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Te Rauparaha

I watched the interviews with Jacinda and Judith on Mrs Te Rauparaha’s telly last night.

The interviewer told us that Jacinda has been made a saint (‘deified’ was the term used) and that Judith and Brownlee was responsible for stirring up nasty shit regarding trivial border problems.

We also got to see the royal family. Judith apparently has no family.

I’m glad all the confusion has been cleared up by our independent state controlled media.
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August 17, 2020 8:00am
- Flossie
  
  Fair and unbiased much? Not even a little bit!
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:43am
- Close Hen Counters
  
  And prior to that, the item on one news re NCEA and students that are unable to attend school in Auckland … chippy all worried about NCEA students (nothing mentioned about Cambridge or IB) then next shot is a ‘journalist’ talking to a mum with one preschooler on HP computer and the other on a MacBook – nothing to do with the poor young men and women in our schools with their education completely stuffed …..again…..
  
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  August 17, 2020 9:10am
- Loddenthinks
  
  It’s even worse Mr TR – deification is a couple of steps up from sainthood.
  
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  August 17, 2020 12:32pm
wimpston peeeders

Attn cindy and co.
the reason there are so many conspiracy theories this time around is the public can see through your most open and transperant bullshit, its likely one of the thoeries circulating has more truth to it then anything the CoL has told us.

jacindas political capital is now getting more erroded with every new crappy excuse and lie, the media attacks on the opposition are becoming more frequent and vile which I interperate as labour are becoming more desperate.
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August 17, 2020 8:00am
- Simon
  
  “the reason there are so many conspiracy theories this time around is the public can see through your most open and transperant bullshit,”
  
  And MSM are mouth piece of Labour. In absent of any real reporting then people will come up with their own theories.
  
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  August 17, 2020 9:10am
Tomtoddy

Rumours usually start when there are a few facts available but not quite enough to be 100% certain.

1. Suddenly after the much lauded 100 days and out of the blue Ardern and Bloomfield start talking about being prepared for new outbreaks

2. The Deputy Prime Minister, with all the gravitas of that office, announces very publicly that there has been a quarantine breach

3. The public know that there have been previous multiple breaches of the quarantine facilities

4. There is a string of issues where Ardern has been economical with the truth – going “hard and fast”, PPE gear availability, “enough test kits”, gold standard quarantine etc.

5. Ardern and Hipsqueak are determined to convince the public that the virus came in on frozen goods when the independent experts says it’s impossible and the premises has had no goods arrive from Australia.

6. It becomes obvious that there is too little testing at the border and controls are too lax.

7. A wage earning family group involved takeoff on a spree, staying at up market tourist spots and spending up large.

8. Ardern, and Hipsqueak backed by their compliant media team suddenly come on all heavy about “rumours” – “methinks they doth protest too much”.

That is a lot of dots to connect and a picture is emerging. Potentially still a coincidence. Possibly just bad luck.

But stop blaming Gerry, Judith and the rest of us for starting to think the dots make a very grim and disturbing story.
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August 17, 2020 8:01am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Outrageous demands:
  
  The news now says Aucklanders are being advised (not yet forced) to wear masks when outdoors.
  
  This is completely unacceptable to many people, and I have seen no evidence that it is necessary in quiet suburbs, beaches and parks.
  
  The other threat we’re hearing is that they want to ‘fight covid disinformation’.
  
  Are they threatening censorship of theories and opinions they don’t like?
  
  Funny, during the first round they didn’t agree with people recommending masks!
  
  So the Asian trend to wear masks in confined spaces was ’disinformation’ then, but now suddenly it’s masks whenever we step outside?
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:03am
  - Inandout
    
    CL, the Asians wear masks mainly because they live in crowded conditions.
    
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    August 17, 2020 8:17am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Yes, I’ve seen it. Rural Japan: no masks. Public transport: many masks.
      
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      August 17, 2020 8:46am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    The virus doesn’t like the outdoors–UV munts it.
    Why are basic health lessons ignored by people in charge of the nation? Poor levels of Vit. D are not helpful. Anxiety kills and causes domestic breakdowns. The damage from mitigation seems to exceed any value. Is fear helpful except for political purposes.
    The virus containment is beyond that merited for a dose of sniffles, if that, for most.
    Decision making has been fishnchip shop quality.
    
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    August 17, 2020 8:27am
    - JackRabbit
      
      Now that they have stopped fudging the stats in the UK, three times as many people are dying from the flu, compared to Corina virus. And the flu deaths count is lower than expected for this time of year.
      
      It would appear, that Covid-19 is far less contagious, and far less deadly than the flu.
      
      I suspect that our Covid-19 “epidemic” is nothing more than a storm in a C cup. Cindy is a flake.
      
      https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/health-news/12374033/more-die-flu-coronavirus-seven-weeks/
      
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      August 17, 2020 8:37am
      - krazykiwi
        
        I am, at times, incandescent with rage at the scale of the lies, fear-mongering and manufactured anxiety foisted on us by the ruling elite. Theirs is a relentless drive to strengthen their power over us no matter the human cost.
        
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        August 17, 2020 9:37am
    - Te Rauparaha
      
      The Te Rauparaha family strongly object to your vile remarks regarding ‘fishnchip’ shops.
      
      Our local in Milford is extremely efficient and pleasant (except when their business is screwed over by Jacinda and [Deleted – Mod]).
      
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      August 17, 2020 8:42am
      - KevO'Brien
        
        I appreciate the quality of your management but even basic level skills are sadly lacking in our present rulers.
        
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        August 17, 2020 2:27pm
    - Sacha
      
      Anyone is susceptible to ‘the sniffles’ if they move from a warm, dry house out into a cool winter’s day with a bit of a breeze.
      And then they sneeze when they go back inside.
      There’s a lot to be said for a few drafts and open windows, not to mention an extra layer of woollies.
      
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      August 17, 2020 10:02am
  - amospicton
    
    The decision as to whether wearing masks is beneficial is obviously unclear. We were first advised there’s no evidence of a benefit and now there’s a threat to make them compulsory. It follows that the benefits are marginal at best and yet we are being coerced into wearing them – people alone in cars are wearing them for goodness sake! Society has been frightened into compliance and has suspended all rational thought.
    
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    August 17, 2020 8:58am
    - Ian Hawthorn
      
      Virtue signalling and virtue are not the same thing.
      
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      August 17, 2020 9:16am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Yes I see the #MeToo Grand Inquisitor, Princess of Diverse Wokeness and celebrity lesbian Alison Mau spouting forth over the weekend, with an opinion piece “It’s time to mask up, Auckland”
    
    Yeah thanks very much Ali, but I won’t be taking any health advice from a man-hating former newsreader.
    
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    August 17, 2020 12:38pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    In the Jack Tame interview Judith said she would make masks compulsory if that was recommended by health experts.
    
    Bloody hell, Judith, not even a word about balancing that against individual rights, other health considerations (eg asthma, claustrophobia, emphysema) or the reasonableness of not wearing masks when 2m distancing is possible?
    
    This really is the end. I looked at Act’s policies but they look extremely vague.
    
    And Judith is not even standing up for keeping all businesses open that can trade safely the way Bridges did.
    
    Collins and Seymour needs to stand up for individual rights and businesses.
    
    Not promise an even worse police state.
    
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    August 17, 2020 1:44pm
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Look on the bright side.
  
  Today’s “official truthy story” from Grant R is that frozen chicken transmission cannot be ruled out….. sigh.
  
  So of course it wasn’t the government’s abject failure to manage the border, or quarantine. Oh no no, frozen chickens, an entirely plausible pathway!..
  
  So folks, don’t lick the frozen chicken wrappers!
  
  They really will say and do anything to keep the sheep afraid and trusting .
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:08am
  - kowtow
    
    According to Hipkins there is only one source of “truth”.
    
    How the Media Pardy have not taken up that frighteningly Orwellian theme and crucified him for it is not beyond me.
    
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    August 17, 2020 8:17am
    - JackRabbit
      
      Unfortunately, Cindy acted upon dodgy One Worlder advice very early on about Covid-19, and that it would be the penultimate event leading to One World Order.
      
      More unfortunately, having taken that stance, and the facts not bearing out the hypothesis that Covid-19 was deadly. As the UK is discovering it is weak compared to the flu.
      
      Saddled with a litany of untruths, Cindy’s team have struggled to contain the actual truth from ripping gaping holes in the narrative.
      
      I suspect that this latest “outbreak” comes after suppressing the facts and reports that community transmission was continuing. Then aided by stopping testing in key areas, and allowing the virus to propagate, and then restarting testing to “create” a second wave.
      
      As per the UK case, this custom virus, failed to live up to its designed operational specifications. All hail to whoever designed the human body’s immune system. It has trounced Covid-19, and with it, smashing global hopes of a One World Order, including the hopes of Vladimir Comrade Cindy Ardern.
      
      The Col team hooked their wagon to a locomotive that once started could not be stopped, has reached the end of the line, and is headed over a cliff.
      
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      August 17, 2020 8:50am
    - Durden
      
      According to journalistic principles taught to media students and practitioners, isn’t it said that information can only be confirmed as truth and published IF it is independently corroborated by two, or at least one, other source(s) ?
      
      Robertson, Hipkins and the Saint Liar are wrong when they expect us to believe their one version of truth. And NZ media are a bunch of useless twats for not doing their job and digging.
      
      What happened to the old dictum “trust but verify” ?
      
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      August 17, 2020 8:51am
      - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
        
        50 million reasons why, Comrade!
        
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        August 17, 2020 9:19am
  - JackRabbit
    
    And just because something is “possible: i.e. that the virus might be able to survive on frozen goods, does not imply that it did, especially when there are things that are 1000s of percent more likely to be the cause.
    
    It is really grasping at straws.
    
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    August 17, 2020 8:21am
    - alloytoo
      
      It’s kinda “impossible” if no frozen goods were shipped between the two warehouses.
      
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      August 17, 2020 11:39am
    - Greg Ettridge
      
      I guess it hard fact to convince anyone that has a higher IQ than a Kumquat, was the Melbourne store they tried to link it to, has no cases and the two depots have not exchanged any goods.
      Not a particularly well researched or factual senario.
      
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      August 17, 2020 4:36pm
  - amospicton
    
    And if that’s true we’re in even deeper trouble. Think about the ramifications for trade.
    
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    August 17, 2020 8:59am
    - Tall Man
      
      No, it’s only frozen food coming into NZ not heading offshore from NZ after all, we “eliminaded” the wuflu didn’t we?
      
      I mean, cindy did a dance and all ………
      
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      August 17, 2020 9:18am
      - JackRabbit
        
        Appears it is only Cindy that is using the frozen food theory. No-one else thinks that frozen food is a problem.
        
        “Both Dr. Ogbunu and Dr. Rasmussen said that an extraordinarily unusual series of events would need to occur for the virus to be transmitted via a frozen meat product. Depending on where the virus originated, it would need to endure a potentially cross-continental journey in a frozen state — likely melting and refreezing at least once along the way — then find its way onto someone’s bare hands, en route to the nose or mouth.”
        
        “Even more unlikely is the scenario that a virus could linger on food after being heated, survive being swallowed into the ultra-acidic human digestive tract, then set up shop in the airway.
        
        “The risks of that happening are incredibly small,” Dr. Rasmussen said.
        
        Some viruses might be able to weather such an onerous pilgrimage. But the coronavirus probably isn’t one of them because it’s a so-called enveloped virus, shrouded in a fragile outer shell that’s vulnerable to all sorts of environmental disturbances, including extreme changes in temperature.”
        
        https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/health/coronavirus-frozen-food.html
        
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        August 17, 2020 12:13pm
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      Quite right. If our incompetent Government wants to start a story that frozen goods are a pathway for Covid, isn’t it just as well that NZ isn’t dependent on shipping frozen products around the world then?
      
      Oh yes, whoops!
      
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      August 17, 2020 9:21am
      - Sacha
        
        @ OnceWasNigel 🙂 that could stop our exports overnight. Cindy & Co would have their work cut out to sort that little problem with the world’s media!
        
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        August 17, 2020 10:13am
    - Nickc2
      
      Yes, if the virus can survive on frozen dead birds, couldn’t it also survive on other types of frozen white meats? IMHO, this is nothing but a media designed campaign to take the heat off Cindy’s neglect of duty to protect our borders.
      
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      August 17, 2020 9:56am
- Simon
  
  Quarantine fuck up is so Labour / the State.
  
  Big boss Labour puts everyone into home detention and crashes economy. NZ population dutifully complies. Big Boss Ardern takes credit for eliminating virus. The virus is no match against Female Power!
  
  Now its Labour’s turn to step up and handle quarantine. Labour actually have to manage something instead of ordering people about. The rest of NZ has done its bit now its Labour’s turn. But no Labour fucks it up. They are utterly clueless. Lost in the real world.
  
  And all Labour have got is spin. Badly fuck up and then spin spin spin.
  
  NZ is basically a good country damaged greatly by a political clown show, MSM & fanatical hatred from left wing nut jobs.
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:10am
  - amospicton
    
    Absolutely – I’m losing it whenever our deified leader is on the screen and that’s why. Spin, spin, spin and no delivery at all. And yet the media and, so we are told, most of the country laps it up. All hui, no dui. She should be kind….and resign.
    
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    August 17, 2020 9:01am
- igm
  
  I have a copy of a document pertaning to lockdown breach and how the carriers were in a position to stay at tourist venues . . . it should be made public but I would probably be banned.
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:17am
  - Tall Man
    
    Sent it to a friendly journalist, I’m sure you’re identity would be protected …………..
    
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    August 17, 2020 9:01am
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      Hahahahaha!
      
      It will be given to Labour so fast it won’t touch a desk. Next you will be vilified as a Racist, and your employer will quickly sack you.
      
      I believe this is known as “kindness”.
      
      You’re welcome!
      
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      August 17, 2020 9:23am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Try Mike Morrah at Newshub. He is the only journalist so far to have been regularly writing stories exposing how poorly the Government and MoH have managed Covid.
      
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      August 17, 2020 9:27am
  - wimpston peeeders
    
    send it to the opposition. they will verify its legitimacy and then take the appropriate action.
    
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    August 17, 2020 9:45am
  - Greg Ettridge
    
    Sit on it until postal voting is about to open, let them keep digging a deeper hole, you will get a bigger bang for your buck.
    There is something very fishy about this.
    Next story will be, I was sitting in my truck at the port with windows wound up, a frozen herring smashed my window and infected me with wuflu.
    Hosking is certainly not towing the line with the agenda, many journalists are having trouble swallowing all this.
    
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    August 17, 2020 12:33pm
- godruelf
  
  Didn’t our transparent PM tell us all to “Read between the lines” when talking about ILG’s immigration cockups.
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:18am
- G152
  
  Politicians lie
  This lot are so thick they forget the last lot of lies and invent new ones..
  And the news alternates are better reporters of fact than the fake news ever were
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:26am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    No they are counting on us being too thick to remember what they said yesterday.
    
    Going by the polls, its a pretty safe bet.
    
    Gareth Morgan was right about this lot.
    
    What actually changed from Angry Andy and the team at 21% to Lovely Cindy, with the same team, same philosophy and same policies?
    
    The very definition of Labour slinging on a bit of porcine lippy, and the media going mad with joy!
    
    Only now we know the policies were just crayon scribblings, and there was nothing behind them.
    
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    August 17, 2020 9:26am
    - herb1
      
      What actually changed from Angry Andy and the team at 21% to Lovely Cindy,
      The pig the lipstick was on
      
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      August 17, 2020 12:52pm
- wimpston peeeders
  
  the biggest rumour/conspiracy theory ive seen so far comes from the govt and pushing the line of it comming in via chilled freight!
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:28am
- Phronesis
  
  I wonder if they have been taking tips from the Deputy Prime Minister. He regularly denies stories as wholly untrue and yet it turns out that they are almost completely true except for a few irrelevant details.
  
  “To say that I have repaid $18,000 is just demonstrably false,”
  “It is markedly different [to $18,000] ”
  “The repayment is nothing like the figure that is being used by a stab the dark”
  
  Actual number: $17,936.43
  
  The problem with always lying is no one believes you even if you are telling the truth.
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:38am
- Flossie
  
  And having a great rant on about it all deflects so much from the real issue at hand – the actual new outbreak of this virus.
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:50am
- alloytoo
  
  9. Hipkins makes an ass of himself by asserting that the standups are the sole source of truth in the same standup which incorrectly named Pakuranga college, and during which the self same mistake was queried.
  
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  August 17, 2020 11:35am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  The ‘be kind/no one is to blame’ message came in hard & fast (I.e., before general public had any idea) this time around.
  
  Might just be me, but it kind of indicated that someone high up knew who had it, how they got it and that it is/was being spread…
  
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  August 17, 2020 2:33pm
Kiwi_in_Paris

Don’t let Cindy see this video, it is contrary to her UN Agenda:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXmwt_8tdNY&t=5s
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August 17, 2020 8:01am
- Classic Liberal
  
  It’s an Australian sky channel referring to this (pay walled) UK Telegraph article re Sweden’s success https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/12/swedens-success-shows-true-cost-arrogant-failed-establishment/amp/
  
  “So now we know: Sweden got it largely right, and the British establishment catastrophically wrong. Anders Tegnell, Stockholm’s epidemiologist-king, has pulled off a remarkable triple whammy: far fewer deaths per capita than Britain, a maintenance of basic freedoms and opportunities” Plus maintaining schooling and a far better economic outcome.
  
  The Sky report also refers to Switzerland using hydroxychloroquine successfully .
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:43am
Justitia

Will Winston today pull the plug on Jacinda the Eliminada? This musical offering from twitter captures the moment well: https://twitter.com/i/status/1294906565359628289
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August 17, 2020 8:01am
- peterwn
  
  He already has as far as he is able – by advising the Government House of NZF’s stance to deferring the election. Judith has no doubt informed Government House of National’s stance but would not have made this public. The next move is up to the Governor General – whether to accept the PM’s advice to dissolve Parliament. If the GG accepts the PM’s advice to dissolve Parliament it is ‘game on’ for a 19 September election.
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:45am
wimpston peeeders

well old winston has once again run rings around jacinda and is making another power play, it was obvious last night his press conference was rushed and done on the fly.
had he made a demand to jacinda but she had other plans?

Ive stocked up on popcorn incase winston dosent get his way, Im hoping jacinda dosent delay as the fireworks will be a great watch but shes proven time and time again shes a gutless pushover.
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August 17, 2020 8:02am
fernglas

How can the contact tracing system be “gold standard” when it has failed to track the original carrier? If the failure is because only half of tests taken in isolation have been able to be genome sequenced, then why were these tests not redone before the subject left isolation so that sufficient RNA was obtained?
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August 17, 2020 8:03am
- cmm
  
  We have had the “gold standard” contact tracing which cost a few meg for quite a while now.
  
  How many people has this actually identified? Quite likely zero.
  
  First off, consider how this works:
  * The few people that use the app build up a “digital diary” of where they went (by QR code or manual entry).
  * When one of them becomes infected, then their digital diary is retrieved from their phone and is pushed to all the phones of all people using the app.
  * The app then checks the pushed diary against your diary and alerts you if you were in the same place as an infected person.
  
  So, for this to work:
  1) The infected person must have downloaded the app.
  2) They must be using the app.
  3) They must keep entering all their activities (not just those for which there are QR codes).
  4) You (ie person that might have been in contact) must have downloaded the app.
  5) Must be using the app.
  6) Must add all your details.
  
  Chance of one person doing it right is perhaps 1%.
  Chance of both the infected and person who might have been in contact doing it right – 1% of 1% ie one in ten thousand – maybe.
  
  The real hard part of this “tech” is getting the human to enter all their details. Even the most careful user probably tracks way less than 50% of their movements. For example, if you go into Farmers and scan the QR code going in, did you also make an entry for when you left Farmers? Walked through the mall? Were in the carpark? Got home?
  
  The other hard part is the false positives. If you went into one door in Farmers, walked around in just a small area then walked out, you’ll be marked as going into the whole shop. Worse still, you might have scanned the QR code going in. If you haven’t been anywhere else with a QR code, the app probably thinks you’re still there.
  
  This cannot be sorted out electronically and needs to be sorted out by a human.
  
  It would be interesting to see if it really has detected any cases or is it just a prop for the CV19 theatre.
  
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  August 17, 2020 9:23am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    False positives also worry me if we use that proposed Bluetooth card: every time we walk within how many metres of another card holder? Or just if we spend a certain amount of time near them?
    
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    August 17, 2020 10:30am
    - cmm
      
      A BTLE based system could be done in a way that:
      1) Uses signal strength to get a range estimate (ie. can ignore people 10 metres away).
      2) Time how long the person was close.
      
      For example, the basic rule of thumb seems to be that a person needs to be closer than 2 metres for at least 15 minutes to be a high risk.
      
      A BTLE-based solution should be able to build up a “risk profile” or a “dosimeter”.
      
      ie. If you get a 20% risk factor from each of 2 sources then it could potentially add it up and say 40%.
      
      Of course that would all rely on everyone carrying BTLE devices with them all the time and being tracked all the time. No thanks.
      
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      August 17, 2020 11:59am
- DeepBlue
  
  I think it would be OK to only genome test 1 person in a family or close cluster. You wouldn’t do them all.
  
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  August 17, 2020 2:00pm
artemisia

Dr Bryce Edwards, Victoria Uni, said on the wireless this morning (NewstalkZB) that current election timeframe is short especially considering that there have been no new bold and important ideas on climate change, economic inequality and affordable housing.

No agenda there then.
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August 17, 2020 8:03am
- Jimbob
  
  Bryce Edwards is a raving commie.
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:37am
  - nunnas
    
    So is our damn prime mincer
    
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    August 17, 2020 8:48am
Maggie Pie

One of the things that really attracted me to my partner was his quick wit and ability to come up with some real kool sayings.
He no longer calls the virus ‘Covid’….he now refers to it as “The Rona” 😀
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August 17, 2020 8:04am
- wimpston peeeders
  
  the aussies were calling it that prior to lockdown, your husbands just a parrot like the rest of us.
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:06am
  - kowtow
    
    Is he pining for the fiords ?
    
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    August 17, 2020 8:19am
- Raphael
  
  My Sharona Sirus is what Viva Frei, my favourite Youtube Law vlogger calls it.
  https://parler.com/profile/TheVivaFrei/posts
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:08am
- Kiwi_in_Paris
  
  https://i.redd.it/k4towejpnwo41.jpg
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:08am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    So it is a Conspiracy!
    
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    August 17, 2020 8:27am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Your partner should get his own log on to Kiwiblog
  
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  August 17, 2020 9:45am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    I have suggested that Bobbie. But after getting a ‘life ban’ from WOBH which he felt was totally unwarranted, he swore to never comment on a blog again.
    (Still enjoys reading them tho.)
    
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    August 17, 2020 10:18am
- Lee C
  
  I go with ‘Con-vid’ Maggy…
  
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  August 17, 2020 10:04am
wimpston peeeders

so we’re signed up to get vaccine doses early next year that may or maynot be successfully developed…

no thanks only a f**king moron would allow themselves to get injected with a rushed potion thats bypassed normal safety testing and trials, im sure theres going to be plenty of sheeple falling over each other like its the last roll of toilet paper to get a jab… good luck to them.
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August 17, 2020 8:05am
- RW Capitalist
  
  I would be most concerned of the Russian version.
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:15am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Vaccination Roulette…
    
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    August 17, 2020 8:56am
  - wimpston peeeders
    
    maybe but it would be far more rigorously tested using unwilling test subjects so could prove safer.
    I wouldnt trust any covid vaccine the UN or WHO are pushing.
    
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    August 17, 2020 9:08am
  - alloytoo
    
    I hear it’s mostly pure alcohol 🙂
    
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    August 17, 2020 11:46am
- Maggie Pie
  
  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfbvK0IXsAAxS9H?format=jpg&name=900×900
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:23am
  - wimpston peeeders
    
    F**king gold!
    
    on a serious note WHO allowed a rushed vaccine to be rolled out during one of the last plandemic events (sars mers swine?) and munted alot of children in european countries and left them with lifelong disability and illness.
    
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    August 17, 2020 8:33am
- cmm
  
  Yet the same people will be raving that hydroxy chhloroquine should be banned because it is untested (no matter something like 60 years of use).
  
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  August 17, 2020 9:25am
  - Ed Snack
    
    And there’s an Aussie professor who was one of the original discoverers of the real cause of ulcers touting Ivermectin as a valuable treatment for COVID-19.
    
    I saw something on Ivermectin a couple of months ago and have been wondering where the testing got to. Apparently it has been tested now and seems to work well.
    
    Looking for further information, but promising. Like HCQ Ivermectin is now out of patent and has been very widely used world wide in treating parasitic diseases. So is apparently not only effective but cheap.
    
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    August 17, 2020 11:01am
  - Greg Ettridge
    
    hydroxy chhloroquine is banned in Queensland and Victoria, it is still available in a chemist on prescription, but GP can be convicted and struck off for prescibing it.
    I guess the stazi will now have to ban Ivermectin and head lice control.
    https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/coronavirus-australia-sydney-doctor-claims-cheap-head-lice-drug-could-cure-covid19-and-should-be-used-now/news-story/24b930fcec5e4ef33127b13d4356b0aa
    If things get really bad I can just jump in the race and get a serve of Ivermectin, same dose as 100kg sheep should be fine. My GP in another state told me today, don’t go to a hospital in Victoria under any circumstances, the state of disaster is just that.
    Aged care patients in Victoria are now being put on life ending drugs without consent of next of kin.
    But eh, you can go and shoot up Ajax or any other shit you want to put in yourself at North Richmond.
    
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    August 17, 2020 12:49pm
    - Ed Snack
      
      Seems like genuine crazy stuff, the studies like the Ford Foundation one strongly suggest that HCQ can be very useful in reducing symptoms, so why would it be banned except because the banners want more people to die. There really needs to be a reckoning for these crazed psychopaths banning potentially effective treatments for political reasons.
      
      I don’t know what tests/studies have been done with a Ivermectin, but like HCQ it has been widely used and it’s indicators for non use are well known, plus it’s cheap. Why not fund studies and find out, the doctor proposing it has been right before regarding ulcers.
      
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      August 17, 2020 3:29pm
      - Nickc2
        
        It says more about the people who have forbidden it’s use than anything else. I believe they are against it because it was recommended by Donald Trump sure and simple. What it also reveals is that Labor controlled states in Aust. would much rather their population die than use any medication recommended by Donald Trump.
        That’s blind political ideology for you. It won’t take too long to catch on here too.
        
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        August 17, 2020 3:56pm
Happychappy

Has Jacinda Ardern, Chris Hipkins, or Ashley Bloomfield found something else on facebook yet to blame the right for their own incompetence. They could make a film out of the Coalition Governments fuckups and Jacinda would still find time to blame the opposition with the corrupt media’s help.
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August 17, 2020 8:07am
- Raphael
  
  @Happychappy, please. no-one is going to sit through a 12 hour marathon of the Krazy Komrades Koalition.
  There is more intelligent thought in a Beavis and Butthead marathon.
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:16am
slightlyrighty

TVNZ Breakfast had a Pasifika Doctor on this morning calling for the ethnicity of patients with Covid to be published. To me, that would be fair enough. As the doc said, an informed population is better.

So why was Hamish Walker castigated for mentioning the countries of origin of peopel coming back to NZ?

That being said, his receiveing of private information on patients, and what he did with that justified his stepping down, but why was his question deemed racist, when a medical professional can call for the ethnicities of patients to be released, and the MSM give him the time and opportunity to explain why?

If I was Hamish Walker, I’d be livid.
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August 17, 2020 8:07am
- Tall Man
  
  To be completely accurate, he didn’t “release” the info as such but sent it to a journalist to prove his public assertions.
  
  We still don’t know what assurances were sought or given here but the dick should be fired for being so naive as to trust a “journalist”.
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:50am
  - Flossie
    
    I think anybody who passes info on to a journalist is expecting it will become publicly known. Why else would you send it?
    
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    August 17, 2020 9:12am
    - Tall Man
      
      To prove a point maybe.
      
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      August 17, 2020 8:48pm
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    Journalists can always be trusted to keep sources confidential!
    
    Bwuhahahahaha!
    
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    August 17, 2020 9:29am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Careful Slightlyrighty, the red radio report this morning took this line: PI and Maori at greater risk because of crowded living conditions. (Nothing about some people choosing to have more children than they can afford).
  
  What do you think this govt will use that message to justify?
  
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  August 17, 2020 10:39am
Grant

AIER once again with some serious food for thought.
“Why do the lockdowns and restrictions still last? Governments around the country never had an exit strategy. They locked down with no sense of what would be next, either for the policy or for the virus. If infections go down, they credit the lockdowns, in which case they cannot unlock. If infections are still high, that’s also a case for locking down. If the virus isn’t there, that’s yet another case for locking down.

If coercive stringency is the way to control and finally suppress the virus (impossible), there is no exit strategy except for the arrival of a vaccine, which itself doesn’t promise lasting immunity, if we even get a safe one.”
Sound familiar?

The whole article is here.
https://www.aier.org/article/what-will-not-recover-government/
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August 17, 2020 8:08am
- Classic Liberal
  
  He says increasingly Americans are ignoring lockdowns, turning the country into a big speakeasy. And trust in scientists who control govt gone: “ Harvard infectious disease professor Martin Kulldorf warns, “When the fog clears, one of the consequences of the pandemic will be public distrust in science and scientists.” ”
  
  The problem with scientists is that they have one area of expertise and one goal. Sure we won’t catch covid if we’re all locked in our homes. But a govt needs to weigh up all other aspects of a country’s wellbeing. That is where Taxinda is absolutely failing.
  
  But I’m concerned that Collins is not speaking up for business and personal freedom.
  
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  August 17, 2020 10:52am
  - Nickc2
    
    I think Joe General Public lost all faith in scientists and journalists and their rantings years ago when they clubbed together to push the UN’s scam known as Global Warming.
    The advent of COVID-19 has enabled them to shoot themselves in both feet.
    
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    August 17, 2020 1:08pm
the deity formerly known as nigel6888

As in My Sha Rona?

🙂

Its been the Rona for weeks in this household.
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August 17, 2020 8:09am
- nunnas
  
  Some of the overseas news stations are calling it the CCP virus after the Chineese communist party, we could call it the Communist Cindy Party virus (this could be the new name for her political party next election)
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:53am
Ace

If the government wants to shut down unproven rumours then they shouldn’t be trying to push the debunked cool store rumour. FFS it’s getting more like a cult as in the only way a outbreak could occur is by immaculate conception.
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August 17, 2020 8:12am
- KevO'Brien
  
  The frozen chicken meme needs to be kicked. It has arisen from stretching a report from China about a week ago that the virus had been found on some stored frozen food. That was immediately dismissed as not proven, fanciful and highly unlikely that a virus would survive the extreme freezer cold.
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:38am
- Dougal10
  
  Well our current leaders exhibit signs of having a God complex
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:40am
kowtow

‘But stop blaming Gerry’

Coupla days ago a magic talk host (not Bridges/Plunk or Peter W , can’t recall the blokes’ name) had Susie Cultural Appropriation Wilkes on , 2 questions in he asks her “and what do you think about the politicisation of this outbreak”.

And they’re off .
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August 17, 2020 8:12am
- Tall Man
  
  Yep, while Peter Williams may have tangents and Sean gets stupidly cranky at times, the woke blokes they wack on as replacements get me turning it off as well.
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:38am
RW Capitalist

So Mr Hipkins is upset by the online rumour that this latest cluster of Covid19 was started by someone entering managed isolation, says it is fear mongering.
A few thoughts Mr Hipkins
1. You are the minister in charge of managed isolation, via the health dept. So it is indirectly an accusation of YOU. (rightly or wrongly)
2. It is you who are fear mongering by suggesting that imported frozen food may be the culprit.
a. Nowhere in the world have they suggested this.
b. You have produced NO scientific evidence for this possibility.
c. Warfies don’t touch the frozen product, just the containers they come in, neither do truckies. Most devanning (emptying of containers) occurs in MAF approved areas on the companies site (since before the dept was called MAF) Yes I know it’s called MPI.
d. As to fear mongering, it is YOU who is fear mongering, risking the whole frozen food market, when Mrs Jones becomes too afraid to touch her frozen peas for fear of catching Covid19.
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August 17, 2020 8:13am
- Tall Man
  
  Yesterday we had an epidemiologist from Auckland stating that covid 19 was extremely infectious and easily transmitted. A few weeks ago we had an epidemiologist in the UK claiming that it was nowhere near as infectious as claimed and less than 15% of people within the “bubble” of an infected person actually caught the virus.
  
  We have a family of 7 with 4 infected so over 50% but how long had the virus been wityhin the home before aal 4 were infected.
  
  I am tired of the bullshit, the inflated figures, relevant and irrelevant, I am tired of cindy’s kindy and we need to grow up and get this virus into our community and deal with it as we have dealt with all previous manifestations of this bug.
  
  We also need to get rid of ardern but that looks like a job for another day.
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:37am
  - JackRabbit
    
    “We have a family of 7 with 4 infected so over 50%”
    
    As the UK are finding out, the common flu is more deadly than Covid-19.
    
    Who really cares about infections if the virus is three times weaker than the flu.
    
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    August 17, 2020 9:24am
- Lummox
  
  Isn’t Megan Woods responsible for isolation and quarantine?
  
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  August 17, 2020 9:26am
  - JackRabbit
    
    On gardening leave, like David Clark was?
    
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    August 17, 2020 9:39am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Same circus…different clown.
    
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    August 17, 2020 9:45am
- DeepBlue
  
  I read yesterday that MIQ responsibility had been transferred from MoH to MBIE in middle of July.
  So funny – no wonder no-one did what Cabinet said re testing – it was him, no her, no them, definitely not I.
  
  Take your pick of responsible Minister to blame because on the MBIE website it says:
  
  Our ministers
  We work with ministers across a range of portfolios and votes.
  
  Our ministers
  
  Hon Phil Twyford, Minister for Economic Development
  Hon Kelvin Davis, Minister of Tourism
  Hon Dr Megan Woods, Minister of Energy and Resources; Minister of Research, Science and Innovation; Minister of Housing
  Hon Chris Hipkins, Minister of State Services
  Hon Andrew Little, Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety,
  Hon Carmel Sepuloni, Minister for ACC,
  Hon Stuart Nash, Minister for Small Business
  Hon Jenny Salesa, Minister for Building and Construction
  Hon Kris Faafoi, Minister of Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media
  Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs
  Minister of Immigration, Associate Minister of Housing (Public Housing)
  Hon Shane Jones, Minister for Infrastructure
  Minister for Regional Economic Development
  Hon Peeni Henare,
  Associate Minister of Tourism, Hon Willie Jackson, Minister of Employment
  Associate Minister for ACC
  Hon Poto Williams, Associate Minister of Immigration
  
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  August 17, 2020 11:33am
Simon

Labour fucked up quarantine. They only had one job to do. They were in all on the Wuhan Flu and they fucked it up. Utter clowns.

At least NZ wont have to wear masks. No good shitting up the general population with fear when they cant even look after quarantine.

Due to Labour fuckups there will be a slight pull back on the Wuhan virus fear porn.
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August 17, 2020 8:13am
Raphael

My dear departed grandmothers, as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics. Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty.
— Donald J. Harris
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August 17, 2020 8:13am
calendar girl

For me it’s worrying to see large numbers of Police not fighting crime as we know it, but deployed instead at Auckland’s borders to interrupt and control the normal movements of motorists.
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August 17, 2020 8:17am
- Engelbert Humperdink
  
  We should just comply with the neo-KGB (Kiwi Gang in Blue) and ask for one of these…
  
  Я бы хотела подать заявку на положительную характеристику.
  
  (I would like to apply for a good conduct certificate).
  
  /sarc
  
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  August 17, 2020 10:19am
  - Nickc2
    
    Does Cindy have a new type of Governmental Control in mind when she starts setting rules for different provinces? Is it at all possible that what she has in mind is Federation (independent provinces governed by one central government) as is the Russian Federation? If it is, it’s very scary. Something no other Labour Government in NZ has been able to achieve. Helen Clark did come close though.
    
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    August 17, 2020 12:48pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  Much easier to tell off sheeple than deal with criminals.
  
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  August 17, 2020 10:59am
Yvette

Winston on 1 News, yesterday evening –
The rumour you seek on social media is not my rumour.
Is not sustained by me, even though they can claim it is mine.

So is Winston’s rumour still out there?
Delivery was supposed to be two days ago.

The Guardian, UK, tells its international readers –
Peters said he received the information from a trustworthy source minutes before speaking to the ABC, and had shared it with the television station before informing senior government officials, or the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern.

Having said “… I think there’s been a breach inside our quarantine system”, Winston states the obvious, because unless it is the spontaneous outbreak of a totally new virus that is the same as the existing one, it has had to cross the border, which supposedly is totally monitored – so, yes, a “breach inside our quarantine system”.

But to add “I think, when that comes out very shortly, in a matter of maybe less than a day, we’ll find out that was the case “ alerted people to pay attention to social media, and by it’s timing believe the shit offered there was to some degree authenticated by Winston, who was either ignorant of the “daughter visiting the returnee” story (as would be Winston’s “reliable” journalist) or morally lacking (as would be Winston’s “reliable” journalist) in not distinguishing between that rumour and his own rumour.

Winston shared the existence of his rumour with Patricia Karvelas’ Australian ABC 24 News audience only minutes after being informed of it – so presumably did so without substantiating it – and before informing senior government officials, or the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern.
So Winston has obviously done less in this matter, than Newshub’s Lloyd Burr, who was the first to approach Winston to ask reasonable questions to substantiate a rumour he had been given to check out.
Winston’s reaction to that – resurrecting a “done and dusted” completely private issue – may have caused some damage to his reputation, not from its content which was sorted to the satisfaction of the department concerned, but in his handling of it, any subsequent negativity was self-inflicted damage.

Now Winston’s handling of his quarantine rumour and entangling himself in the other story – “a number of “‘vile slurs’ “, that were “not only harmful and dangerous” but “totally and utterly wrong” – show he has learnt little from a $317,818 lesson, and any damage to his reputation is again self-inflicted.
I think, so just an opinion.
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August 17, 2020 8:17am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Winston bumbling response to stroppy reporters is irrelevant. He said he been told something but he needed time for it to be checked before further comment.
  There wouldn’t be an MP who hasn’t faced that. Some “journos” are relentless in getting a sound bite. They want words that sell and may even reconstruct sentences to assist. Winston enjoys a tease and knows how to play their game too.
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:46am
  - Yvette
    
    KevO’Brien – please see Maggie Pie’s 8.17am comment just below.
    
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    August 17, 2020 8:56am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      I don’r blame her for getting out and about, but too late Winston was about a week ago. (He’ll have something fresh today.)
      
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      August 17, 2020 10:45am
Maggie Pie

Was away for the weekend so not sure if this has already been covered here?
A friend just re-tweeted the FB post that she believes Winston Peters may have relied on during his interview with the ABC, relating to the… ‘border breach revelations’

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfbJGb0U8AAKjMY?format=jpg&name=large
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August 17, 2020 8:17am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Was away for the weekend
  I thought you folks in Remuera had to stay at home.
  
  You haven’t been spreading bugs around the countryside, have you Magpie?
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:37am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Nicest winter weekend ever at Tindals. Laid on the beach all day. Pretty much had the place to ourselves.
    Even had to ask my partner to cover me with tanning oil. He asked what was in it for him…..I said, “Sand”
    
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    August 17, 2020 8:52am
I remember when

Chris Hipkins states that mandatory testing is a heavy handed approach.
So, is the answer to use only light handed testers?
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August 17, 2020 8:18am
- JackRabbit
  
  Proper testing would produce proper stats that contradict the narrative. Do enough selective testing to support the narrative, and spotlight individual cases to spark fear in the public, but at all costs do not publish the truth.
  
  Cindy and her team are focused on damage control. Damage to their reputation, damage to the narrative, damage to their plans, damage to the Covid election strategy. No-one in NZ has died of Covid that would not have died from any of the other 85% of flu variants.
  
  So a death toll of zero.
  
  A debt fast approaching $100bn, which also serves to cover up misappropriation of funds and excess spending (it’s Covid’s fault).
  
  A government totally out of control, and spending more on disinformation than actual managing the Covid ‘threat’.
  
  Megan Woods, in charge of border control, like David Clark, missing in action under leaders orders, in case she stumbles and says something truthful. Cindy controls the narrative and cannot rely on underlings to correctly repeat work for word Cindy’s damage control concocted version of the truth.
  
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  August 17, 2020 9:37am
bruceavon

Rubbish, this was more like an urban myth, and they play into people’s base desires and are spread because they are outrageous and we want them to be true. It’s all usually fun and games, but in this case has pointlessly portrayed lies about this family who did nothing wrong but catch a disease. And now has losers attacking them on social media. The rumour stuff also did nothing for the National Party.
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August 17, 2020 8:22am
- Engelbert Humperdink
  
  Well Brucie – since you and Peters have the only accurate inside knowledge, tell the public what really happened please.
  
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  August 17, 2020 9:05am
- rangitoto
  
  It might be myth but I have yet to see a more plausible explanation. The govt mafia are trying to put the blame on a non existent frozen food shipment from Melbourne.
  
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  August 17, 2020 10:28am
oldpark

Notice in the worth $1 dollar Stuff news outlet owned by Main News Dominion “begging bowl” Post. Every keyboard jockey who write for that embarrassing fake news outlet, favour an Ardern Lockdown again, after such a fuck up by her “SYSTEM” failing to deliver her one job directive with Coronavirus checking over recent times. Now in accordance to save face and hide Ardern gangs complete lack of management, with the wishes and instructions of Control Freaks Labour/ Green parties .Seems they have been told remember the Fifty Million Dollar handout to NZs News outlets and earn you’re bribe. Go figure.
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August 17, 2020 8:24am
I remember when

So who is surprised that Labour have such a high level of support from SME’s at present?
Would it be because at present SME’s have a high level of income from the COL?
Normal service will be resumed once the they are left to support themselves in the near future (after the election?).
Do the COL have to include the Income Support in their Election expenses?
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August 17, 2020 8:24am
All_on_Red

“I’m a perfectionist” she said
“Eliminaded” she said
“I did a liddle dance” she said

“You’re useless and you have to go” we said
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August 17, 2020 8:25am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Rather than her “nuclear” moment.
  It has become her “Mission accomplished” moment.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BIW6qyrdu4
  
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  August 17, 2020 9:22am
john1234

Jenny-May Clarkson on TV1 Luvvie-Fest this morning to co-Luvvie John Campbell:

“Our freedoms are luxuries”.

I found that rather chilling. A bit reminiscent of the Orwellian “Tax is Love” from the Greens.
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August 17, 2020 8:28am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  And luxuries are for special people… not for the proletariat.
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:40am
- fernglas
  
  Our freedoms are our right, subject to limitations prescribed by law which are demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society. I think the Govt. needs to bear those qualifications carefully in mind before they go all nanny state on us. Not only do the limitations have to be legal, but also demonstrably justified. That’s a high bar, and locking down an economy without reasonable grounds is a breach of our rights, whether the rabble are happy to go along with it or not.
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:43am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Thanks. Nice to see an opinion affirming that we do have a right to live under law not Ardern R.’s say so.
    
    Constitutional lawyers seem to have gone awol.
    
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    August 17, 2020 8:50am
    - fernglas
      
      One reason it concerns me, Kev, is that if you go onto the Covid-19 government website (the sole source of the truth) there are documents available to access. There is group of modelling documents upon which the Government relied in lockdown and then elimination decisions. Those appear not to have been updated since March. Much has happened in the world since then, and yet it seems likely that the strategy to date, including the recent move to level 3, continues to be informed by out-of-date and arguably wrong material. So the question is whether there are new modelling documents? If not, why not? And is it demonstrably justified to make a decision which deprives people of their rights without an informed consideration of the current evidence? And finally, if new evidence is being considered, why are we not being told what it is?
      
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      August 17, 2020 9:14am
      - fernglas
        
        Just for completeness sake, this quotation is an extract from one of the modelling reports in March:
        “Due to the high levels of uncertainty with
        some of the parameters used in this modelling work, it should be regularly repeated as new
        information on the epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 become available.”
        There seems to have been no “regular” or, indeed, any repetition. Is that a proper basis for decision making?
        
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        August 17, 2020 9:26am
      - KevO'Brien
        
        The COL seems to have none but sycophants as acceptable advisers. You can’t get info out of numbers without honesty of purpose. Anything else is just manipulation which is not available to proper Govt in NZ.
        
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        August 17, 2020 10:56am
- Durden
  
  I don’t believe the millions who willingly sacrificed their lives in the great wars did it for luxuries. Stupid stupid TV folk.
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:59am
- Flossie
  
  I do wonder how/why four people presenting a 3 hour breakfast programme is “essential”?
  
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  August 17, 2020 9:02am
Kabull

If she moves the election to late Nov (as she should), how will a Trump win on 2 Nov impact?
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August 17, 2020 8:29am
- Tall Man
  
  Hopefully by reducing the vast number of inane anti Trump posts and articles for a while.
  
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  August 17, 2020 9:09am
Grant

Does anyone else know of the “Border Pass” that people resident outside Auckland need to be able to commute to and from their work in the new “Auckland Zone”?
Just had a staff member advise that a cop at the “border control, where he was stopped for an hour and a half on his way home from work in Manukau yesterday, told him that he needed a “pass” if he was going to cross the border regularly. This “pass”, according to the cop, was available by applying online. When he asked for the URL he was told to “Google it”.
Really?
Apologies if the above doesn’t make me feel KIND towards our leaders……..
G
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August 17, 2020 8:31am
- KevO'Brien
  
  This sounds unlawful.
  We cannot tolerate Police and others acting without proper authority.
  
  My background was tax. You can’t extract money without very specific legislation or make enquiries into performance likewise.
  No right: NO GO.
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:54am
- sooty
  
  You are silly Grant. It’s called a Labour Party Membership Card and it will get you in anywhere and also out of most places!
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:57am
- Engelbert Humperdink
  
  Не могли бы вы показать ваше удостоверение личности?
  
  What could possibly go wrong if Coster’s mob imitate the KBG…
  
  https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-09-2017/shes-a-fast-talker-comrade-leighton-smiths-warns-nz-about-jacinda-ardern/
  
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  August 17, 2020 10:14am
  - Alex13
    
    Что за пургу ты тут гонишь?
    
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    August 17, 2020 11:56am
Maggie Pie

This taken from the PM’s Facebook 😀

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Efhk0xWUwAEQL08?format=jpg&name=900×900

Abdul Jaleel from Afghanistan comments:
“SHE LOOKS AMAZEBALLS”……and something about wanting citizenship.
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August 17, 2020 8:38am
I remember when

Where did the latest virus outbreak come from?
Perhaps it had a Past Port!
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August 17, 2020 8:43am
- Komata
  
  IRW
  
  Tardish, ‘Oi’!
  
  Very good Sir, very good.
  
  Thank you.
  
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  August 17, 2020 2:37pm
Tomtoddy

A very concerning issue that has avoided any scrutiny is the dual role being played by Chris Hipkins – both Minster of Health and Minister of Education.

Both offices a hugely demanding in time, effort and application. They require a great deal of ability and experience. At no time in recent history, if ever, have two such significant workloads been placed in the hands of one person. It is simply not possible for such complex and onerous offices to be covered adequately by one person.

What does this tell New Zealanders about the issue?

1. The Coalition has such an abysmal lack of capable MP’s that they could not find anyone else to do the job.

2. The Prime Minister, who handles such appointments, considers one or both of these critical offices and the sector they represent as not important enough to have their own Minister.

3. Labour is arrogant enough to believe that the people involved in the health and education sectors are sufficiently enchanted with Labour not to criticise them for not having their own Minister

4. That the Prime Minister is determined that no individual in her cabinet will be allowed to outshine her or encroach on her tight inner circle of controlled comrades – Robertson, Woods and Hipkins.
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August 17, 2020 8:45am
- Dougal10
  
  Nah she just chose the next best bullshitter to cover until after the election.
  
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  August 17, 2020 9:05am
  - Ruahine
    
    You have nailed it.
    Labour criteria to be a cabinet minister is how well you can lie on TV.
    
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    August 17, 2020 11:14am
cas

I tried for over 2 hours to download the contact tracing app the other day and when it said my device was incompatible I emailed the health unit. Last night they advised that Androids and Iphones were set up for it but not Huawei hones. So even if QR codes are made compulsory they still wouldn’t be able to track me. That’s not gold standard surely.
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August 17, 2020 8:51am
- JackRabbit
  
  And if a person does not have or does not carry a mobile phone ???
  
  Will the compulsory alternative be a tracking like are used on pets ???
  
  Or like those sci-fi movies about a dystopian future where an implant is put in your brain so that the ‘watchers’ see everything you see ???
  
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  August 17, 2020 9:16am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    businesses are supposed to offer a pen and paper tracing system for people without phones
    
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    August 17, 2020 10:00am
  - Engelbert Humperdink
    
    Could be worse… could be a Wedlock-style bracelet…
    
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103239/
    
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    August 17, 2020 11:55am
- wimpston peeeders
  
  since youre silly enough to want the app theres a secret way to use QR codes without a smartphone.
  
  when you enter the shop walk up to the displayed code, then postition your face eye level with it and aprox 30Cm away. next and heres they key to it working you have to say the secret password in a very convincing way, the password is BAAAAAH if youve got children they need to imitate a lamb bleating.
  
  no need to thank me and im sure chippie and cindy will confirm this later 🙂
  
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  August 17, 2020 9:17am
- Tall Man
  
  Why?
  
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  August 17, 2020 9:20am
- Ian Hawthorn
  
  Huawei phone? You’re covered. The Chinese communist party is tracking you.
  
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  August 17, 2020 9:29am
- cmm
  
  The application framework that they used to write this app only works with newer iphones and Android phones – not all of them.
  
  The main purpose of getting an app out there was to get an app out there. Actually working is something else.
  
  I doubt very much that even one case has been tracked through this app.
  
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  August 17, 2020 9:32am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Is the Huawei not android? Shows how little about technology I know….I thought there was only 2 types of smart phones…1) Apple operating system and 2) all the rest Android operating system
  
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  August 17, 2020 10:03am
  - cmm
    
    Some are stripped Android phones which do not have the full Android feature set and won’t run all Android apps.
    
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    August 17, 2020 12:01pm
- Alex13
  
  Huawei’s devices are hones in many other ways too.
  
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  August 17, 2020 11:50am
- Nickc2
  
  You may find that a bar has been put on all Huawei equipment accessing Government Websites for security reasons.
  
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  August 17, 2020 1:30pm
- curry4me
  
  cas: At last, a good reason to have a Huawei phone. Only one I can think of.
  
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  August 17, 2020 4:41pm
Maggy Wassilieff

This testing of Truckies – within a 3-day period seems heavy handed
“Why are these silly rules put in place at just short notice, forcing people to scramble?” said Leggett. “It causes chaos in and around ports. You can imagine 12,000 or 15,000 descending on a testing station – well it ain’t gonna happen.”

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/08/truckies-to-ignore-deadline-for-getting-covid-19-test.html

Starting rumours about frozen foods seems irresponsible…
The first identified case suggested a possible link to imported food – which would be a world-first if confirmed.
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August 17, 2020 8:54am
- Yvette
  
  Maggy Wassilieff
  
  August 13
  Two cities in China have found traces of the new coronavirus in imported frozen food and on food packaging, local authorities said on Thursday, raising fears that contaminated food shipments might cause new outbreaks.
  A sample taken from the surface of frozen chicken wings imported into the southern city of Shenzhen from Brazil, as well as samples of outer packaging of frozen Ecuadorian shrimp sold in the northwestern Xi’An city, have tested positive for the virus, local authorities said on Thursday.
  The discoveries came a day after traces of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 were found on the packaging of frozen shrimp from Ecuador in a city in eastern Anhui province. China has been stepping up screenings at ports amid the concerns over food imports.
  https://globalnews.ca/news/7271588/coronavirus-traces-frozen-chicken-shrimp-packaging/
  
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  August 17, 2020 9:09am
  - JackRabbit
    
    If you were to test the surface of items in packaging, or the walls of aircraft you would also find it.
    
    The air, sea water, pool water, soil and surfaces have lots of viruses.
    
    https://www.livescience.com/61689-viruses-fall-from-sky.html
    
    https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-viruses-secretly-control-planet
    
    Moral of the story: Don’t go licking frozen packaging or the walls of aircraft. Don’t eat dirt, don’t drink seawater or from a public swimming pool.
    
    Wash your hands before putting them in your mouth, and wash your hands after handling pets, and handling objects capable of harbouring viruses or handled by others. In other words, heed your mother’s advice about simple basic hygiene.
    
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    August 17, 2020 9:58am
  - john1234
    
    Traces doesn’t mean they’re viable though. Would have thought being frozen would dry out viruses which is known to destroy them and the expansion of water molecules left inside the virus envelope into ice crystals would burst the envelope. All of these would leave the virus DNA fragments behind, triggering the test.
    
    What has Souxie Wiles got to say about the likelihood if this virus surviving being frozen?
    
    Or does she stick to commenting on things outside of her expertise such as epidemiology?
    
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    August 17, 2020 10:12am
    - sooty
      
      China, CCP Virus, bigly trying to deflect!
      
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      August 17, 2020 12:30pm
  - Ruahine
    
    That is quite a good cover story to deflect the lack of testing by MIQ staff and others involved at keeping our borders secure.
    
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    August 17, 2020 11:09am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    ‘ Traces of’ don’t cause infection. You need a whopping number of functioning viruses to get infected.
    
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    August 17, 2020 11:12am
- cmm
  
  Yvette: “Traces of” means nothing. You need far more than traces of a virus to get infected.
  
  Unless we actually see some hard numbers, the report means nothing.
  
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  August 17, 2020 9:39am
Clyde

Tomtoddy, the right answer is #1. It is an appalling fact that the Deputy Leader of the Labour party is Kelvin Davis who is the shining light of incompetence chosen for his ethnicity and nothing else. Robertson, Woods, Hipkins and Parker are really the only cabinet members there that can be trusted to do anything like a reasonable job. The rest are so far in the distance they are invisible.
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August 17, 2020 9:02am
- sooty
  
  I wouldn’t say those one’s are a Guiding light, but the rest of them could not stop drowning in a carpark puddle!
  
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  August 17, 2020 12:28pm
Maggie Pie

Have only just checked the ‘My Lotto’ results.
Had a couple of tickets. A Bonus from last week, and a $20 Dip. Nothing this time unfortunately.
Although full marks to their Customer Service guys. They went to the trouble of personally telling me i didn’t have a winning ticket, AND wished me “….better luck next time”.
A lot friendlier than when i used to take them to the dairy and ask Raj to check them.
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August 17, 2020 9:08am
- Biscuit
  
  Mags, I had my usual 100% success at Lotto:
  
  Outlaid: $0
  Won: $0
  
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  August 17, 2020 10:05am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Lotto is a tax on the mathematically incompetent. It pays out only 55% of its take. If you must gamble (and there are situations where it’s rational) then Online casinos are about 97-98% payout.
  
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  August 17, 2020 1:09pm
Durden

Surely Dr Bloomfield needs to explain himself. (1) Why did he issue the order and (2) why/how does he think that the order can be complied with ?

If he is being compelled to do this by his bosses for political reasons, does he have the guts to publicly call it out as impractical window dressing ?
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August 17, 2020 9:13am
- Durden
  
  And why does Chris Hipkins think this is OK, when he claimed that routinely testing all workers in managed isolation and quarantine is “heavy handed” ?
  
  When statements or actions start looking conflicting, that is a clear sign of obfuscation.
  
  I think very soon we will start to see some damaging information leaks take place.
  
  Shit happens when employees/workers are being placed in impossible or unfair situations.
  
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  August 17, 2020 9:22am
Littletramp

Taken from another forum, but considered sound advice worth passing on.
We still don’t know if masks work. Hint – underpants don’t contain farts!
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August 17, 2020 9:18am
- Ian Hawthorn
  
  Underpants don’t contain farts? How are you wearing your mask! I think you might be doing it wrong.
  
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  August 17, 2020 9:31am
Gravelroad

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/300083404/heres-why-lockdowns-are-the-best-economic-solution-too

And now we have this tool of the State wheeled out to tell us that lockdowns are good for the economy.
You would think Equab , as a professional economist, would get tired of being used as a Labour Party spin strategist – or maybe he is paid to do it?
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August 17, 2020 9:20am
- Te Rauparaha
  
  His entire premise is based upon the delusion that mere human beings have a ‘thing’ called ‘science’ and ‘degrees’ and fancy titles like ‘epidemiologist’ and ‘doctor’ which can defeat viruses because these ‘experts’ are so God-damn clever.
  
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  August 17, 2020 9:49am
- The Housekeeper
  
  Gravelroad, I couldn’t finish that article, the cognitive dissonance alarm bells ringing in my head were too loud!
  
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  August 17, 2020 11:14am
- Nickc2
  
  Gravelroad, how come all these economists the CoL roll out in the form of a comforter are not multi millionaires? If they are not, they are just oxygen thieves.
  
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  August 17, 2020 1:13pm
Inandout

She got a haircut and got a real job.
https://trends.gab.com/trend-feed/5f3990404dec887547a31646
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August 17, 2020 9:35am
- cmm
  
  If it was a man he’s have been told to pull his head in and get a haircut.
  
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  August 17, 2020 12:43pm
NoFax

The worse piece of disinformation I have seen is that this government is competent. Despite all the empirical evidence to the contrary, this lie is repeated and spread through the media as well as social media. Do your bit and stomp out this disinformation.
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August 17, 2020 9:37am
- Ruawai
  
  On Peter Williams Magic talk this morning a lady phoned in questioning the time line, she said an asymptomatic child in the index case household was tested on Monday. She wonders why a child would be tested when asymptomatic when no one else in the house had theoretically had their test.
  
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  August 17, 2020 12:58pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Our friend’s mum had a bad fall and has been hospitalised in Auckland for the last week.

Our Friend is her sole child and has lived with her most of his life and has been her caregiver now that she is old (94 years) and frail.

He hasn’t been able to visit her for the last 4 days.

Not kind!
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August 17, 2020 9:45am
- alex Masterley
  
  I have a similar situation.
  An old friend is receiving palliative care in her rest-home at the monent.
  She has no children so depends on wider family who live outside the Auckland Bubble.
  They cannot visit her (and of course neither can I).
  Kindness? pah!
  
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  August 17, 2020 1:50pm
DeepBlue

Winston Peters odd reference to someone letting a possum out under the lectern surely must be a reference to an Aussie COVID border breach. Spreading rumours NOT.
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August 17, 2020 9:57am
Pharmachick

As promised:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.11.20171843v2

Looks like some people at least have lasting immunity and that both memory B cells and memory T cells are activated.
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August 17, 2020 10:12am
- krazykiwi
  
  Very good.
  
  “ These findings demonstrate that mild COVID-19 elicits memory lymphocytes that persist and display functional hallmarks associated with antiviral protective immunity.”
  
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  August 17, 2020 10:50am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Excellent, could you send this to Seymour and Collins?
  
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  August 17, 2020 11:41am
  - Pharmachick
    
    @Classic
    
    Re: your Q yesterday about the Swedish Dr. (sorry I only just saw it, I’m in a different time zone to you)… Hard to tell, seems like some people have some sort of lasting [but don’t kid how long – max follow up I’ve seen is 90 days] immunity from both B and T cells, but we also know that there have been those re-infected after ~3 months. The thing is, if follow up is based on antibody tests the IgG and IgM will have faded after a while anyway so Px may “test” negative, but have memory B and T cells that allow them to fight off the virus when re-challenged.
    
    IMHO there is now a critical need to identify the what, why and how of the people that get re-infected (and percentage) to see if herd immunity is achievable. Also, the median length of time for re-infection, so we realistically understand how long a vaccine might last (again IMHO I don’t think permanent vaccine like for measles, whooping cough or even the 10 year protection of tetanus will be achievable, but I would LOVE to be wrong on this).
    
    Lastly, remember I’m primarily a PHARMAchick (though did start to in HIV – who knew that would come back to be so valuable? rhetorical), and I think good drugs are achievable as well.
    
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    August 17, 2020 1:45pm
Maggie Pie

Wonder what ‘MENG the MERCILESS’ thinks of these racist little pricks?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfeyPWoWsAMcDXt?format=jpg&name=small
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August 17, 2020 10:27am
krazykiwi

In my email:

Contact tracing mandatory for all businesses under Alert Levels 2 and 3

All businesses will be required to display government generated QR code posters at all premises from 12pm on Wednesday 19 August. Find out how to get your QR code poster and what to do if you have multiple sites.

Can anyone point me to the legislation that makes this mandatory? Or is it simply another on-the-hoof edict?
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August 17, 2020 10:47am
- cmm
  
  Do I need to sign in to my home office?
  
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  August 17, 2020 12:04pm
  - NoCash
    
    Yes, for tax purposes to be utilised by the IRD, yes.
    
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    August 17, 2020 3:24pm
  - Nutta
    
    I’m getting my QR code put on a shirt. My workplace is wherever I happen to be…
    
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    August 17, 2020 11:03pm
- Inandout
  
  krazy, the ding-a-ling lady keeps reminding us on radio. You must obey.
  
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  August 17, 2020 12:35pm
- RJ
  
  Level 3
  
  http://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2020/0187/latest/LMS389818.html
  
  Level 2
  
  http://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2020/0187/latest/LMS389827.html
  
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  August 17, 2020 5:09pm
I remember when

Must be time to roll out the Muldoon treatment of Moyle as an example of why National can’t be trusted.
Were National responsible for Lord Haw Haw?
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August 17, 2020 10:56am
KevO'Brien

I got one also this morning.
Fear is coming to an email near you.
The sun will return just before the election.
It will rain all November.
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August 17, 2020 11:00am
Durden

Some thoughts on the “gold-standard” contact tracing. Was it gold standard because of Labour List candidate’s tick ? More like her kiss of death.

Current reports suggest that the pacific island family is being considered the Index case/family. Why ? Simply because they happened to be the first one to be confirmed ? Anyway, if interviews with them cannot identify where they got it from, it is possible they are still lying about their contacts.

But there is a more likely scenario. Any one of the currently known cases in cluster that are being assumed to have contracted it from the index family could actually be the source from which the so called “index family” themselves contracted it from i.e. they could be a prior case and hence the true index case. The fact they were identified later in time does not mean they actually contracted it later. As far as I know there is no way of “aging” the virus to say who got it first. This is an assumption which does not seem to be getting consideration in the contact tracing being undertaken.

If the above scenario is indeed playing out, then the Gold Standard contact tracing is heap of shite based on a ridiculous assumption.
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August 17, 2020 11:00am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yes,
  the emphasis on this Chap’s workplace could well be a red herring.
  
  Most folks are at work around 8 hours/day….. leaving 16 hours of the day/night where other places & people are visited.
  
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  August 17, 2020 2:01pm
Maggie Pie

Watching FOX earlier. Could have sworn i heard Joe Biden call his choice for VP…….”Cameltoe Hairs”

Just saying.
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August 17, 2020 11:13am
- NoCash
  
  Hmmm… the more I read your posts, the more I’m convinced that you’re a male using a female online persona… ;-p
  
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  August 17, 2020 3:27pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    LOL!! And the more i read yours, the more i’m convinced your a short-arse loser that relies on Public Transport 😀
    
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    August 17, 2020 7:07pm
Centrist

There has apparently been a growth in the number of small businesses under this Labour-led government.

That’s because so many former medium sized businesses have had to lay off staff.
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August 17, 2020 11:13am
I remember when

The policeman probably meant a Borderline Pass.
Sounds like something that would be suitable in
a situation like crossing Covid Level borders.
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August 17, 2020 11:18am
- kowtow
  
  If it’s from Plod and relates to Wuflu , it’ll be a Bros’ Freepass.
  
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  August 17, 2020 1:11pm
Maxx

Adelaide universities are starting a trial of bringing international students back in. Starting with a trial of 300 and a plan to bring this to 2400. “South Australia’s handling of COVID-19 has put us in the ideal position to be a first-mover in bringing back international students.”

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/education/tertiary/adelaide-universities-to-fly-in-international-students-in-australianfirst-coronavirusbusting-trial/news-story/1d37f5584bc3bf219361de0c1a273507
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August 17, 2020 11:23am
- Pharmachick
  
  I would not teach them. I will not teach large classes (my largest is 230) in person this term (Sept-Dec), but then I don’t have to, my Institution is 100% online apart from very small (mostly post grad and final year) classes and labs, mostly <20 in lecture theatres/labs that normally have room for 80 more.
  
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  August 17, 2020 1:51pm
I remember when

We must not be ‘vile and nasty’ to the family of seven say MOH and Government.
The only reason they are even known about, is the fact we are using the ‘elimination’ approach.
Therefore, any ‘vile and nasty’ comments are, at least largely, the result of MOH and Government actions.
Otherwise, they would just be part of the tally of those affected.
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August 17, 2020 11:31am
Grant

Just received an email from David Seymour re the revised election date and the expense involved in the delay.
The paragraph below was part of the email :

“There is much for voters to consider. This election is not just about a lack of testing, poor contact tracing, and border bungles. The question is more fundamental: If we can’t afford more lockdowns, and we don’t want to be like Sweden, then how can we go forward intelligently? ACT will be providing that answer.”

At last! Acknowledgement that hard choices lie ahead, but I don’t recall hearing anything similar from National. Have I missed something or are they, like Ardern, too petrified to put reality in front of us all in case it loses them the election.
A plea to politicians of all stripes: The time for honesty like never before, is with us now.
Be leaders – not lackeys. I think you’ll find that us kiwis can deal with the truth.
G
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August 17, 2020 11:32am
- Pharmachick
  
  Well done those men (both Seymour for saying it, and you for sharing)!
  
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  August 17, 2020 1:52pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  I’m a National or Act voter, but neither is really standing up for freedom and business.
  
  A few nice words in that Act email but when I checked the site there wasn’t anything strong for exactly how to protect individual rights and keep businesses open.
  
  None of them dare propose herd immunity. Collins has clearly spoken against it several times (NZ can’t do it she said in the Tame interview, and in another interview she though NZ wouldn’t stomach it, which may be true). In fact Collins promises an even worse police state with compulsory masks if health advisors want that. Nothing about ‘only in busy areas’ or something like that.
  
  And we know that health advisors will have only one concern: that nobody, ever, catch covid. Show me something more reasonable by dr Reti.
  
  We’re totally stuffed.
  
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  August 17, 2020 2:03pm
  - wimpston peeeders
    
    david seymour isnt for the swedish approach hes openly said we should follow taiwans covid plan, manage it with as little disruption to the economy.
    
    it dosent matter what national say as theres a dozen media hitmen waiting to pummel them.
    
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    August 17, 2020 6:50pm
Suze Wainwright

Is Ardern saying that quarantine breaches haven’t happened, but that they’re “still being investigated”…?
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August 17, 2020 12:20pm
- NoCash
  
  Has any MSM journalist asked Cindy directly that if NZ declared covid free for over 100 days and now has community transmission, would the PM accept that there could only be three possible causes.
  
  1. NZ was never covid free.
  2. A breach of the border, be that at airports, ports, or MIQs.
  3. Imported via frozen goods.
  
  What would the PM consider the most likely cause?
  
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  August 17, 2020 2:02pm
  - Ian Boag
    
    And what would you do with any of the answers?
    
    Question (3) is a bit novel.
    
    Perhaps we should add
    (4) Imported via shipments of palm kernel.
    and anymore screwball stuff that comes to mind.
    
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    August 17, 2020 2:15pm
    - sooty
      
      A bird few over from Melbourne!
      
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      August 17, 2020 3:18pm
Maggie Pie

Just heard the CEO of Watercare has thrown in the towel. Hope it wasn’t anything I said 🙁
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August 17, 2020 12:37pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  On the money he pocketed he can retire to all mod cons Bure in Fiji
  
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  August 17, 2020 1:07pm
- RJ
  
  Don’t blame him, council should be next
  
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  August 17, 2020 4:57pm
I remember when

Just saw a vehicle transporter with a brand new 100% Electric Waste Management truck on board.
Ticks all the boxes!
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August 17, 2020 12:39pm
- sooty
  
  Local councl bought four at last year.
  Dealer picked one up on transporter from the side of the road couple of days ago after the mechaic could not fix it!
  
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  August 17, 2020 3:17pm
Dave Mann

I heard Judith Collins talking with Peter Williams this morning on Magic Talk and she sounded absolutely exhausted. She didn’t come up with any policy or anything new and she was, frankly, totally uninspiring.

She has given up. National has given up and it seems there is no meaningful opposition. NZ is
fucked as a functioning capitalist democracy.
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August 17, 2020 12:39pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  The problem is she daren’t propose what needs to be talked about: herd immunity with masks or self quarantine of the vulnerable.
  
  She believes NZ overall doesn’t want herd immunity and she may be right.
  
  So what can she do – just promise better border control and quite possibly even fewer personal freedoms (compulsory masks if health advisors want them).
  
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  August 17, 2020 2:11pm
  - Dave Mann
    
    No, the problem is that neither she nor her party have a clue about what individual freedom with responsibility mean.
    
    When asked about ACT’s policy regarding learning to live with the virus she just dribbled on about ‘thousands of deaths’ FFS!!!!
    
    She and her party are just another bunch of gutless wimps who have bought into the panic and fearmongering.
    
    Idiots.
    
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    August 17, 2020 5:43pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  Suggestion
  Look up national’s web site and see well rounded and considered policies
  Look up labour’s web site and see well covid19 on every policy group.
  
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  August 17, 2020 3:10pm
  - RJ
    
    Why, every time he comes here and bitches about National he’s been told to go look up their policy, he never does
    
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    August 17, 2020 4:55pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Easier to whine like a cheap chainsaw at the behest of labour losers.
      
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      August 17, 2020 9:02pm
- Nickc2
  
  Election day has been moved right, so why would she want to release stuff and give the MSM another month to pick it to pieces and invent misrepresentations about it. Plus, it would enable Nicky Hager additional time to add more fiction to his forthcoming dirty politics publication.
  
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  August 17, 2020 3:44pm
  - Dave Mann
    
    Oh FFS….. she could just TRY to speak clearly to the fucking PEOPLE and offer some sort of CREDIBLE ALTERNATIVE to the totalitarian Marxist regime which is destroying our country.
    
    But, oh no…. it’s just platitudinous waffle…
    
    Jesus wept…!!!!
    
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    August 17, 2020 7:10pm
Loddenthinks

Hipkins: there’s only one source of the truth, and that’s from me at 1 pm each day.

Also Hipkins, at 1 pm: all border workers including quarantine hotel staff have now been tested, and that’s the truth because you heard it from me at 1 pm.

Also Hipkins at 1 pm the next day: only 60% of Jet Park staff (main Auckland quarantine hotel) have had a test.

The most open and transparent government. Ever.

Also Hipkins at 1 pm: Air crew from Australia and Hong Kong aren’t required to have tests, even though numerous countries have required people to have negative test results before being allowed to go to /from HK, and FedEx pilots have called for freight flights to be suspended.
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August 17, 2020 12:44pm
Ruawai

Chris Hipkins; Minister of Education, Minister of Health and now Minister of Truth.
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August 17, 2020 12:52pm
- sooty
  
  Minister for Rumours as well !
  
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  August 17, 2020 4:53pm
fernglas

So one of the contacts attended a guinea pig muster on 8 August. Have they contact traced the guinea pigs, and will they be swabbing them?
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August 17, 2020 1:27pm
- sooty
  
  Is this at someones place or are they running wild somewhere?
  Are they eating them?
  
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  August 17, 2020 3:12pm
cmm

Ash: “Cindy has dissonance.”
Cindy: “Awww, thanks Ash. I think you’re pretty awesome too!”

C’mon man, you’re supposed to be a straight shooter. Don’t use the $5 words. Just say it:

She’s clueless.
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August 17, 2020 1:37pm
Ruawai

And now it turns out one of the close contacts that has Covid works at the port, so this is why they are testing all port workers.
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August 17, 2020 1:50pm
- sooty
  
  But why Auckland and Tauranga?
  
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  August 17, 2020 3:02pm
NoCash

Will Bloomfield do a Bolton in the future when this saga is over?
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August 17, 2020 1:50pm
- sooty
  
  If National win the election, would St Ashley of Lockdown chuck his toys out of the cot?
  
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  August 17, 2020 3:01pm
lifesgood

Why on earth does bloody Bloomfield have to take 45 minutes to tell us there are some new cases and where they are from. This is just ridiculous. At least we didn’t have to put up with her ladyship rabbiting on today but, come on, NOBODY IS INTERESTED!!! When are they going to get that into their thick skulls? We just want to know how many new cases there are and what is being done about it for FS.
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August 17, 2020 2:30pm
- RJ
  
  Media have to ask questions.
  
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  August 17, 2020 4:53pm
- artemisia
  
  If the 1pm standups do the numbers first nobody would stick around for the finger wagging and look-at-me.
  
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  August 17, 2020 6:58pm
sooty

When are they going to run out of tests?
Did they just recieve a large shipment of CCP tests to suddenly test half of NZ?
They knew this was coming to suddenly sprout out a change of social distancing by half a metre, suddenly wear mask shit, suddenly start testing half NZ, quarantine personal, ports, etc, etc.
They were lying!
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August 17, 2020 3:09pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiQNiDIrbgc
Dems are Screwed.

Joe Kennedy, a leader in the ‘Resistance’ can’t get traction in Massachusetts
Against a generic incumbent Dem. The Dems have moved a long way left.
The Overton window isn’t even in the same building. A group of generic
Liberals might gain traction. A bunch of ANTIFA-AOC types won’t be
electable. The Republicans will try to bait the far left nut bars, and portray
them as the face of the Democratic party.
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August 17, 2020 3:14pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0AchSlA1Iw
Mission Clean Plate.

The presitator is expecting food shortages, and has
Started a ‘clean plate’ campaign. It has echoes of
Mad-uros ‘eat rabbits’ campaign. Floods, and locusts have
not been good news for harvesters. A hunger problem
will lead to more repression. The CCPs authority stems
from a promise of rising salaries in exchange for no
Democracy. There is a shortage of pork due to swine fever.
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August 17, 2020 3:14pm
Fletch

The 3pm news conference on NewsHub about extending the wage subsidy.. One of the reporters asks Grant Robertson, if the Reserve Bank is holding the Govt debt, then why can’t they just write that off? ?
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August 17, 2020 3:17pm
The worm that turned

So Robbo has announced his “Resurgence Wage Subsidy” only 2 weeks of staff pay. I’m in Auckland and shut completely for 2 weeks, why would I apply for this when I can now apply for the 2nd extension wage subsidy which is 8 weeks lump sum instead of 2 weeks. Ill have had the required 40% drop in income (closed for half august compared to last year) This seems daft what am I missing?
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August 17, 2020 3:36pm
- Openmindfulness
  
  You might have already received the 8 week subsidy and now can receive a further 2 weeks.
  
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  August 17, 2020 9:17pm
lifesgood

When a cluster has spread all over Auckland how can it still be called a cluster?
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August 17, 2020 4:24pm
- graham
  
  Because now it’s a complete clusterf…
  
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  August 17, 2020 6:09pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  A clusterfuc* cluster
  
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  August 17, 2020 6:21pm
Inandout

‘1970 Times 22 Apr. 7/3 The Duke of Edinburgh‥asked a photographer if he was getting enough pictures… ‘You have been running around like a blue-arsed fly.’

Perhaps HRH should make a comment about our hapless Labour government dealing with C19.
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August 17, 2020 4:41pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Somewhere, someone is showering with a mask on.
I just know it
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August 17, 2020 5:39pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The silent majority are not that silent anymore.
Tell me again that Trump will not win.
This is a video about a yuge boat parade (one of many happening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSCYBreaI3Y
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August 17, 2020 6:12pm
- Fletch
  
  I doubt the Dems could have got such a flotilla together for Biden…
  
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  August 17, 2020 10:34pm
- Nickc2
  
  Meanwhile, Democrat supporters are burning city blocks, blowing up police stations and tearing down statues. Go figure.
  
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  August 18, 2020 4:43am
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/122472303/south-canterbury-couple-found-guilty-of-child-neglect

The main photo in this article portrays a young European girl.
Does that mean that such a kid was abused ?
Or is is it a coverup for the true identity and race of the abused child ?
Why do we not demand more truth and honesty from our supposed “free press” ?
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August 17, 2020 6:48pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Draw your own conclusions greybeard.
  If the child was ‘coloured’ then the NZ racists would pull the race card and make it a huge issue.
  Mods – think first, before you tell me not to tell the truth
  
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  August 17, 2020 7:02pm
alex Masterley

On other matters, Newstalk ZB are reporting Mr Sroubek is being given parole.
He will be returning to the community and to no doubt the welcoming arms of Mr Hardcore and his other friends. I wonder how he will keep himself busy? Fishing with friends?
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August 17, 2020 7:24pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Mowing lawns
  
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  August 17, 2020 7:25pm
  - alex Masterley
    
    I suppose that is an option available to him.
    
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    August 17, 2020 7:27pm
- oob
  
  Sroubek’s appeal to the Immigration and Protection Tribunal no doubt followed by endless judicial reviews and appeals up the chain of courts will doubtless see him remain in NZ indefinitely, or at the least a length of time that would make Kim Dotcom blush.
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:40pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Legal expert David Garrett looking very sharp on TV One news tonight.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/legal-experts-predict-unprecedented-jail-term-christchurch-mosque-killer
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August 17, 2020 8:13pm
- oob
  
  I struggle to understand how “life without the possibility of parole” is up for debate at all, or is in any way contentious.
  
  This chap murder 51 people, including women and children, in a place of worship, whilst they were worshiping.
  
  Surely this most heinous of crimes mandates the stiffest possible punishment available in NZ law.
  
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  August 17, 2020 8:34pm
Kiwi_in_Paris

The plan was even reported on in 2011: https://theirishsentinel.com/2020/08/10/depopulation-through-forced-vaccination-the-zero-carbon-solution/
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