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    • Duluth

      Virus Sub Forum
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      Duluth

      @duluth said in Virus Sub Forum:

      Save the shouting expletives at people for your facebook in-group signalling please

      Just repeating this, plus a couple of other things that should be obvious

      Please don't even insinuate that a specific individual has broken the law and/or a health order. If you want to make accusations do it on social media, preferably with your own name visible.

      Wishing death on people is frowned upon too

    • Donsteppa

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      canefan

      @TeWaio said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

      Any thoughts as to when NZ goes green? July? October?

      Or are we counting down now to the new Monkeypox traffic light system?

      Knowing this government it will be a week before the July school holidays, along with the cancellation of RAT test requirements to enter NZ

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      @dogmeat yea I agree, society was already trending in this direction.

    • taniwharugby

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      canefan

      @Kiwiwomble said in Happiness Scale:

      @canefan i'm trying to really play up the small mercies, gradman has no idea...so wont be upset...and if COVID accelerates her passing it might be a blessing

      also...might actually get a cure out of her and nothing has killed her yet!

      It's not for her, it's for your mum. But you are right about the older generation. Clearly at 95 she is a tough old bird

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      MiketheSnow

      2 year Anniversary

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      Coronavirus memes (memes only)
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    • Siam

      Traveling in 2022
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      Hooroo

      @smudge said in Traveling in 2022:

      I've booked for Aussie (from NZ) in September. In the unlikely event self iso is still in place when I return, that's all good as I live alone...

      I'm off to Cairns and then visiting friends on the Gold Coast. Would welcome tips for Cairns - I know a guy there but he's quite busy making wardrobe space for his wife's shopping addiction so I don't want to bother him too much.

      I'm coming too!!!!! 🙂 Well I say that but we all know that decision is going to be made about two weeks prior and prolly not by me!

    • Siam

      Alternative Covid - Challenging the Narrative
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      Victor Meldrew

      @taniwharugby said in Alternative Covid - Challenging the Narrative:

      @victor-meldrew isnt it more effective in stopping YOU spreading it rather than protecting you?

      I guess if it stops transmission by even 5%, isnt that a good thing?

      Definitely. I was posing a thought that mask rules were possibly brought in to change behaviours/awareness of Covid as much as protect against it, if not more.

    • Kiwiwomble

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      Bones

      @voodoo said in NZ Travel bubble:

      @nepia said in NZ Travel bubble:

      @voodoo said in NZ Travel bubble:

      @kiwiwomble said in NZ Travel bubble:

      So, I’ve successfully returned from NZ, spent the weekend downsizing my mums place (throwing out stuff and changing 9 light bulbs), I really felt bad over the last year, if she had got sick or just old I couldn’t get over their easily to help her

      One great score was finding my old Otago and highlanders jerseys!

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      Great work, I changed 2 bulbs and a door handle thingee last time I went back. The latter took me 4 x trips to Mitre 10, fark I'm hopeless at that stuff 🤣

      Next lockdown you should spend it working on your handyman skills rather than relaxing in Queenstown or hanging out on the Northern beaches. 😉

      The phrase "lost cause" springs to mind

      I'm pretty sure @Nepia is the guy that can't cook....have at him mate!

    • mariner4life

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      Stargazer

      https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/300211341/covid19-it-hit-me-like-a-train-crusaders-coach-jason-ryans-virus-scare

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      What’s it like having Godzone all to yourself?
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      Hooroo

      @Bones said in What’s it like having Godzone all to yourself?:

      @Hooroo thought I remembered you mentioning on here you mentioned something to your bro in front of her that upset her! Prolly making it up.

      Maybe when I was over there visiting last year. It's very likely 🙂

    • Crucial

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    • Duluth

      [Poll - Complete] What would you like the Govt to announce today
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      Paekakboyz

      @Hooroo and we know for sure that @mariner4life is trolling and/or drunk. No, wait. He's both!!

    • Duluth

      [Poll - Complete] What will the Govt decide today?
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      taniwharugby

      @voodoo said in [Poll] What will the Govt decide today?:

      Barely though. I haven't ordered anything online from a butcher because the choices are so limited under current conditions. Every cafe and restaurant here is closed. I'm fucking gagging for a takeaway coffee and a vindaloo. You don't think 4 days of business will be important to them?

      We got our usual meat order last week, free delivery too, which was great given Dominoes dont even deliver out as far as we are, the booze shop wont either.

      I am sure it will be, but I just think this wil be thier (the Govt) 'happy medium'

    • MajorRage

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      Kirwan

      @MajorRage said in Coronavirus - Media Discussion:

      Govt told the Times to fuck off.

      Terrible use of their time.

      Apr 18, 2020 Response to Sunday Times Insight article Response to Sunday Times Insight article

      A Government spokesman said: ‘This article contains a series of falsehoods and errors and actively misrepresents the enormous amount of work which was going on in government at the earliest stages of the Coronavirus outbreak.’ ‘This is an unprecedented global …

      Embarassingly comprehensive rebuttal. Journalist and editor should resign.

    • Victor Meldrew

      Coronavirus & Messaging Apps - Help wanted.
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      Tim

      Has anyone been using Syncplay or similar apps to watch movies or listen to music with friends?

      I've been using https://www.airtime.pro/ to stream music to friends.

      Any app or service suggestions? Would love to be able to stream music to friends easily from my desktop.

    • shark

      Drivers Licence Expiring During Lockdown!
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      voodoo

      @Crucial said in Drivers Licence Expiring During Lockdown!:

      Do you peasants drive yourself or something?

      Funnily enough, we haven't been for the first 2 months of 2020 - and have hated it! Bali roads, licenses, insurance etc, all leads to expats renting a car + driver. And it's kinda fun for a week, and kinda crap after that!

      Can't put a price on independence.

    • Baron Silas Greenback

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      dogmeat

      @Baron-Silas-Greenback I think that's the point.

      The China numbers are totally fucked but hardly anyone's can be trusted. Everyone has different testing regimes, the US had hardly done any testing (proportionately) before they had community transmission - some cases are still only testing hospitalised patients.

      That's what Bloomfield said today - the fact the we are now testing much more but the number of cases is stable is good news and suggests that while it is out in the community not to a massive extent.

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      Public Holidays
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      SynicBast

      @Stargazer said in Public Holidays:

      When I discussed ANZAC Day with a mate of mine (via Skype) a few days ago, his youngest girl heard it and suggested that everyone should put a poppy on the bear they have in front of their window (she still counts them every day on their daily walk around the block). It was very cute to hear an 8-year-old actively think about it, this way.

      that story just broke me.

    • Hooroo

      Potential Positives to Look forward to
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      MajorRage

      @Stockcar86 said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:

      Absolutely inline with an earlier post I made about NZ approach to Covid.

    • Siam

      COVID Testing. Anyone?
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      NTA

      @Machpants said in COVID Testing. Anyone?:

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      Stories of some staff moving to headbands with buttons sewn on, as the over-ear masks are starting to chafe.

      One of the oldies homes here in Sydney is going through 800 sets of PPE a day.

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      Home Schooling
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      taniwharugby

      @nzzp I got an email from my sons school (high school) which gives me access to see what work they are giving him and what he has done...