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Countdown Fails Coronavirus Safety

Countdown Fails Coronavirus Safety

Dear Editor On Thursday, my wife and I visited the Countdown supermarket in Taupo to do some essential shopping. * We found there was only one Entry point – good. * At that Entry point, a gentleman was posted to control the flow of shoppers – good. * At that Entry point, there was no

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Don’t Come Monday, Simon

Don’t Come Monday, Simon

Elder statesman John Key has given the National caucus permission to replace inept journeyman Simon Bridges. Former Prime Minister Sir John Key has praised Jacinda Ardern’s communication skills amid the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. “I think she’s an outstanding communicator,” Key told MagicTalk host Ryan Bridge on Friday. “Whatever

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Small Funerals, Online Memorials and Grieving from Afar

Small Funerals, Online Memorials and Grieving from Afar

Tamara Kohn Hannah Gould University of Melbourne The coronavirus is not only affecting the way we live, it’s also dramatically affecting the way we die. In Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that funerals would be limited to a maximum of ten people to limit the spread of COVID-19.

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News from the Front

News from the Front

3D door handles As the world continues to face the coronavirus disease pandemic through social-distancing, self-quarantine and repeated cleaning of surfaces and hands, opening doors to hospitals, grocery stores, medical facilities, airports and a few other locations is still necessary. People are wearing gloves or using plastic bags to open

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The BFD Community Noticeboard

The BFD Community Noticeboard

Welcome to the daily BFD community noticeboard. I expect how we use it to develop as the weeks pass. For now, I am thinking that it will be: 1. A place to notify others of COVID-19 related news in their areas 2. A place to arrange for help for those

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COVID-19 Update: 27 March 2020

COVID-19 Update: 27 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

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Virus War Successful, but the Patient Died

Virus War Successful, but the Patient Died

Viv Forbes Viv Forbes has studied financial analysis, business economics and politics, and he is one of the oldies more vulnerable to Wuhan. Viv Forbes BScApp, FAusImm, FSIA In their frantic attempts to delay the spread of the Wuhan virus, governments are sowing the seeds of economic depression and currency

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Inmates Have the Same Right to Survive the Pandemic as You and I

Inmates Have the Same Right to Survive the Pandemic as You and I

Rachel Dear Jacinda, I believe that you care about all NZ citizens and that our inmates are not outcasts and they have the same right as you and me to survive during the current novel coronavirus pandemic. A combination of overcrowding, being short-staffed and other factors in prisons means that

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It’s Time to Start Dobbing People In

It’s Time to Start Dobbing People In

At first, I was flabbergasted, slightly angered if I’m honest, by this morning’s Dompost editorial “In touch with our inner snitch” encouraging us to turn on each other. Then I remembered it’s just what the insidious left, the shouty-people, do: It began to dawn on me just

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Covid-19 Zaps Us via the Weakest Link

Covid-19 Zaps Us via the Weakest Link

With the greatest respect to everybody (which of course means I’m going to be anything but respectful), our border control people (bless them all), are as varied a group of individuals as you’d find in any broad sample of our population. Some of them will be smart, great

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Choking the Chicken in the Big Apple

Choking the Chicken in the Big Apple

Warning Contains crude and explicit sexual language that is not for the faint-hearted If you’ve ever thought New Yorkers were a bunch of wankers, well you’re about to be proved right. The New York City health department on Thursday issued guidelines detailing how residents should and should not

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