaccinations. TVNZ has now revealed that the Ministry of Health, led by Dr Ashley Bloomfield has misled everyone
One of the problems with convincing yourself that something is true when it is blatantly not is that often you end up having to bend reality as a result. A prime example is the idea that a man can become a woman just by self-identifying as a woman and vice
Watching the TV1 News on Thursday night, there was the inevitable article about Oranga Tamariki and how evil they are for taking children away from their deadbeat parents. The Ombudsman’s report on the agency was typically damaging; Oranga Tamariki have a default position on snatching babies away from parents,
Claire Breen University of Waikato With COVID-19 vaccine developers reporting promising results, it is probable we will one day face a major public health question: can the government compel New Zealanders to be vaccinated? Just as inevitably, some people will refuse a vaccine. As we have seen overseas with debates
On election day, Saturday 19 September, voters will take part in a referendum on the End of Life Choice Act 2019. This referendum, which will be binding on the government, is likely to make euthanasia and assisted suicide legal in New Zealand. Pro-euthanasia campaigners argue that the issue is to
