Coronavirus - New Zealand
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@Anonymous breakfast had a scientist on this morning, 2 things that stood out.
1 Our response and decline in rates has been better than the modelling
2 he reckons the modelling shows elimination in 2 weeks (they didn't ask if that was 2 weeks from today or 2 weeks from end of lockdown)But I do like @Donsteppa point above, if most of these people who want yo stay at L4 stay home anyway, that will help too.
I think Mrs TR will have so.e work under L3 but given it is at a retirement village and despite having FULL PPE unsure if they will allow it, my kids will stay home, I'll stay home because I can, and my employer will want any of us who can to do so
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@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
I wish we could run a poll within a thread that didn't lead the thread. I want to see who thinks we will drop to L3 this week and who thinks we will remain at L4 until after ANZAC day. (or potentially longer)
Personally I think we will drop to L3 but it be like a 3.5.
I was confident it was going to l3 this week, seemed they were foreshadowing it with all the talk of what l3 will be etc. But now I think it will stay at lockdown for another week.
One factor being its Anzac weekend ( official holiday is next Monday) so they may feel just extend past that weekend.
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@Hooroo pretty sure you can if you just do it in the original post...
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Hooroo pretty sure you can if you just do it in the original post...
Yes you can, but I don't want that as it sets the tone for the thread and that isn't my intention. It doesn't really matter though.
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@hydro11 said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
I was implying on that basis that it was much worse. I believe it depends by year but the CDC generally counts the flu season as October-May - so 7-8 months of the year. We have only seen one month of coronavirus and we can see from other countries that deaths lag. So you get on top of the rate of new infections before you get on top of the death rate.
The US had recorded cases of Covid-19 in January. They had their first recorded death in February.
The fact that it takes extreme social distancing to get on top of something like this shows just how dangerous it is.
Infuenza is just as dangerous, the difference is with have a vaccine.
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@Kirwan I got annoyed by that. We're not seeing open transparent government here. We don't know if we're pursuing a strategy of eliminating or flattening the curve, we don't know the models that the decisions were based on, we don't know what guidance the police were provided with (and Parker said 'take us to court' if you want to know!)... basically there's some massive holes in the 'open and transparent'.
Regrettably, most folk will hear that reported and think it's true.
I feel out of step with a large proportion of the population on this one. Think the lockdown was not a bad call going in, but the results were great, so we should immediately be starting to trial some relaxation of the rules, and stop trying to pick winners and losers.
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@nzzp said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
I feel out of step with a large proportion of the population on this one. Think the lockdown was not a bad call going in, but the results were great, so we should immediately be starting to trial some relaxation of the rules, and stop trying to pick winners and losers.
Agree wholeheartedly!
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@antipodean so we come back to the ability of corona to spread faster than the flu as the point of difference. With the lag and changes in the data being available for analysis Covid-19 could still end up nastier than influenza, but who (certainly not WHO) knows when we'll have consensus on findings internationally.
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I can only imagine the punishment our sewerage system will take once takeaways are back on!! Nothing like a shitload of grease to lube the pipes!!
Obesity has re-entered the chat lol
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@Donsteppa said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Anyone else getting in the 3 day KFC queue at 1601 if we get to L3?
The kids want me to join the queue now.
To be fair, I don't miss it at all but that won't stop be going and getting a piece or two.....
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@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Donsteppa said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Anyone else getting in the 3 day KFC queue at 1601 if we get to L3?
The kids want me to join the queue now.
To be fair, I don't miss it at all but that won't stop be going and getting a bucket or two.....
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.or three or four
FIFY
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@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Anyone else getting in the 3 day KFC queue at 1601 if we get to L3?
Derailing the thread, but we did southern fried chicken on Saturday night. Nom nom nom. My arteries are clogging, but it was totally worth it
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@Paekakboyz and gravy!
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@Paekakboyz said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Donsteppa said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Anyone else getting in the 3 day KFC queue at 1601 if we get to L3?
The kids want me to join the queue now.
To be fair, I don't miss it at all but that won't stop be going and getting a bucket or two.....
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.or three or four
FIFY
I don't know what that means? I see it all the time but can't work it out? I keep thinking it's a typo for First In First Out