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Maggie Pie

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I’ll be using all four numbers in my Powerball picks for Saturday 😀
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March 19, 2020 8:00am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  I don’t know a lot about Lotto, I suspect you may have to write those in yourself . . .
  
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  March 19, 2020 8:10am
- peterwn
  
  Statistics showing how often each number is drawn are readily available. Logically this is a useless indicator of future draws. Lotto has never published statistics on how many buyers back particular numbers. While picking the least purchased numbers does not affect the chance of winning, if you win, it does reduce the chance of having to share the prize.
  
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  March 19, 2020 8:35am
  - Stephen Russell
    
    Analysis correct. But I do remember seeing, many years ago, some data on the most popular numbers. If I recall right, the high numbers: in the 30s were least popular. ON the rare occasion I bought a ticket, those were what I picked.
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:07am
    - thetiedarch
      
      True. People tend to use birthdays/anniversary’s as Lotto numbers.
      So the numbers 12 and under are likely most popular, followed by the numbers 13 through 31, and then finally the numbers above that.
      Pretty sure I’ve seen stats that show that as well.
      
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      March 19, 2020 9:36am
  - kris
    
    Having sold lotto tickets in the past, the vast majority of purchases (>90%, especially for high jackpots) are for ‘dip’ tickets (randomly selected numbers), so those choosing their own numbers would only cause a small deviation between most frequent and least frequently printed numbers.
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:20am
- NoCash
  
  Do you not like 6 9?
  
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  March 19, 2020 9:41am
- IC5000
  
  Gambling is a tax on the poor and stupid.
  
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  March 19, 2020 10:02am
  - SB 2
    
    Buying Lotto is a donation to charity.
    
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    March 19, 2020 10:48am
    - Libertarians are right
      
      For those that can afford it. For those that can’t it’s a tax on the poor and stupid.
      
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      March 19, 2020 1:14pm
- SGA
  
  I’ll be using all four numbers in my Powerball picks for Saturday
  
  I’m not sure that everyone is picking up the significance of your numbers 🙂
  
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  March 19, 2020 10:40am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    WHOOSH!! 😀
    
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    March 19, 2020 11:24am
  - Blackface Twin Reverb
    
    I’m not sure that everyone is picking up the significance of your numbers ?
    
    No, we are painfully aware.
    
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    March 19, 2020 11:48am
    - graham
      
      Ok, I must be the only one who doesn’t get it … someone explain please?
      
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      March 19, 2020 12:26pm
      - Simon Gotlieb
        
        It’s the for/against numbers on the third reading of the Abortion Bill.
        
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        March 19, 2020 1:14pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Look on the bright side Blackface – at least you’re still allowed to get
      up close & personal with your ranting abuse and religious nutterrism. LOL!!
      
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      March 19, 2020 12:43pm
      - Blackface Twin Reverb
        
        I assume you have video proof of this occurring in NZ?
        
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        March 19, 2020 1:30pm
Than

Tuesday’s Democratic primary results went basically in line with expectations. Biden won Florida, Illinois, and Arizona, all by large margins. Sanders slightly outperformed expectations in Illinois, but that just meant not losing as badly as predicted.

Sanders is quickly running out of chances to turn this around. At this stage he doesn’t have a realistic shot at winning. But I suspect he’ll stay in the race right to the end, for two reasons;

1) To promote his progressive agenda, win or lose.
2) On the off-chance Biden has to drop out for health or other reasons. In that case everything would be up in the air.
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March 19, 2020 8:02am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Biden, the First Demented Candidate for POTUS!
  
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  March 19, 2020 8:24am
  - Simon Gotlieb
    
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    Surely the second? You haven’t noticed the current one?
    
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    March 19, 2020 8:29am
    - mandk
      
      Trump is only mad ‘but north north west’
      
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      March 19, 2020 8:35am
    - Komata
      
      simon g@0829
      
      And the ‘Certainty’ of your statement is based on what verifiable facts?
      
      Thank you.
      
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      March 19, 2020 8:43am
      - Simon Gotlieb
        
        Well his complete lack of consistency on a day to day basis is a dead giveaway for one.
        
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        March 19, 2020 10:20am
  - Than
    
    Not true, Trump already has that honor.
    
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    March 19, 2020 8:44am
  - fernglas
    
    Anybody who is crazy enough to want that job is by definition completely crackers. The biggest disqualification for power should be the desire to attain it.
    
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    March 19, 2020 10:14am
  - Fletch
    
    He could be the first president that the 25th Amendment actually applies to…
    
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    March 19, 2020 10:50am
- Ian Hawthorn
  
  All three primaries were a mess with people not showing up, polling place workers not showing up, voting materials not present, governors trying to cancel them, judges overruling them, governors ignoring the judges and so on leading in some cases to total confusion over whether the primary was on at all.
  
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  March 19, 2020 8:52am
  - Stephen Russell
    
    Sanders should drop out now, enabling all the remaining primaries to be cancelled. It’s the only decent or sensible thing to do, both for the Democrats’ sake and that of public health. I’m hoping he will, but not holding my breath.
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:09am
    - Rich Prick
      
      Sanders is a bitter old commie and this is his last shot, he won’t drop out. Fancy going your entire life and not achieving a thing? Other than saving a post office’s name, I suppose.
      
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      March 19, 2020 9:17am
    - cmm
      
      Decent and sensible? Came to the wrong planet for that.
      
      Remember that the primaries still just feed into the DNC. Just dropping out of the primaries does not really end the race.
      
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      March 19, 2020 9:21am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I did read somewhere that Sanders is making more money now than he would if President. He will not drop out, he is a greedy commie
      
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      March 19, 2020 12:30pm
mjw

All service business need to be reimagining their business model to work online, with employees at home.

The time is now – start with pilot programmes, work out how to do it. Be ready when we become like Spain or France.
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March 19, 2020 8:02am
- cmm
  
  I think a lot of businesses will keep operating that way.
  
  A bit of a slump in the office space market?
  
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  March 19, 2020 8:25am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Yes, and it is going to have an impact on other related indudtries/services as we change the way we work. For example 1. less demand for office space = less demand for electricity for commercial = over supply = impact on wholesale electricity prices etc.
    
    2. Less office space demand = less demand for cleaners = low paid workers future in question.
    
    This situation has consequences far beyond our inconvenience to buy some loo rolls.
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:11am
  - GazzaW
    
    …..and a bit of a slump in rush hour commuter numbers by car and public transport too?
    
    I estimate that about half of the households in my suburban Auckland street are now working from home.
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:16am
    - Rich Prick
      
      We had a work from home exercise yesterday. Productivity fell through the floor when I discovered both neighbours were on home detention too. Rosè on the deck at midday, fired up the BBQ later on. So much for “social distancing.
      
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      March 19, 2020 9:31am
      - alex Masterley
        
        We are about to go through the same process.
        I suspect home maintenace will come to the fore folllowed by cataloguing of the contents of the wine fridges.
        
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        March 19, 2020 9:44am
  - NoCash
    
    A friend who works at ANZ has been told that some of them might work from home for the rest of the year.
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:44am
  - LTA1955
    
    We work in IT and we are setting up customers to work remotely especially those in administrative roles. This is how we can beat the bug. We work from home doing this job, the fridge is always full and accessed after 5.00pm only. Discipline is essential, so no mowing the lawns, hanging out the washing, and other non-productive activities
    
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    March 19, 2020 3:10pm
Blackface Twin Reverb

It is bitterly disappointing, to see that the creation of unique human life treated with such low regard, as to boarder on flippant triviality.

Rights come with responsibilities, for both sexes.
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March 19, 2020 8:05am
- mjw
  
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  March 19, 2020 8:13am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Have you flicked through the Oxford English and selected 31 random words to string together or should I get my morning coffee and read that again?
  
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  March 19, 2020 8:13am
  - Blackface Twin Reverb
    
    Coffee might help us both…
    -a longer edit time might also be a good thing
    
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    March 19, 2020 8:16am
    - hullkiwi
      
      Carry on from the 7.00am post….?
      
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      March 19, 2020 9:12am
    - DeepBlue
      
      Don’t be so hard on yourself. You’re getting ticks, so some people understand Blackface lingo
      
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      March 19, 2020 9:24am
      - Grant
        
        Blackface Twin Reverbs are great amps. But prefer a Marshall JCM 800 or an AtMars Specialist myself.
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        March 19, 2020 10:01am
      - Simon Gotlieb
        
        I’ll agree it’s one of the finest guitar amps ever made, but I don’t agree with their sentiment.
        
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        March 19, 2020 10:22am
      - Blackface Twin Reverb
        
        @ Grant,
        I thought AC30 might be a bit obscure…
        -and I was looking to stir a bit with Blackface. :p
        
        @Simon,
        You don’t agree that we have rights and responsibilities, and that being an adult means accepting the consequences of your actions?
        
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        March 19, 2020 10:56am
      - Simon Gotlieb
        
        I love my JCM800 but rarely get the chance to use it given how damned loud it is. I spend more time with my AC30 (still loud) and DSL40, but most of the time at practice a Fender Champ with a 12 inch speaker does the trick nicely.
        
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        March 19, 2020 1:17pm
      - Blackface Twin Reverb
        
        Just got my hands on a Champion 40, the dog doesn’t like it when the volume is over 3.
        
        On the gain channel, does yours effectively turn of with the volume at or under 2?
        
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        March 19, 2020 1:42pm
      - Simon Gotlieb
        
        Yeah, not much at all under 4, but quite clean, then drops off just under 3. Of course, over 7 its just gets dirtier and dirtier. Magnificent amplifier.
        
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        March 19, 2020 2:19pm
      - Simon Gotlieb
        
        I’ve modded mine with two switches – the first one cuts the negative feedback wire that comes from the speaker and goes into the second triode on the 12AX7. The second mod turns on a 22uF capacitor that goes from cathode to ground on the second triode of the 12AX7. This is like a boost switch with a bit of dirt.
        
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        March 19, 2020 2:20pm
Happychappy

The problem with Jacindas call to self isolate instead of being tested is they don’t know the amount of Machines they have to help those with breathing problems and no one can tell them exactly how many they have. The article condemning this fact has been removed and as the journalist that made this known said to put in a request to the minister why would take months to get a answer.
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March 19, 2020 8:07am
- Greg Ettridge
  
  Not nearly enough
  I guess the real pertanant question is how many spare beds are currently available, that would give a much better idea of when older people will be cut loose.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12317275
  
  “Based on those numbers, about 4660 cases could overwhelm New Zealand’s health system – provided all of those beds were available for Covid-19 patients.”
  
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  March 19, 2020 9:19am
  - DeepBlue
    
    It’s not only the machines. Someone here on KB said it takes trained staff to monitor and adjust the machines as the patient’s condition changed (for better or worse).
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:27am
    - septic skeptic
      
      So they said, but there are also videos advising hospital staff how to hook up multiple patients to one respirator. I can’t see how both can be true.
      
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      March 19, 2020 11:05am
  - Greg Ettridge
    
    Just taking this a little further, lets say there are 10% of these beds available which I doubt, that would see the elderly cut loose as in Italy, just need 466 cases, this is could be within the next month.
    Interesting times.
    They won’t be able not answer questions if this is triggered.
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:34am
- Northshoredoc
  
  We have one of the most successful companies globally in that space (F&P) – I would find it appalling but not surprising if the MoH hasn’t talked to them.
  
  Although with the lies that come out of certain health QANGOs – PHARMAC I’m looking at you nothing is really that surprising anymore.
  
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  March 19, 2020 10:00am
- Melbury
  
  I think I saw somewhere that we have 200 or so ventilators in the whole country, along with gear from surgical theatres that can pressed into service. That will be wholly inadequate.
  We have very little time – I don’t know if it’s practical, but could we quickly mass produce old-style iron lungs, made of plywood? powered by a vacuum cleaner?
  
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  March 19, 2020 10:29am
  - Pharmachick
    
    No.
    
    But we could declare F&P (and any other manufacturer) ventilators “national interest” goods just like in wartime, and prevent export for profit, and only allow production for the NZ heath care system.
    
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    March 19, 2020 4:56pm
Paulus Gnome

The teams are:

Key, English and Joyce managing and leading the beer inspired calamity, or

Adhern, Robertson and Twyford from the other choice who would have chosen a chardonnay name.

I know what we have, but in a parallel universe, who would do better for Team New Zealand?
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March 19, 2020 8:09am
- Michael NZ
  
  beer
  
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  March 19, 2020 9:17am
oldpark

Sure it is only make believe. Hands up all those Superannuates who are convinced the Peters selected also ran Government was making a payment of $25 dollars a week to them . Starting on the 1ST April 2020. It is all smoke and mirrors just like the type of promises Peters made for his supporters in 2017 . This time it is bottom line . “April Fools” . Yes it was only make believe.
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March 19, 2020 8:09am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Nat Super is not it seems a “main benefit”. It may only mean the unemployment benefit or whatever its presently named.
  I get Nat Super, Accomodation allowance, WWF and Medical costs and it’s not clear from MSD about future payment rates.
  
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  March 19, 2020 8:34am
  - Tall Man
    
    Now Kev, we’ve talked about this wrestling obsession of yours ?
    
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    March 19, 2020 8:41am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Thanks, I will amend it to WFF–I haven’t seen the wrestling for years.
      (WFF is still a silly name.)
      
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      March 19, 2020 9:28am
  - lifesgood
    
    Good lord. KevO, you are certainly milking the system. Pity the poor tax payer.
    
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    March 19, 2020 1:31pm
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Life doesn’t stop when one becomes a Nat Superannuitant, my youngest is only 13.
      I got crook from neurological problems in my early 40’s and have to had to wing it since then.
      Next target 105.
      
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      March 19, 2020 2:24pm
- rockape
  
  I dont think the $25 will go to super. There are lots of them and Robbo says it will help 350,00- families so that must exclude superannuates. We just get the heating allowance.
  
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  March 19, 2020 9:32am
artemisia

Stats NZ is reporting that in the year to January, 27,554 on student visas arrived here. That number will decrease this year clearly, and the change will flow through to various sectors – edu institutions and their staff, accommodation, entry level jobs (student visas allow 20 hours work a week).

While that is tough on the edu sector, it frees up accommodation and jobs, at a time when both will be needed for locals. Including potentially tens of thousands of our people returning home.

We will also see those on work visas leaving if their jobs disappear or they decide to go home in the current circs.

Definitely big shifts in the job and accommodation market on the way.

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/104073/there-has-been-big-jump-number-chinese-citizens-leaving-country-long-term
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March 19, 2020 8:09am
- freethinker
  
  As recession bites I suspect many Immigrants will return to their country of origin were they have a better support network and understanding of how things work.A win win for all.
  
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  March 19, 2020 8:53am
kowtow

The breathlessly, hysterically reported headline this morning is 400 plus Wuflu Italian deaths in one day. Panic, fear, doom.

You’ve got to hand it to the Eyetie authorities , not only dealing with China initiated Wuflu , they can also conduct 400 plus post mortems daily .( Sarc).
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March 19, 2020 8:11am
- Harriet
  
  Girt by Sea.
  Italy and Iran aren’t.
  
  We won’t be shut down like the others — more like a slow down — and businesses and so forth can always employ the opposition staff temporarily to keep the overall economy going as best it can.
  If you think that’s stupid then think how quickly the rebound would be if all businesses stayed solvent — and with less government money! 😎
  
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  March 19, 2020 9:20am
Luke Piewalker

Can anyone tell me why benefits should rise by $25 because coronavirus?

What about all the mums and dads who won’t be able to pay their rents/mortgages/staff/have no jobs?

You suck Cindy
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March 19, 2020 8:13am
- Prince
  
  The $25 was snuck in because Labour saw an oopportunity to do it without the usual scrutiny they would get in, eg, a Budget.
  Have to say it worked brilliantly. All the usual media suspects cheered, and Bridges got a roasting for daring to highlight the fact it had nothing to do with Coronavirus.
  You’ve got to give it to the Coalition – their media work is often brilliant. Pity about the substance.
  
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  March 19, 2020 8:25am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Buying votes
    
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    March 19, 2020 8:39am
  - cmm
    
    It’s all part of the Big Rebrand.
    
    Labour Party is to become Bludger Party.
    
    “Let’s do this” to be replaced with “I know my rights”.
    
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    March 19, 2020 8:49am
- Simon
  
  “You suck Cindy”
  
  This is true. When does an adult take charge?
  
  A Roger Douglas for 2020s?
  
  The game is over the bubble has burst. Fluff like Ardern need to quietly exit and make way for someone capable.
  
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  March 19, 2020 8:30am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    Rob Fyfe was good on Hosking this morning.
    
    Business people know how to make decisions, and then hire comms people to sell them
    
    Comms people know how to spin and sell, but don’t know how to make decisions.
    
    Wonder which is in charge now?
    
    God help us!
    
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    March 19, 2020 8:58am
- Tempist
  
  Because with the economy tanking, those on the unemployment benefit will face increased job search costs….. hahahahahahahahahahaha, no I agree with Prince
  
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  March 19, 2020 8:31am
- Simon Gotlieb
  
  $25 makes a huge difference to those at the lowest levels of income. Those at the lowest levels of income are the most likely to suffer the greatest health consequences. think of it more as a fence before the end of the cliff, so we don’t run out of ambulances at the bottom.
  
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  March 19, 2020 8:32am
  - Tall Man
    
    Because beneficiaries are inveterate world travellers I suppose…..
    
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    March 19, 2020 8:36am
    - Michael NZ
      
      That doesn’t matter Strawman.
      As you well know.
      
      When the way gets going, whether you’ve travelled or not doesn’t matter, just exposure.
      
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      March 19, 2020 9:21am
      - Libertarians are right
        
        True. However beneficiaries don’t actually need to get exposed and they are the least exposed to the effects of the virus on businesses and jobs etc.
        
        Meanwhile, they will continue to spend their money at supermarkets which are the one business type which will not be negatively affected by the virus. Seriously, supermarkets are making bank and this Government’s idea is to give them more money?
        
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        March 19, 2020 10:11am
      - septic skeptic
        
        The trickle down effect of the benefit increase will go a long way to support business. Businesses such as fast food outlets, liquor stores, gambling dens, tobacco retailers and drug dealers. We will need to maintain this infrastructure during the crisis so that live can return to normal whenever this passes.
        
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        March 19, 2020 11:13am
  - Simon
    
    “$25 makes a huge difference to those at the lowest levels of income”
    
    Sorry comrade but this was pure politics. While Cindy was politicking she was failing to understanding that many others will be joining those already at the lowest levels of income.
    
    Her job right now is to prevent this from happening. She is failing.
    
    Watch child poverty rocket up as up as the economy stalls badly and then fails. But Cindy has got her $25 virtue signal for Labo’s tribe.
    
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    March 19, 2020 8:48am
    - Michael NZ
      
      Simon
      this is tranche 1.
      
      Remember that.
      
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      March 19, 2020 9:21am
      - Libertarians are right
        
        Michael.
        
        This is an ideologically driven Government who has form in using opportunities to push through their ideologically driven policies rather than what is needed.
        
        Yes, it’s tranche 1 but that just means that they’re planning on more ideologically driven opportunistic policies rather than actually dealing with the crisis.
        
        At this point I’d suggest they actually want this crisis to hit hard. It increases their ability to push through their agenda while claiming it has something to do with the Virus (which it doesn’t) and claiming any opposition as being politics.
        
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        March 19, 2020 10:08am
  - cmm
    
    “Those at the lowest levels of income are the most likely to suffer the greatest health consequences.”
    
    So giving them an extra bucket of KFC a week is going to improve their health?
    
    The clustering of poor outcomes is because bad decision making is not random. People who make bad decisions about education are also most likely to make bad decisions about controlling their fertility, smoking, eating junk, not exercising, “tapping” their kids, etc etc etc.
    
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    March 19, 2020 8:53am
  - tf78
    
    They should have made it $35 and they could nearly buy and extra packet of fags.
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:02am
  - Misha Beattie
    
    I agree. So those on welfare could have been given a one-off payment of $500 with advice to PUT IT ASIDE for any extra expenditure related to the virus.
    
    What is the rationale for a permanent increase? Nothing to do with the virus. It was simply used as a ploy to increase benefits.
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:05am
    - cmm
      
      Put it aside? You’re joking right?
      
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      March 19, 2020 10:37am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Simon, health consequences with Wuflu do not discriminate based on whether you are high end socio economic versus low end. We all can get it.
    
    It was a blatant vote buy, on the pretence the beneficiaries will spend the cash. However:
    1. You can’t spend the cash when you’re in isolation; and
    2. This is a permanent increase, means it was as I said, a bribe to potential Labour voters!
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:22am
  - Prince
    
    Absolute rubbish. Coronavirus doesn’t check bank accounts. People who get out and work are more at risk that people who stay at home.
    Saying the poor are more at risk is just engaging the mouth in the usual platitudes without engaging the brain first.
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:30am
    - Surely Knott
      
      I see John Tamihere – on facebook Tamihere for Tamaki. Is also saying they will put together a Maori response mechanism. And we must rally with our “present mega resources to acheive the best possible defence for our community. We have placed initial orders for 30 000 hygiene and sanitation packages of one month supply for a whānau.” – Seperatist system – hygiene and sanitation packs provided on basis of race.
      
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      March 19, 2020 10:12am
    - Simon Gotlieb
      
      Speaking of brainless platitudes, the amount of people here claiming beneficiaries will spend the $25 on ciggies, beer, pokies or meth is overwhelming.
      
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      March 19, 2020 2:23pm
      - Surely Knott
        
        ??? Well you should respond to the people saying that Simon G when you see it. These comments don’t make that statement.
        
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        March 19, 2020 2:54pm
- Tall Man
  
  Well that’s the horror thought for the day ?
  
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  March 19, 2020 8:40am
- unaha-closp
  
  OCR has been dropped to 0.25%, mortgages are falling by a lot more than $25.
  
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  March 19, 2020 9:12am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Only if it is a new mortgage or if you can refinance.
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:23am
- MCos
  
  $25/wk means different things to different people.
  
  For some people on the the bones of their arse it might mean $25 less debt on the credit card plus interest.
  
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  March 19, 2020 9:15am
  - Prince
    
    I could use a similar unfounded generalisation and say the $25 will be a great boon to the Gangs as their drug market just became richer. Beneficiaries are doing very nicely thanks, debt is wiped out by way of emergency payments and the enveloping ‘kindness’ of the MSD.
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:32am
- Southtop2
  
  Because the PTPM told another porky. On radio she said that the relief package would be the biggest spend for her government – bigger than the $12B infrastructure spend.
  So they then were cornered and had to beat that spend. So we now have $3B for benefits and more money tipped into Pike River while only putting $1/2B into healthcare – pure genius given current circumstances. So stupid its almost laughable
  
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  March 19, 2020 10:36am
brett68

Euthanasia, abortions, get the fuck out of people’s lives, you religious wankers.
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March 19, 2020 8:14am
- Fletch
  
  Euthanasia and abortion – killing people at both ends of the age group. Soon, it will be like Logan’s Run and they will make us all suicide at age 30 because we don’t have the resources.
  
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  March 19, 2020 10:54am
  - Batman
    
    Hysterical. Do you need some sniffing salts or something?
    
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    March 19, 2020 10:57am
- lifesgood
  
  Ewww! How nasty are you?
  
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  March 19, 2020 1:35pm
kowtow

It’s not racist to call it Wuflu or to call out mainland China food “culture”

‘On a controversy over names for the virus, the experts wrote they think it is “simple and direct” to call it “Wuhan coronavirus” or “Wuhan pneumonia”.’

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1515264-20200318.htm
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March 19, 2020 8:14am
- artemisia
  
  Chinese food ‘culture’ will have been built up over decades or more likely centuries of severe protein and fats deprivation. To survive. Like whale meat in Japan.
  
  Better to eat what’s available than malnutrition and early death.
  
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  March 19, 2020 8:43am
  - kowtow
    
    Nah , it’s a get rich quick scheme that has poisoned the world’s economy (thtanks to the pollies)
    
    ‘Until a few weeks ago wildlife farming was still being promoted by government agencies as an easy way for rural Chinese people to get rich.’
    
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/25/coronavirus-closures-reveal-vast-scale-of-chinas-secretive-wildlife-farm-industry
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:15am
  - Crisplion
    
    True enough, but one might have thought that they’re prosperous enough to start to tidy up their meat markets now. Hopefully this disease will be a wake up call for Chinese authorities to get onto it.
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:17am
  - Rich Prick
    
    I’ve avoided Chinese markets ever since encountering fluorescent sun-kissed chicken. At least they were whole and identifiable, the chunks of other protein lying about could have been anything.
    
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    March 19, 2020 10:11am
- SB 2
  
  kowtow, so its Ok to call Legionnaires the Yank bug?
  
  Covid 19 or Corona is much simpler and easier to run with than fan fear and prejudice.
  
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  March 19, 2020 10:59am
  - Michael NZ
    
    no SB2 lets call it what it is.
    Wuhan or Chinese Flu….
    
    FCK the CCP!
    
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    March 19, 2020 6:49pm
toby1845

A well-placed birdie in Wellington tells me that the government will shut down all air travel within two weeks.
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March 19, 2020 8:16am
- tui47
  
  I have heard it may be sooner. Hence Winston’s call for Kiwis to come home. Some may not get home by then.
  
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  March 19, 2020 8:39am
  - alex Masterley
    
    Heard something similar this morning. I think we are in for an interesting time.
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:46am
  - Fletch
    
    I think it’s rather foolish to recall 80,000 people from virus-stricken countries overseas which is where most of our infections are originating. That many would overcome our systems.
    
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    March 19, 2020 10:47am
    - tui47
      
      There is a full plane load coming back from London Friday UK time. Many have left their jobs to come home. Their employers were happy given they would be laying them off soon. There will be no replacement jobs unless they are in the medical sector.
      
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      March 19, 2020 12:26pm
  - lifesgood
    
    I don’t get that. Won’t thousands of them coming home be infected? They should just stay where they are. We don’t need them bringing more disease into the country.
    
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    March 19, 2020 1:37pm
    - Nickc2
      
      Never let common sense and logic get in the way of a politician’s statements designed to garner votes in an election year.
      Just vote these bastards out!
      
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      March 19, 2020 1:48pm
      - Simon Gotlieb
        
        Speaking of bastards Simon Bridges initially wanted to let the virus run it’s course so as not to interfere with business as usual. One wonders how quickly that would have been shown to be madness.
        
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        March 19, 2020 2:26pm
      - Nickc2
        
        @Simon Gotlieb
        Point me at the evidence for Simon’s statement.
        
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        March 19, 2020 2:40pm
      - toby1845
        
        Simon Gottlieb, I take it you won’t be too concerned about pending restrictions ln gatherings of more than 100 people? After all, only about 15 people turn up to your band’s performances.
        
        And that includes the band and their hoes…….sorry, wives.
        
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        March 19, 2020 3:20pm
  - Michael NZ
    
    Just before Easter too!
    
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    March 19, 2020 6:50pm
- mandk
  
  How does that make sense?
  
  I travel by air on business once a week and take the train to work the other days.
  
  In both modes, I am travelling in a closed metal tube with heaps of other people.
  
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  March 19, 2020 8:41am
  - Fletch
    
    Right. And the govt will spend millions on public transport when it’s safer for people to travel in their own cars.
    
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    March 19, 2020 10:49am
  - SB 2
    
    Time for e scooter or e bike commuting?
    
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    March 19, 2020 11:01am
  - artemisia
    
    No problem, Ms Genter has a cunning plan to install hi tech air circulation systems in all trains and buses. They used to be called windows but there’s this virus now so a completely legitimate opportunity to borrow a few more bill to upgrade public transport.
    
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    March 19, 2020 12:55pm
- Michael NZ
  
  No..
  Internally!
  Wow
  
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  March 19, 2020 9:23am
Simon

Watch the NZSE crash further today as the shit show government has not done enough. Some adults are going to have to take charge at some point. Though that is unlikely.

They actually put Phil Twyford on the front page. Geez what the fuck are the government thinking? Supposed to install confidence. Clueless.

The cupboard is bare. Utterly bare.

Twyford had he been flanked by Willie Jackson & Kelvin Davis the economy would have utterly collapsed by lunch time.
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March 19, 2020 8:19am
- Simon Gotlieb
  
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  Is that you Mr Bridges?
  
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  March 19, 2020 8:37am
  - Simon
    
    SG watch the share market. Not Mr. Bridges.
    
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    March 19, 2020 8:49am
  - RoboRob
    
    I know you are being cheeky Simon Gotlieb but answer me this, do you really think Twyford is a competent minister?
    
    If not, then why would you choose him to front unless you too were incompetent (and I am looking at you JA).
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:01am
    - Simon Gotlieb
      
      Busted RoboRob. Nah, I don’t rate Twyford. But there’s a whole bunch from all parties I don’t rate. These are unprecedented times. I’m not sure National would handle this any different. FWIW, I don’t reckon National and Labour are actually that fundamentally different in many respects, despite how the different tribes think.
      
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      March 19, 2020 1:23pm
  - barnacle bill
    
    Certainly sounds like it Simon.
    
    The right wing are firing on all four cylinders this morning.
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:13am
    - septic skeptic
      
      Damn right we are! Just look at the cabinet we have to steer us through this. In no particular order of incompetence:
      Cindy
      Twyford
      Jackson
      Davis
      Peters
      Jones
      Sepuloni
      Clarke
      
      All in fairly important roles. One can only hope the bureaucrats are running the show properly.
      
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      March 19, 2020 11:26am
      - barnacle bill
        
        It is only here on KB, and within the National Party inner circle that your attitude prevails.
        Nearly all the Expert commentators regard the COL as having done a very good job of handling the crisis we are in at the moment.
        
        Why are you and the like so negative ?
        Do you ever stop to consider that you are wrong ?
        
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        March 19, 2020 12:10pm
      - Simon Gotlieb
        
        I would wager that many here feel a calling to be against anything the government delivers, simply because its them doing it. When if National were government and announced the same thing they’d happily agree it was the best action. If there’s one thing comes out of this whole mess, I’d hope its that we all actually debate what’s best for the country rather than whether we like one side or another. I fear that will be difficult to achieve as we’re all so tribal nowadays.
        
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        March 19, 2020 1:26pm
- MCos
  
  Yesterday someone said the dollar was the barometer.
  Now you say it’s the stock exchange.
  
  What will it be tomorrow?
  
  BTW
  The Dow Jones is now at a level last seen at the end of 2016. The NZ50 at a level of a year ago.
  
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  March 19, 2020 9:25am
- SB 2
  
  “..utterly collapsed by lunch time.” ?
  
  Only a couple of hours to go.
  
  Report back, please.
  
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  March 19, 2020 11:03am
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Get rid of that gormless idiot Bridges as well.
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March 19, 2020 8:20am
- lifesgood
  
  Brett68 That’s funny. Fearful, much?
  
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  March 19, 2020 1:41pm
cmm

475 die of covid19 in one day in Italy.

Well is that really such a big deal?

Due to the natural attrition of life and death, over 2000 people die in Italy every day. Most of those are old people dying of things old people die of: pneumonia, heart failure, etc.

Nobody actually dies of covid-19. You die of pneumonia, heart failure etc. However if you are infected with covid-19 at the time then you’re counted as a covid-19 death.

Covid-19 deaths are almost exclusively older people with underlying medical conditions – ie primed and loaded to pop their clogs.

Covid-19 is just taking them a bit sooner: maybe a few days for some, maybe a few years for others, but the majority probably a year or less.

In short, the impact on the vast majority of those people is relatively low and the actual impact of the deaths on society is low.

What is high though is the cost of ICU care (which was going to happen for many) and the cost of the headless-chook mode we all seem to have got into.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/120395429/coronavirus-italys-death-toll-reaches-a-recordhigh-475-deaths-in-one-day
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March 19, 2020 8:22am
- alex Masterley
  
  I am not sure our ICU or HDU could cope. there are only about 220 beds in ICU in the country or 11 per DHB.
  They would be swamped with the numbers Italy is seeing.
  Despite this all we saw in Robbos hand out was 30 million for ICU support. Not new ICU capacity, not new staff (if you can find any) but for support.
  I think we need to be prepared for sudden announcements closing things down. there was a hint of that in the PM’s suggestion that we be prepared.
  
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  March 19, 2020 8:33am
  - cmm
    
    Certainly ICU overload is a likely big issue.
    
    Deaths, not so much.
    
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    March 19, 2020 8:40am
    - Andrei
      
      ICU’s see an increase in workload every winter due to pneumonia precipitated by colds and flu
      
      In many cases with the elderly if they develop pneumonia it is demed as desirable to provide palliative care only and let nature take its course – this happened with my father.
      
      Of course when this outbreak does tke hold such a decision will be cast in the media as rationing ICU care
      
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      March 19, 2020 8:52am
  - SGA
    
    Not new ICU capacity, not new staff (if you can find any) but for support.
    
    Realistically, how many extra proper ICU units could we organise, equip and staff in a short space of time? I don’t know – while some parts may be produced locally, I imagine others are imported (and good luck getting that at short notice).
    
    I am optimistic that we shouldn’t be too scared by Italy. Other countries, doing very similar things to us and further down the track than us, seem to be managing the situation more effectively. Don’t get me wrong – things could still get messy, but I doubt as extremely messy as Italy.
    
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    March 19, 2020 8:57am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      A poor ICU facility with green staff that have only a few weeks training is still leagues ahead of no ICU.
      
      Govt needs to move heaven and earth to increase capacity. Absolutely shocking that they don’t appear to have moved to do so – when this has been the obvious play for more than a month.
      
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      March 19, 2020 10:36am
      - SGA
        
        My first priority would be contingency plans for dealing with a much larger number of people who are sick, need hospitalisation but don’t necessarily need specialised ICU care (i.e., stopping as many as you can from needing ICU care). I think that’s more feasible than creating and equipping a lot of fancy ICU units at short notice. But that’s just me.
        
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        March 19, 2020 11:04am
    - rouppe
      
      I was in icu for 11 days a few years ago.
      
      It is a ward of a dozen beds or so partitioned with curtains with 24×7 nursing staffing. The equipment wasn’t all that specific.
      
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      March 19, 2020 10:47am
      - SGA
        
        In which case, it isn’t difficult to mimic elsewhere. I think people are thinking of the specific equipment (e.g., ventilators) that people associate with some ICU situations. I don’t imagine those are the sort of things that they stock at Noel Lemmings.
        
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        March 19, 2020 11:16am
- madamezucchininz
  
  ….watched a little Italian You Tube video….30-60 seconds long….he held up a newspaper dated 15/2/20 and the obituaries = 1 and a half pages and then held up a newspaper that was dated 3/20= 9 and a half pages…..the death toll is now surging past the Chinese death toll…..I said right from the beginning that the Chinese numbers were suspect, and no one is questioning their numbers at all. In Spain they are saying that 7% of deaths are under the age of 65.
  
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  March 19, 2020 9:00am
- MCos
  
  You might not care that people of my age are dying prematurely, cmm, but personally I’d just as sooner live to see my grandchildren grow up, including the one that is due later in the year.
  My mother had that joy in life. She lived 24 years longer than I am now.
  Sure, I’m a healthy bloke, but I don’t fancy being the exception. That’s why I wear the seat belt in the car.
  
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  March 19, 2020 9:42am
  - cmm
    
    It is not a matter of caring if people die. It is reality.
    
    Covid19 does not just randomly tap old people on the shoulder. It almost exclusively takes old, SICK, people – ones with preexisting health conditions and therefore already prone to the normal winter die off via.
    
    Sure, there are some people who are dying with no preexisting conditions but they are very few and far between.
    
    If you don’t smoke (better still never smoked), don’t have cancer or diabetes and are in good health then you’re most likely fine – same as for “normal” flu.
    
    If you’re healthy then your chances of dying, or even getting a serious infection, are pretty low.
    
    Italy is having a high mortality because they are one of the oldest countries, with huge smoking rates and filthy air.
    
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    March 19, 2020 10:10am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      In france and netherlands hospitalization rates for over 50’s are only about 4x that of under 50’s. A shit load higher proportion of under 50’s will be dying when hospitals get overwhelmed.
      
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      March 19, 2020 10:39am
    - madamezucchininz
      
      ….Italian Dr’s are saying there is a new trend….initially it was the very elderly ….this bug got them fast, but the second wave coming in are younger, in their 40’s and 50’s, they apparently get sick, then get a little better, then they get slammed and many have ended up critical…the Italian Dr’s have been very informative with the hope the world will learn from them…
      
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      March 19, 2020 11:18am
- kowtow
  
  Yesterday cmm posted one of the most sensible things I’ve seen for some time , deaths in Italy in overall context……..
  
  Today’s screaming media headline is the “huge” increase of deaths there, but with no context . That is terribly irresponsible of the media who continue to create hype, panic and hysteria over this.And of the pollies who are shit scared of media criticism for “failing to act”, the same pollies who fell head over heals for all things CCP and who buy into the “science” of climate catastrophe and who are desperate to be photographed with teen aged autistic doom mongers (again because the media like that stuff)
  
  So the question for the media hysteria industry must be , how many of those ‘corona” deaths were actually directly attributable to Wuflu and how many of them had underlying pre existing weaknesses such as compromised lungs due to old age , smoking , obesity etc and they’d have died in the normal course of events when coming into contact with seasonal flu etc ?
  
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  March 19, 2020 10:49am
G152

Taking abortion off the books.
In memory of those kids who, having gotten pregnant, were enslaved by
the catholic church some times for years.
And to the married women, who with large families had to mortgage
themselves and their families to the hilt so they could travel to
Australia to ‘get their teeth cleaned’ as one euphemism at the time put
it.
And to the kids who had their kid and used the bottom drawer of the
dresser as a baby bed because they had nothing.
So this parliament has done good for once
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March 19, 2020 8:24am
- Inandout
  
  G152, then those who breed kids for benefits will now miraculously get abortions. How joyous.
  
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  March 19, 2020 8:54am
Maggie Pie

Mike Hosking Breakfast just ran an ad on taking measures that will lessen your chances of coming into contact with Covid-19.
One of the suggestions…. ‘Avoid Public Transport’

We’ve done that for the last 40 or so years. LOL!!
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March 19, 2020 8:27am
- artemisia
  
  Still a lot of ads on NewstalkZB for overseas travel and European cruises. Weird.
  
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  March 19, 2020 8:45am
- greybeard
  
  Hosking is pushing the myth that China has solved their covid-19 problem.
  What is the matter with the man ?
  
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  March 19, 2020 8:50am
  - kowtow
    
    Party plopaganda velly strong in San Seelan.
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:16am
  - artemisia
    
    Are you suggesting that China is under reporting numbers? The numbers of new cases are now very low, and are explained (by China) as in Wuhan or from new arrivals.
    
    It is very possible that earlier numbers were too low while the country got its arms around the problem and its reporting. China will be very aware it needs to keep faith with its export markets and that faith could disintegrate if it can be shown that new numbers are incorrect.
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:38am
    - emmess
      
      Here’s how we have absolute proof that China is lying about the numbers.
      
      https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/coronavirus-travel-restrictions-border-shutdowns-country-200318091505922.html
      
      Why have they not shut down their borders down to people coming in from infected countries?
      Surely if they are mostly virus free they would want to keep it that way, right?
      
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      March 19, 2020 10:06am
      - SB 2
        
        Hnnm .. I dont think the US is mentioned too.
        
        Why?
        
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        March 19, 2020 11:13am
      - unaha-closp
        
        They are doing the herd inoculation thing that the Brits were going to try, but wimped out on. Probably the virus is everywhere in China by now.
        
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        March 19, 2020 1:27pm
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      Or that Wuhan got closed up tight, doors welded shut on apartment blocks, and a media black-out! starving it out communist style
      
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      March 19, 2020 10:47am
- coge
  
  Public transport is for other people.
  
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  March 19, 2020 9:52am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Play school TV 1 breakfast informs us that coronavirus is not to be called China Flu. Then turned it into an attack on Trump.
What a bunch of sanctimonious PC wanks they are.
Obvious the flu did not come from Wuhan, Hubei, China, but came from the Whitehouse
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March 19, 2020 8:35am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVS8aTQ46Rw&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0FCVs8vSNG6435sCtDKpWFBDRT-4ea9inMTiRCfZUr8MEWIwOnGWL3tiQ
  
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  March 19, 2020 9:25am
Tall Man

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=12317454

Another rubbish made up story.

How does a Jordanian barber get a work visa?
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March 19, 2020 8:37am
- Tarquin North
  
  Sounds about right. The Advocate is yesterdays Herald with the good bits taken out (if they can find any) and replaced by poorly written local fluff pieces.
  
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  March 19, 2020 9:47am
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Trump lying yet again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RztadXnEPmM
Worst. President. in. US. history. ever.
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March 19, 2020 8:55am
- rangitoto
  
  Best president ever. MAGA.
  
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  March 19, 2020 10:07am
  - MCos
    
    I see he’s stopped wearing his Keep America Great cap
    
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    March 19, 2020 10:51am
    - Tall Man
      
      Make…..
      
      Halfway there already don’t you think?
      
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      March 19, 2020 9:44pm
Maggy Wassilieff

No jury trials for a while.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/412082/covid-19-courts-affected-jury-trials-to-be-suspended

I think there’s going to be a back-load of court cases.

Probably a good time to be a crim…
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March 19, 2020 8:59am
- Northland Wahine
  
  Conviction by online…
  
  Wait! That’s called social media!
  
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  March 19, 2020 9:09am
- RoboRob
  
  Just status quo for our court system. I believe our friend Kim dotcom is still waiting for the results of his June 2019 supreme court hearing. Whats another 9 mths between friends.
  
  Dotcom has been going though the court process since 2020 and has seen out three different NZ governments. Obama who instigated the process in his first term has complete his second and is long gone.
  
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  March 19, 2020 9:10am
  - RoboRob
    
    Oops that should has said 2012 not 2020 🙂
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:28am
- Ruahine
  
  It has been a good time to be a crim in NZ for awhile now if the programs on TV like Police Ten 7 etc are anything to go by.
  
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  March 19, 2020 9:22am
- cmm
  
  Those “cultural orgainisations” formerly known as gangs have said they will do their bit.
  
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  March 19, 2020 9:34am
Maggie Pie

This is something I’ve advocated for years.
Given the current coronavirus pandemic, I should be fine 😛

https://twitter.com/TheSun/status/1240249679692148736
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March 19, 2020 9:02am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  The best comment on there was the woman who claimed that her ex was safe as he was the biggest wanker she had met.
  
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  March 19, 2020 9:46am
kris

Ministry of Health finally has a canonical list of identified cases on their own website:
https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-current-cases

Note that many of these (particularly more recently) also include domestic flights to their final destination. Thats potentially hundreds more points of contact, both on the planes and at airports (and I bet checks/cleaning is a lot more lax/non-existent for domestic vs international).
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March 19, 2020 9:12am
- Ed Snack
  
  Good work that page.
  
  Presumably associates of these people or those in close contact would qualify for testing ? Do we know if they have been tested ?
  
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  March 19, 2020 11:23am
Maggie Pie

And watch out for those annoying Jehovah Witnesses knocking on your door.

They know you’ll be home.
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March 19, 2020 9:20am
- Northland Wahine
  
  I’ll give them my shopping list to do. I’m sure they’ll agree being good Christians and all.
  
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  March 19, 2020 9:47am
Misha Beattie

After prevaricating for a while, I finally subscribed to the Australian Financial Review. Would definitely recommend. Quality journalism. No click bait.

https://www.afr.com/

I have also stopped even glancing at New Zealand media outlets for updates on COVID 19. Waste of space.
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March 19, 2020 9:23am
Happychappy

Two year old returning from South Africa tests positive for Coronavirus.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12317974
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March 19, 2020 9:28am
- Simon Gotlieb
  
  Strange. The version I read says that the 2 year old was returning TO South Africa from NZ.
  
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  March 19, 2020 3:26pm
Monique Watson

So an extra tinnie a week dole top up. And the virus is loose in Southland and Otago.
What will Cindy do to prevent the spread of the virus in communities. She’s leaning so hard in the mantra that it’s only recent arrivals that have the Wuflu that she could fall over. All that posidivity as a prevention and that naughty Simon asking questions about the governments reparations for the inevitable spread. And the unions say the schools Will stay open. Yuck. Festering germ pits won’t help matters.
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March 19, 2020 9:34am
- tui47
  
  Just a question on the Bay Area lockdown: what on earth happens to the thousands of homeless in San Francisco? How do they lock themselves in a home they do not have? And then what happens if the drug addled ones who no longer have a supply? (I’m a little worried about what happens in NZ homes when access to meth dries up when police enforce a lockdown.)
  
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  March 19, 2020 12:33pm
  - cmm
    
    Everyone is in lockdown so they can’t see the homeless. City officials don’t get any more homeless complaints. Job done.
    
    Yup, it is going to be a huge problem.
    
    What’s going to happen when SF stops cleaning their streets? Approx 50% of SFs street cleaning effort is spent on cleaning up after the homeless.
    
    Where are the homeless going to get food? Many, perhaps most, depend on burglary which is not going to happen when homeowners are in lockdown – not even in California.
    
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    March 19, 2020 2:31pm
Misha Beattie

This is really neat video that explains how pandemics work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgBla7RepXU
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March 19, 2020 9:44am
lastmanstanding

RE Wuhan Flu ( thats what Im calling it) the only way to ensure minimisation in NZ is

1. Close the borders to incoming. All the cases have originated overseas.

2. Test test test the most vulnerable until the danger passes.

Otherwise the Government will have blood on its hands.
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March 19, 2020 9:48am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Too late.
  
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  March 19, 2020 10:42am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  All the cases have originated overseas.
  
  Sure, that’s all we were testing for, though.
  It’s only been in the last couple of days (results still to be made public) that the Min of Health has recommended a more relaxed criteria for testing.
  
  Before this if you were showing symptoms but hadn’t recently returned from overseas or been in close, prolonged contact with someone recently returned, you didn’t get tested for the virus.
  
  So, we are still waiting to see if there has been any/much community transmission to date.
  
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  March 19, 2020 10:52am
- PaulDunmore
  
  The danger will never pass: there will be a wave of deaths, and then the disease will become endemic and the survivors (which will be most of us) will get used to it. The Government may be able to influence the details (smoothing down the peak may reduce the total deaths somewhat), but not the basic story.
  But when we arrive at the “getting used to it” stage, how different will society look, and how much damage will have been done in the mean time?
  
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  March 19, 2020 10:58am
  - Ed Snack
    
    A Vaccine should resolve this, though if this specific virus continues to evolve in the same way that the influenza one does, then any vaccine has a moving target to hit and will need continuous updating. There will also be a less than 100% coverage if the target virus mutates the area that the vaccine is aimed at.
    
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    March 19, 2020 11:19am
lazza

On a scale of from 1 to 10 … (“10 high”) how would you rate a pandemic management team of Key/Joyce V Cindy/Robbo?
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March 19, 2020 9:49am
- toby1845
  
  11/-4
  
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  March 19, 2020 10:41am
- barnacle bill
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Sorry Laza, I will go with minus one for Key/Joyce.
  Plus nine for Jacinda/Grant.
  
  The proof is in the pudding, as they say.
  
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  March 19, 2020 10:59am
  - kowtow
    
    Might be but we haven’t got to eat the pud yet , that’ll come in the months to come and sadly I think it’ll be a shit sandwich with the crashed economy.
    
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    March 19, 2020 4:56pm
  - Tall Man
    
    At least tell us what reason you have for that score. I’ve just had surgery and need a good laugh ?
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:41pm
- rangitoto
  
  minus 10.
  
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  March 19, 2020 11:44am
- Bobba Fret
  
  9/3
  
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  March 19, 2020 12:25pm
- Simon Gotlieb
  
  Stupid question. You’re just playing to people’s prejudices here. National voters will say their team is better. Labour voters will say theirs.
  Point is, we have the team we have.
  
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  March 19, 2020 3:27pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Except the current team is remarkable for their incompetence. Scary really.
    
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    March 19, 2020 9:40pm
Captain Mainwaring

Given the glut of recyclable aluminium that’s about to hit the world market (redundant aircraft and cruise ships), surely Tiwai Point will be all over in a matter of weeks.
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March 19, 2020 9:50am
unaha-closp

Public Health Message – remember to wash your reusable bags every week.

The China virus jumped across to us, because in a market some animal diseases co-mingled. There are thousands of those barbaric markets in China and therefore it is always a likely occurrence.

In the West we do not have those markets, but we all have reusable carrier bags. Bags where the spillage from several animals may co-mingle if the bags are not washed. And we have billions of those in circulation.
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March 19, 2020 9:53am
- Toko
  
  Manky reusable bags that sit on disgusting surfaces and are then plonked on the supermarket conveyor belts. Then we put our unwrapped fruit and salad veges on the same belt. So gross… Bring back plastic bags!!!
  
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  March 19, 2020 12:03pm
Maggy Wassilieff

It’s taken Malaysia a while to realise that large religious gatherings are not the best thing in a pandemic
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/malaysia-mosque-event-virus-hotspot-se-asia-200318021302367.html
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March 19, 2020 9:53am
Maggie Pie

Obviously not taking any advice from Mike Hosking Breakfast then 😀

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETVCb3CWoAAXQ8C?format=jpg&name=900×900
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March 19, 2020 9:56am
Maggy Wassilieff

Long, drawn-out funeral gatherings might be a thing of past soon….
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/120370277/coronavirus-traditional-mori-funeral-practices-should-stop-health-experts-say
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March 19, 2020 9:56am
- Libertarians are right
  
  Not happening. They will say they Coronovirus is racist and those at the top will ask for more money to make up for it which won’t go anywhere near those affected by the virus.
  
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  March 19, 2020 10:32am
- Northland Wahine
  
  I read an interesting exchange regarding tikanga and tangihana involving members.
  
  During the 1918-1920 flu epidemic, burials were fast to prevent community infection. Tikanga is doing what’s best for everyone, not just for inflating a few egos.
  
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  March 19, 2020 10:34am
  - Northland Wahine
    
    Sorry should read family members
    
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    March 19, 2020 10:48am
- rouppe
  
  What irritated me about that story was the assertion that “government has not laid out a specific plan for Māori.”
  
  The plan is the same regardless. Avoid mass gatherings, observe social distancing and self isolate if you are unwell.
  
  It’s inconvenient for everyone. Get over yourselves!
  
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  March 19, 2020 10:35am
  - MCos
    
    Everyone’s equal , but some are more equal than others.
    As it happens my wife & I have the house to ourselves and could pretty much survive survive with minimal contact with anyone else for months at a time.
    My wife’s brother lives in a house of maybe ten people spread across three generations.
    By pooling resources he lives a pretty good life.
    That’s in Chiang Rai, but I’d say there would be plenty of people living that way in Auckland.
    If one of us got the bug I could move into the spare room for the duration. Not so easy if there is no spare room & social distancing isn’t possible.
    
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    March 19, 2020 11:51am
Happychappy

What amuses me is while our useless media are going after Simon Bridges for reasons that they think The Mational Leader should be giving Jacinda a free pass over the package that was announced you don’t hear a pin drop over Jacinda free pass that she gave all travellers last Sunday which was a complete fuck up by any standards let alone the Prime Minister. Now she has grovel and demand those same passengers self isolate three days later.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/03/coronavirus-jacinda-ardern-calls-on-people-who-arrived-in-nz-before-the-weekend-to-voluntarily-self-isolate.html
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March 19, 2020 10:07am
- rangitoto
  
  The two week isolation thing is a complete joke. Arrivals being told nothing, asked nothing.
  
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  March 19, 2020 10:29am
  - Wired-one
    
    And everyone who enters our ports at the minimum screened and tested? NOPE!
    
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    March 19, 2020 11:38am
Fletch

Hosking interviewed a Chris-somebody from The Naked Scientist on the radio this morning who said that if we closed down schools then children would go hungry because the State is providing breakfast and lunch. If it has got to the point where people are that dependent on government-run schools to feed their kids then something is very wrong.
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March 19, 2020 10:24am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  He’s a British virologist – Dr Chris Smith .
  He’ll be referring to the situation in the UK where schools and child-care nurseries are to close from Friday until whenever.
  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51952314
  
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  March 19, 2020 10:58am
  - SB 2
    
    But not for healthcare workers and othesr in essential industries I believe .
    
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    March 19, 2020 11:16am
  - Fletch
    
    Right, but Hosking was asking him about school closures here in NZ. And he was referring to our schools when he said kids could go hungry because the State supplies them with breakfast and lunch in school.
    
    “If you shut schools too soon there are some kids, being quite honest about it, their only decent meal they get all day is the breakfast they get in the morning and the lunch they get, at school. And they will potentially be placed in health jeopardy far beyond any threat posed by this virus if they are deprived from their educational exposure”
    
    Choose “Thursday 19/03/2020” and “08:00” from dropdowns. Comments come at about 13:30 in.
    
    https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-demand/week-on-demand/
    
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    March 19, 2020 11:20am
    - Batman
      
      He’s not wrong. SOME kids will fall into that category.
      
      Regardless, there isn’t yet a good reason to close schools. It causes all sorts of other problems including teenagers going out during the day, while keeping them together and away from the general population is more ideal.
      
      It also means that unless we close businesses too, kids will end up with grandparents etc who are much more vulnerable than the kids.
      
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      March 19, 2020 11:26am
    - lifesgood
      
      What happens in the school holidays?
      
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      March 19, 2020 1:50pm
      - Batman
        
        I’ve heard there is planning underway for that. No idea what the result of that will be though.
        
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        March 19, 2020 1:54pm
Maggie Pie

My partners mum just emailed this link – thort it might be worth sharing with the group?

https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2020/03/18/alan-joness-22-year-old-boyfriend-jake-thrupp-sends-a-legal-threat-to-journalist/
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March 19, 2020 10:29am
- SB 2
  
  From the link,
  
  “I suspect that the legal letter was likely paid for and almost certainly driven by Alan Jones who is a radio announcer for the Nine Entertainment owned 2GB in Sydney.”
  
  Boost ratings?
  
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  March 19, 2020 11:19am
  - Michael NZ
    
    uptick from me SB2
    
    let’s have the truth!
    
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    March 19, 2020 6:58pm
Fletch

A doctor has said that the scans they’ve done of young people with the virus have been terrifying. People who have had no previous medical problems…

A Belgian doctor working to battle the coronavirus says he’s treated several seriously ill young patients – and their lung scans were “nothing short of terrifying,” according to reports.

Dr Ignace Demeyer, who works at a hospital in the city of Aalst, said an increasing number of people between the ages of 30 and 50 have presented with severe symptoms, despite having “blank medical records” that show no underlying conditions that would make them high-risk, the Brussels Times reported.
“They just walk in, but they are terribly affected by the virus,” Dr Demeyer told the Belgian broadcaster VRT.

He said CT scans indicated they were suffering from severe lung damage.
“The images we took yesterday are nothing short of terrifying,” he told the station.

“They are people who do not smoke, who have no other conditions such as diabetes or heart failure.”

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/coronavirus-doctor-says-lung-scans-for-young-patients-were-nothing-short-of-terrifying/news-story/ebc95c74f93c2bbc20b5e26ed35b69a0

So, it’s not just the elderly at risk…
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March 19, 2020 11:08am
SPC

It’s probably time for the government to look at the issue of equal access to supermarkets to reassure people about provisions in future.

I would suggest something like allocating days of the week for shopping – in store, or on-line. Based around the first letter of the surname – proof of ID at checkout for this (they already have surnames for on-line).

1/7th, or so, for each of the days.

Just the idea of such a system being considered/developed might be enough to reduce panic buying now.
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March 19, 2020 11:12am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Groceries and everything else retail should be home delivery. 24 hour operations of minimum staff density in supermarkets. Use newly unemployed. Put non-perishable deliveries in garage for a day or two before handling (same with all other deliveries).
  
  It’s not rocket science, I am sure coalition can get it done with a bit of help from capable managers.
  
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  March 19, 2020 11:44am
  - SPC
    
    You would still need to ration (1 day in 7) access to the on-line ordering system to prevent it being overloaded.
    
    Whether the on-line system would have the capacity even then …
    
    It might have to be register for a more limited standard weekly delivery order and then get the same each week.
    
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    March 19, 2020 12:10pm
  - graham
    
    Costs would Sky-rocket if EVERYTHING was home-delivery.
    
    Extra vans, extra staff, fuel and vehicle maintenance. Plus how long would it actually take to home deliver to everyone? Bearing in mind not everybody lives 10 minutes from a supermarket – my nearest supermarket is 30 minutes away and I live in Auckland!
    
    Sorry, can’t see it working.
    
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    March 19, 2020 12:35pm
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      ~2 million houses in NZ. 400 supermarkets. For once a week delivery need 750 deliveries per supermarket per day. 30 an hour. Not that hard.
      
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      March 19, 2020 1:24pm
Ed Snack

I’ll just leave this here, with a note that DPF relies on the Guardian for accurate reporting…

On 1/31/20 Guardian called concern about COVID-19 transmission from China to Italy “xenophobia” and “paranoia” and “racist abuse”; says “fewer than 1.5% [of cases] are outside mainland China”
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March 19, 2020 11:12am
- SB 2
  
  Ed Snack, 1/31/20? Judging by many posters on KB and elsewhere still holds true!
  
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  March 19, 2020 12:35pm
Michael NZ

I have David Sinclairs book LifeScience and do recommend it.
This is his latest Covid19 update and a site he recommends to follow the strains.

https://genetics.med.harvard.edu/sinclair/people/sinclair.php

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2533198843607552&utm_source=Lifespan+Book&utm_campaign=f75afae4a9-

https://nextstrain.org/?utm_source=Lifespan+Book&utm_campaign=f75afae4a9-
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March 19, 2020 11:24am
Wired-one

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/120402305/nzs-economy-ended-2019-with-05-growth-before-coronavirus-hit

So our GDP was falling dramatically as we all knew. This Covid 19 could not have come at a better time for this incompetent government from an excuses standpoint. Now when we hit recession, their ineptitude will be discounted by the Ardern loving media.
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March 19, 2020 11:35am
rangitoto

Qantas standing down two thirds of staff at least until the end of May.
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March 19, 2020 11:45am
JohnnyOverton

The perils of the blogging world: My recent fight to get a “fair go” from Martyn Bradbury’s TDB has taken its toll on my state of mind, & fueled a hate filled thirst for revenge. I know, soon, if Andrew Little has his way, I’ll be arrested by the hate speech police for saying such things. Anyway, it all began when they started to suppress my reasonably well thought out comments. It then became obvious that Bradbury &/or his editorial mates, don’t take criticism of their ideological views & occasional plagiarism very well. I tried contacting TDB about their editorial policy through their listed email address. I then discovered that it is not possible to email them. This was very frustrating as all I wanted was to have open & honest communication with Bradbury about these matters. This censorship of my views on his public platform & the inability to resolve these things brought out the worst in me, the angry old street wise punk who’s never to far from the surface. I then responded with a few extremely choice & threatening comments (which I now regret). Of course they published these comments, which was an obvious ploy to bad mouth & discredit the pseudonym I was commenting under. Most people commenting on TDB use pseudonyms so this is not unusual. As I’ve a little street credibility for doing my bit to make a difference in my own way, my response to this strategy was to out myself, & suggested to them that they should also do the same. Of course they chose not to. So after all this drama Bradbury made a big heroic song & dance blog about his life being threatened & referred my message to the cops. I then admitted defeat, pulled my head in for a while & took some time out to cool down. Recently though I was stirred into action again by the covid-19 crisis & the current attacks on free speech. I decided to begin commenting again on TDM under both my real name & my new FortressNZ pseudonym. This was obviously a stupid move, as just as before, my recent comments have been suppressed. I’m not really a hateful person but I do hold grudges against those I feel have wronged me, & Bradbury & his reactionary PC admin cronies sure have. I’m no spring chicken & I don’t have much longer in this world, but one of my last missions before I pass over will be to find a way to exact revenge on the cowardly TDB racket. I don’t have anything to loose & I don’t care what anyone thinks of me or what happens to me anymore, so I will find a way to resolve this matter. If TDB doesn’t do the descent thing & publish my side of this story, then I’m at a loss to know what I can do to hold Bradbury & his cyber space warrior freaks to account. Of course, if they’re really interested in resolving the matter Bradbury could always communicate with me via email. No chance of this, as Bradbury’s inflated ego would not allow him to entertain such a thought. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Good luck with the war against Covid-19 everyone.
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March 19, 2020 11:49am
- SB 2
  
  JohnnyOverton, don’t you have better means to fulfill that yawning empty gap in your life?
  
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  March 19, 2020 12:38pm
  - Michael NZ
    
    Well SB2, he could pick on you and Milky for your trolling of Maggie?
    Which you haven’t apologised for…..
    
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    March 19, 2020 7:02pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
  
  Walk away.
  
  If you have resorted to abuse/threatening posts, then you are in the wrong.
  
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  March 19, 2020 12:39pm
  - SB 2
    
    A post that could have been done with some editing to get a point across IMO
    
    To wordie also IMO
    
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    March 19, 2020 12:48pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Stephieboy:
      
      Kiwiblog threads have nested comments, so you need to click “reply” to the comment that you’re replying to. I assume that you intended to reply to JohnnyOverton’s comment. Maggy’s comment, which is the one you’ve replied to, is clear, concise and effective – definitely not “[t]o wordie” [sic].
      
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      March 19, 2020 2:18pm
- rockape
  
  Suck it up and stop posting. Its his blogg so like this one he decides how its run. I had the same problem with Slater so just walked.
  
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  March 19, 2020 12:58pm
- cmm
  
  Don’t waste your time and energy there. Find a better outlet.
  
  You can’t really take Bradbury seriously.
  
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  March 19, 2020 2:23pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

More rubbish reporting from CNN.
Chanel Rion from One America News.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov52KStuzxc&fbclid=IwAR2HzUKOB283IBE2bnJ_hG479bfHu0ZLRwnsqei8ILu_DE83Os35QjCA8fk
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March 19, 2020 11:56am
- SB 2
  
  The voices of unreason.
  
  A sample,
  
  An Crombez
  9 hours ago
  “The American people should stop watching the Communist News Network or CNN.”
  
  CNN and MSM are traitors to our country.
  
  Rick Jones
  9 hours ago
  
  CNN is the Enemy of the People.
  
  logicfortruth
  8 hours ago
  
  CNN is a tool of the CCP.
  
  Schubert Aloysius
  8 hours ago
  
  OAN is putting up some serious fight! The are stomping CNN to the floor!
  
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  March 19, 2020 12:41pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Go away troll
    
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    March 19, 2020 2:37pm
Nickc2

Islamic State advises it’s terrorists not to travel to Europe because of COVID-19.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/03/islamic-state-terrorists-advised-to-avoid-travel-to-europe-for-jihad-over-coronavirus-fears.html
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March 19, 2020 12:36pm
- emmess
  
  Oh no, how will Europe ever cope without the cultural enrichment?
  
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  March 19, 2020 1:45pm
  - Nickc2
    
    They can always go to a Barbra Streisand or Abba concert where they can sit one per row and still have plenty of social space remaining.
    
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    March 19, 2020 1:55pm
- cmm
  
  Bugger. How do you earn those virgins?
  
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  March 19, 2020 2:18pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Dunno. If my memory serves me correctly, there are none of those things in Europe anyway. They will have to wait until the get to . . . . . . . . again, dunno. It’s still a work in progress.
    
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    March 19, 2020 2:34pm
MCos

Government Covid-19 information site
https://covid19.govt.nz/
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March 19, 2020 12:47pm
Monique Watson

Is it media whoring to go live to dismiss rumors of a Lockdown when no such rumors exist? Speculation on school closures maybe but not an outright lockdown.
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March 19, 2020 1:02pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yep,
  
  she’s getting confused as to what page of the Pandemic Plan we are on.
  
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  March 19, 2020 3:19pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

“Vò, a town of 3,300 just outside Venice, was part of an experiment that involved aggressive testing and quarantine measures. Every single resident was tested for coronavirus in late February when Northern Italy was first rocked by the outbreak, and three percent of inhabitants were found to be carrying the virus.”

“for every patient that shows symptoms for COVID-19 there were about 10 who don’t.”

https://www.sfgate.com/coronavirus/article/Italian-town-experiment-coronavirus-testing-Vo-15141033.php
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March 19, 2020 1:18pm
MrTips

Now 28 cases. Related to travel. No evidence of community transmission.

And Jacinda says “oh yeah, I forgot, isolate if you came home in the last two weeks”

And Winston says to 80,000: “come home, before its too late!”

Fucking idiots the pair of them.
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March 19, 2020 1:19pm
- rangitoto
  
  Then how do they explain the kid who was found positive in South Africa after travel from New Zealand.
  
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  March 19, 2020 1:50pm
Tony Stuart

Taranaki gets its first two cases of COVID-19. I hope it doesn’t have anything to do with an event held there last weekend with performers coming from all parts of the globe…
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March 19, 2020 1:37pm
Paulus

Life is getting a bit like World War Three where being a young World War Two London person we understood what was required of us without having been dictated to on a daily basis on how to live and what to do.
Now it is getting like the fact that our Leader Wynston Ardern, like Goebbels, in dictating and manipulating their dictate to everything.
What we can expect is worrying, as it will be their continually trying to control everybody and our every thoughts to support their brand of Social Control via their abuse of Parliament aided and abetted by the so called Media.
I am very elderly so it does not seriously worry me but for by family to come does.
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March 19, 2020 1:49pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

I’d bet it’s less than a week until this is revealed as bollocks, govt still trying to pretend they have things under control:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/120380390/coronavirus-countrywide-lock-down-speculation-dismissed-by-prime-minister
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March 19, 2020 2:13pm
- toby1845
  
  I saw that too, and commented to the wife that we are a week from a shutdown.
  
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  March 19, 2020 3:57pm
cmm

Sage advice from Winston: Do not travel.

What next? Do not lick your bicycle chain.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12318169
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March 19, 2020 2:16pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Gee… now who was it yesterday telling their citizens not to go travelling overseas?
  
  https://7news.com.au/politics/australians-ordered-not-to-travel-overseas-c-750481
  
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  March 19, 2020 3:08pm
Tall Man

Because of the comment further up I went to have a look at the daily blog. Never been before and never will again.

Can’t see why anyone who isn’t a jacinda fan would bother. No amount of rational or irrational argument is going to change their minds so why bother?
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March 19, 2020 2:16pm
surfing

China has often criticised New Zealand on our food safety standards.

eg,
https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/10/07/xi-jinping-gets-mocked-going-after-new-zealand-on-food-safety/

It is a big fucking joke. China allows their citizens to stack crates of live exotic animals on top of each other at food markets. These animials intermingle, defecate over each other, then get eaten by humans. Virus’s are just looking to mutate and jump species in such an environment.

Fonterra had a slightly dirty pipe at one of their milk plants. Noone died, but New Zealand’s reputation was maligned by China.

Now china is likely to be responsible for a global economic disaster and possibly millions of deaths because of their ‘food safety’ standards … Ironic.
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March 19, 2020 2:17pm
fernglas

“”If you’re travelling it’s very likely you could be shut off very shortly,” Peters said yesterday.

“If you can get home, come home now.”

He reiterated that again today.

“Borders are closing. You may not be able to return to New Zealand when you had planned to. You should therefore organise to come home now.”
I am stuck somewhere where I cannot yet organise to go or stay. If that little cunt is telling me I won’t be allowed back into my own country when I can finally sort it out, he should say so. If what he means is something different he should say so. These sort of comments just make matters worse, and are an utterly irresponsible contribution to this panic. If Winston wants to come over and help me and my already very anxious family to organise our return travel, I am happy to tell him where I am staying. If not, he should shut the fuck up with his sweeping bullshit and start dishing out some facts.
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March 19, 2020 2:33pm
- fernglas
  
  Ardern says:
  “”Do feel free to visit covid19.govt.nz – otherwise dismiss anything else. We will continue to be your single source of truth.
  
  “Everything else you see, a grain of salt.”
  
  She said that misinformation only fuelled public panic.”
  
  Nothing on that site from Winston
  
  So even the boss doesn’t seem to support him
  
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  March 19, 2020 2:53pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    She’s either clueless or lying. At 10x per fortnight growth rate seen everywhere that doesn’t have spectacularly good testing and contact tracing (Not NZ!) we are 2-3 weeks away from lockdown.
    
    Most cases are non-symptomatic, Govt did effectively zero (10/day) testing up until last few days and it is clearly too late, the people who will be jamming up our hospitals in 2 weeks are already infected.
    
    Ignore Winston’s idiots and get yourself ready for extended lockdown before the panic sets in a few days prior.
    
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    March 19, 2020 3:23pm
    - Michael NZ
      
      Urban, that’s what we’ve been doing.
      Allowing for very limited movements.
      50% of work can be remote.
      Zoom is great.
      Got Loads of Jobs at home can be done, Books and a 70% full Sky.
      It’s probably for 2 months maybe three.
      
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      March 19, 2020 7:09pm
  - Nickc2
    
    I listened to her barking dictates from a written speech on tv tonight. What a bastardisation of the English language. For someone with a degree in Communications, she is a F_ing disgrace.
    As to content, too late. Her and her bunch of like minded F_wits should have started out strong and then walked the plan backward as it returned required results. Lets face it, there was no plan, just an espousing of a bunch of feel good statements that were incapable of being measured hence the barking of her present dictates hoping the ever obliging MSM will come to her rescue. Well Cindy, good luck with that move, you have been sprung for what you are, ‘a petulant out of your depth child’ trying to play a grownups game and that is why Winston put you there in order that you could be used to further his political aspirations.
    
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    March 19, 2020 8:30pm
- burt
  
  fernglas
  
  Best of luck.
  
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  March 19, 2020 3:33pm
  - fernglas
    
    Thanks
    
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    March 19, 2020 4:34pm
- Happychappy
  
  No show without punch fernglas, he feels left out. Safe travel and hope everything works out for the best.
  
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  March 19, 2020 4:22pm
- MCos
  
  I think the problem is transiting through third countries.
  There is no problem with NZ citizens or permanent residents coming home. However planes from the EU or UK cannot bring Kiwis through the States, for examples.
  Some people are stuck in Lima because they can’t get out. Others are being bumped off planes halfway on technicalities and having to buy new tickets at great expense.
  
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  March 19, 2020 6:37pm
brett68

NZUSD dropping like a stone currently at .56

https://www.dailyfx.com/nzd-usd
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March 19, 2020 2:41pm
- brett68
  
  Holy fuck make that .55
  Just bounced back to .530
  
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  March 19, 2020 3:00pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  One customer delayed ordering for one week.
  Reminded him that there is a contingency on the quote for falls in Fx.
  His price just went up 10% in a week.
  
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  March 19, 2020 4:27pm
Monique Watson

I bet it drops with that runt Winston talking about border closures. That’s some of what’s dropping the international Markets. The Dow tanked again when the Canadian border closed.
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March 19, 2020 3:10pm
Happychappy

Jacinda Ardern I’m on social media all the time and see rumours that I would like to take down.
Coronavirus: Jacinda Ardern dismisses rumours being spread on social media about Covid-19. Instead I want to send a clear message to the NZ public : we skillshare with you the most up to date information daily. You can trust us a source of information.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/03/coronavirus-jacinda-ardern-dismisses-rumours-being-spread-on-social-media-about-covid-19.html
Why would people trust Jacinda she is a habitual liar and for a Prime Minister most she opens her mouth it a contradiction of what she has said before which is how the rumours start.
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March 19, 2020 3:24pm
- Michael NZ
  
  True, Why?
  
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  March 19, 2020 7:10pm
- jv
  
  Stuff 13.13 Jacinda dismisses lockdown
  Stuff 18.22 NZ shutting borders, lock down
  How not to lead and how to ensure distrust, pathetic liar.
  
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  March 19, 2020 7:20pm
Manolo

The collapse of the AUD (and NZD):
https://www.fxstreet.com/analysis/aussie-collapse-continues-as-anxiety-continues-to-fuel-liquidity-push-202003182348

We are just above USD 55 cents at the moment.
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March 19, 2020 4:05pm
Maggie Pie

Earlier this year, my partner had a client keen on buying a Porsche out of the UK.
When he originally quoted him back in January, they were looking at a landed price of around 74 th0usand pound. Today, the price is 86 thou. Needless to say the buyer has lost interest, he can get a similar car from the local dealership for less – and they’re real keen to do business.
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March 19, 2020 4:06pm
RW Capitalist

Did you know
It takes 7 seconds for food to pass from mouth to stomach.
A human hair can hold 3Kg.
The length of the penis is 3 times the length of the thumb.
The femur is as hard as concrete.
A woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s.
Women blink twice as much as men.
We use 300 muscles just to keep our balance when we stand.
A woman has read this entire text.
A man is still looking at his thumb.
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March 19, 2020 4:21pm
RW Capitalist

Fun fact
If you drink wine fast enough
Fitbit thinks you’re running.
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March 19, 2020 4:23pm
RW Capitalist

A man, concerned his wife was going deaf.
Walked 20 ft behind her and said
“can you hear me”……….no reply
Moved to 10 ft behind her and said
“can you hear me”……….no reply
moved to 5 ft behind her an said
“can you hear me”……….no reply
Moved next to her and said
“can you hear me”……….
She replied YES…for the 4th time.
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March 19, 2020 4:36pm
lemuzz

Just heard that groups of more than 100 people are banned. Does this mean parliament can’t operate?
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March 19, 2020 5:30pm
- MrTips
  
  Bloody hope so!
  
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  March 19, 2020 6:17pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

Latest CDC data for hospitalization and ICU rates by age
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm
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March 19, 2020 5:37pm
- MrTips
  
  That data firms up in my mind that only the 65+and immunocompromised should be quarantined. Everyone else should be allowed to carry on and let the damn thing run its course.
  
  Yes, I am in the herd immunity camp, for the moment.
  
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  March 19, 2020 6:24pm
RW Capitalist

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
Winston Churchill

Could be the savior of the UK

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Winston Churchill
Jacinda’s “help” is this on steroids.
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March 19, 2020 6:32pm
Pheobe

Just after Australia, we have also closed our boarders no non NZ citizens or residents, exactly what Simon has been asking for.
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March 19, 2020 6:35pm
Happychappy

Jacinda Ardern holds Coronavirus special press conference for children.
People like Bryce Edward’s are praising Jacinda for her brilliance in handling of disasters while many in NZ can’t stand her showboating and lies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/19/jacinda-ardern-holds-special-coronavirus-press-conference-for-childrenhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/19/ardern-has-shone-in-the-coronavirus-crisis-but-a-recession-could-still-doom-her-re-election-chances
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March 19, 2020 6:51pm
lifesgood

Matthew Hooten praising Jacinda to the skies. He’s full of s**t.
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March 19, 2020 7:29pm
- MrTips
  
  He’s a political commentator. What do you expect? They do nothing, contribute nothing and run around publicly exposing themselves. Most of them are odd people.
  
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  March 20, 2020 7:19am
Michael NZ

Stuck at home…

http://nocamels.com/2020/03/art-isolation-culture-fix-couch-virtual/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_term=coronavirus_virtual_culture&fbclid=IwAR143mxVaSl0WCgEhcCCFuR1x1eMiCrXGmHVT-JnGpiYSwjzbyuPANbP3Jo

https://artsandculture.google.com/partner?hl=en
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March 19, 2020 7:31pm
Monique Watson

What the hell was that Live all about where she lies out one side of her mouth about no lockdown plans in place. A few hours later she’s lying out the other side of her mouth announcing a lockdown in the form of border closures not being premeditated. She knew full well she was closing the borders during her skillsharing Live broadcast. She must take journalists for fools and they give her plenty of reasons to do so.
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March 19, 2020 7:33pm
Prince

‘Trust us’ says Ardern. We will be totally open.
There is no Community contagion.
Latest data, Tests per million people, 17 March.
Australia 3,739
UK 949
NZ 121
Source
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid19-tests-per-million-people?country=NOR GBR DNK CAN JPN FRA PAK POL SWE KOR ROU USA TWN ITA ARE RUS NZL

We only appear to be testing incoming travellers, so of course that’s all we are finding.
We are well behind in our testing.
If they want us to trust them, they need to be honest with us.
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March 19, 2020 9:30pm
- Prince
  
  https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid19-tests-per-million-people?country=CAN+DNK+FRA+ITA+NZL+NOR+GBR+USA
  
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