Life Behind the IRon Drape II - Post-Covid Edition [ Mark Hubbard ]

   Over the last15 years I've blogged twice. My last post to my first blog Life Behind the IRon Drape was over December 2015. I put up this second blog with the single post at the start of New Zealand's first Covid lockdown to explain why my wife and I decided not to take Pfizer's Covid (so-called) vaccine: a decision I've never regretted, indeed, I think possibly on the data coming out, one of the best decisions I've made in my adult life, despite the decision became the blessed final end point of my professional life. By now I'm moving on from Covid, although never to forget because it was where a raw authoritarianism  took away all individual rights in the blink of an eye from an Orwellian single pulpit of Truth, and the vast majority said, yep, that's fine. Which of course it wasn't, it was a disgrace. But that's not for this post. This is just to say I stopped my first blog because I'd said everything I wanted to and was boring myself with ...

  [I realise many friends and family are confused about why Pauline and I are unvaccinated; on a first look it would appear irrational. I hope this goes some way towards explaining why. None of the below is meant to influence anything you do, none of this is advice in anyway at all: we all make our own way through this; albeit pity about the ruthless coercion falling on we unvaccinated by Ardern’s government and the hysteria they have deliberately created around the unvaccinated, and in some places in the below a little bitterness has reared its head (sorry). It is what it is. If nothing else, if you get bored on the way through, make sure you read Addendum 1 on what 95% vaccine efficacy means: it’s an eye-opener .  Note, until December 2015 I kept an old blog Life Behind the IRon Drape - this post is irrevocably founded in the classical liberal philosophy of that old blog. Nevertheless I've decided to keep this post separate and as a stand-alone: there will be no other p...