We are at Level 4 of New Zealand’s four-level COVID-19 alert system. It is likely Level 4 measures will stay in place for a number of weeks. More information on alert levels. * Everyone must now stay home, except those providing essential services. * Only make physical contact with
I am fast coming to the conclusion that this virus thing is less about controlling the virus and more about controlling the people and the message. The “Pravda One” early afternoon sitcom every day certainly gives that impression. They may think that standing at their lecterns daily spouting large numbers
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The other day Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, the Director General of Health, said that he was closely following the US CDC for advice regarding the use of masks. This was the same day he lied to media about our testing regime following “international practice” when we aren’t even close to
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We are at Level 4 of New Zealand’s four-level COVID-19 alert system. It is likely Level 4 measures will stay in place for a number of weeks. More information on alert levels. * Everyone must now stay home, except those providing essential services. * Only make physical contact with
Berating Bauer Media for reacting to the government’s inability to think of unintended consequences of its actions really is inappropriate. You’d need to have been living in another galaxy to not be aware of the struggles of print media over the past few years. Bauer is just one.
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The Government is currently using wartime analogies to discuss how we are combating the spread of the COVID-19 virus. There is a problem with that analogy though as they are trying to fight a war without having any casualties, and in the process crippling the economy, all to save
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As BFD readers will be aware, while butchers in New Zealand have been forced to shut, some NZ Muslims have complained that halal butchers should be exempt. The complaints have had a sympathetic ear from the Ardern government – notwithstanding at least one Muslim doctor advising his co-religionists to stop
We are at Level 4 of New Zealand’s four-level COVID-19 alert system. It is likely Level 4 measures will stay in place for a number of weeks. More information on alert levels. * Everyone must now stay home, except those providing essential services. * Only make physical contact with
