Cruise Ships as Floating Isolation Wards? Right now there are four cruise ships in Auckland. They are all empty – no passengers. They are the La Laperouse, Silver Muse, Bremen and Noordam. Noordam has been moored off Whangaparaoa since Wednesday last week. La Laperouse also; until Saturday night when it moored
UPDATED/URGENT Request of Doctors: This petition has clearly grown beyond just medical professionals now, with many other people signing the petition. If you are a doctor, please urgently sign this doctors-only petition instead: https://bit.ly/nzmedicalspecialistspetition as it is being delivered very soon. This alternative petition was
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The Free Speech Coalition No doubt you saw Andrew Little’s comments about forging ahead with hate speech legislation to get it passed before this year’s general election. He told Stuff.co.nz that “The review of our hate speech laws are in the final stages. I expect there
Now that Facebook has sent home its human workers and all that’s left are Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow bots, a curious phenomenon has emerged. Tech giant Facebook recently admitted that it marked posts linking to genuine information and articles about the Wuhan coronavirus as spam, blaming a “bug
Editors Note: The following chart and PDF that appears to be from the World Health Organisation was sent to The BFD today anonymously so I cannot confirm their accuracy. The person who sent it to us claims that New Zealand has had confirmation of community transmission since 20/3/2020.
Orange NZ Here are some of my observations regarding Trump Derangement Syndrome and the COVID-19 virus. The timeline so far for TDS and the virus * Nov 28 – Possible patient zero (undetected phase of new disease begins) * Dec 31 – Wuhan officials say something is up * Jan 8 – Centers for Disease
On Friday, ACT’s Stephen Berry wondered if the New Zealand government’s spending splurge will create “the most popular economic depression in history”. Berry echoed what has become mainstream economic argument: rather than “ending the Depression”, Roosevelt’s New Deal extended and deepened it. Berry also pointed to one
A reader noticed this on the local Helensville Community Facebook page: So they decided to email the self-isolation email that was pushed everywhere on Friday and Saturday by the Ministry of Health. This was the reply: Riiight…you can’t even play a knock, knock joke with that because
What do you know? Pollution levels are down, the sky can be seen over China and the canals in Venice are cleaner than ever in living memory. And what brought this about? The coronavirus pandemic. A real emergency, where thousands have already lost their lives, forced us to change our
We all watched the exact same announcement yesterday at 12 by the Prime Minister. Most BFD readers felt that they were being talked down to and that the PM’s delivery was just like that of someone talking to an audience of kindergarten or primary aged children. However, her fan
Today’s Vigilante of the day, Rawiri Waititi has reacted to our PM’s weak as dishwater COVID-19 response by taking the law into his own hands and illegally enforcing what he describes as border controls in an attempt to protect his community. He and his community will be
Fred Lucas PA Pundits – International Fred Lucas is the White House correspondent for The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation and he is the co-host of “The Right Side of History” podcast. In what he called a “game-changer or maybe not,” President Donald Trump on Thursday directed the
For those too young to remember the actual events, last year’s mini-series Chernobyl was a horrifying lesson in what happens when a disaster meets an authoritarian state. Lies, cover-ups and incompetence combine to make the merely disastrous catastrophic. It’s a pattern that was borne out again
If long time and highly respected CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour can make the comment that one of the positive outcomes of Covid-19 is the serious reduction in pollution of the skies over China, perhaps I can take a moment to add a few more. Before I do, let me
Frank Zappa’s observation that “Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff” might seem like a flippant remark, but it reflected a brutal truth. Deng Xiaoping’s market reforms in the 1980s tacitly acknowledged this truth: not even the Maoist regime could stop basic human entrepreneurship. Black
