Covid-19
Coronavirus Facts People Are Not Talking About Enough
Jeremy Harris Jeremy Harris is a businessman and investor from Auckland, New Zealand. * Professor Neil Ferguson from the ICL has estimated that 66% of all the people who die from COVID-19 during this pandemic would have died in the next year. If correct, this means that each month that passes
Daily News Roundup – 9 June 2020
Alert Level 1 move, recovery Amber-Leigh Woolf (Stuff): Psychologists reveal New Zealand’s political shift during lockdown Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Hooray for level 1. Now what? (paywalled) Claire Trevett (Herald): Prime Minister’s reward for Covid-19 zeroes (paywalled) Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Time to celebrate, then to rebuild Heather du Plessis-Allan
Lord Sumption Calls out BBC Reporter on UK Lockdown BBC News
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Sweden Did Not Say Their Approach to COVID-19 Was Wrong
Dave Pellowe davepellowe.com Lockdown apologists have been crowing about Swedes “admitting their approach was wrong on COVID-19”. The only problem is, as usual, they’re not basing their conclusions on real evidence. Reports from The Guardian and New York Times, two former newspapers (each as biased as epidemiological modelling
150,000 Reasons to Go to Level 1 Today
Press Release: ACT Party “Labour doesn’t want the COVID-19 crisis to end, but it has 150,000 reasons to move to Level 1 when Cabinet meets,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “New Zealanders have been receiving a daily political broadcast from Ardern and her team throughout the COVID-19 crisis.
Daily News Roundup – 8 June 2020
NZ First Audrey Young (Herald): The two contrasting faces of Winston Peters (paywalled) Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Balance is vital for Peters and NZ First (paywalled) Richard Harman: Jones claims the Nats will get dirty in Northland Dan Satherley and Delphine Herbert (Newshub): Can Shane Jones win Northland and save
The BFD Video: Virus Vs. White Supremacists
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Yes, We’ve Been Had
Are you angry yet? As readers of the BFD know, not only have lockdowns not made a difference, but there is now one rule for some and another rule for others. Just this past week a bunch of people marched in “solidarity” with looters and rioters peaceful protestors in the
“If You Have to Kill, We Will Bury the Bodies for You”
In a recent conversation with my daughter I jokingly said to her, “You know, if you have to kill, we will bury the bodies for you.” She had shared a minor issue that was bothering her and this was my glib reassurance that the family has her back. It was
Britain’s Biggest Clown Honks Again
“An expert,” according to American philosopher Nicholas Butler, “is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing”. Was there ever an expert who knew so much about nothing as Professor Neil Ferguson? Ferguson achieved (renewed) notoriety when he first backtracked dramatically
A Covid Farce
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The COVID-19 restrictions in New Zealand have become a farce. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is now looking foolish after thousands of people took to the streets in protest action on Monday, thumbing their nose at her Level 2 lockdown rules, while the Police watched on
UPDATED – Hypocrite of the Day
If the PM won’t follow her own rules about social distancing why should we? She clearly doesn’t believe in them otherwise she would be protecting herself. The photo below was used by the NZ Herald in a story about the Prime Minister’s lack of social distancing. UPDATED: