The morning's worthies! And a couple shockers too.
- Best news in rather some time. I'd want to see it extended out over a larger sample. But they're not seeing any difference in "long covid" symptoms between vaccinated people who've had breakthrough infections and people who never caught it.
- The Australian Broadcasting Corporation would know better than to promote antivax cranks. But they'll write this stuff on econ without a second thought. Just to keep in mind next time someone tells you how awesome public broadcasters are. ANU Prof of Econ Rohan Pritchford is on point.
- Looks like Boston is following New Zealand's example - they're getting their own version of the National Policy Statement on Urban Development.
- Writing pieces on the climate change effects of Covid in New Zealand because of effects on city transport, while ignoring that transport is covered by the Emissions Trading Scheme, is pretty stupid.
- The coal tit is a careful shopper, but the weka is a crafty little rent-seeker.
- Amazing. They're using laser pulses on fibre networks under Auckland to find tiny earthquakes that may predict volcanic activity.
- Businesses still face difficulty in figuring out whether vaccination mandates for workers are legal.
- BusinessDesk has put together a network map of people in the public sector. So you can see who is who, and who is connected to whom.
- Pattrick Smellie's predictions for 2022.
