Coronavirus - New Zealand
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@donsteppa From Sunday we will all be allowed to go to the pub - as long as it's on top of a hill!
Fortunately both my locals are
With some fly spray on hand for the likely plague of locusts
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@donsteppa haha yep, after todays events (that fortunately didnt eventuate to a great deal) who knows what else is in store for us!
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Auckland back to L2 from Sunday, rest of NZ L1
A reminder from Jacinda:
There can be no more than 100 people at social events in level 2.
"we're moving to level 2 on a Sunday morning, the restriction to 100 will apply to church services," she said.
Brian gets most of his tithe by DD doesnt he? So he shouldnt care!
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@taniwharugby Would be a real shame if a local constable dropped by a public church service on Sunday and there were more than 100 people...
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@winger said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
If the vaccine works (and whats the point if it doesn't) then those that take it are protected.
It does. Unless data from 20 million vaccinations in the UK has somehow been rigged by Bill Gates, the Illuminati or whatever.
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@victor-meldrew pfft you call that evidence! I was talking to Janice from next door last night. Well, it turns out her nephew's friend's dogsitter had the vaccine (3Ă—!!) And she still got the covids!!
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so an Air NZ crew member, tests negative, cruises off into the sunset, and tests positive a few days later.
Apparently deemed very low risk due to Auckland being in L3 when they were out, which was at a supermarket and health centre.
They had been vaccinated days earlier
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
so an Air NZ crew member, tests negative, cruises off into the sunset, and tests positive a few days later.
not their fault -and they sound like they were diligent in using the app.
Also, they didn't lie to contact tracers, which is nice
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@taniwharugby good argument for daily saliva tests, self administered at home if needed. There's no major downside, and if it picks up early infections it pays for itself very quickly.
Focus on high risk people,miq workers, fi6ght attendants, etc
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Police have been called in to try and track down a gymgoer linked to Auckland's February cluster.
“One person from the gym remains outstanding and Health staff are working with other agencies including police to try and contact this person,” the Ministry of Health said.
Must be living under a rock.
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Police have been called in to try and track down a gymgoer linked to Auckland's February cluster.
“One person from the gym remains outstanding and Health staff are working with other agencies including police to try and contact this person,” the Ministry of Health said.
Must be
living under a rocka farken inconsiderate cock.FIFY
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This article contains the vaccine rollout schedule:
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
They had been vaccinated days earlier
Just to be clear the vaccine works but only after 2 weeks. So after 2 weeks everyone is protected (according to this article) If true there is nil reason to not fully open the country back up when vaccines are available. Those that take them are protected. Those that don't are at risk but they understand this risk. And act as a control group to assess the vaccine in the future
“Well this person actually had only just been vaccinated, so they were a priority for this exact reason, the issue being of course the vaccine takes a couple of weeks to work, so at this point it wasn’t quite doing its job, nor would we have expected it to, but it demonstrates that this person was indeed a priority for us.”
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@winger said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
They had been vaccinated days earlier
Just to be clear the vaccine works but only after 2 weeks. So after 2 weeks everyone is protected (according to this article) If true there is nil reason to not fully open the country back up when vaccines are available. Those that take them are protected. Those that don't are at risk but they understand this risk. And act as a control group to assess the vaccine in the future
“Well this person actually had only just been vaccinated, so they were a priority for this exact reason, the issue being of course the vaccine takes a couple of weeks to work, so at this point it wasn’t quite doing its job, nor would we have expected it to, but it demonstrates that this person was indeed a priority for us.”
You almost have it, but not quite. Vaccines taken by enough people protect those that have valid health reasons not to take a vaccine (herd immunity).
Vaccines don't 100% prevent you from getting the illness, they do protect well and if you do get the disease it will be more mild and harder to pass on. So basically far less people get it, and if they do it's less serious.
Eventually you can erradicate diseases, assuming people take them in high enough numbers over time.
So people that refuse to vaccinate, that have higher risk factors (fat, old, etc), could still die or be very ill. As we only have 500 or so ICU beds (have not heard about any increase in capacity about this) it wouldn't take many people to take up resources for other illnesses and you get a flow on effect.
So step one is get people vaccinated. Step two is only let people that are vaccinated into the country. Step three is then business as normal, and a roll back of any covid related power grabs. (yeah right)