Governments might like to boast about “going hard and early” in defiance of the plain facts, but the truth is that they dithered for too long once the fact of the Wuhan virus became known – and then panicked and brought the boot-heel down. Which might play well to the peanut
In his recent Insight article, Chris Trotter suggested that China was ready to “step up” in the wake of the Wuhan virus. China’s economy, he argued, was being “slowly cranked up – to the immense relief of the world”. While the first part is certainly true (insofar as we can
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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
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When I wrote, in the early days of the Chinese virus, that “the real sheeple are the panic-stricken lemmings of the elite”, I argued that the common folk were keeping calm and carrying on, while the elite were losing their minds. I naturally felt a bit foolish when, just days
Long before the Chinese Communist party gifted the world the “Chinese virus” they had already infiltrated New Zealand’s political immune system. As lockdown has brought thousands of new readers to the BFD I thought that now would be a good time to bring the following series of articles about
Stuff, yesterday morning, congratulated us all on getting through and advised us, for posterity, “It may pay to jot down a few notes – send yourself an email…because memory fades.” It certainly does, especially when left-wash is happening right in front of our eyes. They are rewriting everything ‘Dear Leader’
Mark The question is this: If the lockdown continues, how many more people will die as a result of severe economic collapse rather than from the coronavirus, even if we had not made an attempt to contain it? I’m not talking about secondary deaths due to poverty-related illnesses or
As often happens with disasters, natural and man-made, the Chinese virus pandemic is a playground for every prognosticator, soothsayer and two-bit pundit. Unsurprisingly, the predicted long-term effects of the pandemic always seem to be remarkably in tune with the pundit’s prejudices. The Green-Left are eagerly anticipating a mass conversion
In the year 1910, a law-abiding New Zealand citizen would hardly have been aware of the operation of the State. He would be aware of policemen walking the beat. He would probably use the Post Office. If a city dweller, he would ride on municipal trams. But that would have
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