New Zealand is by a very long shot, the most geographically isolated developed nation in the world.

For that reason we’ve always suffered a sizeable brain drain as anyone with an ounce of spirit, leaves for the more interesting life the wider world offers.

Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman had the misfortune to be struck with multiple sclerosis in 2018. This. is an affliction in which the body’s all-important immune system basically turns on itself and instead of its protective role, attacks the body in diverse ways.

How amusing to read Otago University’s Professor of Public Health, Michael Baker, advise that the hand-washing hysteria last year re catching Covid was entirely misplaced. He said that while other infections could be caught through physical contacts, not so Covid which is solely transmitted through the air.

The dying Stuff news media outfit, bought for $1 a couple of years back, continues to entertain with its illiteracy.