Face of the Day
Captain Tom Moore has been promoted to Honorary Colonel by the Queen to mark his 100th birthday after the World War II veteran captured the hearts of the nation by raising £29 million for the NHS by doing laps of his garden.
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COVID-19 Update: 30 April 2020
We are at Level 3 of New Zealand’s four-level COVID-19 alert system. New Zealand moved to Alert Level 3 at 11:59pm on Monday 27 April. We will stay in Alert Level 3 for two weeks, before Cabinet reviews how we are tracking and makes further decisions
Six Questions for Xi Jinping
Peter Cresswell pc.blogspot.com Nearly three weeks ago, historian Niall Ferguson posted six questions that Chinese political leader Xi Jinping needs to answer about this coronavirus — not in any expectation of them being answered, but instead to highlight how far China still seems to be from enjoying the free
Do the Negative Social & Health Implications of Lockdown Outweigh the Benefits?
Gerhard Sundborn covidplanb.co.nz Gerhard Sundborn is a Senior Lecturer Population and Pacific Health at the University of Auckland. With Covid-19 bearing down on New Zealand, and fears of an overloaded health system and a death toll numbering many tens of thousands, the Government moved swiftly to implement
Criticism of the Lockdown
Daphna Whitmore rdln.wordpress.com Since I wrote Corona fevers and the madness of models, criticising the lockdown in New Zealand, there have been many comments and some objections to the article. Some of these have been discussed in other forums but here I will try to respond to a
COVID-19 Update: 29 April 2020
We are at Level 3 of New Zealand’s four-level COVID-19 alert system. New Zealand moved to Alert Level 3 at 11:59pm on Monday 27 April. We will stay in Alert Level 3 for two weeks, before Cabinet reviews how we are tracking and makes further decisions
Unjust Laws Should be Disobeyed. Stupid Ones Too
On the 16th of April, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr sat in a prison cell in Birmingham City jail in Alabama. He had been incarcerated for partaking in non-violent protest after ignoring Circuit Judge W. A. Jenkins Jr’s edict from on high, banning “parading, demonstrating, boycotting, trespassing and
Facts are Slowly Starting to Emerge
This abbreviated timeline was published by ABC News on 24 April 2020, 07:12. * Dec. 31, 2019: WHO says mysterious pneumonia sickening dozens in China * Jan. 11, 2020: China reports 1st novel coronavirus death * Jan. 21, 2020: 1st confirmed case in the United States * Jan. 23, 2020: China imposes strict
The Dismantling of Democracy
George A disturbing repercussion of this virus has been the dismantling of democracy. The current Government’s historical performance has been wiped clean. Its previous two and a half years of mismanagement have vanished without trace. All the relevant indicators that measure the Government’s performance through its term of
COVID-19 Update: 28 April 2020
We are at Level 3 of New Zealand’s four-level COVID-19 alert system. New Zealand moved to Alert Level 3 at 11:59pm on Monday 27 April. We will stay in Alert Level 3 for two weeks, before Cabinet reviews how we are tracking and makes further decisions
NZ’s Data as Reliable as China’s
According to the official figures, and those supplied to WHO, New Zealand has had a total of 1,122 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since data was collected. Of those cases, 19 have sadly succumbed to the disease. This leaves 1,103 still alive but who have tested positive and
Ardern and Bloomfield Should Never Have Imposed Lockdown
Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com On March 17th, eight days before New Zealand entered lockdown, Professor John Ioannidis, one of the world’s most cited medical researchers, published an article warning that the world was rushing into a series of panic-stricken responses to COVID-19 on the basis of
The BFD Face of the Day
In a second blow to the credibility of the WHO the World Health Organisation has now backtracked on their claim that those who have recovered from the coronavirus would have no immunity. They now admit that survivors “can expect some level of protection.” The first blow of course came from
COVID-19 Update: 27 April 2020
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
Should Kids Go Back to School?
Simon Thornley covidplanb.co.nz The government is now urging children to go back to school, but many parents are reticent, fearing that their child will be exposed to the virus. Let’s take a look at we have learned about children’s risk of exposure to COVID-19 at
Level Zero, What’s the Plan Prime Minister?
I have been saying for a few weeks now that I think there is no need for the continuation of this lockdown, or indeed even a lockdown on a lower rung. So let’s look at just what these levels are, or at least what they currently are, as I