Open mike 28/01/2021

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1. Pat 1

   28 January 2021 at 7:25 am

   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/27/keep-covid-rescue-programmes-or-risk-triggering-stock-market-crash-warns-imf

   And there you have it…..all pretence gone.
   • AB 1.1

     28 January 2021 at 9:37 am

     Oops – they said the quiet bit out loud.
2. bwaghorn 2

   28 January 2021 at 7:25 am

   https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/01/jacinda-ardern-weighing-options-against-companies-dumping-contaminated-waste-into-sewers.html

   The double standard in nz continues . Farmers get hung drawn and quartered for less
   • I Feel Love 2.1

     28 January 2021 at 7:56 am

     Reckon!
3. Stephen D 3

   28 January 2021 at 7:47 am

   Judith seems to be bringing the Nats back to the centre. Her speech at Ellerslie about housing, apparently did not go down too well with the Rotarians. https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-01-2021/judith-collins-wants-to-help-solve-the-countrys-housing-crisis-do-people-care/

   And now she wants to contest the Maōri seats. There must be a lot of spluttering going on somewhere. Although it does give ACT more room on the right, so maybe part of some plan?
   https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/exclusive-national-party-contest-m-ori-electorate-seats?auto=6226481526001
   • Tricledrown 3.1

     28 January 2021 at 8:02 am

     ACT and National with former leaders like Banks and Brash will struggle to get any votes.
4. Jester 4

   28 January 2021 at 7:55 am

   Still very annoyed that we find this out from Hone and not Hipkins or Bloomfield.

   Live: Child and adult are the new Covid-19 cases in the community in Auckland | Stuff.co.nz
   • Forget now 4.1

     28 January 2021 at 9:38 am

     Jester, you may have found that out via Harawira before I became aware of it last night, but he would have been leaked the info from someone, and is unlikely to be in possession of all the facts. You found out around 10pm, and the MoH had Locations of Interest updated by midnight, if not before (that's just when I saw it). The health minister and his staff may have been a little bit occupied with responding to the unfolding crisis to jump in front of the cameras, in the middle of the night, before having all the facts. I am sure Harawira has enough on his plate today with managing non-consented checkpoints in Northland (not saying I disagree with them, especially given the Auckland pair, but that could turn nasty without someone with mana, not to mention; from Mana, on top of it).

     https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018781204/northland-covid-19-checkpoints-to-go-ahead-without-police

     Now if they don't front up at 1pm today, I will join you in your annoyance.

     Though, I imagine that this community infection topic will quickly swamp OM, so if any Mods are reading this, maybe a dedicated post about this will prevent that? Not trying to waste your time or tell you how to do your work, but it is a bit off topic to use MS's vaccine post from yesterday.
     • Jester 4.1.1

       28 January 2021 at 11:05 am

       No I found out at around 5:15pm on Newstalk One ZB via Hone (NOT 10pm).

       The ministry had not said anything until Hone basically leaked it to HDPA. Later yesterday evening the ministry jumped into action. So yes, I am still annoyed or at least disappointed.
       • Forget now 4.1.1.1

         28 January 2021 at 11:31 am

         HDPA? I assume you are not referring to the enzyme, but what it does mean eludes me. Also assume that the ministry was already in action, perhaps too much so to be conducting press meetings on the basis of incomplete information. Unless there are still 24hour testing stations operating in Auckland, there is a limited amount anyone could do after 5pm. Anyway, I feel that Hipkins; more than Bloomfield, should be the focus of your ire, as they were less likely to be actively busy analyzing the data at the time.

         I think your comment on yesterday's OM was around 10pm, so just assumed that the interview you heard must have been just before then. See what happens when people jump to conclusions on the basis of too little data? They just have to waste time later correcting the error and distracting from the more pressing issues.
         Edit: Your initial comment was just after %pm, but just a reckon that was govt confirmed by 6pm
         • Forget now 4.1.1.1.1

           28 January 2021 at 11:46 am

           That should be; "just after 5pm", not %pm!

           Anyway this is more important:

           Police have shut down the Tai Tokerau border control information checkpoint at Waiomio. Hone Harawira said he is “p….. off” and concerned nothing is being done to protect the people of the north.

           https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300215941/live-child-and-adult-with-covid19-in-the-community-in-auckland-have-south-african-strain
5. Tricledrown 5

   28 January 2021 at 8:07 am

   No close contacts test positive so good news so far.

   Good wake up call use tracer app wash hands minimise unnecessary contacts .
6. Anker 6

   28 January 2021 at 8:13 am

   • Out of interest why are you annoyed? Hipkins and Bloomfield should have told us sooner? Someone’s leaking in health?

   I remained concerned about these new variants and wonder if we should be going into some sort of level change ASAP. But I still have high trust in our covid response and know this is to do with my personal approach which is with an abundance of caution.

   hope I am not being a bore and happy to be told I am. Yesterday posed a question would you attend a largish party with someone who had left managed isolation the week before. Thanks to those who answered.

   but McFlook and Peter from Chechnya if you are around would your answer still be yes?

   btw this is not some hypothetical for me, real life issue and I thought the standard a good place to do a reality check. Thanks
   • Peter chch 6.1

     28 January 2021 at 8:50 am

     Hi Anker. Yes, my answer would still be yes, for same reasons as yesterday: we need to keep a sense of perspective and have confidence that the MOH and other associated bodies are on top of this and will.inform us if the risk level changes.
     • anker 6.1.1

       28 January 2021 at 10:44 am

       ok accept your point of view Peter, but I have a different view. We are free to get on with our lives here mostly because of people being careful when we need to be. I am not proposing stay home and don't ever go out because of Covid. But if there is some risk take pre-cautions. Parties can be held at a better time. Its not that bigger deal.

       Personally I wouldn't want to get Covid because I have had cancer and that increases the risk of me getting a bad dose. I also think every time I take an avoidable risk it is potentially risking our precious health workers. Why should I put them at risk just cause I want to go to a party. BTW I would and have attended parties over the last few months (not in level 2) but would not go to one where someone is a week out from managed isolation. Its a very, very tiny sacrifice to avoid what would be a catastrophe.
   • Peter chch 6.2

     28 January 2021 at 8:57 am

     Could you, or someone else on here, clarify something. At the hypothetical party, if my Covid app has Bluetooth turned on, and it later transpires someone at the party is infected, does the Bluetooth detect that I was in close proximity to that person?
     • anker 6.2.1

       28 January 2021 at 11:00 am

       Sorry I don't know the answer to that Peter
     • Graeme 6.2.2

       28 January 2021 at 12:56 pm

       It's totally dependant on the infected person also having 1/ the COVID app installed and running, and 2/ that person also having the bluetooth functionality enabled. And then it's still a maybe, as in not going to be 100%. But way better than nothing if both are using the app.
7. WeTheBleeple 7

   28 January 2021 at 9:01 am

   For admins notes: Just had to ditch a browser called Bing that came with Windows as I set up Windows. It does not know where NZ is nor any of it's business entities. I simply couldn't get The Standard in a search result despite using all manner of trickery. Stuff I needed to find via Canterbury Press! Garbage browser… Chrome it is.
   • Incognito 7.1

     28 January 2021 at 9:31 am

     Yes, I see what you mean. If you search for the standard even confined to Only from New Zealand the ‘hits’ are misses. However, at the bottom of each results page you’ll find Related searches for the standard and that can be more helpful.

     HTH
     • Andre 7.1.1

       28 January 2021 at 2:33 pm

       Sometime a few months back the ability to search TS comments using Google on Firefox on Windows 10 went away for me.

       ie, if I wanted to search for when I've been insulting to Colonel Trotter, I used to be able to use google with the search words Andre bowelly site:thestandard.org.nz and it would give me the rude comments I've made. Now it just gives me a listing of author @Andre search results from TS, and sometimes not even that.

       Since the search function here is currently working well, it hasn't been an issue.
       • greywarshark 7.1.1.1

         2 February 2021 at 12:01 pm

         It's 'bowalley road' Andre. Does that make a difference to your search?
         • greywarshark 7.1.1.1.1

           2 February 2021 at 12:07 pm

           biochar – Saw this and thought of your enthusiasm for this bleeple.

           https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018781782/new-zealand-s-first-microforest

           “We are coastal hillside, so all the natives that are traditionally in that area are from that list.”

           He says the key difference between his project and others is the use of bio char to enrich the soil.

           At this stage most of their work is to do with making bio char which he says is very growth supporting.
   • joe90 7.2

     28 January 2021 at 9:37 am

     Bing is Windows default search engine. Results for thestandardnz and the standard nz
   • Brigid 7.3

     28 January 2021 at 2:18 pm

     You could ditch windoze entirely and install a less buggy OS.

     https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-ubuntu-desktop#1-overview

     Firefox is the default browser and works well.
     • Forget now 7.3.1

       29 January 2021 at 7:30 am

       I used to use the dual system Ubuntu & Windows option on an old computer before it wore out. Windows was better for gaming (at least for the old strategy games that I play). I like linux-based systems (which Ubuntu & Debian are an offshoot of) more; in theory, than; in practice. Fine for running Open office and webrowsing though. It's just that; I always felt I could do so much more with it if I only took the time to learn, so I really got to feel my age, and digital semi-literacy, whenever I used it. Which is not the operating system's fault.
8. Pat 8

   28 January 2021 at 9:23 am

   A long(ish) and instructive read…the rules of the game.

   https://michael-hudson.com/2021/01/the-rentier-resurgence-and-takeover-finance-capitalism-vs-industrial-capitalism/
9. joe90 9

   28 January 2021 at 9:28 am

   The Torygraph on the failed array of quangos, management consultancies and outsourcing firms.

   Why has Britain fared so poorly with Covid-19? Although blaming this or that minister or official offers an easy answer, the deeper causes lie in the transformation of the British state.

   Britain inherited from World War II a “command and control” state; a state that could govern. Whitehall was well-practised in strategic planning, good at the rapid and efficient mobilisation of resources and people, and it regularly took authoritative, direct action to meet society’s needs.

   Back then, the state could deliver what democratically elected politicians asked of it – to build the NHS, for instance – because it retained the powers, people and resources to do so.

   Today, after 40 years of reform, the “command and control” state has been replaced by a “regulatory state”. Decision-making has shifted from parliament to an archipelago of some 400 “arms-length” quangos, employing more than 278,000 people and costing £205 billion per year. Moreover, the state’s assets – its capacity to execute policy on its own accord – have been outsourced or rationalised.

   https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/rolls-royce-skoda-pandemic-has-exposed-britains-failed-regulatory/ (free)
10. Jimmy 10

    28 January 2021 at 9:32 am

    Does anyone know, in the hotels / MIQ facilities, are for example, day 2 people able to mix with say, day 12 people? eg. at common areas / smoking areas. Hopefully not.
    • Pat 10.1

      28 January 2021 at 9:37 am

      I understand 'social distancing' applies in MIQ irrespective of time arrived i.e. between and within groups
      • Sabine 10.1.1

        28 January 2021 at 10:02 am

        oh well, it's all good then. 🙂
        • Pat 10.1.1.1

          28 January 2021 at 10:07 am

          IF it has transferred through the aircon then obviously not
    • Enough is Enough 10.2

      28 January 2021 at 10:43 am

      I have had two stints in MIQ. One in Hamilton and one in Auckland

      There is no mixing with anyone regardless of the day you arrive.

      You are permitted to attend fixed times for exercise but you are l isolated from anyone else, and you wear a mask and are socially distanced. There is a risk at the juncture, but from my experience no one is 'mixing'.
      • Jimmy 10.2.1

        28 January 2021 at 12:35 pm

        That is good to know. Thanks
11. joe90 11

    28 January 2021 at 9:57 am

    About that drive-through testing … probably make self testing a damn sight easier.

    More than a million Beijing residents undergoing coronavirus testing amid a fresh outbreak have been administered anal swabs, which are considered more accurate and raise the chances of detecting COVID-19, said a Chinese disease specialist.

    https://www.newsweek.com/covid-anal-swabs-beijing-residents-more-accurate-says-chinese-expert-1564381?
12. Adrian Thornton 12

    28 January 2021 at 10:26 am

    Quite depressing to watch, read and listen to various Liberal 'Left' news sources to again unquestioningly jump on board the US led Venezuela regime change band wagon without missing a step and offering no proof or evidence so soon after these same outlets taking so much effort and time to debunk Trumps obvious bullshit over election fraud in the US…it could make you wonder at some of their other reporting…or so you would think?

    US (and NZ) Media Require No Evidence for Claims of Electoral Fraud—in Venezuela

    "Venezuela’s December 6 parliamentary election offers an instructive case study, with corporate journalists unquestioningly repeating Trump officials’ unsubstantiated allegations of “fraud” there at the same time that they debunked Trump’s virtually identical claims vis-a-vis the US election. And the right-wing violence that was rightly portrayed as a threat to democracy in the US was heartily endorsed as a democratic campaign in Venezuela, where it served Washington’s foreign policy goals.

    The media’s uncritical echoing of fraud allegations is in turn used to justify the continuation of Washington’s regime-change policies. Early signs point to this dynamic continuing in full force under the new Biden administration (Reuters, 1/19/21)."
    • AB 12.1

      28 January 2021 at 12:04 pm

      Depressing and enraging but entirely predictable.

      At least Biden's going to revive the Iran nuclear deal, so that's something, plus hand out some more cheques (USD1400) to US citizens and rejoin the Paris Accord on climate change. But mostly he's a ludicrous relic of a profoundly broken past, and completely unequal to the historical moment he finds himself in.

      I'm just about past caring – might go plant some things in the garden and catch a fish. To quote Allen Ginsberg from 65 years ago, “America when will you be angelic?”
      • Forget now 12.1.1

        28 January 2021 at 12:20 pm

        I like this version; with Waits' melancholy setting for Ginsberg's reading, though there is something to be said for the starkness of the bare words.
13. Forget now 13

    28 January 2021 at 12:13 pm

    Advice from someone who really knows how to do a checkmate:

    …the UK was uniquely placed to take action against Putin’s inner circle. He argued that the flow of money from Moscow into London had to cease. “It’s very simple. Stop talking and start acting,” he said.

    Kasparov said Russia was at a crossroads following pro-Navalny protests last Saturday in more than 100 Russian cities, with 40,000 people taking to the streets in Moscow. He described the demonstrations as “phenomenal” and the most significant since 1991.

    “They happened despite state propaganda and pressure on people,” he said. “In Europe nobody can now send a more vocal message to the Kremlin than the Brits. As long as the money keeps flowing into London and to the free world, Putin’s power is untouched.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/27/garry-kasparov-calls-on-uk-to-impose-sanctions-oligarchs-vladmiri-putin-alexei-navalny

    It is hard to be a plutocrat when you can't use the money you have looted. Though it's not quite that simple; as Putin's regime still has a lot of guns, and other more terrifying weapons.
    • Barfly 13.1

      28 January 2021 at 12:42 pm

      Moscow population 12,190,000 approx 40,000 protesters = just over 0.3 % I doubt Putin is losing sleep
      • Forget now 13.1.1

        28 January 2021 at 12:50 pm

        Barfly, if it's not that significant; why has it not happened any other time in the last 40 years? Has Moscow been just so idyllic that there has been nothing to protest, or has a ruthless exKGB officer seized control of the state apparatus to quash dissent through a program (/pogrom) of murder and intimidation? I believe the latter to be closer to the truth.
        • Brigid 13.1.1.1

          28 January 2021 at 2:22 pm

          "there has been nothing to protest"

          Not necessarily. If the guardian, bbc et al haven't reported an event that doesn't prove no event took place.
          • Forget now 13.1.1.1.1

            28 January 2021 at 2:53 pm

            Well, I can't read Cyrillic; but don't you think that someone would have mentioned it somewhere in an english language source somewhere, if so? I am more inclined to trust Kasparov; a chess grandmaster's memory than your uninformed supposition, unless you can provide a link.

            Also that should be; "the last 30 years", not 40. Some clumsy fingers today!

            And the newspapers were fooling, and the ash-trays have retired
            Cause the keyboard has been drinking…
            • Brigid 13.1.1.1.1.1

              28 January 2021 at 6:40 pm

              The point is, if you're only going to read and believe those publications at the head of your google search you're not going to be very well informed are you.

              Therefore what you believe is based on poor research so your ignorance is your concern and really doesn't interest me.
              • Forget now …

                29 January 2021 at 7:35 am

                My beliefs don't matter to you so much, that you; felt compelled to leave a reply telling me how they don't matter to you? Okayy…
      • joe90 13.1.2

        28 January 2021 at 2:37 pm

        Poots doesn't give a rats….

        
        • Forget now 13.1.2.1

          28 January 2021 at 2:56 pm

          Not about dead people (if that's what your image depicts); no, I don't believe Putin does, Joe90. However, I imagine he, and his backers, care very deeply about the state of their bank accounts.
          • joe90 13.1.2.1.1

            28 January 2021 at 3:04 pm

            They're murdered Russian journalists.
            • Brigid 13.1.2.1.1.1

              28 January 2021 at 6:23 pm

              " witnesses saw at least one killer in a parked Lada"

              Yep Russia did it.

              Does Putin drive a Lada? He might. So yeah he did it.
      • roblogic 13.1.3

        28 January 2021 at 6:38 pm

        Check out the #RussiaProtests tag on twitter. This is a massive movement.

        https://twitter.com/AlexKokcharov/status/1352999003361857539?s=20
    • Adrian Thornton 13.2

      28 January 2021 at 2:19 pm

      The true thoughts of the heroic Navalny….bit of a racist Nationalist by the looks of it, but hey the Liberals can use him in their anti Russian boogie man McCarthyite hysteria campaign..so who cares right….

      https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1354052162570117121
      • Tricledrown 13.2.1

        28 January 2021 at 7:01 pm

        Nalvany looks like he is just another Putin if the Twitter post is to believed .

        Who knows Russian bot factories Putins financial contribution to Trump Pence The leave Brexit campaign..
14. Robert Guyton 14

    28 January 2021 at 1:04 pm

    Attn RedLogix 🙂

    “What if we had a different ur-myth about energy and order in the universe? Imagine, for instance, that our intuitions were still informed more by that world of agrarian smallholders, and less by the industrialized cultures that eclipsed it. Letting our worldview shift further still, we could combine such a retrieval of our deeper past with an appreciation of the highly modern. Imagine, that is, a sense of energy informed not by Victorian science but by more recent physics—from cosmic background radiation to the quantum effervescence of space itself. And imagine, too, a feeling for order that derived less from loose notions of entropic decline, and more from recent work on physical self-organization or the way organisms adaptively harness tiny changes in entropy to drive productive chemical reactions.

    “Imbued with such a worldview, moved and directed by it much as the Victorians were influenced by thermodynamics and Darwinism, we might think and act less in the vein of industrial agriculture, with its mining of natural gas and unidirectional spill of energy. We might be more inclined to let the flywheel of ecology get spinning and investigate the potential allowances of regenerative agriculture. More generally, perhaps we would begin to see that part of the solution to our planetary crisis lies not in hustle, but in repose. Not in catching the next trans-Atlantic flight to an important conference or meeting, but in staying home, contentedly. Not in buying a new more efficient car, but in leaving the old one parked. Perhaps there are many solutions that do not even occur to us, because they resemble passivity rather than action, and we are so deeply trained to hustle.”

    https://nautil.us/issue/86/energy/the-idea-of-entropy-has-led-us-astray
15. Jimmy 15

    28 January 2021 at 2:43 pm

    Average weekly rent in Auckland now $595pw! Unfortunately I cant see it easing much over the coming year if there is as much demand as they say.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/real-estate/124072625/super-city-rents-hit-new-record
16. bwaghorn 16

    28 January 2021 at 3:11 pm

    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/01/jacinda-ardern-encourages-higher-spending-on-cars-to-reduce-emissions-as-act-fears-for-less-fortunate.html

    I'm starting to think Ardern just can't be bothered trying to solve the big problems.
    • satty 16.1

      28 January 2021 at 5:04 pm

      What solution(s) do you propose?

      I simply can't see how you can make the majority of NZ car drivers reducing their carbon emissions voluntarily. They are used to cheap, second hand car imports, ideally with as big – means polluting – engine as possible (while NZ petrol is still cheap compared to many Western European countries). On top of it, driving is seen as a god-given right, even if it serves very little to no purpose.

      We have now "climate emergency" declared on every level here in Wellington: local, regional and national. Looking forward to the ideas to significantly reduce the transport carbon emission in the near future. Clearly, people have to leave their car at home when going into an office or work from home to achieve any noticeable reduction.
      • bwaghorn 16.1.1

        28 January 2021 at 9:31 pm

        Buggered if I know but her response on this like her response to house prices the other day reminds me of old dont give a fuck key,its I bit depressing.
17. Robert Guyton 17

    28 January 2021 at 3:30 pm

    Amsterdam Is Embracing a Radical New Economic Theory to Help Save the Environment. Could It Also Replace Capitalism?

    https://time.com/5930093/amsterdam-doughnut-economics/
    • weka 17.1

      28 January 2021 at 4:55 pm

      Hope so. Or at least opens a door to good change.

      Covid may test the model.
18. weka 18

    28 January 2021 at 4:54 pm

    an explainer for those trying to make sense of the redditors taking down the hedge fund dudes. I think I understood this, most of it at least.

    https://twitter.com/migbike/status/1354449364463325185
    • Andre 18.1

      28 January 2021 at 5:36 pm

      Longer form explanation of what's going on:

      https://www.huffpost.com/entry/redditors-myth-stock-market_n_6011bd16c5b61cb9535099d6

      The thing about short selling is there is literally no limit to how much money a short seller could be on the hook for. I vaguely recall a comment from last year that short sellers in Tesla stock were in the hole for more than the combined market capitalisation of Ford, GM and Volkswagen combined.
      • roblogic 18.1.1

        28 January 2021 at 6:43 pm

        Wall St big players have ganged together to stop the free market. Only insider trading allowed now apparently. They shut down the subreddit and Discord on the basis of "hate speech"… because they can't really say the truth: they don't like market manipulation, when it's not themselves doing it.
    • Pat 18.2

      28 January 2021 at 7:26 pm

      "What does the stock market do? It provides a convenient method of payment for elevated executive salaries and an avenue to riches for people ― usually organizations of rich people ― who want to bet on stocks. Turns out, that’s a lot of people. "

      https://www.huffpost.com/entry/redditors-myth-stock-market_n_6011bd16c5b61cb9535099d6

      "The GameStop affair provides an opportunity to update Keynes for the 21st century: If you leave it to professional gamblers to determine the social value of any activity, they will almost always give you the wrong answer, no matter how many of them gamble against each other. They can reward social destruction just as readily as they reward social harmony or a video game store or a well-groomed horse at the starting gate.

      Financial markets cannot tell us what is good and what is bad. They can only tell us what a lot of people thought they could make money on at a certain point in time. The real work of determining what kind of world we want to live in is the proper subject of democracy, not high finance. The Redditors have made this brazenly clear to the world, and for that they should be celebrated rather than condemned.

      The situation, however, does demand a public policy solution. The Redditors have revealed an absurdity by being absurd. The appropriate response is not to demand an orgy of further absurdity, but to do something sensible."

      Nuff said
      • roblogic 18.2.1

        29 January 2021 at 1:01 am

        Yeah suddenly it's a loophole that needs regulating. Wall St & DC have deregulated everything and lined their own pockets, plundering the Earth for decades.

        https://twitter.com/rudy_betrayed/status/1354485494445461510?s=20

        https://twitter.com/bocxtop/status/1354496988193185806?s=20
19. Janet 19

    28 January 2021 at 5:44 pm

    "We have been advised that a small number of people who were in hotel quarantine in the Pullman Hotel in Auckland at the same time as these other cases have since travelled to Australia on green zone flights”

    “We know that 12 people who were in quarantine at the Pullman Hotel have arrived in Sydney. Three of these people have travelled on to Hong Kong and the authorities there have been advised.”

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-twelve-travellers-from-virus-hotel-came-to-australia/VDFZ2NXR44TOCEJFHVGI5ASZYY/

    What is going on here ? Extrapolation of the quarantine service which was for Kiwis coming home not for others to use and abuse to go elsewhere.
    • Treetop 19.1

      28 January 2021 at 7:05 pm

      Is it because it is too hard to get direct flights or it is cheaper to fly so they transit through NZ.

      Surely immigration could keep track somehow and it cannot be excluded that they paid for their own MIQ.
      • Ed 19.1.1

        28 January 2021 at 7:13 pm

        If that is the case it should be prohibited.
      • joe90 19.1.2

        28 January 2021 at 7:32 pm

        they transit through NZ.

        In transit passengers remains air side at the airport. Those flying on to other destinations from MIQ would be NZ citizens with the right to do so.
        • Treetop 19.1.2.1

          28 January 2021 at 8:16 pm

          I thought people had to disembark once the flight reached NZ. So people transit through NZ and continue on to another destination not leaving the plane?
          • joe90 19.1.2.1.1

            29 January 2021 at 12:48 pm

            Those flying on to another country never enter NZ, remaining air side in one of Dante's circles of hell, the international transit lounge.
        • Graeme 19.1.2.2

          28 January 2021 at 8:49 pm

          Pretty simple, there's more quarantine spaces in NZ than Aussie so NZ citizens or residents who have been overseas are using NZ quarantine to get into Australia
          • weka 19.1.2.2.1

            28 January 2021 at 10:36 pm

            NZers coming into NZ presumably don't have to tell the govt why, or how long they intend to stay.
      • bwaghorn 19.1.3

        28 January 2021 at 9:37 pm

        I bet it's just global citizens who have scammed a nz resident Visa and are useing nz as a back door to other places ,
        • McFlock 19.1.3.1

          28 January 2021 at 10:47 pm

          heh.

          Or reverse-501s: grew up in Aus, didn't need paperwork so still technically NZers and not aussies, got kiwi passport, and now have a quicker path back home through NZ MIQ.

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