The other incidents referred to in the article are in Vietnam and China where areas that had previously had no infections for many months had an outbreak based around a food processing facility. These were considered interesting both for the possibility ...
Interesting article in a food industry journal overnight reporting on a pre-print (not yet reviewed) of a scientific study evaluating how long COVID-19 can live on frozen food or food packaging. The answer: up to three weeks, and the experimental design ...
Thanks VtV, I really appreciate the support you are showing and the care you have put into helping us strategize a step forward. You are really showing how The Standard can still work to help us understand and respond to political situations.
Agreed! That piece on Happy Cow Milk is brilliant. I signed up immediately.
Reading pretty well anything on the Herald these days is somewhat like deciding to change your diet to nothing but eggcups full of M&Ms... I will say, however, that I am increasingly impressed with the growing infuence and quality of Newsroom. Rod Oram's ...
Great post Amy, and kia kaha to all the angry social workers across NZ who feel like they just got politically shafted by their own team! The post yesterday traversed whether this was just a cock-up by a new Select Committee who hadn't got their heads ...
Thanks VtV, that is a really helpful primer on the long road that we've travelled down on this one. I'm very encouraged that you think this is 'cockup' not 'conspiracy' by a hasty and unfamiliar select committee (not my area of expertise) because that ...
Yes Bill, you've got it in one! Imagine translating this into nursing and we abandoned the professional process for training and demarcating scope of practice for nurses? How many days would pass before budget-stretched Health Boards began rapidly re-...
This is a total smack in the gob for everyone who has worked so hard for so many yearst to get the previous government to recognise the professional needs and underpinning of the Social Work profession. Getting Tolley et al. to agree to the original ...
Thank you Anthony, Your online life has tracked the great transition in social media involvement in politics. Thanks to you the Centre/Left has had a committed (bordering on relentless) and principled advocate. Good luck for your future challenges - likely...
Excellent post. I have been challenged recently by political friends in the US to explain why the politics of immigration in NZ is actually different to reprehensible political impulses now being unleashed in the US and what you are characterising in ...
Yes indeed Anthony! You might also add that they would enjoy the opportunities of opposition to avoid having to live up to those tiresome standards of MInisterial behaviour, to avoid having to have their Prime Minister constantly excuse their marginally ...
Thanks Incognito. I feel suitably encouraged to post some more in due course... I must confess, however, that I had a previous story ready to go which I then had to bin... As a social scientist I'm particularly interested in polling, its limitations, its ...
Now, that is a challenge! Let me see: 1) boost GDP 2) the cows look pretty...? 3) a disproportionate number of All Blacks are bred by dairy farmers...? 4) nope, nothing else is coming to mind...
Agreed! 'Bothsiderism' is what got the US media into so much trouble re: Trump. Bryce has a chronic case of bothsiderism, and I'll be reading his column tomorrow to see how 'evenhanded' he manages to be.
I think that if you read the first paragraph carefully, you'll see that he is going to do the 'Signs of a Labour/NZ First Government' column tomorrow: "The day has arrived for Winston Peters and New Zealand First to decide which major party to put into ...
I wonder if someone could arrange a sweepstake among the political punditocracy as to what the outcome might be. Get every one of them to write down their predicted result in a sealed envelope on Wednesday night and submit them to a neutral arbitrator. ...
After May, the biggest loser in this result is Lynton Crosby. He has just followed the same pathway as Karl Rove in making the transition from 'evil tory genius' to 'hopelessly out of touch loser' in the space of one exit poll.
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