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Comment:Lockdown decision - which way will it go?
Date published: 11:00 am, September 20th, 2021Apologies - I should have added a weasel word to make it "are probably avoiding it". Evidence for that is the declining rate of first jabs even as there's massively increased availability, and the Horizon Research polls that say around 20% of New Zelanders...
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Comment:Lockdown decision - which way will it go?
Date published: 10:41 am, September 20th, 2021By NZ standards, or even Auckland standards, extremely high population density. Both in workplaces and living spaces.
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Comment:Lockdown decision - which way will it go?
Date published: 10:03 am, September 20th, 2021It's time to start serious talk about vaccine mandates and passports. Vaccine mandates work: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-bcs-covid-19-vaccine-passport-system-succeeds-where-albertas/ https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-...
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Comment:Open mike 19/09/2021
Date published: 4:25 pm, September 19th, 2021There's this dude making nose clips that allegedly help prevent fogging. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300410247/covid19-champions-one-mans-3d-printing-hobby-provides-solution-to-common-mask-problem
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Comment:Open mike 19/09/2021
Date published: 2:03 pm, September 19th, 2021From the live feed at about 1:21 pm today: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300410256/covid19-nz-live-24-new-cases-discovered-all-in-auckland For the most part many of the activities of people infectious in the community, are essential ...
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Comment:Open mike 19/09/2021
Date published: 1:09 pm, September 19th, 2021Well now, that sucks great hairy months-unwashed balls.
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Comment:Open mike 19/09/2021
Date published: 12:26 pm, September 19th, 2021Nah. But I would set up another tent in a different corner of the carpark as a vaccination centre. So those that need the shock of seeing how nasty it is to nudge them into protecting themselves can get it done then and there.
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Comment:Open mike 19/09/2021
Date published: 12:14 pm, September 19th, 2021But there is still adequate food. And surely the NHS is going gangbusters from getting the 350 million quid a week that used to go to the EU.
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Comment:Open mike 19/09/2021
Date published: 12:08 pm, September 19th, 2021That way works, but it creates a lot of collateral damage among the staff and among patients that haven't chosen to be the problem. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/healthcare-workers-feeling-burnout-vaccine-deniers_l_6132806ce4b0aac9c016f0b9
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Comment:Open mike 19/09/2021
Date published: 10:53 am, September 19th, 2021If it were up to me, I would now be setting up tents in the far corner of hospital carparks as the Unvaccinated Covid wards. And giving the directive that unvaccinated (but eligible for vaccination) covid patients are first on the list for triaging. ...
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Comment:Open mike 18/09/2021
Date published: 6:13 pm, September 18th, 2021Yeah. It seems that at this moment in the pandemic, for the vaccinated, covid is sorta kinda in the same ballpark as flu. Serious enough to take some precautions against even if there weren't unvaccinateds to make things more dangerous. So if I had to ...
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Comment:Open mike 18/09/2021
Date published: 5:23 pm, September 18th, 2021So what's Ioannidis' estimate of the IFR for the US? Or some other nation that might be even vaguely considered comparable to New Zealand? You'd think he'd have an interest in the US specific number, being that's where he lives and has been trying to ...
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Comment:Open mike 18/09/2021
Date published: 4:45 pm, September 18th, 2021How does Ioannidis reconcile his claimed 0.15% infection fatality rate with the observed population fatality rates of 0.2% (United States and UK and France) or 0.3% (Hungary, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina)? https://www.worldometers.info/...
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Comment:Open mike 18/09/2021
Date published: 2:46 pm, September 18th, 2021Cold and flu are far less dangerous than covid. We've already had court decisions handed down that health and safety grounds justify dismissing workers that refuse vaccination. "In our view, this decision licenses employers to adopt a No Jab, No Job policy...
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Comment:Open mike 18/09/2021
Date published: 2:38 pm, September 18th, 2021This leads me to one thought, the race to get ahead of covid to minimise mutation, herd immunity might arrive the hard way rather than the vaccine way. By that I mean the only salvation might lie in a virulant strain, like Delta, rapidly making it's way ...
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Comment:Open mike 18/09/2021
Date published: 2:25 pm, September 18th, 2021Ooops, wrong link for prohibited grounds of discrimination. Here's the correct one: https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1993/0082/latest/DLM304475.html Since nobody called me on it, I kinda guess nobody followed the original link to see what it said...
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Comment:Open mike 18/09/2021
Date published: 1:50 pm, September 18th, 2021As far as I'm concerned, we owe it to our medical workers to do everything we can to limit the impact of covid on our medical system, consistent with maintaining other rights. So we don't end up doing this to our medical people when lockdowns are no longer...
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Comment:Open mike 18/09/2021
Date published: 1:43 pm, September 18th, 2021That right ends precisely at one's skin. It does not confer any rights about anything that happens outside one's own skin. Not housing, not work, not access to businesses or even public spaces. It doesn't even confer the right to get medical treatment, ...
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Comment:Open mike 18/09/2021
Date published: 1:21 pm, September 18th, 2021Those things aren't even close to forced vaccination. One can get their groceries delivered - plenty of people do. One can figure out how to earn a living from home - plenty of people do. One can home-school kids - plenty of people do. Meanwhile, everyone ...
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Comment:Open mike 18/09/2021
Date published: 12:57 pm, September 18th, 2021What Bill of Rights right are you imagining might be shit upon with a vaccine mandate? The right to refuse medical treatment does not confer any rights to anything outside one's own skin. And I doubt Little is contemplating sending teams into people's ...
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Comment:Open mike 17/09/2021
Date published: 6:17 am, September 18th, 2021The problem seems to be that the "no" decision comes first, then choosing apparently plausible reasons for the refusal. While there certainly are a few success stories out there of people changing their minds after getting a huge amount of effort put into ...
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Comment:Daily review 17/09/2021
Date published: 7:56 pm, September 17th, 2021Testing before letting someone out isn't much use because it will almost always pick up fragments of dead virus, leading to a lot of false positives. That's why the guideline for releasing someone is at least three days without symptoms. The reasoning ...
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Comment:Open mike 17/09/2021
Date published: 7:19 pm, September 17th, 2021Polling has had the "definitely not" steady at about 7% for quite a long time. "Probably not" has dropped a bit recently but is still around the 13% mark. Here's a poll from back in May. I'm fairly sure I've seen more recent ones with similar numbers but ...
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Comment:Open mike 17/09/2021
Date published: 5:55 pm, September 17th, 2021Nope. Bookings and first vaccinations are only at 78% of those eligible. Eligible are 12 and over, which is about 85% of the population. So those bookings plus already jabbed at least once are only 65% of our total population. Bookings plus those that have...
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Comment:Open mike 17/09/2021
Date published: 5:34 pm, September 17th, 2021Surely this wouldn't have anything to do with it, would it? https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/126400438/judge-sends-legal-warning-after-reporters-ask-questions-about-wnaka-lockdown-breach Silly me, of course not.
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Comment:Open mike 17/09/2021
Date published: 12:38 pm, September 17th, 2021Fkn dumb move from this government to change the pricing structure of a somewhat high-emitting product in a way that discourages efforts to reduce its use. https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/126398542/lowuser-electricity-tariffs-will-be-phased-out-over-5-...
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Comment:Where Is The Real Green Party?
Date published: 10:23 am, September 17th, 2021I just give a sickened wry snort whenever I consider the results of the latest carbon credits auction. Where the government dumped a whole lot of extra carbon credits into the market, to keep the price down, FFS. Now, I'm not exactly clear on how much ...
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Comment:Daily review 16/09/2021
Date published: 10:18 am, September 17th, 2021Well, yeah, but a lot of those are deaths that happened from something else and the poor sods couldn't get care or got substandard care because the system was clogged up with covid patients. So semantically, they haven't "died from COVID-19".
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Comment:Open mike 17/09/2021
Date published: 9:51 am, September 17th, 2021So those locations of interest in Tauranga might be from Foodstuffs depot worker contacts before the truckie's infection was discovered? If the contact tracers are actually able to get ahead of an outbreak spreading like that, then they will have hugely ...
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Comment:Open mike 17/09/2021
Date published: 9:39 am, September 17th, 2021Even the Pope is finding it difficult to find much christian charity for anti-vaxxers coming down with covid. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/near-death-of-anti-vaccine-cardinal-is-an-irony-of-life-says-pope-francis Lotsa gold in the comments ...
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Comment:Open mike 17/09/2021
Date published: 8:36 am, September 17th, 2021Uh oh. A bunch of places in Tauranga have been added to the locations of interest. Presumably that's from the truck driver that had the bad luck to do a run in that short window of time between a household contact getting infected and the driver getting ...
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