There seems to be a wall of labour support around 40%. Gains will be hard for the right but the trend is still looking like it'll be close. That said, it is shaping up as a unique choice for the electorate between lab-green and nat-act. With both sides ...
I'm not optimistic that high vacination rates will prevent covid becoming endemic due to the emerging evidence that the effectiveness of vaccines against mild disease wanes after relatively few months. vaccine-protection-wanes-within-six-months-of-second-...
I share the op's faint hope that this outbreak can be contained but reality is what it is. Given at least 10% of people are blaise about covid we needed a lot of luck as soon as case numbers went up over 50 a day. Luck has not been with us. NZ was ...
There are no studies of the long term health effects of covid vaccines because such studies will take a long time. There are also no studies of the long term health effects of chilhood covid infection because such studies will take a long time. It seems to...
Fully agree. Tax and pay benefits is one way to improve inequalty but it risks blow back from the workers who are also struggling and the extra money will mostly drive up rents. Another is to get rents down through mass building. State housing + kiwibuild ...
It is not the same because in managed quaratine the original case would be tested on day 3 and 12, and checked daily for symptoms. In addition, medical authorities do acknowledge that there is a risk that undetected infections may pass through MIQ. This is...
...and ethics. We have no idea what a Collins lead government would do because we cannot trust them. Also it would be a National - Act Coalition governnent where Act is above 5% with the negotiating power and policy inluence that entails.
Covid 19 has an incubation period of around 5 days but it can incubate up to 14 days. Symptoms develop at the end of the incubation period. Tbe contagious period begins 2-3 days before symptoms begin and lasts for up to 10 days, or longer if symptoms ...
As has been touched on in the comments, raising benefits and working class wages mainly benefits landlords. Any extra money gets thrown into a rent payment bidding war in a desperate search for adequate housing. Ending the housing shortage is a necessary ...
I didn't watch the debate because Collins repulses me. So l appreciate the updates. Sounds like Collins had more energy on the night but Ardern stuck to her high road approach. Ardern's main weapon is that she is a normal adult humanbeing and comes across ...
If I was in Auckland central I would vote chloe and party vote labour. Nothing to lose and potentialy a plan b in 2023. Although I think Shaw in wgtn central is a better option. The left majority is overwhelming there.
It is fair to say that when Ardern became leader of the labour party she had one job: convince the Greens to support a Labour - New Zealand First coalition. The numbers were there. What the media called Jacindamania was basically Labour regaining its ...
New Zealand, discombobulating over two cases who have been mostly in isolation. Most countries have far bigger problems. It is important not to give the virus magical properties. It takes a few days to become contagious. Track trace isolate and test works.
Beyond their false claim that covid-19 is no more deadly than seasonal flu, the worst aspect of their argument is that they present a plan to fail. What is the point of border restictions and track and trace if we are not trying to eradicate the virus? How...
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