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krazykiwi

Last week saw the publication of an important study by the US Centre for Disease Control. The study evaluated 5 million hospitalisations, covering 800 US hospitals between March 2020 to March 2021. Of these hospitalisations 11% (540,667) were ‘due to’ Covid-19.

Of interest:
– Just 5.1% of all hospitalized COVID patients had no pre-existing condition
– 80,174 died during the observation period (March 2020 to March 2021). 99.1% of the patients who died had at least one pre-existing condition, with just 740 (0.9%) having no prior condition on record

Further, and the emphasis is mine:

The CDC study also assessed the risk factors for dying of COVID, and found that after obesity, the second risk factor which correlated most strongly with dying while infected with the coronavirus was anxiety and fear-related disorders.

Obese patients had a risk ratio of 1.30 compared to patients with no pre-existing conditions – meaning that a patient diagnosed with obesity but no other conditions was 30% more likely to die of the virus than a non-obese patient with no pre-existing conditions.

Anxiety and fear-related disorders came in a close second with a risk ratio of 1.28, indicating that patients suffering from anxiety were 28% more likely to die of COVID than patients not suffering from anxiety.

Diabetes had a risk ratio slightly lower than anxiety, at 1.26, followed by chronic kidney disease at 1.21, neurocognitive disorders at 1.18, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at 1.18, and aplastic anemia at 1.17.

So anxiety is more lethal than Diabetes, kidney disease, COPD etc.

The evidence shows that being fearful has a large negative impact on your chances of surviving a Covid-19 infection. Fear’s negative impact on the immune system is a topic I’ve previously commented on.

Since the start of this ordeal, most governments have consciousnessly upped the alarm so that not a day goes by on which some sober pronouncement of doom, which wilts when subject to objective measures, is foisted on us. There is now so much content that books are now being written about the phenomenon. To wit, A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic.

It is literally murderous for governments, aided and abetted by their alarmist media toadies, to deliberately stoke fear and anxiety in their communities. Their pursuit of power, control and ratings is killing people.

What is needed here is a Nuremberg-style enquiry. One designed to identify and punish the public figures responsible for the most flagrant promotion of Covid-related fear and anxiety. Just like the Nuremberg trials, we need something to stand as a historical monument for our children and grandchildren, and as a warning to the future’s leaders, one highlighting the personal consequences of abusing their positions of trust.

In the meantime the good news is that your weight and your anxiety levels are completely within your control. Don’t let power-hungry authorities or alarmist media convince you otherwise.
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July 18, 2021 8:00am
- kowtow
  
  Govt’s and Media are guilty of killing loads of Covid patients due to the fear and panic campaigns they have mounted on already fearful and anxious populations made that way by the same Govt /Media Pardy constant Climate Fear campaigns.
  
  We’re being played , Bigly.
  
  Note well that the only international statesman who stood up to the lies was constantly attacked by the same players . It’s very clear why.
  
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  July 18, 2021 8:17am
  - doggone7
    
    When and how do sensible, necessary public information campaigns turn into “fear and panic campaigns.” What are the elements and nuances which constitute fear and panic campaigns?
    
    Do events or the way they are used cause hysteria? Like two women are let out of quarantine after lobbying from an MP (to visit their dying parent) and that gets chucked around as a cause for fear.
    Or there’s a homeless man in Auckland who walks in off the streets to a flash isolation facility and apparently is endangering everyone. And people’s health records are passed around to politicians to use how they wish.
    
    Fear and panic, mistrust, anxiety? Plenty of things for a lowest common denominator media to work on with orchestration from lowest common denominator agenda driven ones. On a terribly insecure audience.
    
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    July 18, 2021 10:07am
    - lolitasbrother
      
      a conditioned audience
      
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      July 18, 2021 8:23pm
  - gravedodger
    
    Of the fear campaign resulting in self harm and death by own hand, numbers are never revealed so never discussed. These days I lead an increasingly non contact existence yet I am aware of a serious number of clear suicides and a further number of ‘accidental’ life ending incidents that have many hallmarks of a suicide that has been masked?
    Fearing exposed failure is a recurring facet of many suicides and the absence of a “Note” often precludes a Coroner’s finding to reflect any link to suicide.
    
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    July 18, 2021 11:06am
  - lolitasbrother
    
    And of course, avoid the paid-up propaganda and nurtured alarm coming from your TV. That is turn off your TV forever, use it as a monitor for something worth watching. The addiction goes after two weeks.
    
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    July 18, 2021 8:19pm
- Simon
  
  Are National zero covid nut jobs like Labo?
  
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  July 18, 2021 8:20am
  - Nukuleka
    
    Simon, it appears that your whole raison d’être at present is to spew forth your hatred of the National Party. Quite what of a positive nature you feel you are achieving is unclear. It can’t be good for your mental health and neither, I’m sure, is it having any influence upon the National Party.
    
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    July 18, 2021 12:49pm
- Kiwi_in_Paris
  
  I highly recommend everyone watches this, it’s in three parts, origin, treatments, and vaccines (includes information on Janssen vaccine):
  
  https://brandnewtube.com/watch/event-2021-in-dallas-tx-dr-richard-fleming_eslCioAoMq7HsRV.html
  
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  July 18, 2021 8:43am
  - lolitasbrother
    
    Thanks KIP. Yes planty of facts coming out now, but nine of it will ever get inti their tv screens.
    
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    July 18, 2021 8:22pm
  - Ludvyk
    
    KIP, I don’t think I can get away with this but your reference to the Richard Fleming lecture was absolutely at the cutting edge. That is as you know proof of the patents for the gain of function of the Corona Virus to Sars-Cov2 and it’s deliberate manufacture to a bioweapon. Here’s my email [email protected] if the mod allows and you read this . I have some more of the same on the patents by a David Martin,This knowledge is what some Kiwis will find out when the RNA spike does its work. The West is in big trouble KIP, USA taxpayers paid for this a and China received via Winnipeg. It is said that the USA can not allow its people to know and that China has plenty more coming, as it works its Labs. . Email me if you can, LVJ
    
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    July 20, 2021 2:20am
- Brian McDonald
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Space cadet territory, again. It’s ok now if people with pre-existing conditions die from Covid, got it. Does that go for eavesdroppers or that run at even nouns with a cluster of adjectives?
  
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  July 18, 2021 8:45am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    What are you on about? I have read the executive summary of the CDC study. KK reports it accurately. The study points out that the reasons for the correlation between anxiety and adverse COVID outcomes are not fully understood. But the methodology and sample size are sound.
    
    KK bringing a new study to our attention deserves thanks not abuse. If it had been a rubbish study I would have commented accordingly. And politely. ?
    
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    July 18, 2021 9:12am
    - I remember when
      
      It used to be called ‘bone pointing’ in outback Australia.
      
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      July 18, 2021 12:17pm
  - cmm
    
    Brian: What do you bring to the party here? Nothing of substance. Just slurs.
    
    Perhaps time to look in the mirror and decide it is time to stop your lifetime career of destroying society. Perhaps it is time to STFU unless you have something useful to contribute.
    
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    July 18, 2021 9:28am
    - Unity
      
      I agree with you cmm. He seems to be the glass half empty sort of person and doesn’t have anything positive or uplifting to say. Surely he isn’t the same Brian McDonald who is doing so much good work regarding Scott Watson?!!
      
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      July 18, 2021 9:33am
      - igm
        
        Maybe “Birds of a Feather”!
        
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        July 18, 2021 12:52pm
    - Loddenthinks
      
      Freedom of speech means allowing speech you disagree with. I enjoy seeing what Brian’s going to post in a “how could a rational human being think like that?” kind of way.
      
      Sunlight and contempt are IMO the best ways to deal with such as Brian Ronald McDonald. Clowns have opinions too.
      
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      July 18, 2021 11:25am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Absolutely Brian!
    
    You know, there are some people out there who believe the Labour Party won the last election because they cynically used the Covid pandemic message for their own political ends. Well, I never…
    
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    July 18, 2021 10:07am
    - Nookin
      
      Why on earth would anyone think that Suze?
      
      Surely the facts that the Prime Minister referred to it as the Covid election and that the Labour Party did not campaign on any other policies of any significance are not persuasive in any direction?
      
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      July 18, 2021 10:58am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Thanks. The links you provide to the study are broken.
  
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  July 18, 2021 8:51am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Ah, bugger. Assembling comments on an iPhone is never a good idea. I’ll re-post the links shortly. Thanks for letting me know.
    
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    July 18, 2021 8:58am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      I found the study here
      
      https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2021/21_0123.htm
      
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      July 18, 2021 9:06am
  - krazykiwi
    
    CDC study: https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2021/21_0123.htm
    
    Article: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/310003
    
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    July 18, 2021 9:03am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Candace Owens did a post on FB about the Covid vax being experimental under the Nuremberg Code.
  FB fact checkers flagged it saying the vaccines are not experimental and therefore don’t violate the code.
  “Facebook recently “fact-checked” my post as inaccurate because I referred to the vaccines as “experimental”. This is hilarious because I got the word “experimental” directly from the NIH.GOV website.
  “Check out the side by side of these headlines—Facebook is now marking language taken from government websites as misinformation.
  The Biden regime is truly sick and twisted!”
  Candace Owens.
  
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  July 18, 2021 9:26am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Sleepy Joe even said they were identifying posts they didn’t like and “flagging them for FaceBook”.
    
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    July 18, 2021 11:26am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Exactly. That is why I an in FB jail.
      Someone going on about banning guns and defunding Police. I said that if she was confronted by a bad guy with a gun, the first thing she would do is call a good guy with a gun.
      FB mods said bullying – 30days
      
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      July 18, 2021 12:22pm
      - kloyd0306
        
        Facebook and Twitter are mostly leftist sewers.
        If sufficient users drop them, their power and influence will be rightly diminished.
        
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        July 18, 2021 11:11pm
      - Loddenthinks
        
        It’s not FB jail. It’s freedom, if only you’d realise it!
        
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        July 19, 2021 9:39am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Given wonder girl’s meeting with the grand Twit, I’m wondering if her propaganda army is submitting “lists” of trouble makers to facebook so they can be silenced/frustrated.
      
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      July 18, 2021 1:42pm
- cmm
  
  Panic is well known to shut down thinking and decision making.
  
  There is a well understood phenomenon that when people start panicking.
  
  While this was best described by the “incident pit” (aka panic pit) theory linked to deaths in diving, it has also been linked to many other incident including plane crashes etc.
  
  Panic shuts down rational thinking which makes it less likely that people will think for themselves. Bad for people trying to solve problems, but pretty handy if you want to get compliance from a fearful population.
  
  This is interesting as it takes that one step further – panic and fear actually modifying physiology to increase the chance of respiratory death. Intuitively it makes some sense: a panicky person is more likely to have raised pulse & breathing etc – not good when you’re already struggling for breath.
  
  Still, intuition is not enough. I hope this gets explored and understood scientifically.
  
  I wonder too whether anxiety disorders are also maybe a marker for other conditions (eg.
  smoking, being generally unfit etc).
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incident_pit
  
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  July 18, 2021 9:40am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Wonder how this would read, if we replaced “covid 19” with “climate change”.
  I’m thinking especially of suicide rates.
  
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  July 18, 2021 12:56pm
Happychappy

Jacinda Ardern at Apec meeting : vaccines a ‘sticking point’ on Apec Quarantine- Free Travel zone.
Does Jacinda Ardern our Prime Minister think everyone is as stupid as those that drawl and vote for her because there is many lies in this article when saying the meeting was the first between President Xi and President Biden have attended together since Bidenwas sworn in as United States President six months ago.
Since then the United States has declared that the era of engagement with China is over and it’s the era of competition.
It was also the first outing for Xi since his speech a couple of weeks ago when he said Chinawas inevitable and threatening a “wall of steel of 1.4 billion people for any country that Bullied, Oppressed or Subjugated China.
Ardern insisted that there were no tensions between Biden and Xi and Regional Tensions between China and the US were not discussed.
The question I ask is how could Jacinda Ardern our Prime Minister and this Journalist spout these lies when President Xi was prerecorded, of course there was no tension because they were not there face to face.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/shows/2021/07/apec-chinese-president-snubs-live-meeting-sends-pre-recorded-remarks-instead.amp.html
This is just more waffle from our Prime Minister trying to overshadow the truth that President Xi snub this meeting and sent a recorded message.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/jacinda-ardern-at-apec-meeting-different-vaccines-a-sticking-point-on-apec-quarantine-free-travel-zone/4COEVYKDJOJCST6N3MPHROTYZE/
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July 18, 2021 8:00am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Jacinda should have recorded hers too from inside the Pike River mine.
  
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  July 18, 2021 9:20am
Souvlaki

Here we go again…..the avaricious Arseholes in Labour planning death duties/ dead Granny tax.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/125620210/why-labour-may-propose-an-inheritance-tax?cid=app-android
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July 18, 2021 8:06am
- Gravelroad
  
  @Souvlaki:
  But I thought Dear Leader said there would be “No new taxes” under her leadership.
  If that is now not the go, why doesn’t she just front up and admit it?
  That is what an ethical leader would do.
  
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  July 18, 2021 8:18am
  - gorse
    
    It won’t be a new tax. Death duties are still there, just reduced to 0%. Fairly clear to me it was always going to be raised again one da.
    
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    July 18, 2021 8:31am
    - Inandout
      
      gorse, correct, just as my mortgage facility is still open at my bank for any future use.
      
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      July 18, 2021 9:33am
      - gravedodger
        
        My understanding following a reduction to 0% rate the legislation changed around the 1990s to removing inheritance taxes from the law entirely.
        
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        July 18, 2021 11:12am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Jaspinda is a compulsive liar, and ethics is a place in England
    
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    July 18, 2021 8:37am
    - kevn
      
      @SteveO… Great TV media untruth example last night.
      The APEC zoom talkfest, clear implication was that the Chinese President Xi was part of it and engaging. The reality was that he had just logged a pre-recorded message. cindy was just talking to a … message.
      Just another ‘power without responsibility’ media moment.
      
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      July 18, 2021 8:52am
      - oldfella
        
        Xi was reluctant to take questions from our Glorious Leader.
        He wouldn’t want to be shown up by the planet’s Great Communicator.
        Eh, comrades./s
        
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        July 18, 2021 11:23am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Yep,
        and RNZ ran with the same disinformation from its “Democracy Project” reporter:
        
        Yesterday’s APEC retreat brought Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden together on the same video call.
        
        Gathering the presidents of China, Russia and the United States in itself is an achievement.
        
        https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/447094/geoffrey-miller-special-apec-summit-on-covid-19-a-quiet-success
        
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        July 18, 2021 11:24am
  - pdm
    
    Jacinda and ethical are not words that fit together.
    
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    July 18, 2021 8:59am
    - Bob
      
      pdm..
      I believe that such a linkage is called an OXYMORON, with emphasis on the moron perhaps
      
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      July 18, 2021 10:49am
      - artemisia
        
        Oxy – sharp and moron – blunt. From the Greek.
        
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        July 18, 2021 1:50pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    These are old taxes, just being revived. The NWO requires them as as we are all supposed to become asset free and love it.
    (The lock downs are to continue for that purpose.)
    
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    July 18, 2021 9:21am
    - Paulus
      
      At the time I remember they were reduced to zero at because they cost too much to administer and the return was too small.
      
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      July 18, 2021 1:51pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Ethical leader? That’s not part of Cindy’s psyche. Use the word ‘ethical’ at a Labour/Maori Caucus meeting and you will be cancelled without notice.
    
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    July 18, 2021 10:17am
- Yvette
  
  Labour may propose an inheritance tax
  … A related obstacle is Labour’s tendency to run away from serious debates on tax, demonstrated during its ‘no show’ on the Tax Working Group’s recommendation for a comprehensive capital gains tax.
  That culminated in Jacinda Ardern ruling out such a tax, though not an inheritance tax, while she remained Prime Minister, a retreat from its position even before it set up the working group. [1]
  
  Is an inheritance tax not a specialised capital gains tax?
  
  And at what level can such a tax be introduced when –
  A decaying three-bedroom house with no toilet or bathroom, missing walls and an overgrown garden has sold in New Zealand for more than $2m (£1m), in the latest example of runaway property markets around the world. [2]
  
  Ardern’s Government should fix that, before introducing an inheritance tax or specialised capital gains tax.
  
  [1] https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/125620210/why-labour-may-propose-an-inheritance-tax?cid=app-android
  [2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/15/house-with-no-toilet-sells-for-2m-as-new-zealand-property-market-soars
  
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  July 18, 2021 8:28am
- all true
  
  Last election over 50% voted for the communist party and as it looks like it at the moment next election will not be different.
  Most voters of this communist party they believe that money grows on trees.
  
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  July 18, 2021 8:49am
  - Tall Man
    
    Sir Bob bets $10K to say you’re wrong ….
    
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    July 18, 2021 10:00am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  In order for socialism to work it needs a struggling economy… This is the direction Labour is heading, making everyone dependent on the State
  
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  July 18, 2021 9:08am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Yeah, look what that lead to in 1975.
    
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    July 18, 2021 9:22am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    Steve Otto socialism doesn’t work under any circumstances.
    
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    July 18, 2021 10:51am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Unless you are a Democrat
      
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      July 18, 2021 11:20am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Please, in this context, define …work.
    Their definition of work is re-election.
    Mine more like allowing the population to make themselves prosperous.
    Socialism (according to Lenin) has the ultimate goal of no government, except to achieve it they have to instigate tighter govt. controls in the hands of the political elite, creating their own oxymoron.
    However, extrapolating the line using capitalism, you end up with less and less govt. control, until we control ourselves and have no use for govt.
    
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    July 18, 2021 1:06pm
I remember when

Lightning Kills 11 People Taking Selfies in India:
(Sources-BBC,AP)
Deaths by lightning have doubled since the 1960s, according to the Indian Meteorological Dept., which says climate change is one of the reasons for the increase.
Or, could it be that India’s population has grown from 450.55 Million to 1.393 billion during the same period.
Perhaps, climate change has resulted in a lower percentage of the Indian population being killed by lightning.
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July 18, 2021 8:07am
- Greg Ettridge
  
  Another really bad statistic, if you visit Australia, you have a 1 in 10,000,000 chance of dying from the beast of a strain, Delta WuHu flu.
  This is rolling 7 day average it is identical to Sweden.
  According to the site,
  NZ has been zero chance since February 18, you had a 1 in 3 million chance of dying for one day.
  It is now taking 2,000 tests to find one positive in Australia.
  July 11 rolling average in NZ was 4,000 to find one case.
  Does anyone know what the actual cost of these tests are, from start to finish of process.
  What are the costs per discovery of the brute?
  I am just not going to risk leaving the house!
  
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  July 18, 2021 9:19am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    IIRC about $150 per test
    
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    July 18, 2021 11:19am
- emmess
  
  Yeah but what are they chances of George Floyd murals being destroyed by lightning?
  
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  July 18, 2021 10:49am
- Loddenthinks
  
  Or maybe there were fewer people taking selfies in India in the 1960’s – some 40 years before selfie was even a word!
  
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  July 18, 2021 12:01pm
Rich Prick

Labour’s three waters advertisements are disgusting. What lies behind them is even worse. Tane can take his undies/togs and shove them up his clacker. He’s not getting our assets.
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July 18, 2021 8:08am
- alloytoo
  
  There’s a certain desperation about them….
  
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  July 18, 2021 8:24am
  - Inandout
    
    alloy, same as the covid lady desperation with the wording concentrating on how ‘safe’ the vaccine is, ‘fully tested’ by medical experts. Fear not plebs, close your ears to ‘rumours’ is the hidden message.
    
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    July 18, 2021 9:39am
    - JackRabbit
      
      “…concentrating on how ‘safe’ the vaccine is, ‘fully tested’ by medical experts…”
      
      Testing will not be completed for at least 5 years from the vaccine origin date, which is around 2025. We, the people, are the human guinea pigs.
      
      So unless these “medical experts” possess a time machine, and have traveled forward in time to 2025, 2030, 2035 etc, they cannot say it is ‘safe’ or ‘fully tested’.
      
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      July 18, 2021 10:10am
- Yvette
  
  Is it true that the four proposed administrative “3 Waters”areas coincide with iwi areas, and has Judith Collins worked that out yet?
  
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  July 18, 2021 9:21am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Yes indeed. Precisely what Maori know about water that the rest of us don’t, remains a mystery. Unless they are being delivered these confiscated assets to brown-mail us all? Then their wisdom will be sky high, and expensive.
    
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    July 18, 2021 9:28pm
- cmm
  
  More fear mongering. If you don’t agree to our policy:
  A) You won’t get water.
  B) You won’t get a bite of the big lolly cake we’re baking.
  C) We’re going to make you pay $9000 per household per year for water.
  
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  July 18, 2021 9:44am
  - Paulus
    
    Not everybody as many special people do not pay rates.
    Look at the regular Council rate write offs.
    
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    July 18, 2021 1:54pm
- hullkiwi
  
  Those ads are like all the other govt infomercials that have been pumped out over the past 18 months. They are nothing more than dangerous, misinforming propaganda pieces tauted on behalf of govt agencies, but in reality they are Labour Party propaganda.
  
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  July 18, 2021 10:20am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    They are how the government is paying off the media
    
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    July 18, 2021 10:53am
    - Paul Marsden
      
      The 4th estate is dead. The MSM are the enemy of the people.
      
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      July 18, 2021 12:15pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Enemedia, or at best misleadia.
        
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        July 18, 2021 4:53pm
  - oldfella
    
    Could National make their own TV ads to counter the govt’s 3 waters propaganda, or would that be considered political advertising and banned?
    Assuming if it were okay you could get an NZ TV channel to run them. Yeah, nah.
    
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    July 18, 2021 11:32am
- Loddenthinks
  
  “Ooohh, that’d be stink, aye?” Talking to us like 4 year-olds.
  
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  July 18, 2021 12:01pm
  - oldfella
    
    Welcome to Cindy’s Kindy, comrade.
    
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    July 18, 2021 12:49pm
KevO'Brien

A lesson for NZ to be watchful.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/07/17/irrational-hatred-drives-the-progressive-movement/
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July 18, 2021 8:08am
- Souvlaki
  
  To my mind at least…this exactly the dystopian future Ardern is leading us to with He Puapua etc. It is seriously divisive & Fridays farmer protest will pale into insignificance compared to what could be unleashed when people wake from covid-fear / torpor to what is happening under their noses!
  
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  July 18, 2021 8:24am
  - Rich Prick
    
    The divide Labour is pushing for will tip over. Ordinary New Zealanders are pretty tolerant. But make us the enemy and we will push back.
    
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    July 18, 2021 8:51am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      The PUSH BACK has started.
      
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      July 18, 2021 9:23am
      - oldfella
        
        Kev, this is part of the pushback.
        https://www.freespeechsubmission.com/
        Made my submission this morning, and sent out a reminder to a bunch of like-minded family and friends.
        
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        July 18, 2021 11:35am
artemisia

There is more than one way to ‘strike’. Like farmers, landlords are owners of significant assets and have other ways of voting with their feet – maybe not the very public tractors rioting in the streets. IMO first step is the standard – do the sums and the risk assessment. That should indicate if action is imperative, desirable, or not needed as all is good.

Action including sell up and take those tax free capital gains to spend up large, including upgrading own home to increase value and enjoy living there meantime.

First 4 months of 2021 – more than 6,000 households added to the social housing waiting list. Vacancies are nowhere near that number. Minister Woods has said that some of those in motels and other transitional housing have come there from private rentals. Indications that some landlords are making choices. Because they can.
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July 18, 2021 8:12am
- coge
  
  I’ve heard rumors of an organized tax strike in the wind. Just on the quiet.
  
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  July 18, 2021 9:26am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Not from IRD. They have gone overly diligent in collections recently as though the govt is running short on money.
    
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    July 18, 2021 11:47am
kowtow

The excellent Karl du Fresne’s summary of the week.

http://karldufresne.blogspot.com/2021/07/in-new-zealand-this-week.html
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July 18, 2021 8:12am
- Jack5
  
  Karl’s piece is well worth reading. Hooray for Business Desk, and a thumbs-down for the Herald’s owner NZME Ltd.
  
  NZME Ltd has become a dependent of the Ardernist Leftist Government.
  
  NZME Ltd is a little over 52 per cent Australian owned. The NZME Ltd directors (three women, including the chair person, and two men) might be tempted to put the lot on the auction block when voters throw out Ardern and the subsidies stop.
  
  Bearing in mid the give-away price Aussie owners put on Stuff, up-and-comer Business Desk should put aside $1.50 to snap up NZME Ltd.
  
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  July 18, 2021 10:45am
- Gravelroad
  
  Good on Karl du Fresne!
  Give that man a medal before he gets cancelled.
  Having said that, I am noticing a change of tack emerging from the “silent majority” – many of whom have been fearful of publicly disagreeing with our kind government for fear of reprisals or their name being put on a list if it is seen on a social media site.
  The moderates are finally starting to put aside fear of
  being marginalised by the socialist cancel squads.
  
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  July 18, 2021 10:46am
  - oldfella
    
    Gravel, meanwhile Stuffed continues to hold the powerful to account (i.e. National) with crappy political cartoons(?) like this.
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/109548012/emma-cook-cartoons
    Seems that daring to call on this govt to actually debate important issues (those that might impact Maori aspirations), is just tooting the old ‘Don Brash Dog Whistle’.
    Sheesh!
    
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    July 18, 2021 11:42am
kevn

For the doubters… Clearly the MSM is self censoring when you see virtually zero coverage of the massive farmers protest. It was one of biggest demonstrations seen in NZ.
TV news showed zilch. I tuned in to check.
Proof of the control the MSM have succumbed to.
Be watching socialist labour/greens NZer’s.
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July 18, 2021 8:12am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Yes if it was bunch of kids on climate emergency protest it would be lead item with breathless commentary. News reporters would tear up and break into Maori language.
  
  And no I am not being satirical. That is exactly what would happen.
  
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  July 18, 2021 9:21am
  - coge
    
    Possibly less likely now, as the Kids Climate strikers have now self relegated themselves as a white supremacist group.
    
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    July 18, 2021 9:30am
  - hullkiwi
    
    There have been several attempts to wash Friday away as though it didn’t happen, and that it was small scale.
    
    1. News opinion commentary by one Chris Falconer, that not all farmers supported Friday’s protests. Mr Falconer is a TeKauwhata farmer and long time Green Party activist/supporter;
    2. Claiming the student strikes that many schools in 2019, had the support over 170k students. This was because of the number of schools that were closed because of the strike. Meanwhile Friday apparently only had 50,000 turn out in support of the protests nation wide. Really?
    3. The govt through both RNZ and TVNZ are falling over themselves to justify the $2.75m money laundered gift to the Mongeral Mob.
    
    Over the past 36 hours, it is clear the govt and the media have been making an extensive effort to make that Friday was a handful of malcontent greedy farmers who don’t want to change their ways.
    
    Or in summary, as usual through misinformation and spin, the government has cast rural NZ as the “baddies”.
    
    Never has NZ had a government more hell bent on division than Jacinda and her bunch of incompetent socialists.
    
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    July 18, 2021 10:36am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Yesterday Gisborne Herald ran with a pretty fair account of the Gisborne Howl.
      
      https://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/frontpage-featured/20210717/howl-of-a-protest-bumper-to-bumper-convoy-sends-govt-loud-clear-message/
      
      However, I notice that the story is no longer the lead item on their web site.
      
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      July 18, 2021 10:58am
    - emmess
      
      Can you imagine the turnout if farmers would have been given the option by the government of working on the farm or attending the protest and getting paid anyway?
      
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      July 18, 2021 11:04am
      - I remember when
        
        Timing of the apparent acceptance of the nurses pay dispute was rather coincidental.
        
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        July 18, 2021 1:14pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  If they don’t show it on TV NZ will be snuck back under Cinder’s nose without her being aware.
  
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  July 18, 2021 9:25am
- Inandout
  
  Kevn, I was travelling through some rural towns last Friday and the demo was on everyone’s lips and the tractors made sure you couldn’t miss it. ZB gave it heavy coverage and the Rural Show at midday helped that. Williams slotted it in between their Child Cancer fund raiser. If you missed the demo last Friday you would be a cave dweller without any technology at all. The MSM is well known for dropping coverage next day of any demonstration. Fear not, the message got out there.
  
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  July 18, 2021 9:48am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Pleased to hear it.
    
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    July 18, 2021 11:48am
- oldfella
  
  kevn, the MSM did the bare minimum in covering the protests on Friday, then neglected to do even the most cursory of follow ups.
  You know, in case there were some genuine stories out there that might not reflect well on Glorious Leader.
  Once Were Journalists!
  
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  July 18, 2021 11:47am
Maggie Pie

One of the gurls from tennis sent this link thru with the message……’if you du nothing else today read this short story by Shelley Field from Hastings’

OMG! Just had to share. You can thnk me later 😀

https://twitter.com/NewsroomNZ/status/1416153456507723776
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July 18, 2021 8:22am
- Rich Prick
  
  Show me a certificate of title. If you can’t, it ain’t yours.
  
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  July 18, 2021 8:26am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Tell that to the Police. Real estate title law has been informally re-written. No Pakeha is safe from land seizure.
    That should be sufficient to arrest this commie govt.
    
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    July 18, 2021 9:27am
- alloytoo
  
  Just followed that link…..Wow, twitter is a sewer of self indulgent numpties.
  
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  July 18, 2021 8:34am
  - Inandout
    
    alloy, if you swim in the Twitter pond make sure you wear a sealed wet suit. The hatred displayed by lefties is frightening.
    
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    July 18, 2021 9:54am
I remember when

Bad Moon Rising: NASA warns of Decade of Flooding for the US:
This is because there will be a moon “wobble”, which affects moon’s gravitational pull and – combined with rising sea levels and climate change – will bring high-tide coastal floods across the US.
It will be a decade of “dramatic increases”, NASA noted in a new study, and will hit low-lying coastal areas.
“The higher seas, amplified by the lunar cycle, will cause a leap in flood numbers on almost all US mainland coastlines, Hawaii and Guam”, NASA said.
(Sources incl. NZ Herald).
So there WILL BE some tides that are higher than usual.
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July 18, 2021 8:25am
- kevn
  
  @I rem… Tax, that will sort the flooding aka climate change.
  Just gimmee the money.
  
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  July 18, 2021 9:52am
- cmm
  
  Of course they have to bring climate change into it.
  Climate change maybe contributes 1 cm during the decade, all these other factors much more.
  
  Being worried about 2 cm sea level rise in NZ is stupid. Why worry about 2cm when we see movements of 2 metres or more during geological events?
  
  The most ridiculous thing is that most of this sea level rise hand wringing is in Wellington which is rising fast. Large parts of Wellington would still be underwater if it was not for the 1855 Wairarapa EQ.
  
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  July 18, 2021 9:52am
- gravedodger
  
  I hope there is extensive research underway to explain how rising CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has contributed to that there moon wobble, we really do need to know.
  
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  July 18, 2021 12:54pm
Happychappy

I know this happened last Friday but isn’t this the pot calling the kettle,
Grant Robertson urged Rural Groundswell protesters to be respectful on Fridah before the marches.
But I would suggest the Government should have looked at there behavior towards farmers since they have been in power before insulating that farmers are disrespectful.
Grant Robertson needs to clean his Labour Party’s house before throwing his insulting comments at others.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/grant-robertson-urges-rural-groundswell-protesters-to-be-respectful/ZAZZK2VH3EP47WK66LS2PQP4GM/
They blame others for ” Dirty Politics ” but are the ones that normally use it when the facts don’t go their way.
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July 18, 2021 8:27am
- kowtow
  
  Be respectful?
  
  From yvettes yesterday post
  
  ‘David Parker who threatened farmers on water taxes when he said ‘”I’m not here to negotiate, don’t push me or it will be 2c instead of 1c”’
  
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  July 18, 2021 9:27am
Scooter

So after over a year and a half of lockdowns we were told vaccinations would free us up, but then “variants” conveniently appeared so more lockdowns and now the green pass so only those vaccinated will be allowed in restaurants, gyms, trains, flights concerts etc (coming now in Europe). If the vaccine was so effective before why all these draconian measures now.
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July 18, 2021 8:28am
- KevO'Brien
  
  The NWO has decreed them. Karl Schwab documents it in his recent book.
  
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  July 18, 2021 9:29am
I remember when

Must put on my “Pirate Suit” and go and plunder the world some more.
By the way, what does ‘plunder the world’ actually mean.
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July 18, 2021 8:30am
vt

Check out this FB page
https://m.facebook.com/groups/144900224390907/
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July 18, 2021 8:38am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Lot of fun happening there!
  
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  July 18, 2021 9:14am
JibberJabber

https://asianinvasion2019.blogspot.com/2021/07/new-zealand-farmers-show-french-how-it.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AsianInvasion2019+%28Asian+Invasion+2019%29
The organisers of this event are clearly not aligned to the National Party as the protest was a coherent, popular success. Three things the National Party currently is not.

Labour cannot spin this as a National Party protest for these reasons, it is a joke they are even trying. If National organised it the thing would have been a failure.

The problem with farming is of course that there aren’t enough farmers left in New Zealand to swing an election.
What however will is when people in the cities realise just how much all this regulation and red tape will force up the prices of everything they buy and force into their gobs.
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July 18, 2021 8:44am
Maggie Pie

Had to larf to myself last night. A few of the boys came over again to watch the 2nd Test on the big screen.
Not long after it started, I took some hor’dourves in for them to have. Noticed Fiji was actually leading 3-0 at that stage.

About an hour later went back to clear the mess. By this stage, saw the AB’s were about 50 points ahead! LOL.

I tried to imagine the team-talk in the Fijian Dressing Room at half-time 😀

https://youtu.be/yAsrdxff4QQ
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July 18, 2021 8:47am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

I recently spent $6,500 on a young registered Black Angus bull. I put him out with the herd but he just ate grass and wouldn’t even look at a cow.
I was beginning to think I had paid more for that bull than he was worth. Anyhow, I had the Vet come and have a look at him. He said the bull was very healthy, but possibly just a little young, so he gave me some pills to feed him once per day.
The bull started to service the cows within two days……. all my cows! He even broke through the fence and bred with all of my neighbor’s cows! He’s like a machine!
I don’t know what was in the pills the Vet gave him … but they kind of taste like peppermint.
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July 18, 2021 8:49am
- Greg Ettridge
  
  This has to be the funniest comment I have read all week.
  Just be careful with the pills, no good breaking fences down and servicing anything in sight.
  this can lead down a road of puss and pain.
  Thanks for the laugh.
  
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  July 18, 2021 9:05am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Vigabull.
  
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  July 18, 2021 9:31am
- Bluegrass
  
  And on that note –
  A farmer drove to a neighbor’s farmhouse and knocked at the door. A boy, about 9, opened the door.
  
  “Is your dad or mom home?” said the farmer.
  
  “No, they went to town.”
  
  “How about your brother, Howard – is he here?”
  
  “No, he went with Mom and Dad.”
  
  The farmer stood there for a few seconds, shifting from one foot to the other, mumbling to himself.
  The young boy says, “I know where all the tools are, if you want to borrow one, or I can give Dad a message.”
  
  “Well,” said the farmer uncomfortably. “No, I really want to talk to your Dad, about your brother Howard getting my daughter Suzy pregnant”.
  
  The boy thought for a moment, then said, “You’ll have to talk to my Dad about that. I know he charges $200 for the bull and $50 for the pig, but I have no idea how much he charges for Howard”.
  
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  July 18, 2021 11:51am
Swifty

Some describe the relationship between Douglas and Lange as similar to that between Keith Joseph and Margaret Thatcher.

Here is an extended interview between Bill Buckley and Keith Joseph filmed in Feb 1979, immediately before the Conservatives take power in May of the same year with Maggie at the helm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72fbrreGdac

More on Joseph here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Joseph

For another view, please see this again extended interview between Buckley and Labour’s ever-entertaining Tony Benn, recorded in 1980:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hES7WlDLs8

I’d be interested in reader’s comments on the various strengths and weaknesses of the positions, platforms and policies offered by both men.
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July 18, 2021 8:54am
greybeard

I see Emma Cook has become as bitter and twisted as Sharon Murdoch.
There is definitely something missing in their lives, if all they can do is slag-off National and Judith Collins.
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July 18, 2021 8:58am
- Prince
  
  It’s called ‘Speaking Truth To Power’. National supporters should take it as a compliment.
  Labour diehards like Cook still obsess over National and see them as the real power behind what drives New Zealand.
  To rephrase words from a very wise man I knew,
  “You can sit on those benches, work in those offices, draft those laws, but WE STILL DRIVE THE COUNTRY.”
  
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  July 18, 2021 10:06am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Jim McLay said something similar to us at a YN meeting after he became Deputy PM.
    
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    July 18, 2021 10:42am
- godruelf
  
  Would be just as good with cindy’s headscarf as Don’s whistle
  
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  July 18, 2021 10:38am
- Paulus
  
  It is an accepted fact that women do not like other women.
  Never have done historically and we see it more than ever.
  Remember Helen Clark “Women can do anything ” and so they do constantly.
  
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  July 18, 2021 2:03pm
- Philview
  
  We saw massive nationwide demonstrations on Friday. The Government’s Three Waters restructure will fuel further massive protests. The country will turn against Labour and so these journalists are doing everything in their power to demonise Judith Collins.
  
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  July 18, 2021 3:49pm
Gravelroad

Am watching from time to time The Open golf tournament being played in Kent, England.
One of the commentators has just said that the organisers have allowed a Covid19 vaccination centre to be set up there.
So, come and watch the golf and get vaccinated.
And, apparently, quite a few have.
Young people amongst biggest customers because it was made easy for them.
Can you imagine something like this ever happening here?
Too hard.
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July 18, 2021 9:00am
Maggie Pie

RANDOM IMPERTIENT QUESTION…..

Would the ‘Mongrel Mob’ wash their hands?

(Asking for a friend.)
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July 18, 2021 9:13am
Maggy Wassilieff

The story every parent fears..

https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/300358482/facing-my-daughters-attacker-can-we-please-stop-punching-each-other
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July 18, 2021 9:24am
Benedict Yu

Just an observation on COVID and the vaccines. The evidence about their effectiveness is becoming clear. And the picture is quite different to what we hoped a few months back. But I see no signs that Jacinda understands this.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/heres-how-well-covid-19-vaccines-work-against-the-delta-variant

To summarise.. The vaccines reduce your chances of catching the delta variant by about 50 percent. They reduce your risk of transmission by about another 50 percent. So we will have about 25 percent of the transmissions that we used to have pre vaccines.

So this means that unless we remain locked out from world, covid will be endemic in New Zealand. No maybes. Fact.

But…. The vaccines are highly effective at reducing severe covid symptoms by about 96 percent. They stop covid getting into your lungs. So if you covid you get three symptoms.

Headache

Runny nise

Sore throat

Take some Paracetamol.

So… We will have covid but there will be no scenes of packed hospitals like Italy and Portugal etc. Yes some fully vaccinated old people will get sick and some will die but it will be very rare.

My point is that the evidence of vaccine efficacy is so clear that Jacinda needs to come clean. There are ONLY two scenarios. Once we have good vaccine cover covid will be endemic. Or we locked up forever. What is her intentions?

If an 85 year old, or anyone really, chooses not to get the vaccine, and becomes seriously ill that is not my problem. By December the borders should be entirely open to anyone who is vaccinated. AND if you are vaccinated and get covid there is no being locked up for 14 days. You might choose to wear a mask and avoid crowds. But there is no more compulsion.
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July 18, 2021 9:47am
- krazykiwi
  
  Zero-covid is a dangerous fallacy that Ardern is wielding for her own political gain. The media dutifully give this fallacy cover, as they have been paid to. New Zealanders, largely, are being played for fools.
  
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  July 18, 2021 10:05am
  - Scooter
    
    Maybe dangerous because we are not allowing a certain percentage of the population to become infected and recover therefore be immune, also is the increase of RSV a sign that NZ will be more susceptible to other viruses the longer we are shut off to the outside world?
    
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    July 18, 2021 10:16pm
- Charmaine Hawke
  
  Downtick because you seem to be happy with vaccine apartheid. Given covid will become endemic and there are those of us for whatever reason can’t/won’t get the jab then why does it matter if you are vaccinated and thus protected from this virus.
  We have no antibody kits in NZ so vaccinating blindly will just lead to issues especially as Phizer reacts particularly strongly in those who had the disease. We know it was circulating from October/November 19 so we are very foolish to think we didn’t have an outbreak here before the PM was forced to close our borders because no one wanted to fly here in late March.
  
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  July 18, 2021 10:13am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I disagree with you because if you are not vaccinated you are more likely to transmit it and also because your risk of serious illness is much higher especially if you are over 60.
    
    Putting my disagreement aside, your proposal will simply never happen. Open borders to unvaccinated people is simply never going to happen in New Zealand.
    
    Put another way, open borders to vaccinated people is the best case scenario we can hope for. It is the other scenarios that I am worried about.
    
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    July 18, 2021 11:28am
- Cinematic
  
  But BY, Jacinda and her covid posse have told you repeatedly you will never get to return to the life you enjoyed. Never.
  
  Baker and the red haired one, amongst others, will ensure your freedoms shan’t be returned to you.
  
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  July 18, 2021 10:15am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Yes and I am very concerned about that.
    
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    July 18, 2021 11:28am
- MrTips
  
  You have just described the point that Singapore has got to. The UK as well.
  
  We’ll see but my moneys on it panning out as you suggest.
  
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  July 18, 2021 10:16am
- Tall Man
  
  Pretty much what some of us have been telling you for a while Benedict so the only intelligent action is to vaccinate those who want asap then get on with life.
  
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  July 18, 2021 11:21am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Well… I wouldn’t say I have changed my mind. For months I have been saying that covid will become endemic in New Zealand.
    
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    July 18, 2021 11:30am
- Tall Man
  
  “We will have covid but there will be no scenes of packed hospitals”
  
  “https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/439170/new-zealand-hospitals-in-crisis-after-biggest-january-february-on-record”
  
  Too late methinks.
  
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  July 18, 2021 11:23am
- Inandout
  
  BY, I did read somewhere where religion has been replaced by C-Fear, especially in the older group of once God-fearing humans. I look on with amusement when a wee line of retired assemble at the supermarket sign in table, or dutifully scan the sign. Others race in with their trolleys. Funny isn’t it that with the winter flu jab there was no shaming of non users (I get one annually). One day the world will look back on the whole C19 thing and marvel at how the Western world was closed down and their economies destroyed.
  
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  July 18, 2021 11:37am
Maggie Pie

You sooo have to love this girl 😛

The abfab ‘Katie Hopkins’ (now banned by twitter) is currently banged up in Sydney’s MIQ.
Kates admits she has been ‘flouting the rules’ of lockdown, in that whenever someone knocks on her door to deliver food or such-like, rather than always wearing a mask and waiting the required 30 seconds before answering the door, she opens it immediately….NO MASK and completely NAKED!

LOL!!!

https://twitter.com/theage/status/1416322216300482563
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July 18, 2021 9:50am
- Jack5
  
  Maggie, just what does “banged up” mean these days?
  
  Any of these meanings?
  
  http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/banged-up
  
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  July 18, 2021 10:52am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Cum on JackO! Get with the program….
    those definitions were posted back in 1998!!
    
    Have you never watched ‘Banged-Up-Abroad’ on Sky?
    
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    July 18, 2021 11:32am
Jack5

Police and social workers grab a child in a family dispute on a skifield!

Our gun-toting criminal gangs will be quaking in their Doc Martins.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mum-on-the-run-young-girl-uplifted-by-police-on-whakapapa-ski-slopes-mt-ruapehu/TQYFVI2OVYBERLBVAM6GXDK26Q/
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July 18, 2021 10:59am
Maggie Pie

One of the girls from tennis is right into Dating Apps…..this from Bumble.

“A little bit about me.
Fat guys, short guys and dark guys please head left”

https://twitter.com/NewshubNZ/status/1416521358058479616

😛
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July 18, 2021 11:16am
- Benedict Yu
  
  How stupid. Racist dating sites.
  
  I have used dating sites and now have 180 cm red haired partner. ??? People can date who they want. I avoided Indian women, homeopaths, Labour voters, Green voters, and unemployed people.
  
  And I won the jackpot. So there.
  
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  July 18, 2021 11:34am
  - Peter nickle
    
    A very small pool to choose from.
    
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    July 18, 2021 12:05pm
  - Swifty
    
    Good on you.
    
    Anyone who thinks you can control who you are attracted to either needs their head read or has an agenda.
    
    Are gays and lesbians prejudiced and biased because they are attracted to same-sex people only? Is that what these people are suggesting?
    
    I saw recently online some vids labelling men as prejudiced, discriminatory and nasty people if they didn’t consider trans-women as potential partners. Unbelievable.
    
    There are women of certain races or builds or ‘types’ who I just do not find attractive or interesting and I won’t be changing my views any time soon – and anyone who suggests I am some sort of bad person because of this can go and take a running jump.
    
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    July 18, 2021 12:36pm
    - Loddenthinks
      
      Mingers, trannies and butches can jog on.
      
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      July 18, 2021 6:56pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Yu’re a very lucky man Bene!
    My partner thinks an Oriental ginga would be quite unusual ?
    
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    July 18, 2021 12:43pm
    - Benedict Yu
      
      She is a tall red haired Irish Catholic with pale skin and excellent taste. ?
      
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      July 18, 2021 1:43pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Carpet match the curtains? 😛
        
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        July 18, 2021 1:55pm
  - Kiwi Dave
    
    Now you’ve confessed to homeophobia you’re gunna be cancelled.
    
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    July 18, 2021 1:19pm
- Surely Knott
  
  As usual Newshub frames everything by race. Not concerned about fat guys or short guys.
  
  But the funniest thing about the article is Steph Tan who says , “Tan says the key to challenging racist behaviours is to be “really honest with yourself”.
  “It takes people questioning ‘why do I see this person as less attractive than a white person who I actually feel that way inside? Or is that just my racism and all the racism in my environment that shaped me?'”
  
  And here’s Steph Tan speaking at a protest with her white boyfriend?! Very mixed messaging
  
  https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=465792157876784
  
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  July 18, 2021 7:48pm
I remember when

Wallabies coach Rennie flares up over French red card theatrics: Newshub:
But that isn’t the real problem.
The real problem is that the referees are petrified that they will make the wrong decision.
By the wrong decision, it is a decision that the Rugby Union and referee appointments people will hold against them.
As a result the decision-making process has lost any semblance of commonsense.
It was not a red card offence. The French player did lower the position of his head.
Any player with the ball always lowers their stance when contact is imminent. It called bracing yourself.
Any contact with the head was minimal, if at all.
If the French player had maintained their body position the Australian players head would have been at least three to six inches away from the ball carrier’s head.
On the credit side – it did lead to one of the greatest Wallaby performances.
Bring on the Bledisloe.
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July 18, 2021 11:50am
- Loddenthinks
  
  That performance was a long way short of the greatest Wallaby performances, and I’ve seen a few.
  
  Rennie had a point though, that red card was as soft as a football penalty.
  
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  July 18, 2021 6:58pm
Loddenthinks

I see the lines between this government and gangs is becoming even more blurred, with the revelation that a serving Corrections (Probation) officer is also a patched Rebels gang member.

You really couldn’t make this stuff up. Apparently he resigned in October 2020, no doubt miffed that the Mongrel Mob were getting all the freshly-laundered gummint money.
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July 18, 2021 12:35pm
Hugh Jarse

Well just watched the interview with Tam and Poto Williams. Elements of what Tam said are accurate but giving his company $2.75M will not solve inter generational issue he tried to pin it on. It will certainly help him personally though. On Williams where do you start, she doesn’t trust Tam and thinks the interview was a recruiting drive. She expects him to lead more change in disbanding gangs. But happy to give him $2.75 M to try and sort out one chapter of one gang. Try and work that out. QOn her stats 60,000 military semi autos were not taken off the street, a number were along with a variety of other sporting firearms. Lastly on generally arming policy, she didn’t understand what general arming was it is clear that she has no idea on governance and her role as a Minister and the Commissioners role. She was “very clear” that she does not envisage a situation where police will be routinely or generally armed, so sorry boys and girls it doesn’t matter how matter of you are killed or wounded or the public for that matter, Police will not be generally armed to protect themselves or the public. Be a brave Commissioner who would go against that very clear signal from this government and we certainly dont have one now.
PS: who thinks Ministry of Health are capable of managing these funds properly when being stood over by the gangsters and given the way they have managed the COVID response and the vaccination programme ?.
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July 18, 2021 1:18pm
Maggy Wassilieff

There’s money in mass-murder movies, it seems.

https://www.theage.com.au/culture/movies/port-arthur-film-nitram-stuns-critics-audience-at-cannes-film-festival-20210717-p58aj5.html
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July 18, 2021 1:51pm
ABS4EVA

2-3 million to the ..

MONGREL MOB

What Scum Bags

What absolute Scum bags
and worse

they defend it?
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July 18, 2021 2:07pm
ABS4EVA

JACINDA’s

BEST BUDDIES the

CCP Spying again on New Zealand’s nearest
neighbour in preparation for the Hot War that is coming to the South Pacific

The Bio War and Economic War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elwr6d4ppwg

I suppose the spy ship makes a change and addition to the already 1000 CCP agents operating on Australian Soil
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July 18, 2021 2:15pm
ABS4EVA

NZ had a PM with her head firmly implanted up
CHINA’s Communist Bottom

Australia has a PM who got voted in with the help
of Labour and the first Australian Politician
done under new Foreign interference legislation

Sam Daystyari

https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2019/04/05/prime-minister-scott-morrison-and-his-dirty-deal-with-the-labor-party-and-sam-dastyari/

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his dirty deal with the Labor Party and Sam Dastyari

Strategically things do not bade well
for The Region
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July 18, 2021 2:18pm
kevn

HAVE WE GOT A CIVIL DEFENSE MINISTER?
WHERE IS HE/SHE ??
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July 18, 2021 5:35pm
Loddenthinks

Another shooting in West Auckland today. Gosh those firearm law changes that demonised responsible firearm owners are really working, aren’t they?
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July 18, 2021 6:59pm
[email protected]

I sent this to Stuff as a comment on an article that they allowed comments to..

“Just an aside to the moderators that I do not expect to get mentioned/published here:

If an article does not allow one to post a comment I immediately hit the back button and go to another website. In my opinion Stuff is biased to the left/labour when it should be impartial and presenting the factual news. When, not if, a center/right government gets elected you will get the treatment you deserve. “
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July 18, 2021 7:33pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING….

My partner’s mum was just saying an old work aquaintance she remembers from her days as a GoGo dancer on the TV1 show ‘C’mon’ has died.

She thort a few here would remember the name Philip Sherry, who passed away today aged 82.
An absolute gentleman by all accounts.
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July 18, 2021 8:29pm
ABS4EVA

To anyone who does not realise that

The NEXT LARGE WORLD WAR

is

GOING TO BE IN NEW ZEALAND”S
NEIGHBOURHOOD

there are TWO

CHINESE SPY SHIPS OFF THE COAST
OF AUSTRALIA AS WE SPEAK

Monitoring MILITARY EXERCISES

JACINDA’S FRIENDS MEAN BUSINESS

But it

IS NOT

The Business you are thinking of

GET READY FOR WAR

GET READY FOR WAR

PREPARE FOR WAR

IN YOUR LIFE TIME

IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC

NUCLEAR FREE AOTEAROA

Knew this before COVID
everything these COMMUNIST SCUM
HAVE DONE Since COVID

CONFIRMS THAT

SO NZ and AUS

ARM THE ENTIRE POPULATION
NO ONE VOTES without MILITARY SERVICE

and

GET YOURSELVES SOME GOOD NUKES

and INVITE ANYONE who WANTs TO COME

TO THE BARBECUE
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