Coronavirus - Overall
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@Siam said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@barbarian to be fair you've misquoted the author.
"Perhaps a hysteria has gripped the nation, at extraordinary cost, when we’re telling each other to take special care over a disease that in three months has killed about 60, in the main quite unwell elderly people."That's not an unreasonable opening sentence. Toilet paper was hysteria
In a sense I did, but he also finishes the article with 'The Prime Minister has said COVID-19 is akin to a one-in-100-year event. It’s unlikely that’s true of the virus, but it’s looking true of damage caused by hysteria.'
It's a word he used a few times, and I don't think it's particularly apt in any political context. Not yet, anyway.
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Good move I reckon. At least until they've investigated them.
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@MajorRage have we seen the nz govt say it's an eradication goal? I haven't caught that anywhere as yet.
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worldwide total infected will soon hit 2,000,000
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@Paekakboyz said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MajorRage have we seen the nz govt say it's an eradication goal? I haven't caught that anywhere as yet.
I think the NZ goal is elimination, not eradication, as people will still travel here with it from time to time (and be quarantined on arrival).
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@Godder said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Paekakboyz said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MajorRage have we seen the nz govt say it's an eradication goal? I haven't caught that anywhere as yet.
I think the NZ goal is elimination, not eradication, as people will still travel here with it from time to time (and be quarantined on arrival).
Those 2 words are synonyms, I even went to the dictionary to check.
Your post sounds like govt PR spin. Swap elimination with eradication in your sentence and vice versa and nothing changes. -
@Godder said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Paekakboyz said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MajorRage have we seen the nz govt say it's an eradication goal? I haven't caught that anywhere as yet.
I think the NZ goal is elimination, not eradication, as people will still travel here with it from time to time (and be quarantined on arrival).
How many people do you think will extend their planned business trip or holiday by two weeks?
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Godder said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Paekakboyz said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MajorRage have we seen the nz govt say it's an eradication goal? I haven't caught that anywhere as yet.
I think the NZ goal is elimination, not eradication, as people will still travel here with it from time to time (and be quarantined on arrival).
How many people do you think will extend their planned business trip or holiday by two weeks?
can i lock in A. zero thanks Eddie
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Godder said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Paekakboyz said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MajorRage have we seen the nz govt say it's an eradication goal? I haven't caught that anywhere as yet.
I think the NZ goal is elimination, not eradication, as people will still travel here with it from time to time (and be quarantined on arrival).
Those 2 words are synonyms, I even went to the dictionary to check.
Your post sounds like govt PR spin. Swap elimination with eradication in your sentence and vice versa and nothing changes.2 = 2 = 5?
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@antipodean could be moot depending on how fast airlines bounce back or new ones surface - although I'm hopeful we'll get travel up and running between NZ-Oz asap, followed by the islands... but unsure how the latter will pan out if Covid is still rife with our pacific neighbours.
Who knows what protocols the airlines might impose on travellers - suspect it'll be a collective and coordinated approach between govt(s) and travel providers.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Godder said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Paekakboyz said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MajorRage have we seen the nz govt say it's an eradication goal? I haven't caught that anywhere as yet.
I think the NZ goal is elimination, not eradication, as people will still travel here with it from time to time (and be quarantined on arrival).
How many people do you think will extend their planned business trip or holiday by two weeks?
@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Godder said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Paekakboyz said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MajorRage have we seen the nz govt say it's an eradication goal? I haven't caught that anywhere as yet.
I think the NZ goal is elimination, not eradication, as people will still travel here with it from time to time (and be quarantined on arrival).
How many people do you think will extend their planned business trip or holiday by two weeks?
With testing, doesn't htat drop to 2-4 days, rather than 2 weeks? That's difficult, but not impossible
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@nzzp said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Godder said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Paekakboyz said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MajorRage have we seen the nz govt say it's an eradication goal? I haven't caught that anywhere as yet.
I think the NZ goal is elimination, not eradication, as people will still travel here with it from time to time (and be quarantined on arrival).
How many people do you think will extend their planned business trip or holiday by two weeks?
@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Godder said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Paekakboyz said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MajorRage have we seen the nz govt say it's an eradication goal? I haven't caught that anywhere as yet.
I think the NZ goal is elimination, not eradication, as people will still travel here with it from time to time (and be quarantined on arrival).
How many people do you think will extend their planned business trip or holiday by two weeks?
With testing, doesn't htat drop to 2-4 days, rather than 2 weeks? That's difficult, but not impossible
They will have to improve accuracy too
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@canefan said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@nzzp said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Godder said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Paekakboyz said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MajorRage have we seen the nz govt say it's an eradication goal? I haven't caught that anywhere as yet.
I think the NZ goal is elimination, not eradication, as people will still travel here with it from time to time (and be quarantined on arrival).
How many people do you think will extend their planned business trip or holiday by two weeks?
@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Godder said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Paekakboyz said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MajorRage have we seen the nz govt say it's an eradication goal? I haven't caught that anywhere as yet.
I think the NZ goal is elimination, not eradication, as people will still travel here with it from time to time (and be quarantined on arrival).
How many people do you think will extend their planned business trip or holiday by two weeks?
With testing, doesn't htat drop to 2-4 days, rather than 2 weeks? That's difficult, but not impossible
They will have to improve accuracy too
Agree, but given how far we've come in 4-6 weeks, another month or two could see a real step change.
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@nzzp said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Godder said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Paekakboyz said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MajorRage have we seen the nz govt say it's an eradication goal? I haven't caught that anywhere as yet.
I think the NZ goal is elimination, not eradication, as people will still travel here with it from time to time (and be quarantined on arrival).
How many people do you think will extend their planned business trip or holiday by two weeks?
With testing, doesn't htat drop to 2-4 days, rather than 2 weeks?
Everything I've seen is two weeks quarantine.