@antipodean said in Has Hansen gone stale?:

2011 was cathartic for me. Going back to back in 2015 made me as happy as Test rugby could. If we do the three-peat in 2019, I'd suggest the RWC could be irrevocably damaged.

Let it burn

The lions strike back

@Hooroo said in Coronavirus memes:

@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus memes:

My next door neighbour has just been diagnosed with COVID-19 and rushed to hospital.

He's been put on one of the new Dyson ventilators.

He's picking up nicely now.

Oh Man! I was typing a reply saying that is a good news story and then realised the thread I was in.

You almost got sucked right in..... I'll get my coat

@antipodean can't see them making their emissions targets this year either.....

@tim I raise my glass of pool cleaner in your honour 🍸

@NTA said in RWC: England v Australia (QF 1):

@canefan said in RWC: England v Australia (QF 1):

@NTA said in RWC: England v Australia (QF 1):

@nzzp said in RWC: England v Australia (QF 1):

Seriously, though, we talked about this with Henry as well. They will put systems in place to generate the players with attributes they need. Hansen's just done this wtih props - get mobile, or get gone. Simple.

It's about systems. We don't have any of note.

MacQueen and his team came together at just the right time and it took more than a year to get them pointed in the same direction

Was McKenzie on track before he fiddled and got caught?

Hard to say. From all reports, he had his favorites and would stick with them regardless.

Maybe his attitude was better (or better expressed) than Cheika. But look at that tweet from Quade - does that look like the culture was of a high standard when that guy is your first choice?

Genia's got an attitude problem as well. Many in Australia will refuse to countenance that.

While the Reds were winning, nobody cared

Some of the bad eggs, like Genia, are gone now anyway. You guys need new up and comers and someone to change the culture. Wait, I have just the man

@virgil said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

A lot of fathers here, just imagine your little girl brings home her new boyfriend to show you. In walks that fat fuck, do you reach for the machete you have stashed in the shed or run next door to grab your neighbours .22 ?

I think you'll need a .303

At a bar 1km from Yokohama stadium. It is stonking hot and sunny. Lucky the beer is cold

@MN5 said in The Folau Factor:

@Rembrandt said in The Folau Factor:

Should have just glassed his girlfriend or shat in a hallway, pissed in his own mouth or maybe some sort of gang sexcapade like those much better role models out there.

In other words a typical Saturdee night when Craig Gower was playing

Foolah didn't mention bestiality. So Mitchell Pearce is in the clear right? 🤔

@voodoo nuts

@voodoo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@canefan over here you can dance at a restaurant but not at a nightclub, go figure

I realise it is a tough gig trying to negotiate the way through covid. But someone has to take a step back and look at the decisions being made. That is befuddling

@snowy said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

These boundaries are fucking stupid. I've had two ten tonne diggers sitting on my property doing nothing for over a week. I can see where the drivers live from my place but they aren't allowed to come and work. Father and son team who will be in contact with no one, both double jabbed.

A team of builders who can't do a thing because the piles aren't in place.

Materials to build all sorted. Just the fucking stupid boundary that is making it all go wrong. Idiotic government. They are supposed to be essential workers but can't come and and work on an 11 hectare property within their own bubble? All they see is some alpacas, ducks, geese, and chooks but they aren't allowed over over some imaginary line that the powers that be think covid won't cross. It's just so stupid it defies belief.

The arbitrary nature of things right now is doing people's heads in

@booboo had to be Hamilton

@godder said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@kirwan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@godder pretty damning that after 18 months there has been no real increase in ICU capacity.

I see the aussies have been poaching nurses from other countries. A good short term measure we could have done while we put resources into training more ICU staff.

This, and the botched vaccine rollout, is two main things a government can do handle a pandemic that they have fucked up.

The money was available for DHBs, they just didn't spend it - in the budget documents (see page 132) there is $37,195,000 carried forward from 2019/20 to 2020/21 for purchasing additional ventilated and non-ventilated ICU capacity.

Fuck knows why the DHBs didn't spend it, but they can't legally be forced to, and even if DHBs agree to something, if they later renege, governmental options are limited. No wonder they are being given the boot. Also, staffing of hospitals is a DHB responsibility, so again, they can be offered money, but can't be made to spend it.

There's still a question to be answered here though - if ICU capacity is significantly expanded, what services are being removed to make room for them? ICU takes up a lot of space in a hospital, and it's not just a matter of squeezing an extra bed or two into current wards - this is the equivalent of adding a whole new ward to a full space. It's not like hospitals actually have spare wards or services that could easily be permanently relocated because usually that was done years ago because it was cheaper than building a new hospital. What ward is being removed?

Having seen DHBs in action from afar, it literally takes decades to get anything of the scale of facility expansion done. Vaccination. Cheaper and easier

@kirwan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@godder pretty damning that after 18 months there has been no real increase in ICU capacity.

I see the aussies have been poaching nurses from other countries. A good short term measure we could have done while we put resources into training more ICU staff.

This, and the botched vaccine rollout, is two main things a government can do handle a pandemic that they have fucked up.

We could bring a whole load of nurses in as well oh wait.....

@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:

@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Australia:

Admissions to hospital in New South Wales have dipped to the lowest they have been in two months as the state records 273 COVID-19 cases and four deaths

Jeez, might just be something in this vaccination thingee

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-19/nsw-records-273-covid-19-cases-and-four-deaths/100549564

and yet, no matter what state you reside in, if you are a Labor or Greens "supporter" you will still shout how reckless the NSW Government is being. What a rogue state

As we've all said before, trumpeting of infection numbers isn't as valuable in the post vaxx era. Hospitalisations are key and yet when I switch on the telly or read stuff the first thing is always new cases....

@dogmeat I agree that health is expensive for us. And we don't have a large population with which insurance companies can gear their medical cover to make it more attractive. Plus we have always had free public health services and that expectation won't change anytime soon. And we don't sit on a mountain of uranium and other mineral wealth to help fund it

@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@canefan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@nzzp said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@canefan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@nzzp said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

94 new cases today. We're on track to crack a hundred really soon. This is going sideways even at L3.whatever

We have a long way to go to catch up with Melbourne's 2000 or so a day. Soon infected people won't be sent to hotels around the city because they will all be full

what @mariner4life said - it really doesn't take long to cycle 20/100/500/2500. They were here a few weeks ago.

I'm also sadly not surprised. Delta is here to stay, L4 won't wipe it out, L3 is barely controlling it. If we're not talking about flattening the curve, we're deluding ourselves ... the options are Delta now, or Delta later I fear.

leave the "i fear" off. it's a fact.

as for "flattening the curve"

i am kinds suprised with how cool everyone is with the term "prevent the hospital system being overrun" when the reason that is an issue is because of the spending decisions of successive governments

"yeah, we gutted the health system and run it right on the line, so you have to stay in your houses suckers. Soz. lol. be kind though"

That is the problem, but funding for hospitals doesn't present a short term answer as to how we negotiate covid from now on without lockdown. As most of us know, vaccination is the cheapest easiest way to protect our hospital system and the population right now

yes, we all know that. that's not the point

"protecting the hospitals" is a fucking shit reason for all of this if you stop to think about it though,

I could swallow that reason in March 2020. Now? Yeah nah