Coronavirus - New Zealand
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@billy-tell said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
The govt has announced it will close all roads to travel. “Although we understand it will be tough for some people not seeing friends or family, it will save lives as road accidents will be confined to history”
It’s expected the roads will re-open in stages: first Auckland to Hamilton, then Auckland to the rest of NZ, then the North Island and finally those suckers from the South Island. Oh and then Stewart Island, lest we forget.
Gold!
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When asked about its “roads closed, lives saved” policy and emergencies, the govt announced they would be making 3 ambulances available. “If you feel like you have a compelling reason to travel, such as a heart attack, cancer, giving birth or the death of a loved one, actually not that one sorry, then you can apply for a spot in the ambulance. We will be initially making 2 spots available. The third spot is if you play sport and are famous. If you miss out tough shît but roads closed, lives saved”.
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so mask wearing between stations and moving about the gym today...clearly whoever thought that'd do anything other than a token gesture to appease the god of Covid, has never done an intense gym session!
Finished last set of some heavy lifts, put mask on to go get disinfectant wipe to wipe bar down...tough breathing then, despite the extra heavy breaths during the exercise....feel for the staff who have to go round and advise people to wear masks.
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
so mask wearing between stations and moving about the gym today...clearly whoever thought that'd do anything other than a token gesture to appease the god of Covid, has never done an intense gym session!
Finished last set of some heavy lifts, put mask on to go get disinfectant wipe to wipe bar down...tough breathing then, despite the extra heavy breaths during the exercise....feel for the staff who have to go round and advise people to wear masks.
It was a hot, muggy day and I was moving all my heavy fucken couches, fridges, tables etc with the Moving company. Vaccine pass checked and they insisted I wear the mask the whole time, gets tough to breath when you get a sweat on !
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@jc said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
The worst thing about Covid, the absolute worst, is that I haven’t been able to maintain my Elite Airpoints status using only internal flights. What were they thinking?
I've had to rely on the banked years Air NZ have been handing out, very disappointing.
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Sure the country's economy will be in ruins, but we protected those 5 or 10% non-vaccinated peeps right?
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Yeah the only people these pending new rules are good for is permanent returnees and those wishing to travel overseas from NZ. Stoked for my parents who can now start looking at coming over for my bro's wedding in July, not so great for any of us wanting to visit NZ in the next year. I'm not wanting to fuck about isolating for 7 days, what a farce.
Someone asked about isolating with parents etc? I thought it was that they don't have to isolate with you, unless you test positive.
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@bones said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Yeah the only people these pending new rules are good for is permanent returnees and those wishing to travel overseas from NZ. Stoked for my parents who can now start looking at coming over for my bro's wedding in July, not so great for any of us wanting to visit NZ in the next year. I'm not wanting to fuck about isolating for 7 days, what a farce.
Someone asked about isolating with parents etc? I thought it was that they don't have to isolate with you, unless you test positive.
True.
However, given the propaganda message do you think anybody in NZ will want to see you without the qt anyway? You are just infected filth to them, remember.
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@majorrage said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
do you think anybody in NZ will want to see you
No change then.
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@jc as per @Godder @muddyriver Air NZ just keep rolling it over. I only did two flights last year. That's the least I would have done since before most of you were born and I wouldn't describe myself as a regular traveller pre Covid <20 flights a year
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@bones said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Yeah the only people these pending new rules are good for is .... those wishing to travel overseas from NZ.
and your issue is
I'm hopeful these rules will be relaxed significantly once the initial omicron wave washes over us so you guys can get back to visit your whanau.
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The Spinoff do a daily update using mainly MoH data. Given that I don't know wht the Ministry's advice (presumably) has been so conservative.
I think this one shows how effective lockdowns have been - plus how little time we have actually been locked down - comparatively
some other graphs I found interesting;
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@canefan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Sure the country's economy will be in ruins, but we protected those 5 or 10% non-vaccinated peeps right?
We haven't reached 80% yet - currently 3,967,611 out of 5,126,300 NZers = 77.4% are fully vaccinated.
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@godder said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@canefan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Sure the country's economy will be in ruins, but we protected those 5 or 10% non-vaccinated peeps right?
We haven't reached 80% yet - currently 3,967,611 out of 5,126,300 NZers = 77.4% are fully vaccinated.
Is that total Population? We are at 90% over 12 years though aren't we?
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@hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@godder said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@canefan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Sure the country's economy will be in ruins, but we protected those 5 or 10% non-vaccinated peeps right?
We haven't reached 80% yet - currently 3,967,611 out of 5,126,300 NZers = 77.4% are fully vaccinated.
Is that total Population? We are at 90% over 12 years though aren't we?
It says right there on the chart..'eligible population'