Fred Lucas PA Pundits – International Fred Lucas is the White House correspondent for The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation and he is the co-host of “The Right Side of History” podcast. In what he called a “game-changer or maybe not,” President Donald Trump on Thursday directed the Food and
If long time and highly respected CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour can make the comment that one of the positive outcomes of Covid-19 is the serious reduction in pollution of the skies over China, perhaps I can take a moment to add a few more. Before I do, let me just
California is now on lockdown with the Governor issuing a stay at home order for residents. California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a statewide order for all of the state’s residents to “stay at home” during the coronavirus pandemic. “We need to bend the curve in the state of California,
Ms Ardern has been at pains to let us all know that we should only listen to information from official Government sources. Apparently everything else should be “taken with a grain of salt”. “We will share with you the most up-to-date information daily. You can trust us as a source
This post will serve as updates on COVID-19 and the Prime Minister’s address at midday. Prime Minister’s midday briefing Here is Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s full speech when she addressed the nation about coronavirus in New Zealand earlier today. Kia ora koutou katoa I’m speaking directly
The BFD’s writers have one and all been opposed to the government’s ban on so called single-use plastic bags. We opposed them for a number of reasons: 1. Banning them does not save turtles or help the environment as New Zealand is not the source of plastic pollution
The rest of the world is taking the Covid-19 pandemic a great deal more seriously than our Prime Minister. While Israel moves into full lockdown along with many other countries, Jacinda Ardern is performing PR stunts. The latest is a press conference specifically for children: New Zealand’s prime minister
Mike: David Clark ah couldn’t tell me before how many test kits are in this country, can you? Jacinda: We have 30,000 swabs as part of our testing ah… capacity… for up to 1,500 a day and of course as you can imagine the whole world, Mike,
Paula Bennett is having a massive sook about not being included in the Government’s Covid-19 outbreak discussions. National deputy leader Paula Bennett is firing back at criticism about Simon Bridges‘ and the party’s response to the coronavirus outbreak. It’s a hard time but the Opposition is meant
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This unbelievable campaign ran in Italy mid-February. Northern Italy is now the major centre of COVID-19 outbreak in the West. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
Italy has become the poster child for COVID-19 in the West for all the wrong reasons. Outside of China, it has the world’s highest number of infections. Horror stories are emerging of a health system cracking under the strain and the whole country is under unprecedented lockdown. There are
Groucho Marx famously said, “politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies”. We’ve seen this recently in panicked political responses to disasters, real and imagined, which actually cause more harm than that which they’re supposedly remedying. Fukushima,
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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 about
The Government has finally decided to close our borders to all but citizens and permanent residents. They have finally done what they should have done with the original border controls less than a week ago: New Zealand is closing its borders to everyone but citizens and permanent residents in an
