Aunty Masks are useful. If you don’t have a mask, cover your mouth and nose with a scarf or, well, anything. Consider eye protection – glasses, sunglasses or goggles when in public areas. We’re receiving conflicting information about masks here in New Zealand. In a Stuff article dated February
Stephen E. Nash Stephen E. Nash is a historian of science and an archaeologist at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. He studies a wide range of subjects, including dendrochronology (tree-ring dating), the history of museums, the archaeology of west-central New Mexico, and Russian gem-carving sculptures
Jeff Kao Mia Shuang Li ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Kalen Keegan, a college student at the University of Nebraska Omaha, immediately noticed when her Twitter account unleashed a torrent of posts in Chinese. “My other account got hacked??,” the soccer player posted on a replacement
Aunty coronavirusnz.wordpress.com WHAT IS ‘COMMUNITY TRANSMISSION’? Community transmission happens when a virus is transferring from person to person inside a community, rather than being brought in from outside a community. For example, if New Zealand had 500 cases of COVID-19, and every single one of them was
Bruce Moon * We Have Just One True History: Part One * We Have Just one True History: Part Two So there it is, pretty much the whole story, now unrecognizable in the false accounts of women and children being burned alive in the church, too readily believed by our part-Maori
Aunty coronavirusnz.wordpress.com In a recent Stuff article dated March 27th, Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield is quoted as saying “there were 37 individuals who had now recovered” from the coronavirus. He also noted in the article that the definition of “recovered” was getting over symptoms and
Grant Ovenden – The Cigar Merchant www.canteros.nz A bad cut will ruin even the best cigar, so it is important to cut your cigar correctly to avoid disappointment later. While it would seem that cutting a cigar is quite possibly the easiest part in the process, poor quality cutters
Some time ago I bought two books, both of which were part of the British Government’s Mass Observation Project. One was “The Diaries of Nella Last, Writing in War and Peace“. The second was Kathleen Hey’s “The View from the Corner Shop – The Diary of a Yorkshire Shop
Tamara Kohn Hannah Gould University of Melbourne The coronavirus is not only affecting the way we live, it’s also dramatically affecting the way we die. In Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that funerals would be limited to a maximum of ten people to limit the spread of COVID-
Viv Forbes Viv Forbes has studied financial analysis, business economics and politics, and he is one of the oldies more vulnerable to Wuhan. Viv Forbes BScApp, FAusImm, FSIA In their frantic attempts to delay the spread of the Wuhan virus, governments are sowing the seeds of economic depression and currency
Rachel Dear Jacinda, I believe that you care about all NZ citizens and that our inmates are not outcasts and they have the same right as you and me to survive during the current novel coronavirus pandemic. A combination of overcrowding, being short-staffed and other factors in prisons means
Hugh Breakey Griffith University As the country moves into lockdown mode in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are increasingly faced with serious ethical questions about what ordinary people should be obliged to do for others. These challenges can perhaps best be seen in the outrage as people flocked
Katharine H. Greenaway University of Melbourne Alexander Saeri Monash University Tegan Cruwys Australian National University We are now a society at a distance. As of this week, New South Wales has closed restaurants, bars, gyms, and entertainment venues where people gather in large numbers. Victoria has similarly implemented a shut
Information Satire In these tough times, a lot of people are having to learn to sit around at home and do nothing all day with limited resources. These are going to be really challenging times for families used to busy schedules. It is saddening that the Government has not thought
George The panic buying in our supermarkets has exposed so many of their employees to the possibility of infection as their place of work is invaded by so many inconsiderate morons, akin to hordes of gluttonous vultures devouring a decomposing carcass. I would like to celebrate the extraordinary commitment being
Mark Boris Johnson recently made a lockdown announcement a lot like Jacinda Ardern’s only a few days after. But there is one major difference One comment Boris made whilst assuring the people that essential services, like supermarkets, will remain open during the lockdown, was that people need to use
