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This post is a place to: 1. Notify others of COVID-19 related news in their areas 2. Arrange for help for those unable to go out to get food or medicine 3. Ask for help
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China’s Global Pillage: It’s Worse Than We Thought
The Chinese communist regime inflicted the COVID-19 pandemic on the world, with its disastrous culture of secrecy and lies. Then, to add insult to injury, it starting pillaging the world’s medical supplies. The plunder first came to light in Australia when a whistleblower from a Chinese-owned property developer alerted
Should You Wear a Mask?
Aunty Masks are useful. If you don’t have a mask, cover your mouth and nose with a scarf or, well, anything. Consider eye protection – glasses, sunglasses or goggles when in public areas. We’re receiving conflicting information about masks here in New Zealand. In a Stuff article dated February
COVID-19 Update: 29 March 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 those that
Are You Taking This Seriously Yet?
There are people out there who still think this virus is a bit of a bad flu and sniffles, even as the body count begins to rise. No one has yet died in New Zealand so the worst is yet to come. Some people are intransigent and think we need
New Zealand’s Queen Addresses the Nation
Information Satire Good morning to you all; my Coronial Subjects, it is I: Go-hard Go-early Jacinda, Queen of New Zealand, Most-efficacious Saviour of the Nation. You will all, by now, in this time of crisis, have noticed the superb communication skills I wield in the baddle against our common enemy,
How China Built a Twitter Propaganda Machine Then Let It Loose on Coronavirus
Jeff Kao Mia Shuang Li ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Kalen Keegan, a college student at the University of Nebraska Omaha, immediately noticed when her Twitter account unleashed a torrent of posts in Chinese. “My other account got hacked??,” the soccer player posted on a replacement account.
The Sun Still Shines in the UK
Lionred The 26th of March was a bright sunny day as befits early spring in the UK. It was a welcome break from the recent outburst of ugly weather, wind, rain and flooding. According to the MSM all that has been missing has been an abundance of locusts, frogs and
What Is ‘Community Transmission’ and When Did It Start in New Zealand?
Aunty coronavirusnz.wordpress.com WHAT IS ‘COMMUNITY TRANSMISSION’? Community transmission happens when a virus is transferring from person to person inside a community, rather than being brought in from outside a community. For example, if New Zealand had 500 cases of COVID-19, and every single one of them was an
Things That Make Me Go Hmm
Aunty coronavirusnz.wordpress.com In a recent Stuff article dated March 27th, Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield is quoted as saying “there were 37 individuals who had now recovered” from the coronavirus. He also noted in the article that the definition of “recovered” was getting over symptoms and staying
That’s One Hell of an Oopsie
In an episode of The Simpsons, Professor Frink warns that the “Itchy & Scratchy Land” robots will inevitably run amok, but, “According to my calculations, the robots won’t go berserk for at least 24 hours”. Whereupon the robots immediately go beserk. “Oh, I forgot to er, carry the one,
Face of the Day
An Auckland pharmacist says she is working in fear and has opened up about getting verbally abused every day she works on the frontline in the battle against Covid-19. “I have cried so many times … the volume scripts is uncontrollable and we are drowning in work. The phone won’t
News from the Front
Schools use 3D printers to make masks East Lansing Public Schools is using 3D printers to make the much needed N-95 masks doctors say help protect those treating people with coronavirus. The 3-D printers at MacDonald Middle School in East Lansing are going around the clock, making medical masks to
Things That Make Me Go Hmm
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China Pillages Australia’s Much-Needed Medical Supplies
As recently reported in The BFD, “daigou” (meaning, “buy on behalf of”) has become a massive business for Chinese expats in Australia. In many ways, daigou is a smart bit of entrepreneurship: buying in-demand Australian-made items and mailing it to the folks back home. Unfortunately, there’s a blurred line
COVID-19 Update: 28 March 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 those that