High time the computer gets a reboot. And so, the closing of (some of) the browser tabs:
- The Australians approve vax for 5-11 year olds. Omicron is spreading, though not in NZ yet as far as we know, and there is some indication it is sending more kids to hospital. Canada has been vaccinating kids since 23 November, and America weeks before that. But Medsafe, like a New Zealand city council that just doesn't wanna approve a resource consent, has punted the application back to Pfizer for more detail. Medsafe Delenda Est.
- Maybe, for Labour, Immigration NZ being a complete mess and chasing away potential migrants is a feature rather than a bug.
- Aranui, Avonside, Woolston West, Rawhiti, Wainoni, Bexley, Styx, New Brighton. Sounds like a rollcall of neighbourhoods most hit by EQNZ in 2011 (maybe not Woolston West). But it's the Christchurch suburbs with the lowest vaccination rates.
- Hayden Donnell on the anti-housing media blitz.
- Point of Order on the mess at Royal Society. Bottom line: Profs should be joining the Free Speech Union rather than either the Royal Society or the TEU.
- City Journal has a couple of excellent pieces on corporate culture. The Genealogy of Woke Capital and Why Woke Organisations All Sound the Same. A usual rule of thumb is to avoid pieces with 'woke' in the title. Don't miss these. Gabriel Rossman is author on the latter - seriously good academic sociologist.
- From the "Well, can't blame 'em for trying it on but really?" files: Council adds sand to some Auckland beaches, prompting nearby property owners to assert that their riparian rights extend further down the now extended beach.
- If car insurance companies could overcome collective action problems, there would be a case for them to fund wolf reintroduction programmes in US states with a lot of deer.
- The Herald has started putting up lovely tables showing case and hospitalisation rates sorted by vaccination status.
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