By "culture", you mean third-wave feminism, post-modernism, identity politics, and social justice. All products firmly of the Left. The Standard is a board of pretend-old time Leftists looking for any reason to refuse any responsibility or criticism on the...
... viral kinetics during SARS-CoV-2 human challenge"). They purposely infected...
Weka's strategy is to come in late, say little, and pretend his short assertions are the final word in their self-endowed authority. It's not. The position is to accept and respond to this as a endemic, like other risks we face - not some leftover ...
You prefer to just engage in two years of rabid fear mongering and dislocation of society for a disease that, even at its worst, killed less than 0.5%? This why I gave up on this website - not because everyone won't agree with me (I enjoy a spirited debate...
Yes, I do feel constrained if I must a accept an internal injection and medical treatment to have my job, grab a coffee, see my brother. Especially when I thought I had a human right to choose my own medical treatment, partly thanks to the endless ...
"The fact that the coming variant may be milder has, Green Bus says, allowed the anti vaccination 'experts' free rein, again." I presume then you would prefer Omicron to be less mild and harsher than Delta? That would presumably then allow us to mask up ...
I'm not going to repeat everything I've responded to Robert Guyton's comment below, but this argument is beyond weak. - There's no human right for a non-citizen to enter another country; it's a jealously guarded perogative of the other state; - Getting a ...
Actually, I agree - good point and I'm being hypocritical. I greatly dislike prefacing or ending with "I got double vaxxed" because vaccination status has no bearing on the quality of arguments or the morality or legality of a Government or society action....
Are we really still on equating vaccine passports and mandates with a driver's license and stop signs? Really, I was hoping for a bit more. But for about the billionth time let's put that rubbish in the bin, where it belongs. - A driver's license or seat ...
PuckishRogue - I think we have different reasoning but a similar conclusion on the US system. But I was referring more specifically also to NZ's divisive Government vaccine mandate and passport system, particularly in an era of Omicron, as well as the ...
In breaking news, the US Supreme Court has struck down the massively wide vaccine mandate on businesses over 100 employees but narrowly upheld healthcare worker mandate. The law is, of course, different here in NZ and such a decision is not greatly legally...
... name from James to James 2. All future comments need to be James 2 or...
I've just said it's about balance. I know both Labour and National are neo-Liberal, but I'd rather the one not drunk on social coercion and state power. It's on a radical path to division and control under the guise of empathy whilst simultaneously doing ...
So the latest Roy Morgan puts Labour down at further free-fall with 36%. One poll does not maketh a truth but its consistent with the trend. It also doesn't take into account the inevitable bump National will get from a new leader. Should Labour be worried...
... absence of direct SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 illness... Red Lights which are Levels 2-4 by another name. The...
Based on having a highly vaccinated population? A vaccine which is inadequate to make us free..but inadequate to mandate and divide the country? None of you actually make arguments except: smugness that there is danger. So what? We all know that. That's ...
It's clear now that lockdowns cannot practically stop Delta (here or overseas) and come with significant and negative side effects across the board, including missed cancer screenings and appointments and a range of mental health outcomes. My young nephew,...
"incite refusal"? Are we into making up imaginary crimes now? Especially ones that involve now criminalising a refusal...which is a basic human right enshrined in multiple treaties and domestic law. "Officer, she incited refusal to vote National and ...
Why stop there? Why not ban speech by them? Predictive sentencing in advance? Why not whip up more moral fever to justify anything? Why try for nuance or human understanding when hatred helps feed your righteousness? And those who care about human rights ...
It's pretty clear from the evidence that the verdict was correct. The Prosecution failed to establish the case, as its own witnesses showed. Of course that doesn't mean Kyle Rittenhouse is a hero or that it was a good decision to be there armed - it wasn't...
Holy smoke. Something I might agree with. Because surely, the state never did wrong in the name of good? No state in the 20th century did horrendous things under good intentions. Locking up Muslims because they just could be terrorists is of course ...
Who here thinks 30 minutes exercise a day and not smoking is good for individual and public health? Who here thinks no social media after 9 pm is good for mental health? -100% of hands go up- Who here thinks smokers should lose their job, freedom, ability ...
Infinitesimal effort? I think you mean, unthinking effort. The far, far, far, far majority of us face little risk from Covid-19 (0.01% or less), unless we are over 70, have co-mobidities, or immuni-compromised. Children face more risk from car accidents. ...
Sabine's points are the perfect example of why more recent, and more militant, feminism is problematic. My examples were never to show: - females are to blame for all men's problems (they're not) - females don't also suffer (they do) - men can't do better ...
... and milk: Men in NZ: 2.2 times more likely than a... of COVID-19 worldwide and 2.84 times to more likely... less than a female Be 2.57 times more likely to...
I said a huge "cross-section of teachers, parents, nurses, and ordinary people". Please don't purposely misquote me. And yes, I believe there is a cross-section from what I've seen, first hand accounts, and interviews with people attending. For me, I'm an ...
This is good news the MSM finally have a counterpoint published....but I think it will be the only one. Coming from the UK, I see NZ turbo-charged on identity politics. The UK now has some pushback on Stonewall and other transgender activists in the ...
I'm not going to defend any noose talk or symbolism - for anyone, regardless of whether it's metaphorical or not. But one nutter doth not make a crowd nor doth establish the counter-point. And shall we talk about the Left too? Such as Hamish Keith's ...
You are right on the money, Ad. "Freedom used to be the rallying cry of the oppressed and the marginalised" - now it is the enemy of many on the Left. There always has been - and should be - protests and challenge to the Government and corporate power. The...
Could you care to explain what right to life means, DS? Presumably it means we have a right to protection against any non-natural death? Should we sue the police for failing to stop every murder? Sue the Ministry of Health when I get cancer from second-...
Exactly! By moving from a position in (wrongly) idealising the Treaty as the good old Brits doing good by the natives, we've instead moved to an unanchored demonisation of anything tied to colonialism. I believe it was also an imperfect stab to offer ...
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