California is now on lockdown with the Governor issuing a stay at home order for residents. California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a statewide order for all of the state’s residents to “stay at home” during the coronavirus pandemic. “We need to bend the curve in the state of California,
The BFD’s writers have one and all been opposed to the government’s ban on so called single-use plastic bags. We opposed them for a number of reasons: 1. Banning them does not save turtles or help the environment as New Zealand is not the source of plastic
The rest of the world is taking the Covid-19 pandemic a great deal more seriously than our Prime Minister. While Israel moves into full lockdown along with many other countries, Jacinda Ardern is performing PR stunts. The latest is a press conference specifically for children: New Zealand’s prime
Mike: David Clark ah couldn’t tell me before how many test kits are in this country, can you? Jacinda: We have 30,000 swabs as part of our testing ah… capacity… for up to 1,500 a day and of course as you can imagine the whole world, Mike,
Paula Bennett is having a massive sook about not being included in the Government’s Covid-19 outbreak discussions. National deputy leader Paula Bennett is firing back at criticism about Simon Bridges‘ and the party’s response to the coronavirus outbreak. It’s a hard time but the Opposition is
This unbelievable campaign ran in Italy mid-February. Northern Italy is now the major centre of COVID-19 outbreak in the West. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
In the wonderful Japanese manga-turned-movie trilogy, 20th Century Boys, a group of friends in the 1970s write a comic book describing the year 2000. It’s all giant robots and end-of-the-world stuff. 30 years later, it all starts coming true. In a similar vein, a
Italy has become the poster child for COVID-19 in the West for all the wrong reasons. Outside of China, it has the world’s highest number of infections. Horror stories are emerging of a health system cracking under the strain and the whole country is under unprecedented lockdown. There
Hans von Spakovsky PA Pundits – International Hans von Spakovsky is an authority on a wide range of issues, including civil rights, civil justice, the First Amendment, immigration, the rule of law and government reform, as a senior legal fellow at the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies
Groucho Marx famously said, “politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies”. We’ve seen this recently in panicked political responses to disasters, real and imagined, which actually cause more harm than that which they’re supposedly remedying. Fukushima,
Our government has shown itself to be inept on many levels since coming to power and the lineup of ‘fails’ is just that: A lineup of fails. Why would we expect anything different with the Covid-19 response? Leadership takes experience and courage and above all else, an ability to
Read this thread. The maths will be the same for New Zealand: The Imperial College team plugged infection and death rates from China/Korea/Italy into epidemic modeling software and ran a simulation: what happens if the US does absolutely nothing — if we treat COVID-19 like the flu, go
RBAvenger We headed off to Singapore on our regular visit for Chinese New Year in January. At the time we were aware of the situation that had developed in China. My partner had been working in Singapore during the SARS outbreak, so was highly alert to how things could go
The Government has finally decided to close our borders to all but citizens and permanent residents. They have finally done what they should have done with the original border controls less than a week ago: New Zealand is closing its borders to everyone but citizens and permanent residents in an
Can you take a hint? The Prime Minister is calling on New Zealanders to prepare to work from home and prepare to stop non-essential travel, as authorities look to stem the spread of coronavirus COVID-19. Newshub Today’s face of the day Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is hinting
