Coronavirus - New Zealand
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@kirwan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@crucial said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@kirwan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@rapido said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Andrew Little saying this morning that we need to start focussing on hospitalisation numbers instead of infections...
Such forward thinking! Lil' ol' NZ eh, leading the way!
Would you have preferred he did it a little earlier when the hospitalisations rate was at 10%? Wed have been in some newly formed Level 8. Compulsory biosuits. Etc.
I would have preferred that he spent the last 18 months increasing our ICU capacity, instead we have the PM saying we have enough.
They have been. Check some statements from Little about the work done in that area over the past 18 months. It isn't ICU buildings and white elephants but transformation of existing infrastructure and training.
It's the messaging and panicky advice that is the issue not the beds (post vax)
How many more ICU Nurses/staff do we have from 2020? How many more ventilators (From memory it was increased once by a couple of hundred, with no staff to use them).
Were health workers paid more to retain staff and poach from overseas (like Oz did) - hint, the answer is no.
What exactly has he done in the last 18 months?
I'm not looking for an argument but I did hear an interview a few weeks back where all of this and ore was asked. He had good explanations around the planning and what had been done. I'm not saying it was likely perfect but it did surprise me how little of the info had previously reached the public and how little had been picked up on by the media.
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@crucial said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
The big issue coming is the certification app.
I suspect its release is going to cause big headaches around not aligning with timing of other promises then the almost guaranteed bugs and user problems.They make it pretty easy to show that your vaccinated by following the text link. I was pleasantly surprised at the ease of it
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@hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@crucial said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
The big issue coming is the certification app.
I suspect its release is going to cause big headaches around not aligning with timing of other promises then the almost guaranteed bugs and user problems.They make it pretty easy to show that your vaccinated by following the text link. I was pleasantly surprised at the ease of it
But isn't there an app with a QR code to be used as the main proof?
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@crucial said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@crucial said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
The big issue coming is the certification app.
I suspect its release is going to cause big headaches around not aligning with timing of other promises then the almost guaranteed bugs and user problems.They make it pretty easy to show that your vaccinated by following the text link. I was pleasantly surprised at the ease of it
But isn't there an app with a QR code to be used as the main proof?
Sorry, yes. Just saying that if you need to show you are fully vaxed, there is a temporary solution in place currently
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@hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@crucial said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@crucial said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
The big issue coming is the certification app.
I suspect its release is going to cause big headaches around not aligning with timing of other promises then the almost guaranteed bugs and user problems.They make it pretty easy to show that your vaccinated by following the text link. I was pleasantly surprised at the ease of it
But isn't there an app with a QR code to be used as the main proof?
Sorry, yes. Just saying that if you need to show you are fully vaxed, there is a temporary solution in place currently
Yep. I just think that when the app becomes the passport to bars/restaurants/concerts/travel etc the desire to use it will slam its capabilty and problems will arise.
Already I suspect that Auckland is being delayed in steps because the app isn't ready. -
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Drove past a whole bunch on them on bikes. More than few had Trump T shirts on. What a bunch of troublemaking fluffybunnies.
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Anyone know anything about the Maori setting up their own blockade at Te Hana?
Can't see anything online but have had calls from workers saying that they can't get through. No problem with the police (they all have exemptions), but this was something else.
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@snowy said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Anyone know anything about the Maori setting up their own blockade at Te Hana?
Can't see anything online but have had calls from workers saying that they can't get through. No problem with the police (they all have exemptions), but this was something else.
I did see this earlier today:
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@snowy yeah dont think it was a blockade, was a 'Hikoi' wanting to get through, unsure where they were going.
@Tim feral fluffybunnies
They had cars across the road apparently and wouldn't let anyone past - so I'm going with blockade.
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@taniwharugby Gotcha. No they were never getting through.
I just had a an amusing self reflection - I agree with them re lockdowns, but I am not going to block state highways. Things are shit enough already.