Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:56 am, February 13th, 2022 - 47 comments
Categories: covid-19, health, long covid, science
Tags:
There has been a depressing large study published looking at the medical risks of having covid-19 on the cardiovascular systems in Nature Medicine. Ars Technicia have a readable version. The study tapped into a massive database of health records at the …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:55 pm, February 9th, 2022 - 24 comments
Categories: chris bishop, Dirty Politics, national, Politics, same old national, uncategorized
Tags: cameron slater, carrick graham, Food and grocery council, katherine rich
As I was rather anticipating, the Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) fixation of the National and Act parties has blown up in their face. The government of NZ buys in bulk for medical goods, usually from the manufacturing sources. That way they don't pay as much …
Written By: weka - Date published: 10:47 am, February 6th, 2022 - 23 comments
Categories: admin, notices
Tags: moderation
… eg [moderation note – weka] or [lprent: moderation note] Moderators now usually…. Current moderaters on TS are: Lprent, mickey savage, Mike, weka, Incognito…
Written By: advantage - Date published: 7:41 am, February 2nd, 2022 - 107 comments
Categories: climate change, covid-19, education, Environment, health, housing, jacinda ardern, labour, law and "order", poverty, uncategorized, Unions
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… running the country next time. lprent: * Corrected the statement "Every gun…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:01 pm, January 28th, 2022 - 16 comments
Categories: Politics, polls
Tags: colmar brunton
Because I love accurate comparisons and because the media typically do a shit job of looking at political polls, I decided that a look backwards to a comparable poll in the last parliament. So One News – Colmar Poll from the start of the mid-term year – …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:51 am, January 2nd, 2022 - 15 comments
Categories: infrastructure, The Standard, uncategorized
Tags: maintenance
The Standard server is going down for a few hours later today for maintenance. Server waiting for maintenance It needs a replacement for the steadily failing hard drives in the archive array (RAID-Z3) and a replacement of 2Tb disks (some now over 7 years …
Written By: weka - Date published: 12:17 pm, December 24th, 2021 - 12 comments
Categories: covid-19, health and safety, long covid, workers' rights
Tags: powerdown, resiliency
… that omicron never arrives. As Lprent said so succinctly a few…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:38 pm, November 25th, 2021 - 105 comments
Categories: act, David Farrar, Dirty Politics, Judith Collins, labour, national, politicans, Politics, same old national, Shane Reti
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At midday, it sounds like Judith Collins lost a vote of confidence after apparently angrily pulling the trigger for a preemptive shot using junk from someones dirty politics file. I heard David Farrar on RNZ speculating on the movement of vote to Act. I …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 2:30 pm, November 23rd, 2021 - 13 comments
Categories: covid-19, health, law
Tags: bill of rights act, BORA, vaccine mandates
The New Zealand Bill of Right Act 1990 (BORA) is an interesting act because it is what I would call a balancing act in that it enshrines certain rights but they are not absolutes. There are requirements that new or updated legislation are tested by the …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 8:42 am, October 9th, 2021 - 18 comments
Categories: Economy, economy, tax
Tags: foreign trusts, IRD, pandora papers
While we have mainly been occupied with containing the current Covid-19 outbreak, world news has been looking at 11.9 million documents revealing dirty or questionable flows of capital and tax dodging by the affluent. Frequently it also looks like corrupt…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 3:15 pm, August 19th, 2021 - 32 comments
Categories: covid-19, health, Media, Politics, uncategorized
Tags: planning
COVID-19: Vaccine data This is the page that I read at least once a week. With a clean brevity it gives me almost all of the strategic summary information about the progress of the vaccinations in NZ. Even the title is clean and clear. It is the perfect …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 1:50 pm, July 11th, 2021 - 22 comments
Categories: admin, The Standard
Tags:
… the joy out of life. lprent: Opps – that got published as…
Written By: Incognito - Date published: 7:00 am, April 18th, 2021 - 10 comments
Categories: accountability, activism, articles, broadcasting, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, Donald Trump, education, journalism, Media, news, newspapers, politicans, Politics
Tags: albert einstein, chloe swarbrick
… read this? – and decluttering, as Lprent said in his post. But…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 3:19 pm, April 17th, 2021 - 23 comments
Categories: covid-19, health, uncategorized
Tags: canada, lockdown, ontario
The vaccination program in NZ is due to escalate when it goes into phase 3 – probably in May. The recently released projections on the Covid-19 dashboard (hat-tip: BusinessDesk "How we will get to full vaccination") show a breakdown of expected …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 8:51 am, April 12th, 2021 - 10 comments
Categories: science
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For me the most notable thing about the last week hasn't been the repetitive and ill-informed braying from the opposition about covid-19. It has been about the announcement that Fermilab in the US has partially confirmed that there may be a wobble in the …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:45 am, March 15th, 2021 - 8 comments
Categories: australian politics, elections
Tags: west australia
The weekend state elections in West Australia are astonishing. On top of nearly a 13% two party swing swing for Labour in 2017, there appears to have been about a 17% swing to Labour in the weekend election in preliminary results. In 59 seat lower house, …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:12 am, February 24th, 2021 - 15 comments
Categories: covid-19, Parliament
Tags: legislation
You can't read legislation for very long without finding instances of weird edge cases. My favourite used to be the old Summary Offences Act which had prohibitions against wearing carpet slippers in public. Simon Collins at NewstalkZB writes about an …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 8:52 am, January 23rd, 2021 - 34 comments
Categories: climate change, disaster, Environment, farming, food, science
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For me watching QAnon believers waver in their belief in their idiotic failed guru's 'plan' has as about the same interest value as seeing the US rectify its political mistake of 2016. Amusing short term entertainment. If you want more relevant short-term…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 4:43 pm, January 17th, 2021 - 18 comments
Categories: Donald Trump
Tags: constitution, first amendment, free speech, freedom of speech, legislation, separation of powers
I have a problem with dumb arse dimwits given to waving around a slogan of "free speech" without understanding it. They are complete ignorant fools more interested in screaming slogans than understanding the constraints of their 'right'. The events of the…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 3:41 pm, January 14th, 2021 - 46 comments
Categories: Economy, Politics
Tags: electricity, electricity market, smelter, tiwai point
No Right Turn has an apt way of putting things some times. The way that the smelter operates is the exact equivalent of some thuggish barbarians with big swords extracting tribute for not burning, raping and pillaging. In other words Danegeld or any other…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 10:43 pm, January 11th, 2021 - 22 comments
Categories: covid-19
Tags: air travel crisis, bubble, genomic detectives
In September there was a 18 hour flight Dubai that ended in Auckland. A relatively close group on that plane showed infection after arrival, and a genetically similar version. The evidence of in-flight infection is very strong and points to the on-going …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 8:54 am, January 11th, 2021 - 21 comments
Categories: Donald Trump, International, politicans, us politics
Tags: cheeseburgers, mitch mcconnell, republican party
Reading the effect of the Wednesday riot at the US Congress has been interesting. The Trump position has as usual been as infantile and self-adsorbed as all of his disaster of a presidency has been. Trump remained out of sight Saturday, and unnaturally …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:18 am, January 6th, 2021 - 66 comments
Categories: democracy under attack, Donald Trump, Politics, uncategorized, us politics, you couldn't make this shit up
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… be the same again. Update (lprent): The democratic senators from Georgia…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 1:26 pm, December 28th, 2020 - 43 comments
Categories: chris bishop, chris hipkins, covid-19, health, national, same old national, uk politics
Tags: testing
I realise that this would normally be our silly season, but it seems a bit macabre with such an awful and predicable death toll running overseas in the northern winter. But nothing really excuses Chris Bishop for being a complete dickhead in barking for …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:31 am, December 21st, 2020 - 30 comments
Categories: covid-19, Economy
Tags: pandemic, trans-tasman
From a few days ago (it seems like an eternity), RNZ reported "Govt to pump almost $3 billion into its Covid-19 response after report identified failings". There are several points I'd make about the border controls and generally with our border and the …
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