Coronavirus - New Zealand
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@ACT-Crusader Oh, of course, I know the "reasons".
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I think you guys are being a little harsh. A team of 5 million, you’ve gotta expect a few knock ons, a few in from the sides and some cards time be dished for foul play.
However, the 2 / 3 / 5 / 10 year plan is a good question. My Mum turns 70 tomorrow and I was supposed to be there. I’m genuinely not sure if I’ll make her 75th.
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@Crucial said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@canefan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Crucial said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
On the flip side to govt errors, I'm not listening to one whinge about lockdown levels unless those making it can confirm that they are also being sensible.
I can't believe the number of people that are walking past requests to sanitise in shops, not using the QR codes, standing in close groups chatting, grouping in aisles of shops to talk, stopping in doorways etc etc.
They will all moan and blame others for failures but can't do the basics themselves FFS.Fuck we have a bad blame culture in this country.
I don't know whereabouts in NZ you are talking about. But in my little part of Auckland people have slipped back into lockdown mode. We have done everything that was asked of us and yet we are back here because of a lax border control
I’m in Wellington and the complacency exists.
As for the Aucklanders that ran out of the zone at first chance......
Why do you keep claiming that this is from lax borders? What do you know that we don’t?We went 100 odd days with no community cases. Where do you think the virus came from?
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I think more people in Whangarei are being a bit cautious again, Mrs TR said the supermarkets and town was dead quiet today.
I have seen some people wearing masks, not alot, seen more of the Covid Tracer posters up since wednesday (I downloaded the app and been using it)
When at the gym, people give one another a wide berth, the staff are constantly sanitising equipment, although they were doing that before this kicked off again (well the 1 night I went before the shit hit it again)
I think a bit of complacency is to be expected, but you'd hope that this week would be the reminder people need to do the basics; hygiene and social distancing.
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I dont get L2. You can basically do most of stuff per normal, in slightly smaller groups with a bit of spacing. But at Countdown you can't take your own shopping bags or buy a lotto ticket, but you can touch all the fruit and and its the one place you don't have to leave your name for contact tracing.
What a time.
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@voodoo do they not have the Covid poster with the QR code by the entrance?
Didnt notice it , didnt see anyone use it, certainly the 15yr kid at the door didn't point anyone to it.
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@voodoo they are not that hard to miss if they have them, A4 sheets with the big yellow and black covid thing and a QR code, supermarkets here have them...but then if you dont have the app then you probably arent looking for it either.
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@taniwharugby can you explain to me why they couldn't sell lotto tickets?
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@taniwharugby neither, I didn't even want to buy one, it was just frustrating walking past the sign that said "due to Covid, we are unable to sell lottery tickets ". Stuff like that just irritates me.
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@taniwharugby also - fuck you 😉
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@Bones said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
due to Covid, we are unable to sell lottery tickets
I think it actually said David. Bloody Dave. Went on another bender and didn't turn up for work.
Now that I can support. Poor bastard, he's probably in a world of pain.
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@Crucial said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
On the flip side to govt errors, I'm not listening to one whinge about lockdown levels unless those making it can confirm that they are also being sensible.
I can't believe the number of people that are walking past requests to sanitise in shops, not using the QR codes, standing in close groups chatting, grouping in aisles of shops to talk, stopping in doorways etc etc.
They will all moan and blame others for failures but can't do the basics themselves FFS.Fuck we have a bad blame culture in this country.
Sorry Crucial, but get the fuck out of here with that shit. We complied with the most draconian lockdown in the world and completely gave up our rights for ~6 weeks while businesses died and peoples mental health deteriorated. I heard Bloomfield speak recently and he said he was surprised by how compliant the population was (in a good way).
We then didn't only flatten the curve, we smashed the fucking thing. We then heard our government heaping praise on themselves saying we were the envy of the world.
While this was happening there was countless "compassionate" exemptions being granted, including two women WITH Covid that somehow managed to drive the length of the North Island without stopping. Which is of course completely ridiculous, but apparently the government thought we were stupid enough to believe that. We now find out that most staff at the border aren't even being tested? WTF?
People are pissed because it's been obvious for a while that it's been nothing but blind luck stopping another outbreak. I said earlier in the thread that it was inevitable we would get another outbreak, not because the virus simply cannot be contained, but because there was no way we were going to contain it with the incompetence of this current government who were too busy reading their own press to actually plug the many holes at our border.
"Go hard and go early" is the mantra of the government, all while our border leaks like a sieve. It beggars belief.
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@voodoo do they not have the Covid poster with the QR code by the entrance?
I got mine today. It took three days, so load s of places won't have them yet.
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Snowy we had ours from the first round still.
I honestly just thought you could do it online and print them off.
Yes you can