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krazykiwi

How would you like ‘dem boosters, eh?

Well, here is the UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid explaining to their parliament that 3 monthly boosters will keep the country safe.

Yes, seriously. 3 monthly. 4 shots each year. Forever.

First the vaxxes don’t work as promised, so the dutifully double jabbed need 6 monthly boosters.

Then the boosters don’t work as promised so the dutifully triple jabbed need 3 monthly boosters.

See any pattern here?

Pfizer et al will be orgasmic at this, as your bodies are converted to subscription income in perpetuity.

Further, our bio-fascist governments will be licking their chops at the prospect of demanding your bodily submission 3 monthly in order for you to retain your, ahem, ‘freedoms’.

How is the vaccination hamster wheel feeling now?
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December 4, 2021 8:00am
- PhilBest
  
  Gee….what could possibly go wrong….? (In best Paul Joseph Watson voice)
  
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  December 4, 2021 8:05am
  - Tom Hunter
    
    People may like this particular hamster gif – upside down on his back, little legs going full tilt.
    
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    December 4, 2021 11:27am
  - dcrane
    
    Here’s a hint:
    
    https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/they-are-now-blaming-all-the-deaths
    
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    December 4, 2021 3:58pm
- Mr_Blobby
  
  Welcome to our new lockdown tyranny.
  
  How is that new freedom feeling now.
  
  To all you people who have given up your privacy and freedom for the perception of safety.
  
  You now do not have privacy, freedom and are definitely not safe.
  
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  December 4, 2021 8:08am
  - Rich Prick
    
    I felt quite dirty walking past bars and restaurants full of clean people last night. Each one had a sign up along the lines of “clean only”. Well done Cindy, I guess that was the master coercive plan.
    
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    December 4, 2021 9:43am
    - Mr_Blobby
      
      Maximum 100 people all seated no dancing o hanging around the bar
      
      Why would you bother
      
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      December 4, 2021 10:26am
    - jgw739
      
      I have a sign up outside work.
      
      ‘All welcome, unless you are actually sick.’
      
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      December 4, 2021 12:06pm
      - Rich Prick
        
        The most sensible thing I’ve read all day. Instead we go all Nazi Germany with special badges. Thanks Cindy.
        
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        December 4, 2021 10:28pm
      - Rich Prick
        
        Actually, I’m kind of curious, does Cindy have a storage plan for the dirty and unclean people? They ought to be allowed to move about freely with heavy rocks and some such. Let us know if wooden halls are being built in strange places, especially if near Cindy’s light rail.
        
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        December 4, 2021 11:32pm
- Reid
  
  There’s an interesting question on the vax availability. We’ve consumed billions of doses to date and now billions more doses are to be made available. All of them were made since the approval or maybe they started them before that in anticipation. Either way, the math doesn’t work.
  
  If all the vaccine makers combined were able to make a dose at the rate of one per second, it would take almost 32 years to make a billion doses. Where’s it all coming from? Some people are on their fourth dose.
  
  We haven’t seen any visible expansion of their manufacturing facilities, no mass recruitment for the highly trained specialised staff required to make these things. Nothing like that is visible, at all. Yet here we are, with what appears to be an unlimited supply of this treatment. It’s almost like its been stockpiled.
  
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  December 4, 2021 8:10am
  - cmm
    
    They’re making them much, much faster than 1/second. Remember each vial is 7 doses (or only 5 if you have NZ short-needle syndrome).
    
    The manufacturing has also been licensed out to many manufacturing sites. For example there’s even one in South Africa. The largest is in India.
    
    On its own, the Pfizer factory in Germany produces over 40 million doses a week (70 per second) and it is far from the largest. That’s 2 billion doses a year right there.
    
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    December 4, 2021 9:08am
    - virtualmark
      
      cmm, I’ve told you before, stop bringing facts into an emotional complaint session.
      
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      December 4, 2021 12:58pm
  - Bridgenag
    
    Saline water down?
    
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    December 4, 2021 9:12am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    You are incorrect. There have been nassive increases in their production capacity. We are talking thousands of doses per second. Not one.
    
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    December 4, 2021 9:14am
    - cmm
      
      You might be over-egging that one BY: certainly hundreds, but perhaps not thousands.
      
      According to ourworddata, there are currently 35.5 million doses being administered a day. That’s 410 per second. Quite likely the production rate is close to the same.
      
      At a few $ profit per dose you can see why they’ll be keen to keep the hamster running as long as possible.
      
      You can see while they’re actively pushing that people use the existing stuff for Omicron even though they know it needs a change. A 3 month hiatus in productions while making a new recipe would be a disaster on the stock market.
      
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      December 4, 2021 9:40am
      - Brian McDonald
        
        Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
        Like you and KK overegged “herd immunity.” When actually your “overegging” is in a stratosphere of its own where the streets are paved in laid on thick bs.
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/covid-19-coronavirus-omicron-stricken-south-africa-may-be-glimpse-into-the-future/SI35XFCO3M22RLUJOHTIVRB3HU/
        
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        December 4, 2021 10:37am
  - Fight4NZ
    
    Points for trying though ?
    
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    December 4, 2021 9:39am
  - Man Among the Ruins
    
    I imagine that they had to produce the vaccine in sufficiently huge numbers before they rolled out the pandemic last year.
    
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    December 4, 2021 12:06pm
  - Aunty
    
    Wow, you really are clueless on how these things are made, aren’t you? The vials contain 2mls of vaccine, and each dose to be administered is 300 microlitres or 0.3 ml.
    
    1 billion doses x 0.3 mls/ dose = 300,000 litres of vaccine.
    
    There are 6 doses per vial of vaccine (6 x 0.3mls = 1.8ml) although there are 2 mls of vaccine supplied per vial using the same principle as a Baker’s dozen.
    
    300,000 L x 2/1.8 = 333,333 L
    
    Therefore:-
    333,333 L / 2 (10-3) L [vial] = 166,666,500 vials
    
    So the manufacturer has to produce 333,333 L of vaccine and bottle it into 166,666,500 vials to produce 1 billion doses of vaccine.
    
    Just 4 factories running 24/7 need to make 83,333 L in total each and bottle that into 41,666,625 vials. If it took 1 year to make that many, then each factory would need to produce 228.3 liters of vaccine a day, and bottle that into 114,155 vials a day. A reasonable Coke bottling factory could handle that, why do you think a company like Pfizer with a purpose-built factory and plant, for example, couldn’t?
    
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    December 5, 2021 7:08am
- Morry45
  
  Hi Kiwi, I have followed your posts for a while now, and I’m interested in what you think the end game of all this is? What is the point of the Vaccine Hamster Wheel? Is it Government Control? If so, to what end?
  Where do you think all this is leading?
  Thanks!!
  
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  December 4, 2021 8:12am
  - Nickc2
    
    IMO, it’s a control mechanism. Look no further than countries using the most draconian measures to control their populations in the name of Covid eg Germany, Austria, Canada, America, New Zealand and Australia (in Qld, Vic, WA, SA and ACT) to name a few.
    What do all these places have in common? I would suggest Socialist Govts with Control Freaks in charge and little or no expertise in managing economies.
    Extrapolating from the above, what will the ultimate result be? IMO, a Global Financial Crisis the likes of which no living person has experienced.
    Then, step in and take charge none other than that cesspit of Socialist dictators, the UN. Then what do we get? A world without borders, a one-world Govt and ………
    There are already UN Mandates in place and agreed in one way or another for Mandate Implementation.
    Then, the Man-Made Global Warming scam will also have served its purpose and fade into insignificance. Its followers will have done their job and be suitably rewarded by the UN.
    
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    December 4, 2021 9:37am
    - Morry45
      
      Thanks Nick, I appreciate that.
      
      I struggle to believe though that Jacinda is that smart and sits in a back room planning.
      
      Is anyone pulling strings or is it just a deeply held belief that they are doing the right thing?
      
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      December 4, 2021 2:44pm
  - Homas
    
    Congratulations Comrade Ardern! Soviet Utopia achievement unlocked!
    
    I don’t have any of the default vax passport IDs so I need to get my alternative ID checked by a RealMe agent.
    
    Took time off work midweek to go to local AA office – after 20 mins queuing, RealMe has crashed indefinitely – give up.
    
    Queuing again first thing Saturday morning. AA guy comes out and points to person five spots ahead of me and says about there is two hours away. Don’t have two hours spare, give up.
    
    So, despite having obligingly suffered the underlying substantive physical indignity of vaccination, it appears I’m still required to pretty much elevate the most facile bureaucratic act of rubber stamping to, at the very least a committed pastime, if not a full time job.
    
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    December 4, 2021 9:49am
    - rouppe
      
      You don’t have a birth certificate?
      
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      December 4, 2021 10:56am
  - Romney
    
    You could try ‘Melissa Ciummei from Northern Ireland’ on Ytube if she’s still there. A piece titled ‘The pandemic will end when the digital currency is in place.’
    
    “They’re not vaccine passports. They are data passports, they are participation passports – All your data will be on them, they will control you or shut you out of society – this is about a finacial reset because the fiat currency has failed etc.
    
    About thirty minutes in this vein,(lol) I don’t generally go for this stuff but it’s hard to wxplain some of their actions otherwise. Why vax children? Because they want them in the system, growing up with it, used to it. She does not seem crazy.
    
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    December 4, 2021 9:49am
    - mawm
      
      Here she is. It is very good.
      
      https://brandnewtube.com/watch/theres-n0-pandemic-this-is-the-new-world-order_WEEn4TuIvkk6tkU.html
      
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      December 4, 2021 2:08pm
      - BAM
        
        That’s quite a disturbing interview.
        
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        December 4, 2021 4:58pm
  - Morry45
    
    Why the down ticks? It’s a genuine question? In really uncomfortable with what’s going on and I am really interested in alternative opinions on where this is all going?
    I am well aware there are shades of Germany in 1930… but why!?
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:25am
    - Man Among the Ruins
      
      The end goal, Morry, is complete subjugation. The vaccination program, under the guise of a “health crisis,” is the criterion to get everyone on a universal global digital ID system, through which access can be given or taken away (we now have “privileges” as opposed to freedoms). Digital currency, panopticon surveillance, social credit status as punishment or reward, access to work and society. As everything, it is all hidden in plain site, if we care to look and understand.
      
      https://id2020.org/
      
      https://www.universallifetools.com/2021/02/covid-vaccines-agenda-id2020/
      
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      December 4, 2021 12:12pm
      - dcrane
        
        See also “This Pivotal Moment”. Domestic vaccine passports represent an inflection point, beyond which “freedoms” will be allotted and denied to us as reward and punishment.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TFKkbj01NQ
        
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        December 4, 2021 4:24pm
    - Reid
      
      Morry if you google “The Great Reset” you’ll be on the money with the why.
      
      This link will show you where we are heading if we don’t stop them.
      
      https://warroom.org/2021/12/03/episode-1459-humans-are-doomed-to-go-extinct/
      
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      December 4, 2021 1:22pm
    - Harriet
      
      You know you are under occupation when the female toilets become a wellness room for the mentally ill.
      
      As I’ve said — democracy is always in a state of civil war, as that is what democracy is, civil war, and it’s only at the bitter end the guns come out, if they do.
      
      Holding a revolutionary war over female toilets is seen by the public for what it is — devolution of man.
      
      Something you pull each others hair out over. 😎
      
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      December 4, 2021 1:46pm
    - Reid
      
      Morry try this link instead of that other, it gets to the point much faster.
      
      https://thefederalist.com/author/joe-allen/
      
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      December 4, 2021 2:05pm
    - Fight4NZ
      
      Just search for QAnon and get the “real” story.
      
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      December 4, 2021 10:06pm
  - Mr_Blobby
    
    The answer nothing good.
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:29am
  - Harriet
    
    “…..Where do you think all this is leading?….”
    
    Bewteen Her,
    Covid,
    the cost,
    3 waters,
    the media pay-off,
    and now this…..
    
    ……you will end up with a senate. That’s guaranteed !
    
    Or as a near failed state joining Australia;
    
    “…Party List…”
    
    ” failing up! “— is what they call it in Aussie lingo!
    
    Dan and Cindy are nothing more than the supreme commanders of socialism in the south pacific.
    
    Cuba Off The Coast Of Victoria. 😎
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:35am
    - Mr_Blobby
      
      Why what does NZ have to offer Australia they certainly dont want our native criminals
      
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      December 4, 2021 12:28pm
  - Spoff
    
    One possible answer:
    https://21stcenturywire.com/2021/12/02/globalist-agenda-melissa-cuimmei-explains-vaccine-passports-and-financial-reset/
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:56am
  - Observer of Life
    
    Morry: Agenda 2030 (“you will own nothing and be happy”… The agenda of the “World Economic Forum…” ………..
    
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    December 4, 2021 1:20pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    Morry45, bit late to this, and many of the salient points have already been raised. I can’t find evidence of a single, coordinated conspiracy here, but rather disparate sets of powerful people leveraging the situation for their own ends. They include: –
    
    Western leaders: Mostly Marxist in world view and for them this is a great opportunity to strengthen their grip on power and to start to dismantle some of the democratic principles that have proven so pesky at having them thrown from office after screwing economies and peoples lives while working hard to strengthening their positions a the ruling elite. The problem we face as they get replaced by people who are still Marxist, but more agreeably so. Rinse and repeat.
    
    WHO: Sick of playing second fiddle to the IPCC in the game of advancing the UN’s very publicly stated aim of becoming an unelected global government thereby neutering state sovereignty.
    
    Fauci, Gates et al: These guys have been donkey-deep in this mess, and not in a constructive way. Fauci name is listed on 4 patents for a key glycoprotein (GP120) that is found in SARS-CoV-2, but no other coronaviruses. As for Gates, his vaccine efforts have been killing poor rural people in India and parts of Africa.
    
    Big Pharma: Have looked enviously at the technology industry’s assumption of global dominance, and have lusted after a subscription revenue model
    
    ‘Experts’: A motley crew of assorted scientific wannabe’s who see their opportunity for some prime time. Given license to make outlandish predictions with no accountability because their paymasters in WHO, Big Pharma and state leaders need a fearful population for their aspirations to be advanced.
    
    In terms of where it will head, I see a couple of scenarios: –
    1. If the masses sit idly by and tacitly support these government interventions, then we will see emergence of a digital social credit and payment system; or,
    2. If the masses rise up and reject these interventions, demanding a complete unwinding of the diktat-driven policy world that has been foisted on us, then we might get some semblance of civil democracy back.
    
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    December 4, 2021 4:18pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      I’ve just finished the video liked by Spoff above. Seems I share the same What Happens Next options with Melissa Cuimmei.
      
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      December 4, 2021 4:29pm
      - Spoff
        
        I too began with what I called a “confluence of interest” theory as I see most drivers of social change in that light.
        I could easily imagine Pharma executives planning a marketing initiative based on fear. I could imagine big investors piling on, politicians recognising a wonderful opportunity to wipe the slate clean under the guise of a natural disaster or actually buying into the fear, security agencies recognising a business opportunity, Law Enforcement seeing an opportunity for their Holy Grail – permanent and universal tracking etc. etc. The Media’s role is easy to understand – since Clinton it has been made available to manipulation by the investor classes.
        It has gone on too long however. The fact that the “vaccines” don’t provide immunity and increasingly appear to be hazardous does indeed make a nonsense out of discriminatory measures such as vaccine passports and mandates.
        So why persist?
        There does seem to be something behind the curtain. Melissa Cuimmei’s explanation is one of the better theories.
        There are others of course. One could see it as simply the consequence of the invention of the calculator.
        The almost religious faith in artificial intelligence is misplaced. Computer modelling of something with an infinite number of variables such as human behaviour (or the behaviour of a virus) is simply junk. There is a widespread misconception that computers can think. They cannot. They can only calculate.
        
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        December 4, 2021 7:07pm
- cmm
  
  I think this is a massive stock clearing exercise.
  
  It is looking more and more like the vaccine is less effective on Delta and even less effective still on Omicron – then likely even less effective on the next (if there is one). Pfizer needs to tweak the recipe to handle the Omicron changes.
  
  That means Pfizer is now sitting on a lot of stock that is now obsolete. They will want to clear that stock. The only way to do that is to double down on vax.
  
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  December 4, 2021 8:13am
  - Weetbix3ways
    
    Presumably this is all already covered in the contracts signed by the governments with Pfizer that the governed are not allowed to see.
    
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    December 4, 2021 8:16am
  - PhilBest
    
    These variants do seem to be following the long-accepted trend with viruses, that they lose their deadliness, even as possibly they become more transmissible. There has been numerous viruses in the past in human history that did not stay around forever, mutating into ever more deadly forms and of course, killing off all of humanity, and no vaccine technology existed either.
    
    Every single one has mutated itself into some kind of endemic, latent, co-existent form; and a dance with human immune systems occurred meanwhile. It is a question how well we really understand this.
    
    But with Covid, we are expected to believe endless speculative alarmism that flies in the face of all past experience and orthodox knowledge. Each new variant could be the Doomsday one! Natural immunity is useless! Only needles can save us!
    
    Experts and non-experts alike, who are insisting on these “unorthodoxies”, cannot possibly be in good faith. The era we are in, is “The Great Gaslighting”. The progressives, the globalists – their modus operandi is to enforce belief in lies. This is how they operate in everything, not just Covid. The way humanity falls into various categories in responding to it, is something we have seen before in the history of totalitarian movements.
    
    I just read THIS:
    
    “…Consider this, the ‘good German’ did not seek out bad things. He did not necessarily condone bad things. He simply accepted at arm’s length the Third Reich for what it was, did what was required, and got on with his life. All this worked perfectly well for him till Hitler began losing the war and the protections of the shared psychosis that was the National Socialist state evaporated. Today’s ‘good global citizen’ is being eased into a NWO no less immoral and dangerous than the Third Reich. Medical apartheid, state monopoly on truth, door-to-door compliance checks, federalized snitching, psychiatric detainment, and more — what is not already firmly in place is on the way…”
    
    https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2021/11/puzzling-out-puzzle-pieces.html?m=1
    
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    December 4, 2021 8:58am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I was very surprised that our Government did a big push to just have a 3 week space between the 2 vaccinations.
    
    All the data indicates that better immunity is gained with a longer period between vax 1 and vax 2…
    
    ‘The larger interval is also consistent with the advice from the COVID Technical Advisory Group (CVTAG) for an extended interval between doses.
    (Min of Health advice August 21, 2021)
    https://www.health.govt.nz/news-media/media-releases/time-between-doses-covid-19-vaccine-extended
    
    However if our Pfizer stock was about to go past its use-by date (and remember we had to buy in left-over stock from Spain), I can see why there was a rush to use it all up before it expired.
    
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    December 4, 2021 9:32am
    - cmm
      
      It was also part of the timing for the big week end thing, getting to 90% and traffic lights etc.
      
      All those require urgency.
      
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      December 4, 2021 9:43am
      - Brian McDonald
        
        So does South Africa.
        
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        December 4, 2021 10:38am
      - cmm
        
        Not sure how you think South Africa comes into it, but then I don’t quite know how the criminal mind works.
        
        But since you brought up South Africa…
        
        South Africa has approx 24% fully vaccinated – though likely a bit higher in cities and approx 30% in Soweto.
        
        Since around 1/3 of the people in Baragwanath hospital (Soweto) with Omicron are vaccinated, it looks like the vaccine isn’t working on Omicron.
        
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        December 4, 2021 2:32pm
      - mawm
        
        I thought that omicron had mild symptoms. Are those in Bara just coincidental findings by testing all patients or ones with severe disease?
        
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        December 4, 2021 6:55pm
    - virtualmark
      
      They started with using the 3-week gap between doses, because that’s the protocol used in the Phase III trials.
      
      Then, in about July/August, they recommended extending that to an 8-12 week gap, because the ongoing medical research showed that gives a stronger immune response.
      
      Then, once Delta got established here, they went back to the original 3-week recommendation because although that doesn’t give quite as strong a protection it does get a lot more people fully vaccinated faster. Sensibly prioritising a lot of good vs a little bit of perfect.
      
      AFAIK we have no imminent problem with Pfizer vaccine here going past its use-by date.
      
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      December 4, 2021 1:02pm
  - Fletch
    
    ANd to give it to kids. Kids being sacrificed for profit.
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:05am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I was raised to believe that my duty as an adult is to care and protect the young generation.
      
      I see no reason on Earth why young kids should protect the elderly.
      
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      December 4, 2021 11:48am
      - Tom Hunter
        
        “Thinking that everyone must be vaccinated is as scientifically flawed as thinking that nobody should. COVID vaccines are important for older high-risk people, and their care-takers. Those with prior natural infection do not need it. Nor children.”
        
        Sheesh. What fringe nutter said that?
        
        Dr. Martin Kulldorff is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a biostatistician and epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He helped develop the CDC’s current system for monitoring potential vaccine risks.
        …
        A Harvard Medical School colleague specializing in drug and vaccine safety research, Jeffrey Brown, said that Kulldorff is a “world-class vaccine safety superstar,….His qualifications are spectacular,…He’s an international expert in vaccine safety. No one on earth would question whether he’s qualified. … He’s a pioneer.”
        
        The kids are alright:
        
        “Then for other children in the 5-11-year-old age group, you really have to put a high premium on ensuring safety. Because we know that once you’ve excluded that probably 2 or 3 per cent of children with severe other problems, then the rest of the children, the chance of them getting even more than a cold or something they may not even notice, is really very small.”
        – Peter McIntyre. Otago University professor of women’s and children’s health,
        
        Gee, I guess he hasn’t looked at all the stats proving that it’s at least as serious a medical disease as polio”
        
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        December 4, 2021 7:30pm
    - virtualmark
      
      You have seen this https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/preventative-health-wellness/immunisation/new-zealand-immunisation-schedule right?
      
      We immunise kids against a host of things. That’s not because we’re sacrificing them to make a profit, it’s because these are sensible protections for their own good.
      
      Statistically, Covid is at least as serious a medical disease as polio. Infants get 3 polio vaccinations in their first 5 months, then another when they’re 4. I wager you got your kids vaccinated against polio without giving it a second thought. But you’re losing your shit over the Covid vaccine.
      
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      December 4, 2021 1:07pm
      - Show me the evidence
        
        Do you understand the concept of a risk-benefit analysis? If so then there are very qualified people who have looked at this:
        https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/what-is-the-number-needed-to-vaccinate
        https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/ten-red-flags-in-the-fdas-risk-benefit
        BTW every scientist here and overseas no matter how pro-vax admits Covid is nowhere close to as serious as polio or influenza for children. It is widely acknowledged by every doctor that vaccinating those under 18 is to protect everyone else.
        
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        December 4, 2021 4:25pm
      - dcrane
        
        More preprint (not yet reviewed) data from Germany on the extremely low risks from covid in children:
        
        https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.30.21267048v1
        
        “The lowest risk was observed in children aged 5-11 without comorbidities. In this group, the ICU admission rate was 0.2 per 10,000 and case fatality could not be calculated, due to an absence of cases.”
        
        So 1 in 50,000 cases went to ICU. And no deaths observed at all in children without comorbidities.
        
        Keep in mind that a new large survey from Hong Kong shows the risk of myocarditis/pericarditis in children to be as high as 1 in 2700 from Pfizer, depending on cohort (sex and age).
        
        https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab989/6445179
        
        “There is a significant increase in the risk of acute myocarditis/pericarditis following Comirnaty vaccination among Chinese male adolescents, especially after the second dose.”
        
        Lastly it’s worth keeping in mind how clear it is that high vaccination rates do not stop the virus from circulating:
        
        https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(21)00258-1/fulltext
        
        “Many decisionmakers assume that the vaccinated can be excluded as a source of transmission. It appears to be grossly negligent to ignore the vaccinated population as a possible and relevant source of transmission when deciding about public health control measures”
        
        I still see absolutely no justification for mass-vaccination of children. Instead, it is very likely an action we will live to regret. The vaccines should be available for parents who decide the risk is worth it for their kids (some of whom are much more vulnerable than others) and that is all. But is the NZ government even paying attention?
        
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        December 4, 2021 4:52pm
      - virtualmark
        
        Yes, my work involves analysing and balancing costs, benefits and risks every day. I don’t need your help with that.
        
        And yes, Covid is statistically more serious than polio. Polio is so mild that more than 95% of people infected by it don’t even know they’ve ever had it. The images we remember of kids in iron lungs, or with withered limbs, are actually statistically rare cases. Less than 1% of polio infections led to any form of paralysis, most of those cleared in within 30 days, and about 2% of that 1% died. The US’s worst year for polio (1952) saw 58,000 reported cases, and 3,145 deaths. In 70 years about 110,000 Americans died of polio.
        
        So far the US records nearly 50 million cases of Covid and about 800,000 deaths, in less than 24 months.
        
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        December 4, 2021 6:20pm
      - virtualmark
        
        To be clear … both polio or Covid are serious diseases. I’m not trying to setup a contest between the two. Both are highly contagious, mostly (nearly always) mild, but occasionally serious and/or deadly. It is sensible for us to vaccinate against polio, even though it hasn’t been a presence for decades. And it is also sensible for us to vaccinate against Covid.
        
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        December 4, 2021 6:34pm
      - General
        
        You are dangerous, also very wrong. I hope you can evolve your thought process someday. I would wager you won’t. You’re a fail.
        
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        December 4, 2021 8:56pm
    - Fight4NZ
      
      Sacrificed? So there’s a pile of kids bodies somewhere?
      
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      December 4, 2021 1:07pm
      - dcrane
        
        So it’s OK with you if coronary damage isn’t fatal now but shortens their lives by some years in the future? Myocarditis is a serious issue.
        
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        December 4, 2021 4:54pm
      - virtualmark
        
        Myocarditis is also an extremely rare issue.
        
        Even in the most at-risk group (16-17yo males) it’s about 75 cases per million people … or 0.0075%.
        
        If we gave aspirin to every person in New Zealand we’d experience a similar rate of adverse effects. From aspirin.
        
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        December 4, 2021 6:45pm
      - Fight4NZ
        
        No it isn’t. Covid virus on the other hand…
        
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        December 4, 2021 9:47pm
  - Nickc2
    
    When our immune systems are so full of injected stuff designed to fight a Man-Made virus, what other tasks are our immune systems ignoring?
    PS: I have been vaxxed.
    
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    December 4, 2021 11:16am
    - mawm
      
      CD8+ T cells have vital tasks. Yours are probably low.
      
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      December 4, 2021 2:26pm
    - Fight4NZ
      
      You are suggesting the immune system has capacity for only one pathogen at a time and a minuscule vaccine dose is all it takes to overwhelm that capacity?
      
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      December 4, 2021 4:31pm
      - mawm
        
        No. Pathologists are finding low levels of CD8+ T cells in those that have been vaccinated. You can find out for yourself what these cells do.
        
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        December 4, 2021 6:59pm
      - Fight4NZ
        
        No they aren’t.
        
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        December 5, 2021 11:41pm
- Yvette
  
  Krazykiwi – the vaccination hamster wheel
  
  It seems while the vaccine wains in efficacy 5 – 6 months after reaching its full potency, it still for some considerable time prevents you from developing serious illness or needing hospitalisation if you catch the virus in the interim.
  And that would seem to be an option, were it to happen: that the vaccine protects you to survive an actual covid infection that would then give you a degree of natural immunity.
  
  An initial suggestion that natural immunity was best (‘natural’, eh?), was only true if you survived that first on onslaught you’d be OK, but if you didn’t it would become a dead issue. Now the vaccine could make a better bet.
  Is anyone doing any helpful research on that scenario? Is it not a duty of “protection” (even under Article 3 of the Treaty) that the Crown do such research, or accumulate such knowledge as is available on it? How long does ‘natural immunity’ last, compared to the vaccine?
  
  Or does that scenario not fit Ardern’s agenda? (on the edge of a conspiracy, huh?)
  
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  December 4, 2021 8:18am
  - PhilBest
    
    Seeing so many Covid infections are asymptomatic or mild, it is obviously perfectly possible to achieve natural immunity at no risk of death. The experts just need to accept the mechanism by which infections are more or less severe. This is the dose of aerosols one inhales.
    
    I have lost the link now, but more than a year ago, a couple of researchers proposed that people should deliberately “cohort with” others who have a confirmed Covid infection but have passed the crucial “shedding” stage. They rightly called this “passive inoculation”.
    
    The reason lockdowns are so spectacularly unsuccessful is that they forego the abundant mild and asymptomatic transmission in normal everyday life that with pandemics in the past, conferred herd immunity invisibly or nearly so, in most. This process is what we should be tracking with the new hyper sensitive PCR technology, instead of going into a hysterical panic about every single “case”.
    
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    December 4, 2021 9:04am
    - Fight4NZ
      
      https://youtu.be/2XvZHNt27PM
      
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      December 4, 2021 2:21pm
      - General
        
        You watch pathetic people celebrating death for fun? Yikes.
        
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        December 4, 2021 9:00pm
      - Fight4NZ
        
        It could not go over your head because your reactions are too fast.
        
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        December 5, 2021 11:45pm
  - Fletch
    
    The best scenario is that Omicron is as mild as they say, the whole world gets infected with it, and we have natural immunity to all forms of Covid.
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:07am
  - Brian McDonald
    
    The Jury is out on whether a previous Covid infection protects against Omicron. Check out reports from WHO published in the Herald.
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:41am
    - Spoff
      
      “Check out reports from WHO published in the Herald”
      Chicken entrails are more reliable.
      
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      December 4, 2021 11:00am
      - Observer of Life
        
        Spoff: ???
        
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        December 4, 2021 1:35pm
    - freemark
      
      Brian. Are you that blind that you don’t see the orchestration by WHO of the whole fiasco? You somehow think the MSM is just a neutral observer that isn’t now desperately trying to save itself from the people’s realisation that it’s been the tool for fear & misinformation? Man…
      
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      December 4, 2021 11:02am
    - RightNow
      
      “Check out reports from WHO published in the Herald.”
      
      ROFL… do you write your own material? That’s gold!
      
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      December 4, 2021 11:14am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      No wonder you are so completely ill informed. It’s incredible that people read that shit and believe it’s actually news. Astonishing.
      
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      December 4, 2021 1:42pm
      - Fight4NZ
        
        https://osf.io/72abp/
        
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        December 4, 2021 2:41pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        I can’t respond directly to your response to my post. But the company you linked to have a vested interest in the vaccine gravy train so they are a tad compromised.
        
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        December 4, 2021 7:40pm
      - Fight4NZ
        
        There is no company mentioned in the paper? It simply asked the basic questions that leap off the page of what you posted.
        
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        December 4, 2021 10:13pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I see a pattern of compulsive lying
  
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  December 4, 2021 8:49am
  - Brian McDonald
    
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    You can’t help it Steve.
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:41am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      One would almost think Mike made that smartarse comment
      
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      December 4, 2021 12:04pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  If I see the vaccinated dropping dead in the streets, I’ll have the booster. Otherwise no.
  
  The government will tie itself in knots. They will be tempted to make boosters a condition of vaccine passes. But they will face a backlash.
  
  But if they make boosters optional, it will soon become apparent that the vaccinated are being infected at about the same rate as the unvaccinated. In that scenario the logic of vaccine passes and mandates goes out the window.
  
  There will be many people who say “enough”. They will be thinking I did the right thing and got vaccinated, but I am not taking this vaccine forever.
  
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  December 4, 2021 8:50am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    The vaccine passes seem to be based on NHI records so no record of latest Kindy jab–no pass.
    
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    December 4, 2021 8:54am
    - Observer of Life
      
      Kev: There is the first major issue for me. “ The vaccine passes seem to be based on NHI records..”
      I like my privacy.
      
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      December 4, 2021 1:38pm
      - KevO'Brien
        
        I was bit concerned to recently find all my medical history including tests and doctors reviews of them are all online. I think the Health Dept has now contracted out their management to a Waikato tribal entity.
        
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        December 4, 2021 3:25pm
  - Raphael
    
    They will be tempted to make boosters a condition of vaccine passes.
    
    They already have which is why the pass expires after 6 months, and to keep it from being expired, more jabby jabby.
    
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    December 4, 2021 9:04am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      But it expires 6 months after you download the pass. Not 6 months after your last dose. That is illogical.
      
      And most of the vaccine passes were downloaded over a period of a couple of weeks. That means that they will all expire at about the same time. ? What is the plan for dealing with that?
      
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      December 4, 2021 9:22am
      - Raphael
        
        it is an illogical rollout. Like most things this government does it in haste with no proper planning.
        
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        December 4, 2021 10:49am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Nothing about the whole covid circus is logical. It never was and never will be. The sooner people understand this is nothing to do with health the sooner we start asking all the important questions and stop the madness.
        
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        December 4, 2021 1:45pm
      - oc35
        
        if one requests another pass the expiry date is 6 months from date of printing …. just keep printing
        
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        December 4, 2021 11:01pm
    - oldfella
      
      Raphael, I was curious about what a booster shot would mean for my vaccine pass. I found this:
      When will booster shots be included in the systems?
      People will be able to book a booster shot through Book My Vaccine from November 26. Once they have had a booster shot, it will show up in their My Covid Record along with their other doses
      The date for a booster shot to be included as criteria for My Vaccine Pass as part of the definition of “fully vaccinated” is yet to be determined, requiring further advice.
      How long is a pass valid for?
      A person’s My Vaccine Pass is valid for six months from date of issue.
      This is because booster shots may be required to ensure ongoing protection against Covid and because medical exemptions are only valid for six months. If vaccination passes are still required after a pass has expired, you will need to request another one to prove your vaccinations are current.
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/127010591/covid-vaccine-pass-your-questions-answered-and-all-the-key-details-you-need-to-know
      FWIW, I’ve booked my booster for Jan, by which time we should know if the current vaccine works against Omicron. If not, I’ll cancel the booking, and get a booster when an ‘Omicron tweaked’ vaccine is available.
      
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      December 4, 2021 10:07am
    - rouppe
      
      I got a booster after downloading a vaccine pass. So I will still be “current” when my pass expires, so if it needs renewing I can do that without another booster.
      
      If we’re still using these passes late 2022 we are in serious trouble
      
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      December 4, 2021 11:01am
      - Observer of Life
        
        Rouppe: “So I will still be “current” when my pass expires, so if it needs renewing I can do that without another booster”.
        You hope!!! ??
        
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        December 4, 2021 1:47pm
  - PhilBest
    
    Benedict – did you mean to say in your first sentence, “if I see the UNvaccinated dropping dead in the streets”?
    
    By the way, what is your thinking now on the subject we disagreed about a few months ago – that is, just how deadly is Covid in NZ relative to parts of the world with completely different environmental factors? I stand by what I have always said – Covid in NZ in summertime would be an excess mortality non-event even if we had no restrictions at all.
    
    Of course the officials will do their best to inflate the figures by including people who have been shot through the brains, fell off a roof, rode their motorbike into a solid object at high speed, already had advanced liver cancer, etc etc.
    
    When are Kiwis going to start saying “Habeas Corpus” – show us the BODIES that justify all the terror propaganda? BTW even the WHO is now publishing IFR’s “by country” that show a considerable range from one end of the scale to the other.
    
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    December 4, 2021 9:11am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      You have provided no evidence that the transmission of COVID is climate related. It ripped through the southern USA in summer.
      
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      December 4, 2021 11:16am
      - Tom Hunter
        
        “Climate” in the USA is a bit different on account of technology. Thus:
        – Southern USA in summer -> people stay indoors for the AC. Result, Covid-19 cases increase. Fall and Winter arrive they go outside as the heat eases to mild temperatures. Result, Covid-19 cases drop.
        
        – Northern USA in summer -> people outdoors. Result, Covid-19 cases drop. Fall and Winter arrive they stay inside for the central heating. Result, Covid-19 cases increase.
        
        I recall at least one NYT reporter being confused by how the “surge” spread north as the year waned. Attacking GOP Florida was fun: Democratic Socialist Vermont not so much.
        
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        December 4, 2021 11:32am
      - PhilBest
        
        Tom Hunter has beaten me to it – but I have been saying this repeatedly for a long time. Anything that keeps people indoors with the outdoors air excluded, creates perfect Covid aerosol-spread conditions indoors. As Tom says, this can be severe heat, just as much as cold.
        
        It is airconditioning that makes the difference between hot weather in rich societies and hot weather in poor societies. This is why most of Africa has got off quite lightly in Covid. The MSM does beat up some exceptional locations like Johannesburg where it gets very cold and dry – dry = perfect Covid conditions too.
        
        NZ – to repeat myself for the thousandth time on this blog – is humid, windy, has high UV, high ozone, relatively mild range of temperatures, low air pollution, and a predominant housing type that inherently “breathes”, unlike the masonry housing that predominates in some parts of the world.
        
        I have said for a long time that even our coldest weather won’t produce Bergamo or NYC outcomes; and even our hottest weather won’t produce Southern USA outcomes. During our balmiest weather, expect Covid to be a non-event. It certainly got here from China by January 2020 and we didn’t even notice it. It is a big fat politically expedient lie that Jacinda acting hard’n’early in March 2020, “saved us from Neil Ferguson-computer-model levels of death”.
        
        My distress at the sheer avoidable stupidity in all this, over so long a period now, is literally wrecking my health. Just more collateral damage – for many it is absurdly unnecessary hysteria about the virus – for others who still have a mind and use it, it is endless distress at what we see and others won’t.
        
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        December 4, 2021 1:17pm
  - Hometruth
    
    I had my 2nd jab Tuesday couldn’t move my arm the next day and have been lethargic all week.
    Defiantly not keen on a booster.
    
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    December 4, 2021 9:28am
    - Raphael
      
      Similar reaction to what my better half had. She is not keen on getting a booster (this time round was under protest)
      
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      December 4, 2021 10:50am
      - rouppe
        
        My arm was also sore after the second jab.
        
        However I had a booster earlier in the week and no reaction, zip, nada.
        
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        December 4, 2021 11:03am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      If people lose their vaccine pass without a booster you will see anger spread dramatically. I mean I’m pro vaccine and I don’t want one. I would need to see serious transmission in the vaccinated.
      
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      December 4, 2021 11:19am
      - PhilBest
        
        Benedict, that doesn’t make sense. If you saw serious transmission in the vaccinated, wouldn’t that mean the vaccine doesn’t work anyway and therefore boosters are pointless?
        
        There actually is serious transmission in the vaccinated around the world, what rock have you been hiding under? Maybe not admitted in NZ, but that would be a measure of the sheer manipulative dishonesty of our data-providing agencies. Furthermore, these outbreaks of serious transmission correlate with lifting of restrictions, so it is unproven that the vaccine ever was providing real protection. People going back to all-night raves when they are allowed to, 6 months after they got the jab, and getting infected, does not mean they wouldn’t have got infected if they went to an all-night rave 1 month after the jab – they just weren’t allowed to back then.
        
        I believe Prof. John Gibson of Waikato University has a paper submitted for publication, that proves this from multi-country data. Covid infections rising again correlates with Google mobility data (as a proxy for people returning to normal life), and the vaccination data, population proportion, timing of vaccination, etc is statistically irrelevant.
        
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        December 4, 2021 1:24pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        There will be serious transmission in the vaccinated. The latest Lancet report is showing there is no difference in transmission between jabbed and unjabbed.
        https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(21)00258-1/fulltext?s=08#%20
        
        The booster isn’t going to change anything, it is just more risk and more proof of compliance.
        You cannot comply your way out of this circus.
        
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        December 4, 2021 1:59pm
  - cmm
    
    BY: You have already told us you want this all for traveling too.
    No doubt many countries will define “fully vaccinated” to mean boosted too – I believe some already have.
    If you want to travel and you want your vax passport then you will stand in line.
    
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    December 4, 2021 9:46am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      As I said above, people need to realise you cannot comply your way out of this. It is nothing to do with health.
      
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      December 4, 2021 2:00pm
      - Spoff
        
        Agreed. Non-compliance is our only way out. Otherwise this will become a permanent abrogation of Human Rights.
        
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        December 4, 2021 2:35pm
  - Scooter
    
    Pfizer boss says annual boosters needed for years
    
    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/covid-annual-vaccines-needed-years-pfizer-albert-bourla-b969575.html%3famp
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:12am
  - bronny1
    
    The legislation talks about being “insufficiently vaccinated” (or something like that). And days that one dose = unvaxxed. Insufficient will be when you don’t have the booster.
    
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    December 4, 2021 12:49pm
  - General
    
    Then the logic goes out the window? Come on bro. Most of the world needs a minute in a paint shaker. You included.
    
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    December 4, 2021 9:10pm
- hullkiwi
  
  Yes kk, yesterday the head of Pfizer telling the world (without even flinching) that we will probably need regular booster shots to stop covid for years to come.
  
  With govts around the world in the pockets of the 5 big Pharma companies, all that left to say is buy shares in big Pharma…
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:41am
- kevn
  
  @kk… Valneva are supplying the UK with 100 million doses shortly. Apparently. That might put Pfizer in the shade.
  
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  December 4, 2021 10:03am
- Tom Hunter
  
  I made the point in this post, Boosting into the Future with Pfizer, that the permanent subscription model that has gained ground in the world of software apps and has now moved into things like tractors and harvesters, may now have made it into the world of vaccines.
  
  You could argue that in the world of drug treatments in general there are some, like HIV drugs, that are already permanent subscriptions – if you want to live. The difference this time is that the subscription is not for life or death but freedom or not freedom.
  
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  December 4, 2021 10:05am
  - Tom Hunter
    
    Apologies. That was about decline in vaccine efficacy and the undercover video of three Pfizer scientists.
    
    This is the one on the growth of subscription models in the business world, Subscribing to immunity
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:13am
- Okahu
  
  You have a family krazy. How about taking a day or two off? Plenty here to mind the fire. Look after yourself pal.
  
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  December 4, 2021 10:25am
- Fight4NZ
  
  Yep I see the pattern. Every day you post some anti Covid vaccination comment in which you massively distort the reality of any situation you can find to try to conjure up some sort of fictional nightmare apocalypse.
  Nailed it.
  
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  December 4, 2021 10:40am
  - freemark
    
    KK’s “pattern” eh? You don’t see any other “patterns” around? Like the millions of messages you’ve been confronted with over the last almost 2 years, about death, illness, scanning, masks, jabbing, jabbing again, variants, death, fear, freedom, safety…etc, etc, etc..
    No, you don’t, as you have been well conditioned by the most sophisticated, expensive, psychologically designed campaign imaginable. To keep you scared of Covid, to keep you under control, to keep you from questioning even the most glaring illogicalities, double-speak, lies, inconsistencies. To convince you that your only safety & freedom will come from endless jabs. And it physically hurts you to consider that it is all built on these lies. Amazing that some continue to question. What is it – are they braver? Did they not watch so much TV? Is there something in the mental make-up of the 15% or so of people that can see it all quite clearly? Not exactly what the end game is, as that remains open to debate. But that there is an end game, or that it is now about covering up the greatest medical f**kup in human history, is beyond debate.
    
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    December 4, 2021 11:17am
    - Fight4NZ
      
      ??
      “ something in the mental make-up of the 15% or so of people ”
      Sure seems to be mate. If the Covid doesn’t get you the 5G will as long as you don’t stumble off the edge of the earth first. There’s just no debate. ?
      
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      December 4, 2021 12:58pm
    - Okahu
      
      If the end game “remains open to debate” what sort of campaign is playing out? I mean a campaign which involves ‘the most sophisticated, expensive, psychologically designed campaign imaginable” would likely have a goal no? Must have had planners too. Got names? Perhaps you’re working on a hunch level?
      
      Now about now I reckon you may want to retract that ‘remains open to debate’ and insert inflict tyranny on the hapless masses, or take control…or something. Because I suspect you have rather inadvertently stumbled on the truth. The whole covid episode wasn’t planned (at least by us). We are merely respondents. The response has been an almighty effort to protect lives and businesses and health systems and do so using methods pretty standard across the western world. It is a dislocation of society and it’s mechanisms few (none?) alive have experienced.
      
      Problem is, we are walking backwards into the future. Our past provides our way marks and reference points. They are all we can see and we navigate as a society accordingly, sometimes bumping, sometimes crashing into obstacles we didn’t, couldn’t see.
      
      Could they/we have done it better? Undoubtedly. Have we been hamstrung by political factionalism, the quality of our actors, maybe our very democratic system, when maybe a unified approach was warranted? Sure. Is there a coalition of resistance to policy (however dissimilar their messages) growing? Absolutely. Has anybody got a proposal how to order our response so that it reflects our needs and our democracy that isn’t this method? Put it on the table.
      
      But lets not have any of that. We have a fish to fry and we are sprinkling it with various condiments and seasonings. Tyranny, socialism, intellectual superiority, clarity of observation, Nuremberg Codes, Fauci’s gain of function, Cindy, Q, all put on the grill with great dollops of fear and anger. At which point all we have to do is make sure the heat goes on.
      
      And best of all, a smug, rank superiority that imagines perhaps “there [is] something in the mental make-up of the 15% or so of people that can see it all quite clearly”
      
      Sure.
      
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      December 4, 2021 1:43pm
      - kevn
        
        @okahu… Bit early for you to be so sure.
        
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        December 4, 2021 4:15pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Astonishing cognitive dissonance. Ardern is a liar and a fraud. The mainstream media is a bunch of corrupt shills. No matter what this is about it isn’t about health. Go get your booster.
    
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    December 4, 2021 2:15pm
- Rusty
  
  The medical experts in this world never talk about the psychological affects these ongoing vaccines and boosters are going to have on the masses right now and in the future.
  
  Sorry to say but expect a rise in mental health.
  
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  December 4, 2021 12:18pm
- Ed Snack
  
  A new study analysing the UK mortality figures for the latest set released. Twitter thread that gives leads to additional info: https://twitter.com/MartinNeil9/status/1466814347762671628
  
  Conclusion, being vaccinated has zero effect on all cause mortality for individuals. So if there is an effect protecting one against Covid, there is a negative impact on other causes, probably through the negative impact that the vaccination has on the immune system for a period. Important in this analysis is the identification of the classification of deaths of people who die within 14 days of either jab as being unvaccinated. Thus there is a very visible spike in deaths amongst the unvaccinated in the 14 day period after the vaccine is administered, with the explanation that this is the recording of deaths of those who have been vaccinated less than 14 days.
  
  With the change applied, the all causes mortality rates for vaccinated and unvaccinated is statistically no different for all ages.
  
  In the comments to the three, there is also the note that a thorough analysis of the original data Pfizer used to get emergency approval for the vaccine actually shows no statistically valid reduction in all cause mortality either, with both the vaccinated and the control group having the same outcome within the uncertainties.
  
  Obviously needs additional analysis to confirm, but if true (love that phrase, big if true) it blows the entire Covid response almost worldwide right out of the water.
  
  Second note, and I need to locate the reference, but a meta study of 400 studies into non-pharmaceutical responses to Covid (lockdowns etc) shows that one of them have had any positive effect, and most when measured in general welfare terms are net negative, some highly so.
  
  Is this why free speech is so closely suppressed these days. To prevent sensible discussions of alternatives to the current narrative.
  
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  December 4, 2021 1:09pm
- virtualmark
  
  Krazy, not sure where Sajid Javid got that 3 month booster idea from, but I’ve not heard that from the pharmas or from any serious doctors.
  
  The high-quality data says the Pfizer vaccine should have 3 doses, not the 2 used in the original Phase III trials. People under age of 30 might get away with only 2 doses, but over 30s should have 3.
  
  The 3rd shot isn’t about restoring waning immunity, but rather it’s about increasing the immune response beyond what the 2nd shot ever delivered. See https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.19.21266555v1.full?s=09 “We document large antibody responses 6-10 days after booster, with antibody levels that exceed levels documented after natural infection with COVID-19, after two doses of vaccine, or after both natural infection and vaccination”.
  
  That’s not unusual. Diptheria, pertussis and tetanus require *6* vaccinations, starting in pregnancy. Polio needs 4. Hep B takes 3 jabs. A 3-dose primary vaccination series isn’t unusual at all.
  
  AFAIK neither the pharmas or medical researchers are arguing for annual boosters, let alone 3-monthly. With Pfizer it does look like 3 shots and you’re done.
  
  That said, I could see an ongoing annual shot to “update” your immunity for any new variants. That annual update would likely be folded into the influenza shot.
  
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  December 4, 2021 1:18pm
  - kevn
    
    @Virtual… Bit hard to compare mrna Pfizer jab with the traditional vaccines you mention.
    
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    December 4, 2021 4:16pm
    - virtualmark
      
      No it’s not.
      
      It’s not about the type of vaccine, it’s about how much prodding and stimulating our immune system needs before it develops a sufficient lasting response. The medical reality is that our immune systems need to be poked hard several times before they really get the message.
      
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      December 4, 2021 6:23pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    So it’s temporary “immunity”. The most enjoyable thing in the last 2 years has been watching the implementation of newspeak. The redefinition of words and terms from what they used to mean.
    I’m sure “immunity” used to mean something else.
    
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    December 4, 2021 7:31pm
- Random T Person
  
  Our freedoms were given away. Now they are privileges, which may be taken from us if we dare resist.
  
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  December 4, 2021 1:49pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    They were stolen, while we were to traumatised to push back. It was a masterful theft.
    
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    December 4, 2021 8:58pm
- Russ the Muss
  
  Id suggest that a new Vax will get used before we start jabbing every 3 months with the original Trump lights speed bioNtech one. a Vax that will be at least 5 major variants behind very soon. Even these clowns know that every 3 months is not tenable politically. The bedwetters and wellington elite would take one every week if they were told to by their dear leader but middle NZ is not up for this.
  
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  December 4, 2021 6:01pm
- KKKKatee
  
  ‘Duped’ sums it up. Don’t forget the kids the Gvt plans to guilt trip the parents into getting jabbed for no good reason. They’ll be on that hamster wheel too.
  
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  December 4, 2021 6:40pm
Yvette

All this crap in the media about the number of properties Luxon owns – Would he not indeed lack certain financial awareness and display himself to be a bit less cognitive than his position requires, if he did not invest some of his cash in the market that Labour has so errantly allowed to now, in Auckland, accumulate about $70 per hour [1] And this, media, is without saying much about properties owned by Helen Clark or even the miserable holdings Willie Jackson has.

But then you can skip to the question of whether Luxon should recuse himself from any Parliamentary discussion of any matter that relates to housing, accomodation, infrastructure, “3 Waters” (which in power he would ban – showing yet more intelligence) or tax laws like any new consideration CGT (fortunately not to be in the rain of Ardern)?

But, for perspective, what of the vast self-conflict of interest Andrew Little, the Head of the Union not really representing the wellbeing of miners when Pike River Mine exploded (but in fact Little said the mine was OK), now has as the Minister in Charge of the Recovery of Pike River Drift, and while it had been agreed any further consideration of actually re-entering the Mine itself would be made when the roof-fall was reached, beyond the Rocsil plug, and could actually be assessed, Little – when crews were only one-seventh of the way up the length of the drift – told Cabinet he would not even recommend the proposed roof-fall assessment.

Or Willie Jackson (again) or Kelvin Davis recusing themselves from any Parliamentary matter – and that would be about everything – for being a self-conflicted Maori, or indeed any other non-Maori member for just that too: for being non-Maori. Or the media – fourth estate turned fifth column – for uttering anything without acknowledging their $55 million State funding through NZ ON AIR?

Which returns full (but minor) circle in Why mention Luxon’s properties at all?
Unless you are implying he is a biarsed rich prick – an anathema to Jacinda’s Agenda?

[1] Top of the table was New Zealand’s most expensive residential suburb Herne Bay, in Auckland, where the average property value rose $653,000 to $3.677m over the last year – about $74 per hour.
Snapping at its heels were Auckland’s Remuera, where the average property value jumped $618,000 in 12 months ($70 per hour), and Waiheke Island, where the gain was $602,000 ($68.7 per hour).
https://www.oneroof.co.nz/news/the-nz-suburbs-where-houses-earn-more-per-hour-than-the-average-kiwi-40118

medication time cometh around …
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December 4, 2021 8:01am
- pdm
  
  Would Luxon be okay to the left if he owned Commercial Property and collected even higher rents?
  
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  December 4, 2021 8:59am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Brilliant post Yvette. 100 ticks from me.
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:05am
  - oldfella
    
    I notice that the horrid has a few mainly positive National/Luxon stories on the front page.
    How did that happen?
    
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    December 4, 2021 11:03am
- artemisia
  
  Residential property has been a smart investment under Labour. Maybe now not so much as the number of properties for sale is climbing rapidly.
  
  Multiple reasons no doubt.
  
  Meanwhile over 4,000 new households were added to the social housing waiting list in September and October.
  
  Move along, nothing to see here.
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:07am
- Benedict Yu
  
  And in 2017 Jacinda promised affordable housing for all. It is failure on a monumental, generational scale.
  
  In Taiwan, any politician who failed on that scale would resign in shame. Whereas Jacinda’s plan is to simply stop talking about house prices. Let’s talk about COVID. ????
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:12am
- Yvette
  
  Further … Legislation that Luxon should recuse himself from?
  Or does he just have three and a half times the wisdom and interest that any other two property owning Member of Parliament has? –
  
  National seeks to reduce shadow of new 3-storey suburban apartment blocks
  The environment select committee reported back at 7pm on its deadline day, on a law that would allow apartment blocks throughout our biggest cities – but it ran out of time to make any changes
  
  The committee also recommends councils have a greater say in qualifying matters that will further restrict the new buildings – for instance, historic heritage neighbourhoods, the relationship of Māori and their culture and traditions with their ancestral lands, water and wāhi tapu, the natural character of the coastal environment, outstanding natural features and landscapes, and significant risks from natural hazards. Again, National wants to go further.
  
  “If the bill failed to address the recommendations made by the committee and the concerns that we have raised, then we would regretfully have to walk away,” Willis said. “I don’t think that the Government wants that to happen. And I don’t think it’s our intention.
  
  “I think it’s in everyone’s interests that concerns raised at committee and concerns raised by National are addressed, and that this is an enduring bipartisan deal. There’s no use in an accord that creates bad law.”
  
  “Years of work and millions of dollars in land development design will have been wasted, and the homes due to be delivered by these schemes will be delayed by years. We heard at committee that there may be as many as 15,000 homes in Auckland and Waikato, and almost 10,000 in Canterbury, affected in this way.”
  – ACT minority report
  https://www.newsroom.co.nz/national-seeks-to-reduce-shadow-of-new-3-storey-suburban-apartment-blocks
  
  – or, considering : “the relationship of Māori and their culture and traditions with their ancestral lands, water and wāhi tapu”, should self-conflicted Honorable Maori Members also opt out of Parliamentary debate?
  Or, as already mentioned above, a non-Maori Member, who is self-conflicted by a sense that He Puapua is creeping into housing, or that a 16.5 percent minority (less than that because so many are not voting age) are unduly (only because “They were here first”) dictating to the majority, should also recuse her, himself or other self?
  Or a mixed heritage Member who may have half a brain either way?
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:28am
- Stellaboxer
  
  It’s interesting to know that Jacinda Ardern’s net worth is now a staggering $25 million up from a humble $800,000 in 2017. She earns less than $ 500000 a year. Not a peep from the media though. I wonder if it’s from wise and forward thinking investments like oh I don’t know Pfizer shares lol.
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:38am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    That figure comes from scammer sites. I don’t for one moment believe the PM has a nett worth anywhere near that.
    
    Luxon on the other hand earned $4m/year as CEO of Air New Zealand, and would also have earned a seven figure salary at Unilever. He’s earned the right to invest as he pleases, and all power to him. Success should be celebrated, not mocked or reviled.
    
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    December 4, 2021 11:39am
  - curry4me
    
    Stellaboer: Aparently, it’s from a ‘conspiracies R us’ type of site.
    
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    December 4, 2021 1:28pm
  - kevn
    
    @Stella… Urban myth.
    
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    December 4, 2021 4:17pm
- Pavel
  
  Why should anyone apologize for being successful? Do people not understand that wealth does not come easy. I’ve never met a millionaire who is not a workaholic with a phone ringing all day long. Stories of working 16 hour days, 7 days a week, for months in a row and regret for not spending enough time with their kids during the important years of when they were young seem to be a common thread with them. It is not a lifestyle I’d aspire for my kids, if anything it is more an addiction to work and having no life at all. I’ve never met a multi millionaire who has just had a 9 to 5 job all their lives. Their the busiest people I know and I hate calling them in case their busy and I disrupt them.
  Also with Luxtons Remuera mansion going up in value; um does anyone know who has been in power the last 4 years? He could really capitalize on this and use it as a way to highlight government failure. I wish he would, we’d never hear about his houses again.
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:40am
- Brian McDonald
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  At least he knows many houses he has got and is not hiding it. He also seems to have gained a foothold as to what Level Auckland should be at. Dicey gamble with Covid though. I can see when Debate rages in the future about the history of Covid in NZ that he’ll be counted as the leader that would not put his hand up in the darkest hours.
  
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  December 4, 2021 10:48am
- rouppe
  
  I wish Luxon had shot back some lines.
  
  “Do you know what you property is worth now, Chris?”
  “No. What percentage has your house gone up, Jenna? Same percentage? How about that…”
  
  “What’s the living wage, Chris?”
  “Twenty whatever the fuck an hour. How much does it cost an hour to run an organisation like Air New Zealand, Jenna? Don’t know? Blah million. That people’s lives and families right there, Jenna.”
  
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  December 4, 2021 2:38pm
Reid

I’ve said before that we appear to be repeating history, in that these covid times look very much the same recipe that was used against the Russia, Chinese and German peoples in their leadup to their revolutions/wars in the early to mid 20th century.

The psychological conditioning we are experiencing is called mass formation psychosis. Some here have also mentioned the same phenomena. Unless you want NZ (and the rest of the world) to fall into this condition, you should at least become familiar with the condition and how it works. If you decide after doing that it’s not happening and these last two years are just a completely rational response to a deadly pandemic, that’s fine. At least you’ve made up your mind based on facts. If you dismiss it out of hand you’re potentially condemning yourself and your family to a life of boot-stamping-on-face-forever from which you and they will never, ever escape. Because unlike those other three times, this time, no country will come to save us, there are no countries powerful enough to resist the rest of the group of countries who are all succumbing to this condition.

Start here, it gives a good precis of the condition, and a few links to take it further.

If you’re concerned about what’s going on, but can’t quite put your finger on precisely what is wrong, understanding this psychological condition will go a long way toward removing that uncertainty.

https://covid19up.org/mass-psychosis/
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December 4, 2021 8:02am
- freemark
  
  This needs to be seeded into the idiot box broadcast. Or played on a large screen mounted on trailer where herds of sheep congregate. Offer them free something if they watch the whole thing. It actually for a while made me feel less angry & more understanding/sympathetic towards those who ignore all the science & evidence in front of them of the stench of the whole covinsanity. Now with the whole “show me your papers” aquiesence I’m losing my tolerance again.
  
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  December 4, 2021 11:32am
- Man Among the Ruins
  
  If people don’t get it by now, it’s hard to see them ever understanding. It’s either due to denial in the face of the traumatising reality, or they are simply oblivious and remain living in a Plato’s Cave state.
  
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  December 4, 2021 12:25pm
slightlyrighty

Question.

Is my community group able to set up it’s own Covid Checkpoint to randomly stop people and ask for their vaccine status?

Or do I have to be a certain ethnicity?
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December 4, 2021 8:03am
- pdm
  
  slightly – Have you tried enlisting your local mongies to help.
  
  All you will need is a dollop of koha.
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:01am
- mandk
  
  If you are white, you are being racist just by asking the question.
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:12am
- 70andstilllearning
  
  You could approach the Comm of Police to be appointed as a ” community patroller ” – good luck ?
  
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  December 4, 2021 10:07am
- Philview
  
  In the same legislation “enforcement officers” have the right of unwarranted access to any land, property, vehicle, boat or thing. Enforcement officers are chosen at the discretion of Ashley Bloomfield by the sound of it. I hate to think what “thing” means. Only police officers are allowed unwarranted access to a personal dwelling. This is shocking stuff.
  
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  December 4, 2021 10:47am
Bridgenag

From Daily Telegraph………
Disturbing footage on social media shows an aboriginal elder in Australia being forced by two police officers into the back of a paddywagon allegedly so he could be forcibly jabbed.
Bystanders can be heard yelling at the officers to stop:
‘What are you doing?’
‘It’s disgusting!’
‘This is an indigenous elder. You are doing cultural genocide!’
‘You are all gonna pay for this!’

[FFS]

Huge protests in Sydney and Melbourne never mentioned here
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December 4, 2021 8:04am
- Raphael
  
  The Herald is trying to blame White Supremacists from the USA (the modern bogey man) for vaccine hesitancy amongst Australian Aboriginals.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/covid-19-coronavirus-white-supremacists-spreading-vaccine-misinformation-to-aboriginals-to-do-them-harm-premier/7A5ZOL5ELS73LC543JRM5V6MKU/
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:09am
  - Fight4NZ
    
    I’m not sure how strong the link with US white supremacists is, but there is a small high-profile group of leaders of the anti vaxxer cult responsible for a large proportion of the total bs being disseminated.
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:29am
    - Man Among the Ruins
      
      Can you please enumerate some of the “total bs”?
      
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      December 4, 2021 12:29pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Which bs are you referring to? It’s a very vague term, like when the Herald or TVNZ talk about “misinformation”. Be specific so we know to look out for it. Otherwise stop dribbling inanities.
      Spit it out, what bs are people disseminating?
      
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      December 4, 2021 2:22pm
      - Fight4NZ
        
        Well there’s that “study” you have posted twice today already.
        https://osf.io/72abp/
        
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        December 4, 2021 2:48pm
  - Charmaine Hawke
    
    It strikes me the only White Supremacists Aboriginals in Australia have to fear is their own governments because their actions will fuel more vaccine hesetency than anything else.
    Along with what looks like our racist traffic light system, this in Australia and the low take up among blacks in the USA (now being punished in places like New York) you only have to scratch a leftist to find a racist. 2021 is the gift that keeps on giving.
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:45am
  - Man Among the Ruins
    
    A yes, the cover-all “White supremacists to blame for …” narrative.
    
    This from Newshub three months ago.
    
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/09/fears-young-m-ori-being-targeted-by-white-supremacists-making-covid-19-vaccine-misinformation.html
    
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    December 4, 2021 12:28pm
- septic skeptic
  
  To me, the forced jab seems kinder than say closing off most job opportunities and most social interaction!
  
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  December 4, 2021 10:08am
- Ed Snack
  
  Certainly true that there are very large protests around the world against vaccine mandates and related Covid oppression. These are NOT being reported at all in almost any MSM.
  
  Could it be that reporting would disturb the narrative, the psychological conditioning that we are being subjected to, to make us compliant ? Will we all turn into John Pakes, and happily go baaaaa at our rulers ?
  
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  December 4, 2021 1:20pm
mandk

Does anyone know why Medsafe did not post an adverse events update this week?

I emailed them to ask why, but I haven’t had a reply yet.
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December 4, 2021 8:05am
- mandk
  
  Further to the above, Medsafe has emailed to tell me it has been decided to reduce the frequency of updates because the number of people getting vaccinated has fallen.
  
  I was also referred to its release schedule. This indicates that the releases will be fortnightly in December and monthly in the new year.
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:49am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Then let’s watch the cardiac stats out of the UK. One word. Alarming
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:51pm
- Fletch
  
  No, I don’t know why. But I can guess they don’t want people to know the adverse effects. It seems like they are scaling back reports to less than one a month going by the pre-publish dates.
  
  16/02/2022 Safety Report #40 – 31 January 2022 (not yet published)
  12/01/2022 Safety Report #39 – 31 December 2021 (not yet published)
  22/12/2021 Safety Report #38 – 4 December 2021 (not yet published)
  8/12/2021 Safety Report #37 – 20 November 2021 (not yet published)
  
  https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/COVID-19/vaccine-report-overview.asp
  
  It’s not good enough. It really isn’t. Govts like to hide data they don’t think the public should see.
  
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  December 4, 2021 10:03am
JibberJabber

Sad way to enter the twilight of a career, pathetic and out of talent…
https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/96288672/tom-scott-cartoons

Shilling for the most useless of Labour govts ever…
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December 4, 2021 8:06am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  If I knew where the bastard lived I’d send him the signed caricature of me he did about 20 years ago. He’s a shameless lefty.
  
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  December 4, 2021 10:07am
- Inandout
  
  JJ, even his cartoon drawing has diminished along with his attempts at satire. Some age wisely, some age sadly.
  
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  December 4, 2021 11:18am
- Overworked
  
  His cartoons have been pathetic for at least 20 years, biased and childish. It’s a bit of a worry, he was pretty sharp once.
  
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  December 4, 2021 5:27pm
ISeeRed

Any GPs recommended in Hamilton who aren’t DHB drones or Covid cultists? (Yes, I am abundantly afflicted with an alliteration ailment.)
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December 4, 2021 8:06am
- Fight4NZ
  
  Hmmm, finding a GP with a limited understanding of medical matters, that is going to be tricky.
  
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  December 4, 2021 10:33am
  - Joely Doe
    
    Give it time…
    With the current crop of diversity students going through the system, they will eventually find their way into General Practice.
    Bit disappointing when 97% grade students are missing out to 76%’ers…
    
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    December 4, 2021 12:29pm
  - Ed Snack
    
    BS artist I see, surely you mean someone who still believes in the Hippocratic oath and not blind obedience to potentially damaging narratives.
    
    On what basis could you possibly support a blanket ban on prescribing Ivermectin to those who want it ? It is incredibly safe, far safer for example than the vaccines, and even if it has no positive effect, it is dirt cheap and is extremely unlikely to do any harm. Safe of course using the correct human formulation and dosage levels, but any drug is “dangerous” if improperly dosed; the extremely widely available Panadol has a far worse safety record than Ivermectin for example, yet one can buy a lethal dose of Panadol from a supermarket with zero supervision.
    
    So banning it is simply maintaining the narrative.
    
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    December 4, 2021 1:26pm
    - Fight4NZ
      
      We seem to be pretty much in agreement.
      “ someone who still believes in the Hippocratic oath and not blind obedience to potentially damaging narratives” is exactly what GPs are, and it will be a struggle to find exceptions.
      I also am unaware of why Ivermectin is banned if that’s actually the case. As you say all medicines have potential to harm in very rare instances. Unlike probably all others the massive global application of the vaccine over a short period under massive scrutiny has yielded results categorically confirming the very high safety standard observed in pre release trials.
      
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      December 4, 2021 4:57pm
- bronny1
  
  Finding a GP with a good understanding of nutrition or COVID is near impossible. Nutrition gets a full half day out of 6 years. The vaccine schedule an hour or so.
  
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  December 4, 2021 1:02pm
artemisia

Under new rules all those travelling to America from 6 December must provide a negative result from a Covid test taken less than 24 hours before departure. Previously 72 hours. Plus be fully vaxxed. No quarantine required on arrival.

Getting test results here within 24 hours ……
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December 4, 2021 8:06am
- Charmaine Hawke
  
  Can be done at 1 facility as far as I know, Rako science in Auckland city at a cost of $325.
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:06am
- septic skeptic
  
  In fairness, they must keep the USA free from Omicron….oh, too late.
  
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  December 4, 2021 10:10am
I remember when

If you have lost a traffic cone then it would be an idea to look on the highway between Levin and Otaki.
Apparently it is SH1, but it is so heavily disguised it is impossible to recognise it as being a one anything.
All you can do as you view the motorway extensions at Otaki is close you eyes and dream of a much better future.
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December 4, 2021 8:14am
- Inandout
  
  Irw, is that stretch of road one of those announcements of a future highway? I seem to remember the Kapiti expressway was completed under Nathan Guy in a timely manner. Jacinda is wonderful though.
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:44am
- thetiedarch
  
  You should try driving down Riccarton Road in Christchurch.
  
  I don’t think it’s ever not had a road cone on it in at least 10 years.
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:48am
  - rangitoto
    
    Most of the Auckland CBD has been like that for as long.
    
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    December 4, 2021 2:53pm
petenz

Can someone please confirm:
That I can be legally stopped at an Iwi checkpoint, by an iwi representative, and am legally obiged to divulge my heath records and picture I.D. to this person. asuming that there is Police supervision (what ever that means)
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December 4, 2021 8:15am
- petenz
  
  Can the Lions, Rotary, or Masons set up roadblocks?
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:06am
- cmm
  
  There does not need to be police supervision. They can do it on their own.
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:13am
  - Twinkle
    
    Could one ask for the checkers letter of authority, do they need one, is a high vis jacket all they need?
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:11am
  - 70andstilllearning
    
    No cmm – ss 22 (5) of newly amended covid 19 response act still does require police supervision. In practice probably more as a peace keeper role ( or heavy handi reminder dependent on “supervisor) in my view.
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:25am
    - Steve Todd
      
      Quite right, 70.
      
      It is all explained here: https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-response-planning/covid-19-public-health-response-amendment-act-no-2-2021.
      
      Scroll down to Fact Sheet 10, then to “What has changed?”. Firstly, enforcement officers (EOs) are authorised (by the Commissioner of Police). Secondly, roadblocks and checkpoints are set up by the Police: the authorised EOs assist the Police (not the other way round), and act under the supervision of a constable.
      
      Also, see “How will this impact you?”: “If the enforcement officer stops you, they will be required to show you their identification.” That implies they will identify themselves every time, without having to be asked to do so. In addition, “Police will retain decision making powers and enforcement officers will be acting under the direction and supervision of a constable at all times.”
      
      Notice also, that it is stated that EOs will “do an initial review of exemption documentation, […].” To me, that means that occupants of a vehicle only have to show their ‘exemption documentation’ (separately, or via the driver) to the EO — they do not have to hand them / their phone over to the EO. If the EO insists on actually being given the documentation / phone, then the occupants are within their rights to request that the constable be called over to sort the matter out.
      
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      December 4, 2021 11:28am
      - jgw739
        
        Police resources are going to stretched pretty thin as it is.
        Supervision doesn’t necessarily mean the constable will be physically present.
        Que the demands for koha by these ‘enforcement officers’
        
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        December 4, 2021 12:38pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        Correction: Enforcement officers are authorised by the Director-General (of Health), not the Commissioner of Police. See section 18, here: https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2020/0012/latest/LMS344134.html.
        
        (See also section 19 Evidence of identity.)
        
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        December 4, 2021 2:58pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        @jgw739 @ 12:38PM
        
        Supervision doesn’t necessarily mean the constable will be physically present.
        
        That is simply nonsense.
        
        These will be police road blocks or checkpoints. At least one constable will be present at all times. No police presence? No road block or checkpoint.
        
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        December 4, 2021 3:42pm
  - cmm
    
    Thanks for the clarification.
    
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    December 4, 2021 2:34pm
- Bridgenag
  
  I like the idea posted that the documents required by the guardians of the North be passed around the car for each individual to sight. ….. Fairs fair ……. I’ll show you mine if you show me yours {sounds like M Pie }
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:19am
- Benedict Yu
  
  We covered this yesterday. The government changed the law under urgency. If the iwi representative is authorised by the police he can stop you. There will probably be a police officer nearby eating a pie. There will be a bunch of tattooed men stopping cars with the aunties making food and drink in tent.
  
  No I am not joking. That is how it will be.
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:31am
  - petenz
    
    Appologies
    Have now gone back and read yesterdays comments on this.
    This is a very sad day for race relations in NZ.
    How did this government ever think this would be OK with the vast majority of New Zealanders?
    Shame on them.
    
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    December 4, 2021 9:58am
  - Ruahine
    
    I guess a bit of Koha (bribery) will get one through the “checkpoint’ No probs. Chur bro.
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:09am
  - Philview
    
    The law says “acting under the supervision of a constable”. That doesn’t necessarily mean constant prescence. The constable could fulfil a supervision role by checking in once a week.
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:52am
  - Steve Todd
    
    Oh, that was highly amusing, Benedict — not.
    
    See Fact Sheet 10 “What has changed” at the link given in my 11:28AM response to 70andstilllearning, above. The “bunch of tattooed men” you refer to will only be there after having gone through “a formal process that includes nomination, assessment and training [and they] will only be authorised on completion of all elements of the selection process.”
    
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    December 4, 2021 11:55am
    - Ed Snack
      
      And if you believe that will be followed, I have a bridge for sale that I’m sure you will be interested in…
      
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      December 4, 2021 1:29pm
  - virtualmark
    
    Ngapuhi being Ngapuhi. They’d rather have an argument and a fight than do anything constructive. They’re determined to take Northland backwards into the future.
    
    Does seem like a good reason to not go to Northland over summer. Got to feel sorry for the hard-working business owners up there who have to put up with this feral nonsense.
    
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    December 4, 2021 1:27pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yes, but I would suggest you are in your legal rights to request evidence that the person stopping you has the authority to do so.
  
  I suspect that some folks will try a few roadblocks unbeknownst to the Cops or the DG of health.
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:40am
  - Inandout
    
    Maggy, on some backroad with dodgy types looking for some drug money perhaps? This stopping of vehicles can have unintended consequences.
    
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    December 4, 2021 9:47am
  - sooty
    
    The question is once you are stopped what can they do if you are not jabbed?
    As far as I’m aware they can’t turn you around.
    They can’t forcibly jab you.
    They can’t detain you.
    Even if there is police there, not happening
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:10am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Go the full way with proof of authority. Expect to see verified delegations and the whole chain. One break invalidates all.
    Taxes cannot be collected on say so. Why then should citizens of equal rights be deprived by activist Maori?
    The Parliamentary “law” didn’t have the required legal review attached. The gobblement have been revealed as anarchists.
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:22am
  - Observer of Life
    
    Mag W: Can we in turn ask for proof they are vaccinated? You know.. to ensure everyone’s safety. Aha aha…
    
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    December 4, 2021 2:12pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Shouldn’t think so… It’s not stated in the Act that an enforcement officer has to be vaxxed.
      
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      December 4, 2021 3:52pm
      - Observer of Life
        
        Mags: They bloody should if they’re demanding from everyone else!!
        
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        December 5, 2021 12:09am
- Yvette
  
  COVID-19 Public Health Response Amendment Bill (No 2)
  12 Section 22 amended (Power to close roads and public places and stop vehicles)
  (1) In section 22(2), replace ““authority”” with ““supervision””.
  (2) After section 22(3), insert:
  (3A) For the purpose of enforcing or monitoring compliance with a COVID-19 order that restricts movement by persons with or without vehicles, a constable may stop a vehicle persons and vehicles at any road block or checkpoint established for that purpose.
  (3) After section 22(4), insert:
  (5) An enforcement officer may also stop a vehicle persons and vehicles for the purpose stated in subsection (3A) if acting under the supervision of a constable.
  (6) For the purpose of subsection (5) only, enforcement officer means a person authorised in accordance with section 18 who is—
  (a) a member of the Armed Forces (as defined in section 2(1) of the Defence Act 1990):
  (b) any person whom the Commissioner recognises as being—
  (i) a Māori warden; or
  (ii) a nominated representative of an iwi organisation; or
  (iii) a Pasifika warden; or
  (iv) a community patroller.
  (7) Section 18 applies with any necessary modifications for the purpose of subsection (6)
  https://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2021/0068/latest/LMS552333.html
  
  See? – clear as mud … and we don’t know where the hell clause (4) went
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:46am
  - Rich Prick
    
    6(b)(v) a person wearing a Brown Shirt.
    
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    December 4, 2021 11:11am
  - Steve Todd
    
    This will help, Yvette: https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2020/0012/latest/LMS344196.html. It is the now amended version (as at 26 November 2021) of the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020.
    
    Section 22 now makes a bit more sense. (Section 22(4) of the Act was not amended, so was not part of the Amendment Bill (No 2).)
    
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    December 4, 2021 3:08pm
cmm

Another “long tail” of CV19: the destruction of trust in science.

The trust in science has been exploited by the global warming people and now the CV19 pushers. As the science gets increasingly exposed as sloppy this will no doubt lead to further distrust in science.

Unfortunately all science will be tarred by the same brush.
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December 4, 2021 8:21am
- graham
  
  And that’s before you even get to the lunacy of “Maori Science” that we are supposed to take every bit as seriously as proper peer-reviewed science.
  
  If I were smart enough to actually be a REAL scientist in NZ right now, I think I would be deeply depressed and seriously questioning my choice of vocation.
  
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  December 4, 2021 8:27am
  - Michael Johnston
    
    “Real” scientist here. Yes, I am deeply depressed, but there is a fight-back going on.
    
    The Royal Society is coming under a lot of pressure from its membership over its ‘investigation’ of two of its Fellows (one of whom – Garth Cooper – is Maori) for being signatories to the Listener letter seeking to defend NCEA science from incorporating Maori spiritualism. Many teachers are also pushing back against the Ministry of Education on this matter.
    
    The fight is far from won and the forces arrayed against us are formidable, but resistance is mounting. I urge all citizens of New Zealand who want children in this country to have a proper scientific education to have a look at the proposed standards for yourselves and, if you don’t like what you see, make your voices heard to the Minister for Education, the Ministry, your children’s schools and teachers and your friends and family.
    
    Here’s a link to the standards:
    
    https://ncea.education.govt.nz/science/science?view=assessment
    
    The website is a dog to navigate I’m afraid, but the “unpacking” tab for each standard is where you’ll see what it’s really about.
    
    Here’s a link to a conversation my colleague James Kierstead and I had with Kendell Clements, one of the Auckland professors who signed that Listener letter:
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2nmRjQTSII&t=1884s
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:43am
- Andrei
  
  It is not “Science” , it is religion
  
  Science is about uncertainty and the limitations of human knowledge – which is why real scientists, schooled in Popperism come across as diffident whereas those “scientists™” wheeled out to advance political agendas come across as certain in their conclusions and invoke the secular
  equivalent of Papal infallibility
  
  Our real problem here is that politicians are convinced that their policies are for the greater good and firmly close their eyes to the collateral damage they cause
  
  This of course is why communism ultimately failed – when theoretical utopias failed to materialize instead of examining the flaws in their grand schemes they blamed people who they deemed to have sabotaged their dream by not co-operating
  
  An example might be the Soviet famines of the early thirties – according to “Science” as defined by Lysenko farmers could grow two crops of wheat per year by early planting, in the real world both plantings failed and instead of doubling wheat production they created a famine.
  
  And of course it was the farmers who were to blame and who were punished for this failure
  
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  December 4, 2021 8:45am
  - Raphael
    
    Yes, there is a difference between science and the religious Scientism (the idea that Science is the only source of Truth…..which is a philosophical truth claim not a scientific one.)
    
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    December 4, 2021 9:12am
  - Ra Henare
    
    Very interesting article – dare I say some real journalism?
    
    the NZ edition of Daily Telegraph
    
    https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/the-long-read-jacinda-ardern-science-and-covid-mandates-events-facts-and-fallacies/
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:27am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    And finally Hitler blamed the German people for his own failures.. these folk who had blindly cheered him on, supported him, and died for him were nothing but treacherous, weak traitors..
    
    If only they had really listened to him and let themselves be inspired. If only they had possessed the same will and determination as him – certainly everything would have turned out differently.
    
    https://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/defeat/enter-bunker.htm
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:40am
Frank the tank

So feckless are silent on the revelation that Hone’s mob will be running check points into Northland once Aucklanders are let out of East Germany by the Sea.

According to the Fearald it is more important to have a puff piece about Toni Street. Obviously Brenda’s PR team missed the deadline.

And does everyone notice no mention of the Roy Morgan poll anywhere. Toxic, big Jess, Jenna, Dopey Derek, Red Claire and the rest of the feckless must have spit out the chardonnay on Friday night when that result came through.
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December 4, 2021 8:22am
- sooty
  
  Will labour’s list MP’s be brushing off CV’s?
  
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  December 4, 2021 10:12am
  - Bob
    
    Which labour list MP would have a credible CV to brush off?
    
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    December 4, 2021 11:50am
  - Frank the tank
    
    At the rate they are dropping in 12 months time cabinet ministers will be feeling the pinch. Twyford must be starting to have a twitching bum. How long till leaks start?
    
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    December 4, 2021 1:18pm
- KKKKatee
  
  I’m over Toni Street and her family history. Obviously, her book isn’t selling.
  
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  December 4, 2021 7:02pm
Mobile Michael

Is anyone else having problems with their Covid Card they saved to their phone? Mine keeps deleting itself from the phone.

Going back to paper.
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December 4, 2021 8:24am
- Bridgenag
  
  The taking screen shot worked and it can be left on the face of the phone. Had to Google……..
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:21am
  - Bridgenag
    
    Must be busy mods this morning
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:45am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Yes. I commented on this. I gave up and did a screen shot. Also my partner has a laminator at work. She made me a cool little laminated card ?
  
  But a lot of older people would have had help from their kids or grand kids to load the pass. Next thing it is gone. ?
  
  Maybe a journalist will ask jacinda about this bug. “I refute that” ?
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:36am
  - Inandout
    
    BY, my hairdresser of 10 years still had to scan my piece of paper, and yes, next time he will rescan. FFS.
    
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    December 4, 2021 9:50am
  - cmm
    
    A pretty little card.
    
    Almost a Deutschblütigkeitserklärung
    
    Those were 300x210mm. If there had been phones and PDFs back then I’m sure they’d have done that instead.
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Blood_Certificate
    
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    December 4, 2021 9:52am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Has anyone tried to scan it read the QR code back?
    I did with a family one but had no success. I was surprised with complaints about the format.
    I’m can’t be certain that they are using a real QR code.
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:30am
    - Hollyfield
      
      You have to use an app called “NZ Pass Verifier”. It is hard to find if you don’t know what it’s called. It doesn’t mention Covid or vaccine – which are logical keywords for when you search for the app, and the branding is completely different.
      
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      December 4, 2021 12:04pm
      - KevO'Brien
        
        Having read QR codes previously I expect my toolbox to work. Has this one been modded to prevent general reading?
        I would have expected a simple text url to be hidden.
        
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        December 4, 2021 3:31pm
      - rangitoto
        
        Kev – you have been told before. It is an encypted blob. You need the public keys to decrypt it and the secret private key to create of modify it.
        
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        December 4, 2021 7:13pm
    - Joely Doe
      
      Yep, it’s a looong code of random Key letters – starts with NZCP: EYTUBGGHDTRDHGHJVKB ETC ETC.
      Looks like a key of some sort, that will interact with a Private key held in the Web Reader App. Without the Private key, I believe it cannot be changed or falsified. Given the fcuk ups this lot are known for, expect the Private Key to be leaked at some stage.
      Check with cmm, he knows a lot about these things.
      
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      December 4, 2021 12:39pm
    - cmm
      
      I’m pretty sure it is a real QR code.
      
      If you’re interested then download that checker app and try that.
      
      Most QR code readers are set up to read URLs (ie. website addresses). I expect this QR code is not a URL so most QR code readers will bleat about the format.
      
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      December 4, 2021 2:37pm
- MCōs
  
  No, but I’m thinking getting it printed out and laminated is probably more convenient than finding it on the phone for me.
  I have my wife’s certificate and my own on my phone. Yesterday at the library I inadvertently used the wrong one and they didn’t notice even though it was a Thai name as long as both of your arms.
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:45am
- Observer of Life
  
  Mobile: No problems with mine. I haven’t downloaded it. Easy peasy.
  
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  December 4, 2021 2:20pm
Fishing in the dark

Latest political polls, it is amazing that all the main news have not mentioned anything about the latest polls, a sure sign that all the NZ News media are hijacked by the corrupt NZ Government.
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December 4, 2021 8:27am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Yes. But there is an article in Stuff on the “racism pay gap”.
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:37am
  - Frank the tank
    
    And Toni Street’s mental battles
    
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    December 4, 2021 9:43am
    - Fishing in the dark
      
      Who cares about this one.
      
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      December 4, 2021 2:53pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Oh no, not another fuckin excuse to divide us? Who invented this? My guess is it’s another Frazer House Friday evening piss-up special.
    
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    December 4, 2021 9:55am
- Opie
  
  And the latest poll by roy morgan, who were deemed the most accurate a year ago!
  
  But it doesnt fit the agenda so its not reported.
  
  This country is seriously fucked
  
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  December 4, 2021 10:04am
- Ruahine
  
  I think the Media are waiting for the polls that they commission for themselves namely Reid and Colmar-Brunton.
  Both these polls will show that Ardern as preferred PM will be at 85% and that Labour will be at 55% and that National will have dropped 10% to 22%.
  
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  December 4, 2021 10:05am
Scooter

I couldn’t believe my ears this morning (Fri) when I heard Mike Hosking say he pays $160 for haircut, faaark me!!! I suppose now masks hide most of the face, hair is a person’s distinguishing feature.
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December 4, 2021 8:36am
- Benedict Yu
  
  He styles his hair and it is quite long. That is about what my partner pays, so makes sense.
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:39am
  - MCōs
    
    Did that include colour?
    He’s older than Stuart Nash who had hair fairly similar to his until he said to himself
    Who cares? And let it return to its natural state.
    Now he looks older than Hosking & his hair is grey and less abundant.
    In twenty years will Mr H look like Ronnie Wood & Mr N like Keith Richards?
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:00am
    - Scooter
      
      OK not bad if it did include colour. Or are hairdressers now the new psycho-analysts?
      
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      December 5, 2021 12:55am
  - Paulus
    
    My haircut costs $20 – that is $10 search fee and $10 tip for the lovely lady.
    Merry Christmas, if you dare.
    
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    December 4, 2021 10:25am
- Inandout
  
  Scooter, not just an ordinary haircut though, lots of touch ups.
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:51am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Tova is going to be paid $300k plus pa for her new gig.
  
  Hosking, with his audience share and the peaky fact that people want to listen to his comments unlike O’Briens, will most likely be on more than that so probably not too much of a worry for him.
  
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  December 4, 2021 10:18am
  - Frank the tank
    
    Its 150k – In six months she’ll be replaced by big Dunc. Brenda isn’t the drawcard she was 6 months ago.
    
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    December 4, 2021 1:20pm
- lifesgood
  
  $21 at the Sharing Shed…a good cut too.
  
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  December 4, 2021 5:48pm
Reid

Apparently the NZ govt is participating in a pilot project with the WEF to use AI to “reimagine” regulatory frameworks. Here’s the pdf from the WEF.

https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Reimagining_Regulation_Age_AI_2020.pdf

Apologies if it’s already been posted here, I’m on Gab as well and I think I got it from there.
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December 4, 2021 8:37am
- Taieri
  
  Apparently the NZ govt is participating in a pilot project with the WEF to use AI to “reimagine” regulatory frameworks.
  ———————
  
  It’s getting harder and harder not to start to believe in what some call “conspiracy theories”. The world and our lives organized according to a theory? But it has been tried already. Many times over. They didn’t base it on the AI then, but maybe “intelligence” is not really a concept that exists anymore…
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:50am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Thanks for the headsup. I have archived it. Plainly Ardern an alumni of the WEF Young Leaders program has been marching to a treasonous private relationship. Power seem to gone to her head.
  She’s no leader but a stooge.
  She has signed NZ up for a pilot AI control world with a pagan Maori world view. The traffic lights system shows the influence. Human thought is an irrelevancy despite being a gift from God.
  
  Please all read the doc cited so this horror can be stopped.
  
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  December 4, 2021 11:02am
  - Reid
    
    Yes, despite them saying the program was put on hold due to Covid, it seems likely the traffic light concept – as complicated as it is – is a bastard child of the AI prototype.
    
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    December 4, 2021 1:49pm
Scott

What I noticed was how distressed I felt, how anxious I felt on Friday. It was a change in the atmosphere. Did anyone else feel it?

Previously we were about equality and everyone having a fair go in life and the chance for everyone to do well. Now we have two classes of people. The Vaxxed who if they behave themselves will have their freedom. And the wicked Unvaxed who don’t follow the science, who don’t listen to the podium of truth. The Unvaxed cannot buy a burger, cannot get a haircut, we must shun them. And no doubt if there is an epidemic of Covid in the community who will be blamed? The wicked Unvaxed!

Krazy compared the Unvaxed to the Jews in Germany in the 1930s. I also think about the kulaks, the peasants who owned property, the leaders of the peasants, in the Soviet Union under the communists. They were hounded and arrested and sent to prison camps and shot. Just for the crime of being a Kulak. They were the enemy of the revolution!

It appears both fascists and socialists need a devil, they need an enemy. Today we are led by a socialist and we have an enemy, the wicked Unvaxed!
There is a change in the atmosphere over this nation. Something has gone wrong with us. This cannot continue. Our nation is being harmed.
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December 4, 2021 8:39am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  But we have been told that the virus will seek out healthy unvaxxed citizens.
  
  The virus is clever, cunning and tricky.
  
  We must stay safe and keep the unclean away from us..
  
  Alas, we’ve been down this path before:
  
  During the years of the Nazi regime, German doctors frequently argued that Jews spread disease. Reflecting common themes in Nazi propaganda, these medical professionals repeatedly pushed the false claim that Jews were especially responsible for outbreaks of typhus—a deadly contagious disease spread by lice.
  
  https://perspectives.ushmm.org/item/propaganda-poster-jews-are-lice-they-cause-typhus
  
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  December 4, 2021 10:48am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Right on Scott. There was a change of atmosphere. I am becoming firmer by the minute that I cannot accept the so called vaccines on offer.
  I suspect the next six months are going to be very revealing and there may be a lot of buyers remorse to come.
  
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  December 4, 2021 11:11am
  - Man Among the Ruins
    
    It’s actually kind of nice to be the target of persecution. It only confirms that I am correct. I feel somewhat like a Christian in Rome in about 300AD… before Christianity became the imperial religion shortly after Constantine’s conversion in about 312AD.
    
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    December 4, 2021 12:47pm
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Yeah.
      
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      December 4, 2021 3:33pm
- Fletch
  
  On Brendan Malone’s latest podcast he talks about citizens being stripped of their rights and privileges – and we are being. He says he went and saw a movie on Thursday night (he isn’t from Auckland) and realizing that as an unvaxxed person it is the last movie he will be able to see for an unspecified time.
  
  It’s totally wrong what is happening. And the media are touting how great it all is and doing stories of people celebrating etc. No one is standing up for truth.
  
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  December 4, 2021 11:37am
  - bronny1
    
    I listened last night and can confirm that the anger, ridicule etc directed at him is exactly what I’ve had also. He is more articulate though.
    
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    December 4, 2021 1:11pm
- Observer of Life
  
  Scott: Ditto. I felt quite sick.
  
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  December 5, 2021 12:16am
Southtop2

What the actual F*ck! https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/127177526/restaurant-manager-says-businesses-having-to-pay-unvaccinated-staff-four-weeks-notice-is-disgraceful Unfortunately (or fortunately) my business is not hospitality. How the . . . . can this be justified?
Employer: must keep staff safe (Law and simply being a good employer) and needs to keep customers safe (reputation and staying in business).
Employee: does want the vaccine (their choice)
Employer must paid a month wages?
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December 4, 2021 8:43am
- emmess
  
  Oooh, so now they care about small business?
  It’s only when they can punch down on workers who do not want the government or their employers to tell them what to put in their body
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:36am
- Man Among the Ruins
  
  “Employer: must keep staff safe”
  
  Do you mean the staff who are already vaccinated? Yet again, no one can justify the illogic of vaccination to keep someone else “safe,” particularly when even the vaccinated person is not “safe” either.
  
  Moreover, I think you’ll find that it is the employer who decides whether to opt for vaccine verification. If they decide this, then I think it’s perfectly reasonable to have to pay out 4 weeks pay before the employee has their contract terminated because of the employer’s decision.
  
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  December 4, 2021 12:50pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  It’s not “choice” – it’s thuggery, bullying and coercion of the most disgusting type, and you are upset about the money? What about the disgusting, immoral mandates being imposed on a minority?
  
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  December 4, 2021 2:45pm
CJames

I notice Newshub is complaining that some Bay of Plenty places are still serving the unclean. Call in the Covid Police. Nothing like a fascist state of course as it is all done with kindness.
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December 4, 2021 8:49am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Unvaxed can not even order and pick up contactless.
  Commie control is really seeping in
  
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  December 4, 2021 8:52am
  - KKKKatee
    
    Some places they can.
    
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    December 4, 2021 7:12pm
- CJames
  
  Sorry it is Radio New Zealand has the story I first read. Newshub has a similar story on the issue but a bit less one-sided
  
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  December 4, 2021 8:56am
- pdm
  
  I went to 3 businesses in Hastings yesterday and not once was I asked for my Vaccination Certificate.
  
  In one of them I was in the door before I realised I had forgotten my mask – I apologised but no problem the guy behind the counter was not wearing one either.
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:06am
Southtop2

So $58.20+GST for a baseball cap for Cuddles Coster’s crew.
I can import a bare cap from Bangladesh for around $3 (quality issue)
I can buy (wholesale) from the likes of Ripcurl & Volcom for around $30 +GST. Significant embroidery on them.
I would not be buying 10,000 hats.
A back of the envelope estimate is that the supplier has approximately doubled the price of the hats – no wonder it took the ombudsmen to get involved and seven months to get the answer
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/127149362/sevenmonth-wait-for-police-to-release-cost-of-new-caps-comes-to-an-end
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December 4, 2021 8:49am
- pdm
  
  Only $10 for a MAGA cap isn’t it?
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:07am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    My MAGA hats were free. Just pay shipping from the States
    
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    December 4, 2021 11:08am
- kevn
  
  @Southtop2…. Same supplier as the bullet proof vests that mostly went to storage?
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:26am
- cmm
  
  Do they really have to be high quality caps that last for a year?
  
  Consider that cops’ caps likely get contaminated with body fluids or fall in the gutter etc during a scuffle, or stolen or lost it seems to me a better deal to have a goal that they last for 3 months and go with the cheaper option.
  
  But these are the New Cops who bought their new cars based on CO2 footprint and not their ability to do the job…
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:27am
RockyJ

Andrew Little announces an extra $644 million towards increasing our ICU capacity. Yeah what?
This should have been done 18 months ago. That was obvious then, it is not just hindsight.
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December 4, 2021 8:56am
- cmm
  
  Labour is very good at announcing spending – even if it should have happened 2 years ago.
  
  But actually delivering? Naah.
  
  It’s going to be a year of poi waving and feeding the taniwha before the first ICU bed is sorted.
  
  Likely they have probably not considered that there’s likely a global waiting list for ICU equipment. You can’t just go to Amazon and click “Add 1 to cart” 200 times.
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:22am
- mandk
  
  It really doesn’t matter, RockyJ.
  
  In days gone by, governments were judged on what they actually achieved.
  
  Nowadays, we all know that is a bit silly. All Ardern’s mob needs to do is announce that they are going to do something.
  
  They don’t even need to spend the money, trying to achieve something.
  
  And sometimes, they just need to announce that they are going to make an announcement.
  
  Showing you care about something is what matters.
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:29am
- Inandout
  
  Rocky, how can a bankrupt country spend like this?
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:54am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    easy..
    The folks doing all the spending won’t be the folks who will eventually have to pay the provider.
    
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    December 4, 2021 11:11am
- rjay
  
  Tauranga hospital has been doing up the ICU for some months. This is an announcement of previously allocated money.
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:55am
  - kevn
    
    @rjay… angry little telling porkies?
    
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    December 4, 2021 4:27pm
KevO'Brien

How can omicron be detected? Were the upgraded test kits sent out world wide before the scariant appeared?
The me-to’s popped up virtually immediately.
Either they are lying about their announced discoveries or actual pre-informed tests were made available.
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December 4, 2021 9:01am
- cmm
  
  Apparently it shows up differently in the PCR test.
  
  From my limited understanding, pre-Omicron shows up on 3 PCR markers and Omicron on only two.
  
  Omicron also presents with a different set of generally milder symptoms.
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:17am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    So were the labs all pre-equipped with knowledge of the new markers?
    
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    December 4, 2021 11:15am
    - cmm
      
      No, there were reports from South Africa about the sequence, the symptoms and that it flags differently on PCR tests.
      
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      December 4, 2021 2:39pm
      - KevO'Brien
        
        Thanks.
        Do you have any refs to those reports that you can share.
        
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        December 4, 2021 3:36pm
CJames

Police are too busy to attend ongoing assault.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/457146/hillsborough-businesses-wait-nearly-an-hour-for-police-after-call-for-help
They were probably all busy manning roadblocks with iwi bro.
No doubt it will be someone with a long rap sheet who has been let out of prison early or doing home detention for a previous assault. But the government assures us crime isn’t getting worse. Could this be why people are starting to recognise that the country is going in the wrong direction?
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December 4, 2021 9:03am
- septic skeptic
  
  It’s about priorities. The roadblocks save 80,000 lives.
  
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  December 4, 2021 10:19am
Maggie's partner

Last night I went to a private party, at a private house, in Hawke’s Bay.
There were about 40 guests.
On arrival we were required to show our vaccine passes. Guests without one were turned away.
How on earth have we come to this?
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December 4, 2021 9:05am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I’d change your “friends”.
  
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  December 4, 2021 11:13am
  - Man Among the Ruins
    
    This is good way to separate the chaff from the wheat, isn’t it. I have no interest in associating with anyone who must obviously be so indoctrinated and gullible.
    
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    December 4, 2021 12:55pm
  - Observer of Life
    
    Agree MW
    
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    December 4, 2021 2:30pm
- H. Upmann
  
  I hope that after showing your VP you turned and walked away.
  
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  December 4, 2021 11:18am
- gorse
  
  I would have showed it and left. Not the NZ way.
  
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  December 4, 2021 11:40am
- Frank the tank
  
  Our next door neighbours celebrating crate day won’t be requiring vaccine passes……
  
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  December 4, 2021 1:22pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  We fired up the pizza oven and followed the advice of https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-thanksgiving-shibboleth
  
  Met the guests at the top of the drive.
  Asked them to take a covid test.
  Those who laughed at me or told me to piss off were immediately let into the house.
  Anyone who had agreed to the test would be given a result that says they are positive, they would then go home feeling miserable.
  Fortunately all guests either laughed or told me to piss off.
  I didn’t mind in the slightest, we had a wonderful night and not a mask in sight.
  
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  December 4, 2021 2:52pm
ecco

Just wanted to point out to those on here who think that you have to be obese to get type 2 diabetes, that is incorrect. You can have a normal BMI and still have the condition. So you need to understand that those with t2 or pre diabetic condition, may not have got it because ‘they deserve it’ because they are obese and ate crap food. Studies in the UK have shown this.

Leading on from this, people with T2 diabetes, may find themselves with severe covid effects should they contract it. Just wanted to get rid of the ‘they got what they deserve from being obese and should lose weight’ mentality running on this blogsite.
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December 4, 2021 9:07am
- Taieri
  
  Just wanted to get rid of the ‘they got what they deserve from being obese
  —————–
  
  What’s obesity? The relationship between the body weight and height in metres squared and expressed as BMI. If it’s over 30 one is classed as “obese”. But…does it take into account the structure of the body such as bone thickness or muscular structure and distribution? No, it does not. Furthermore the value of 30 is entirely arbitrary.
  
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  December 4, 2021 11:00am
- cmm
  
  “Just wanted to point out to those on here who think that you have to be obese to get type 2 diabetes, that is incorrect. ” Does anyone really think that?
  
  While you can get type 2 obesity without being obese, obesity is a major cause of type 2 diabetes – just not the only cause.
  
  Same too with smoking and lung cancer – it is possible to get lung cancer without smoking and it is possible to smoke without getting lung cancer, but smoking vastly increases your chance of getting lung cancer.
  
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  December 4, 2021 2:44pm
  - cmm
    
    It is ridiculous to think of BMI as something that turns on at BMI 30 and off at BMI 29.99.
    
    Rather think of it as a scale:
    * some people really are obese at 30, some are still reasonably health. At 30, the health impact of obesity is rather low.
    * but a mega-fatty with a BMI of 45+ is a completely different story. There’s no way you’re going to be BMI 45+ and healthy.
    
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    December 4, 2021 2:48pm
- freemark
  
  Thanks for the heads up Souxsie.
  
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  December 5, 2021 12:06am
Lee C

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December 4, 2021 9:07am
Lee C

I’d like to just throw my support for the new vaccination roll-out. It’s time to discuss the merits of Compulsory Vaccinations for five to eleven year olds.

No reasonable person would dispute this is a great idea.

But what about the ‘vaxxine-hesitant’? You know those pesky parents (sorry – ‘caregivers) who appear to think it is their role to nurture and protect their children?

I got this. Hold my beer…

The best way to get it done though would be to freeze parents’ bank-accounts, or fine them until they comply, or withhold benefits, Working for Families, and such.

At the same time, if they illegally withdraw their children from schools, a Special Health Officer could visit door to door and with the assistance of a Special Constable, detain the parents while this is undertaken.

This wouls also mean that those who chose ‘home-schooling’ for whatever reasons, could be captured and made ‘safe’.

Yes, know. I’m just a loopy ‘conspiracy theorist’.

That could never happen here, could it?

But it it did, it was a good thing they got all those legal guns confiscated, eh?
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December 4, 2021 9:08am
- Benedict Yu
  
  New Zealand has become unrecognisable. I remember a year ago here insisting that the New Zealand Government would never prevent New Zealand citizens returning to New Zealand. ?
  
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  December 4, 2021 9:27am
  - Taieri
    
    New Zealand has become unrecognisable.
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    That’s why it’s now called Aotearoa. By some, anyway…
    
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    December 4, 2021 9:38am
- Tom Hunter
  
  Judging by his recent comments “virtualmark” will be all in on those ideas.
  
  Will await his support for a 100% vax mandate also. After all, if 90% rather than 80% was fine – with all the coercion involved, then why not 100%? After all, the Germans and Austrians are doing it.
  
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  December 4, 2021 10:50am
  - virtualmark
    
    ???
    
    I’ve never argued for mandatory Covid vaccinations and I’m not going to start now.
    
    Each person gets to choose whether they get vaccinated or not. 90% of Kiwis have chosen to.
    
    Lots of people here whine about “coercion”, but that’s just snowflake complaining. Each person gets to weigh the pros and cons and then make their choice.
    
    To me, if you were “coerced” then that means (1) you weren’t convinced on the facts of vaccination, which by themselves should be compelling to all but the obstinate, and (2) you’re spineless in that you don’t have the strength of your convictions but folded under pressure.
    
    But hey, you do you.
    
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    December 4, 2021 2:51pm
I remember when

Hanmer Springs staff shorages highlight the problems a lot of tourism businesses are facing.
Lack of younmg travellers on OE who usually fill these positions. In Hanmer Springs they account for at least 50% of the workforce.
Lack of acommodation to handle the staff that are available.
The hiring of staff is further influenced by possible changing alert levels, during the season.
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December 4, 2021 9:25am
bythesea

I have been trying to view the https://voicesforfreedom.co.nz/ site but get an unusual 403 forbidden message.

It is available in the Wayback machine 20/Nov

trying to work out if this is a normal site issue or whether its something more tin foil hat worthy.
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December 4, 2021 9:27am
- RightNow
  
  Hard to tell if it’s sinister or just a bad configuration.
  Try loading
  https://voicesforfreedom.co.nz/index.html
  It will load some of the page, but apart from the shop every link throws up the 403 error
  
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  December 4, 2021 11:29am
  - Bridgenag
    
    403 Forbidden – A potentially unsafe operation has been detected in your request to this site.
    
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    December 4, 2021 12:50pm
- Observer of Life
  
  I got a message through Telegram from VFF. They aren’t sure either but have suggested using a VPN??
  
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  December 4, 2021 2:34pm
  - bythesea
    
    i tried a vpn first off (should have mentioned) but no difference.
    
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    December 4, 2021 3:58pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  They are trying to sort it out. No idea if it is nefarious or not at this stage but I would imagine it is. They have been recruiting many new followers.
  They are recommending people to try using a VPN to access the site. If it is available from an overseas serve does that indicate it is being shut down at the NZ level? I’m not techy. Not sure.
  
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  December 4, 2021 2:57pm
- Show me the evidence
  
  Yes, this happened to the NZ Doctors Speaking Out with Science group in August. I couldn’t work out why it was diverting to a government website full of “the vaccine is safe” information. For a few weeks I thought they had shut down the website, but I then realised when I used my cell (using data not home WiFi), I could get to the proper site. So we had to set up a VPN and use DuckDuck Go not Google. Now I don’t get blocked from all the “misinformation” being put out by doctors, mathmaticians and scientists around the world actually looking at the data.
  
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  December 5, 2021 2:10pm
Opie

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/explained/126942505/why-our-covid19-hospitalisation-and-death-statistics-arent-clearcut

TL:DR our covid hospitilisation and death statistics are bullshit. Like we have said from the start.

First time I have seen anyone in the media call this out though.

The result? They will change the criteria and report huge reductions in deaths and hospitilisations. We will be told its because of vaccine efficiency though!
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December 4, 2021 9:30am
Truman lodge

Iwi roadblocks are the beginning of nz turning into Bolivia or the Congo. I bet a small koha gets you through no problem.
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December 4, 2021 9:31am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Carry the national Maori Flag on your car in a prominent place…or get a bumper sticker
  
  https://www.etsy.com/nz/listing/630034783/tino-rangatiratanga-flag-new-zealand
  
  Tell the wahine in your life to get a moko kauae or grow some dreads.
  
  Hang your tattooed arm out the Driver’s window…
  
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  December 4, 2021 11:23am
  - Littletramp
    
    Maybe tatoo your Q code on your chin for convenience, as some MP’s have done.
    
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    December 4, 2021 12:49pm
Maggie Pie

Had to larf.

Parked in a disabled spot right outside ‘New World’ this morning emptying out my trolley, and this guy pulls alongside to ask if I knew how he could get to Panmure.

Often wonder what happened to people that ask me for directions.
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December 4, 2021 9:32am
- alloytoo
  
  I hope you remember to tell them where the car ferry is.
  
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  December 4, 2021 10:26am
[email protected]

If the vaccine manufacturers want to insure that you continue to take the boosters they could add something to the vaccine to make it addictive. Perhaps even throw in a bit of a high.
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December 4, 2021 9:35am
- Fletch
  
  So it’ll basically become SOMA, like in Brave New World. Keep the populace docile.
  
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  December 4, 2021 11:31am
I remember when

The great spectator passtime at present.
Watch customers suitably masked, use covid ap, have their Vaccination Passport verified and sit down.
Remove mask, engage it vigorous conversation, often while sitting at window opening onto footpath,

all just to keep us safe.
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December 4, 2021 9:41am
Reid

EU chief Ursula von Der Leyen calls for forced vaccination of the unvaccinated. Germany and Austria are both forcing lockdowns on the unvaccinated. This is the next move. And it will spread around the world. You watch.

https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1466153664423374851
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December 4, 2021 9:46am
- mawm
  
  The only way this is going to end is with a suitably timed thermonuclear device being detonated in Davos.
  
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  December 4, 2021 3:14pm
Yvette

To “help” understand how simple the Traffic Light System is –
“… if you follow the logic of the traffic light system Red is for when we have an overwhelmed healthcare system, Orange obviously under some pressure and Green fine” [1]

Why then has Auckland started in the Red level? Is Auckland’s hospital system overwhelmed?
“It makes no sense, frankly, the whole of the South Island being in Orange and that’s our issue with the traffic light system” [1]

“We had a good 2020, but we’ve had a really terrible 2021 – that’s because the Government has wasted the opportunity to get ready for it. [1]

But like Kiwibuild, Auckland light rail, child poverty, farm nitrates, Ihumatao, defining ‘hate speech”, or trees – the tiger has not changed its spots …
ICU funding boost described as ‘better late than never’
Cabinet has earmarked $100 million from the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund to accelerate ICU projects and another $544 million of operational funding such as staffing; $98 million will be spent in Waitakere, Waitemata, Bay of Plenty and Canterbury. [2]

Of course, besides monitoring hospital ability to accomodate covid positive patients, the entire traffic light construct is to implement the status of vaccinated and unvaccinated [3]

[1] Christopher Luxon https://www.1news.co.nz/2021/12/03/luxon-says-national-doesnt-support-traffic-light-system/
[2] https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/12/coronavirus-icu-funding-boost-described-as-better-late-than-never.html
[3] … and incidentally (and rather ironically, in the face of He Puapua) turn some of an existing ethnic minority into more of a minority – or as a radical history may claim: to colonise them for a second time – but Harawira is too busy organising road blocks to get onto this yet.
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December 4, 2021 9:51am
- cmm
  
  The same with Level 4. That was supposed to be for when the hospitals could not cope so other services were shut down to cope with the CV19 patents.
  
  We never got anywhere near overloaded hospitals, but we were slammed into L4 almost immediately.
  
  Rule #1: If they have power toys they will use them.
  
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  December 4, 2021 2:53pm
Twinkle

Question:
When my vaccine passport is scanned at the coffee shop, is the scan stored somewhere, does the scanner’s phone interact with the Health Department, or how does it know that the code is legitimate without checking against some outside source? What happens to my scanned data?
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December 4, 2021 9:54am
- KiwiRupes
  
  The QR code on the vaccine pass contains the data stating that you’re vaccinated, the phones used to scan the pass don’t need to report back to MoH for this data and the phones can be used without an internet connection.
  
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  December 4, 2021 10:51am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    I think the download of the pass may be regarded as sufficient. NHI have your status so control the download. The QR code may be more decorative then functional at this stage. I wasn’t successful at reading one and I have previously made them.
    
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    December 4, 2021 11:23am
- kevn
  
  @Twinkle… Indeed. Trust is long gone. Print one out. Leave the phone out of it.
  Isn’t it funny that the 90% jabbed, coincided with ‘Freedom Day’.
  
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  December 4, 2021 12:43pm
- cmm
  
  The QR code contains the same info as is printed : Name, date of birth etc as well as a digital signature.
  
  There is absolutely no need for the system to “call home”.
  
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  December 4, 2021 2:55pm
- Rich Prick
  
  No idea, but just think about providing complete strangers with your full name and date of birth. You may as well give them your PIN as well. My bet is that some bad actors will have a field day.
  
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  December 4, 2021 3:10pm
- fisho
  
  No, nothing is stored. The scanner app simply verifies the validity of the QR code.
  
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  December 4, 2021 4:48pm
I remember when

There have been blogs here about it before but is it a total rort.
The test for the full driving licence.
I have heard of two drivers failing three test between them.
Almost invariably involving a “Stop” sign and usually that question of whether the vehicle came to a stop of not.
Great research seems to be done to involve a “Stop” of a type they will never, ever, encounter again.
The “fail” almost always involves “you drove very well,” but – I have to fail you because of that one technicality.

Never mind it’s only money and more employment opportunities for the staff.
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December 4, 2021 9:59am
- oldfella
  
  IRW, I don’t blame the drivers, I blame the actual stop signs. If they’d been better designed in the first place, these problems would never have arisen.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wac3aGn5twc&ab_channel=TheMimeographer
  
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  December 4, 2021 12:12pm
  - oldfella
    
    Should have added that it’s a very funny video if you haven’t seen it before.
    
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    December 4, 2021 5:23pm
- Harriet
  
  Got busted here in aussie a couple of years back for ‘failing to stop at a stop sign’.
  
  Was turning left in 2nd gear after having observed the road to my right – for 10yrs. There was nothing coming. I didn’t say anything other than admit my guilt.
  
  The cop said he wasn’t a local and that I could write to the police asking for lenience[or something] given I hadn’t had a ticket in years.
  
  $340.00!!
  
  I didn’t bother writing — if they can’t work out that the intent of the law is to stop people from driving directly through a stop sign – and turning left then warrants a ticket at $170.00, if at all — as it’s a ‘give way’ situation!!!!!
  
  What exactly is the difference in practice to warrant one illegal?!!!!
  
  Some people are best to stay just working in the office. 😎
  
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  December 4, 2021 12:54pm
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    December 5, 2021 12:24am
Maggie Pie

Act leader David Seymour on Northland Iwi manning checkpoints…

“Basically, this government is transforming New Zealand into a kind of Banana Republic with local warlords calling the shots”

LOL!
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December 4, 2021 10:15am
- alloytoo
  
  I just wonder if anyone is considering the prolonged economic impact of this on Northland, beyond the covid era.
  
  If Aucklanders simply decide that Northland is simply not worth the bother and choose other destinations around the country.
  
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  December 4, 2021 10:25am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    To Hone and his bros, welfare is welfare. Who cares about jobs? No-one with a job will be on his checkstops.
    
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    December 4, 2021 11:58am
    - oldfella
      
      Alan, will the bros on the checkpoints be working for the dole? Getting job experience? Will the cops ‘supervising’ the operation look to recruit some of them?
      
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      December 4, 2021 12:19pm
  - Scooter
    
    Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t Akl and Northland all red so why can’t travel be free throughout regardless of vacc status, therefore why need Iwi border controls.
    
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    December 4, 2021 12:08pm
Rusty

Too early to ask what the new year 2022 is going to bring us?

I’ll ask anyway

How about a guess that very little is going to change despite 80-90 % of Nzers having got the jab?

A new 2022 strain on the way and the hysteria from our govt and media that we have to do the 2020-21 response all over again?

Will we be talking about the same things in dec 2022?
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December 4, 2021 10:24am
- Inandout
  
  Rusty, if you have a large mortgage start sweating, if no mortgage just loss of freedoms.
  
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  December 4, 2021 11:34am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yep,
  another year of stops and starts…
  
  tho’ not too sure what our Dear PM will call the next version of our Pandemic Plan:
  
  The new Path to Freedom
  
  Beyond the Rainbow
  
  Reset to Recovery
  
  The Final Solution
  
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  December 4, 2021 11:36am
  - oldfella
    
    Hmm, Maggy, maybe not The Final Solution. That’s already been used.
    
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    December 4, 2021 12:21pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      damn!..
      
      How about:
      
      Brave New World
      The Last Man
      The Plague
      
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      December 4, 2021 7:57pm
  - Frank the tank
    
    It will have a graph with lots of colours and words though.
    
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    December 4, 2021 1:26pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  If current projections continue the hospitals and undertakers will be dealing with many more fully vaxxed than they expected.
  
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  December 4, 2021 2:00pm
Fletch

For anagram fans –

“DELTA OMICRON” = “MEDIA CONTROL”
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December 4, 2021 10:30am
emmess

Check out the nutcase from the Northern Territory in this Russell Brand video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ_iDVhlyNw&t=614s
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December 4, 2021 10:41am
Harriet

“Basically, this government is transforming New Zealand into a kind of Banana Republic with local warlords calling the shots”

Coster is nothing more than the national livestock manager now at the behest of an ignorant minister. Or at least it looks that way.

But that’s what the ‘party list’ and ‘failing up’ does to an entire cabinet — introduces lowest common denominators — one way or the other; when prostitutes are nurses, warlords will become the local police.

On principal one can’t elect ACT, either.
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December 4, 2021 11:02am
Maggie Pie

BREAKING…

Man shot in West Auckland for trying to enter house without Vaccine Pass.

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1466864342754865153
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December 4, 2021 11:11am
- Scooter
  
  That’s a surprise
  
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  December 4, 2021 12:20pm
Truman lodge

Apparently at 1pm covid is holding a press conference to advise us how to protect us from the government..
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December 4, 2021 11:13am
Wired-one

Far out, can Newshub Nation be anymore anti Chris Luxon this morning. This biased coverage is getting beyond a joke.
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December 4, 2021 11:28am
Philview

I have been reading the Stuff articles on Chris Luxon this week and have observed some interesting behaviour from the moderators. For example, the Luke Malpass article today there were early comments about yesterdays poll that have been removed. Some quite thoughtful comments about Chris Luxon have been removed. We end up with a lot of fairly juvenile National suck type comments. So multiple layers of moderating weeding out comments that aren’t pro Labour.
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December 4, 2021 11:38am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Stuff is just the propaganda arm of the Labour party. As usual on the taxpayers’ tit as the last thing Labour supporters want to do is pay for their own crap.
  
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  December 4, 2021 12:02pm
- jon
  
  The fact there was a Roy Morgan poll with Labour support down to 36% was enough for the MSM to not cover the story. A terrible inconvenient truth for the Left. Hopefully there will be a Curia poll out in the next week or so to confirm their nightmare.
  
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  December 4, 2021 1:06pm
- H. Upmann
  
  Thanks for taking one for the team Phil “reading the Stuff articles”.
  
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  December 4, 2021 1:40pm
- Its only I
  
  Yes and I got suspended making a comment about it.
  
  The last poll must be hurting.
  
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  December 4, 2021 2:02pm
Nickc2

If you were ever in doubt as to what the Man-Made Climate Change movement (scam) was all about, look no further, Phil Goff (Akld Mayor) is onto it.
https://thebfd.co.nz/2021/12/04/grifter-of-the-week-phil-goff/
He’s using it to raise more money to cover his arse for the rapidly going broke Akld Council.
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December 4, 2021 11:47am
Fletch

Another protest at Auckland Domain –

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/protests-at-auckland-domain-despite-lockdown-ending-will-brian-tamaki-show/UFOEWKDVO74N7VUOKVKKSOFFQ4/

Meanwhile, the Herald touts “FREEDOM, AT LAST” on its front page. ?
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December 4, 2021 11:55am
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFjFnNm5ltU
Study Shows 56% of Karens are Crazy.
A new study out shows that 56% of White Liberal Women Have a Mental Disorder! I kid you not! In this video, we’re going to take a look at the study, we’re going to find that it mirrors a number of other studies that have found that conservatives are far happier than liberals, and stick with me to the very end of this video when I’ll reveal to you precisely why we conservatives are far more mentally and emotionally healthy than leftist liberals. [9:59. Let’s go Karen.]
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December 4, 2021 12:17pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZUHMtcI-RI
Trump Engaging in Shadow Diplomacy, Deploys Own Ambassador!

Is President Trump conducting shadow foreign diplomacy? That’s exactly what pundits in the mainstream media are reporting! In this video, we’re going to look at the media’s hysterics over Trump sending a special envoy abroad, we’re going to see how all of this is part of what the media is calling Trump’s shadow presidency, and stick with me to the very end of this video when I’ll show you what Trump’s shadow presidency reveals about the future of our nation. [8:52]
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December 4, 2021 12:17pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObyYVOQ_iW0

Macron Concedes Defeat To Boris Over Migration.

France has surrendered again. They’ll help Boris return ‘immigrants’ to Europe. [3:44]
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December 4, 2021 12:18pm
Aguy

Heard there was a March happening this weekend.
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December 4, 2021 12:20pm
waripori

Not sure if this has appeared on the site anywhere in the last couple of days, but if it has it is worth repeating.

I got an email yesterday from the tax payers union asking for help with their stop 3 waters banner campaign. The idea is to build on the TV and other media they have done by festooning the countryside with fairly large banners in order to keep the issue in front of people over the summer. They are look for either people to volunteer a site or pay for a banner or possibly both depending on how visible your dwelling is. A banner ( 2.4m by 1.2 m so not trivial ) is $124 and change. I have paid for one.

If they can get a thousand or two of these around the nation it will, if nothing else, annoy the hell out of Labour MPs.
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December 4, 2021 12:35pm
- Observer of Life
  
  Wadi: You can also buy outdoor a2 posters to put up on your fence. I’ve ordered 2.
  
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  December 5, 2021 12:32am
Maggie Pie

Anyone else think that Chris Luxon is the best thing that’s happened to National in the last 6 years?

I’m basing that on the number of ‘pantie-wetters’ currently on Twitter.
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December 4, 2021 12:47pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Like that guy Neale Jones. What a twat!!
  
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  December 4, 2021 1:59pm
Nickc2

Has New Zealand finally found its spine?https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/12/a-new-zealand-perspective.html
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December 4, 2021 12:56pm
Fletch

Vaccine mandates in Victoria, Australia look to be scrapped within weeks after attacks on retail workers…

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/coronavirus/victorian-government-considering-removing-vaccination-mandate-three-months-earlier-due-to-incidents/news-story/a07e37c1866f11269adf4218cb00fde5
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December 4, 2021 1:22pm
- [email protected]
  
  My wife does not agree with this method of accomplishing the desired effects. I also feel sorry for the retail workers being attacked but if this actually works when nothing else does then I am for it.
  
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  December 4, 2021 8:01pm
mikenmildagain

Small bunch of protestors were blocking an intersection here at lunchtime. I’m not 100% sure what they were protesting against, but given the smell and their attire, I guess they wanted access to soap and clean clothes.
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December 4, 2021 1:24pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Be no good them coming to your place then milkey 😀
  
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  December 4, 2021 4:18pm
KevO'Brien

Auckland Mayor Phil Goff is proposing a 5.9 per cent rates increase next year, including 2.4 per cent to fund a new tax to reduce carbon emissions.

Under what law?
Only Parliament has the right to levy taxes.

Has Ardern’s regality rubbed off on Goff too?
Having proof now of her WEF stooge status what legal system are we now under?

Ihumatao was not a joke but a bareface demo of Maori power unleashed under govt eyes with back-turned Police. You can be next. We no longer have a govt, not for the people but for themselves and external puppeteers.
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December 4, 2021 1:41pm
- DeepBlue
  
  Didn’t Goff get his hands smacked over the tourism bed tax or something or rather recently? Which he has to repay.
  
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  December 4, 2021 4:33pm
- Russ the Muss
  
  Trust the science….
  
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  December 4, 2021 6:02pm
Its only I

So, I learnt something new today
Under the usual weekend “StuffED” National swipe stories don’t comment using the words:

“Latest poll”
“Labour sycophant echo chamber”
“Labour gauges opinion using this comment section?…..little wonder they are sliding in the polls”
“No that is factually incorrect this its what the new National leader actually said(insert link to stuffs own story)

or this happens

Your account has been temporarily suspended from commenting
In accordance with Stuff’s community guidelines your account has been temporarily suspended. While suspended you will not be able to comment, use reactions or report comments.
Please rejoin the conversation on December 4, 2021, 2:23 PM

Imagine if I had actually used the same language the left use when mentioning Key?

Oh, and Hello
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December 4, 2021 1:54pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Baldwin having a sook. Remember, this leftist lying prick is an ACTOR.
https://rumble.com/vq47fj-alec-baldin-says-gun-in-rust-shooting-fired-itself.html?
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December 4, 2021 1:54pm
Maggie Pie

This runs counter to the old adage that…

‘Guns don’t kill people. People kill people’

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1466932209592549376
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December 4, 2021 1:55pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  It was an old revolver. Before the trigger can be pulled the hammer has to be cocked – which indexes the cylinder.
  He is an ACTOR, and not a very good one.
  
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  December 4, 2021 2:11pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Like my partner said…releasing the hammer on a vintage gun is the same as pulling the trigger.
    He’s got dozens of them. Put a hole right thru the fridge door once with an old cowboy pistol.
    
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    December 4, 2021 2:37pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      What was in the fridge that needed killing?
      
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      December 4, 2021 2:43pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Not funny 🙁
        The lucky thing was, I’d only just put the banoffee pie in moments before.
        
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        December 4, 2021 2:53pm
      - cmm
        
        Self defence? Those banoffee pies are dangerous.
        
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        December 4, 2021 2:59pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        😀 😀 😀
        
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        December 4, 2021 3:05pm
  - Jack5
    
    Baldwin was holding a Italian-made, Pietta, 1873 replica Long Colt .45 single-action revolver.
    
    In this short YoutTube video, posted today, a gun expert looks at Baldwin’s statement that he let the hammer go without pulling the trigger.
    
    Could Baldwin have let the hammer close without having his finger on the trigger?
    
    https://youtu.be/r8W-vy78pyc
    
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    December 4, 2021 7:59pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Join the army… see the ~~world~~ inside of an Auckland hotel for months on end…

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300469780/massively-concerning–338-military-personnel-who-served-in-miq-quit
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December 4, 2021 2:07pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  Excellent. Less power for the paramilitary when used for domestic suppression, which is basically all our “defence” forces are good for nowadays after decades of financial attrition (National) and anti-military attitudes (Labour).
  
  Having said that I’d love to see us with: a Navy of four new(ish) frigates, decent troop transport ships, a serious air anti-sub capacity; Army with anti-tank, anti-air/missile/artillery systems; Air Force air support in the form of C-130 Herc gunships, and decent air transport, etc. Zero chance of any of that.
  
  Mind you, they’d be even better at domestic suppression then so maybe I’m getting my wish? ?
  
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  December 4, 2021 2:34pm
- MCōs
  
  At the start of WWII my father, having previously belonged to the Territorials, set off for North Africa & return to NZ late 1945.
  He said a lot of guys weren’t so much interested in their patriotic duty so much as the adventure. He told if NZ was ever involved in a war again there’d never be any problem getting blokes to sign up for the same reasons.
  NZ used to have a base in Singapore specifically as an enticement to get people interested in joining up.
  
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  December 4, 2021 2:36pm
  - GJM
    
    Yes, men signed up for adventure in 1914 and 1939, although some learnt from previous experience so they had to introduce conscription.
    My grandfather volunteered in ww2, although it cost him a lot of money in lost business. He was always bitter about those who skived off and made a lot of money and avoided the war as a result. There was a guy down the road who was a black market peddler and illegal bookie who did very nicely.
    Would today’s generation volunteer like that for adventure, to travel the world to interestingplaces and people, and blow 5hem up? I don’t think so, as we are more experienced in travel, with more information on the world. It does not have the mystique as it did for a farm worker from a provincial town 8n 1914 or 1939.
    Thanks to movies and TV news, the horror of war is better known. It was nightly tv reporting in glorious colors of the Vietnam War that was largely responsible for turning the home front against the war. The US army made damn sure that mistake wasn’t repeated in the gulf war in 1991, and had a lot more control over journalists in Afghanistan and Iraq.
    
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    December 4, 2021 6:12pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

“We all feel it deep down, we are on the brink of change. There is an apparent sloppiness in Governments across the World that makes it seem as though they know they are on the brink of losing control.
The clock is winding down on corruption.”
Candace Owens.
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December 4, 2021 2:16pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The Omicron variant reportedly has mild symptoms of soreness and exhaustion. The same thing you would feel after a hard days work…
No wonder the left are terrified of it
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December 4, 2021 2:26pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Boebert hurt Omar’s feelings, I feel so sad/////
#Trump 2024.
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/trump-slams-squad-member-ilhan-omar-for-fraud-and-marrying-her-brother/?
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December 4, 2021 2:33pm
- cha
  
  Boobert married a registered sex offender and she has the neck to talk about someone else’s marriage?
  
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  December 4, 2021 5:51pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

House drinker interviewed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLnXomL31JM
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December 4, 2021 2:56pm
Maggie Pie

TBH, we’re with the staff at ‘Burger King’ here……

Imagine being stuck in the que behind some dickhead like this for 20 minutes 🙁

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/127174031/burger-king-staff-yell-and-swear-at-deaf-man-ordering-dinner-for-his-kids
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December 4, 2021 3:58pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Tell us more about your Burger King experiences. Usual treat on the way home from the tennis club? Convenient to have so many takeaway options in Otahuhu.
  
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  December 4, 2021 4:30pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    I’d probably like you a lot more milkey if you didn’t always talk to me like your some sort of sick pervert 🙁
    
    Just saying.
    
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    December 4, 2021 6:30pm
    - Russ the Muss
      
      I don’t think hes a pervert. Tends to lean more on casual and some what lazy Prejudices. Quite a bore and not nearly as smart as he likes to think he is.
      
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      December 4, 2021 7:31pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, BK in Oz is Hungry Jack’s. In this case Barry is hungry and I would not eat BK if it was free.
  
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  December 4, 2021 4:57pm
- greybeard
  
  Occasionally you are amusing but sometimes your true character shines through. Unfortunately.
  
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  December 4, 2021 6:26pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    My posts aren’t generally targeted at anyone specific, but if you feel offended, I’m glad I could reach at least one person.
    
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    December 4, 2021 7:01pm
Maggie Pie

And a word of advice from my partner…

If you’re an SME, never ever ‘EMPLOY’ anybody.
Leave that to government departments and plc’s.

Contractors only need apply.
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December 4, 2021 5:11pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  There’s nothing as permanent as a good temporary contractor.
  
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  December 4, 2021 6:02pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    But did you see that the government has mandated that any worker who REFUSES to be vaccinated, must be paid ‘at least 4-weeks wages’ when they are terminated?
    
    We know of at least one restaurant owner that is facing a 40K payout!!
    He’s been closed for the last three months and bleeding some real serious cash.
    
    SHEESH!!
    
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    December 4, 2021 6:17pm
    - [email protected]
      
      I am guessing that those employers will not vote for Labour next time around.
      
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      December 4, 2021 7:24pm
    - Russ the Muss
      
      Take yur 4 weeks gardening leave and just enough time to get double jabbed for yur next job, viola!!! Money for free.
      
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      December 4, 2021 7:32pm
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      Clueless government morons shafting workers and killing businesses and jobs.
      
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      December 4, 2021 8:52pm
- GJM
  
  Yep. First decision i made when I started my business was to never, ever have staff. I have never regretted it.
  
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  December 4, 2021 6:14pm
Jack5

Our State television behaving like Soviet Central Television?

On TV1 news tonight, calls were nade for New Zealand bookshops to stop selling books from Tross Publishing.

These seem to be titles giving an alternative view of the Treaty of Waitangi and its ramifications, and other Maori issues.

The broadcast blasted questioning of He Puapua, which backs a goal of the Maori minority (about 16 per cent) 50:50 running the country with majority citizens by 2040.

I’ve not read any Tross-published books, but for those interested:

https://www.wheelers.co.nz/browse/publisher/78964-tross-publishing/
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December 4, 2021 7:09pm
[email protected]

Today was the first time in my 74 years that I felt discriminated against. Other than go to a grocery store or a pharmacy I am no longer allowed to go anywhere else or do anything else. All because I am not willing to subject myself to an experimental vaccine that can only legally be called a vaccine by the FDA changing the definition of “vaccine”.

The “vaccine” that won’t actually protect you from catching the Covid19 virus or passing it on. The “vaccine” that requires you to get booster shot after booster shot and might not actually work against the next variant.

The vaccine that doesn’t kill the virus and allows it to coexist with your vaccine possibly making it more immune to vaccines and prevent your natural body defenses from creating natural immunity to the virus.
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December 4, 2021 8:51pm
- westernScientest
  
  Mitre10 will still welcome you. Needed to pick something up yesterday so had to go into town, was pretty quite, airily quite, the mall next door looks quite, all very bizarre for a late Saturday afternoon, much quite than it was a week ago.
  
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  December 5, 2021 8:06am
Suze Wainwright

Who cares what Chris Luxon says? Morgan Godfery says Luxon doesn’t represent ordinary kiwis (in the Guardian).

Probably true – I’m sure Chris Luxon’s not getting married to a shark whisperer like Clarke Gayford…
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December 4, 2021 9:05pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Maybe senior National Party MPs should start communicating with aotearoa’s aspiring rappers as a way of achieving meaningful cut through…?
  
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Highlights

Target achieved II
Good progress on attendance
Health Target 5 – elective treatments
Health Target 4 – Specialist appointments

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Why I am retiring from political blogging
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