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May 5, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Surviving the Black Flu It has been interesting for me to look back and investigate the Black Flu pandemic of 1918. The 1918 pandemic is widely regarded to have been the world’s worst pandemic since the Black Death of the late 1340s. (It was commonly known as the ‘Spanish Flu’, but this ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Smart Treatments in a Pandemic; Lessons from the Black Flu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/keith-rankin-analysis-smart-treatments-in-a-pandemic-lessons-from-the-black-flu/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Smart Treatments in a Pandemic; Lessons from the Black Flu">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Economy Robert MacCulloch (Herald): A time for trickle-up economics (paywalled) Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Sir Roger Douglas – Let big firms ‘fend for themselves’ Bruce Munro (ODT): Recovery for all Simon Wilson (Herald): Is this the ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 05 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-05-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 05 2020">Read more</a>
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May 4, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. These two charts show the total number of cases and deaths, by country, over the seven days ended 2 May 2020. In these charts a number of countries with populations below 50,000 have been omitted; countries which have shown in earlier charts. The first chart is sequenced by death rates (orange). ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: New Cases and Casualties" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/04/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-new-cases-and-casualties/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: New Cases and Casualties">Read more</a>
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May 1, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. At the end of this week, I have represented the latest summary charts with a log 10 scale, rather than the previous log 2 scale. This means that, as well as accurately showing the exponential growth pattern, the charts now emphasise ten-fold increases of Covid19 fatalities. At the top of the ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: April Summary Charts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/01/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-april-summary-charts/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: April Summary Charts">Read more</a>
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May 1, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Economy, recovery, UBI Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): The List Candidate: Winston Peters and the Looming Covid-19 Depression Chris Trotter: If The Answer Is “Treasury”, Then Ask Another Question Matthew Hooton (Herald): Into the future ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 01 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/01/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-01-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 01 2020">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Fact Checking On Mondays – or Tuesdays after public holidays – National Radio’s Kathryn Ryan runs a session called ‘Political Commentators’. On 28 April, from the right was regular commentator Matthew Hooton. From the left was Neal Jones who is listed as: “Chief of Staff to Labour Leader Jacinda Ardern, and prior ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Universal Income Flat Tax: the Mechanism that Makes the Necessary Possible" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/30/keith-rankin-analysis-universal-income-flat-tax-the-mechanism-that-makes-the-necessary-possible/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Universal Income Flat Tax: the Mechanism that Makes the Necessary Possible">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Winston Peters is back, Ministry of Health proposed complete border shutdown Jane Patterson (RNZ): Winston Peters back on his podium with Covid-19 border closure bombshell Henry Cooke (Stuff): Peters takes on officialdom Barry ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 30 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/30/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-30-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 30 2020">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. At the end of last month I published a chart showing the main features of Covid19 deaths in the United States. Today I publish an update, which has most of the same American places. At the end of last month, New Orleans (125 deaths per million people) had the worst outbreak, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: United States’ Update" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/29/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-united-states-update/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: United States’ Update">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Pandemic preparedness, “eliminating” Covid-19, contact tracing Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Long read: NZ wasn’t ready for a pandemic Gordon Campbell: On living at Level Three with residual anxiety Emma Russell (Herald): New Zealand ‘currently eliminated’ ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 29 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/29/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-29-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 29 2020">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Predictions It is dangerous to predict how pandemics will pan out. In Covid19 by the Numbers, Anatole Kaletsky (writing for Project Syndicate on 10 March 2020) used what looked like advanced analysis to conclude that at most 750,000 outside of China would contract Covid19. (He admitted he was wide of the ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Will Covid-19 remain a First-World Disease?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/28/keith-rankin-analysis-will-covid-19-remain-a-first-world-disease/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Will Covid-19 remain a First-World Disease?">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Eliminating Covid-19 Derek Cheng (Herald): Eliminating Covid 19 coronavirus: Jacinda Ardern’s trailblazing mission that we may have already won (paywalled) Andrea Vance (Stuff): Why the hero-worship of Jacinda Ardern is unhealthy Bryce Edwards (Democracy ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 28 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/28/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-28-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 28 2020">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2020
Analysis by Bryce Edwards The line between “political point-scoring” and “speaking truth to power” can be a fine one. No one likes to see people opportunistically using a time of great tragedy and danger for their own political advantage. That doesn’t mean we should become intolerant to questions about the actions of those in power, ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Challenge of speaking “truth to power” in a time of crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/24/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-challenge-of-speaking-truth-to-power-in-a-time-of-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Challenge of speaking “truth to power” in a time of crisis">Read more</a>
