Kiwi Shanghai resident, Andy Boreham, documents just how useless our border controls are for halting the spread of COVID-19 especially when compared with China’s border and quarantine response. I never thought I’d need to be tested for novel #coronavirus, especially with all the precautions I take, but there
I have been working with a few local business people, helping them to put together an application for funds from the government from their stimulus package, announced last Tuesday. While I spent some time preparing figures to demonstrate the 30% downturn in income from last year, it seems it was
According to Jo Moir, Peeni Henare supports Maori communities breaking the law. What Peeni Henare is actually saying is that he disagrees with his Prime Minister and the Ministry of Health both of whom are saying that we are at Level Two in our response to COVID-19. He is a
Naftali Bennet, the Israeli Defence Minister says on Facebook: We will take care of the elders of the state of Israel. Operation “saving grandpa and grandma” is underway:The Goal:Protect everything from the adult population from Corona. The method:1. Old people who have family and family members will
Cruise Ships as Floating Isolation Wards? Right now there are four cruise ships in Auckland. They are all empty – no passengers. They are the La Laperouse, Silver Muse, Bremen and Noordam. Noordam has been moored off Whangaparaoa since Wednesday last week. La Laperouse also; until Saturday night when it moored
UPDATED/URGENT Request of Doctors: This petition has clearly grown beyond just medical professionals now, with many other people signing the petition. If you are a doctor, please urgently sign this doctors-only petition instead: https://bit.ly/nzmedicalspecialistspetition as it is being delivered very soon. This alternative petition was created
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Editors Note: The following chart and PDF that appears to be from the World Health Organisation was sent to The BFD today anonymously so I cannot confirm their accuracy. The person who sent it to us claims that New Zealand has had confirmation of community transmission since 20/3/2020.
British author Oliver Murphy talks about stockpiling and the reasons behind panic buying. It was last week when Isabel had come out of major surgery to remove a brain tumour. Now convalescing at home, Isabel (not her real name) is only able to take paracetamol to manage what she describes
Ministry of Health briefing: * 14 new cases confirmed. * Total is now 66. * Five cases were in Auckland, 1 case in Northland, 1 in Canterbury, 2 in New Plymouth, 2 in Waikato, 1 in Tauranga, 1 in Coromandel, and 1 in Dunedin. * 11 have history of international travel. 2 cases have
A reader noticed this on the local Helensville Community Facebook page: So they decided to email the self-isolation email that was pushed everywhere on Friday and Saturday by the Ministry of Health. This was the reply: Riiight…you can’t even play a knock, knock joke with that because there
What do you know? Pollution levels are down, the sky can be seen over China and the canals in Venice are cleaner than ever in living memory. And what brought this about? The coronavirus pandemic. A real emergency, where thousands have already lost their lives, forced us to change our
Today’s Vigilante of the day, Rawiri Waititi has reacted to our PM’s weak as dishwater COVID-19 response by taking the law into his own hands and illegally enforcing what he describes as border controls in an attempt to protect his community. He and his community will be enforcing
