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krazykiwi

Here’s a Telegraph puff piece, one that leaves a lingering, squiffy odour : Covid could be spread through flatulence

The official advice is to open a window to increase ventilation and slow the spread of Covid, but now there could be an added incentive – the virus may also be spread by flatulence. Ministers have privately pointed to evidence that Covid could be spread by people breaking wind in confined spaces such as lavatories. One said they had read “credible-looking stuff on it” from other countries, although government scientists are yet to produce a paper on the matter.

.. and ..

Healthy people tend to break wind between five to 25 times a day

I can assert two things: –
(a) If there is a positive correlation between flatulence and health, then mrs kk is extremely healthy; and,
(b) If mrs kk reads this I will shortly become extremely unhealthy
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July 26, 2021 8:00am
- Blackbob
  
  “government scientists” reeks of flatulence in and of itself.
  
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  July 26, 2021 8:12am
- 70andstilllearning
  
  You into extreme sports this week kk?
  
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  July 26, 2021 8:19am
- Brian McDonald
  
  Congratulations KK you might become famous as NZ’s first super spreader.
  
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  July 26, 2021 8:35am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    That was worth an uptick.
    
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    July 26, 2021 8:51am
    - krazykiwi
      
      It was. Even I could see humour in it. Have a, +1 Brian
      
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      July 26, 2021 9:10am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Masks for both ends, then?
  
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  July 26, 2021 8:47am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Indeed. From the article (working link here)
    
    The risk of spreading Covid this way is thought to be less, however, because wearing underpants and clothes below the waist would act to filter out harmful particles in the same way a face mask can.
    
    Suggestions of spreading the virus through flatulence first emerged in Australia last year when Norman Swan, an Australian medic, advised on an ABC podcast: “No bare-bottom farting.”
    
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    July 26, 2021 9:13am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      No fair – that’s the absolute best kind!
      
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      July 26, 2021 8:43pm
- Tony
  
  Everyone better hope that I don’t get Covid then!!
  
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  July 26, 2021 10:32am
- Lara
  
  Oh, KK, I did have a laugh! My husband and I have just escaped MIQ and not being able to escape the farting and burping was quite challenging!
  
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  July 26, 2021 1:20pm
Tricati

Good to se Ardern get a grilling from Ryan Bridge this morning over the Funding of the Mongrel Mob meth programme. She got really pissed, and reverted to talking points that National under John Key ran a similar programme – Big difference was that programme was run by the Salvation Army and had checks & balances in it to measure actual success and Labour canned it.
The outcome was, all those entities that supported the Mongrel Mob programme did the due diligence so not her fault. This based on a 7-week trial, and we don’t know the actual number of attendees, and how they are post the trail – The whole saga is a cluster X#&^ for the government, so expect their MSM lap-dogs start a major deflection campaign this week.
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July 26, 2021 8:04am
- Paulus
  
  She is getting worried that her stardom is waning as Matariki fades.
  
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  July 26, 2021 8:38am
- WellingtonBFF
  
  Weird – I thought it would not have passed her ‘sniff test’? Reeks of incompetence (maybe her own odour blocked her olfactory senses this time!!)
  
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  July 26, 2021 8:54am
  - BAM
    
    She probably knew nothing about it was one of her handlers that signed off on it.
    
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    July 26, 2021 9:21am
- pdm
  
  Stuff pay back for the $50mil with an article about the Fisherman buying her birthday present.
  
  Bet stuff delete my contribution to the comments.
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:20am
  - zulumonster
    
    Comments closed – after 10 comments. Maybe there was a trend that Stuff wasn’t liking?
    Jrcolts15 seems to have triggered the shutdown with the following reply to a usual sycophant:
    
    In reply to guyon fawkner
    Is the measure of a successful PM these days, being nice?
    What out trying to deliver something for the NZ public, remember the “year of delivery” but hey if everyone is happy with her government delivering nothing and breaking manifesto promises and trying to intervene in the housing market with making no tangible difference than I’m on board!!
    
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    July 26, 2021 12:41pm
    - Bobba Fret
      
      Why would they close the comments off after only 10 comments all of which are positive. I can only imagine there were many more comments but not so positive towards our PM.
      
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      July 26, 2021 2:04pm
- Twinkletoes
  
  Pufff piece already up on Stuff describing how ClarkE had to leave her on her own at the mall so he and Neve could disappear in orded to buy her birthday present. Surely a thinking person would have organised the present long beforehand, it is not as if it was a once in a lifetime occurence! And there she was, on Twitter, standing lonely in the rain at some traffic lights – naughty ClarkE!
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:35am
  - lifesgood
    
    I’m spewing.
    
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    July 26, 2021 10:08am
- hullkiwi
  
  Ryan Bridge, Magic & Hoskinfg are the only people/groups pursuing this matter!
  
  On Friday, Michael Wood danced on the head of a pin to justify the corrupt money laundering to the mob.
  
  The lack of critical scrutiny of this matter by the media only reinforces opinions that NZ media has been corrupted totally by NZ’s amoral Ardern government.
  
  After 6 years of Ardern, NZ will be transformed, but not for the better. We need rid of Ardern and her crew of charlatans.
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:54am
  - Tricati
    
    I really wish National (Judith Collins) would call out Ardern on comparing to what National put in place. Someone, please ask Ardern if she thinks the Mongrel Mob compare to the Salvation Army in delivering social treatment programmes.
    
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    July 26, 2021 10:50am
    - DeepBlue
      
      Collins did this today. Newshub reporting on Magic interview:
      
      ….National has funded similar rehab programmes before that have gang connections. But the party has argued it was different, because the Salvation Army always had oversight.
      
      “Look, no problem giving money to the Salvation Army to run anti-meth programmes, but certainly this is ridiculous,” Collins told Magic
      
      “This is giving the very people who import, sell the drug, have standover tactics, grow their empire from the drug proceeds, giving them money to supposedly take some people off methamphetamine. I’ve never heard anything so ridiculous.””
      
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      July 26, 2021 6:02pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  I watched it unfold, great to watch. She never even came close to answering any of the questions Bridge asked her, and was getting quite pissy.
  
  When he mentioned that he just learned it was her birthday and wished her HB, she said, in a very snarky tone: “And what a delight it is to get to spend some of it with you”
  
  Before I could shout at the TV “YOU’RE THE FUCKING PRIME MINISTER, YOU DON’T GET THE DAY OFF ON YOUR BIRTHDAY!!!” Bridge got in a much better shot, saying:
  
  “That was a bit condescending wasn’t it?” Good work Ryan, keep asking the uncomfortable questions she clearly doesn’t want to answer.
  
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  July 26, 2021 8:48pm
- ABS4EVA
  
  The Salvation army are Christians aren’t they
  
  Cwistian white people BAD
  
  JACINDA MONGREL MOB GOOD
  
  This is what these LOONIES Believe
  
  Remove Christ From Parliament Prayer
  
  WORSHIP THE MOB with CINDI
  
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  July 27, 2021 12:35am
Happychappy

DoC Sercurity being reviewed amid sinister 1080 threats to attack staff and shoot down choppers.
The Department of Conservation is mounting a fresh security sweep of its offices and sites amid sinister threats to attack its staff, slash vehicle tyres a d shoot down helicopters.
More than20 serious threats and incidents mostly involving social media posts over the use of 1080 poison to protect our native wildlife- have been recorded this year alone.
Among more than 260 others logged in the last two and a half years were menacing messages about bombing vehicles, blocking roads, burning buildings, poisoning water supplies and targeting staff, contractors and ministors with violence.
Figures released to the Herald under the Official Information Act showed 164 incidents were recorded in 2020 double that of the year before.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/doc-security-being-reviewed-amid-sinister-1080-threats-to-attack-staff-shoot-down-choppers/RJA2EJNYPCMGCQQ3VXJODLYZZY/
Correct me if I am wrong but wouldn’t many of these activists be from the Greens and part of the Green Party the same party in Government with Labour that continually blames the National Party for every thing that goes wrong in the environment, maybe they should have a good look at their own especially over these threats.
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July 26, 2021 8:05am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I doubt that these folks are Green Party Members and it is probably defamatory to claim that they are.
  
  Folks who have been arrested to date with 1080 offences have been involved in the drug scene , eg -Jeremy Kerr – but innocent environmentalists were targeted by the cops.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/77377016/police-knew-1080-blackmail-case-was-an-inside-job-say-suspects
  
  Everyone should be able to go to work each day without some activist terrorist threatening them.
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:04am
JibberJabber

The MSM are arseholes…
https://twitter.com/NZNana16/status/1419256247824445449

FFS wake up!

The gutless Stasi took the knee when the BLM scum marched, what’s the difference now?
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July 26, 2021 8:06am
kowtow

Oh dear , remember the evil Watchmen Wolverines and the alleged plot to kidnap the Governor and all the hype by the Media Pardy .

Turns out they were so heavily infiltrated by the Feds they could have been an off shoot of the Dept of Justice and prior to the infiltration they were just a bunch of relatively tame pussy cats .

In the US they have a word for that ,”entrapment”.

Let’s see how our Media Pardy and TDS nutters deal with this one.
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July 26, 2021 8:11am
- Libertarians are right
  
  12 out of 26 involved were in the employ of the FBI including the number 2 and they were actively involved in every step of the process (especially recruitment).
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:12am
- MCos
  
  Seeing as you insist on defending these domestic terrorists here’s some more information.
  https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/michigan-kidnapping-gretchen-whitmer-fbi-informant
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:50am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    Thanks. That’s actually where the story came from. Did you actually read that article? It’s really dodgy what the FBI did. The FBI was actively involved in recruitment for one.
    
    Even Buzzfeed admits it was probably entrapment.
    
    “An examination of the case by BuzzFeed News also reveals that some of those informants, acting under the direction of the FBI, played a far larger role than has previously been reported. Working in secret, they did more than just passively observe and report on the actions of the suspects. Instead, they had a hand in nearly every aspect of the alleged plot, starting with its inception. The extent of their involvement raises questions as to whether there would have even been a conspiracy without them.”
    
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    July 26, 2021 10:45am
  - kowtow
    
    No siree.
    I believe firmly in the constitution and the rule of law.
    
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    July 26, 2021 11:41am
Benedict Yu

Looks like Scomo received the memo on the declining efficacy of the vaccine.

What he says is factually correct but it is not going to encourage people to get the vaccine. It also contrasts with the Premier of NSW who is begging for more vaccines. No wonder Jacinda seems confused.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/no-vaccine-solution-pm-and-premier-at-odds-over-how-to-end-sydney-outbreak-20210725-p58crd.html

“Let me be clear, there is no alternative to the lockdown in NSW to get this under control,” Mr Morrison said.

“There was no other magic bullet that is going to do that. There is no vaccine solution that’s going to do that.”
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July 26, 2021 8:11am
- Frank the tank
  
  He’ll open up when they get about 70% vaccinated. This seems to be the magic number.
  
  Public opinion in Australia is changing (as opposed to little Aotearoa) regarding the Kungflu. It appears based off the little information being presented morbidity amongst vaccinated has reduced to levels even the MSM can’t fear monger about.
  
  As more information comes out demonstrating the success of the vaccines in stopping serious health outcomes watch for more scare and fear articles coming out of the MSM supporting the “crappadeltoidsigmal” super variant expected to come out of the right wing governed country like the UK but not a left wing governed country such as the US.
  
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  July 26, 2021 8:21am
- Simon
  
  “Looks like Scomo received the memo on the declining efficacy of the vaccine.”
  
  Efficacy is the word used in the trials of vaxx experiment. Efficient is the real world results of the vax.
  
  As in the very short term trials the efficacy of the ro vax was 95%. However in the real world the ro vax is around 70% efficient and fast declining.
  
  What else have they got wrong with the ro vax? Time will tell.
  
  Australia is already ordered 85 million third booster doses. Scomo got the memo a while ago. Dont worry Cindy will know as well. But cant let the cattle know just yet.
  
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  July 26, 2021 8:36am
- Paulus
  
  Problem is that Australia is not one Country but a political mixture of many separate States which makes control almost impossible.
  
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  July 26, 2021 8:40am
  - MCos
    
    As is America.
    
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    July 26, 2021 9:52am
    - Flossie
      
      Amen to that MCos. I am sick of trying to explain that to countless people who rabbit on about “in America blah blah”.
      Also puts me in mind of an encounter with an Aussie couple visiting NZ who were staying in a less-than-salubrious motel here. Their moans and comments about how “in NZ they don’t empty the bins in your unit”…. “not like at home…”
      
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      July 26, 2021 10:34am
- tf78
  
  Benedict, there is always Ivermectin which Paul Hunt has just admitted is quite permissible for physicians to administer.
  
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  July 26, 2021 11:44am
Frank the tank

Isn’t it funny that everyone in privileged power points to evidence they have seen yet this evidence never gets published for critique.

We are supposed to ‘trust’ politicians, media and scientists that they are telling the truth yet we never actually see any of the raw data to make up our own minds.
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July 26, 2021 8:15am
- Tanstaafl
  
  Since the beginning of the pandemic, only two Australians aged 40-49 have died from the COVID-19 virus.
  
  https://www.health.gov.au/resources/covid-19-deaths-by-age-group-and-sex
  
  In the last week alone, two Australians aged 40-49 have died from a COVID-19 vaccination.
  
  https://www.tga.gov.au/periodic/covid-19-vaccine-weekly-safety-report-22-07-2021
  
  “Sadly two people with confirmed TTS following the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine died in the last week. One was a 44-year-old man from Tasmania and the other was a 48-year-old woman from Victoria. We extend our sincere condolences to their families and loved ones.”
  
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  July 26, 2021 8:44am
  - Greg Ettridge
    
    Not quite correct, one was a German crew member off a cruise ship in WA, the other, guy in Geelong with advanced cancer.
    The US reached a real milestone a few weeks back, more deaths from vaccine than covid.
    178 more deaths from vaccines.
    The current vaccines being jabbed are looking more obsolete by the day, there are a few more traditional vaccines on the horizon looking promising, but the current crop really give the same protection as a condom full of holes.
    UK and USA are the places to watch, Australia isn’t much further in front of NZ with 2 jabs.
    this graph is a real eye opener.
    https://www.openvaers.com/covid-data/mortality
    
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    July 26, 2021 9:05am
    - [email protected]
      
      11,405 USA Covid19 vaccine deaths out of 162,174,165 fully vaccinated people. That’s a miniscule percentage of 0.007 %.
      
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      July 26, 2021 10:29am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        About 1 in 14000? Key information is what is the age distribution of those vaccine deaths – is it higher or lower in youngsters? What is the appropriate age cut-off for vaccination?
        
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        July 26, 2021 10:56am
      - Greg Ettridge
        
        If the 11,000 becomes 25,000 that very acceptable as collateral damage is it?
        The highest deaths from vaccines since 1990 was 690 in 2019.
        Common sense tells me this is an unacceptable level, you write as the deaths are at an end the way you write the percentage, they are only just starting.
        Time will tell but vaccines should really not be killing more than I can count on one hand a week, if we average from 1990 to 2018.
        Death comes to all of us, just going to be sooner for a shit load of people worldwide by the looks of it.
        
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        July 26, 2021 12:52pm
      - Benedict Yu
        
        Whoa – lets rewind. I don’t know if your data is correct. But deaths by the vaccine of 1 in 14,000 is not miniscule. It is very high. I can’t find good data for total deaths by MMR vaccine (well not in the time I have right now). But deaths from the common clild hood vaccines would be more like 1 in 1 million.
        
        https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4783279/
        
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        July 26, 2021 1:51pm
BAM

Can some please explain to me why not getting vaccinated makes me a danger to society and because of that I should be ostracised, banned from certain events?

Am I not the one at risk, not the one creating the risk? and if I’m happy taking that risk then what is the problem?
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July 26, 2021 8:16am
- Brian McDonald
  
  At the moment because you could become a spreader.
  
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  July 26, 2021 8:59am
  - BAM
    
    You can spread covid if you’re vaccinated, the vaccine wasn’t about stopping the spread of covid but reducing its effects on people.
    
    The question I’m asking is if I’m willing to take that risk, then what is the problem?
    
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    July 26, 2021 9:05am
    - The Voice of Legions
      
      You are entirely rational and your logic is unassailable. Any risk flowing from people remaining unvaccinated will be borne solely by the unvaccinated individual. If vaccines work as claimed, vaccinated individuals have nothing to be afraid of.
      
      So why the push for full vaccination, regardless of whether you need it or want it? Obviously, there is a lot to be gained if you are Big Pharma, are funded by Big Pharma or have shares in Big Pharma. But also, if there is a low uptake of vaccinations, then the next item on the agenda, universal vaccine passports (which will expand to full social credit passports), will not be able to function as intended – i.e. as a means of bifurcating society into the obediently enslaved who are granted social privilege in return for their submission, and the shunned and disobedient who are punished for their non-compliance. If most fall into the latter category, the two-tier system will not be viable, because it fundamentally depends on mass buy-in. What are they going to do, ostracise more people than not? This won’t work as the slave society will be dysfunctional due to the very low number of accredited citizens, so therefore the vast majority need to be vaccinated, and therefore subject to receiving their full suite of privileges (I use the word privileges deliberately, because freedom will have been usurped).
      
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      July 26, 2021 2:24pm
      - Batman
        
        You’ve either missed or ignored that fact that the risk from unvaccinated individuals is borne by others as well as the individual.
        
        Children, those with conditions, or simply other unvaccinated people, are all highly vulnerable to spread because of people choosing to make a poor choice based on no solid evidence base.
        
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        July 26, 2021 3:41pm
      - The Voice of Legions
        
        “…the risk from unvaccinated individuals is borne by others as well as the individual.”
        
        That makes no sense:
        
        1) Children are at almost zero risk from Covid
        
        https://www.health.gov.au/resources/covid-19-deaths-by-age-group-and-sex
        
        2) “People with conditions” are free to get vaccinated if they choose, and if they choose not to, then that is their own choice.
        
        3) “Other unvaccinated people” have presumably also chosen to remain so, and therefore willingly bare any risk.
        
        If vaccinated people remain at risk, then this demonstrates that there is no point in being vaccinated, as the function of vaccinations is to prevent infection. The case against vaccination is strengthened given that the long-term effects of the vaccines are not and cannot yet be known.
        
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        July 27, 2021 12:15pm
  - Greg Ettridge
    
    Vaccinated or not you can be a spreader, take out moment, anytime you are infectious, point me to a scientific paper that tells me different.
    The Scientific papers I have seen, would actually indicate the opposite to your Jacinda sound byte.
    I would believe Peter A McCullough and hundreds of others even though the fish n chip wrapper tells me where I should seek my information and medical advice from here and her “experts”
    Jacinda is a snake oil salesman, flogging a dog of a product no longer fit for purpose. you need to do a lot more reading.
    
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    July 26, 2021 9:16am
    - Justitia
      
      Yes, the current vaccines don’t stop you getting COVID or spreading it. There is growing concern they may prompt the development of more dangerous mutations because of the limited defence they provide. That would be disastrous. This is a huge scientific and ethical issue. I am due for my first jab in 10 days but I am seriously reconsidering.
      
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      July 26, 2021 4:51pm
      - The Voice of Legions
        
        With some rare exceptions, all of us have sufficiently robust immune systems to be able to cope with Covid. Therefore the premise underpinning mass vaccination falls over at the first hurdle.
        
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        July 27, 2021 12:19pm
- john1234
  
  You are not a personally a danger to society by not being vaccinated.
  
  However if the public vaccination rate is too low, then COVID will spread too easily due to too many spreaders in the population. So a few more people will die and travel restrictions will stay in place and economic hardship for certain sectors will remain causing a few more people to lose their livelihoods.
  
  So… if you don’t have a medical problem with vaccination, such as allergic reactions, why wouldn’t you just get vaccinated?
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:04am
  - BAM
    
    Because I’d like to wait a couple of years to see if any abnormalities show up from the vaccine.
    If there is nothing then I’ll get vaccinated, it seems the only reason you need to get vaccinated is if you want to travel overseas.
    I’ll just put off travelling for a couple of years.
    
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    July 26, 2021 9:15am
    - MCos
      
      Last night we had some odd looking home made sausages my wife picked up at the temple.
      Now I could have gobbled them down or waited two years to see if they had any adverse effect of the others who ate them.
      I ate some. So far no adverse reaction.
      
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      July 26, 2021 10:09am
      - Cinematic
        
        Yep a sausage analogy makes sense. Just wondering, do you inject your sausages? Or just let them run through your digestive tract?
        
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        July 26, 2021 10:43am
      - Hollyfield
        
        There’s lots of odd looking food I don’t risk eating. Probably it’s fine, but I prefer not to take the risk. Of course, I am not as desperate for food as my grandparents were, so I can afford to be choosy about what I eat.
        
        Equally, in NZ many people feel they can afford to wait before taking the vaccine.
        
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        July 26, 2021 11:38am
      - The Voice of Legions
        
        There is plenty of long-term data on the consumption of sausages. However, there is none yet on mRMA covid vaccines.
        
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        July 27, 2021 12:22pm
  - Sacha
    
    Because, although the risk of complications from being vaccinated is ‘low’, why should I take the risk?
    Especially if, as reported, the sickness caused by the virus, is for most people no worse than a heavy cold, or a mild ‘regular’ flu. All things being equal, if I felt ‘flu-ish I could simply take my vitamins, stock up with Panadol, and rest up at home until I felt better. (Actually, I’m going to ask the GP for an ‘at home’ kit prescription.)
    In past years people carried on with their lives, and built up immunity from constant casual contact with ‘carriers’ during daily life. We can see that the isolation enforced throughout 2020, 2021 has seen a rise in other respiratory infections – ones to which we usually build basic immunity in our childhood.
    Vaccination is a nonsense if we need to have a ‘booster’ every 6 months because the INITIAL vaccine effect is so short-lived.
    But the manufacturers and their shareholders are laughing all the way to the bank.
    
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    July 26, 2021 11:39am
- Tall Man
  
  Because idiots believe you can spread covid just by walking past someopne in the open air, despite there not being one single example of such a spread in the entire world, unless of course yopu’re at a lockdown protest 😉
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:16am
  - BAM
    
    Most people are sheep, it’s far easier to be told what to say than think for yourself.
    It’s especially noticeable when you have a discussion and they parrot the PM’s and MSM talking points back at you, I never try and argue because it’s just not worth it,.
    Does make you lose faith in your fellow New Zealander if I’m going to be completely honest.
    
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    July 26, 2021 9:34am
    - Tall Man
      
      I still try but like you am starting to worry about our future.
      
      I have one child already living in Oz and another looking at options as he works internationally.
      
      I know it isn’t much better but even a slight improvement is a bonus.
      
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      July 26, 2021 10:05am
      - curry4me
        
        Tall Man: I think there will be a stampede to Oz when the bubble opens up. Especially if the property market goes sour.
        
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        July 26, 2021 8:25pm
  - MCos
    
    FYI
    
    How does COVID-19 spread?
    
    • Current evidence suggests that the virus spreads mainly between people who are in close contact with each other, typically within 1 metre (short-range). A person can be infected when aerosols or droplets containing the virus are inhaled or come directly into contact with the eyes, nose, or mouth.
    
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    July 26, 2021 10:25am
    - Tall Man
      
      I’m well aware how it spreads, but outside in the open air it does not.
      
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      July 26, 2021 1:55pm
- Flossie
  
  Maybe if you do get sick you’ll be looking to the public health system to help you? Cost to the taxpayer?
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:27am
  - BAM
    
    Chances are very very low though, all the sick and unhealthy have been vaccinated, they’re the ones who made up the vast majority of hospital admissions.
    
    The unvaccinated should be all healthy and fit.
    
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    July 26, 2021 9:55am
  - Tall Man
    
    Only if you are vulnerable and even then it seems the vaccine is not stopping the highly vulnerable from dying.
    
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    July 26, 2021 10:02am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      The vaccine has vastly reduced deaths in the highly vulnerable. By vastly I mean 95 percent – just look at the UK data.
      
      Where do you get this information from?
      
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      July 26, 2021 1:55pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Logic young man.
        
        The first wave took out the vulnerable, or if it didn’t, why the panic?
        
        When those are gone we now only have left the less vulnerable but over time we generate more vulnerable but in a slightly lower number than those that were at risk in 2019/20 due to the benign years of 2016 – 2018.
        
        Now we still have vulnerable and they are still dying, vaccinated or not except those that die without a vaccination die from covid yet those that die after vaccination die from natural causes.
        
        These cover some of the points
        
        https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/some-vaccinated-people-are-dying-of-covid-19-here-s-why-scientists-aren-t-surprised/ar-AALHnqO
        
        https://theconversation.com/most-covid-deaths-in-england-now-are-in-the-vaccinated-heres-why-that-shouldnt-alarm-you-163671
        
        But it is also pure logic.
        
        When something like a virus kills those who are susceptible then there are fewer left for the second and subsequent waves other than those that were either not exposed, unlikely in a community spread situation, or have developed susceptibility since the initial wave.
        
        Make sense? Does to me.
        
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        July 26, 2021 2:05pm
  - Ra Henare
    
    So many things we do may end up with a cost to the taxpayer.
    sex(catching STD)
    sex(getting pregnant)
    eating(food poisonings)
    any one of hundreds of recreational pursuits
    
    etc etc
    Your argument re why you should get vaccinated is a pathetic straw horse
    
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    July 26, 2021 11:42am
    - Flossie
      
      You are quite right – living is dangerous. Wasn’t really my argument why you should get vaccinated. Obviously I didn’t put it very well. I meant to suggest that possibly that was the official reason why the government wants us vaccinated.
      
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      July 26, 2021 1:06pm
  - The Voice of Legions
    
    I’ll happily sign a non-medical intervention waiver if it means maintaining my right to my biological integrity.
    
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    July 27, 2021 12:24pm
- Inandout
  
  BAM, getting the jab makes you free, don’t you know?
  
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  July 26, 2021 10:34am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Because you are extremely likely to spread the virus to vaccinated people for whom the virus has not prevented transmission.
  
  Why do I need to explain this?
  
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  July 26, 2021 1:53pm
krazykiwi

A balanced summary of The Ivermectin Debate

To date, about 50 studies – among them about 30 randomized controlled trials and about 40 peer-reviewed publications – have been done on the use of ivermectin against covid. Most of these studies found that the use of ivermectin was associated with a positive outcome, such as a reduced risk of infection, hospitalization or death (see chart above; not all of these results were significant).

Based on these studies, several meta-analyses computed positive results, too. Most recently, a WHO-supported meta-analysis of 24 randomized controlled trials found a 56% mortality reduction overall and a 70% mortality reduction in patients who received early outpatient treatment.

Nevertheless, several concerns have been raised regarding the reliability of these results, and major health authorities like the WHO, the US FDA and the European EMA all continue to advise against the use of ivermectin outside of clinical trials.

The article goes on to outline concerns including publication bias, low quality studies and, again, fraud.
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July 26, 2021 8:17am
- Benedict Yu
  
  I looked at a couple of the meta analysis studies. The results looked convincing.
  
  You can’t trust the drug companies on this. The drug is off patent. They are going to make no money from it. That’s why they oppose it.
  
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  July 26, 2021 8:27am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    Benedict – further to this comment and your good observation further up, I note the CDC has withdrawn its EUA for the use of PCR testing. Why would that be?
    
    https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert-Changes_CDC_RT-PCR_SARS-CoV-2_Testing_1.html
    
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    July 26, 2021 8:47am
    - krazykiwi
      
      That’s very interesting. Remember, it was RT-PCR tests with Ct counts of 40+ that started the fear and panic.
      
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      July 26, 2021 9:14am
      - Don Beckett
        
        The person who designed the PCR test said well over a year ago that the test should not be used as a virus detector as it is much too inaccurate.
        We have had a PCR testing pandemic , which caused the Covid shamdemic.
        
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        July 26, 2021 10:43am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    It’s well known in NZ as a sheep dip.
    Many drugs have multiple uses. I use some amazing ones.
    
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    July 26, 2021 8:48am
    - Matt Long
      
      As a internal and external parasite treatment for animals; lice and worms, administered orally, in a pour on or intramuscular injection, has been largely superced by second and third generation varients.
      Used extensively, orally, for parasites in humans including for a parasite in Africa that causes blindness.
      
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      July 26, 2021 9:04am
      - Tall Man
        
        Does it work on ardern?
        
        Asking for a friend 🙂
        
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        July 26, 2021 9:18am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Ivermectin has both antiviral and anti-inflammatory effects. Anti-inflamatory effects are probably the key to reducing mortality – which is what many other useful drugs appear to be doing too.
        https://c19early.com/
        
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        July 26, 2021 11:00am
    - gravedodger
      
      Never heard that Kev however it was a well known and often used chemical treatment to control internal gut parasites such as worms in domestic animals and I think the use in humans has been for similar reasons.
      I am suspicious that the off patent theory does have legs and when the creation of great wealth by the Pharmaceutical companies is considered it would not be surprising that they and their enablers might be following an agenda here.
      
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      July 26, 2021 1:07pm
      - KevO'Brien
        
        I picked that up from TV advts in the past.
        
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        July 26, 2021 2:01pm
      - Pharmachick
        
        I used Ivermectin. Two doses, every 6 months.
        
        To deworm my (2) horses. Where it has been proven to be safe and efficacious over decades.
        
        If you all want to use it for COVID then for Dog’s sake use the Branded version not the generic. It won’t help you for the virus, although it will deworm you if necessary.
        
        So why an I encouraging you to use branded if you insist on taking an unproven, unlicensed product? Merck has a long-standing program to donate one dose of ivermectin to Africa (where intestinal and other worm infections kill readily) for every [branded] dose bought by affluent countries. Almost all the horse people I know rich and moderate income, buy branded for that reason. Y’all may as well offset some drug buying misguidedness with a global public health/medical good.
        
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        July 26, 2021 2:08pm
- -D
  
  There is vast observational support for Ivermectin by medical professionals world-wide who are actually using the drug therapeutically for COVID treatment.
  
  See: https://covid19criticalcare.com/
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:11am
- Greg Ettridge
  
  Six months Jail for any medical practitioner prescribing Ivermectim tablets in Queensland.
  4 million packs a week being distributed in Indonesia.
  I guess the Indonesians found losing hundreds of Doctors to the Chinese version of the cure was not all that great for keeping the “brute” at bay.
  Seychelles are rocketing up the charts, no deaths till they started vaccinating, now a very impressive 0-900 deaths per million in just 7 months.
  I would have though no deaths from vaccine or infections would be a basic aim in this pandemic?
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:30am
G152

Looks like the Aussie police are about to discover that their psychology of threat is coming to an end.
When horses get punched and a few hundred police get swamped by thousands of angry people who have had their movements restricted and their jobs ended because the government is a one trick pony when it comes to controlling the Covid infection there is an end.
Like the USSR in 1989.
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July 26, 2021 8:20am
- Brian McDonald
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  .05% of the Sydney population is some kind of a revolution?
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:08am
  - skyblue
    
    Bit like BLM last year. Bugger all people.
    
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    July 26, 2021 9:20am
    - kowtow
      
      The difference is they didn’t go after the BLM , they’re going for this lot though .
      
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      July 26, 2021 11:42am
  - Greg Ettridge
    
    Scomo would love to believe your figure , he is is in deep trouble with the electorate, people throughout Australia are very angry, it is not a revolution it is restoring the basic right their freedoms.
    
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    July 26, 2021 9:51am
  - gravedodger
    
    Could be that when the common multiplier for each protester on the street is applied maybe not revolution but civil unrest greater than some might wish to acknowledge for sure.
    
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    July 26, 2021 1:09pm
  - The Voice of Legions
    
    It only takes one tiny crack before the entire dam is breached catastrophically. Hence the censorship.
    
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    July 27, 2021 12:27pm
Souvlaki

Does anyone know when the decision re Sroubeks residency will be released?
The “suppressed” hearing was concluded about 10 days ago from memory.
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July 26, 2021 8:22am
- kowtow
  
  Late on a Friday afternoon before a long weekend or major Olympic event…….
  
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  July 26, 2021 8:30am
- Paulus
  
  Expected to coincide with THE wedding to celebrate his New Zealand status as expected at the same time.
  
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  July 26, 2021 8:42am
- igm
  
  Is he not first pick in the best man stakes?
  
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  July 26, 2021 8:42am
  - pdm
    
    Richie Hardcore for Groomsman.
    
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    July 26, 2021 9:23am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Probably in 3 months time.
  https://www.justice.govt.nz/tribunals/immigration/immigration-and-protection/
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:14am
  - Paulus
    
    Decision needs to be Peer reviewed first.
    Like Dotcom who is still at large and here.
    
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    July 26, 2021 10:39am
Maggie Pie

TRENDING….

NZ screenwriter Andy Niccol has rushed the first draft of his latest movie “Orcas Aren’t Us” to the PM’s office for funding approval.

In a leaked copy of the script obtained by Stuffed reporter Alison Maomao, it shows the movie to be loosely based on the Maori myth ‘Pania of the Reef”……with Pania to be played by Jacinda lookalike, Aussie actor Rose Byrne.
The opening scene has lifetime Mongrel Mob member Hazza Tam appearing by video link in a short cameo, performing a curse-lifting ceremony, which miraculously sees Pania rise from the sea after being brought back to life. (see link)

https://roamthegnome.com/pania-of-the-reef/

Hollywood ‘A’ lister Johhny Depp, who also gets a starring role in the production, has been cast as ‘The First Fisherman’
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July 26, 2021 8:27am
- Yvette
  
  Maggie, you have missed the essential by-line …
  BASED EXTREMELY LOOSELY, IN FACT NOT AT ALL, ON REAL EVENTS
  
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  July 26, 2021 8:38am
CAKE FACE1

Since the first day of lockdown in NZ, I have asked the question – what is NZ’s exit strategy for the Ro?

Smug lefties have said that NZ have handled this crisis the best in world.

I have wondered since inception whether we just kicked the can down the road, at ruinous cost, but would just face a similar result a couple of years down the track…

Everything has been gambled on production of the magic potions – the vaccines!

Alas, the vaccines seem to underwhelm a little. Will they really save the main people who die from Ro – frail, very old people with on average three co-morbidities? It doesn’t really make sense that they would.

I suspect that we could only adopt “hiding under the beds for two years approach” once, because we can’t afford to do it again.

If new variants come along (which seems almost certain), will we simply have to live with them? Or will we lockdown again, until we go broke?

The current plan is the latter – we hide under out beds, until Rona is magically eliminated.

The Third World, here we come!!!
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July 26, 2021 8:31am
- Tony Stuart
  
  what is NZ’s exit strategy for the Ro?
  
  We have an exit strategy? Wow, that’s news to me!
  
  Now is the time for National and Act to renew calls for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Government’s response to the Coronavirus Pandemic. This is already the most expensive single incident in New Zealand’s history, and every aspect of the government’s response must be independently examined by a body with wide-ranging investigative powers.
  
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  July 26, 2021 8:50am
  - CAKE FACE1
    
    Pointless.
    
    They government would just hire Hendy, Baker and the pink one et al…
    
    Hendy would babble about 88,000 deaths. Baker would babble about worldwide elimination. Pink would do her space cadet number.
    
    I’ve had enough of these narrow subject so-called “experts”.
    
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    July 26, 2021 9:12am
    - Flossie
      
      I haven’t seen the pink haired woman lately…. have I just not been paying attention?
      
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      July 26, 2021 9:29am
  - gravedodger
    
    No point while Jazz has the numbers, widely known fact, only have an inquiry you can control the findings of you’re welcome.
    
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    July 26, 2021 1:13pm
- Plue
  
  The next general election is our exit strategy
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:40am
pdm

I note that there is another illegal occupation of land. This time the site of the proposed Erebus Memorial.

Police are in the store rooms looking for their guitars – ah la Ihumatao.
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July 26, 2021 8:32am
- Durden
  
  And in Wellington, after Shelly Bay, now Mt Crawford too.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/wellington/125702036/taranaki-whnui-iwi-members-occupy-land-in-wellington-vowing-to-stop-mt-crawford-development
  
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  July 26, 2021 8:47am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Arrest the Police for failure to carry out their duties.
    
    How can we have law and order when Mr Plod marches to the PM’s orders?
    
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    July 26, 2021 8:53am
    - Inandout
      
      KO, shoplifting under $1000 value soon to become allowed by Police, like in NY?
      
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      July 26, 2021 9:01am
- oldfella
  
  pdm, if any protesters are receiving unemployment benefits, do they continue to get them while protesting because when they’re protesting they sure as hell can’t turn up for job interviews?
  Otherwise we (taxpayers) would be underwriting their protests.
  
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  July 26, 2021 11:49am
Frank the tank

Am I the only one to hate OneWoke network’s olympics coverage. Let’s surmise:

1). Pidgin English being presented at ever opportunity
2). Focus on female sports and sports presenters with all the highlights for the presenters being female athletes
3). Ensuring Aotearoa gets uttered more times than New Zealand

Fresh from the embarrassment of the America’s Cup presentation it appears our “national” broadcaster has double downed (not in a good KFC way) on woke coverage.

I know Toni Street is a lovely person but heck shouldn’t we get more capable and credible sports presenters for the type of person that actually watches sport.

The only redeeming point is I was yet to see Stacey Morrison’s missus and his lack of the command of English. It will be coming though…..
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July 26, 2021 8:33am
- kowtow
  
  No one who pushes neo Marxism is a lovely person.
  
  At best they are useful idiots.
  
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  July 26, 2021 8:43am
- Durden
  
  Instead of “Pidgin English” I use the word “Manglish”.
  
  I use it as often as I can with the hope that it will appear in the dictionaries as a new word by the end of 2022.
  
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  July 26, 2021 8:59am
- Yvette
  
  Frank the Tank – How do you go with TV3’s promotional spots ALL GOOD, THREE?
  THREE like most other entertainment channels is predominantly violent programming with almost every show carrying a warning of violence and bad language, so in the face of this some looney came up with catch phrase ALL GOOD, which just had to clash with their mainline programming.
  
  A classic example was the other evening in RAMBO, LAST BLOOD when Stallone was returning to his farm with his just rescued but drugged, raped, and badly injured niece and she died – crash cut to the PR slogan: ALL GOOD, THREE. Utterly ludicrous and mood destroying! So THREE regularly wrecks their own viewing, with an idiot slogan that is presumably intended to increase their viewer numbers.
  
  And the same irritation bizarrely applies to the Maori phrases now scattered throughout 1 News, one of the oddest being greetings and thanks in Maori between the white presenter and an obviously white reporter, in somewhere like Europe. And when it boils down to what usefulness picking up such phrases may be, just how often do you want to say “Nau mai ki ngā hākinakina o te wā” – “welcome to the sports of the day”? It is as dopey as ALL GOOD, THREE.
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:00am
  - Frank the tank
    
    Haven’t noticed re: Three. I’d prefer this mindless garbage over the cultural revolution our National Broadcaster is attempting…
    
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    July 26, 2021 9:26am
  - G152
    
    I do not understand the current set of ‘reporters/facefor telly’ so I dont watch listen or really care.
    If we all do the same the polls will take care of them
    
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    July 26, 2021 10:13am
- Happychappy
  
  A lot of people would be proud to have achieved in sport the way Toni Street has and what she has achieved in Television and as a journalist while you mighten like her there is many out that do , there are many out there that like Scotty Stevenson but he would hold a candle to those that have come before him In Rugby or any other sport he give commentary on.
  https://devonportflagstaff.co.nz/family-naps-and-netball-all-part-of-tonis-busy-routine/
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:14am
  - lifesgood
    
    Can’t stand Scotty Morrison and his affected “I’m a Maori so I speak English badly” English. That fake Maori accent drives me mad. Where on earth did he learn to talk so badly.
    
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    July 26, 2021 10:15am
- Nickc2
  
  The overuse of an invented language (Te Reo, which is not an original Maori language/dialect) is part of a deal they have signed up to in order to receive a slice of the Govt’s Media Bribe fund.
  As for their woke presenters, I believe they are honours graduates from some Media Training and Journalist school where they all pissed in the same Marxist bucket hence they all espouse the same political diatribe.
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:44am
- oldfella
  
  Can’t wait to hear One’s fawning coverage when Laurel competes.
  ‘This brave Wahine from Aotearoa…’
  
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  July 26, 2021 11:55am
JibberJabber

“You”! ?
https://twitter.com/TurekAndrew/status/1419202830791962629
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July 26, 2021 8:34am
yossarian

I’m over the swimming already. Seriously why does swimming need so many events? I guess because swimming arenas are expensive and the US does well in the pool they need to conjure up so many races.

If the swimming guys ran the athletics program there’d be running backwards, skipping and hopping races.
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July 26, 2021 8:34am
- KiwiRupes
  
  I believe (but not 100% sure) that broadcasting Olympic events cost according to popularity – so low popularity events such as rhythmic gymnastics and synchronised swimming get hours of television time in NZ, but interesting stuff like track and field we don’t see a lot of
  
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  July 26, 2021 8:41am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Track and Field hasn’t started yet. It’s a bit hard to cover events that aren’t on!
    
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    July 26, 2021 9:09am
  - rangitoto
    
    I don’t mind those sports. They get pretty much zero coverage outside of the Olympics. I’d rather they dumped sports like soccer and tennis which get more than enough coverage over the year.
    
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    July 26, 2021 10:00am
  - Twinkletoes
    
    Roll on the iceskating and floor gymnastics, last time it was all I watched because I only like beautiful events and beautiful people, not brutal events’ and weirdo competitors. How anyone can bear to watch weight lifting ( apart from Laurel and when anyone drops the bar and staggers around, hilarious) I cannot understand.
    
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    July 26, 2021 10:12am
    - zulumonster
      
      You’ll have to wait a year for the ice skating – they normally do that at the Winter Olympics.
      
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      July 26, 2021 1:42pm
    - Jack5
      
      I find weight lifting to be great entertainment. It makes some sports looking boring and wimpy. The drama is intense as they try for the final big lift then struggle to hold the weight.
      
      Weightlifting women aren’t all bruisers, either.
      
      For example, Belgium’s Nina Sterckx, who shed kilograms of body weight to get into a lighter class that would get her to Tokyo:
      
      https://sporza.be/nl/2021/05/24/gewichthefster-nina-sterckx-18-pakt-zilver-op-wk-voor-junioren~1621878404014/
      
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      July 26, 2021 4:38pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I’ll be watching this girl this afternoon
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/300366112/tokyo-olympics-erika-fairweather-swims-race-of-her-life-against-stars-to-make-400m-final
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:20am
- Frank the tank
  
  I have 2 kids that competitively swim – I agree boring as 1 week old bat shit.
  
  That said all 4 strokes are different and require different body types, techniques etc therefore think of the different strokes the equivalent of the field side of track and field.
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:31am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Why can’t they recognise basic difference between male and female body types assigned at birth?
    
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    July 26, 2021 10:15am
  - zulumonster
    
    Maybe they should have an athletics “medley” event like the swimming medley where they incorporate all the swimming styles into 1 race. The athletes could do 100m sprint, 100m hurdles, 100m backwards and 100m skipping?
    I’d watch it.
    
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    July 26, 2021 1:45pm
- Clyde
  
  Yossarian, the question to ask is why are there so many running races on the track? Goes from 100m to a marathon I suppose. And there are the variants like jumping over hurdles. Ditto with jumping – why this strange hop, step and jump thing? The fact is that there are four different strokes in swimming with only freestyle going over 200m. To me, the king of all the races is the 400 individual medley where the winner has to be good at all four strokes. Because breastroke is the slowest stroke, the person who is really good at breastroke is always in with a chance. Interestingly, excellent swimmers in each stroke generally conform to certain body types and shapes. Even more interestingly, how many Afro-Americans do you ever see succeeding in the pool? Or in cycling? Or maori in either discipline?
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:33am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    On the track performance is related to distance, speed and endurance. Height and leg length can be a factor too.
    A 100m sprinter can sure zoom along but the 5km runners are more sedate and have to pace themselves.
    
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    July 26, 2021 10:21am
  - slernz
    
    There were two African-Americans in the U.S. 100m x 4 relay team that got the silver behind the Australians. An Ecuadorian rider won the cycle road race, I am not sure if he is ranked as a person of colour or a privileged white supremacist?
    
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    July 26, 2021 12:10pm
Frank the tank

Has (little) Aotearoa added to its supply of ICU beds and ventilators in the past 6 months?

Asking for a friend.
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July 26, 2021 8:34am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  I think given govt performance in every other area you could pretty safely assume not.
  
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  July 26, 2021 11:06am
- MrTips
  
  Can inform that greater Sydney, which has roughly the population of NZ, has ICU capacity of 1020 (look under the NSW state amount).
  https://www.smh.com.au/national/covid-19-data-centre-coronavirus-by-the-numbers-20200401-p54g4w.html?permanent_redirect=true
  
  Last press release revealed capacity at 358. Way behind the Aussies. https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/pages/ventilators_and_icu_capacity_11_may_2020.pdf
  
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  July 26, 2021 1:10pm
  - Greg Ettridge
    
    4.3% currently utilized, if they actually started treatment early they could cut this number back dramatically, sending positives home to take Panadol is just bullshit.
    
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    July 26, 2021 3:59pm
Durden

Interesting link about cannibalism. Arrived at idly following links under the Sharon Lopatka story on NZ Herald today.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/sex-and-parents-disturbing-reason-people-turn-into-cannibals-finally-revealed/BRSN5KZV6JKUFRTN7BZORQ77Q4/?ref=readmore
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July 26, 2021 8:36am
Cinematic

I see in Sydney they’re pumping the story of a 38 year old accounting student that died from covid with no underlying health issues. I find this doubtful but in any case if it’s true how is it different to a young person dying of blood clots from the AZ vaccine (as has happened)? It’s an extreme outlier and fear porn at its best.
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July 26, 2021 8:44am
- JibberJabber
  
  They’re getting desperate, fortunately, more and more people are beginning to push back against the scam, so the govt funded media articles will ramp up the hysteria even more and still the Lemmings that need to be told how to live their lives will continue to wear masks.
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:41am
- Inandout
  
  Cine, Hosking and the Aussie guest were crowing about this on today’s show. Perhaps on the same subject, any more news on the Remmers woman who died from mysterious causes?
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:43am
- doggone7
  
  Does you finding it doubtful mean it isn’t as described?
  If it as described and your portrayal of it is ‘fear porn’, would someone describing non- publishing about it as ‘suppression’ be right?
  
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  July 26, 2021 10:12am
  - Cinematic
    
    Good question. If the article included context around the likelihood of dying at that age with no underlying health issues then it wouldn’t be fear porn. The lack of balance reduces the article to a propaganda piece.
    
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    July 26, 2021 10:49am
Rich Prick

In case you were missing news involving the First Boyfriend, Stuff obliges. I’m desperately looking for my bucket.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/125860484/clarke-gayford-banished-jacinda-ardern-to-the-wild-so-he-could-buy-her-a-birthday-present
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July 26, 2021 8:58am
- CAKE FACE1
  
  I’ve never considered reporting a post before, but this one came the closest ever.
  
  That article is a crime against humanity…
  
  Pass the sick bucket when you’re done with it…
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:03am
- Flossie
  
  I can’t recall any items about what Peter Davis did for Helen’s birthday? Or Burton Shipley, Thea Muldoon, Joan Bolger etc etc
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:32am
- Weinerpoop
  
  These fluff pieces are coming out thick and fast at the moment, hopefully this means that public opinion is starting to change. I heard Trevett on the radio yesterday talking about the last Ardern facebook video having more angry faces versus happy faces, hopefully people are starting to wake up to how corrupt and incompetent she is.
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:48am
- doggone7
  
  I’m desperately trying to find a reason why anyone hating the PMs partner getting attention brings my attention to something I (and probably others) was most unlikely to know existed.
  
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  July 26, 2021 10:17am
  - Rich Prick
    
    I don’t “hate” the guy, but do I think he’s a weapons-grade tosser. The mystery is the media’s obsession with such a low rent “celeb”.
    
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    July 26, 2021 10:36am
    - Inandout
      
      RP, and his 200 odd previous relationships he mentioned once. I find it rather strange that an ordinary looking fisherman could hook that amount of females just by being..well..a chap. Wink, wink, say no more.
      
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      July 26, 2021 11:58am
      - Flossie
        
        He’s certainly seems pretty ordinary.
        
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        July 26, 2021 1:10pm
Yabster

3 waters – by the westland Mayor Bruce Smith- was posted on Saturday but worth a look if you haven’t seen it. Pass it on anyone you know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtF06mO5ItM
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July 26, 2021 9:03am
- Yvette
  
  More of Westland Mayor Bruce Smith’s comments on 3 Waters
  
  Funds allocated to councils to encourage them to give up their three water assets to nation-wide control, would become available in July 2024, but can only be spent on projects consulted with and approved by iwi.
  
  But further –
  
  It is clarified that Maori would be granted membership and voting rights of 50% of the governance groups that control the 3 Waters activities and the future strategic direction of each of these four entities. …
  
  The mayors are informed by Minister Mahuta that councils will have until the end of September 2021 to advise Government if they are in or out of the proposed 3 Waters reform structure
  
  Further information, yet unavailable, will be sent to councils in August and September.
  Westland Mayor Bruce Smith indicates he will hold a binding referendum among those he is responsible for and the process will take more than 3 months.
  
  He says – The first information required, that has not been in any papers, and will be required by any ratepayer throughout New Zealand, is “What do I pay now, and what will I pay if this proposal is mandated”?
  In Westland – at present a household pays $527.40 per annum for water rates …
  If the proposal is mandated, households will pay $1640 to the water supplier for their water …
  and he questions if that includes GST
  Westland Mayor Bruce Smith says the proposed change will increase present rates charges (with water included) by 37%.
  
  …The Government keeps repeating its PR team’s key message – We have proven the case for change.The Government keeps referring to the one event where a failure has occurred in Hastings, which has never occurred before, or after. And it is nowhere near justification for change …
  What is proposed seems to fly in the face of our New Zealand democracy and way of life.
  
  If Westland holds a referendum, are not ratepayers everywhere entitled to the same right to vote in a referendum?
  And what, for example, of Tauranga City at present without an elected Council? How will their rights be recognised before the end of September 2021?
  
  Don’t just Demand a Debate, Demand a Referendum!
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:19am
  - kevn
    
    @Yvette… Big thanks to Bruce Smith. Top bloke unloading for NZer’s.
    MSM absent of course. As usual.
    
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    July 26, 2021 9:49am
    - Yabster
      
      Like some posters on youtube # Bruce Smith for PM…..!
      
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      July 26, 2021 10:31am
  - Nickc2
    
    With Akld connected and dependant on the Waikato River for supply and Hamilton’s Council under Govt control, some interesting questions are raised. As it currently stands, Hamilton will be automatically subsumed into the Govt’s scheme. Will Akld automatically be included in the scheme or will Akld’s supply be turned off?
    Having said that, I’m picking Akld’s current Mayor won’t oppose joining the Govt’s scheme. He won’t want to upset his Labour mates.
    WRT Councils who bill water users via their rates, will any referenda only include Ratepayers? I would rather hope so.
    This whole scheme IMO is Maori ownership of water by stelth/theft.
    
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    July 26, 2021 10:27am
    - zulumonster
      
      Aucklands current mayor has actually come out quite strongly in opposition to the 3 Waters proposals. If such a Labour embedded poli like he is against it you can tell it must really stink.
      
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      July 26, 2021 1:52pm
      - Nickc2
        
        I haven’t seen that published. If true, I can only assume the MSM is complicit in the deviousness of the acquisition/theft of our water systems by Maori.
        Am I surprised? No, especially when MSM loyalty to the cause has been paid for with taxpayers’ money.
        
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        July 26, 2021 7:09pm
  - Paulus
    
    Do you really think any discussion will taker place ?
    – only as far as DaHuta says, it will be done, so sod off.
    
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    July 26, 2021 10:45am
- kevn
  
  @Yab… No QSM for Bruce in the near future.
  Top bloke.
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:53am
JibberJabber

‘We are in a version of an abusive relationship with our leaders. The trust is gone – and when trust goes it never really comes back.’

ICYMI: Neil Oliver says the government’s redrawing of the Covid rules have broken people’s trust in the state.

https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1419375827666472962
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July 26, 2021 9:04am
- Ruahine
  
  Well worth watching.
  
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  July 26, 2021 11:08am
Tony Stuart

Jordan Carter used to be one of the darlings of the Left. He tweeted this late yesterday:

Jordan Carter
@jordantcarter
This policy is so hurtful and self defeating. We should offer permanent residency to pretty much anyone who is here now…

With the borders shut and immigration issues piling up, some of our most-skilled migrant are considering calling it quits.

https://twitter.com/jordantcarter/status/1419072924439355392

Carter linked to this story written by Dileepa Fonseka, senior business journalist at Stuff. Unlike others at that stable, Fonseka writes detailed, well-researched positions, which do not parrot the Government’s talking points.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/125796584/skilled-migrants-are-leaving-in-droves-frustrated-by-lengthy-residency-delays?cid=app-iPhone

The laissez-faire approach to immigration that Minister Kris Faafoi has adopted is a disgrace. As Faafoi sits on his hands in his ministerial office, immigrants are leaving New Zealand in large numbers. And the ones who are packing up and going because they can’t get an answer out of the Minister and Immigration NZ are leaving big holes. At the weekend, we read about a GP from Otaki who is returning reluctantly to the UK, having moved to New Zealand in good faith to work here. As a result, the medical centre this doctor has been working at will now close its doors to new patients.

The queue for permanent residence applications has stalled, and there is now a backlog of 36,000 applications awaiting processing. Even worse, the Expression of Interest queue, the queue to get onto the queue has been paused, with record numbers of people waiting to be invited to submit their applications for residence. Even if the EOI queue remains stalled, it will take eleven years at normal processing rates to clear the residence application backlog.

Jordan Carter is right; all those who were in New Zealand when the borders closed, and who have already applied for permanent residence should have their applications approved forthwith. But that’s not going to happy whilst Faafoi remains paralysed by inaction.
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July 26, 2021 9:08am
- krazykiwi
  
  I have three staff who are facing deportation because their visas have expired despite many months of trying to get them renewed. These are hard working, skilled professionals, and our business will struggle to replace them. From the dealings I’ve have with Immigration it almost feels like this is a deliberate move to limit supply.
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:29am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    I hate to say this, but I suspect you’re dead right KK. The inaction by Immigration New Zealand and Faafoi seems to no longer be inefficiency and incompetence, but a deliberate government policy.
    
    If that’s the case, it is cruel and inhumane to play with people’s lives like this, and is anything but “kind”.
    
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    July 26, 2021 9:35am
    - kevn
      
      @kk and Tony…. Control comrades, that what it is all about.
      Control.
      
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      July 26, 2021 9:45am
  - Greg Ettridge
    
    Morning Krazy I really think NZ immigration rules are bizarre.
    You may not like what I am saying.
    I was married to a Kiwi and had three boys with her in Australia. Her father was an Australian that went to NZ as a little child. She automatically got Australian citizenship and an extra passport.
    The boys I discovered could all have NZ citizenship and a second passport which I do find truly bizarre.
    This is all on their mother being born in NZ.
    They have no intention of living in NZ, but we see it as very handy in this day and age with regard to travel. One has three passports.
    Of course, the priority should be people living and working in NZ and paying taxes.
    Imagine how many kids born to a single NZ parent are entitled to citizenship, mind boggling really.
    
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    July 26, 2021 9:46am
Critical Thinker

U.K. Positive Cases Plummet Following ‘Freedom Day’

It can’t be repeated often enough that this demolishes all the models and exposes their assumptions as fundamentally flawed. None of the models predicted anything other than exponential growth at this point as people mingled and dropped the masks. After all, prevalence was high and rising, people were mingling more not less, lots of people are still susceptible (so they assume) – why should it stop? But it did.

Why have infections now rapidly declined despite reopening in the middle of a surge of the ‘super-infectious’ Delta variant?

They have gone from 702 cases per million per day to 604 cases per million per day.

This is how our own psychotic CovidKarens reacted to England ending its tyrannical and idiotic lockdown:
https://thespinoff.co.nz/science/15-07-2021/siouxsie-wiles-boris-johnsons-dangerous-experiment-puts-everyone-at-risk/

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/michael-baker-englands-freedom-day-lead-more-covid-deaths-variants
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July 26, 2021 9:14am
- Frank the tank
  
  I’m hoping this is the end of the madness. If in 2 months time the death rates in progressive countries such as the UK, US and Singapore remain lower than the common flu then this will highlight the absurd policies in regressive nations policies such as Australia and (little) Aotearoa.
  
  I can’t wait to see the look on the pink lady’s face if we return to normality and she has to crawl back under her rock.
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:35am
  - Tall Man
    
    “and she has to crawl back under her rock”
    
    Unfortunately she is the darling of lefty media so she will find another subject to become an authority on.
    
    Maybe she’ll help cindy solve child poverdeeee…….
    
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    July 26, 2021 10:14am
- kowtow
  
  So much for all the fear mongering authoritarians, pundits , experts and cartoonists …….
  
  Then they wonder why there’s no respect or trust .
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:38am
- KevO'Brien
  
  The super delta variant seems to be a figment of the lock downers’ imaginations.
  More fear to activate control.
  
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  July 26, 2021 10:28am
  - kowtow
    
    No , you can get it just walking past someone ………
    
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    July 26, 2021 10:35am
    - CherryCat
      
      Or if they fart in your general direction.
      
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      July 26, 2021 11:05am
Gulag1917

“When I saw those shelves crammed with hundreds, thousands of cans, cartons and goods of every possible sort, for the first time I felt quite frankly sick with despair for the Soviet people,” Yeltsin wrote. “That such a potentially super-rich country as ours has been brought to a state of such poverty! It is terrible to think of it.”
Boris Yeltsin on visiting a US supermarket 1989.
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July 26, 2021 9:34am
Brian McDonald

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Can’t you make any points without a political bias Tony, you commend Fonseka for his articles by comparing him with the “stable” at Stuff as you put it, has already called Jordan “a darling of the left” after clearly couching your views of what they say with provisional acceptance as to who the reporter worked for and the political alliances of the other in your view.
Are you so politically fragile that you can’t get behind an idea without scattering it with the same inventory of platitudes day after day?
And Jordon used the words “nearly all.” I watched this issue on the news last night and NZ has missed the bus to this point it seems. Another aspect is that it is more expensive to accept other immigrants at this point without first making the best of the potential pool already here that don’t need them to go through the Covid isolation process and have a record of actually living in NZ.
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July 26, 2021 9:40am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  “Can’t you make any points without a political bias Tony”
  
  POT, KETTLE, BLACK?
  
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  July 26, 2021 9:54am
- JibberJabber
  
  ? ~~Colonel Kurtz~~ B Mc D finding out people make political comments on a political comments blog…?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKcAYMb5uk4
  
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  July 26, 2021 12:13pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  Brian, Jordan Carter is a former President of Young Labour, and a former Labour Party candidate. He was once seen as having a future as an MP. When someone that entrenched in Labour describes current immigration policy as “hurtful and self-defeating”, it’s worthy of a mention.
  
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  July 26, 2021 3:40pm
Critical Thinker

Dangerous New “Elef̱thería” Variant Spreading.

Experts are warning of yet another new problem facing the world: They’ve spotted a new, more dangerous “Elef̱thería” variant spreading among the populace.

This Elef̱thería variant is so virulent that people infected by it feel they can ignore government edicts about masks and lockdowns.

“Usually, the freedom we see in the wild is fairly mild,” explained WHO official Sasha Pratt. “It’s just freedom to passionately express one of the approved viewpoints on social media or freedom to pick one of the three Obamacare options. But now we see people acting like politicians aren’t in charge of them at all, and it’s dangerous.”

Experts recommend only staying on highly moderated social media sites and watching approved network news to avoid being infected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsB5yymbKXc
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July 26, 2021 9:40am
- KevO'Brien
  
  I’ve had that from its outset: freedom. Eleutheria for all.
  
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  July 26, 2021 1:59pm
kevn

@Rich… Bribing the media… masterstroke.
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July 26, 2021 9:43am
I remember when

A great fallback position:
The media once again suggest that the Australian anti-lockdown protest are the result of Anti Vaxers.
So in one simple stroke they have removed the need for any further discussion.
Obviously those reporting are not aware of Australian soldiers strict adherence to discipline during the war years.
If all the attendees at the British Music Festival have been vaccinated, what was wrong with not wearing a mask.
Just heard a ‘panelist’ on The AM Show say, it is the Government’s duty to decide covid controls and any rule breaking should fully investigated and all offenders be charged accordingly.
Can we presume – No discussion is necessary.
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July 26, 2021 9:47am
Maggie Pie

A bestie Tweets (sound up/full screen)

Watch what happens when Taliban soldiers call out names of captured ISIS fighters and 4 of them pick up their backpacks…..

https://twitter.com/Internl_Leaks/status/1418740996842475520
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July 26, 2021 9:47am
krazykiwi

First there was Satan.

Then there was Trump.

Then there was Sweden.

Remember Sweden? The international pariah for failing to goosestep to the WHO/Davos/CDC drum.

Yes, this Sweden: Daily COVID Deaths in Sweden Hit Zero, as Other Nations Brace for More Lockdowns

One country not making much news is Sweden.

Sweden, of course, was maligned in 2020 for foregoing a strict lockdown. The Guardian called its approach “a catastrophe” in the making, while CBS News said Sweden had become “an example of how not to handle COVID-19.”

Despite these criticisms, Sweden’s laissez-faire approach to the pandemic continues today. In contrast to its European neighbors, Sweden is welcoming tourists. Businesses and schools are open with almost no restrictions. And as far as masks are concerned, not only is there no mandate in place, Swedish health officials are not even recommending them.

What are the results of Sweden’s much-derided laissez-faire policy? Data show the 7-day rolling average for COVID deaths yesterday was zero (see below). As in nada. And it’s been at zero for about a week now.
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July 26, 2021 9:53am
- Cinematic
  
  Time will show Sweden is the gold standard in Pandemic management. Their approach was truly science based. In NZ and elsewhere it was political science that lead to such extremes of abuses of civil liberties.
  
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  July 26, 2021 10:34am
  - Jack5
    
    Latest Covid-19 figures:
    
    Sweden:
    Total cases so far: 1,096,799.
    Cases per million of population: 107,887.
    Total deaths: 14, 615.
    Deaths per million of populaton: 1,438.
    Active cases: 7,449.
    Population: 10,166,255.
    
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    July 26, 2021 12:17pm
ABS4EVA

The MONGREL MOB

LOVES YOU

JACINDA
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July 26, 2021 10:03am
I remember when

Dominion: ‘Case of Mistaken Identity.’
Interesting article that doesn’t appear to reflect well on Duncan Garner.
However, it does draw attention to a problem that tall and/or large children face when playing sport.
The bigger child is often subjected to rules and/or criticism that is solely based on their physical attributes.
They are continually faced with the opinions of concerned parents, especially in contact sports, and the supporters of opposing teams.
We make no allowances for attributes like speed, power, agility or many other natural advantages a child may have – why size.
Is this fair.
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July 26, 2021 10:04am
- Libertarians are right
  
  Is this the same article that pointed out that the large kid severely hurt another kid in a tackle in that tournament?
  
  It’s hard because size is very important in rugby and League at youth level, to the extent that it’s more important than age. Why differentiate on age groups when size is far more relevant? Is that fair?
  
  We are losing Rugby and League players at youth level because of these oversized kids who long term aren’t generally the players that go on to be professionals.
  
  They definitely should be allowed to play but size should be the defining characteristic, not age.
  
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  July 26, 2021 10:30am
  - I remember when
    
    Player are being lost at age group level, however from observation at age group tournaments the players involved at u16 were often bigger than those at u18.
    I know of schools where, because of the size and power of race “x”, they stopped putting out rugby balls at intervals over forty years ago.
    Many decades ago at secondary we played rugby at lunchtimes, we became selective about who we tackled.
    Rugby are going to keep losing players at youth level as much because selection processes and playing methods as oversize young players.
    The pyramid is too narrow at the bottom and the selection process starts too young in life.
    
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    July 26, 2021 12:04pm
    - I remember when
      
      Was sitting in a cafe this season when Nelson College first fifteen passed thru.
      They obviously didn’t get the message about oversized kids (well they had become oversized young men to be honest).
      
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      July 26, 2021 2:18pm
  - slernz
    
    When I played club rugby way back last century the grades were by weight. I started in 5 stone grade, moved up to 5.7st, then 6st and upwards as I got older and bigger. Perhaps this system should be reintroduced?
    
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    July 26, 2021 12:18pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Seems some Rugby Clubs use combined age & weight categories for their junior teams
      
      The age/weight policy and modified rules are
      designed to allow children to play rugby with
      other children of similar age, weight and ability in
      the safest environment possible.
      
      https://www.wrfu.co.nz/fileadmin/documents/2021_Weights___Grade_Sheet.pdf
      
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      July 26, 2021 2:27pm
Critical Thinker

Certificate Of Vaccine ID ?

“Vaccines are not mandated in this country, that’s not how we do things in the UK, we do them by consent, and it would be discriminatory.’ – Nadhim Zahawi, Secretary of State for COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment, February 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlaAx1PNow0

“Deploying the vaccine passport is the right thing to do. We reserve the right to mandate its use.” – Nadhim Zahawi, July 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoxDAPdToDU

“As far as the UK is concerned those given a placebo will be considered fully vaccinated.” – Nadhim Zahawi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmhvA-DmXYg
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July 26, 2021 10:10am
lifesgood

Yesterday I had a mooch around a shop that sells American products exclusively. It didn’t take long to have a mooch. The shelves were mostly empty and the centre of the shop usually packed with product was bare. Signs were saying this was due to shipping delays. Why hasn’t this been sorted by now? It’s been going on for months.
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July 26, 2021 10:23am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Yep – we were out there as well.
  They haven’t had any Aunt Jemima Pancake Syrup for months!
  
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  July 26, 2021 10:45am
  - curry4me
    
    Maggie Pie: Is it in Auckland? What’s the name of the shop please?
    
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    July 26, 2021 8:51pm
- Swifty
  
  Any Twinkies?
  
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  July 26, 2021 11:48am
- [email protected]
  
  Or Frito Lay corn chips or Jiff extra crunchy peanut butter 🙁
  
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  July 26, 2021 1:52pm
  - lifesgood
    
    They’ve still got loads of Halloween stuff on show just to make it look like they’ve got something to sell.
    Keep it up long enough and it will be Halloween again. 🙂
    
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    July 26, 2021 2:03pm
Fletch

Israel, early adopters of the vaccine, have found out that those who got the jab first, in February, are now twice as likely to catch Covid as those who got the jab later….

https://www.timesofisrael.com/hmo-those-who-inoculated-early-twice-as-likely-to-catch-covid-as-later-adopters/

Looks as like they will need a 3rd jab.
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July 26, 2021 11:08am
- Sacha
  
  @ Fletch: Clever marketing – bio-degradable vaccines!
  
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  July 26, 2021 12:03pm
- kevn
  
  @Flect…. Just put a picc line in everyone.
  They can be called up for a juice topup anytime then.
  
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  July 26, 2021 12:08pm
Fletch

3 News with yet another story on how NZ is going to have to import even more record amounts of coal this year…

New Zealand is likely to import more coal this year than it has in any other year, in the midst of a government-declared climate emergency.

Last year the country’s main coal users imported more than they had in 14 years, and this year government officials expect even more to come in. Most of this coal is burned to power our homes and businesses.

The government expects an additional 150,000 tonnes of coal will arrive here, a 14 percent increase on last year’s total which was already over 1 million tonnes.

Forest and Bird chief executive Kevin Hague said this was unacceptable.

“What we’re seeing is the result of years of failure to put in place alternative arrangements. And in consequence, we’re faced with this disaster,” said Hague, a former Green Party MP.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/07/new-zealand-likely-to-have-record-high-imports-of-coal-in-2021-officials.html

And yet it was Jacinda, probably at the behest of the Greens, who cancelled oil and gas exploration and who want to ban gas to homes in the next 5 years. Which equals more coal. These people are extremely thick.
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July 26, 2021 11:15am
- kevn
  
  @Fletch… Clearly there is an agenda.
  
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  July 26, 2021 12:05pm
- slernz
  
  I find it interesting that the Indonesian coal imports are ignored by the likes of Extinction Rebellion. This organisation, and others like them, constantly protest about coal exports from the West Coast or coal being used by Fonterra. But here we have millions of tonnes of low-grade coal being imported from Indonesia, causing a vast increase in our emissions, and not a word.
  
  I am not against protest and I would have thought that these shipments should be high on the protest list? Instead of blockades of Tauranga Harbour, we get nothing from Extinction Rebellion.
  
  Clearly, it is different, and OK, if Labour do it.
  
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  July 26, 2021 1:44pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Forest and Bird don’t vote as a large group, but NIMBYs do.
  Oh wait, they may be the same joe lunchboxes
  
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  July 26, 2021 6:16pm
I remember when

“Climate change may be behind Chimp attacks, say scientists.”
Chimpanzees have been observed kiliing gorillas for the first time in the wild.
Scientists suggested climate change could be ‘partly’ to blame.
The att6acks, in Gabon central Africa, were believed to be sparked by competition for food.
Reseachers witnessed two fatal mass attacks in the Loango National Park.
In the first a group of 27 Chimpanzees attacked five gorillas. The gorilla, two silverbacks and 2 females, injured several chimpanzees but an infant gorilla was killed.
The second battle, between more than two dozen chimpanzees and seven gorillas, again saw an infant killed, then eaten.
The report in “Nature” said fruit in Gabon’s forests was not as widespread as in the past, suggesting climate change could be a factor.
(Perhaps the weather may also a factor.)
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July 26, 2021 11:30am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Until 1960 Chimpanzees were assumed to be vegetarian.
  Jane Goodall made the first report of Chimps eating meat – eating a bushpig.
  Later she made the first observation of chimps hunting Colobus monkeys.
  
  Perhaps folks are still learning exactly what Chimps hunt.
  
  Although Forests have been pretty intact in the Gabon, things are changing and logging companies are moving in…..perhaps a better explanation as to why the forests are not as widespread as in the past.
  
  https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/logging-company-moves-into-intact-gabon-forest-as-village-fights-to-save-it/
  
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  July 26, 2021 2:41pm
Fletch

Tony Heller uses actual data to point out that, no, the world is not experiencing the worst heatwave in 1000 years. In fact, temperatures have been lower than in most recent years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sumc9tZ9-eg
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July 26, 2021 11:36am
I remember when

Economic optimism in Sweden fascinating.
I wonder why that would be.
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July 26, 2021 11:40am
Maggie Pie

WATCH 🙁

As the likes of Auckland Council & this Labor gubmint refer to them…

“COLLATERAL DAMAGE”

https://twitter.com/NZStuff/status/1419432413629870084
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July 26, 2021 11:45am
Pharmachick

Well done Hayden Wilde..
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July 26, 2021 12:09pm
Captain Mainwaring

BREAKING NEWS
The NZ woman who fled the country to fight for Isis in Syria is being repatriated to NZ, along with her two kids who were fathered by fellow terrorists.
Thanks Jacinda and the clowns in your Cabinet.
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July 26, 2021 12:11pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  I tried to drop a hint about this in my GB post @9:47 am…… but I realise it may have been perhaps a little too subtle for most people.
  
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  July 26, 2021 12:18pm
  - Paul Marsden
    
    Aaah, yes, the woman doing her cameo.
    
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    July 26, 2021 12:32pm
- kevn
  
  @Captn… A vote catcher = no shame from either of them.
  
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  July 26, 2021 12:41pm
WaveyDavey

Heh. The msm currently reflecting NZ in a nutshell

Huge celebrations, not for winning something but for finishing third

“Wins bronze” indeed. He lost, just not as badly as some others. He didn’t win anything

“All must have prizes”
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July 26, 2021 12:17pm
- greybeard
  
  What rubbish.
  He won a legitimate third place in an Olympic competition, as for any other event.
  Could you do better ?
  
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  July 26, 2021 12:52pm
  - WaveyDavey
    
    In my chosen field. Yes
    
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    July 26, 2021 1:49pm
- kevn
  
  @Wavey… Not your usual style, someone hijacked your keyboard?
  
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  July 26, 2021 1:01pm
  - WaveyDavey
    
    As I pointed out, rather than actually focus on important news our bread & circuses media is leading with someone’s failure to win a sporting event
    
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    July 26, 2021 1:51pm
trout

After looking after grandchildren in the holidays I can see that the old expression; ‘ being left to your own devices’ has taken on a whole new meaning!
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July 26, 2021 12:17pm
oldfella

I’m not really a petrol head, but a friend just sent me this piece on how they built the Ford Model T.
I found this especially interesting as I’m currently watching ‘Boardwalk Empire’ on Neon and these were the cars the bootleg generation drove.
https://safeshare.tv/x/ShbgvwazCZ
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July 26, 2021 12:28pm
- Inandout
  
  old, if we think that is working fast just watch video of Amazon depots.
  
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  July 26, 2021 12:51pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Great stuff. It only needed one wire to fire it up.
  Imagine having a ‘Greta’ back then? Saw my dick off.
  
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  July 26, 2021 6:09pm
Wired-one

Record coal imports expected over the next twelve months, gang membership numbers have doubled in four years, housing affordability and inequality worsening by the day, social housing numbers have exploded from 5500 to 25000 since Labour were elected, infrastructure delivery is failing and all other policy delivery is either a disaster or put off for decades. What is it going to take NZ, for you all to wake the hell up! Don’t even get me started on inflationary pressures, debt and fiscal policy. If you tolerate this shit, you deserve the consequences of the most incompetent government in my lifetime.
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July 26, 2021 12:29pm
Jack5

Ardern is to import a terrorist.

The Herald headline:
Isis ‘terrorist’ bride Suhayra Aden and her children to return to NZ

Note the Woke use of “return” by the Ardern-subsidised newspaper.

The woman left New Zealand when she was a child of six, and her children are the daughters of male and female ISIL terrorists, and were born in the Middle East.

She’ll never be allowed into Australia.

Another potential nail in New Zealanders’ visa-free entry to Australia

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/isis-terrorist-bride-suhayra-aden-and-her-children-to-return-to-nz/MCHFHKTT4KKGLN64RTO3O3VCBU/
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July 26, 2021 12:39pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  May as well give them a truckload of money to assimilate
  
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  July 26, 2021 6:02pm
Inandout

‘(FOX NEWS) — Dr. Anthony Fauci said on CNN Saturday that bringing back mask mandates is “under active consideration,” and that he is “part of the discussion” around the decision.

Fauci was questioned by CNN anchor Jake Tapper on whether he was part of conversations with top health officials on whether to impose a nationwide mask mandate for vaccinated Americans, and whether he thinks masks should be brought back.

Fauci said implementing mask mandates is “under active consideration,” and that he is “part of the discussion,” but did not say whether or not he supported mask mandates’.

Little wonder people are saying enough, we are over this bullshit.
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July 26, 2021 12:48pm
- Doc Holliday
  
  The only people “over this bullshit” are mentally defective. This virus hasn’t finished with us yet and giving it an inch will certainly make it a ruler.
  
  Otherwise, carry on as best you can.
  
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  July 26, 2021 1:21pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Due to ardern’s stupidity, ably supported by other idiots I must admit, the virus hasn’t even started with us but it will.
    
    It seems that the highly vulnerable die from covid, whether they are vaccinated or not so expect to see “grannies” dying in the very near future.
    
    I suggest you go lock yourself in mummy’s basement and stay there until adults have restored a semblance of order.
    
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    July 26, 2021 2:12pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  “I never had financial relations with that lab”
  
  – Anthony Fauci
  
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  July 26, 2021 1:24pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I just put that on FB and the fact checkers said that Fauci did not say that.
    What is it with the left and lack of humour?
    
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    July 26, 2021 6:00pm
oldfella

“My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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July 26, 2021 1:01pm
MrTips

Saliva testing for border workers being rolled out from mid-August (2021 hopefully) .

About bloody time.
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July 26, 2021 1:15pm
- fernglas
  
  “..we will start the national rollout in mid-August. Saliva testing will be expanded to regions across the country in a phased approach.”
  “Phased” and “rollout”? So it will be at least a year since this procedure was recommended until it gets any traction at all. Remarkably efficient for this lot.
  
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  July 26, 2021 5:39pm
kevn

@Wired… Yes, agree totally. NZ has become run by a cult figure. One that is very light on substance.
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July 26, 2021 1:21pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

OllyWhites Olympic Coach says….
“the team will wrap their arms around Keeper Michael Woud, after he allowed Honduras to score 3 goals, resulting in a 3 – 2 loss to NZ”

OH FFS!! He only had one job…
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July 26, 2021 1:37pm
- Pharmachick
  
  To be completely fair, in order to get to the Keep, Honduras had to also get past another 10 men…
  
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  July 26, 2021 2:58pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Well tbh, I disagree there Chickie….this from ‘NZCity’ News.
    
    ‘Severe errors by the 22 year-old Keeper ultimately led to last nights 3 – 2 loss to Honduras in Tokyo.
    Coach Danny Hay says “there will be support given to Michael”
    
    Have you read Sir Bob Jones book ‘Wimp Walloping’?
    
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    July 26, 2021 3:22pm
I remember when

San Francisco: 12 July, 2021:
The coldest 12th July on record at 57 degrees, equaling 1912, 1901 and 1899.
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July 26, 2021 1:55pm
- MCos
  
  What’s your point?
  
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  July 26, 2021 5:34pm
Tony

More wokeness gone mad.

The upcoming TV series on Anne Boleyn has her as a black woman when in fact she was white, all for the sake of wokeness. Never mind historical accuracy.

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/anne-boleyn-channel-5-casting/

Imagine the outcry if there was a series on Martin Luther King where Martin Luther King was played by a white actor.
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July 26, 2021 1:56pm
- Yabster
  
  yep can’t wait for the mini series white men can jump- a Michael Jordan Story……
  
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  July 26, 2021 2:54pm
- graham
  
  From your link:
  
  The producers used identity-conscious casting for the series, similar to how theatre productions have long approached casting historical plays.
  
  According to Channel 5, identity-conscious casting “makes space for and embraces how actors and artists can bring their whole identities or even parts of their identities to a character. Actors from minority backgrounds that are not often represented on screen can therefore claim parts that correspond to their personal identities, without being limited by them”.
  
  Got it. So this means that you don’t have to have a trans actor playing the part of a trans character, or a gay voice actor providing the voice of a gay character. You can just have – what do we call them; ah yes, ACTORS – acting any part. Nice to know …
  
  … Oh, that’s different, is it?
  
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  July 26, 2021 3:09pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    They’ll do anything to drum up interest, and weird casting choices have long titillated that small snobbish elitist and pretentious (naturally mostly left wing) subset of population who like theatre – but it probably doesn’t cross over well to tv and movies – they will hurt themselves more than they help, and ultimately profitability will likely limit it – novelty will quickly wear off.
    
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    July 26, 2021 4:50pm
Maggie Pie

BREAKING.

Another All Black charged with violent assault on a female!

Color me surprised…..

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1419483252809736195
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July 26, 2021 2:48pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

Polling in Detroit reveals blacks want more police on the streets by a 9:1 margin. It is only whites who want them defunded (because BLM doncha know). Usual left wing elite virtue signalling insanity completely out of step with the ‘victims’ they are white knighting for: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/07/25/detroit-police-reform-public-safety-defund-suffolk-poll/8001468002/
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July 26, 2021 2:54pm
Tauhei Notts

I was surprised to see the Act Party attract 80 people to their Stratford meeting and 170 to their Feilding meeting.
These attendance figures somehow reminded me of a bloke running around our country in 1975 getting big audiences before the biggest about turn in our electoral history.
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July 26, 2021 3:10pm
- [email protected]
  
  Got an email from ACT saying they want to hear from us about what is important to us. Act is having public meetings in Northland at Kerikeri and Dargaville but not Whangarei. Why not Whangarei with its much larger population?
  
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  July 26, 2021 6:00pm
Maggie Pie

EVER FANCIED HAVING BIGGER BOOBS?

The ‘Pfizer Vaccine’ could be just what you’ve been waiting for 😀

https://twitter.com/newscomauHQ/status/1419487637409198081
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July 26, 2021 3:44pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Link doesn’t work.
  
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  July 26, 2021 4:16pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Oh yes it does…..did you try kliking on it?
    
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    July 26, 2021 4:23pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      It does now. Don’t be a smartarse.
      
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      July 26, 2021 9:28pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Thought you may have had ‘Net Nanny’ installed 😛
        
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        July 26, 2021 9:53pm
Kiwi_in_Paris

All 141 hospitalizations in New South Wales, Australia had at least 1 jab, 140 had both:

https://twitter.com/davidkurten/status/1419416527695187976

[Mod. Note: Suggest people read the comments submitted following on from this Twitter post to get the truth.]
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July 26, 2021 5:51pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Comment to mod: who appointed you fact checker?
  
  Watch this press conference for confirmation of KIP’s assertion: https://www.bitchute.com/video/agNogo1cMz6m/
  
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  July 26, 2021 10:37pm
fernglas

So does this ISIS “mum” who is being repatriated from Turkey have to wait until November to find out if she gets a place in MIQ like every other Kiwi who needs to come home?
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July 26, 2021 6:05pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  And will she have the $7130 to pay for her stay….or will that be just the START of what the taxpayer is up for?
  
  Don’t we get a say in any of this? SHEESH!!
  
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  July 26, 2021 6:42pm
- krazykiwi
  
  It will be an emergency allocation.
  
  While NZ citizens are locked out of their own country.
  
  Flagrant abuse of power by Ardern.
  
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  July 26, 2021 10:39pm

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