Coronavirus - New Zealand
-
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@booboo Covid, so comes in here
While he may have some valid points, is great how Stuff gives so many a platform, I should submit an article with my opinion on something...cricket? rugby? golf? Covid?
I spoke to someone recently who came back from California, he said it is mental over there, but was just pleased to be here, didnt seem to have many complaints.
spoke to my mate in Seattle - he got Covid from one of his team members. They refuse to wear masks.. and there's supposed to be no large gatherings. Mate asked where he'd been that he may have got it - church.. how many people there.. 2,000.
they just don't give a fcuk. All about the individual over there.
-
@gt12 By the sounds it needs to be of certain standard?
Airlines will play a key role in checking passengers’ documentation before their journey begins. On arrival, customs staff will check arrival cards and inspect test documents.
-
That’s where things can get even more sticky. Fuck this virus, with new regulations like that I cant see us getting home in 2021 either. A fast test costs about $300 a person, so there is another $1000 extra to go home.
-
fuckers. my accomodation just got booked. it's the best fucking location at the Mount. Get this shit sorted.
@Tim got me all excited. And then a bunch of public utterances since have left me with blue balls. No international travel until 2022? the absolute fuck is that?
-
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
fuckers. my accomodation just got booked. it's the best fucking location at the Mount. Get this shit sorted.
@Tim got me all excited. And then a bunch of public utterances since have left me with blue balls. No international travel until 2022? the absolute fuck is that?
Bringing your sticks with you?
-
@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
fuckers. my accomodation just got booked. it's the best fucking location at the Mount. Get this shit sorted.
@Tim got me all excited. And then a bunch of public utterances since have left me with blue balls. No international travel until 2022? the absolute fuck is that?
Bringing your sticks with you?
I'll just hire some.
-
My brother is texting me from his seat on todays light from Singapore. There are 3 in Business and 60 down the back and that is considered a lot of passengers.
How's this for a great job? There are two sets of flight crew aboard so each are off duty for one leg, but the poor bloody cabin crew stay on board during the six hour layover in Auckland and get the best rest they can before they start a second shift for the return flight.
-
@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
My brother is texting me from his seat on todays light from Singapore. There are 3 in Business and 60 down the back and that is considered a lot of passengers.
How's this for a great job? There are two sets of flight crew aboard so each are off duty for one leg, but the poor bloody cabin crew stay on board during the six hour layover in Auckland and get the best rest they can before they start a second shift for the return flight.
Take it up with the Singapore government, they set the flight time limitations. The flight crew won't do one leg each that would exceed the legal limit in most countries. They will split it. It's almost a 10 hour flight.
Do you want the pilots asleep on the job, or the cabin crew? With that number of pax the cabin crew will split shifts and rest anyway. They have bunks. You haven't got the whole picture there.
-
@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Snowy Yeah I do actually get all that. I still think it's a stink job (for cabin crew) but then I always have. The glamour of being cabin crew died when long range came in IMO. Well trained hospo workers.
I agree that it is stink job for cabin crew but that is because it is poorly paid and they have to deal with you lot, sorry, passengers. They were only allowed to do 1 hour more than the pilots when I was flying and were sitting down for parts of the flight. So the fatigue regulations (as well as their contract) does offer protection. Their primary function is safety and why we have the regs, even if they do look like hospo workers.
As for the glamour - it went out the industry (for most concerned) several decades ago as you say with long haul. I left at the age of 48 because it was just a shit job. The days of a week away when you could take the wife were gone, and it was 16 hours at work, with little sleep, 24 hours in a hotel room before going and doing it again.
Covid has made it even worse for my mates.
-
If an 89 year old who hates his iPhone can use the app...
One person.
Out of 35 people who wandered through the doors, just one person did what they were meant to.
It took only seconds, a few presses of their phone, and that one person did their part to keep the rest of the country safe.
His name was Bill, and he’s nearly 90 years old.
-
@Donsteppa you could argue that he might have been the most worried of that group of 35 given his age.
I've found the app to be 2-3 sec slower than when it first came out. I'm making an effort but that is a minor frustration. Have also seen that if people see you scanning then often a couple will follow suit. But not in the example above!
-
@Paekakboyz said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
I've found the app to be 2-3 sec slower than when it first came out
Funny my experience is direct opposite. Since the last upgrade I can scan immediately from up to 3 metres away.
But yeah - fuck all people using it
-
@dogmeat ha ha oh man we are fucked
All they need to do is take a leaf out of New World or Countdown's knife or container or little garden promo. Add some points system to scanning (with some basic level of rort protection) then watch the numbers grow. Even if there is some bullshit scanning going on that could nudge the herd towards better behaviour.
-
@Nepia said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Strange that there is an aversion to scanning in NZ - it’s actually one of the things nearly everyone is compliant with in Sydney.
I don't think that it is an aversion as such, we just haven't been as threatened by the disease so it isn't in our psyche all of the time. I'm hopeless, unless I trip over the QR code sign I'm likely to walk past. I try to remember but it doesn't always happen.
True comment above - if one person does it you do it because it is right in front of you and obvious.