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The Persuader
My personal blog, started in 2006. No paid or guest posts, no link sales.
Posts tagged ‘statistics’
16.01.2023
Around January 3, the regular traffic to each blog post fell off a cliff here. Either my posts have suddenly become a bore and not worth reading, or something else external has happened. Is Feedburner dead? Is it because my Twitter account is locked (by me, a few weeks ago)? Is it the death of Bing? Or were the hundreds of views per post (700 being typical) overinflated all these years? Anyone else observed quite a sudden change? (I did two posts on the 3rd, one is on 309 views, the other on 98 at the time of writing. The rest haven鈥檛 picked up much since the second post on the 3rd.)
It鈥檚 not a huge deal since I blog as catharsis and when I was on Vox (2006鈥9), I never looked at any stats anyway. But there was a part of me quite happy that my silly musings were useful or entertaining enough to warrant those visits.
A quick site:jackyan.com search gives us these figures (claimed, followed by actual). Including this post, there are 1,252 posts on Wordpress, and quite a few in the old Blogger archive (still live), so I’d expect over 1,000 results:
Mojeek: 456/456
Google: 708/288
Bing: 219/58
Yandex: 2,000/250
Baidu: 2,110/233
Gigablast: 鈥/0
Yep: 鈥/10
The western search engines are really low but Mojeek once again leads with pages delivered (and showed exactly the amount of results it said it would). I’m surprised that Baidu does so well here. Yandex has a lot of index pages in their results, so take their figure with a grain of salt; and Bing repeats from page to page鈥攖hough 58 here (with repeats) is more than 10 for Lucire. Are the search engines the culprits? Or a Wordpress plug-in?
Tags: 2023, Bing, blogosphere, Google, Mojeek, search engines, statistics, Vox, Wordpress
Posted in culture, internet, technology | No Comments »
08.12.2022
I was hoping we鈥檇 crack 30 million page views by the end of November, but it鈥檚 taken an extra week or so to get to this milestone at Autocade.
The stats鈥 counter shows 2,375,730; added to the last recorded total of 27,647,011 before the server upgrade and a new MediaWiki installation, and we鈥檙e comfortably in the 30,000,000 territory. In fact, I believe we would have got here yesterday when the counter was 2,354,000, but I didn鈥檛 have time to check the old total.
I had looked at the daily increases and there were some days when the page views jumped by 20,000. The smallest was 7,000. Typically I鈥檇 see 10,000, maybe a little more.
Overall the pace has been far slower this year than last, possibly due to Bing acting like it鈥檚 on life support, and dragging all its proxies (Duck Duck Go, Ecosia, Yahoo, Qwant) with it.
Fewer models have gone up, too, admittedly, with the total now at 4,631; in early August we had hit 4,600. But it has been a bit busy here lately and do people really want to see another SUV?
The top 10 model leaderboard is still very interesting:
Toyota Corolla (E210) (6,892 views)
Ford Taunus 80 (3,438 views)
Daewoo Winstorm (2,792 views)
Ford Fiesta Mk VII (2,599 views)
Peugeot 206+, 207 (2,591 views)
Renault M茅gane II (2,536 views)
Opel Astra J (2,495 views)
Rover SD1 (2,391 views)
Renault M茅gane III (2,256 views)
Ford Cortina Mk III (2,241 views)
The Daewoo Winstorm continues its rise, the previous-generation Fiesta has overtaken the 206+ at last, while the Kia Morning (TA), which experienced a surge in August, has now departed the top 10. The Renault M茅gane III is now ninth, which makes me rather happy due to my own bias (not that I have been responsible for any clicks).
As the numbers get back up to what they were before the reset, these rankings will become less meaningful, but for now there鈥檚 still some academic interest to see them jostling for position.
So here鈥檚 how we stand in terms of our traffic development.
March 2008: launch
April 2011: 1,000,000 (three years for first million)
March 2012: 2,000,000 (11 months for second million)
May 2013: 3,000,000 (14 months for third million)
January 2014: 4,000,000 (eight months for fourth million)
September 2014: 5,000,000 (eight months for fifth million)
May 2015: 6,000,000 (eight months for sixth million)
October 2015: 7,000,000 (five months for seventh million)
March 2016: 8,000,000 (five months for eighth million)
August 2016: 9,000,000 (five months for ninth million)
February 2017: 10,000,000 (six months for 10th million)
June 2017: 11,000,000 (four months for 11th million)
January 2018: 12,000,000 (seven months for 12th million)
May 2018: 13,000,000 (four months for 13th million)
September 2018: 14,000,000 (four months for 14th million)
February 2019: 15,000,000 (five months for 15th million)
June 2019: 16,000,000 (four months for 16th million)
October 2019: 17,000,000 (four months for 17th million)
December 2019: 18,000,000 (just under three months for 18th million)
April 2020: 19,000,000 (just over three months for 19th million)
July 2020: 20,000,000 (just over three-and-a-half months for 20th million)
October 2020: 21,000,000 (three months for 21st million)
January 2021: 22,000,000 (three months for 22nd million)
April 2021: 23,000,000 (three months for 23rd million)
June 2021: 24,000,000 (two months for 24th million)
August 2021: 25,000,000 (two months for 25th million)
October 2021: 26,000,000 (two months for 26th million)
January 2022: 27,000,000 (three months for 27th million)
April 2022: 28,000,000 (three months for 28th million)
August 2022: 29,000,000 (four months for 29th million)
December 2022: 30,000,000 (three months, 10 days for 30th million)
The latest model entered: the current Nissan Fairlady Z. For once I had something cool to show for one of these million-milestone posts.
Tags: 2022, Autocade, car, cars, Mediawiki, Nissan, publishing, statistics
Posted in cars, internet, media, publishing | No Comments »
27.08.2022
It took a while, but Autocade has now finally reached 29 million page views.
The stats鈥 page since the count was reset shows 1,362,506 views. Add that to the 27,647,011 recorded on March 19, 2022, and we have well and truly crossed the 29 million mark (by 9,517, in fact).
We probably got there yesterday given that the counter is no longer updated live (so much for improving technology), and I didn鈥檛 get a chance to look in.
Sadly, this does mean the slowest growth in reader numbers since 2019.
I鈥檓 sure part of it is down to Bing鈥檚 collapse, which must have shaved off at least six per cent of our daily totals.
What I have found fascinating is our model leaderboard. The Ford Taunus 80 had been leading for some time since the reset, but it鈥檚 been well and truly beaten by the current Toyota Corolla. What caused a sudden surge during August is anyone鈥檚 guess, but all I know is that I鈥檓 grateful for it. It鈥檚 a newish page as well.
The Kia Morning (TA) is now third, another newer entry that shot up the ranks.
I鈥檝e also been watching the pages for the Peugeot 206+ and 207 jostle for fourth place against the Daewoo Winstorm. (At the time of writing, the Winstorm is ahead by five views.) Another former leaderboard champ, the Ford Fiesta Mk VII, now sits in sixth, while the Renault M茅gane II, Opel Astra J, Rover SD1 and Ford Cortina Mk III complete the top 10.
Here’s how the Autocade traffic watch is going:
March 2008: launch
April 2011: 1,000,000 (three years for first million)
March 2012: 2,000,000 (11 months for second million)
May 2013: 3,000,000 (14 months for third million)
January 2014: 4,000,000 (eight months for fourth million)
September 2014: 5,000,000 (eight months for fifth million)
May 2015: 6,000,000 (eight months for sixth million)
October 2015: 7,000,000 (five months for seventh million)
March 2016: 8,000,000 (five months for eighth million)
August 2016: 9,000,000 (five months for ninth million)
February 2017: 10,000,000 (six months for 10th million)
June 2017: 11,000,000 (four months for 11th million)
January 2018: 12,000,000 (seven months for 12th million)
May 2018: 13,000,000 (four months for 13th million)
September 2018: 14,000,000 (four months for 14th million)
February 2019: 15,000,000 (five months for 15th million)
June 2019: 16,000,000 (four months for 16th million)
October 2019: 17,000,000 (four months for 17th million)
December 2019: 18,000,000 (just under three months for 18th million)
April 2020: 19,000,000 (just over three months for 19th million)
July 2020: 20,000,000 (just over three-and-a-half months for 20th million)
October 2020: 21,000,000 (three months for 21st million)
January 2021: 22,000,000 (three months for 22nd million)
April 2021: 23,000,000 (three months for 23rd million)
June 2021: 24,000,000 (two months for 24th million)
August 2021: 25,000,000 (two months for 25th million)
October 2021: 26,000,000 (two months for 26th million)
January 2022: 27,000,000 (three months for 27th million)
April 2022: 28,000,000 (three months for 28th million)
August 2022: 29,000,000 (four months for 29th million)
Toyota鈥檚 unsuccessful Verossa was the latest entry into the database.
Tags: 2022, Aotearoa, Autocade, cars, Daewoo, Ford, JY&A Media, New Zealand, Peugeot, publishing, statistics, Toyota
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07.08.2022
Ever since we had to reset the counter for Autocade in March, because of a new server and a new version of Mediawiki, it鈥檚 been interesting to see which pages are most popular.
The old ranking took into account everything from March 2008 to March 2022. With everything set to zero again, I can now see what鈥檚 been most popular in the last few months.
Some of the top 20 were among the top pages before March 2022, but what鈥檚 surprising is what鈥檚 shot up into the top slots.
Over the course of half a day on Friday GMT, the Toyota Corolla (E210) page found itself as the top page, home page excepting. And the Kia Morning (TA) page shot up out of nowhere recently, too.
I know our page on the Corolla is number one on Mojeek for a search of that model but that can鈥檛 be the only reason it鈥檚 done so well. I haven鈥檛 studied the referrer data. A shame that link: no longer works on search engines.
Corolla fans, thank you for your extra 6,000 page views! It鈥檚 helped our overall total, but the viewing rate is still down at 2019 levels thanks to the collapse of the Bing index, and the search engines that it鈥檚 taken down with them.
I almost feel I鈥檝e shot myself in the foot for promoting Duck Duck Go so much since 2010! But then I hopefully spared a lot of people from being tracked (as much) by the big G.
Tags: 2022, Autocade, Bing, JY&A Media, Mediawiki, Mojeek, publishing, statistics, Toyota
Posted in cars, interests, internet, media, New Zealand, publishing, technology | No Comments »
24.07.2022
Because I have OCD, one more round of stats.
It鈥檚 not just us: Bing seems to have a reduced index for everyone. Here are a handful of sites that I fed in at random for site: searches. The only site where it beats Mojeek in indexed pages is, you guessed it, Microsoft鈥檚. I guess since Google favours Google鈥檚 own results, Bing does a better job indexing Microsoft鈥檚鈥攁nd I doubt it鈥檚 because their own people conform to Bing鈥檚 applied-when-they-choose rules.
Die Zeit
Google: 2,600,000
Mojeek: 4,796 (0路18 per cent of Google鈥檚 total)
Bing: 3,770 (0路15 per cent of Google鈥檚 total)
Annabelle (Switzerland)
Google: 11,700
Mojeek: 405 (3路46%)
Bing: 105 (0路90%)
Holly Jahangiri
Google: 738
Mojeek: 222 (30路08%)
Bing: 49 (6路64%)
The Gloss (Ireland)
Google: 19,200
Mojeek: 1,968 (10路25%)
Bing: 71 (0路37%)
The New York Times
Google: 36,200,000
Mojeek: 2,823,329 (7路80%)
Bing: 1,190,000 (3路29%)
Lucire
Google: 6,050
Mojeek: 3,572 (59路04%)
Bing: 50 (0路83%)
The Rake
Google: 11,500
Mojeek: 1,443 (12路55%)
Bing: 49 (0路43%)
Travel & Leisure
Google: 28,100
Mojeek: 9,750 (34路70%)
Bing: 220 (0路78%)
Microsoft
Google: 122,000,000
Bing: 14,200,000 (11路64%)
Mojeek: 1,748,199 (1路43%)
Detective Marketing
Google: 998
Mojeek: 579 (58路02%)
Bing: 51 (5路11%)
In the earlier Microsoft thread I linked, the original poster found that after they joined Bing Webmaster Tools and imported their Google data, that鈥檚 when their site vanished from Bing. So, again, we鈥檙e not alone.
I’d seriously be rethinking my business model if I was running a search engine that was reliant on Bing.
Tags: 2022, Google, Microsoft, Mojeek, publishing, search engine, search engines, statistics, website
Posted in internet, media, publishing, technology, USA | No Comments »
16.02.2021
It brings me very little pleasure to do these calculations. After reading Umair Haque鈥檚 January 24 piece on the UK鈥檚 poor response to COVID-19鈥攁t the time the country had, by his reckoning, the highest death toll per capita in the world鈥擨 decided to feed in the numbers again, as of 9 a.m. GMT today. Here are the percentages of positive cases out of total tests done, based on the official figures. I know it鈥檚 not scientific, but it gives me a rough idea of who鈥檚 doing worse and who鈥檚 doing better, relative to the last set (December 7, 2020), and, I hate to say it, the slap-dash response by some countries is prolonging our pain as a planet.
Brazil 34路50% 鈫
Sweden 10路66% 鈫
USA 8路42% 鈫
Spain 8路27% 鈫
Italy 7路51% 鈫
France 7路08% 鈫
Germany 5路62% 鈫
India 5路27% 鈫
UK 4路90% 鈫
Russia 3路82% 鈫
KSA 2路88% 鈫
South Korea 1路36% 鈫
Singapore 0路88% 鈫
Taiwan 0路56% 鈫
Australia 0路21% 鈫
Hong Kong 0路152% 鈫
New Zealand 0路146% 鈫
He also notes that the UK was going to delay people getting their second vaccination shots. I hope the country has since changed its tune, but looking at the likes of Johnson and Hancock, who helped to gift the world the British mutation, I doubt they have the nous. Even my fifth form science will tell me this (original emphases):
Because science says so. Animal models already tell us that if the second dose isn鈥檛 had within about a month, the immune cascade vaccines trigger fails to happen. Immunity doesn鈥檛 result. Antibodies aren鈥檛 developed 鈥
What鈥檚 the upshot likely to be for Britain? The entire country鈥檚 vaccination program is likely to fail. There are going to be a whole lot of people who get one dose, but not the second in time, and most of those people will not develop immunity. Do you know what happens when you cross a halfway vaccinated population with a fast evolving virus? That鈥檚 right, vaccine resistance. Britain already made itself a perfect petri dish for new strains of Covid 鈥 but what Britain鈥檚 doing right now is making it the perfect petri dish for deadlier, more infectious, and much, much more vaccine resistant strains of the virus.
I have dear friends there, at least one who is immuno-compromised, and this is, to put it bluntly, a shitshow. I’m glad their daily infection numbers have now fallen under 10,000, but all this needn’t have happened.
Tags: 2021, Boris Johnson, coronavirus, COVID-19, health, statistics, UK, Umair Haque
Posted in general, politics, UK | 1 Comment »
07.12.2020
It鈥檚 hard not to be in a bubble sometimes, especially when that bubble is safe in the southern hemisphere and away from wars and COVID-19.
With TVNZ having a New York bureau, we of course hear about how poorly the US is doing with COVID-19, and we also hear from the London bureau, where the numbers aren鈥檛 as staggering, so they don鈥檛 always make the six o鈥檆lock programme. Aljazeera English mentioned South Korea鈥檚 third wave, looking worse than the second, and I knew Hong Kong鈥檚 numbers were on the up.
However, right though the month of November, I didn鈥檛 calculate positivity rates at all, even though I had been doing them most months, sometimes multiple times a month. These were going on to my NewTumbl blog, which I鈥檝e decided not to update for the time being, for reasons already outlined.
Doing them again since late October gave me quite a surprise. I knew Europe was having a rough time with it, but there was quite a change in the numbers. In fact, it wasn鈥檛 long ago that these rates were trending downwards for the majority of countries that I had been tracking; that is no longer the case. It鈥檚 rising almost everywhere apart from India, the KSA (which has sensibly and surely got its first wave down鈥擨鈥檝e seen days of under 200 infections), Singapore, Australia, and, of course, here in New Zealand.
For the first time since I鈥檝e been doing these calculations, we are at the bottom of the table, a fact that I鈥檓 relieved about, but it does make me worried about the rest of the world. I have a lot of family in the US and Hong Kong.
The data come from Worldometers and they tend to source from official parties. I believe I loaded the page around 2200 GMT.
Brazil 25路77% 鈫
France 10路86% 鈫
Sweden 8路07% 鈫
Italy 7路50% 鈫
USA 7路33% 鈫
Spain 7路12% 鈫
India 6路57% 鈫
Germany 4路11% 鈫
UK 3路79% 鈫
KSA 3路62% 鈫
Russia 3路12% 鈫
Singapore 1路25% 鈫
South Korea 1路19% 鈫
Taiwan 0路64% 鈫
Australia 0路27% 鈫
Hong Kong 0路159% 鈫
New Zealand 0路158% 鈫
The arrows are in comparison to the last set of calculations from October 26:
Brazil 24路63% 鈫
France 7路651% 鈫
India 7路645% 鈫
Spain 7路16% 鈫
USA 6路67% 鈫
Sweden 5路33% 鈫
KSA 4路50% 鈫
Italy 3路59% 鈫
UK 2路80% 鈫
Russia 2路64% 鈫
Germany 2路15% 鈫
Singapore 1路66% 鈫
South Korea 1路02% 鈫
Taiwan 0路55% 鈫
Australia 0路32% 鈫
New Zealand 0路18% 鈫
Hong Kong 0路15% 鈫
which were measured against a bunch from September 2.
Tags: 2020, coronavirus, COVID-19, health, Hong Kong, media, New Zealand, NewTumbl, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, statistics, UK, USA
Posted in China, France, Hong Kong, India, internet, media, New Zealand, TV, UK, USA | 1 Comment »
26.07.2020
Above: The 4,243th model entered into Autocade, now on 20,008,500 page views: the Maxus G50.
Autocade鈥檚 passed the 20,000,000 page-view mark, sitting on just over 20,008,000 at the time of writing, on 4,243 models entered (the Maxus G50 is the newest), an increase of 101 models over the last million views.
As it鈥檚 the end of July, then it鈥檚 taken just under four months for the site to gain another million page views. It鈥檚 not as fast as the million it took to get to 18,000,000 or the previous million milestone.
To be frank, the last few months have been a little on the dull side for updating Autocade. No Salon de Gen猫ve meant that while there were new models, they weren鈥檛 all appearing during the same week at one of the world鈥檚 biggest car shows. And it鈥檚 not all that interesting talking about another SUV or crossover: they鈥檙e all rather boxy, tall, and unnecessary. If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it鈥檚 that we have certain behaviours that aren鈥檛 really helping our planet, and surely selfish SUVs are a sign of those?
I don鈥檛 begrudge those who really use theirs off-road, but as a statement of wank, I鈥檓 not so sure.
So many of them seem like the same vehicle but cut to different lengths, like making cake slices and seeing what remains.
During the lockdown, I put on a bunch of older models, too, which made the encyclop忙dia more complete, but I imagine those who come to the site wanting data on the latest stuff might have been slightly disappointed.
It does mean that we didn鈥檛 see much of an increase in traffic during lockdown here, but the opposite.
As is the tradition on this blog, here was how the growth looked.
March 2008: launch
April 2011: 1,000,000 (three years for first million)
March 2012: 2,000,000 (11 months for second million)
May 2013: 3,000,000 (14 months for third million)
January 2014: 4,000,000 (eight months for fourth million)
September 2014: 5,000,000 (eight months for fifth million)
May 2015: 6,000,000 (eight months for sixth million)
October 2015: 7,000,000 (five months for seventh million)
March 2016: 8,000,000 (five months for eighth million)
August 2016: 9,000,000 (five months for ninth million)
February 2017: 10,000,000 (six months for 10th million)
June 2017: 11,000,000 (four months for 11th million)
January 2018: 12,000,000 (seven months for 12th million)
May 2018: 13,000,000 (four months for 13th million)
September 2018: 14,000,000 (four months for 14th million)
February 2019: 15,000,000 (five months for 15th million)
June 2019: 16,000,000 (four months for 16th million)
October 2019: 17,000,000 (four months for 17th million)
December 2019: 18,000,000 (just under three months for 18th million, from first week of October to December 27)
April 2020: 19,000,000 (just over three months for 19th million, from December 27 to April 9)
July 2020: 20,000,000 (just over three-and-a-half months, from April 9 to July 26)
Unlike the last entry on this subject, the Alexa ranking stats have been improving, despite the slow-down in traffic.
Tags: 2020, Autocade, car, car industry, cars, COVID-19, JY&A Media, Maxus, publishing, SAIC, statistics, SUV
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15.06.2020
I hadn’t done one of these for a long time: take the number of COVID-19 cases and divide them by tests done. For most countries, the percentage is trending down, though there has been little movement in Sweden. I hadn’t included Brazil, Russia and India before, but as they are in the top part of the table, I’ve included them for the first time for context. That does leave the C of the BRIC countries out, but as China does not disclose its testing numbers, I can’t work out a figure for them. Given the news, it is no surprise that Brazil has the worst percentage I have seen since I began crunching these numbers: more than half of the tests done result in a positive. The source is Worldometers.
Brazil 867,882 of 1,604,784 = 54路08%
Sweden 51,614 of 325,000 = 15路88%
France 157,220 of 1,384,633 = 11路35%
KSA 127,541 of 1,106,398 = 10路99%
USA 2,162,261 of 24,795,407 = 8路72%
Singapore 40,818 of 488,695 = 8路35%
Switzerland 31,131 of 461,128 = 6路75%
Spain 291,008 of 4,826,516 = 6路03%
India 333,255 of 5,774,133 = 5路77%
Italy 236,989 of 4,620,718 = 5路13%
UK 295,889 of 6,772,602 = 4路37%
Germany 187,671 of 4,694,147 = 4路00%
Russia 537,210 of 15,161,152 = 3路54%
South Korea 12,121 of 1,105,719 = 1路10%
Taiwan 445 of 74,409 = 0路60%
New Zealand 1,504 of 311,121 = 0路48%
Australia 7,335 of 1,830,665 = 0路40%
Hong Kong 1,113 of 275,293 = 0路40%
It shows that COVID-19 is far from over, something that we here in New Zealand need to be reminded of as we begin to rebuild. Still, nearby Fiji is also COVID-19-free, so perhaps we can begin having some travel with them?
Tags: 2020, Aotearoa, Brazil, China, COVID-19, health, India, New Zealand, Russia, statistics
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01.05.2020
A lot of the world’s population has come together in the fight against COVID-19. Except Facebook, of course, who is exploiting the virus for profit. Facebook has done well in the first quarter of 2020 with positive earnings. Freedom From Facebook & Google co-chairs Sarah Miller and David Segal note (the links are theirs): ‘Facebook has exploited a global pandemic to grow their monopoly and bottom line. They鈥檝e profited from ads boasting fake cures and harmful information, allowed ad targeting to 鈥pseudoscience鈥 audiences, permitted anti-stay-at-home protests to organize on the platform, and are now launching a COVID 鈥Data for Good鈥 endeavour to harvest even more of our personal information.
鈥楳ake no mistake, Facebook having more of your data is never 鈥済ood”, nor will they just relinquish the collected data when the pandemic鈥檚 curve has been flattened. Rather, they鈥檒l bank it and continue to profit from hyper-targeted ads for years to come.’
It’s been a few weeks (April 19 was my last post on this subject) since I last crunched these numbers but it does appear that overall, COVID-19 infections as a percentage of tests done are dropping, several countries excepting. Here is the source.
France 167,178 of 724,574 = 23路07%
UK 171,253 of 901,905 = 18路99%
Sweden 21,092 of 119,500 = 17路65%
USA 1,095,304 of 6,391,887 = 17路14%
Spain 239,639 of 1,455,306 = 16路47%
Singapore 17,101 of 143,919 = 11路88%
KSA 22,753 of 200,000 = 11路38%
Switzerland 29,586 of 266,200 = 11路11%
Italy 205,463 of 1,979,217 = 10路38%
Germany 163,009 of 2,547,052 = 6路40%
South Korea 10,774 of 623,069 = 1路73%
Australia 6,766 of 581,941 = 1路16%
New Zealand 1,479 of 139,898 = 1路06%
Taiwan 429 of 63,340 = 0路68%
Hong Kong 1,038 of 154,989 = 0路67%
Emmerdale fans will never forgive me. I’ve not been one to watch British soaps, finding them uninteresting. However, in this household, we have had Emmerdale on since it’s scheduled between TV1鈥檚 midday bulletin and the 1 p.m. government press conference on COVID-19, or, as some of us call it, The Ashley Bloomfield Show, named for our director-general of health who not only has to put up with all of this, but took a hit to one-fifth of his pay cheque. Naturally, one sings along to the Emmerdale theme, except I have no clue about its lyrics. Are there lyrics?
Not a single like on Twitter or Mastodon. I’ve offended a heck of a lot of people.
We are supposedly at Level 3, which someone said was Level 4 (the full lockdown) with takeaways. However, we’ve gone from the 1960s-style near-empty motorways to this almost immediately.
Tags: 2020, Aotearoa, COVID-19, deception, exploitation, Facebook, health, humour, ITV, Mastodon, media, music, New Zealand, news, photography, privacy, statistics, TVNZ, Twitter, Wellington, Whanganui-a-Tara
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