Daily review 22/10/2020

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  1. Bearded Git 1
    22 October 2020 at 6:31 pm

    Hipkin's covid answers were a bit waffly….over-evasive on checkpoint tonight….or is it just me

  2. anker 2
    22 October 2020 at 7:45 pm

    Ed that is a worry.

    It is good they have identified where the port worker contracted Covid though.

    Trace and track get going!

    Remember that people are contagious mostly only two days before the develop symptoms.

  3. Muttonbird 3
    22 October 2020 at 7:48 pm

    On Tuesday, October 13, the engineer, garbed in a mask and gloves, stepped aboard the Sofrana Surville and got to work.

    He wasn't the only person on deck that day.

    Eight crew members from the Philippines also filed on to the ship, having flown into the country a few days earlier, and spending a brief period of isolation in Auckland's Novotel hotel.

    (This raises) fresh and troubling questions about New Zealand's border system.

    An obvious one was why the Sofrana Surville's crew had only had to isolate for a few days after flying in – and none had been tested while here.

    Bloomfield said crews in transit weren't routinely tested, and the ministry was now reviewing measures around ports and ship workers.

    Get it together guys. This is not acceptable. Why do these guys and their employers get a free pass and put or response in jeopardy.

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/big-read-how-did-new-zealands-hero-port-worker-get-covid-19-coronavirus/V65E4SEAZMSW5MNYOFBHQUBZDI/

  4. ScottGN 4
    22 October 2020 at 8:04 pm

    @Muttonbird 3

    To be honest I think you’re focusing on the wrong bit of the timeline of events. Presumably the Filipino crew were never meant to complete 14 days quarantine because they were never really entering NZ? They were simply being held somewhere secure until they could board the ship and sail out of NZ waters.

    It seems to me that the question that should be asked is why were those Filipino crewmen allowed to be on board the ship while the port worker (or any other NZer who would subsequently be returning to shore) was still on board undertaking whatever tasks he had to do?

    Was this just a mishap? Or had the health officials not covered off this possibility?

    • Muttonbird 4.1
      22 October 2020 at 8:20 pm

      If the owner/manager of that ship required Filipino crew on 13 October they should have been flown into the country on 30 September and quarantined for 14 days.

      No exceptions.

    • Cinny 4.2
      23 October 2020 at 12:06 am

      Yup. It Looks like a cowboy exploited a loop hole that will no doubt be closed. Vessel management would have searched far and wide for that loop hole. Get the crew onboard no matter what and get them working. If they're engineers even more so, especially if they are alongside.

      In reality it must be a massive task to cover all eventualities of a once in a lifetime global pandemic.

      Wonder who will get which Portfolio in our new Parliament? Having Health and Education is a mammoth task and was also a solution at the time. Kudos to Chris for getting us this far.

  5. Anker 5
    22 October 2020 at 8:11 pm
    • No not troubling questions but questions that need review
  6. Muttonbird 6
    22 October 2020 at 8:17 pm

    Good god. Will this duplicitous dragon never shut up? Here she is again blathering nonsensical crap for her own publicity. Notice JuCo has ditched the National Party blue in favour of Labour's red. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.

    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/10/judith-collins-heaps-praise-on-chl-e-swarbrick-who-people-on-her-own-side-get-very-jealous-of.html

    • Treetop 6.1
      23 October 2020 at 7:28 am

      No to your question. With a bit of luck Swarbrick will show Collins how to be a politician in 2020.

  7. ScottGN 7
    22 October 2020 at 8:22 pm

    I know right, I said to a friend yesterday that I was missing the election tradition whereby the vanquished leader buggers off after conceding on election night and doesn’t say anything much until they return to parliament for the Speech from the Throne.

  8. anker 8
    22 October 2020 at 8:34 pm

    Ok now I am beginning to wonder if there is some right wing strategy going on here to elevate the Greens at the expense of Labour.

    I say this because Mike H day after election did an article which was all about Chloe and Labour really needs to ask themselves how they lost Auckland Central and Wairaki. No comment about what went wrong for National. No mention of Ardern.

    • Robert Guyton 8.1
      22 October 2020 at 9:00 pm

      Yeah, Mikey – Labour should have taken EVERY seat up and down the country – what's WRONG with them???

      • anker 8.1.1
        22 October 2020 at 9:15 pm

        LOL Robert! Of course Mikey asking great questions……….Noticed todays headline from Mike was something like. "enough chat now time for action"…….

        And yes Scott GN, usually do ignore Mikey. Time to go back to my old habit of doing so. Good to have the nudge

  9. ScottGN 9
    22 October 2020 at 8:49 pm

    I think you can safely just ignore him anker. It turns out that almost all the rest of us have.