Editorial Note: At the time of writing and when this post was scheduled the service had not been cancelled. It is possible that by the time this publishes things may have changed. The Black Caps are playing their One Day series against Australia behind closed doors. The series will go
It is hard not to come to the conclusion that the Apex Union are not only scumbags but led by scumbags too. A Newspaper reports: Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield says it’s “disappointing” that a laboratory workers’ union is using the coronavirus outbreak as leverage in planned strike
Before he noticed that China was staging a Silent Invasion of Australia, academic Clive Hamilton was claiming that the communist nation might well be the model state to tackle climate change. While democracies are hamstrung, supposedly, by the stupid ‘denying’ masses, authoritarian states like China can just snap their fingers
The PM’s laissez-faire attitude to Coronavirus will have serious repercussions for us. Her opinion, that when Coronavirus shows “sustained community transmission” she will do something about it, will of course be much too late for containment. “Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says there is no evidence of sustained community
Covid-19 is wreaking fear and havoc around the globe but very little is said about its colourful history, which includes the suspected murder of a Canadian scientist and its alleged theft in Canada by Chinese scientists. The new Coronavirus first appeared in 2012 in Saudi Arabia when an unknown
Operation Paperclip was the American mission to smuggle Nazi war criminals out of Europe after WWII and take 88 brilliant Third Reich scientific minds to America to drive technological advancement in rocketry, space search and biological weaponry. Writer Annie Jacobsen wrote about that mission, and a dozen or so of
Hair-trigger race-botherer Tim Soutphommasane can scream “racism!” all he likes, but as COVID-19 hits Australia, most of us can’t help noticing a commonality. The domestic spread of the virus is now underway, and it appears to have begun in the sprawling suburbs of northwest Sydney. The
Mark Longley, digital manager at Newshub, gives a well thought out opinion on the public’s reaction to the coronavirus OPINION: It doesn’t take much for the thin veneer of decency to slip for many people. Given the whiff of a potential threat to mankind and humanity goes flying
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com On December 31 last year, the Municipal Health Committee in the city of Wuhan – the capital of the Hubei province in central China – announced a small outbreak of an unknown type of viral pneumonia. It had affected 27 people associated with South China Seafood City,
Dennis Prager PA Pundits International Dennis Prager is a columnist for The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation and he is a nationally syndicated radio host, and creator of PragerU. We go from hysteria to hysteria. And even that’s not quite accurate. We now endure multiple hysterias at once.
Well, here we are, with 3 confirmed cases of the virus in New Zealand. It seems that the answer to the question as to what 3 things you would take with you on a desert island is: toilet paper, bottled water and hand sanitiser. Dettol now seems to be joining
The Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) has built and is regularly updating an online dashboard for tracking the worldwide spread of the coronavirus outbreak that began in the Chinese city of Wuhan. You can view it here. If you enjoyed this BFD map of the day
While I’m a firm believer that the reporting of the Coronavirus is in many ways a bit of an over-reaction by the worldwide mainstream media, I could be persuaded to change my view if I or one of my loved ones who happens to be elderly ends up
George Open letter to the Prime Minister: Last night I witnessed you commenting on New Zealand’s first known case of the Covid-19 virus. You were at pains to promote the success of this intervention as an example of your Government’s readiness and competence to handle such an
Chinese scientists studying Covid-19 have discovered a section of mutated genes that does not exist in Sars but is similar to those found in HIV and Ebola, raising the possibility of a man-made mutation. “According to the study, the mutation can generate a structure known as a cleavage
