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Simon Thornley Senior Lecturer Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Auckland covidplanb.co.nz After sparking the first serious debate in New Zealand about the best way of beating COVID-19, Simon Thornley, a member of the Plan B group, explains why he has hope for a safe and swift
Press Release: ACT Party “The Government has left open a critical blind spot when it comes to a strategy for aged-care facilities”, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “Almost every death from COVID-19 to date has occurred at an aged-care facility, yet, in its rush to achieve
We are locked into a plan that has most of us on welfare one way or another, and we are also locked into an economic meltdown. The meltdown is just starting, but it has the potential to become very severe indeed. In the early 1990s, we had a bad recession
Anthony B Kim PA Pundits – International Anthony B. Kim researches international economic issues at The Heritage Foundation with a strong focus on economic freedom. Kim is the research manager of the Index of Economic Freedom, the flagship product of the Heritage Foundation in partnership with The Wall Street Journal. From
Alexander Gillespie University of Waikato Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced details of the next stage of lockdown, but New Zealanders won’t know until today when the country moves out of strict level 4 conditions. Once in level 3, people will have to remain within their household bubble, but
As we move closer to a possible change in the alert level, I can’t help wondering how the COVID-19 responses all over the world might have been different if the people at the forefront of managing them had not been career bureaucrats, politicians and academics – all of whom
Most left-wing politicians, bureaucrats and academics don’t have ‘skin in the game’ as most of the ‘Left’ have never owned a business or understand how the free market functions; for the left to possess that knowledge is contrary to their Marxist ideologies. To the far-left, money grows
Mark How is it that people throughout history have allowed themselves to be conned into following ideas that have devastated their nations? Let’s have a look at one way that can happen. Imagine I am a high school social studies teacher (or whatever it is called now), and I
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Press Release: ACT Party “The Government must release a damning report on the Ministry of Health’s ability to do contact tracing”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. Otago University infectious diseases physician Ayesha Verrall recently audited the Ministry of Health’s contact tracing capabilities. The Ministry received the report a
ACT Party Free Press It’s Cut And Dried Since we went into lockdown, two things have become clear. The danger of COVID-19 is much less than first thought. The Prime Minister said without the lockdown ‘tens of thousands would die,’ but the curve was flattening even before the
We’ve all seen it, from every news source. Gleeful accounts of the day’s new high score. The lead articles on all the legacy media sites, whether TV, online or print, are all about big scary numbers. ‘20,000 dead in America’, ‘Highest Roadtoll for a Decade’, ‘Coronavirus Cases
“Today, sometime after 10.30 am Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her Cabinet will make the decision of their careers” reads the first paragraph of the front-page report, but that’s not true. The decision of their careers was to ignore the advice of New Zealand’s top epidemiologists,
Reported in the NZ Herald 19 April: “Health Minister David Clark said that in the next eight weeks, the Government expected 75 million items of PPE to be delivered into New Zealand, including 17 million masks, more than two million gowns and coveralls, and 13.8 million gloves”. Wow! That’
