The Emperor's Robes - The Observations of Alex Davis

Data and basic maths prove Arden and Bloomfield were wrong to lock down New Zealand. UPDATE: This post has now had over 20,000 views. PLEASE share on FaceBook, Twitter etc with as many people as possible. We need to call out the fact that this government has wrecked our country and economy by completely over-reacting and ignoring data that didn't fit with their narrative.   Thank you,  Alex Davis. On March 17 th     eight days before New Zealand entered lock down Professor John Ioannidis, one of the world’s most cited medical researchers published an article warning that the world was rushing into a series of panic stricken responses to Covid-19 on the basis of data that was “ utterly unreliable .” Time is now proving Professor Ioannidis correct. There has been an endless sea of New Zealand “experts” on Covid-19 so it is worth establishing Professor Ioannidis’ credentials for the simple reason that he stands head and shoulders above those the New Zealand go

UPDATE: This article has now had over 126K views - that's roughly 2.5% of the entire country - a huge achievement. Please keep sharing this article and the other articles on this blog, particularly my latest article explaining how the government ignored data that demonstrated we did not need to lock down. I earn nothing from these articles and I am not affiliated to any political party or organisation. I am however deeply opposed to any government that cynically exploits a crisis and the public's panic to enact decisions that destroy lives and livelihoods and advance their own ideologically driven agendas.    As of Monday 27th April 6pm this article hit 102,00 views. That's 40,000 additional views in 24 hours.  It's also 19,000 more than the petition #closeNZ ( https://bit.ly/2KEe4x2)  that led to the government's panicked decision to implement the lock down in the first place - without any understanding of the economic or long term health consequences or

New Zealand just recorded a further four Corona virus deaths. That bring the total to nine (as of 14 April 2020): Woman, aged 70’s with an underlying health condition. Female, aged 90’s with an underlying health condition. Male, aged 80’s with an underlying health condition(s). Male, aged 70’s with an underlying health condition(s). Male, aged 80’s with an underlying health condition(s). Male, aged 90’s with an underlying health condition(s). Male, aged 80’s with an underlying health condition(s). Male, aged 90’s with an underlying health condition(s). Male, aged 70’s with an underlying health condition(s). Interestingly, for all individuals from 3 onwards I had burrow into the Ministry of Health’s briefings to determine that all had underlying health conditions, the mainstream media failed to report that key fact.   The death of any individual is clearly tragic – everyone is someone else’ mother / father / sister / brother and their loved o

More and more evidence is emerging that the Corona virus is far LESS dangerous than previously feared and the real threat is the hysterical (over)reaction of the world’s political elite to the virus itself. The list of medical professionals and researchers questioning the official line on Covid-19 is growing daily. On April 6 th Professor Klaus Püschel, head of forensic medicine in Hamburg,  stated that : “This virus influences our lives in a completely excessive way [which] is disproportionate to the danger posed by the virus… [likewise] the astronomical economic damage now being caused is not commensurate with the danger posed by the virus. I am convinced that the Corona mortality rate will not even show up as a peak in annual mortality.” He states that in Hamburg for example, “not a single person who was not previously ill had died of the virus: all those we have examined so far had cancer, a chronic lung disease, were heavy smokers or severely obese, suffered fr

This article was first published April 7th 2020 in the BFD here In January when stories of a new virus were emerging from China global politicians barely reacted. Fast forward just two months and the world has seen the most rapid erosion of civil liberties in history. We have gone from liberal democracies with full freedom of movement and association to economy shattering lock downs unimaginable just weeks before. The science we were (and are) being told was clear: lock down now or millions will die. Except that the science and particularly the data is far from clear. There is a growing list of eminent scientists and researchers around the word now questioning whether our leaders, egged on by irrational panic by among their citizenry, have in fact completely over reacted to Covid-19 with devastating consequences.  Articles in the New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/opinion/coronavirus-pandemic-social-distancing.html , The Spectator https://www.spectato