Anyone arriving to NZ from any part of Italy will have to self-isolate for 14 days, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced. […] NZ is still in the containment phase but if we move into the community outbreak phase, that’s when there could be cancellations of large events. NZ
The PM’s laissez-faire attitude to Coronavirus will have serious repercussions for us. Her opinion, that when Coronavirus shows “sustained community transmission” she will do something about it, will of course be much too late for containment. “Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says there is no evidence of sustained community
Covid-19 is wreaking fear and havoc around the globe but very little is said about its colourful history, which includes the suspected murder of a Canadian scientist and its alleged theft in Canada by Chinese scientists. The new Coronavirus first appeared in 2012 in Saudi Arabia when an unknown
Johnandali Some years ago, we used to have mental hospitals in New Zealand. They treated people with mental problems, and the hospitals were kept secure so that patients could not escape and cause problems. From what I have been told, these hospitals served our country well. They kept people with
Operation Paperclip was the American mission to smuggle Nazi war criminals out of Europe after WWII and take 88 brilliant Third Reich scientific minds to America to drive technological advancement in rocketry, space search and biological weaponry. Writer Annie Jacobsen wrote about that mission, and a dozen or so of
Hair-trigger race-botherer Tim Soutphommasane can scream “racism!” all he likes, but as COVID-19 hits Australia, most of us can’t help noticing a commonality. The domestic spread of the virus is now underway, and it appears to have begun in the sprawling suburbs of northwest Sydney. The
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From the 1950s on, a decades-long craze for lobotomies swept the medical world. Never mind that the evidence for its efficacy was nebulous at best – doctors convinced themselves that it worked simply because they so desperately wanted to believe that it did. After all, lobotomy offered a quick surgical
Australia’s taxpayer-funded national broadcaster has a rather dubious record when it comes to spruiking child abusers. In the 70s, it notoriously allowed leftist darling Richard Neville (who openly boasted of shagging underage girls in his memoirs) to give a sympathetic platform to a panel of “paederasts”. Now, it’
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com On December 31 last year, the Municipal Health Committee in the city of Wuhan – the capital of the Hubei province in central China – announced a small outbreak of an unknown type of viral pneumonia. It had affected 27 people associated with South China Seafood City,
Dennis Prager PA Pundits International Dennis Prager is a columnist for The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation and he is a nationally syndicated radio host, and creator of PragerU. We go from hysteria to hysteria. And even that’s not quite accurate. We now endure multiple hysterias at once.
Well, here we are, with 3 confirmed cases of the virus in New Zealand. It seems that the answer to the question as to what 3 things you would take with you on a desert island is: toilet paper, bottled water and hand sanitiser. Dettol now seems to be joining
One need only look at the Extinction Rebellion phenomenon to see how bizarrely and hysterically disconnected from reality and reason the elite really are. Extinction Rebellion, and its Climate Jugend led by the odious Greta Thunberg, is an elite obsession par excellence: wealthy, privileged, private-school toffs shouting and shaking
While I’m a firm believer that the reporting of the Coronavirus is in many ways a bit of an over-reaction by the worldwide mainstream media, I could be persuaded to change my view if I or one of my loved ones who happens to be elderly ends up
