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The BFD Video: The Coronavirus Explained & What You Should Do
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No Justification for Race-based COVID-19 Funding.
Casey Costello Hobson’s Pledge Trust There is not the slightest justification for allocating $56-million in Covid-19 funding on the basis of race, Hobson’s Pledge spokesperson Casey Costello said yesterday. In today’s announcement: * $10 million from Vote Maori Development is for community outreach, * $30 million for
A Medical Worker Describes Terrifying Lung Failure from COVID-19 — Even in His Young Patients
Lizzie Presser ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. As of Friday, Louisiana was reporting 479 confirmed cases of COVID-19, one of the highest numbers in the country. Ten people had
COVID-19 Update & Prime Minister’s Statement: 23 March 2020
Prime Minister’s statement: * Alert Level 3 now in place immediately * PM will issue an epidemic notice and will move country to a national civil defence emergency * Two cases of possible community spread. * Potential for cases to double every five days. * Reviewed in 48 hours, will go to Level 4
An Act of War?
In 1346 the Mongolian army brought the Black Plague to Europe. Laying siege to the Crimean port of Caffa, Jani Beg the leader of ‘the Golden Horde’ decided to catapult the infected corpses of his comrades over the city walls. Those citizens who escaped took the bacterium Yersinia Pestis back
The Case for Endgame C: STOP Almost Everything, Restart When Coronavirus Is Gone
John Daley Chief Executive Officer Grattan Institute This is longer than the usual Conversation article, so allow some time to take it in. Nobody likes talking about the COVID-19 endgame, but we need to choose one. The appropriate interventions – public health, government spending, and freedom of movement – all depend
Watch: This Is How Crap Our Border Policy Is
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
Show Me the Money
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
Government Minister Advocates Breaking the Law
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
Listen to the Israeli Defence Minister, He’s Telling Us What Our Government Won’t
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
Random Impertinent Questions for the Government
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
The BFD Face of the Day
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
The BFD Video: Ozzy Man on Coronavirus #StayHomeSaveLives
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The BFD Video: In Italy They Are Calling It the Apocalypse
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