Coronavirus - New Zealand
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Been a week since our last community case?
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Been a week since our last community case?
Level 1 here we come
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so 1 new case, in managed isolation.
Just 8 of the 41 active cases left in NZ are from community spread...you'd have to say Auckland are well on track to go back to L1 from midnight Wednesday.
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@taniwharugby Agree, seems likely.
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I think there would be an insurrection if we didn't go back to L1 plus the election y'all.
However I have to say people haven't learned anything from Lockdown 2.0. Three weeks ago we had that nurse that visited Les Mills etc and it looked like we could be in trouble but contact tracing worked really well - fast and efficient and a cluster never developed.
We have to accept the border will be breached again. We should put in place every measure we can come up with to ensure this doesn't happen but it's naïve to expect perfection. We have seen cases where someone was infectious after more than 14 days, cases of transmission from hard surfaces etc.
So have we all taken this to heart and are using the contact tracing app religiously so that any future community outbreak can be minimised? Are we fuck. My observation at the weekend in Auckland and Hamilton would be 1 in 20 scan in Akl and none in Hamilton. Seriously it's not that hard to do. Takes seconds and if it minimises the economic ruin of another extended lockdown then get with the programme people
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@dogmeat yeah I was up in Paihia on Saturday with friends who were up from Auckland, they werent using the app, and when I scanned it he said he didnt even have it on his phone.
Certainly complacency out there I think, but I agree, these little breakouts will happen, but we need to try to manage these without sending people into lockdown
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@Donsteppa said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@dogmeat Yep, for a few weeks there there was a queue at the door of most shops to use the contract tracing app. Now's it's back to the days of 'being in the way' when you stop at the door to use it...
it's bollocks. So simple to do, and yet people aren't doing it. Frustrating.
I can see the argument 'for' a Covid Card or similar - but then people have to actually use it, the privacy implications, etc. That said, a big 'ding' when you scan that people can check would be worth it - and businesses culturally insisting on it
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
So have we all taken this to heart and are using the contact tracing app religiously so that any future community outbreak can be minimised? Are we fuck. My observation at the weekend in Auckland and Hamilton would be 1 in 20 scan in Akl and none in Hamilton.
Where exactly were you? I've scanned the app twice this morning and I see a decent amount of people using it. Even the oldies tend to manually sign in.
I think the only way to ensure compliance is for a staff member to be at the entrance of any shop so no scan/sign in, no entry. Of course they want people in the door.
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@Bovidae said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
I think the only way to ensure compliance is for a staff member to be at the entrance of any shop so no scan/sign in, no entry. Of course they want people in the door.
yeah but then you usually rely on some kid working there to enforce the rule, I personally wouldnt have issue with it, but we know some will.
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@Bovidae said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
So have we all taken this to heart and are using the contact tracing app religiously so that any future community outbreak can be minimised? Are we fuck. My observation at the weekend in Auckland and Hamilton would be 1 in 20 scan in Akl and none in Hamilton.
Where exactly were you? I've scanned the app twice this morning and I see a decent amount of people using it. Even the oldies tend to manually sign in.
I think the only way to ensure compliance is for a staff member to be at the entrance of any shop so no scan/sign in, no entry. Of course they want people in the door.
I think as long as there's some sort of tracing then it's helpful. In NSW the contract tracing seems to have worked despite the fact it really is a clusterfuck of organisation depending on where you go. Although we only have to sign in for cafes/bars and restaurants, no shops.
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@Bovidae I was in the bits that weren't too bogan for my cultured Auckland sensibilities....
basically was always within a couple of blocks of the central mall. Since we came out of Level 4 we have created a routine - we eat at a different Vietnamese every weekend. Only missed teh two weekends we went to Russell. There are 4 such in central Hamilton.
I have to say its been over a decade since I wandered around the CBD and while it's still very quiet and small town the bits they have done up they've done well. To the extent we decided we will come back for a weekend. Well a night really - drive down Saturday morning, back Sunday. Mustn't get too carried away.
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@dogmeat And I have been doing the opposite with brief visits to L2. I'll be escaping again before the test on Sunday though.
I don't venture into the CBD much myself, but the use of the app at The Base (the busiest place on any weekend) seems better than average.
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Bovidae I was in the bits that weren't too bogan for my cultured Auckland sensibilities....
basically was always within a couple of blocks of the central mall. Since we came out of Level 4 we have created a routine - we eat at a different Vietnamese every weekend. Only missed teh two weekends we went to Russell. There are 4 such in central Hamilton.
I have to say its been over a decade since I wandered around the CBD and while it's still very quiet and small town the bits they have done up they've done well. To the extent we decided we will come back for a weekend. Well a night really - drive down Saturday morning, back Sunday. Mustn't get too carried away.
Brave man.
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Auckland back to Level 1 on Wednesday at 23:59 - no great surprise there but always good to hear it. Props to the Ministry of Health for getting contact tracing and testing into shape - plenty of other work-ons no doubt, but at least that's at gold standard now.
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
So have we all taken this to heart and are using the contact tracing app religiously so that any future community outbreak can be minimised? Are we fuck. My observation at the weekend in Auckland and Hamilton would be 1 in 20 scan in Akl and none in Hamilton. Seriously it's not that hard to do. Takes seconds and if it minimises the economic ruin of another extended lockdown then get with the programme people
they said on the 1pm update that App usage had dropped 50% in the last week...
that was the only bit I remember the entire rest of the session was just Jacinda campaigning - nothing to do with covid.. fuck she must love the free opportunities she gets!
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Someone was pretty stoked when they came up with this one:
By far the most comprehensive nomenclature is called PANGOLIN (it's short for the Phylogenetic Assignment of Named Global Outbreak LINeages). This categorisation system has dozens of sub-categories and creates new ones as the virus continues to mutate.