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Make 2022 the Year of Reality
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who declared 2020 “The Year of Covid” and 2021 “The Year of the Vaccine”, has yet to christen the year 2022 on which we have just embarked. Let me suggest – nay implore – that 2022 should be “The Year of Reality”: the year when we shrug off
Burnt Toast
January 25th, 2022. Updating the furore about the future of Boris Johnson I have previously been expressing the views that Johnson is toast. We are progressing faster to the stage where he is burnt toast. Here is a clip from 11 am this morning of the leader of the Metropolitan
What Pfizer’s Board Member Has to Say about Mask Mandates
The Ardern regime has doubled down on mask mandates despite there being no real-world evidence that masks do anything much at all. The rest of the world has seen Omicron surge past vaccines and masks with gay abandon. Yet this fool of a prime minister blithely tells us that
Time for Grown-Ups in Charge
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com There’s no valid health reason to continue blocking fully vaccinated Kiwis from coming home. Nor is there any logic in continuing with the MIQ policy for the triple vaccinated. These prohibitions were introduced at a time the world was ignorant about Covid. That’s
What Came Unstuck in New Zealand?
Guy Hatchard PhD hatchardreport.com Guy Hatchard PhD is formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID, a global food testing and certification company. On the face of it, New Zealand is a lucky country of five million, affectionately termed Godzone. For two years New Zealand has largely avoided Covid by
Face of the Day
Speaker Trevor Mallard has hit out at expat journalist Dan Wootton after the outspoken columnist took aim at New Zealand’s Covid response and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s leadership. Wootton had used his regular column in Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper to take an extended swipe at his country
The Emergency Must Be Ended, Now
Harvey Risch JayantaBhattacharya Paul Elias Alexander brownstone.org Harvey Risch is Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine. Jay Bhattacharya, Senior Scholar of Brownstone Institute, is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. Dr.
XI’s Ambitions Are on Borrowed Time
Despite the tub-thumping of Xi Xinping and the gawping gullibility of too many commentators (especially academics), China is facing a long slide into the demographic doo-doo. As Mark Steyn so pithily put it, China’s rapidly getting very old and very, very male. So, “Unless China’s planning
Is Anti-vaxx a Hill to Die On?
Carolyn Moynihan mercatornet.com Carolyn Moynihan is the former deputy editor of MercatorNet As we enter a third year of the Covid-19 pandemic the latest mutation of the virus is ripping through populations and filling hospitals. Omicron appears to be less deadly but the stakes in its management or
Things That Make Me Go Hmm
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COVID Lockdowns Nearly Wrecked My Family and Millions of Others
Dawn Hopkins brownstone.org Dawn Hopkins is a Clinical Associate Professor with the Vera Z. Dwyer College of Health Sciences at Indiana University South Bend. She completed her undergraduate education at the University of Dayton in Exercise Science then a Master of Science in Exercise Physiology at Oregon State University.
Build Back Better
Why would globalists all over the world promise to ‘Build Back Better’ unless the plan was to destroy what we already have? The astute observer will see that, as usual, liars with power will promise the opposite of what is really intended. At present those generously paid to manage what
The Dumbest One of the Lot…
Information Satire Klouse (the K is silent) Swab, the boss of the World Ectoparasitic Floor’em, sat at his desk and frowned fearsomely. This was not unusual; in fact, it was his normal expression. However, the more he thought about his main duty for that day, the more emphatic his
Up, Up and Away
The decision to fly to Australia at this uncertain time was not made lightly, but the only reason I submitted to the mandated inoculation was in order to make this trip, and so, there I was at Auckland International Airport wondering when I would see Kiwi shores again. That my