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Ardern: ‘Listen Only to Us.’

Ardern: ‘Listen Only to Us.’

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

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COVID-19 Update & PM Address Post

COVID-19 Update & PM Address Post

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

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When COVID-19 and Virtue-Signalling Law Changes Collide

When COVID-19 and Virtue-Signalling Law Changes Collide

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

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The Prime Minister Needs to Grow the Hell Up

The Prime Minister Needs to Grow the Hell Up

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

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Zip It Sweetie

Zip It Sweetie

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

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What We Can Learn from Italy’s COVID-19 Disaster

What We Can Learn from Italy’s COVID-19 Disaster

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

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End of the World or Millennium Bug 2.0?

End of the World or Millennium Bug 2.0?

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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Sobering Reading

Sobering Reading

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

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Too Little, Too Late. Borders Closed.

Too Little, Too Late. Borders Closed.

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

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The BFD Face of the Day: Winter Is Coming

The BFD Face of the Day: Winter Is Coming

Can you take a hint? The Prime Minister is calling on New Zealanders to prepare to work from home and prepare to stop non-essential travel, as authorities look to stem the spread of coronavirus COVID-19. Newshub Today’s face of the day Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is hinting

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