Coronavirus - New Zealand
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Wtf just happened, I just got woken up by my phone blaring at me like a fucking alarm clock with rabies. "Unlock your phone!" a message on the homescreen read, "all residents of NZ read this!" it said or something similar.
After figuring out what was making the racket I got my phone unlocked and the bloody message disappeared.
Did anyone else get this???
EDIT I see from the NZH it was a Civil Defense announcement. Wonder what the rest of it said.
Yeah our phones blared at 10pm lastnight. I was awake watching tv in bed the Mrs was asleep. First reaction was it was a mistake an error. Then check online and see it wasn’t... good times
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You really gotya wonder where the system has failed for this to happen, because this cant have been undetected in the community for 3 months, there has surely been a failure in the last week or
2.I honestly cannot see NZ abiding by a L4 again, the only positive I can take from the L3 announcement is that it is only for 3 days, which in my mind means they have an idea how this has come in but are waiting on confirmation through contact tracing.
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@taniwharugby or, they know the lockdown will be for longer than 3 days, and maybe more severe, but don't want everyone to freak out if they admit it...
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I think there's a pretty good chance there's actually a fair bit of Covid loose in NZ. But unless a high percentage of the populace is tested or someone gets a large viral load, in almost all cases there will be no evidence of same.
Which means elimination is probably a lot harder than JA and her team are letting on.
IMO if no one is bad enough to require hospitalisation there isn't much to get excited about.
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@pakman they were banging on about our low testing numbers in past weeks, but if people aren't feeling ill, why are they gonna get tested?
Normal flu numbers are supposedly down too, so again, if people feel fine, why would they get tested?
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
You really gotya wonder where the system has failed for this to happen, because this cant have been undetected in the community for 3 months, there has surely been a failure in the last week or
2.I honestly cannot see NZ abiding by a L4 again, the only positive I can take from the L3 announcement is that it is only for 3 days, which in my mind means they have an idea how this has come in but are waiting on confirmation through contact tracing.
Nah. The tests in isolation are risk mitigation not perfection. You could have a test fault or something showing on day 14 that wasn’t on day 10.
The chances of that are slim but do exist.I am highly fucked off on a personal level as after a year of only having bits and pieces of work since returning from UK I was about to start a good contract this morning. Got a text as I was about to hop on the train saying don’t come in as we are working from home.
fluffybunnies. It’s only level 2 and workplaces are open with advice being go to work! -
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Down the local coffee/crepe caravan in Wanaka this morning, they had to take my name and email again for contact tracing. I thought for a moment about being a Karen but gave myself an uppercut and got on with it
Thank goodness! Don't be that guy.
Hopefully Sussex brightens your day
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My take is we are at Level 3 for three days because they don't know how it got from the Airport to South Akl. Without knowing that they cannot judge how potentially dangerous this is.
They give themselves three days to try and track down the chain of transmission while making it much harder to spread widely.
My money is on an extension.
Testing will go through the roof just like it did last time there was a scare.
Given the govt is not going to adopt a Swedish approach much as many here would like and given also that there appears to be broad acceptance of their strategy then I don't see what alternatives there are. Do a Melbourne and send confusing mixed messages, try a succession of half assed partial lock downs and end up where we are today anyway but with a lot more cases? That seems madness.
Fuck It!
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@Virgil said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Here in Auckland are we at level 3 or level 4 because at 3 I could work, the building industry could work. But reading everything sounds like they want us all to stay home unless we are essential workers
Auckland goes to Level 3 at noon, today.