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The BFD Community Noticeboard

The BFD Community Noticeboard

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 If you are needing help the Friends in need group may be able to

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COVID-19 Update: 9 April 2020

COVID-19 Update: 9 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

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Lockdown Concerns

Lockdown Concerns

“I have said it before, and I will say it again: the same political or journalistic treatment applied to any episode of seasonal flu would terrify us just as much as the current epidemic. Just as the staging – with real-time counts of victims – of any major health problem would

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We Are Not All in This Together

We Are Not All in This Together

The feminization of society isn’t the overlay of feminist values. No. It’s the overlay of natural feminine tendencies. Don’t tell me they don’t exist. Most females become mothers. They are biologically designed to nurture. To bond through touch and soft murmurs. To provide their bodies to

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Don’t Worry; There’ll Be a Vaccine

Don’t Worry; There’ll Be a Vaccine

Those of us who are old enough can remember back to the 1980s when rare infections that typically only occurred in people with very weak immune systems started killing a growing number of young, otherwise healthy patients.  Ultimately the US CDC began investigating. By 1983 the medical community had found

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Industry Leaders Endorse Act’s Position on ‘Essential Business’

Industry Leaders Endorse Act’s Position on ‘Essential Business’

Press Release: ACT Party “Former chief executive of BusinessNZ Phil O’Reilly and industry leaders have endorsed ACT’s view that the Government should be taking a ‘safety’ rather than an ‘essential’ approach to businesses opening”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. Ministerial Statement – State of National Emergency – Video 5 from

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The BFD Community Noticeboard

The BFD Community Noticeboard

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 If you are needing help the Friends in need group may be able to

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COVID-19 Update: 8 April 2020

COVID-19 Update: 8 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

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Government Should Come Clean on PPE

Government Should Come Clean on PPE

Press Release: ACT Party “The Government needs to come clean on the reason why many frontline health workers can’t get PPE”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “I am hearing many stories from health workers about a lack of PPE on the frontline. “That clearly signals there’s an issue

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Epidemic Response Committee Forces Clark’s Hand

Epidemic Response Committee Forces Clark’s Hand

“Oops I did it again”, reads David Farrar’s headline on his Kiwiblog, referring to our naughty Health Minister David Clark’s other (concealed) breaches of the isolation rules, as daily laid down by his PM. I laughed out loud at the accuracy of Farrar’s reference. Lucky Clark has

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Reusable Supermarket Bags Go the Way of Plastic Ones

Reusable Supermarket Bags Go the Way of Plastic Ones

We live in strange times. Not too long ago, the implementation of the reuseable shopping receptacle was seen as the solution to the apparent scourge of the single-use plastic supermarket bag. It was the fix all, the amazing corrective remedy to help what was seen by some as the

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The BFD Community Noticeboard

The BFD Community Noticeboard

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 If you are needing help the Friends in need group may be able to

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Dear Jacinda

Dear Jacinda

Dear Jacinda, You seem to operate under the old adage that if you tell someone something often enough they will believe it. May I politely ask, was this part of your communications degree? Again at your Sunday press conference, you stated that observing the trajectories overseas had helped the Government

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COVID-19 Update: 7 April 2020

COVID-19 Update: 7 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

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I Tested Myself for the Wuhan Virus

I Tested Myself for the Wuhan Virus

Firstly I live in Europe. The Wuhan Virus test I had may not be available in New Zealand. I had been isolating in the mountains for a couple of weeks. The Girlfriend had to go up to the city. I got a phone call, she had gone into a pharmacy

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