Shaun Hendy

hendysh.bsky.social

25 August 2025 08:47

Using Treasury's estimates of the daily cost of alert levels and the Oxford Stringency Index in other OECD countries I estimated how much it would have cost to implement other strategies over 2020-22. My conclusion: our response saved lives and was one of the most cost effective in the OECD.

Shaun Hendy

hendysh.bsky.social

25 August 2025 08:47

This is both a sub-skeet of the recent Damien Grant column and a reminder to come along to see @siouxsiew.bsky.social and I talk about #TheCovidResponse at the University of Auckland tonight at 6pm www.bwb.co.nz/events/the-c...

David Hood

thoughtfulnz.bsky.social

14 August 2025 08:56

Neil getting under way in the Infinity Sessions www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpVb...

David Hood

thoughtfulnz.bsky.social

02 April 2025 08:15

Day 2 of #30DayChartChallenge "slope". A spite driven graph implicitly calling out anti vaxers who know use age standardised mortality but a straight regression line to NZ's curved data (as they do). And making the tech point that if you are adding data, an unbiased set should converge

Russell Brown

publicaddress.bsky.social

26 February 2025 08:45

Yes, I know things are quite shit at the moment, with little immediate prospect of deshittification. But here's Marlon Williams and Lorde's new duet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLej...