The difference is Key would have won
the evidence would suggest otherwise.
I think the lesson isn't that tax cuts can't be stimulating, or even increase the tax take. It is that one shouldn't propose tax cuts in a nation with high government debt, at a time when the world is heading into a global recession or depression, without ...
mansplains, plays the victim, flounces off then invokes Nazi's. I think I have bingo!
Authoritative hubris? Pot, kettle, black. I studied forensic science and I believe you're in IT and management? Show me the peer reviewed data from multiple studies that these side effects are long term and large in number and then I'll agree with you - ...
I thought we were done with these apocryphal scaremongering stories about long term effects months ago. It was Kawasaki disease then (debunked) and now this nonsense (at least this has some kernel of truth). Dr. Katz an MD from New York and former founder ...
Out of all the absurd and hysterical articles I've seen about Sars-Cov-2 this has to be up there with the most ridiculous. IFR for Spanish Flu ~2.5%, Sars-Cov-2 ~0.1% - ~0.40% Average Age of Death for Spanish Flu ~26, Sars-Cov-2 ~80. But yeah, they're the ...
I wonder what the odds are on the turnover percentage at end of the term being higher than the party vote percentage they receive?
All very funny guys, well done. I note that you haven't really dealt with the argument, and that this tax - if it eventuates - is unlikely to raise much, while having a negative drag on the economy, and the people who you weep crocodile tears for wearing ...
See my last sentence above, it's not about that really, it's about the fact that there is a line, a principle, beyond which business people are prepared to become scofflaws en masse (even if not in actual fact of law) making the scheme unworkable. Has the ...
There's the increased taxes for one, but more importantly the change in the way the state wants to look into my affairs by me having to value all my assets and declare that yearly. It'll be a huge and costly pain in the arse, on top of all the tax, H and S...
No panic or running off anywhere. My Accountant and I talk regularly as a natural course of business, I'm sure she will bring this up next time we talk or her firm will email me about it (as they did when Labour was chasing their hare brained CGT scheme) ...
I'm in the group that this tax is aimed at and off the top of my head I can think of numerous ways one could arrange one's affairs in order to avoid this, depends on what ends up being legal and no doubt the layers and accountants are already at work, ...
We've already seen this before, all the "reinfections" in South Korea presented in the same way. The South Koreans determined that they were all cases were the virus was dead in the person's system and being picked up by the PCR after a negative test or ...
DeCode Genetics in Iceland looked at the genetic code in a huge number of the samples of the virus they had, and tracked all the tiny mutations in the samples to see how the virus had spread throughout their population. They were able to track the spread ...
They can also enter if they have reasonable cause to believe you have illegal firearms or are destroying evidence. All these warrantless searches are abominations, as is this law. The reason civil liberty defenders haven't kicked up more of a stink than ...
I guess you have to be a lawyer to understand how legal advice advising the Government/Police that the Health Act Orders did not empower them to enforce the lockdown, and then the Police subsequently knowingly arrest over 800 people (I believe it is so far...
Both sides are arguing from ignorance to a certain extent, that's a nature of the problem. Failing to understand that and engaging in uncritical expert worship reveals who is ignorant IMO.
1). That CFRs are 1%-5%, Italy 10%, etc. Setting aside the problem of using CFR instead of IFR, we can have high confidence from good datasets that the upper bound of IFR is 0.37%. There can be no justification for this type of scare-mongering reporting ...
Sorry, it was on The Spinoff.
I doubt even know who Blackland is, and have been making similar arguments about this virus for a couple of weeks now. I read Dr. Wiles most recent article on Scoop, it's filled with either purposeful inaccuracies, or things she should know but doesn't. ...
What hit, no one has made any actual counter arguments yet. Just assumed I'm motivated by financial gain, or something. These arguments have been the equivalent of saying "why don't you support lowering the speed limit to 5 km/hr, don't you care about dead...
Do you have any actual points, or simply concede the argument and resort to snide quips?
There won't be additional deaths under a herd immunity strategy, there will more visible deaths but less overall deaths and far less years of human life lost.
1). This Plan B as it is being called is the best way to limit the number of deaths in the elderly and immune compromised, under the current plan there is going to be periodic flare ups in care and rest homes over a long period of time, no lives will ...
Except that is isn't proving easy to pull back, due to human's bias to engage in the sunk cost fallacy and in particular politician's bias to it. Also as evidenced by the fact we are now arguing whether it is an overreaction - when it clearly is. I have no...
I don't think Sweden's numbers are scary or embarrassing, especially when viewed on a log scale, they're just further through their epidemic - which is kind of the point when they've committed to a herd immunity strategy. They're also right to be doing so,...
Sorry for the late reply. The immunological response was from the abstract of a study I read about the Spanish Flu, and why elderly people were spared in the main, the opposite of what is happening here. The main theory is that there was a much less severe...
Seymour graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering at UoA and then worked as an engineer, you may not agree with him - I don't agree with a lot of what he says, but I highly doubt he doesn't understand exponential growth and logarithms.
Northern Italy is a special case due to; age, air pollution levels, anti-biotic resistance, etc. the data is showing this. Iceland is the gold standard, they have tested a far higher percentage of their population than any other. They tested over 5400 ...
The difference between dying with and from the disease is of crucial importance, to understand why takes a simple thought experiment: imagine that this virus was the most infectious one ever, and everyone in NZ was infected at the same time, on an average ...
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