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March 2024

The lack of analysis on lockdown decisions
How the 1st NZ lockdown was extended and appeared to spark the 1st cost-benefit analysis and the unbridled derision of alternative views.
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February 2024

Why did NZ abandon its existing pandemic plan?
Did a focus on overblown worst case scenarios and narrow expertise drive decisions making?
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What's the point of an inquiry?
Especially if government can embed the Covid response with no review - a national quarantine system is already in place and now permanent jobs are being…
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January 2024

Fauci's statements to the House & NZ's stringent use of social distancing
With a more effective Covid response inquiry coming hopefully New Zealand's response and justification for pandemic measures will finally be reviewed

October 2023

The multi-million MIQ system that's gone quietly unnoticed
How politicians pushed for purpose-built facilities to detain arrivals into New Zealand after the end of MIQ in 2022 and the multi-million cost of what…
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The reliance on slick advertising in the early Covid response
The early Covid response in March 2020 relied on Clemenger BBDO coming on board to develop a public health campaign within a week, before pivoting to…
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The death march of Covid modelling & the biochemist behind Alert Levels
The hyperbolic jumps in the modelling of deaths as the 1st 2020 lockdown grew nearer & how the Alert Levels were created by a biochemist who had then…
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September 2023

What the NZ government signed up to with Pfizer
The Ministry of Health has released a (really basic) summary of Covid vaccine contracts after 17 complaints to the Ombudsman.
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The missing review & underlying dishonesty of domestic vaccine passes
The confusing purpose of vaccine passes and the planned review of their use in March 2022 that was never done.
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How many people lost their job due to "no compulsory vaccinations"
After Prime Minister Chris Hipkins bizarrely said there were "no forced vaccinations" recently - here's a few OIA's I've come across on job losses due…
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