Coronavirus - New Zealand
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@JC said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@canefan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
some lockdown positives, today i watched a video of @Mokey reading porn to me
Let's all install Zoom and we can all tap in to watch that
Oooh no. The last thing I want to see is @mariner4life having porn read to him. It could get pretty vile pretty fast I reckon.
don't play coy
By the way, when I said "the last thing I want to see", that wasn't a request, you know, given the circumstances.
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@JC said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@JC said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@canefan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
some lockdown positives, today i watched a video of @Mokey reading porn to me
Let's all install Zoom and we can all tap in to watch that
Oooh no. The last thing I want to see is @mariner4life having porn read to him. It could get pretty vile pretty fast I reckon.
don't play coy
By the way, when I said "the last thing I want to see", that wasn't a request, you know, given the circumstances.
fucking lol!
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For anyone with temporary workers in your organisation, or who have friends and family visiting who can't get home given border closures and transit closures:
https://www.immigration.govt.nz/about-us/covid-19/border-closures-and-exceptions
The New Zealand Government’s epidemic management notice relating to immigration matters comes into effect on Thursday 2 April 2020.
Travellers with a temporary (work, student, visitor, interim and limited) visa expiring before 1 April 2020 who are unable to leave New Zealand must apply online for a new visa. An interim visa will be issued.
Travellers with a temporary visa due to expire between 1 April and 9 July 2020 will have their visas extended to late September. Confirmation of extensions will be emailed to all visa holders.
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@Donsteppa said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
One small silver lining; I'm not hearing the usual media commentators and environmental activists giving our farmers and horticulturalists much grief at the moment...
It sucks to talk about silver-lining but yes the loud fruit-cakes of the social media age are about to get a reality check.
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@Donsteppa yeah my butcher said they aint gonna run out of meat, he is doing online ordering, had to close for 90 mins today for a break...our agricultural produce and the droughts has meant alot of meat on the market
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Donsteppa yeah my butcher said they aint gonna run out of meat, he is doing online ordering, had to close for 90 mins today for a break...our agricultural produce and the droughts has meant alot of meat on the market
Meat is so cheap at the moment. I ordered a couple of wagyu briskets (about 5kg each) for a 1/3 of what you usually pay and then one of my friends said she had ordered me one as she wants me to cook it up for everyone. Happy days when I can have folk over for that.
I am really liking how the Government are remaining fluid in their decision making. Extending the travel period to Friday take into account people that are stranded under the previous guideline and lets them organise themselves a bit better.
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So it will come as no surprise that I am a miserable old fit that although I have lived in the same house for 25 years have nothing to do with any of my neighbours
Anyway just got home from work and there’s something in my letterbox. It’s a ziplock with a bulb in it from a household in my street
Says hi we are x. We don’t know many of you But we live at y. We’re the 5th generation of our family to live in the house. The house and family have lived through wars, the depression good and bad times and we will get through this.
We’d love to get to know you face to face but in the meantime we’ve set up a WhatsApp group. Put yr details below and we will add you
Here’s a daffodil bulb. If you want plant it by your letterbox and in the spring it will be a sign of hope and solidarity for our little street to remind us what we’ve come through. As we have a massive street party
It’s really nice to hear something like this so I thought I’d share. I’ve even broken the habit of a lifetime and signed up. I must be sick
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@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
My brother in Brisbane is (below)
the Director of Intensive Care and Chair of the Resuscitation Committee at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane. He has worked on the epidemiology and treatment of sepsis with the ANZICS clinical trials group, and is on the steering committee for the ADRENAL study. The subject of his PhD was inert gas kinetics and respiratory physiology, which ties in well with his out of work activities as a mixed gas rebreather diver.
Speaking to him, he thinks a vaccine will be about 6 months in the making. Have we heard any better than that? I've seen stuff all in the media around the vaccine for this.
Sounds like he da man!
Words in his bio I've seen a lot recently: epidemiology, sepsis, respiratory.
At a guess I reckon he'll be more informed than most...
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Has it been stated or even alluded to what success looks like after 4 weeks?
What if we have no cases, but it is still happening overseas... do we keep our borders closed?
I am guessing we would have to ? I am just not sure how NZ moves forward in 4 weeks.
Step 4 is eliminate? Ok so we manage to eliminate We will have to shut ourselves off from the rest of the world for months? Is that the plan? Is that stage 5? -
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Has it been stated or even alluded to what success looks like after 4 weeks?
What if we have no cases, but it is still happening overseas... do we keep our borders closed?
I am guessing we would have to ? I am just not sure how NZ moves forward in 4 weeks.
Step 4 is eliminate? Ok so we manage to eliminate We will have to shut ourselves off from the rest of the world for months? Is that the plan? Is that stage 5?I really want to know this too
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Has it been stated or even alluded to what success looks like after 4 weeks?
What if we have no cases, but it is still happening overseas... do we keep our borders closed?
I am guessing we would have to ? I am just not sure how NZ moves forward in 4 weeks.
Step 4 is eliminate? Ok so we manage to eliminate We will have to shut ourselves off from the rest of the world for months? Is that the plan? Is that stage 5?I think their best case scenario is wipe out the disease in 4 weeks (really dependent on everyone self isolating so this is a big if), then either closing the borders, or working harder to stop covid 19 from coming back in. They will have to work harder than the first time if they want to achieve that
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback It is a very good question, I guess the world is hoping with these lockdowns it will stop the spread. No idea what stops it ramping back up if they lower the restrictions. I assume it relies on people getting immunity to it. Now if a country such as NZ stops the spread and nobody has immunity then I have no idea what the long term outlook is.
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@chimoaus said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback It is a very good question, I guess the world is hoping with these lockdowns it will stop the spread. No idea what stops it ramping back up if they lower the restrictions. I assume it relies on people getting immunity to it. Now if a country such as NZ stops the spread and nobody has immunity then I have no idea what the long term outlook is.
The theory is, if everyone isolates from each other the virus runs it's course in infected subjects then dies out due to lack of new hosts. I think they estimate that 4 weeks is enough time for this to happen, and for the disease to finish in a particular family group too. Still have to stop it coming back in from overseas
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@canefan One solution may end up being the quick test kits. They have tests that return positive for Meth/Cannabis in 5 minutes, no doubt we will have similar for Corona. Airports could create some sort of system where you can only enter if you pass the test. In theory then anybody who flys does not have the disease.
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@chimoaus said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@canefan One solution may end up being the quick test kits. They have tests that return positive for Meth/Cannabis in 5 minutes, no doubt we will have similar for Corona. Airports could create some sort of system where you can only enter if you pass the test. In theory then anybody who flys does not have the disease.
FDA looking at approving a test that returns within an hour.