Coronavirus - New Zealand
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@JC I did not know that. I remember living on the edge of the South Down's 40 years ago. Fields of Rape would look beautiful in flower
Little oil factoid for the day, rapeseed oil is not edible without a lot of processing. The first company to do this was Canadian, hence the name (an acronym) Canadian oil, low acid
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76 new cases.
3 people arrested for ignoring stay at home rules, 2 released, the other stil in custody for other issues...
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
76 new cases.
3 people arrested for ignoring stay at home rules, 2 released, the other stil in custody for other issues...
I wonder if that's the guy who was hiding on our roof two nights ago?
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Good old kiwi ingenuity
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12320501
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Those foreign fuckers having a party in Queenstown should be put on a plane back to where ever they are from, or jailed until end of lockdown.
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@taniwharugby chuck bars on their windows and nail the doors closed for a month. The owners should be accountable. Https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12320744&fbclid=IwAR1BrpK2zrt-Dy0I3gokGXM4JcmZTmITuNv9bWswCtghptKzjKQlJxEtgNU
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@taniwharugby @canefan pricks didn't even invite me!
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@taniwharugby @canefan pricks didn't even invite me!
Probably for the best. Hard to imagine they are all disease free....
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@canefan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@taniwharugby @canefan pricks didn't even invite me!
Probably for the best. Hard to imagine they are all disease free....
which diseases...
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Apparently they're 950m away from me. Didn't hear them. Got some great Frenchies in the pad about 30m away across the road though. They play awesome music I've never heard of, and they follow all the self iso rules perfectly. I can tell, because they're still drinking on their balcony at 6am every morning.
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Apparently they're 950m away from me. Didn't hear them. Got some great Frenchies in the pad about 30m away across the road though. They play awesome music I've never heard of, and they follow all the self iso rules perfectly. I can tell, because they're still drinking on their balcony at 6am every morning.
At least you know where they are
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@JC said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Mokey said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Just give me PPE, a taser, and 10 mins with security cam turned off.
A bat. You need a good, sturdy bat as well. Or a riding crop, surely you’ve got one of those lying around.
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Holy shit. This hit me.
So a few weeks back I sent copy edits to my editor with time to spare so we could meet the deadline of March 23. That day came and went, still no reply except an auto email to say they were under the weather. Finally got a reply a few days ago, and I quickly did the things needed doing and sent off to publisher. I was annoyed, because deadlines are deadlines and wtf. ANYWAY. Just found out a few mins ago that the reason they were 'under the weather' they had the fucking virus!!!
This what they had to say:
I’m on day 16 of this and it’s still hanging on but I’m not as ill as I was even just a few days ago. It’s getting better, just…so…slowly. I feel like I will never not have a cough. I feel like I will never breathe normally again. And I’m afraid my running days might be over.
I don’t know where I picked this up from. I’d been staying inside, only going out to shop for food. I work from home. I went to no social gatherings. I didn’t invite people over. I sanitized everything. Somehow I still got it and I can’t point to a definitive source. This is the sickest I’ve ever been. I went to the ER twice because I was having much difficulty breathing. I was afraid to go to sleep for fear I’d stop breathing overnight. But I was so exhausted I fell asleep anyway.
Day after day, I felt completely wiped out. The first week was the worst. For 5 straight days, I couldn’t speak. Not from a sore throat but from lack of air. I didn’t have enough air to even form words. If I tried to talk, I felt like I was suffocating. Because I was. I had thought my lungs were one of the strongest parts of my body. I’m a runner. I used to run every day. To suddenly have the strongest part of you turn into the weakest is unbelievably scary.
I am grateful to still be alive. There were times I didn’t think I would be. I’m still here, though my energy is not 100%. I’m still breathing, though not without regular coughing fits. And I’m still hopeful that my lungs haven’t suffered permanent damage. Right now it feels like they might never be the same. But time will tell.