“If you’re going to make a mistake, make it a good one!” Ardern’s government didn’t make just one big mistake managing COVID-19, they made several. Despite her oft-repeated claim of going hard and going early, Ardern went too hard and not early enough ensuring long term economic
Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com Over two weeks ago in my article, “Both of NZ’s Post COVID Futures Are Bad: Part Three. Our Political and Academic Leaders Need to Admit They Made a Terrible Mistake” published on June 3rd, I predicted that New Zealand could not keep COVID-19 out.
Who knew that the deadliest plague of modern times, the Black Death of the 21st century, could be stopped by riots? After all, it was a scant fortnight ago that daring to venture outside our homes, even to take our children to otherwise empty parks was tantamount to kicking your
Now that the unraveling of the shambles that was the handling of COVID-19 is becoming apparent, there is also becoming apparent a number of personages who have suffered embarrassment as as a result of the fallout. There is no better place to start than at the top with the Prime
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When the plane wheels ground against the runway at Auckland international airport, the two sisters would have been stressed and exhausted. They’d crossed the globe from London, via Doha and Brisbane, to be with their dying mother. But first, they had to sit out 14 days of managed isolation
National leader Todd Muller is calling for the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to sack Health Minister David Clark. Muller said he was appalled by the lax quarantine measures that allowed two people with the coronavirus to leave mandatory isolation. “It’s appalling, I think New Zealanders are waking up incredibly
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has decided to call in the military to enforce border controls after two women who arrived from the U.K. were allowed to leave quarantine early and subsequently tested positive for COVID-19.
Essential health checks were missed on New Zealand’s two new cases of coronavirus – and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says that her “expectations have not been met”. She made the comments on Tuesday evening after it was announced that two women had been diagnosed with COVID-19 after leaving a managed
What is wrong with this picture? A disease specialist publicly supports the government’s illegal lockdown and stays supportive even after the modelling the decision was based off is revealed to be complete rubbish. She then receives a high position on the party list. Was it a reward? If so
Just this past week, Harry Potter author JK Rowling got the trans community’s back up when she made the very sensible suggestion that you can use the word “woman” instead of the clumsy phrase “people who menstruate”. Then, next minute, none other than Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe, came
SophiaPhobia I was dismayed to read in Stuff that Maori and Pasifika patients will be given priority on elective waiting lists at Wellington District Health Boards. Of course, I’d love for Maori and Pasifika people to achieve similar health outcomes as the population generally, but is this the way
Mark You have probably seen the ads on TV encouraging us to vote for cannabis reform “on our terms.” Putting aside the obvious question of where the money is coming from to pay for these very professionally produced ads and the airtime it runs on, I’d like to critique
Jeremy Harris Jeremy Harris is a businessman and investor from Auckland, New Zealand. * Professor Neil Ferguson from the ICL has estimated that 66% of all the people who die from COVID-19 during this pandemic would have died in the next year. If correct, this means that each month that passes
In New Zealand this year the Labour Party supported and celebrated blatantly racist criteria in an Wellington government funded organisation. Eight other government funded organisations are considering or have left the door open to similar changes in Northland, Nelson Marlborough, Taranaki, Wairarapa, Southern, Bay of Plenty, MidCentral and Auckland. I
Dave Pellowe davepellowe.com Lockdown apologists have been crowing about Swedes “admitting their approach was wrong on COVID-19”. The only problem is, as usual, they’re not basing their conclusions on real evidence. Reports from The Guardian and New York Times, two former newspapers (each as biased as epidemiological modelling
