Coronavirus - New Zealand
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so I found out today we are still at Alert Level Orange...
On Thursday afternoon, Covid-19 Response Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall said moving back to red was “unnecessary at the moment”, and that we could continue to manage the virus at orange.
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Ha, thought I had deleted the covid tracing app
Funny thing is, the 2 people at my work that registered thier positive result on that day, weren't at work...so I wonder if its just been some random stranger ive been in a shop with or passed in the street...this is the 1st time I've had that notification.
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After reading this on ABC news feed, i keep seeing this syndicated headline posted everywhere the past two days, everywhere except NZH and Stuff, my go-to hair-on-fire Covid sources. What gives? Why are they burying this? Is it international news wire fake news, or simply inconvenient?
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@Kid-Chocolate So waiting the storm out didn't work and the same people are affected, the elderly?
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@Kid-Chocolate said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
After reading this on ABC news feed, i keep seeing this syndicated headline posted everywhere the past two days, everywhere except NZH and Stuff, my go-to hair-on-fire Covid sources. What gives? Why are they burying this? Is it international news wire fake news, or simply inconvenient?
This was in the UK news yesterday. A number of epidemiologists were explaining that NZ's historically low infection rate is almost certainly the cause of the big rise in Covid deaths and it's being seen in other countries with low infection rates too.
They said a hybrid of a strong vaccination programme (immunisation and an annual booster) together with a relatively high infection rate gives the best defence from Covid, according to the latest global data.
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@Kid-Chocolate It's been on the Herald. I just don't think it's news to most Kiwi's. We have accepted that there will be 15-20 "deaths with Covid" a day.
It's also ignoring the fact that we have had 2,000 deaths to date 385/million which rates us 139th in the world. There is a great deal of glee about NZ's current covid situation by those who are philosophically opposed to the way we have reacted to the pandemic from individuals, media outlets and governments. Like most things Covid related it is usually incredibly biased and ignores the reality.
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Like most things Covid related it is usually incredibly biased and ignores the reality.
Only because it's clearly (right/wrong; delete one at your leisure) and the response was (world class/a disaster)
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Numbers have been inflated a bit anyway, by the deaths within 28 days metric. I saw on news a few days ago that they were revising that 'back' to counting in a more normal way. That metric really only useful if/when you are getting swamped. When that aired it was going to reduce the death count from 1800ish to 1200ish. So a 33% overcount.
Anyway, always was going to be an exit wave.
Pleased/mildy surprised there wasn't any over-reaction to the exit waves, Especially given the overcount. Guess the public are over it ... plus the threat/reality of recession.
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Possibly shared on one of the many Foster threads
Waiting for the story about one of them stinking out the toilets next….
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Kid-Chocolate It's been on the Herald. I just don't think it's news to most Kiwi's. We have accepted that there will be 15-20 "deaths with Covid" a day.
Daily readings of NZH and Stuff also seem to indicate most Kiwis have accepted we’ll always have a teenage boy band sensation and hook-up marriage reality tv shows, and that hasn’t stopped either news org from positioning the latest hype from that cultural crap to the top of the headlines.
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Fair play to them. The whole thing has objectively been a farce.
NZ kicked the can down the road for two years while the rest of the world now has better natural immunity.
Glastonbury on two weeks ago with 120k people licking each others faces in a field.
Meanwhile....
Curtain twitchers in a NZ airport are ratting on the countries healthiest athletes walking to their plane without a mask.
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@Kid-Chocolate said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Daily readings of NZH and Stuff
are you insane?!!!
If not you soon will be on that diet.
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@MN5 said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Possibly shared on one of the many Foster threads
Waiting for the story about one of them stinking out the toilets next….
ABs don't use toilets at airports for that...<insert play sexy music>
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When the tide goes out you can see who isn't wearing any shorts.
After two and a half years they still want people to buy into this nonsense.
Officialdom is pissing down our necks and telling us its raining.
People have eyes and ears, can see in their own social circles who is sick and for how long.
You don't see self employed people complaining of long covid.
Only welfare scroungers and people with cushy sick pay schemes.
An invisible boogey man used and abused by governments and layabouts alike.
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@Steve TBF, I know a few people who have 'long covid' and they are not lay-about types.
I still havent had covid (that I am aware of) but the people I know that have had it and the flu that has been equally as rampant this winter, say the flu is worse, however the lethargy and energy draining of covid lasts a longer than the flu.
That being said, unless someone has it, Covid is becoming a non-issue aside from the constant attempts of the govt and media to keep it front and centre, and the 'experts' trying to stay relevant.
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@Rapido said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Numbers have been inflated a bit anyway, by the deaths within 28 days metric. I saw on news a few days ago that they were revising that 'back' to counting in a more normal way. That metric really only useful if/when you are getting swamped. When that aired it was going to reduce the death count from 1800ish to 1200ish. So a 33% overcount.
Point of order, isn’t that a 50% overcount?
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Fair enough but there are plenty taking the piss with it.
Had to laugh at John Rahm winning the US Open last year after being nixed the week before for testing positive.
Or WIll Jordan running 60 meters on the angle for a try after being "laid low" with the virus and missing the first test and a half.
Give me a fucking break. Why are they even fucking testing people.
Its a global embarrassment.
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@Steve said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Fair enough but there are plenty taking the piss with it.
Oh I have no doubt about that!!
But I think like the normal flu, some people it knocks you for 6, some barely have any symptoms.
My 17 & 14 yr old kids had the normal flu 6 weeks ago, took the older 4 weeks to get over the flu symptoms, but has had a persistent cough since and ended up with a chest infection, the other took 4 weeks but still has a slight cough...I was a bit off for about 48 hours when they both got it, Mrs TR got nothing at all, all the more surprising as she had had some significant surgery a few days earlier too.
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Steve said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Fair enough but there are plenty taking the piss with it.
Oh I have no doubt about that!!
But I think like the normal flu, some people it knocks you for 6, some barely have any symptoms.
My 17 & 14 yr old kids had the normal flu 6 weeks ago, took the older 4 weeks to get over the flu symptoms, but has had a persistent cough since and ended up with a chest infection, the other took 4 weeks but still has a slight cough...I was a bit off for about 48 hours when they both got it, Mrs TR got nothing at all, all the more surprising as she had had some significant surgery a few days earlier too.
That's viruses for you. Every strain can affect you differently, and every individual can react differently. Or similarly. Random as