Nope. Even if by some miracle we get to somewhere better than 95% vaccinated, our medical system is very likely to be overwhelmed by unvaccinated covid patients. What do you suggest should be done when that happens? Lockdown forever so it doesn't happen? ...
Yeah, today's performance was totally fucking unsatisfactory.
Triage the unvaccinated covid patients out to the unvaccinated covid patient wards in tents out in the carpark. Their choice to not be vaccinated, their consequences. I am totally over having to suffer the removal of my rights and other consequences of the...
Threads are a thing. If someone influential announces their support for something as draconian as a return to level 4, yes, they fkn should bother to give details in the same medium they make the announcement.
Me voting for National in 2023 has now become a serious possibility. Jacinda, I don't care about a vaccination target to be set on Friday. That just tells me you find it easier to keep taking my rights away from me than to do something to actually lift our...
Tweets from Hendy were linked in the report. They contained zero useful information.
Bloomfield and Hendy are tossing out the idea of another two weeks at level 4. Without giving any explanations of why they think it would do anything useful. Detailed explanations are really needed, given the spread appears to be in populations that aren't...
It's not always even a case of getting off their butts and asking; sometimes it's a matter of just saying "ok" instead of "piss off" to the practitioner that's right in front of them that has already spent considerable time answering questions and ...
Oddly enough, all the Maori I'm acquainted with are fully-vaxxed. The unvaccinated I'm acquainted with are all quite privileged white folks. But if the government sees fit to take away my Bill of Rights freedoms of movement and association and assembly ...
Every time I've looked on the bookmyvaccine site, there's been a specific Healthline number to call if home vaccination is needed. I've seen home vaccination hotline numbers several other places. I heard snippets from my frontline contacts about extra ...
In the case of the people my contacts are spending their working days trying to bring healthcare to, it really does seem to primarily be a result of intractability. Not just this covid issue, but over the long term, and over pretty much all medical issues....
So we circle back around to universal "no jab, no entry" and universal "no jab, no job" and "no jab, first to lose access to medical treatment" policies. These really are the only things I can see the government can do to make the environment out there ...
Those vaccine passports (and the freedoms of movement they allow to the fully vaccinated) should be here now. Actually, a month ago would be better. Failing that, a firm announcement that they are coming by the beginning of November (end of university year...
As it happens, I do have contacts with people working the frontlines of similar areas trying to get vaccines out to people. It's not just a matter of getting a team of people to show up someone's front door, it can take hours of those skilled ...
I will be seriously fucked off if the government tightens restrictions without concurrently announcing universal "no jab, no job" and universal "no jab, no entry" policies, along with making it clear that when (not if) our medical facilities get ...
I'm getting really sick of people outside Auckland sanctimoniously going on about it just being businesses wanting to get back to making money. Or carrying on like preventing all disease is the one and only consideration, that nothing else is important. ...
He's a veritable Lazarus.
Oh I dunno. The cheese-eating surrender monkeys have a habit of taking individual things that are quite interesting on their own, and blending them into some sort of weird unidentifiable goo that's even more wrong than vegemite. That looks like another one...
Your proposal is acceptable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpuPN3bT3Xw
Anchovies and kalamata olives, when I'm making it myself. Although, since I needed to use an oven to test some materials at high temperatures for a project at work, the last one I made tasted like hot epoxy and vinyl ester. I don't recommend that.
Yet another reason to never go to Australia. Vegemite pizza. Truly a crime against humanity. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/this-has-gone-too-far-is-the-surprise-new-dominos-pizza-topping-a-bridge-too-far/6PGJUZ7RS5X56R4BGWQJLSWVVI/ And you all ...
Nah. Somewhere near Wanaka if I recall correctly. Bearded Git is the kind of idiot Green that whinges about wind turbines spoiling his views on his recent road trips (plural) around Spain. And tells us he's in Darwin when the travel bubble with Australia ...
@DMK I'm not feeling much team spirit from non-Aucklanders gleefully advocating more level 4 for Auckland.
@Sabine: I'm well aware of what's coming at our medical system, having a cousin and her husband, both hospital doctors, living through it in the US. I think the best answer for that is setting up tents in the far corner of hospital parking lots as ...
Some idiots will try to use the idea of "it's not safe" to try to keep us locked down and locked away forever. Maybe it aligns with their fantasies of what they would like New Zealand to be, or whatevs. My preference is framing it as coming out of internal...
Since those deaths will be very highly concentrated among the vaccine refusers, and the lockdowns really really are severely fkn onerous, my acceptance of being locked down is dropping very rapidly. I can assure you, I'm not the only one.
Yeah, nah. The local New Worlds have been locations of interest a few too many times lately for my comfort level.
My fave:
Only anecdotal, from some former fence-sitters that finally twigged to what a bunch of ridiculous %^&* loons the unpersuadable nutters really are.
As best as I can make out, the peak of the bell curve of info seems to be that yes, immunity does wane. But not enough to be of concern for the huge majority of fully-vaxxed, at least not within a six-month-ish timeframe. So for that huge majority, six or ...
It doesn't do anything for the nutters who are utterly unpersuadable in any case. For those on the fence, it might show how ridiculous the unpersuadable nutters actually are, leading the fence-sitters to decide they don't want to end up on the side with ...
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