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Covid-19
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War Is Over Peace returns, sort of. The end of lockdown means a return to work for many, but not all, businesses and workers. It is also time to survey the ruins. The Government has belatedly realised how damaging the lockdown is and now seeks Alert Level Two as soon
Unjust Laws Should be Disobeyed. Stupid Ones Too
On the 16th of April, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr sat in a prison cell in Birmingham City jail in Alabama. He had been incarcerated for partaking in non-violent protest after ignoring Circuit Judge W. A. Jenkins Jr’s edict from on high, banning “parading, demonstrating, boycotting, trespassing and picketing,
Epidemic Response Committee | NZ Parliament – 29 April 2020
Live meetings of the Epidemic Response Committee of the New Zealand Parliament. The Epidemic Response Committee was established on 25 March 2020 to consider and report to the House on matters relating to the Government’s management of the COVID-19 epidemic. Learn more about this committee and browse committee documents:
Scott Morrison and Jacinda Ardern in a Video Conference with Benjamin Netanyahu
An interesting article floated through our tipline overnight. Apparently Jacinda Ardern participated in a conference call with other countries leaders, including Bibi Netanyahu. It can’t have been much of a secret because the Israeli PM published a video of it: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participated in a
What Y2K and COVID-19 Have in Common
Justin Knight For anyone too young to remember Y2K, it was a very expensive non-event invented by IT charlatans to scare the world into paying them a significant amount of money to fix precisely nothing. The argument went that when the year 1999 ticked over to 2000, all the computers
New Zealand First News
Rt Hon Winston Peters’ first speech back today in parliament. Now is the time for New Zealand’s economic future “If New Zealand can grow it, or make it, then we should…” Our focus now is to rebuild our economy New Zealand has now moved from alert level 4 to
Daily News Roundup – 29 April 2020
Pandemic preparedness, “eliminating” Covid-19, contact tracing Emma Russell (Herald): New Zealand ‘currently eliminated’ virus. So why are we still seeing new cases? (paywalled) Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Reinventing elimination shows PM has lost count Amelia Wade (Herald): Virus won’t be eliminated until there’s a vaccine, says PM Jo
Facts are Slowly Starting to Emerge
This abbreviated timeline was published by ABC News on 24 April 2020, 07:12. * Dec. 31, 2019: WHO says mysterious pneumonia sickening dozens in China * Jan. 11, 2020: China reports 1st novel coronavirus death * Jan. 21, 2020: 1st confirmed case in the United States * Jan. 23, 2020: China imposes strict
The Australian Government Launches Its Pandemic App
One thing that has been obvious about the response to the Chinese virus pandemic is how willing the public has been to co-operate with government restrictions that would normally be associated with totalitarian states. There have been some rumblings, particularly with over-zealous police fining people for anything from washing their
The Dismantling of Democracy
George A disturbing repercussion of this virus has been the dismantling of democracy. The current Government’s historical performance has been wiped clean. Its previous two and a half years of mismanagement have vanished without trace. All the relevant indicators that measure the Government’s performance through its term of
On Moving When You Don’t Want to Go.
Greg Moore It‘s always difficult to remain positive when everything that surrounds you seems to be taken away from under you. Today I am having one of these moments. In the Queenstown southern lakes area where we are, there were 19,345 people on the payroll at last census.
COVID-19 Update: 28 April 2020
We are at Level 3 of New Zealand’s four-level COVID-19 alert system. New Zealand moved to Alert Level 3 at 11:59pm on Monday 27 April. We will stay in Alert Level 3 for two weeks, before Cabinet reviews how we are tracking and makes further decisions on 11
