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New Zealand and a Government with no Plan

New Zealand is currently seeing an average of 1000 jobs lost per day!  This is as a result of the restrictions put in place for the Covid 19 virus.  Many argue the Gov’t did a great job in managing the virus, with (according to MOH tests) there being no sign of community transmission at this […]

New Dunedin Hospital – Government’s Best Chance to Prove they Care about NZ Health

Old Dunedin hospital is run down, outdated, and unsafe.  Subsequently the current Gov’t promised they would build a new hospital, they called it the “biggest and best hospital rebuild in our history”.  However, since their grand promises, the plans have been downsized, downsized, downsized, to the degree where the new hospital is now likely to […]

Queenstown Getting Special Treatment, at the Cost of Major Cities

The multi millionaires in Queenstown are suffering.  Shed a tear as they have to cut costs, and only have two new Mercedes this year, instead of the usual three.   Their horrendously over charging Queenstown businesses aren’t getting overseas tourists to rip off any more, and now just have to work out how to swindle every […]

Experts Rubbish New Zealands Covid 19 Figures, Community Transmission Likely to be 28% of Cases not 4%

Epidemiologists at the University of Auckland and Otago University have stated that the Covid 19 figures being given out by the MOH are “meaningless” and “uninterpretable”. They have rubbished comments by the Prime minister and the lockdown rule breaching Minister of Health inferring we have ‘beaten the virus’ and “stopped community transmission”. Professor Gorman of […]

Health Advisors Angry with New Zealand Prime Minister Misleading the Public

Yesterday, the New Zealand Prime Minister was publicly bragging about how New Zealand had “eliminated the virus…” and “beaten the virus”, also making comments about how it was all due to her Government’s great work going into lockdown and closing the borders before other countries (which in fact is incorrect, many countries acted before NZ […]

Has the NZ Govt and the MOH lied about Covid 19 case numbers in NZ?

Seriously, are we to believe that just by pure coincidence on the two days before the announcement on whether the Lockdown has been successful or not, the number of positive cases just happens to be 9, just under the double digit figures?  What a wonderfully convenient coincidence! I guess if we Kiwis are dumb enough […]