Coronavirus - New Zealand
-
-
I know Baron is no longer around, but I'll just leave this here....
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12340756
I hate being right
-
Not sure why this is an issue...
IMO, people should be restricted to thier rooms for as much of the 14 days as possible, that is the best way to reduce internal transmission of it as well.
-
Another case caught in Isolation.
-
@taniwharugby Good, caught where it should be caught
-
look at those test numbers in the last month, yesterday with the highest single day number of tests, based on articles on Stuff today (brilliant sauce BTW) and what I saw here we might go over 10k in tests today
-
@taniwharugby What is driving it? Paranoia, relaxation of testing eligibility criteria? Certainly things hotted up after news of the escapees hit
-
@canefan I'd say paranoia is part of it, particularly after last week.
Plus, we have now been out and about for a couple of weeks, normal cold/flu bugs spreading, so people are being cautious when not feeling well.
Managing these isolation facilites is now even more important, and I think to slow the flow of people coming back, they need to start charging them, I think numbers would slow if people knew they would have to pay for 2 weeks accomodation, whereas now, they come back, stay in a hotel (albeit in isolation) for free.
-
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Managing these isolation facilites is now even more important, and I think to slow the flow of people coming back, they need to start charging them, I think numbers would slow if people knew they would have to pay for 2 weeks accomodation, whereas now, they come back, stay in a hotel (albeit in isolation) for free.
I think we may even find the opposite. The bottle neck at the border is the limited number of quarantine places themselves, if people could pay for their own (appropriately managed! ) quarantine, and in doing so they could increase capacity, there'd be even more people coming back in. (The vast majority of arrivals at the moment are still returning citizens)
-
@Donsteppa I dont think there should be quarantine options...you stay at this place, maybe the Govt agree a rate and say you pay $X for 14 days
Or maybe this is a new tourism opportunity- Quarantine tours
-
@canefan GPs are being cautious and referring anyone reporting symptoms for a test, and unsurprisingly at the start of cold and flu season a lot of people are reporting symptoms. A lot of employers are also being very cautious and asking employees to stay at home if they’re ill and get a test. I’m not sure how sustainable that is TBH, there must be a lot of people who’ve run out of sick leave by now.
-
@Donsteppa said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Managing these isolation facilites is now even more important, and I think to slow the flow of people coming back, they need to start charging them, I think numbers would slow if people knew they would have to pay for 2 weeks accomodation, whereas now, they come back, stay in a hotel (albeit in isolation) for free.
I think we may even find the opposite. The bottle neck at the border is the limited number of quarantine places themselves, if people could pay for their own (appropriately managed! ) quarantine, and in doing so they could increase capacity, there'd be even more people coming back in. (The vast majority of arrivals at the moment are still returning citizens)
Congratulations, you’re the new Minister of Tourism
-
@JC said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Donsteppa said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Managing these isolation facilites is now even more important, and I think to slow the flow of people coming back, they need to start charging them, I think numbers would slow if people knew they would have to pay for 2 weeks accomodation, whereas now, they come back, stay in a hotel (albeit in isolation) for free.
I think we may even find the opposite. The bottle neck at the border is the limited number of quarantine places themselves, if people could pay for their own (appropriately managed! ) quarantine, and in doing so they could increase capacity, there'd be even more people coming back in. (The vast majority of arrivals at the moment are still returning citizens)
Congratulations, you’re the new Minister of Tourism
I had work visa holders and split families in mind, but maybe some keen skiers from Aussie
-
Our youngest isn’t well at the moment, in fact both our girls are sick. Miss 8 is worse, last week complained of a sore throat then woke us up in the night vomiting the poor thing. Took her to the GP was no drama, they think it’s strep throat. Seemed to be coming right but then a couple days ago out of the blue vomited a few more times. Now her face is swollen and red and has a rash in some areas.
I took her myself to the same GP yesterday, this time they required her to come into the doctors wearing a face and seemed more cautious. -
@Virgil said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
ome into the doctors wearing a face and seemed more cautious
did you borrow one off @Snowy ?
-
So, as the other Covid threads seemed to have died off I'll post in this one - went to Uniqlo yesterday to try on some iron free shirts, only problem is they were temperature testing - I got rejected for having two high a temperature. So, I had to go to the Drs this morning to get my temperature tested before going to work, which was fine - but I wasted an hour due to a bloody clothes shop.
-
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
look at those test numbers in the last month, yesterday with the highest single day number of tests, based on articles on Stuff today (brilliant sauce BTW) and what I saw here we might go over 10k in tests today
So over 10,000 tested yesterday (10,436 - which is over 1,000 more than yesterday which was over 2,000 more than any day previously)
-
@canefan I was one of the 9K on Tuesday. Woke up with a sore throat, cough and headache. Normally I'd simply go to work and stay in my office but these aren't normal times. I rang Healthline but "there are 161 calls in front of you" so got on to the GP.
He said there has been a real spate of cases this week with exactly my symptoms. So I reckon it's a seasonal bug and people doing "the right thing".
I was 1005 convinced I didn't have COVID but.... If I had tested positive we would have been in a power of shit but I got a text at midnight last night to say I was negative. Still have to self-isolate until I am symptom free for 48 hours. So 33 hours from test taken to result notified. Pretty good I reckon.
Given media attention on the queues elsewhere, the testing facility I went to was giving out appointments ten minutes apart and I drove straight u, had the swab and was on my way. Not as bad as I had expected but hardly pleasant but was done in 10 seconds.
Doctor did say most testing centres have closed so to do 10K in a day is some effort