Coronavirus - New Zealand
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@canefan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@victor-meldrew said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
oh ok, but we're not seeing 10x the hospitalisations though are we?
Think that's been known about Omicron for months now.
Be interested to know what the feeling is in NZ about other infectious winter diseases like Winter 'flu being more dangerous due to lockdown not allowing them to circulate as freely as usual in the summer months. Is this a worry?
I'm concerned. We are trying to delay the onset of omicron so as many people can get boosted as possible. The thinking is flawed because it takes no account of the fact that Winter will come and stretch the health system as usual. Omicron will be present too and the combined stress on hospitals will be severe
It's a tricky balance for any government, I guess. Not helped that this time around, the timing of the seasons might not be so kind to NZ as in the past.
It was a big thing here and, in hindsight, removing all restrictions in the summer seems to have been the right thing to do - but we didn't have Omicron then
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@majorrage said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@canefan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@majorrage said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@canefan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
So she gets her spot. That was pretty damn easy. How does that make all the other NZers who don't have the ability to hold Jacinda to ransom via the media feel?
Same way felt for 18 months as watched sports teams, DJ's, comedians go in without any issue.
I would have liked for her to make a little more noise, but I guess she is getting what she wants. I hope omicron picks up pace in NZ, the sooner the government realise that trying to hold it back is futile now, the sooner we can get on with living something closer to normalcy
I can't hold any resentment towards the journalist. She used her platform to raise awareness & get her end result. Absolutely fair enough & would play that card.
Thing is once the govt caved and magicked up a spot she couldn't turn it down.
Reflects poorly on the govt.
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@booboo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Thing is once the govt caved and magicked up a spot she couldn't turn it down.
Reflects poorly on the govt.Perhaps they were just being kind
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@victor-meldrew said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@booboo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Thing is once the govt caved and magicked up a spot she couldn't turn it down.
Reflects poorly on the govt.Perhaps they were just being kind
On reflection just call me Captain Obvious.
And I needed to add "Just another thing that " to the start of that sentence.
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@booboo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
On reflection just call me Captain Obvious.
I was going to put your mind at ease and say I was being ironic. But I won't.
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@gt12 I'll admit I didn't know that, I guess that's why some have used the transit through Auckland 'loophole'
Either way, this is an absolute clusterfuck.
Sure it's been 2 years, I expect most kiwis that were considering coming home, would have, but people like many here have lives overseas, why should they have to have come home permanently now and be denied visiting? Similarly those living here being unable to visit family overseas or have family visit them, it ain't in the slightest bit kind.
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@gt12 I'll admit I didn't know that, I guess that's why some have used the transit through Auckland 'loophole'
Either way, this is an absolute clusterfuck.
Sure it's been 2 years, I expect most kiwis that were considering coming home, would have, but people like many here have lives overseas, why should they have to have come home permanently now and be denied visiting? Similarly those living here being unable to visit family overseas or have family visit them, it ain't in the slightest bit kind.
My cousin lives in Taiwan. Citizens have free passage to return home (not sure about residents but I assume so). Is our MIQ so inadequate that after 2 years we still can't get this sorted? Rhetorical question I know
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The fact that it's been 2 full years also brings people like me back into the fray. People who have made lives overseas unter the expectation that as citizens we would be able to come and go to visit family, particularly when they become unwell. The Trans Ta$man bubble closed in May. As of right now, MIQ is completely closed to us, no flights even. I don't know when that changes.
It's pretty wild.
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
The fact that it's been 2 full years also brings people like me back into the fray. People who have made lives overseas unter the expectation that as citizens we would be able to come and go to visit family, particularly when they become unwell. The Trans Ta$man bubble closed in May. As of right now, MIQ is completely closed to us, no flights even. I don't know when that changes.
It's pretty wild.
Increasingly unacceptable
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It's interesting how as soon as a denied returnee puts forward a court challenge MBIE backs down almost immediately the papers are filed. Does that point to them not wanting their system to be challenged in court or because in those instances they know they have been to restrictive?
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@crucial well if we have to take Kiwis that have been with IS or 501 deportees simply cos they were born in NZ, surely they cannot stop anyone who has done nothing wrong and has a legal right to be here too.
Like you say, I expect any time it gets challenged they back down, I also wonder if they have the right to force people to pay for MIQ, I mean claim you cant afford it and dont pay? I know people that came back last year, but were never sent a bill for it.
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@taniwharugby It may be a race against time for the government to announce a winding down of MIQ and still make it seem like it was their idea without being forced. Because the more cases that make the front page the more it may start to feel like a black eye at a time people (in Auckland at least) are losing patience with the government's covid19 response by the day
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@crucial said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
It's interesting how as soon as a denied returnee puts forward a court challenge MBIE backs down almost immediately the papers are filed. Does that point to them not wanting their system to be challenged in court or because in those instances they know they have been to restrictive?
I don't know of any challenges that have made it to court.Logic suggests that is the tactic they are using, and for exactly that reason. They are running a defensive action that makes it inconvenient enough to exhaust applicants' resources without actually engaging in court.
Murray Bolton's was the only case that made it to court, and MBIE got it's arse kicked.
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@kirwan I took it as someone with skin in the game highlighting the BS Bellis used to queue jump. Not that there is a queue of course
I'm not trying to defend MIQ or the govt but Bellis has irritated me. I'd be livid if I had been trying to get in from overseas at the way she has performed and our kind government has responded.
Mind you having to deal with the MIQ lottery would have killed me more surely than Covid could.
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@kirwan I took it as someone with skin in the game highlighting the BS Bellis used to queue jump. Not that there is a queue of course
I'm not trying to defend MIQ or the govt but Bellis has irritated me. I'd be livid if I had been trying to get in from overseas at the way she has performed and our kind government has responded.
Mind you having to deal with the MIQ lottery would have killed me more surely than Covid could.
They only respond to how the optics look. She was able to spin it and make them look bad. Most normal people don't have the ability or the access to do that and make it stick
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@kirwan I took it as someone with skin in the game highlighting the BS Bellis used to queue jump. Not that there is a queue of course
I'm not trying to defend MIQ or the govt but Bellis has irritated me. I'd be livid if I had been trying to get in from overseas at the way she has performed and our kind government has responded.
Mind you having to deal with the MIQ lottery would have killed me more surely than Covid could.
I'm more annoyed that Jacinda's DJ friends get in ahead of more deserving people.
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@kirwan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@kirwan I took it as someone with skin in the game highlighting the BS Bellis used to queue jump. Not that there is a queue of course
I'm not trying to defend MIQ or the govt but Bellis has irritated me. I'd be livid if I had been trying to get in from overseas at the way she has performed and our kind government has responded.
Mind you having to deal with the MIQ lottery would have killed me more surely than Covid could.
I'm more annoyed that Jacinda's DJ friends get in ahead of more deserving people.
The media are so into her and the government all these stories barely make any impact. And many people outside Auckland, whose lives have barely been affected over the last 2 years, lack any outrage at all it would seem