Victor Luca, Whakatāne

Victor Luca, 28-Sep-20. Published, The Beacon, 9-Oct-20. I have always been exceedingly grateful that we have in our country an...

Victor Luca, 19-Sep-20. Unpublished As New Zealanders we are accustomed to the idea of the welfare safety net afforded to us by our...

Victor Luca, 18-Aug-20. Unpublished Despite the priveleged position we find ourselves in during this COVID-19 pandemic, we didn't get it...

Victor Luca, 18-Aug-20. For decades now science has been warning us of an impending pandemic, as bad, if not worse than that of 1918. The...

Victor Luca 15-Aug-20. COVID-19 can be transmitted through contact (fomites), droplets and via aerosols (airborne). Yet, our Ministry of...

Victor Luca, 11-Aug-20. What and who is to blame for the present housing crisis? Recent letters to the editor in the local paper (The...

Victor Luca, 8-Aug-20. Published, The Beacon 30-Sep-20. This will be the forth post I will have written on Climate Change since I...

Victor Luca, 2-Jul-20. The Beacon 8-Jul-20 Hydrogen is a clean energy carrier and has been under study for many decades. Science has been...

Victor Luca, 1-Jul-20 Published in The Beacon 19-Aug-20 Influenza is the Italian word for “influence” and came to be used for the disease...

Victor Luca, 12-Jun-20. The Beacon 17-Jun-20 The COVID-19 pandemic has given us a baptism of fire in infectious disease and pandemics and...

Victor Luca, 16-May-20. The Beacon 20-May-20 I have yet to bump into anyone who can live without fresh clean water. Contrary to popular...

The following is a review of science and policy relating to face masks and COVID-19 by the NZ Ministry of Health as at 15-May-20. It is...

Victor Luca & Graeme Weston, 15-Apr-20. The Beacon 22-Apr-20 Solar energy rains down on the Earth for free. Why not use it? For decades...

Victor Luca, 14-Apr-20. When an uncomfortable situation emerges in our daily lives it is human nature to look back into the past for...

VIctor Luca & Sandy Milne Published Whakatāne Beacon 8-Apr-20 How does the virus transmit and what can we do about it? There are four...

COVID-19, Wuhan

Victor Luca, 6-Mar-20. Cartoon by Mark David / @MDavidCartoons The Australian Government needs to listen to the experts and become a...

Victor Luca, 29-Feb-20. People often ask what an individual do about climate change? Here are some answers. If a decade or so ago you had...

Victor Luca, 4-Feb-20. During the most recent local body election cycle in our district I was asked at a September 2019 BOPDHB public...

Victor Luca, 30-Jan-20. Everyone needs water, food and shelter. The last of these has been moving out of the reach of at least 1/3 of New...