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
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While the world anxiously waits for a fully tested vaccine to guard against Covid-19, scientists have been experimenting with Chloroquine to treat and prevent Covid-19. We lag behind Europe, still in the throes of the disease, but South Korea and China have had significantly more exposure and time
This lax: Hi All! We have arrived safely in Auckland and are now in a hotel waiting out our isolation period. I wanted to make everyone aware of what we experienced at the airport this morning. There was no mention on the plane or information handed out explaining self isolation
When you hear the Deputy Prime Minister tell people overseas they better think about getting back here pronto, then you know we have a problem coming. Some of you don’t believe a word that Winston Peters ever says so you can carry on regardless, and suffer accordingly. I’ll
Warning Graphic information and photos that many will find upsetting National’s Amy Adams said she believed in safe areas and described the protests outside abortion clinics as “psychological abuse and torture”. […]The last speech went to National’s Amy Adams, who will retire from Parliament at the next election
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Andrew Little, hand in hand with the Human Rights Commission, has been secretly working on formulating draconian hate speech laws. Proposed hate speech laws for New Zealand are imminent. Justice Minister Andrew Little told Stuff the Government is bringing forward changes around hate speech, but shaping a law had taken
Torn between protecting our tourist industry or protecting the country from coronavirus, our PM has attempted to do both. She has a bob each way and her reward will undoubtedly be a loss on both counts. The punter who puts a bob each way rather than everything on the nose
The government has announced a $12.1 billion package to assist with job losses and general economic stimulus as a result of Covid-19. Before we look at it in more detail, it is important to remember that it is the fiscal responsibility of the last 3 finance ministers (including
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