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Politically Incorrect Map of the Day
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The BFD Video: Passersby give Chinese girl hugs in Milan #ImNotVirus #ImHuman
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
2020: Monkey Gang Fights and Cat Butthole Movies
In the wonderful Japanese manga-turned-movie trilogy, 20th Century Boys, a group of friends in the 1970s write a comic book describing the year 2000. It’s all giant robots and end-of-the-world stuff. 30 years later, it all starts coming true. In a similar vein, a current social media meme asks
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 are
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,
The BFD Map of the Day: Most Popular US State Attractions
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Covid-19: Glimmers of Hope Emerge
Amidst all the doom and panic-mongering over the Wuhan Flu, it’s good to be able to report that there are some hopeful signs. Although a cure or vaccine is probably at least months away, scientists are already reporting progress. There are also reported signs that the virus may already
Fun in a Time of Plague
Are you sick to death (OK, bad choice of words) of hearing about the Wuhan Flu? I can’t blame you. But, hey, everything has its bright side. Black humour is a great coping mechanism for bad times, so here are some bright spots of comedy gold amongst all the
Why NZ’s Tough Coronavirus Travel Rules Are Crucial to Protecting Lives at Home and across the Pacific
Regina Scheyvens Massey University New Zealand’s border restrictions will come with significant job and business losses in the tourism sector, both at home and in the Pacific. But the new travel rules are absolutely necessary to protect the health of New Zealanders and people right across Pacific Islands, because
Coronavirus Weekly: Expert Analysis from the Conversation Global Network
Ina Skosana The Conversation The global crisis triggered by the spread of the new coronavirus disease, COVID-19, continues to take fresh and dramatic turns, causing havoc in dozens of countries around the world. Stock markets remain volatile, having recording historic collapses in share prices. As the disease continued to spread
The BFD View From Your Window
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First Day of Elderly-Only Shopping Hour Bombs
Poor old Woollies (Countdown, to you Kiwis). First, they have to put up with idiots clearing their shelves of dunny paper. Then the enraged People of a Certain Type brawling at the checkouts and taking the stick (literally) to their staff. Then, when they try and innovate to cope with
