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Comment:The politics of the New Lynn attack
Date published: 11:59 am, September 5th, 2021Bring on the pre-cogs.
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Comment:Open mike 04/09/2021
Date published: 10:27 am, September 4th, 2021Many if not all organisations in NZ are starting to confront the issue of vaccination requirements for their staff and customers. Lawyerly consensus seems to be that requiring vaccination for new hires is fairly straightforward. But imposing it as a new ...
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Comment:Daily review 02/09/2021
Date published: 7:50 pm, September 2nd, 2021No? https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/124196400/us-lawyers-zoom-cat-filter-fail-im-here-live--im-not-a-cat
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Comment:Daily review 02/09/2021
Date published: 6:50 pm, September 2nd, 2021I would kinda hope chasing suspected tax evasion would also be grounds for opening that back door.
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Comment:Open mike 02/09/2021
Date published: 6:47 pm, September 2nd, 2021I'm wary of a target like >85%. We may never get there, and there may even be some amongst us that would avoid getting vaccinated to try to game putting off achieving that threshold. I'd be thinking more along the lines of: we're giving out over 50,000 ...
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Comment:Daily review 02/09/2021
Date published: 5:55 pm, September 2nd, 2021Oh god no. If I wanted to talk to people, I would go and actually talk to people instead of coming here.
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Comment:Open mike 02/09/2021
Date published: 7:54 am, September 2nd, 2021The snippet that pressreader displayed said 46% back elimination and another 36% back our current course until at least 70% of the population is fully vaccinated. Any other significant caveats and nuances?
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Comment:Open mike 02/09/2021
Date published: 7:37 am, September 2nd, 2021Linkity-linky? A quick squiz at Stuffed and Harold didn't find anything.
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Comment:Open mike 01/09/2021
Date published: 1:28 pm, September 1st, 2021"Collaborator" is your word, not mine, and it's probably a bit harsh. But Hedges was one of the few people actually in a position to have made a difference, had he applied even a modicum of skepticism and critical thinking and fact-checking. But he didn't....
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Comment:Open mike 01/09/2021
Date published: 12:57 pm, September 1st, 2021Writing actual investigative journalism on nasty non-US states probably doesn't garner anywhere near as many lucrative clicks from convergence moonbats with a very blinkered worldview that just want the same old recycled polemic that strokes their ...
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Comment:Open mike 01/09/2021
Date published: 12:04 pm, September 1st, 2021With Algeria finally running out of the last of its supplies, the scourge of leaded petrol for road transport has finally been eliminated from the world, in a significant victory for public health. https://grist.org/regulation/leaded-gasoline-lead-...
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Comment:Open mike 01/09/2021
Date published: 11:21 am, September 1st, 2021Huh, is that why? I had always been under the impression one of the major reasons he was no longer Middle East Bureau chief for the Times was that he failed to apply the simplest journalistic skepticism and fact checking when he passed on the Iraq WMD lies...
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Comment:Open mike 01/09/2021
Date published: 7:12 am, September 1st, 2021... two faced hag ... Careful now, wags. Puckish Rogue gets let out of his cage next month and he'll want revenge on all those that have been sacrilegious to his chosen one.
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Comment:MPs should not only follow the rules but follow them with stars
Date published: 6:09 pm, August 31st, 2021https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSWiMoO8zNE
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Comment:MPs should not only follow the rules but follow them with stars
Date published: 5:00 pm, August 31st, 2021On a population level, the vaccine does not stop transmission, but it greatly reduces transmission. So if JuDarth were actually asking questions in good faith rather than just trying for some political cheap shots, it would have been a fair question. ...
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Comment:Open mike 31/08/2021
Date published: 3:58 pm, August 31st, 2021In 'murica, they get thousands turning up to storm the halls of government. Here in Nu Zillun we get one Karen outside the council office in Kaikohe. The "passionless people" indeed! https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/covid-19-coronavirus-...
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Comment:Daily review 30/08/2021
Date published: 8:19 pm, August 30th, 2021I've only been aware of them for six months or so and haven't noticed any change over that time.
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Comment:Daily review 30/08/2021
Date published: 6:59 pm, August 30th, 2021They're not quite as good as Cinnabon or the sticky buns you get in Maine. But they're the best I've found so far in Orcland.
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Comment:Daily review 30/08/2021
Date published: 6:21 pm, August 30th, 2021I recommend extreme caution going that route. You don't wanna end up where the only way to salvage the situation is going Kojak. Cheese scones - nah. But I'm seriously hanging out for some cinnamon rolls from Hare and the Turtle.
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Comment:Daily review 30/08/2021
Date published: 5:47 pm, August 30th, 2021How's your haircut situation this lockdown? I hope it's not reaching critical mass like it did last time.
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Comment:Open mike 30/08/2021
Date published: 2:46 pm, August 30th, 2021Yeah, nah. IIRC, there were good reasons to go exclusively with Pfizer. That hasn't changed. Not least of which is the Pfizer is arguably the best-performing of the four vaccines we did an early sign-up for, with lowest risks of adverse events. Now that we...
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Comment:Open mike 30/08/2021
Date published: 1:33 pm, August 30th, 2021Part of the problem is anti-vaxers misrepresenting the meaning of immunity, falsely mispresenting it as an all-or-nothing thing.Whereas immunity is better viewed as being a multi-dimensional continuum. Anti-vaxers misrepresent immunity so they can ...
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Comment:Open mike 30/08/2021
Date published: 1:21 pm, August 30th, 2021The intentionally unvaccinated remain a reservoir of infection for the rest of us and will be a potential drain on our healthcare resources. Yup. And treating them has a devastating psychologically effect on the healthcare professionals trying to keep them...
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Comment:Open mike 30/08/2021
Date published: 1:07 pm, August 30th, 2021Israel is only about 67% with at least one dose of vaccine, and the UK is only about 70% with at least one dose. Full vaccination rates are a bit lower in both countries. So no, not "high rates of vaccination". https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
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Comment:Open mike 30/08/2021
Date published: 11:49 am, August 30th, 2021What is your basis for asserting "the message that the jabs do not confer immunity to the virus is not getting out"? As far as I'm aware, two of our recent cases (Warkworth rest home worker and Auckland Hospital nurse) have been breakthrough cases. In both...
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Comment:Open mike 30/08/2021
Date published: 10:30 am, August 30th, 2021Indeed. So the takeaway should be that at some point in the next wee while, everyone can expect to come into contact with SARS-CoV-2. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300394158/covid19-infectious-disease-expert-warns-well-all-catch-...
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Comment:Open mike 30/08/2021
Date published: 9:18 am, August 30th, 2021Yes, with the current vaccine and variants, vaccinated people can still get it and maybe even die from it. But the risks of severe illness and death in vaccinated people people appear to be way below other risks we commonly accept as routine in everyday ...
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Comment:How Far Ought The State Go In A Pandemic?
Date published: 5:47 am, August 30th, 2021The libertarian in me says I have the right to do whatever I want with my body (and my property). The communitarian in me says those rights become subject to negotiation and regulation as soon as they could conceivably start to affect anyone else in any ...
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Comment:How Far Ought The State Go In A Pandemic?
Date published: 5:14 am, August 30th, 2021I'm kinda curious what further restrictions could be imposed that would better slow the spread compared to what we have now, and what the evidence base and reasoning behind those might be. Shaun Hendy has mentioned closing some supermarkets. I'm curious ...
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Comment:The Covid vaccine may not be the nirvana
Date published: 8:23 pm, August 22nd, 2021Your boosterism for the use of ivermectin for the treatment of covid is being strongly criticised because it has been reliably shown to have negligible efficacy against covid. That it has very high efficacy against parasitic worms is utterly irrelevant to ...
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Comment:The importance of Jacinda's 1 pm press conferences
Date published: 7:01 pm, August 22nd, 2021Personally, I have zero problem with the idea of some kind of a vax passport being required for entry to a plane or bus or train or workplace or any kind of crowded place open to the general public. Once everyone that wants vaccination has received it. In ...
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