This afternoon's worthies, as I try to free up system resources so the Zoom session I'm listening in on might work a little better:
- The Canterbury Crusaders want what is effectively hundreds of millions of dollars of subsidies for their sports franchise. It would be nice if support for their sports team could be demonstrated through a PledgeMe fundraising drive for a stadium, rather than by forcing everyone in Christchurch to pay for it. Mayor Lianne Dalziel notes that the thing didn't pass cost-benefit even before the big run-up in costs.
- The Reserve Bank is not Tane Mahuta. But if it is, then its Governor is a Northern Rata slowly strangling a once beautiful tree. DoC wouldn't let it happen.
- Marc Daalder keeps providing the best NZ coverage on the current Covid state of play.
- Economists (rightly) don't like laws against price gouging.
- Pfizer's Covid vax is safe and effective for under-5s. Well, duh. So when will it be available in NZ?
- I'd not caught the BBC Radio version of Flight of the Conchords, from 2005. It's very good. HT: Andrew Farrant.
- Anti-Money Laundering laws have made money transfers to the Pacific unsafe. This whole regime is so bad.
- ESR geneticist Mike Bunce and Siouxsie Wiles sing the praises of wastewater testing. Bit of a shame that, as of 16 June, the most recent wastewater testing results were released 2 June, for the week ended 29 May.
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