Coronavirus - New Zealand
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@majorrage said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@bovidae said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
The mother is the "high profile public official" according to the news.
They won't be welcome back to Wanaka in a hurry.
Neve flew to Wanaka by herself and hired a car? Kudos if so.
It's all over twitter. Son of judge and partner is a lawyer
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I expect this will happen more and more in the coming days, and is likely happening more than is reported / caught
Was headlines in.our local paper about a couple that drove over farmland to get into Northland, another person who took police on a chase breaching the borders into Northland.
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@kirwan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@rapido If we maintain that vaccination rate I will be happy, and pleasantly surprised
Yep so dunno how the rest of the country is doing but I can tell you I've got a mate running the walk in at Mount Wellington - stats from fri she sent thru.. normally do 1800 a day and only had 120 booked in.. and walk ins at 11am they'd done 85 and normally had done 600+
Neighbour is CEO of a large clinic, on a daily call with govt.. Vax rates in Auckland have fallen off a cliff in the last week.
Time to start thinking about different approaches.. door to door or something!
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@paekakboyz said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@canefan fly to Wanaka!!
They'll have their day in court. Although I'm sure mummy dearest will make sure they will get little more than a slap on the wrist with a wet bus ticket
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@williethewaiter said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@kirwan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@rapido If we maintain that vaccination rate I will be happy, and pleasantly surprised
Yep so dunno how the rest of the country is doing but I can tell you I've got a mate running the walk in at Mount Wellington - stats from fri she sent thru.. normally do 1800 a day and only had 120 booked in.. and walk ins at 11am they'd done 85 and normally had done 600+
Neighbour is CEO of a large clinic, on a daily call with govt.. Vax rates in Auckland have fallen off a cliff in the last week.
Time to start thinking about different approaches.. door to door or something!
I got mine last week, and it was completely full and a constant stream of people. Will get harder and harder the deeper you get, as that last x% is stubbornly crazy.
Need to taget the apathetic people next, as you say. There is a percentage that will never get it, will be interesting to know how high that part of the population is.
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@canefan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@paekakboyz said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@canefan fly to Wanaka!!
They'll have their day in court. Although I'm sure mummy dearest will make sure they will get little more than a slap on the wrist with a wet bus ticket
Revoking the essential worker exemption if you abuse that privilege would be a good first step.
Last week an Auckland-based IHC carer drove to Huntly for an adventure and KFC.
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@godder said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@williethewaiter said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
someone just told me high court judge.
not that exciting to be fair..
That's what Reddit says as well (well, judge, not specifically which court).
Seems the Fern was years ahead of the curve with its Nick names.
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@kirwan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@williethewaiter said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@kirwan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@rapido If we maintain that vaccination rate I will be happy, and pleasantly surprised
Yep so dunno how the rest of the country is doing but I can tell you I've got a mate running the walk in at Mount Wellington - stats from fri she sent thru.. normally do 1800 a day and only had 120 booked in.. and walk ins at 11am they'd done 85 and normally had done 600+
Neighbour is CEO of a large clinic, on a daily call with govt.. Vax rates in Auckland have fallen off a cliff in the last week.
Time to start thinking about different approaches.. door to door or something!
I got mine last week, and it was completely full and a constant stream of people. Will get harder and harder the deeper you get, as that last x% is stubbornly crazy.
Need to taget the apathetic people next, as you say. There is a percentage that will never get it, will be interesting to know how high that part of the population is.
wifes brother is one of them. batshit crazy - to the point that he stopped working about 18 months ago to research that vitamin D is the cure to Covid.. and sits in a room for 8 hours a day on the interwebs hardcore working on this frikkin 'research paper'... and has fully gone down the rabbit hole of every nutty conspiracy you've heard about. The other day gave a 3 hr presso to his brother, my wife and their mother about why they shouldn't get the vaccine. He had them on the fence a wee bit - 'vax hesitant' despite my non stop yelling at them.. anyway thankfully since the 'presso' they've realised that he is nuttier than squirrel shit and all his 'sources' are also bollicks.
Theyve now cut themselves off anyone who's had the vax.. as in grandparents etc aren't allowed to see the grandkids in case their 'shedding' gets on them (despite this being a complete myth and a complete impossibility).
The concerning thing is they're not stupid people.. his wife is the senior solicitor for one of nz's largest banks... how the fuck do you get through to people like this that think they're 100% right and everyone else on the planet is fucked in the head.
And that's the problem with crazy people. They don't know that they're crazy.
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@williethewaiter have a couple like that in the family, but at the other end of the scale believing in 5g tower bullshit. What's the saying? Being stupid is only painful for everyone else?
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@williethewaiter It's like people who joined the Moonies - they had to be sent for de-programming.
Unfortunately, it seems like there's millions of people completely invested in this bullshit - and they are dying for it.
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@chris-b said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@williethewaiter It's like people who joined the Moonies - they had to be sent for de-programming.
Unfortunately, it seems like there's millions of people completely invested in this bullshit - and they are dying for it.
yep. you can find them on here.. https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/
I'm 'probably' a horrible human being for enjoying what is no doubt one of the best 'told ya so' sites ever.
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@williethewaiter said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@kirwan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@rapido If we maintain that vaccination rate I will be happy, and pleasantly surprised
Yep so dunno how the rest of the country is doing but I can tell you I've got a mate running the walk in at Mount Wellington - stats from fri she sent thru.. normally do 1800 a day and only had 120 booked in.. and walk ins at 11am they'd done 85 and normally had done 600+
Neighbour is CEO of a large clinic, on a daily call with govt.. Vax rates in Auckland have fallen off a cliff in the last week.
Time to start thinking about different approaches.. door to door or something!
That's really disheartening - unfortunately quelling this latest outbreak successfully has probably slammed the door shut on hitting 80%+ and the borders moat got significantly wider.
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@williethewaiter said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@kirwan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@rapido If we maintain that vaccination rate I will be happy, and pleasantly surprised
Yep so dunno how the rest of the country is doing but I can tell you I've got a mate running the walk in at Mount Wellington - stats from fri she sent thru.. normally do 1800 a day and only had 120 booked in.. and walk ins at 11am they'd done 85 and normally had done 600+
Neighbour is CEO of a large clinic, on a daily call with govt.. Vax rates in Auckland have fallen off a cliff in the last week.
Time to start thinking about different approaches.. door to door or something!
That's a bit of a concern, or maybe a good sign that they've already got there? As in they've bagged the normals and the slightly hesitant. Now it's the more hesitant, don't even bother with the mentals. That may be a bit too optimisitic of me , but got to look on the bright side ....
I read somewhere on RNZ site this morning that hoping/ thinking they pass 80% of eligible this week in Auckland.
Auckland vaccine programme director hopes for record-breaking week
- A record 220,000 Aucklanders could be vaccinated this week but it would take every available bit of capacity in the system.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wants as many people as possible in Auckland to get a dose in what may be the last week at alert level 4, telling those with bookings for later to move them forward.
Anthony Jordan, clinical director of the vaccination programme for the city's three district health boards, told RNZ he wanted to break their previous record of 190,000 vaccinations a week, set earlier in the outbreak.
Their capacity was about 220,000, he said.
"On our peak day, which was the third of September, we delivered over 31,000 vaccinations ... and we did that comfortably," he said.
He would love to do that every day and there were plenty of options to deliver, with a handful of drive-through centres, 13 large community centres, 130 GPs and 40 pharmacies, he said.
They would have to all be cranking to get the job done, he said.
Auckland GP Api Talemaitonga said it was the perfect chance to protect Aucklanders.
"While we're in level 4, there are no schools open, most of us are working from home, you haven't got things to do in the city or elsewhere. Go and get vaccinated," he said.
The Tongan drive-through centre that vaccinated nearly 4000 people last weekend was a perfect example of what worked and the DHBs must be proactive about reaching everyone, he said.
Dr Jordan said they were in the final stages of organising mobile vaccination units.
They would go street to street offering Covid-19 vaccinations in areas where there may be low coverage or where people may be struggling to get to a clinic.
"People have talked about music to tell them - like a Mr Whippy van - that we're coming down the street. But it will actually be about proactive communication with those communities about when we're there, similar to some of the pop-up sites we've done," he said.
GP Matire Harwood helps run a drive-through vaccination centre at Papakura Marae which has been reaching 200 to 300 people a day.
She said the call to get as many people injected as possible this week was great but clinics like hers needed more resources.
She was keen to build on the momentum she had observed as more and more people saw their friends and families vaccinated and wanted one too.
It all came back to access.
"I still hear the struggles and the challenges of booking the vaccine, so I really encourage people to take advantage of the walk-in and the drive through clinics so you don't need a booking," Dr Harwood said.
If the system does hit its maximum, and depending on the number of first and second doses given, more than 80 percent of the 1.4 million eligible Aucklanders could have had at least one dose by this time next week.
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*They would go street to street offering Covid-19 vaccinations in areas where there may be low coverage or where people may be struggling to get to a clinic.
"People have talked about music to tell them - like a Mr Whippy van - that we're coming down the street. But it will actually be about proactive communication with those communities about when we're there, similar to some of the pop-up sites we've done," he said.*
please God let the tune be Sandstorm
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@williethewaiter check out /r/HermanCainAward/ and r/LeopardsAteMyFace/ on Reddit, FULL of similar stories. The extra shitty part is where these folks manage to rope others into anti-vax thinking. Dragging others down with them