It's to protect the staff working in the medical system. As well as ensuring capacity remains for those willing to take a responsible precaution for the comunity's and their own well-being. I have a cousin and her husband that are hospital doctors in the ...
If it were up to me, I'd put up tents in the far corner of hospital parking lots as the unvaccinated covid patient wards.To be at the end of the queue for treatment and resource allocation so it doesn't burden the rest of the medical system and reduce the ...
Yeah, the government is slipping talk about vaccine passports etc into the talk in a low-key way, and good for them for doing it. To my taste, I'd rather they were louder and firmer about it. But hey, they're the political experts, and I'm not. I'm ...
I'm confident the government is actually considering all those factors Key mentions, and is making plans. But while the situation is still as fluid as it is right now, talking in detail about things that are still months away simply hands out ammo for ...
From a couple of weeks ago when this question was asked (h/t Treetop for originally linking the article): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unraveling-the-mystery-of-why-children-are-better-protected-from-covid-than-adults/ tl;dr Kids' perma-...
Maybe Vernon Tava will pop back out of the woodwork. Or Gareth.
I actually got hit kinda hard by the first one. About as bad as when I got Hep A, Hep B, polio booster, and rabies all in one session. Arm was sore for three days, and the day after I felt really lethargic and just super-cold all over. It's the only day ...
Am I the only one going hmmmmm at the ongoing stereotyping grouping together of KFC customers and "vaccine hesitants"? https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300413828/covid19-govt-considering-vaccinating-people-in-fast-food-queues
Choices have consequences. If someone exercises the choice not to take a safe, free effective precaution against being a disease spreader, a reasonable consequence would be that nobody allows them on their premises as an employee or customer, because of ...
If you want to refuse a fully tested and approved treatment that's already been taken by hundreds of millions of people with an astonishingly good safety record and astonishingly high real world effectiveness, yes, you do have the right. But you don't have...
Since JuDarth is now pandering to anti-vaxers, that's unlikely to be a successful career move. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/09/coronavirus-judith-collins-urges-employers-not-to-reject-the-unvaccinated.html I guess if she's feeling her ...
Dealing with a covid outbreak with a low-vaccinated population is going to be very difficult to do without extended lockdowns. Lockdowns curtail actual Bill of Rights rights to freedom of movement, freedom of association, freedom of peaceful assembly, ...
It's not usually for those that ask the questions, their minds are usually already made up. It's for the off chance that someone else reading might go hmmm ...
Absolutely the role of government includes balancing various competing rights. All rights are subject to some limitations, exclusions, and responsibilities depending on the situation of the moment. The requirements of the situation of the moment can be ...
Not dying from a fucking horrible disease is not actually a right that I can find written down anywhere. Arguably it should be, particularly when it's mostly very cheaply and safely preventable by vaccination. But the importance we as a society place on ...
Level 3 is still lockdown by any reasonable definition of lockdown, even if the government and some others don't want to call it lockdown. Going from level 4 to level 3 is like going from solitary confinement to general prison. We still can't go hang with ...
It has certainly achieved preventing an explosion of cases that would break the health system and gave us the breathing room to get vaccination numbers up. It has also kept elimination as a real possibility - whether that actually happens will be seen over...
Richrdson got in even before the presser with a moan that that the government is wrong whichever way it decides. https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/not-level-4ing-well-enough-richardson-says-a-week-of-total-lockdown-with-the-army-on-the-road-...
Yeah, nah. I don't actually buy either. But when Monday night pizza time rolls around, the delivery boy better just drop that bad boy and run so he doesn't end up as collateral damage in the feeding frenzy.
Dunno about shoulda done it a while ago. Every day of extra vaccinations makes quite a lot of difference. Even the reduced rate of people fronting up now will help take the edge off the problems coming at the health system.
So the cage gets a little bit bigger. Now it includes work, KFC, and takeaway coffee, and not much more. Still, it's a necessary step in the right direction.
Words I chose on the spur of the moment to convey the idea of how quickly cumulative infections increase. An attempt at language that would be clearer to a layman, not a precise technical term.
Hey, if that actually works to get some of the idiots vaccinated, I for one will stand and applaud him. No matter how stupid it is.
Something to keep in mind is that the vaccine gives fairly good protection two weeks after the first dose. Not as good as two weeks after the second dose, but still quite a lot. When we first went into lockdown on August 18th, only 26% of us had had at ...
Not being locked up is a right I wonder how many of us Aucklanders read that and immediately thought "if only". The public health emergency we're labouring under and the risk of prolonging that emergency and spreading it to other parts of the country seems...
Damn! What will action movie producers have the hero do instead of climbing around in the ductwork?
But the cases were still on the Waikato side of the checkpoints. If they've transmitted to anyone (please God, no), those others will also be south of the checkpoints.
Perhaps you're looking at some old treeware? There were some boundary adjustments when the Supershitty was formed in 2010, and parts of what used to be Auckland were transferred to Waikato. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3434406/Auckland-super-city-...
Err, no. Whakatiwai is in Waikato south of the border, and south of the police checkpoint at Waharau Park. https://www.police.govt.nz/news/release/checkpoints-being-put-place-auckland https://www.google.com/maps/place/Whakat%C4%ABwai/@-37.0898762,175....
I wouldn't expect so. In Auckland there's probably just a lot fewer sharing the same work spaces and living spaces and AC systems than in Singapore.
If people really want to reject all the advice and evidence from actual experts that spend their lives studying and developing stuff,and reject one of the most thoroughly tested, safest, cheapest, and most effective medical treatments ever devised, to go ...
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