Society

Would It Be Ok for the Government to Sterilize People?
Is it OK for the government to sterilize people?
Before the Holocaust against the Jews even began, the Nazis were engaged in eugenics — as in, weeding out people who were considered medically or genetically inferior.
The mentally disabled. The sick, deaf, and blind. Homosexuals. Anyone the Nazis considered “weak” was targeted by Adolf Hitler’s barbaric campaign to purify the race.

So Covid 19 is Just the Flu Then?
If you can wade through the knee-deep horse-shit in this appalling article in The Spinoff, by “explainer” Stewart Sowman-Lund, you’ll see that the government is planning to open a new front on Covid by buying a new anti-viral drug by Merck, “originally developed to treat the regular influenza”.

The Rise of Fascism Under Ardern
There is a lot of hatred being expressed online towards those who make the comparison between what we are seeing happen in New Zealand and the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1930’s.
In his essay published in The BFD today, Cam Slater writes thoughtfully about the rise of fascism in Europe and its reflection in the New Zealand of today, in the Adern government. The comparison is not only valid, but should be chilling to even the most ardent supporter of Covid policy.