BORA nonsense? Fuck off, asshole. Even within the Auckland borders we don't have freedom of movement, freedom of association, freedom of peaceful assembly, or freedom of religion, as expressed in the Bill of Rights. At least partly because of some assholes...
Why is there no weight given to naturally acquired immunity? Because naturally acquiring immunity requires suffering through a horribly unpleasant, dangerous, nasty disease with high risk of death and long-term disability. Whereas getting a vaccine gets ...
You got any actual basis for your assertion that "they will end up fine"? In the end, the most important comparison is the risk of harm from the disease vs risk of harm from the vaccine. For kids under 12, any risks of harm from the vaccine are so low that...
In our current outbreak, 640 kids have got the 'rona and 11 of them hospitalised. Kids under 12 are roughly 15% of the population. Almost certainly some of those kids will suffer long-term effects. 194 of the adults that got the 'rona were fully vaccinated...
I seem to recall some articles saying we were in discussions with Pfizer about the feasibility of using the stocks of adult vaccine we already have. The articles gave the impression that more dilution would be involved, but wasn't specific. I've seen ...
And if the government had shown a bit of spine towards hesitants and instituted some vaccination requirements that were obvious quite a while ago around the privilege of crossing the Auckland border, then the Christchurch outbreak might not have even ...
Everyone in New Zealand should expect to be exposed to the virus within a year or so. Even if we get to over 95% vaccination. The Auckland border won't stand much longer against the political pressure building to open it. I find it infuriating that locking...
sigh * Almost all other OECD countries had the bulk of their vaccine rollout many months ago and have accepted they have reached most of what they are going to reach. So naturally their vaccination rates, and particularly their first dose rates are very ...
1: Mostly, but apparently it's quite variable. Reports of second covid infections were happening before vaccinations started. Since then, reporting interest has shifted more to breakthrough infections. It's worth noting that even in places like the US, ...
Yeah, I s'pose if one is committed tribal Labour, then it might look that way.
The vaccine rollout was done well, up until about six weeks ago. That was the point at which it became clear that hesitants were going to be a big obstacle to achieving vaccination coverage high enough to enable resumption of having a life without ...
Another 7 weeks of home detention with day release for work really isn't much of an "end in sight". Trust me on this.
When the 3 Auckland DHBs each individually reach 90% fully vaccinated, the Auckland region gets to the red light at the end of the tunnel, ie the traffic light system. Counties Manukau looks likely to be the last one to reach that target, somewhere around ...
I'm with Kiwibank right now, but only because I feel strongly about my business going to a NZ-owned bank. They make it bloody hard work to be a customer. Their international services are very expensive and unhelpful. When I wanted a mortgage, and could ...
It's 90% in each of the three Auckland DHB before we go to the traffic light system. Not the region as a whole. Counties Manukau probably won't reach 90% first doses until second week of November, on current daily rates of new first doses allowing for a ...
More like a quick way to weed out some of the cops that don't believe in public safety or community values.
The police first dose vaccination rate stated in the article at 83% is significantly behind today's national first dose rate of 87%. Make of that what you will.
What doesn't make hesitants more hesitant? Seriously, there's been no shortage if information and pointers where to go for more information. There's been no shortage of softly-softly with kindness gentle encouragement. There are very few options left other...
Where I go for my No. 6 all over is mostly staffed by south asians. Asians as a group are as near as dammit 100% first dose and 90% second dose. So all the more reason to continue going there. edit: come to think of it, that's also all the more reason to ...
"No jab, no job" for everyone that has any kind of face-to-face contact with anyone else as part of their job. That large groups with a lot of random public contact are yet to have vaccinations mandated is a serious dereliction of duty on the government's ...
Y'know, I'm really more interested in what the government is going to do in the future then examining the minutiae of what led to the situation we're now in. That the government appears weeks late and many laws and policies short of what's needed is what's...
Erm, for the Pfizer vaccine, it was a bit earlier than November 2020. Wikipedia bombs again, from the looks of it. It seems they did a combined phase 2/3 trial, and started screening their volunteers on July 27, 2020. From statements in the report such as ...
Fuck off. There's lots of obvious stuff the government could be doing but isn't that would lift our vaccination rates and allow Auckland to lift some restrictions earlier. It really really is getting absolutely fucking onerous, and smug smartarses from ...
Indeed it was. We just weren't told about the "locking down Auckland until then" bit.
At current rates of progress, late November/early December.
Looks to me like it's trying to just slowly ramp up the heat. But if you want the frogs in the pot to actually jump, a big splash of the hot stuff all at once is probably more effective.
Wimpy little baby step it may be, but at least it's in the right direction. We just need many many more of them to get to somewhere useful, and at one step a week it's gonna take a while.
Cyber chocolate fish to whomever guesses which individual is selling those. (Hint; he was a distant runner-up to his dad for the title of World's Most Loathsome Pile of Garbage Wearing a Human Skinsuit)
Vaccination is far and away the single most powerful tool for reducing the effects of this crisis. But yes, vaccination does need the help of other public safety measures to get us all to a reasonably positive outcome. Such as ensuring the willfully ...
The vaccinated/unvaccinated case breakdowns have only been updated weekly, unlike most of the other data on that page which is mostly updated daily. Sorry, I can't make heads nor tails of what you're trying to say with the rest of your comment.
I'll let you in on a secret: I've had somewhere around 80 vaccinations in my life. In my life, getting vaccinated is just what you do when you might get exposed to a disease and there's a vaccine for it. Vaccination is just a normal routine every-year part...
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