@Frank said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@No-Quarter said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

So now that I've had time to reflect on this, I'm even more angry at the government.

They took 100% of our rights away for more than a month while they implemented the most draconian lockdown in the world. We all went along with it for the greater good, and we got rid of Covid altogether.

And for what? If the virus spreads again, and based on what we are seeing it seems almost inevitable that it will, what then? We can't go back into lockdown. There was debate about whether the cure was worse than the disease with the first one, if we do it again that will almost certainly be the case.

So what was that lockdown for? What was their long term plan? Close the borders until an unlikely vaccine is created? But then if that was the plan, why are they granting exemptions when it only takes one person to spread it far and wide again?

Or are these politicians so hopelessly out of touch that they think they can just do the lockdown again if need be?

I don't see anything coherent around what our long term plan is for this.

Wonder what Baron is thinking?
Can we let him back on for one day just to read the blistering critique?

He wasn't banned, it was self isolation.

Meanwhile in Brazil.

“The better team” never loses a game 19 - 3.

Worth a try

I'm an old fashioned git too.

Useful or not as a rule, I suppose it does get kids used to following appearance rules for when they matter later in life. Be it hi-vis vests, or realising that facial tattoo's are fine so long as you don't then expect to work for Emirates, etc etc. I guess I'm also a grumpy old git who gets fed up of all such media stories trying to fuel outrage on relatively trivial matters...

Today was always going to be the happy/sad day of lockdown for me.

Happy: today is Mum's 80th birthday!
Sad: her rest home is only 1.5km away, but it may as well be on the moon for all the good that is at the moment.

The very very slight silver lining of Alzheimer's is that covid-19 is mostly a background thing on the news to her, and she's not worried about it at all.

Work has been busy in lockdown, which has certainly made the time fly. The downside is that there are people out there in some pretty difficult situations, and where there are answers for them - the answers often aren't happy ones.

Vaea Fifita: the Akira Ioane that they do pick...

@ACT-Crusader - Weka was one of the Thames Valley Mafia along with @Fonzie and Bart, but we co-opted them in as Bay fans . @aucklandwarlord was also on the terraces at Eden Park on a certain day that we might have mentioned once or twice. @King-Goober-XL was another regular Bay fan around that time.

In 2004 @bayimports finally got to (mostly) bury the memories - and end of game footage of him - from the stands at Eden Park in 1996...

Unlike Steve Braunias with his ongoing 'Secret Diary' series, @JP & I eventually figured out that there's only so many Day in the Life satires that you can write before you start repeating the same gags in a different guise. Think we did either five or six of them in the end - they were all a huge amount of fun to write - with plenty of stifled laughs at work as iterative e-mail versions were sent back and forth. The one for Phooey included a couple of local knowledge lines about the Hong Kong rugby scene from @BartMan - it was the first one we did and the content flowed quickly!

Mountie @brain-man made a few Bay related posts from London in the mid 2000's but was sadly lost to a car accident on the Kaimai ranges in 2009. For those in Hamilton there's a memorial bench dedicated to him outside College Hall on the Waikato Uni campus: https://www.wu.ac.nz/fmd/memorial_trees_plaques.shtml - Brains was a good keen Varsity man and an absolutely top bloke.

"Varsity W.U.R.F.C. Eat, Laugh, Drink, Play, Nude. In loving memory of Varsity Legend Matt 'Brains' Goodlet"

There's an impressive army of vehement Facebook posters who would have completely locked down the NZ border to everyone four weeks ago.

I'm not sure how they found to time to study medicine alongside their qualifications in volcanology and mine re-entry, but they've found a way....

'He doesn't play for the Crusaders?'

@bayimports said in Wellington v BOP:

@Donsteppa said in Wellington v BOP:

At least I tipped Wellington 17+ and Steamers for lowest scorer...

well i backed Wellington by 13+ at the tab, still feels dirty

Yep, the uncleanness of it all is slightly relieved by being right

At least I tipped Wellington 17+ and Steamers for lowest scorer...

@KiwiPie said in Wellington v BOP:

Watching this I'm just really happy we picked up 4 points last week as I fear we won't get many points this season based on this performance

The difference in cohesion from last year is so stark, I'm increasingly sure our coaching team has spent too long thinking about Super Rugby 2020 & 21, and not enough time about the Steamers.

Now some genius is backchatting.

@antipodean said in Wellington v BOP:

@KiwiMurph said in Wellington v BOP:

Trask stands and shovels too much.

It takes three passes in the BoP backline before someone's running onto the ball.

And Clayton is going to be coaching the Chiefs next year. Looks like we're in for a fun 12 months of rugby....

@taniwharugby said in Wellington v BOP:

that did look pretty bad!!

Don't think he'll be playing for a few weeks...

So Fuatai can't kick, or clear out.... red card coming...

We're missing Karpik big time. If the defence is going to be this disorganised, he'd at least cover for three players.

@bayimports said in Wellington v BOP:

@Stargazer said in Wellington v BOP:

That was a bloody good try from Thompson!

it was but dear I say it... "championship" tackling

"Lazy and gun-shy" too.

@KiwiMurph said in Wellington v BOP:

@Donsteppa said in Wellington v BOP:

Who made that stupid kick giving the ball away in the 22?

Left winger.

I was admiring the run by Ware, and then Fuatai does that!