I have just read the latest New Zealand Herald article about COVID-19 “Hydrocortisone and dexamethasone found to save critically ill patients”. It came up on my phone as the lead story of the day. The author was the Herald’s environment and Maori affairs reporter, so I knew I
Angela Renton The University of Queensland A recent demonstration video released by Elon Musk’s firm Neuralink might not look like much at first. In the video, a pig named Gertrude eats snacks from a person’s hand, while an accompanying computer screen displays blue lines that peak and trough,
Audi alteram partem (or audiatur et altera pars) is a Latin phrase meaning “listen to the other side”, or “let the other side be heard as well” The World-wide deaths attributed to COVID-19 up to date according to worldometers.info/coronavirus/ are 860,266. Out of a population
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This government is all over the place like a mad woman’s poo when it comes to lockdowns, the use of masks and COVID strategy. Jacinda Ardern informed the nation at the very start of the pandemic that the government would be pursuing a COVID strategy of flattening the curve.
I am not going to mention the current C-word. You can do your own comparisons, particularly with the figures for the 1957 Asian Flu as European countries are now down to single-figure daily deaths and the Unites States figures are declining as expected. The information here comes from
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The NZ media were ‘In like Flynn’ attacking the US Ambassador for ‘refusing’ self-isolation at the border on his return home from his recent US trip. Stuff headline: “Scott Brown dodges managed isolation“. Massive shortfalls in border testing, revealed by trusty Newshub journalists (note, never TVNZ) have gone largely
righttolife.org.uk Billboards across New Zealand urging Kiwis to question whether the introduction of assisted suicide legislation would be safe have been vandalised by activists. A major advertising campaign, launched by grassroots campaign group VoteSafe.nz, has seen hundreds of signs put up across the country in prominent and
LH Dear NZ Politicians and NZ Media, You keep telling us that we have to continue with the policy of elimination. That we have to continue to make sacrifices because it’s best for the economy. You tell us that it’s because the virus is so dangerous and we’
Press Release: Plan B New Zealand experts and officials are betting the nation’s health and wealth on the slim chance of eliminating a virus and getting a vaccine before the natural end to the pandemic. The Covid Plan B group says today’s announcement that the Government is putting
Press Release: Plan B The extension of Auckland’s lockdown shows the cost of the Government’s continued pursuit of the elimination of COVID-19 and intention to wait for a vaccine. The Covid Plan B group says New Zealand is now one of the few countries pursuing elimination and
The Wuhan pandemic has unleashed the inner totalitarians of the West, from the neighbourhood curtain-twitchers ringing government snitch-lines to state and city leaders drunk with their sudden, absolute power. But the worst tinpot-dictators are proving to be the “public health experts”. The Wuhan pandemic has given these
I thought you might all be interested in this spin from the (ARPHS) Auckland Regional Public Health Service. The bus trip where two people were likely to have contracted COVID-19 was reported on Monday in the NZ Herald “The trip in question: the 22N Service from Symonds St Overbridge
You have got to be joking? This is totally contrary to what the government has been telling us. On 23 June 2020 the Prime Minister answered a question from Todd Muller about this: 1. TODD MULLER (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by her statement,
