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peterwn

What a fiasco with Wellington’s public transport yesterday. Seems someone forgot to ‘tell’ the Metlink web site, real time departure boards and aps, etc that a Sunday timetable applied on Wellington Anniversary Day. The issue was presumably discovered early in the Day and all that could be done was to switch off the ‘real time’ systems and tell people to look at the Sunday timetable.
If the Regional Council want people to use public transport to ease congestion, slow Climate Change etc the best place to start is to ensure notification systems work properly. Hopefully there will be some painful interviews without coffee at WRC this morning.
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January 25, 2022 8:00am
- pdm
  
  Peter – you and I both know that New Zealanders using Public Transport will make zilch difference to climate change aka nature.
  
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  January 25, 2022 8:25am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Slow climate change by taxing ratepayers (because they own a house of course!) to subsidise other people riding on buses and trains. Good one.
    
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    January 25, 2022 9:15am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    But a 20 cents per litre Petrol tax could make a difference to the climate!!
    
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    January 25, 2022 9:24am
    - backster
      
      If we make it 40 cents per litre tax would that make it too cold.?
      
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      January 25, 2022 10:25am
  - Tempist
    
    But it will greatly assist the spread of Covid and other communicable diseases
    
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    January 25, 2022 9:29am
  - rouppe
    
    Large diesel buses with a 40 seat (80 with double deckers) capacity that drive around with 15 or so passengers is not very efficient either
    
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    January 25, 2022 10:45am
- Observer of Life
  
  Sorry… but posting this high up in GD so everyone can see this latest shite from these a-holes:
  Okay.. this is truly crossing the bloody line. Holy shit….
  
  THE MOST OVERARCHING, FAR REACHING, TOTALITARIAN LAW EVER PASSED IN NEW ZEALAND…
  
  Quietly completed its second reading….
  
  The Covid 19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations) Order 2021 comes into effect on April 1st.
  
  This legislation will allow for:
  
  1. The lockdown of unvaccinated or insufficiently vaccinated individuals.
  2. The ability to restrict travel within the country to unvaccinated or insufficiently vaccinated (e.g. a person who does not want to get a booster shot).
  3. Withhold certification from those who do not get required boosters or subsequent combinations of vaccines as may be ordered at any time.
  4. The ability to dictate the type and form of certification required for proof of vaccination status — digital or otherwise.
  5. The ability to dictate what other information may be required for the renewal of vaccine certificates, and which information may be contained on such a certificate.
  6. The period for which a vaccine certificate is valid can be changed at any time, and who it is that may be entitled or eligible to have these certificates.
  7. The specification of mandates for entire job sectors.
  8. The ordering of certain jobs to require regular mandatory testing and medical examination.
  9. Enforcement officers to be able to demand certification, pretty much at any time.
  10. The appointment of enforcement officers that can be anybody they wish to appoint, and not necessarily police.
  11. Enforcement officers to inspect and take copies of certification to be verified at a later date, before immediately returning such documentation.
  12. The provision of an assessment tool for employers to use to determine who should be vaccine mandated, however employers can totally disregard the assessment tool and mandate at whim.
  13. Legal or other representatives of employees may be refused entry to workplaces.
  14. Contact tracing information may be used against a person in order to enforce the Act.
  15. Employees who have been dismissed for non-compliance of testing or vaccination, but comply at the last minute, may still be dismissed if the employer deems revoking the dismissal to be disruptive of their business.
  
  https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2022/0004/latest/LMS629661.html
  
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  January 25, 2022 8:27pm
  - Observer of Life
    
    Anti-semetic legislation: 1933-1939….
    https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/antisemitic-legislation-1933-1939
    
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    January 25, 2022 8:56pm
  - Observer of Life
    
    And knock yourself out with this lot of heavy duty reading. The internal workings of the Soviet Union – Revelations from the archives.
    https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/intn.html
    
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    January 25, 2022 9:01pm
Warren

New Zealand’s official jobs seeker figures are ‘abject nonsense, Mike Yardly writes.
I realize all Government’s do the same but ths Labour Government have perfected the art of manipulating the figures.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/127578264/nzs-official-jobless-figures-are-abject-nonsense
This Government thinks the voter is stupid and their Leader Jacinda Ardern our Prime Minister has them twisted around her little finger , sooner or later she will be found out on her lies and deciet and will blame everyone else for their own stupidity.
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January 25, 2022 8:00am
- Raphael
  
  This Government thinks the voter is stupid and their Leader Jacinda Ardern our Prime Minister has them twisted around her little finger
  
  to be fair, they have a fair amount of evidence to support this thinking….
  
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  January 25, 2022 8:19am
  - pdm
    
    Well we all know that Jacinda is not a full box of chocolates – except when it comes to manipulating the media.
    
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    January 25, 2022 8:47am
    - oldfella
      
      pdm, to quote Forrest Gump, “My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”
      Sounds exactly like Cindy’s govt.
      
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      January 25, 2022 11:51am
      - Klondike
        
        well its brown in colour and no stink if you have the wuflu
        
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        January 25, 2022 12:54pm
    - Paulus
      
      Noted that our Princess has been to Waitangi with Cindy Ciro our new GG to make a video for Waitangi Day as Waitangi has been closed on the day to all non Maori so TVNZ can show it as if they were there.
      And she was bood and shouted at in Paihia (by Maori).
      
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      January 25, 2022 1:15pm
- Nickc2
  
  sooner or later she will be found out on her lies and deciet
  Sooner or later happened long ago Warren.
  A more dishonest, manipulative and openly corrupt Govt you couldn’t find in the so-called free world IMO.
  
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  January 25, 2022 8:40am
  - Mr_Blobby
    
    It is far easier to Con somebody than convince them that they have been.
    
    Shit, it happens.
    
    We as a people are not the first to be taken in, look at history around the World.
    
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    January 25, 2022 11:45am
- mandk
  
  Not a bad article by Yardley.
  
  One of the obvious conclusions from it is that increasing numbers of people are content to live on a jobseeker benefit without having any intention of working.
  
  And an obvious question arising is, how is this in anyone’s interests, including the ‘jobseeker’?
  
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  January 25, 2022 9:13am
  - artemisia
    
    There is also the black / grey economy to supplement the benefit. Apart from the usual (estimated at $20bill by some) plenty of stories about eg hairdressers doing house calls for folding.
    
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    January 25, 2022 10:18am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Warren bro says – “This Government thinks the voter is stupid”. YES THEY ARE.
  
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  January 25, 2022 9:24am
Mobile Michael

Dan Wootten, one of the 1 million Kiwis who aren’t part of the so called Team gives us an outsiders view of the Red Alert:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10435637/amp/DAN-WOOTTON-Prime-Minister-Jacinda-Arderns-crazy-Covid-zero-policy.html
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January 25, 2022 8:03am
- emmess
  
  Good article but I need to make a comment on the terrible new layout of the Daily Mail for those of us reading on a computer.
  Edit: after refreshing it’s okay
  
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  January 25, 2022 8:21am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Article in the Daily Telegraph doesnt hold back either
  
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  January 25, 2022 9:05am
  - marcw
    
    Barely one comment in the more than 100 replies has a good word for Ardern too.
    
    (Make that ‘had’ a good word – it appears that since I first read this earlier this morning, the comments have been “pulled”. Who knew – Labour also owns the British press?)
    
    Ironically, under the Related Topics appendix they have this:
    
    Related Topics
    New Zealand, Omicron variant, Jacinda Ardern, China, North Korea .
    
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/24/jacinda-ardern-martyring-country-failed-covid-strategy/
    [Paywalled]
    
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    January 25, 2022 9:40am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Unsurprisingly, all the lefties on social media are slagging off Wootten’s journalistic skills, integrity and political allegiances, without debating the content of his opinion-piece.
  
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  January 25, 2022 9:11am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Genuine question Tony Stuart:
    What’s the National Party/“opposition’s” take on this red traffic light situation?
    Are they happy just to go along with it?
    Have they made any comment?
    Are they holding back in case they offend a certain section of society and it’s elite activists?
    
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    January 25, 2022 9:43am
    - Paulus
      
      Anything a National MP says would not be published anyway.
      They have been paid not to publish.
      
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      January 25, 2022 10:27am
    - DeepBlue
      
      Luxon said yesterday the Govn had no choice to go to Red as they have no plan, but this will nly last a few days or weeks before Covid overruns Jacinda’s isolation rules
      
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      January 25, 2022 10:43am
      - bronny1
        
        watch them double down and try to force the unvaccinated to stay home. Because…well who knows what the rationale is, and they don’t think they need one.
        
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        January 25, 2022 12:36pm
  - Jimbob
    
    I would like to mention that I was in town today to take waste and recycling to the dump. Did some routine shopping, the difference from last week to this, nothing. Red light is BS government crap.
    
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    January 25, 2022 11:59am
  - Nickc2
    
    An open challenge to lefties on this blog! Prove Dan Wootton wrong. Facts only, please. No emotive and feelz good or bitchy stuff.
    
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    January 25, 2022 1:14pm
Simon

Given the upcoming covid train wreck that will unfold during the winter cant see Ardern lasting. Cancelling / postponing her wedding is useful cover for later on to say she wants to spend more time with the family.

She knows whats coming.
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January 25, 2022 8:04am
- artemisia
  
  The Finance Minister will be very careful to avoid making mistakes while he prepares his ‘I am humbled’ acceptance speech.
  
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  January 25, 2022 8:29am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  basically, she’ll be MIA this year… she’ll just pop on our screens now and again for a photo op. and to read us a scripted homily.
  
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  January 25, 2022 8:30am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Maggy – my beehive sources tell me, Cindy is working 24 X 7 to save lives if NZers…More and more Sheeple will soon say, isn’t she lovely?
    
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    January 25, 2022 9:26am
    - Frank the tank
      
      So many replies…….so many moderations.
      
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      January 25, 2022 11:18am
    - Suze Wainwright
      
      Hey SCS, is that a question or a statement of fact from you? (You normally seem so adamant about these things…)
      
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      January 25, 2022 11:41am
    - pdm
      
      Well sir c s – she just had 8 weeks holiday.
      
      Shame her new (mythical) 24/7 work ethic will not be to the benefit of all New Zealanders
      
      I have thought many things of her over the years but lovely has never ever been one of them.
      
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      January 25, 2022 11:56am
  - oldfella
    
    Maggy, she will avoid the Podium of Struth (POS) like the plague (pun intended).
    Why stand up and tell the nation about all those sick people when she can just send Chippy out to be canon fodder?
    
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    January 25, 2022 9:56am
  - Paulus
    
    Isn’t she off Overseas on a World trip in March ?
    Sort of honeymoon paid for.
    Hope she is going for an interview.
    
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    January 25, 2022 10:28am
    - Sacha
      
      Ooooh! Let’s not let her back in! I mean, she has nothing to return for.
      Start the movement to day!
      
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      January 25, 2022 2:25pm
- bronny1
  
  i wouldn’t be so sure.
  Omi is mild, there will be a few people die and she will crow about how good the govt were to save us from covid while “we waited for the inevitable, more mild variant”.
  
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  January 25, 2022 10:24am
WaveyDavey

Dan Wootton’s onto it

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/index.html
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January 25, 2022 8:05am
- fernglas
  
  No he’s not. Nobody over here actually gives a shit about New Zealand and its silly response to Covid. We’re nearly over it, and you lot are still shitting yourselves about what is to come. Grow up.
  
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  January 25, 2022 8:21am
  - bronny1
    
    well clearly he cares. As do us New Zealanders who are forced to listen to the [deleted] idiot labour voters here crow about how wonderful we are doing because we have only had 52 deaths, as if that it the end game.
    Many of us on here just want to move on with life, open the borders. So don’t say we are “shitting ourselves”. Yes some are, but many of us are not scared at all.
    Maybe do something useful like Dan. Articles like that will affect Jacinda as she hates been disliked or ridiculed more than pretty much anything else.
    
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    January 25, 2022 10:26am
  - Observer of Life
    
    Fern: I gave you an uptick. But please don’t include me in your “ and you lot are still shitting yourselves about what is to come”… some of us say “bring it on”.
    
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    January 25, 2022 10:35am
  - lifesgood
    
    Who do you think you are, anyway? I have family in the UK, they “give a shit”, as you so delicately put it, so do all their NZ friends. Most NZers here are not shitting themselves, they are utterly fed up to the back teeth and frustrated with the brain dead labour voters who are so dumb they actually believe Cindy and her paid up fear mongers.
    
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    January 25, 2022 11:57am
  - WaveyDavey
    
    Siri: Show me someone who didn’t read the article without saying they didn’t read the article
    
    Correct link: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10435637/DAN-WOOTTON-Prime-Minister-Jacinda-Arderns-crazy-Covid-zero-policy.html#comments
    
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    January 25, 2022 12:14pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Yep, he doesn’t hold back!
  Brilliant!
  
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  January 25, 2022 8:49am
Simon

Build back better is like putting Himmler in charge of Germany in 1946.
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January 25, 2022 8:06am
- igm
  
  Take a look at this:
  https://thebfd.co.nz/2022/01/25/shivering-in-my-boots-not/
  Well worth the read!
  
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  January 25, 2022 8:19am
- Frank the tank
  
  No it’s like putting Frank Spencer in charge light rail to the airport
  
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  January 25, 2022 11:20am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Frank would not fuck it up as bad as Labour is doing
    
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    January 25, 2022 2:26pm
Benedict Yu

Really good reporting on a large scale study of the effectiveness of natural immunity vs vaccines in protecting hospitalizations and deaths. This was on Delta.

Conclusion is that natural immunity is highly effective. You may get reinfected but may be asymptomatic or very mild symptoms

Conclusion is that the UK policy of pressuring people who have had COVID to get a booster shot is totally ineffective.

Watch it at lunchtime if you have 15 minutes. It is not as long as indicated. The last 8 minutes is about a different topic.

“Excellent Natural Immunity Confirmed”
https://youtu.be/25-iJKPA1CA
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January 25, 2022 8:07am
- Raphael
  
  Friends and family in South Africa report that they have basically lifted all restrictions due to Omicron.
  If someone in your household gets sick, only that person has to stay at home, other members of the household can carry on as per normal, and they’re pretty much given up on making people wear masks.
  
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  January 25, 2022 8:20am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    As it all should be.
    What’s the cost to NZ’s mental health from the new round of Cinder’s wisdom?
    What other costs are there like business failures, job losses…
    
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    January 25, 2022 8:29am
- Pineapple Lumps
  
  Meanwhile in NZ we are entrenching the requirements for Boosters and further discrimination against those without vaccine passports.
  
  Auckland College sports 2023 is off for all non-passported participants. I can’t fathom the level of irrationality with this. Students with highly transmissible diseases such as Hepatitis can play full contact sports protected by medical confidentiality. Meanwhile students with no illness cannot play.
  
  While Jacinda called 2021 The year of the vaccine, I would say it will be in history books as The year of discrimination.
  
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  January 25, 2022 12:28pm
pdm

Can someone tell me – were Australias Borders open for most/if not all of their Omicron time?

If they were why are people wanting to compare New Zealand with Australia – our borders have been closed from just before Adam became a Cowbo so obviously not a direct comparison.
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January 25, 2022 8:08am
- David George
  
  Just as well everyone that has arrived from overseas is “fully vaccinated”, tested negative and forced to comply with masking and hygiene requirements.
  Oh wait; 666 border cases in the past 21 days. Something doesn’t add up.
  
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  January 25, 2022 8:24am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    It’s depends on which computer you’re using to get the numbers from. Some are more Cinder’s friendly than others.
    
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    January 25, 2022 8:31am
    - David George
      
      Those stats are from the MOH, dated 24th January.
      https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-current-cases
      
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      January 25, 2022 8:50am
  - DeepBlue
    
    A minor point: NZ citizens didn’t have to be vaccinated until mid January when AirNZ bought in this requirement. Only a negative test was required.
    
    I believe one of the Eastern airlines still accepts unvaccinated people.
    
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    January 25, 2022 9:17am
  - PaulL
    
    It’s called incubation period. If I catch it Monday (incubating it), test Tuesday I’ll test negative. I become infectious on Wednesday, which is the day I get on the plane.
    
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    January 25, 2022 9:23am
  - Mr_Blobby
    
    The vaccine, if you can even call it a vaccine, is a dud.
    
    That is why you needed a 2nd shot, a booster shot, God only knows what they will call the 4th shot.
    
    Are they going to admit that they created an economic and social crisis of epic proportions because they over reacted to a flu virus, I think not.
    
    Will they look at the likes of Sweden and take some “learnings ” from that, I think not.
    
    Sorry team of 5 million we wasted a hundred billion dollars we don’t have.
    
    Yeh right.
    
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    January 25, 2022 9:29am
    - bronny1
      
      have you noticed though how they “socialised” the fourth jab by saying in media that we will need to borrow more, like its not certain, just something we are thinking about. Before you know it the numptys will be demanding it.
      
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      January 25, 2022 10:28am
    - Fight4NZ
      
      So you didn’t watch the video from BY above?
      
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      January 25, 2022 3:53pm
- Spring Bank Westie
  
  I’m “Stranded in ‘Straya” at the moment, maybe I should do a blog….
  We flew over to Melbourne on 17 December based on Dr. **** and the Elected Mayhem saying that kiwis in Oz could fly back into NZ after 17 Jan, we had a return trip booked on 23 Jan.
  Obviously we knew this was a risk as we know you can’t trust this band of Muppets but we took the risk knowing we could work from home in Oz if things changed, and it was our chance to have Christmas with family we haven’t seen for some time, and may not again in some cases.
  Border was open, with these conditions:
  Pre departure negative PCR test,
  Australia Travel certificate to enter Oz,
  Victoria travel permit to enter Vic,
  PCR within 24 hours of arrival and 3 days home detention,
  PCR test on day 5 – 7,
  Carry all documentation at all times for 15 days.
  
  Interestingly, all of our paperwork was scrutinised by Air NZ before departure, and on arrival nobody at border control needed to see them, so obviously the airlines are an integral part of the process.
  
  We arrived and got the first PCR test, which was free at the local testing station and the queue was only 20 minutes. Negative result arrived about 3am next day. So got out of Home D Monday night and hit the shops Tuesday morning. Masks required in retail businesses and supposed to do the local QR code, wasn’t strictly enforced.
  
  Later we got an email from Air NZ saying someone on our flight had tested positive so we had to go for another PCR and Home D until negative results received. Same testing drill and once again results overnight.
  Then Dr. TATEM announced Omicron was scary and the NZ border was not re-opening on 17 Jan.
  
  Received an email from Air NZ notifying that our flight on 23 Jan had been cancelled due to Omicron border changes.
  But, Air NZ had been working with MOH/MIQ/etc. and we were eligible for an MIQ slot if we emailed an address and let them know we wanted one.
  Emailed MIQ and re-booked a later flight and within no time at all were booked into MIQ on arrival on Friday 28 Jan.
  Isn’t it amazing what can be achieved when the government goes on extended holiday and leaves the professionals to get on with sorting things out!
  
  So hopefully not jinxing things, as long as we have a proper ($180 each) negative PCR test and certificate we’re flying home to MIQ somewhere in NZ this coming Friday.
  Just to make things complicated though, the departure PCR test now has to be within 48 hours of departure, down from 72 hours, meaning we have to get tested Wednesday afternoon.
  Wednesday is Australia Day, and not many of the travel PCR collection centres are open on that public holiday, and their website recommends getting tested at least 48 hours before departure due to high volumes of testing currently. So a couple of days of nail biting until we get the results back in time to go to the airport. If they come back positive we’re stuffed.
  Then 2 weeks ago daughter we are staying with got sick, did a Rapid Antigent Test and was positive with Covid, so 4 of us staying in the house are on Home D for a week until she recovers. So another round of PCR testing, negative again.
  Staying locked up for a week and on the last day the rest of us went for the day 6 PCR and son-in-law has started coughing and tests positive, and we’re locked in for another week.
  He’s out of isolation today.
  Departure tests are tomorrow, so fingers crossed we’ll be in MIQ on Friday night, which will be another new experience.
  Wish me luck!
  
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  January 25, 2022 12:06pm
  - Okahu
    
    Great story Spring Bank, best of luck dodging the virus for a few more days.
    
    However. Don’t think you quite get the picture here. You did well to point out we are led by useless muppets and to point out that your evident ease in getting back into NZ was probably because the government was enjoying an extended summer vacation and has lost interest in imposing its tyranny.
    
    But not to put too fine a point on it you are not helping. On another thread this blog is running today, https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2022/01/nz_in_a_class_of_its_own.html
    you are a victim of a merciless totalitarian government, the only one in the world, apparently, so evil, so conniving, so nasty they have banned their citizens from entry. That means you. Banned.
    
    Now you and I know that is a horse shit proposition and your imminent return into a vast infrastructure to accomodate just such returnees proves it. But these happy halfwits and lip licking cheek spreaders love a lie often told. So go have a look and realise that with this story of hope and faith in process and organised efficient responses to evolving circumstances, you have rather undermined a days effort by the usual suspects to blow bull shit doom smoke up each other’s arses.
    
    Some of them apparently believe in what they say and do. Others just do it because they enjoy the process and the sensations it gives them, I guess.
    
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    January 26, 2022 5:56pm
Frank the tank

The country know as New Zealand is officially dead (or at best of life support). Gone is the can-do; no problem is surmountable; how do we do this attitude evidenced by No8 wire, Climbing Everest or splitting the atom.

This has been replaced by a meek can’t-do attitude where Health and Safety compliance nut jobs dutifully take a literal and hardline interpretation of government dictates with a stark similarity with Sharia Law in places such as Saudi Arabia. Anyone that dares to be different or oppose this group think is labeled an extremist, antivaxxer, Qnon Trump-loving freak show down to woke plod monitoring you on a day-to-day basis.

Call it whatever you want Aotearoa, New Zimbabwe, South North Korea or anything else. It isn’t the country that I grew up in or I want to be in. Unfortunately I’m stuck here (can’t move a family if they don’t want to) living in a perpetual nightmare where 35% actively enjoy this dystopian world.

Cameron Slater is right – compliance only encourages them.
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January 25, 2022 8:13am
- DeepBlue
  
  What makes NZ so attractive for your family?
  
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  January 25, 2022 9:18am
  - Frank the tank
    
    Family I guess. No real idea myself. I felt the same during the Clark years as well which were spent offshore as much as I could
    
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    January 25, 2022 10:11am
    - Paulus
      
      No longer Family but Whanau – ask RNZ !
      
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      January 25, 2022 10:31am
      - pdm
        
        Family to mrspdm and I.
        
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        January 25, 2022 12:00pm
- Taieri
  
  Call it whatever you want Aotearoa, New Zimbabwe, South North Korea or anything else
  —————-
  
  Jacindastan.
  In more ways than one. The only missing thing are gold plated statues…
  
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  January 25, 2022 9:55am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    South Venezuela
    
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    January 25, 2022 2:30pm
  - gravedodger
    
    So far ! Taieri, so far.
    
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    January 25, 2022 5:52pm
- MCōs
  
  “Unfortunately I’m stuck here”
  
  Because, it would seem, your family doesn’t agree with you.
  Well, no problem is insurmountable.
  
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  January 25, 2022 10:06am
  - graham
    
    So MCōs, just to be clear … are you seriously suggesting that someone should prioritise their own feelings above their family? That, faced with a choice of staying in a country that you consider to have changed over the years for the worse, or breaking up an entire family, Frank the tank should just crap on his family and get out of here?
    
    News for you … that’s not how a real man treats their family. Not by a long shot.
    
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    January 25, 2022 10:55am
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      Might be the best thing that ever happened to them.
      
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      January 25, 2022 3:57pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    NZ is nice for civil servants and (other 🙂 ) people who don’t work for a living. Just so long as not too many of your actual tax payers with their feet.
    
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    January 25, 2022 10:58am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      *sigh* vote with their feet
      
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      January 25, 2022 12:32pm
  - Frank the tank
    
    Your tears will be delightful when the worm invariably turns.
    
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    January 25, 2022 11:21am
Souvlaki

Good to see the ridiculous border situation here receiving increasing prominence in international press.
Ardern not feeling ” lurve” in comments either.
https://mol.im/a/10435637
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January 25, 2022 8:14am
- Nickc2
  
  IMO, she’s deliberately made this country ungovernable for any other party but Labour, and we let her do it.
  Her first term was kept reasonably Democratic but that was largely due to the Peters Party veto on her more radical dictates.
  Her second term was bought about by public apathy and a well-oiled team of Socialism Enablers which included our Universities, MSM and Maori Separatist Radicals with a Socialism agenda of their own.
  How do we overcome these causes and influences if we are fortunate enough to have an election in 2023? It certainly won’t be easy.
  
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  January 25, 2022 9:55am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Not Governing – she is ‘ruling’ as tyrrants do
    
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    January 25, 2022 10:40am
Southern Raider

Will the media ever call out Jacinda for the world of pain households are facing?

Super high inflation and rising interest rates primarily fall at the feet of her policies and/or her Govt could have done something about it.

Large proportion of inflation is labour costs, food costs and building costs. Labour costs are skyrocketing because of her failed immigration policies and permanent border closures. Food costs going up because of lack of seasonal workers. Building costs going up due to lack of local manufacturing capacity (including labour) and international supply chain which the Govt can strongly influence.

Then interest rates which are effectively being used as a dumb hammer to try and curb inflation caused by her Govt.

Jacinda has created all this mess and the households will feel the pain.

It’s been suggested that 10% plus salary increases are needed to just make households even and there is no way businesses already struggling could afford even half of that, let alone wages go up so businesses will put their prices up and then you have more inflation
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January 25, 2022 8:18am
- Clownworld
  
  Almost like a planned reset?
  
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  January 25, 2022 9:56am
kowtow

You have to love the Media Pardy and their paymasters , the regime.

Every time there’s a new wave they run any number of stories about panic buying and they get their commentariat to insult the intelligence of “hoarders” and “panic buyers”

But it’s not the “hoarders or panic buyers” who have created the conditions for this stocking up behaviour.

The true culprits are the parties in power and their enablers , the Media themselves.
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January 25, 2022 8:19am
WaveyDavey

Ever wonder why NZ’s unemployment rate is so low?

Then wonder no more

“If you are working just one hour a week, while drawing Jobseeker Support, you won’t be counted as officially unemployed…”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/127578264/nzs-official-jobless-figures-are-abject-nonsense?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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January 25, 2022 8:22am
- cmm
  
  And what counts as working?
  
  Does posting a Tiktok video once a week count as “working on your online business”?
  
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  January 25, 2022 10:11am
Lee C

This young man has a not so unique take on it:

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=515689139720669
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January 25, 2022 8:22am
- Observer of Life
  
  Is Sesh Mike King’s son? He certainly looks like him.
  
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  January 25, 2022 10:51am
Biscuit

With the Royal Nuptials having being cancelled, it seems only fair and proper that I close off the official Kiwiblog ‘Buy Jass & Clarke A Wedding Prezzy’ Account.

Last time I looked, the balance was $0.00.

Fretteth not, however: whenever the shindig is rescheduled I will recommence proceedings so you can not contribute all over again!
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January 25, 2022 8:23am
- pdm
  
  What commission are you taking Biscuit – 90% like Oxfam and other so called charities?
  
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  January 25, 2022 8:30am
  - Biscuit
    
    Sniff!
    
    If pdm ain’t careful, my fund to buy him an Easter Egg this year will be reduced to Kiwiblog ‘Buy Jass & Clarke A Wedding Prezzy’ Account level!
    
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    January 25, 2022 8:34am
    - pdm
      
      Seeing as I have not seen an Easter Egg from Biscuit in previous years what he suggest is pretty much `par for the course’
      
      ps – luckily the Ranfurly Shield is safely locked away in in a secret location in Hawkes Bay – well away from the fires ravaging Wellington.
      
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      January 25, 2022 8:52am
Frank the tank

One for Mag’s. US dollar has dropped to 66 cents.

Winter is coming.
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January 25, 2022 8:23am
Cassandra

mike still in bed? Burns Night, Rabbie was born on 25 January. If you can’t get haggis then at least a dram. Rabbie preferred his from the Black Isle (near Inverness) so Aberlour would suit, rather than Ayrshire where he was born.
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January 25, 2022 8:24am
- Tony Stuart
  
  I bought an excellent dram from The Glenlivet when we were in Scotland a few years ago, and en route to Inverness. I will most certainly uncork it tonight and drink a toast to Rabbie.
  
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  January 25, 2022 9:16am
  - Don Beckett
    
    Inverness – what a very cool little city.
    
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    January 25, 2022 10:49am
    - WaveyDavey
      
      The Best Little Capital in the World you might say
      
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      January 25, 2022 12:18pm
      - Cassandra
        
        Is there someone who downticks every comment on this blog regardless of content, just for the sake of it? Or is there a strange individual somewhere who does not like Robbie Burns, Scotch and/or Inverness?
        
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        January 25, 2022 3:52pm
      - WaveyDavey
        
        @Cassandra yes there are a few, often they are those who seem to have taken offence at what an anonymous person on the internet has said previously and have decided to declare vendetta on a random group of pixels
        
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        January 25, 2022 9:55pm
fernglas

https://croakingcassandra.com/2022/01/24/to-what-end/
At last some of you are getting it.
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January 25, 2022 8:25am
- Albert_Ross
  
  What exactly in Michael Reddell’s excellent analysis do you think some of us hadn’t previously got?
  
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  January 25, 2022 10:36am
ecco

I feel sorry for the businesses being named and shamed in that idiotic ‘places of interest’ listing that the government persists with using. Appearing on that list, especially food and accomodation could spell the death knell for these places who are already struggling.

I feel the contact tracing etc is going to be pointless fairly soon with omicron. Bring it on. In the circles I mix in people, young and old, are fairly over all these OTT regulations. They’ve stopped wearing masks all the time and refuse to curb meet ups with friends and family.

Was sad to see one of my regular cafes having to clear out half their tables in their establishment. To what end? Of course Ardern and Bloomfield will carry on with their control freak regime.
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January 25, 2022 8:37am
CAKE FACE1

I was mulling over our great white saviour Cindy’s sympathy pitch, where she is postponing her opulent wedding, because she is unwilling to have less than 100 guests. Socialists have made a great song and dance about this supposed “sacrifice”.

Let’s analyse what she said:

“I am no different to, dare I say it, thousands of other New Zealanders who have had much more devastating impacts felt by the pandemic, the most gutting of which is the inability to be with a loved one sometimes when they are gravely ill. That will far, far outstrip any sadness I experience.”

““I am no different to…” Wrong. She is in a very, very different situation to those that missed family members dying, due to her insane policies. Her quote, in these circumstances, is simply degenerate.

Cindy’s comparison of her wedding postponement to these people she has tortured is simply an outrage.

It is a staggering piece of narcissism.
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January 25, 2022 8:49am
- DeepBlue
  
  She only feels ‘sadness’ at delaying her wedding. I guess that is better than relief.
  
  A family friend just changed her wedding plans with the word ‘devasted’ used in comparison. But the couple want to be married as the top priority, which is the point of the wedding for them, so they will have a small ceremony instead and a big party later.
  
  Quite a contrast I believe.
  
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  January 25, 2022 9:25am
- cmm
  
  I can’t have my wedding in a billionaire’s mansion with a Grammy award winner singing a song she made up specially for me.
  
  See, I’m just like you. I understand you. Vote for me and I will do the best thing for you because I’m just like you.
  
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  January 25, 2022 10:18am
  - rouppe
    
    You forgot: catered by a celebrity chef
    
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    January 25, 2022 12:30pm
  - RightFirstTime
    
    They are us/I am you.
    
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    January 25, 2022 1:06pm
Surely Knott

The covid response from all parties has been that no restriction, no civil liberty, or cost is too high to save us from death by covid.

But with Breast Cancer we only offer screening to women up to 70 years old. (in Australia it is 75) despite the USA recommending that all women should be scanned every 2 years. This decision costs hundreds of lives every year. Our governments with socialised medical care have made calculated cost benefit analysis that women’s lives over 70 aren’t worth it and they won’t fund or advertise for women over this age to get tested despite an increasing number of women over this age group dying of breast cancer.

The academic analysis of this decision not to screen includes:
“The potential harms of breast cancer screening in older women include false positive results and overdiagnosis. Among women 75 years and older, …will experience a false-alarm,… which can cause pain, anxiety, and distress. False positive mammogram results decrease with age. Overdiagnosis, a phenomenon in which a cancer detected by screening would not have gone on to cause symptoms or death, is a harm of screening that increases with age.”

Yet for covid the PCR delivers regular false positive to those who would not have gone on to cause symptoms we don’t stop screening because it might cause panic and anxiety or overdiagnosis – in fact we use our health budgets to fund media fuelled panic and propaganda.

Breast Cancer:
“The existence of comorbid conditions has been used as rationale to exclude women over 69 years in breast cancer screening invitations.”

Yet with covid we are told to ignore co-morbidities that every life is sacred and they may have not died if they hadn’t got the virus.

With breast cancer they make hard decisions to save money on those they deem who have other co-morbidities and higher risk.

Breast Cancer;
“Studies show that breast cancer screening does not benefit older women with severe or multiple comorbidities, due to competing causes of mortality. Although women with a life expectancy of less than 10 years are unlikely to experience a mortality reduction from screening mammography,”

Women die every year because of these hard cost based policy decisions based on age.

We spent 69 billion on “Covid” but what else could that money have been spent on. What would the cost benefit analysis been if we had spent just a fraction of that on regular screening for older women for breast cancer even starting with up to 75 to bring us up to the same standard as Australia. https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2002/176/6/benefits-harms-and-costs-screening-mammography-women-70-years-and-over

https://anzhealthpolicy.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-8462-5-23
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January 25, 2022 9:00am
Nickc2

Biden puts US Troops on Standby to Deploy to Ukraine. Is this to:
a. Take the heat off his own incompetence,
b. Enhance his reputation in the West,
c. Destroy all evidence of his son’s corrupt practices,
d. All of the above.
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January 25, 2022 9:05am
- Libertarians are right
  
  e. Some elaborate plan to send in troops with billions of dollars of equipment which will be “gifted” to Russia when the troops leave soon after they arrive.
  
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  January 25, 2022 9:41am
- Clownworld
  
  Biden has no idea being a puppet or he is the best acting president ever.
  
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  January 25, 2022 10:01am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    No no no no. Reagan was the actor, Biden is just a very sick man being used
    
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    January 25, 2022 2:36pm
Yvette

A covidiversion topic – the bloody trees / climate thing –

In what I consider to be an excellent article – in just my opinion, of course – Dame Anne Salmond indicates several factors that fault New Zealand’s climate planting plans, and particularly James Shaw’s Glasgow proclamation –

NZ’s climate planting asking for trouble
Comment: Dame Anne Salmond lays out the fundamental problems with this country’s strategy to use pine forests and overseas offsets to help wish away our climate emissions
New Zealand’s strategy for responding to climate change is fundamentally flawed. Much of the nation’s carbon debt is to be addressed by ‘off-setting’ – planting trees to sequester carbon, either at home or abroad.

… the government proposes to spend billions of dollars on international carbon credits – in other words, paying people in other countries to plant trees to sequester the carbon emitted in New Zealand.
And … Since most of the plantations in New Zealand are owned offshore, we’re paying even more to people in other countries to sequester the carbon we’re emitting.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/anne-salmond-nzs-climate-planting-asking-for-trouble

– however I, respectfully, would suggest that – good as I believe this article to be – it misses one major point: the article does not come back to the fundamental fact that the ‘off-setting’ – of planting trees to sequester carbon, either at home or abroad – allows the emissions in New Zealand, which demand those off-sets, to carry on unabated.

The whole “off-set” scheme “kicks the can down the road”, as I and many others have continually damned as a characteristic feature of this Government (hundreds of consultive working groups to current announcements of announcements, with another tomorrow) and this time Shaw even “kicks the can into someone else’s back yard”, paying other countries to plant trees while we continue with our emissions here.

It is like modern medicine where a GP gives you medication to relieve or even eliminate symptoms, but never actually addresses the cause of your woes.

Dame Anne Salmond writes about the medications prescribed to offset the side effects of the medications given to offset symptoms without solving the actual cause –
a laxative to counter the constipation codeine causes without finding the cause of the pain that you are given codeine to releave –
like, that this Ardern Government is a pain in the arse.
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January 25, 2022 9:10am
- Albert_Ross
  
  If planting trees abroad is a more cost-effective way to reduce net global carbon emissions than stopping carbon emissions from New Zealand itself, then it absolutely should be allowed to carry on unabated.
  
  There is no environmental benefit whatsoever in reducing net carbon emissions expensively in one place, rather than reducing them cheaply in another place.
  
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  January 25, 2022 10:35am
  - bronny1
    
    There’s no environmental benefit in any changes NZ makes towards mitigating climate change.
    Not while China builds a new coal power station every day.
    
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    January 25, 2022 10:19pm
- Local Miller
  
  LOL, I was thinking about Liebours 1 Billion trees project and did some numbers.
  There were roughly 3.04 Trillion trees in the world as at the 2015 estimate. Since then a number of countries have had tree planting programs, the most ambitious I’ve found is China who have planted 66 billion trees in an on going project to push back desertification. So about 3.106 or more trees in the world.
  Liebours failed 1 Billion trees would have added a massive 0.032% to the world tree count, or 0.003% per year. Hardly a significant contributor to the greening of the earth, and even then they couldn’t get it right.
  
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  January 25, 2022 10:43am
- Fletch
  
  This morning I tuned into NewstalkZB for the first time in a long time to listen to the 9am news. I know it was 9am as I checked the time. Just before the news in the slew of ads they had one ad extolling the planting of wood. Saying how great it was for the country and that revenues from selling it would even outstrip those due to pastureland. They were touting it as the next big thing, wood pellets etc, great for the climate, wood was the new gold.
  
  Well, I’ve just been to the Newstalk Week In Demand and replayed that time slot and it has totally disappeared. Weird huh? And the ad didn’t say who was doing the advertising or anything. I had to laugh because in the news report following they were reporting record profits for Fonterra for milk powder sales.
  
  Very mysterious…
  
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  January 25, 2022 11:41am
Maggie Pie

RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION….

Did Jacinda’s credibility die
OF COVID
or
WITH COVID?
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January 25, 2022 9:21am
- Tony Stuart
  
  You’ve been looking at photos of placards at anti-mandate protests again, haven’t you MP?
  
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  January 25, 2022 9:27am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    The same anti-mandate protests Luxon dismisses?
    
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    January 25, 2022 11:34am
- Frank the tank
  
  Of Kungflu “absoludely”
  
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  January 25, 2022 9:32am
- Clownworld
  
  Was the creditability there to begin with?
  
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  January 25, 2022 10:02am
- bronny1
  
  definitely “with”.
  It died “of” dishonesty, lack of transparency and incompetence.
  
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  January 25, 2022 10:47am
Warren

I am no fan of Peter Dunn or his politics but you would have to say he has this article 100% right.
Return to red light shows a lack of New Year resolve. New Zealander’s increasingly shell shocked by the way Covid – 19 has taken over our lives are looking for some more positive news from the Government, more of the same will no longer work.https://www.newsroom.co.nz/politics/peter-dunne-return-to-red-light-shows-a-lack-of-new-year-resolve
A interesting article that is worth reading and shows people are slowly changing their opinions on how this pandemic should be handled.
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January 25, 2022 9:24am
Tony Stuart

Heather du Plessis-Allan is back, and she’s started 2022 as she ended 2021:

Isn’t it remarkable that we are starting the year with exactly the same problem that we had last year, and the year before, which is that we are not ready for an outbreak.

I’m not angry. You’re not going to hear me raging about this.

But I am going to lay it out for you so you also understand how unprepared the government is for these omicron cases.

Let’s start with ICU: not ready.

According to that leaked report last week from the upper levels of government, we had 108 ICU beds spare.

That’s 36% of capacity. It’s not nearly enough if we get the 10s of thousands of daily cases Chris Hipkins is predicting

I’ll just remind you that last year we harped on at the government about needing to let doctors and nurses through MIQ, and do everything necessary to stop us losing the ones we had and they dragged their heels. So don’t be surprised by this.

Then we have the medication situation.

We still don’t have the two treatments in this country that should help keep you out of hospital if you take them early enough in the infection.

Paxlovid and Molnupiravir.

They’ve been approved in Australia, the UK, and the US, but we’re still waiting on Medsafe to give the medication their approval for NZ, and current projections are that that won’t be until April.

When we might be past the peak of this outbreak already.

Then there are the rapid antigen tests. We have 4.6 million tests in this country, not even enough for one for each of us.

That’s because when businesses were trying to buy them, they were banned by the government until late last year.

And now the government is scrambling to buy them… but there’s a worldwide shortage.

And finally, you’re being told already that you might have to look after yourself at home, stock up on paracetamol and necessities and not even get tested if you get omicron.

That’s because the government is already acknowledging there’s a very good chance the testing system will collapse under demand at the height of the outbreak.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather-du-plessis-allan-drive/opinion/heather-du-plessis-allan-were-starting-this-year-with-the-same-problem-weve-had-for-the-past-two/

There’s a little bit more, including a dig at Cabinet for observing Wellington Anniversary Day yesterday when most had only just returned to work. Don’t they realise we are in the midst of an Omicron outbreak, necessitating the country being at Red in the Covid Protection Framework?

HdPA is dead right. As the great American baseball manager Yogi Berra famously said “It’s deja vu, all over again”.
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January 25, 2022 9:26am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Further trials after initial media showed Molnupiravir to be nearly useless. Only got approved because Big Pharma gets what Big Pharma asks for.
  
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  January 25, 2022 9:55am
  - bronny1
    
    30% effective apparently.
    At least we are not getting remdesivir!
    
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    January 25, 2022 10:49am
    - Zero Kindness
      
      Remdisivir is what they are currently using for hospitalized covid patients in NZ, Bloomfield said so. Apparently not to good on the kidneys for memory…
      
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      January 25, 2022 2:54pm
      - bronny1
        
        Exactly.don’t touch it!
        
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        January 25, 2022 10:20pm
      - Observer of Life
        
        Apparently a highly toxic drug. Yay!
        
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        January 25, 2022 10:48pm
  - bronny1
    
    But hey, i just heard of the drug they have found that is really good at treating covid and is cheaper than chips.Large trial compared to those used for the Fizzer treatment drug. Article published last week.
    
    “The regular use of ivermectin led to a 68% reduction in COVID-19 mortality (25 [0.8%] versus 79 [2.6%] among ivermectin non-users; RR, 0.32; 95% CI, 0.20-0.49; p < 0.0001). When adjusted for residual variables, reduction in mortality rate was 70% (RR, 0.30; 95% CI, 0.19-0.46; p < 0.0001). There was a 56% reduction in hospitalization rate (44 versus 99 hospitalizations among ivermectin users and non-users, respectively; RR, 0.44; 95% CI, 0.31-0.63; p < 0.0001). After adjustment for residual variables, reduction in hospitalization rate was 67% (RR, 0.33; 95% CI, 023-0.66; p < 0.0001).
    
    Conclusion: In this large PSM study, regular use of ivermectin as a prophylactic agent was associated with significantly reduced COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and mortality rates."
    
    https://www.cureus.com/articles/82162-ivermectin-prophylaxis-used-for-covid-19-a-citywide-prospective-observational-study-of-223128-subjects-using-propensity-score-matching
    
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    January 25, 2022 10:54am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Voldermectin (we dare not speak it’s name, at least on Big tech controlled social media)
      
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      January 25, 2022 12:33pm
    - Fight4NZ
      
      The data presented in this study is still as wrong as it was when this disinformation was posted yesterday.
      I take you also did not watch the video posted by BY above which has rock solid data and conclusions. Unfortunately they say the vaccine is far better than even the benefits claimed in this psuedo-study for ivermectin.
      
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      January 25, 2022 4:16pm
      - bronny1
        
        Tell me what is wrong. I was sent it by a friend which a post grad chemistry degree and had it reviewed by a PhD. So tell me this issues and I’ll see what they think. No of course you won’t as you types never do – just shoot anything that doesn’t support your narrative down. Pathetic.
        
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        January 25, 2022 10:23pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  You’ve been listening to 1ZB-Drive again, haven’t you TS?
  
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  January 25, 2022 9:58am
- Random T Person
  
  Stupid stupid and stupid. We must all cower in our homes over the common cold? Chicken Little suddenly seems like the sensible one here.
  
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  January 25, 2022 10:06am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Have those remedies been actually tested on humans for more than 3 days? Aren’t they just another Pfizer “sockem for what we can get before they wake up”.
  
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  January 25, 2022 10:47am
Lee C

Even for Ja$inda, mandatory vaccination of five to eleven year olds os (at the moment) a step too far.

Not so long ago she was saying ‘We don’t do that’ , (about vaxxing kids) now the clip has been altered to say ‘experts advise us’ to do it.

The recent annaouncement made much of her view that ‘Boosters’ were necessary to combat Omicron.

Why? the evidence indicates the last round of vaxes aren’t any use for Omicron, and it’s a bit like a head cold.

So why has Ja$inda got such a hard-on for getting as many vaccinations done as possible, even in the face of facts such as:

vaxxed people end up in hospital,
the average age of a covid death is 82
there’s been a boom in adverse side effects amongst young and otherwise hearlthy recipients of the vax?

The recent report from teh UK revised its data of covid deaths from 176.000 to 17,000 (average age 82) i.e. a common or garden flu harvestin any given years.

The CDC shows similar ‘average’ flu-deaths for teh past 6 years?

Even as other nations with (apparently lower) rates of vaccinations she has claimed credit for, are now backing off the whole mandatory clown-show?

Why is is so difficult to access elected representative/public servant, Ja$inda Ardern’s financial records?

Why did Hipkins refuse to release contracts between Her majesty’s Government and the pharmaceutical companies as too ‘commercially sensitive’?

Why are the media, who get so much money form ‘public support journalism funds’ and wall-to-wall advertising, and who are owned by companies with direct financial links to the paharmaceutical industries so loath to engage in any counter narratives?

And finally, why are even Opposition Parties such craven toadies? More than happy to go with the vaxx/covid narrative, rather than interrogate or challenge the Government?

Is political corruption the actual virus here?
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January 25, 2022 9:27am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Evidence for benefit from vaccinating kids is equivocal (particularly from Omicron):
  
  New Danish data:
  -HIGHER rates of infection among vaccinated 5-11 yos, even when adjusting for testing rate
  -Boosters not associated w/lower infection rates
  https://covid19danmark.dk/#gennembrudsinfektioner
  
  Combine that with known and unknown long term risks from vaccines and miniscule risk from covid and I think precautionary principle should rule. We should be copying many other countries in NOT vaccinating school kids.
  
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  January 25, 2022 10:00am
- Clownworld
  
  The virus was the key catalyst to the ignition of the great reset. The response to the virus is the real enemy of every state.
  
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  January 25, 2022 10:05am
  - Fight4NZ
    
    Q rules ok.
    
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    January 25, 2022 4:21pm
- Paulus
  
  Parliament still,out on holiday for some weeks yet so where can the Opposition call out this dreadful Government.
  The media is Government owned and paid by the taxpayers, and will do anything they can to avoid anything the Opposition says or wants to say.
  
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  January 25, 2022 10:56am
Maggie Pie

Remember last time the Gayford’s cancelled their wedding venue, they got into a stoush with the owner of ‘Bushmere Arms’ over the payment of a ‘cancellation-fee’.

Anyway, he’s taken to Twitter…. and it appears he has a lot of support 😀

https://twitter.com/Coltheman1/status/1485493780166090754
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January 25, 2022 9:54am
- Frank the tank
  
  At 40% our Queen is down to teachers, trade unionists, public servants, tribal Labour and females under the age of 35.
  
  In planet real world she is almost universally hated atm hence the secret squirrel over the red wedding
  
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  January 25, 2022 10:22am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Have the wedding staff pulled out? There are reports of international parties having come. Where are they? In the mud pools of Rotorua?
    
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    January 25, 2022 10:51am
    - bronny1
      
      c’mon Kev, nobody goes to RotoVegas anymore. Nowhere left to stay (all now emergency housing facilities) and far too dangerous for most of us.
      
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      January 25, 2022 10:57am
      - KevO'Brien
        
        They’ve got to be in keeping somewhere. May as well put them among our celebs.
        
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        January 25, 2022 1:52pm
    - Fletch
      
      Probably put them on a retainer until the lights change… ?
      
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      January 25, 2022 11:18am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Yes, there were reports last week of four ‘Vogue’ photographers in the country chartering a private Beechcraft to fly them around.
      Anyone else hear about that?
      
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      January 25, 2022 11:19am
      - oldfella
        
        Maggie, wonder how they got MIQ spots? /s
        
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        January 25, 2022 11:44am
- Clownworld
  
  Just hire a venue unaffected by her own despot decisions… Have it at her own home?
  
  Whole things a circus.
  
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  January 25, 2022 11:19am
Fishing in the dark

Just don’t go testing for Omicron unless you are really sick otherwise you are imprisoned for at 24 days.
These clowns have to go including our 3rd class expert professors.
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January 25, 2022 10:00am
- oldfella
  
  Fishing, yes, Mrs Oldfella has made the same comment several times about the planned – draconian – isolation rules. Where’s the motivation to get tested?
  
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  January 25, 2022 11:46am
- Other_Andy
  
  “Just don’t go testing for Omicron unless you are really sick otherwise you are imprisoned for at 24 days”
  
  Less testing means less cases and tit paves the way for Vaxinda to declare she has beaten covid.
  
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  January 25, 2022 11:50am
- Tony Stuart
  
  No, it’s even worse than that. If someone in your household tests positive for Covid, YOU, whether you catch Covid or not, will be required to isolate for up to 24 days.
  
  That’s certainly not a strategy I would use to encourage greater testing; just sayin’ …
  
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  January 25, 2022 12:16pm
- MCōs
  
  Not as simple as that depending on your sense of civic responsibility.
  For myself I could ride it out by not going out of the house if I thought I was infected, because I’m retired.
  However I’d still prefer confirmation if a month later I picked up a cold. Maybe the first time was a cold & the second covid?
  If I was a working person do I ignore the symptoms, not get tested and risk spreading it around by going into the office?
  Some would say the people in the office will get infected sooner or later anyway.
  Maybe, but I don’t think it would be my place to determine what happens to someone else.
  
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  January 25, 2022 12:28pm
  - bronny1
    
    if you think you are infectious, do what most of us have done our whole working life – work from home.
    I guess if you are used to attending work with flu this might be a big change for you, but most of us just use some common sense. Good chance you won’t even know you’ve got it anyway (unless you are double but not triple jabbed – they seem to get hospitalised most often).
    
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    January 25, 2022 12:46pm
    - MCōs
      
      I remember getting the flu maybe once in my life and I was in no shape to work anywhere.
      Apart from that in my line of work working from home wasn’t practical.
      Some guys weren’t so lucky and some used up the paltry five days standard sick leave. Many places I worked they were told just to stay home and they’d be paid.
      Over in Bangkok it was thirty days sick leave. Problem was guys would take a day off for the flimsiest of reasons. Headache was quite common.
      
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      January 25, 2022 1:25pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Some of us can’t work from home. I can not cut steel, weld it, paint or galvanise the product from home.
      Work from home my left tit. The Govt lacks in thinking outside their precious little bubble
      
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      January 25, 2022 2:47pm
Frank the tank

What pub or bar should Tova get a job at?

Be kind.
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January 25, 2022 10:19am
- Maggie Pie
  
  I know Leo Molloy @ HEADQUARTERS has the hots for her 😀 😀 😀
  
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  January 25, 2022 10:39am
- H. Upmann
  
  Otahuhu RSA?
  Onehunga Working Men’s Club?
  
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  January 25, 2022 10:55am
  - lifesgood
    
    The Flying Jug, maybe.
    
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    January 25, 2022 11:31am
- Libertarians are right
  
  Due to the fear porn pushed by her and her friends (and our movement to red) there probably aren’t any pubs hiring.
  
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  January 25, 2022 11:04am
- Truman lodge
  
  Tova should pull pints at the Harliquin in pt chev or the grey lynn tavern. Nice and central with classy clientele.
  
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  January 25, 2022 11:28am
- oldfella
  
  Frank, I think she should just learn how to code.
  
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  January 25, 2022 11:47am
- Squeek
  
  Not a bar or pub, but a fish n chip shop perhaps – with friends in such high places.
  
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  January 25, 2022 2:20pm
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January 25, 2022 10:23am
Fletch

Does anyone know how the red light setting is affecting the real estate industry? With regard to open homes etc, is it considered safe? Are people putting it off until a setting change? Got some friends in Wellington and some more i Auckland who are looking to buy/sell but aren’t sure whether it is safe.
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January 25, 2022 11:11am
- bronny1
  
  100% its safe. Whether it will be allowed is another matter.
  
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  January 25, 2022 12:46pm
- marcw
  
  Since I have helped pay for it (via my taxes), I have no guilt in referring you to this Fletch.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/real-estate/127576855/covid19-nz-buying-selling-and-renting-a-house-under-red-traffic-light-rules
  
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  January 25, 2022 12:55pm
  - Fletch
    
    Thanks!
    
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    January 25, 2022 2:33pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I think you can go to an ‘open home’ just not allowed to use the toilet//
  
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  January 25, 2022 2:49pm
  - Spenditb4theytaxit
    
    Yes you can use the toilet, just cant drink out the pan.
    
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    January 25, 2022 5:46pm
CAKE FACE1

I was considering why it is so difficult to have a discussion with socialists about Covid.

CAKE approaches problems in a rational, considered and fact-based manner. Socialists don’t do logic. It is all about the feelz.

Take the issue, say, of cloth masks. The science is almost unanimous on this subject. They don’t work. However, socialists don’t actually care about whether they actually work or not, in the scientific sense. For them, masks are important as a tool of virtue signalling, and for exhibiting control and power.

The current restrictions are completely pointless from a health perspective, and very damaging to our hospitality economy. Why bother?

Socialism is like an ancient mythology. Perhaps the nonsensical rules serve in some placebo effect, to their unsophisticated followers. More importantly, they are an ideological programme, intended to show the power and glory of the State. When the Aztecs sacrificed humans to the Sun God, they were probably drawing on the same part of the human psyche as the socialists and their feelz policies.

Cindy might not directly rip the beating heart out of your body, like the Aztec leaders, but her policies come from the same place. There is a mythology at play here, which won’t be contradicted by pesky facts.

There is nowhere for the dissenter to go, except up the ramp to the top of the pyramid, where a leering Cindy awaits, holy dagger in hand…
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January 25, 2022 11:15am
- Ehlana
  
  CAKE FACE1, IIRC, at the start of the pandemic the advice was against wearing masks, then it changed to support wearing them, on the basis that there seemed to be less Covid spreading where they were worn.
  I know a lot of people have pointed out that the virus spores (is that the right name for them?) are smaller than the holes in the masks. I figure it is like putting your hand in front of your mouth with your fingers outspread and standing in front of a spray of water – your fingers won’t keep it all out of your mouth, but will block some of it. Put two hands in front of your mouth at right angles to each other and you will block even more water from getting in. In other words, it may not be perfect, but it does have some effect.
  
  I haven’t seen any later scientific results on the standard masks – do you have any links?
  
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  January 25, 2022 12:12pm
  - CAKE FACE1
    
    Ehlana,
    
    There is a brand new invention called the internet, which has this amazing search engine called Google.
    
    Type in “Cloth masks Omicron”, and its all there.
    
    There are literally hundreds of articles about scientific studies which come to the same conclusion. You wouldn’t get over 100k cases a day in Oz if these cloth masks worked…
    
    For example:
    
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/460037/covid-19-mask-advice-under-review-as-omicron-community-transmission-confirmed
    
    “Brisbane-based data scientist Jeremy Howard, who in 2020 did the world’s largest review of evidence on face masks and the ability to stop aerosol spread of Covid-19, told The World Today that the evidence is evolving.
    
    “Ditch your cloth masks and also ditch your surgical masks,” he said.
    
    “Omicron is so aerosolised, so it’s such tiny particles that float in the air.”
    
    Back in the day, a bad harvest could result in virgins being sacrificed to the Gods. This seems like a waste.
    
    Let’s move on from this mystical thinking…
    
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    January 25, 2022 1:14pm
    - Fight4NZ
      
      So I used the internet and what do you know it came up with this:
      https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021850220301063
      Yes, masks never worked by preventing inhalation of droplets. What they do is substantially lower the exhaled droplets from an infected individual.
      Were JH suggests that Omicron is somehow more aerosolised than the previous variants which are differentiated by minor molecular structural changes, is where the questions arise.
      But CAKE must know that because he said he is always right.
      
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      January 25, 2022 4:44pm
      - info@cruzpro.com
        
        Exhaled droplets are not the issue. They do not float around for long. Exhaled droplets fall quickly due to gravity. It is the miniscule aerosolized virus particles that float and hang around for other people to inhale that cause viral transmission. The masks do not stop them leaving ones mouth or stop them being breathed in.
        
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        January 25, 2022 9:01pm
      - bronny1
        
        Haha do you still use google???
        
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        January 25, 2022 10:27pm
      - Fight4NZ
        
        Fair point. I misspoke saying droplets, where should have said both droplets and virus particles. In either case the spread is the issue and this is where the masks come in. Obviously masks cannot prevent them leaving your mouth, but they do contain flow of air.
        
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        January 25, 2022 11:05pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The mask thing is rubbish, even N95. It is like putting up a wire mesh fence to keep out mosquitos
  
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  January 25, 2022 2:51pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Who, what, I don’t know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W6Hy5PY3Ec
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January 25, 2022 11:19am
Jack5

If our cities recruit bus drivers overseas I recommend they try to hire Gurkha veterans. That and equip bus drivers with tasers.

The attacks on bus drivers are growing. It’s hard to agree with the Auckland employer apparently sanctioning a driver who retailiated after being punched in the head while driving.

Probably a Woke human resources manager.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-bus-driver-assault-and-retaliation-caught-on-cctv/LAXEMKSBW336DV7AZ4FZNQQ4SE/
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January 25, 2022 11:23am
- I remember when
  
  Not even just an assault – it was a ‘king hit.’
  
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  January 25, 2022 2:31pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Looks like the other passengers could not help because they were getting their phones ready to video it.
  The culprit was also drunk
  
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  January 25, 2022 2:56pm
Jack5

Maori language is stuffed down our throats by Ardern’s bought media, State TV, State radio, and government departments.

Will Tongan be the next cause of the Woke?

Looks like the push is on for other minority Polynesian languages. This, from Stuff:

2016 Education Counts data shows that Tongan was offered as a subject in only 18 mainstream schools in all of Aotearoa, which allowed only 1700 primary school students and fewer than 600 secondary school students to enrol across the country.

The issue is similarly stark for other Pacific languages, with only 15 mainstream schools offering Cook Islands Māori, and even fewer offering Niuean, Tokelauan, or Fijian (no information was reported for Rotuman, Kiribati, or Tuvaluan).

Even Samoan, which is the third most spoken language in Aotearoa, with more than 80,000 speakers, is available to fewer than 4000 students in just 80 mainstream schools.

Samoan the third most spoken language in NZ?
Ahead of Chinese Mandarin and Hindi?

Madness when our exporters and tourist operators would benefit from more mainstream language speakers.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/127560990/language-matters-want-to-support-tonga-support-its-language-in-nz-schools
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January 25, 2022 11:31am
- mandk
  
  ‘which allowed only 1700 primary school students and fewer than 600 secondary school students to enrol across the country’
  
  Is that the number who were eligible to enrol, or the number who did so?
  
  The number seems pretty small for 18 schools.
  
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  January 25, 2022 12:14pm
  - bronny1
    
    probably cos there were few takers. Pacifika people value useful education.
    
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    January 25, 2022 12:48pm
    - graham
      
      Yep. I notice the article only discusses one side of the equation; namely, how many schools offer the various Pacific languages as subjects. I don’t see any statistics quoted as to how much demand there is to be taught the languages.
      
      I’d also comment that, based purely on my own limited experience, Pacific Islanders seem to be far more invested in maintaining their own languages than Maori are.
      
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      January 25, 2022 1:14pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Samoan and I expect Tongan is much further advanced as a language than Maori.
  Samoan is not fossilised but a working language. However there are at least 3 variants. A reserved Chiefly language, the standard Samoan and the street common Samoan. For commerce and education the population are fluent in English and are all essentially bi-lingual. Land titles etc are all dealt with in the reserved language.
  
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  January 25, 2022 2:01pm
kowtow

The so called traffic light system is an admission that lockdowns don’t work and in fact should never have been implemented ( follow the science , WHO says don’t do ’em , so why did we)

Oh the fascist enablers will say ” It gave us time for “vaccines”

When we first locked down no one knew if there would be a vaccine , and in any event the damn thing they came up with and de facto forced on all , is ineffective as a vaccine .

It might prevent some of the sicker ,more vulnerable from dying or spending a lot of time in hospital , but why should the whole of society now continue to be held back , along with the huge consequences to society and finances ?

Full normal now!
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January 25, 2022 11:47am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Sorry, nothing has been normal for 4 years under this lot of imposters
  
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  January 25, 2022 2:59pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

Another reason to always carry a can of ‘Oven Spray’ in your handbag when venturing out in public……

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1485694028620316673
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January 25, 2022 11:56am
- Frank the tank
  
  Yet we all know they will be vacationing in Florida where there are no mask requirements
  
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  January 25, 2022 12:10pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  This is the result of being ‘dumbed down’ for the last 30+ years
  
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  January 25, 2022 3:01pm
Lee C

New Laws to come into effect April 1st.
https://www.tiktok.com/@aaro__haa/video/7056788583759334657
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January 25, 2022 12:54pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The more control they get, the more they want. Who will stop complying?
  
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  January 25, 2022 3:06pm
Lee C

Is it me, or is the ne Public Health Act (Gesundheit!) a bit ‘New South Wales’ in it’s totalitarianism?
Inspections by ‘public health officials’ (not police) who can withhold your certification,
Powers for employers to sack ‘insufficiently vaccinated’ persons even if the employee relents adn agrees in the end.
Travel limited for the ‘insufficiently vaccinated’
The ability to rescind certification or redefine it at government whim for ‘any combination of vaccinations’?
The ability to enforce isolation for being ‘insufficintly vaccinated’

When did this term ‘insufficiently vaccinated come into being and what does it mean for you andyour children?

This is a the equivalent to a totalitarian land-grab.

And both the Government and the Opposition are down with it.

But never fear, Luxon’s learning te Reo, and Ardern’s ‘sacrificed’ her wedding. So they are ‘just like us’ really, aren’t they?

https://www.tiktok.com/@aaro__haa/video/7056788583759334657
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January 25, 2022 1:05pm
- bronny1
  
  um – the law that passed here the other night is largely the same! It has provisions for insufficiently vaxxed too….
  
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  January 25, 2022 3:31pm
Lucia Maria

Trevor Mallard has just been arguing with Dan Wootton over his Daily Mail column on NZ’s covid policies!

Labour & supporters are apoplexing right now!!

First reply as a retweet here:
https://twitter.com/danwootton/status/1485758226914320385
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January 25, 2022 1:08pm
- graham
  
  *sigh*
  
  I can’t help thinking it would be a good idea for Trevor Mallard to read up about his job description.
  
  The position of Speaker is high-ranking — the Speaker commands the respect of other members. This is because the Speaker is the member that the House chooses to communicate with the Sovereign on its behalf.
  
  https://www.parliament.nz/en/visit-and-learn/how-parliament-works/office-of-the-speaker/role-history-of-the-speaker/role-election-of-the-speaker/
  
  Arguing and bickering on Twitter really isn’t the way to maintain the “respect” he is supposed to command.
  
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  January 25, 2022 1:26pm
  - Ehlana
    
    I agree with you graham, but I’m not sure today’s arguing and bickering will much affect the respect Trevor Mallard is commanding in his role as Speaker. That ship left port long ago.
    
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    January 25, 2022 2:24pm
Stu2

An interesting story on Stuff about using pooling to maximise PCR testing.

What they do is combine a clump of samples and test the clump. If it is negative they they have saved a lot of time and reagents compared with testing every sample individually. And it increases the number of samples that can be dealt with each day.

But the method breaks down in an Omicron wave. So many samples are positive it isn’t likely any clumps will be negative. So everything gets tested individually and the number of samples that can be processed daily drops.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/127584323/covid19-why-lab-testing-capacity-during-omicron-will-be-much-lower-than-40000-tests-a-day
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January 25, 2022 1:10pm
Hard Cheese

I’d say the Auditor-General needs to take a good look at Kainga Ora

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/kāinga-ora-cannot-say-how-much-compensation-given-in-total-to-unruly-tenants-neighbours/ar-AAT6beT?li=AAFtepJ&ocid=mailsignout

Kāinga Ora cannot say how much compensation given in total to unruly tenants’ neighbours

“The government landlord cannot say how much it has been ordered to pay out in compensation to neighbours terrorised by unruly tenants.”

“RNZ’s Official Information Act (OIA) request – asking for the total amount of compensation paid out for breaches of section 45 (1) (e) of the Residential Tenancies Act in the past five years – has been declined.

“Kāinga Ora does not centrally record this information. As with many tenant-related matters, records are kept as a narrative [my emphasis] rather than a financial transaction or ledger, meaning that each record needs to be read to ascertain the outcome,” the response reads.”

A “narrative”??!!! That’s taxpayers money they’re doling out there, they’d better be keeping a ledger. Accounting for Government spending is not a bedtime reading of Goldilocks or Jack and the Beanstalk.

“While Kāinga Ora declined the OIA request on the basis it did not centrally record the information, its response does note “amounts awarded overall are small, commensurate with the Tribunal’s findings of matters needing compensation”.

National Party deputy leader and housing spokesperson Nicola Willis said the government housing agency could not have it both ways.

“Either they know, in which case they should front up and be transparent with taxpayers about how much they’ve spent, or they don’t know and they’re in no position to make those assurances.

“Either way, it’s disappointing. I would suggest Kāinga Ora be honest, up front and accountable on this issue.”
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January 25, 2022 1:14pm
- Ehlana
  
  Spot on Nicola. If there is no central record, there is no way to know that amounts are small. There is also no accountability for the spending of money taken from taxpayers and supposedly to be spent in accordance with the direction of Parliament.
  
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  January 25, 2022 3:58pm
dcrane

So refreshing to see this: Former All-Black decries the “cruel, deluded, doomed” covid response of the smug hermit kingdom.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/covid-19-omicron-outbreak-all-black-zinzan-brooke-joins-criticism-of-nzs-cruel-deluded-doomed-response/T6GIRXUPSWDWM4H5GEJGDKAFM4/
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January 25, 2022 1:17pm
Maggie Pie

I see where Dan Wootton & ‘SpeakerTrevor’ have entered into a twitter exchange…..

https://twitter.com/danwootton/status/1485761558458376199
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January 25, 2022 1:21pm
- Lucia Maria
  
  Hi Maggie, what’s your twitter handle? Will follow. 🙂
  
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  January 25, 2022 1:23pm
- Nickc2
  
  I’ve just read the Twitter stuff and Mallard must have been a petulant child as well. No wonder he took up Politics, he would have been out of his depth as a School Teacher.
  
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  January 25, 2022 1:34pm
- cmm
  
  SpeakerTrev is worried about the legality.
  
  Screw legality: where’s the morality?
  
  We’re a sad society when our benchmark is what the courts require.
  
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  January 25, 2022 2:51pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Legality don’t matter when you are accusing someone – and the Taxpayer pays your legal bill anyway. Right Trev, you hypocrite?
    
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    January 25, 2022 3:19pm
Southern Raider

If any deserves a bullet it’s this prick

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/127589556/i-want-to-murder-him-boy-beaten-and-locked-in-car-for-days-without-food-as-punishment
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January 25, 2022 1:25pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  GOOD GOD SR!!
  One of the most disturbing things is that animals like that are allowed to breed.
  
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  January 25, 2022 2:12pm
  - Scooter
    
    What animal does that, only a scum low life so called human.
    
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    January 26, 2022 1:30am
- cmm
  
  Even sicker is how:
  * The mother enabled this behaviour.
  * She seems to be facing no sanctions.
  
  We’ve grown used to boyfriends that abuse their “partner’s” childred, but surely there should be some expectation that a woman protects her child first – even if the drugs are good.
  
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  January 25, 2022 2:31pm
- mandk
  
  Be fair, now.
  
  I expect he is:
  a) trying to turn his life round
  b) struggling to come to terms with the abuse he suffered as a kid
  c) good to his dear old mum
  d) involved in coaching kids in league
  e) motivated to manage his anger
  f) a victim of colonial oppression
  
  Will he even get porridge?
  
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  January 25, 2022 2:32pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  SOCK
  
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  January 25, 2022 3:23pm
Yvette

Three weeks at home to fight Omicron: Jacinda Ardern’s critics denounce ‘whopping 24-day isolation rule’
… Three weeks at home to fight Omicron: Jacinda Ardern’s critics denounce ‘whopping 24-day isolation rule’
The Ministry of Health’s rules state: “The isolation period for COVID-19 cases in the community is at least 14 days, including 72 hours symptom-free. Your household members will need to remain in isolation for at least 10 days after you have been released as a case.”

However – At her press conference, Ardern said: “At this stage, you will need to isolate for 14 days if you are a case, and 10 days if you are contact.”
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/01/three-weeks-at-home-to-fight-omicron-jacinda-ardern-s-critics-denounce-whopping-24-day-isolation-rule.html

It appears household members are close contacts. So if they are held an extra 10 days to clear them of any inoculation from the first infected person, is that first person not a close contact as the rest of the family, and surely should continue to isolate with them for the extra 10 days?

1 – does natural immunisation kick in immediately or have a lapse for a few days as does apparently a second injection or booster before it gains fuller efficacy?
2 – is a close-contact of any sort able to infect the highly contagious omicron virus by physical touch regardless of their own health status?
3 – will Ardern address either of these questions in any public statement?
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January 25, 2022 1:39pm
- H. Upmann
  
  Ardern is clearly unhinged….stupid doesn’t sufficiently address her issues anymore.
  
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  January 25, 2022 2:45pm
lazza

Hey Rouppe you said …

” Large diesel buses with a 40 seat (80 with double deckers) capacity that drive around with 15 or so passengers is not very efficient either”

Must be a Wellington case study thing, as here, in the City of Sails (North Shore), we are lucky? if a bus carries more than 2 or 3 pax particularly at weekends.

We lack useful bus feeder services. I am disabled and my nearest suburban bus service is one km away … uphill!

Until another level of smaller feeder vehicles servicing our secondary routes is in place I will continue to depend on a car … OK?
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January 25, 2022 2:07pm
- rouppe
  
  Perhaps you misunderstood.
  
  Public transport is being promoted as a climate change saviour.
  
  However most buses I see (outside of peak) are next to empty. Possibly for similar reasons to those you mention.
  
  You rely on your car as much as you want. Most people do, because public transport isn’t working.
  
  PS: How come you don’t reply to the actual comment to retain context for others?
  
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  January 25, 2022 3:06pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Add to that the enormous resource waste entailed from infrastructure overhead of providing special lanes for buses and bikes and the massive consequent increase in car travel times and increases in their fuel consumption
    
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    January 25, 2022 5:08pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Remember this wopper???
“not only will there be no forced vaccinations, but those who choose to opt-out won’t face any penalties at all.”
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/09/coronavirus-jacinda-ardern-confident-enough-kiwis-will-get-covid-19-vaccine-for-herd-immunity-without-being-forced-to.html
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January 25, 2022 2:23pm
- cmm
  
  Well the first problem was assuming that the vaccine was effective enough to give herd immunity.
  
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  January 25, 2022 2:32pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Not too bright is she? Or is it the experts are not too bright? Baker, Hendy and the Pink Terror
    
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    January 25, 2022 3:27pm
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      She’s playing it perfectly for what she wants: to be recognised as a master manipulator by the only people that really matter – those that can set her up with the nice wee UN gig.
      
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      January 25, 2022 7:16pm
fernglas

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/24/jacinda-ardern-martyring-country-failed-covid-strategy/
Although it’s behind a paywall, the headline gives you the gist.
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January 25, 2022 2:33pm
fernglas

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300503193/how-to-manage-a-covid-infection
This doctor is doing nothing other than giving hypochondriacs material for their hysteria and causing needless fear amongst the populace. Omicron lasts 3 days or so, no-one loses smell or taste, and no-one I know who has had it has experienced any long term ongoing symptoms.
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January 25, 2022 2:36pm
- cmm
  
  It seems rather pointless, but perhaps people will eventually realise “hey that sounds like a cold”. Just need some Lemsip.
  
  Breathing is hard, but you should try to breath anyway.
  
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  January 25, 2022 7:15pm
I remember when

So it’s a ‘lockout’ if you are not vaccinated with a vaccine that we know doesn’t prevent you catching covid.
If the vaccine did prevent you from becoming infected with covid –
would not being vaccinated be a ‘hanging offence.’
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January 25, 2022 2:37pm
Lee C

Fauci, pretending the clinical trials were genuine, now admitting the vaccines ‘make people worse’…https://www.facebook.com/robwhitlow2/videos/635677574414232
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January 25, 2022 2:43pm
I remember when

Outraged Kiwis react to Dan Wootton’s ‘completely incorrect’ column: Newshub:
Except it wasn’t completely incorrect – in fact no real attempt was made to prove that it was.
Both men (Wootton and Farage) also referred to the red setting as a form of lockdown.
And….
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January 25, 2022 2:46pm
graham

When Joe Biden was elected, the world proclaimed yay, we now have somebody more refined than that Trump character …

… then went strangely quiet as he proceeded to call a reporter a “stupid son of a …”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/joe-biden-answers-inflation-query-on-hot-mic-by-swearing-at-fox-reporter/66SABTQVTXIVGWET6SKM4MUZ5E/
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January 25, 2022 2:50pm
rouppe

So some protesters who are clearly not European conduct a significantly more aggressive protest against the PM than Tamaki ever did, and a “Ngapuhi spokesperson” (unnamed) tries to blame whitey.
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January 25, 2022 3:02pm
Maggie Pie

SIGN OF THE TIMES ?

Walked past a construction site on Orakei Rd and one of the guys called out….. “NICE NOSE!”
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January 25, 2022 3:06pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  So are you really a Barbara Striesand lookalike?
  
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  January 25, 2022 9:10pm
I remember when

Does the graph for “Quarterly Excess Deaths for New Zealand” suggest that most of the those we ‘saved’ in 2020 may have died in 2021.
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January 25, 2022 3:07pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Or those that didn’t die of flu in 2021 were killed by some combination of poor medical treatment (covid response delayed cancer + heart treatment) or delayed effects of vaccines. There is an unexplained increase of about 2000 deaths (NZ normally has about 3000/month) during autumn to spring ’21 in covid free NZ (when vaccination program was in full swing, cause or coincidence?).
  https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-average-baseline?country=~NZL
  
  If that number (~2000) is correct then that is likely more than will die from Omicron and perhaps the medical response to covid in NZ will prove to have been a greater killer than covid is in the end
  
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  January 25, 2022 3:29pm
- kowtow
  
  UK experts have long said kung flu deaths is largely a phenomenon of “displaced mortality”. So why the continued panic , mandates and other medico fascist measures.
  
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  January 25, 2022 4:23pm
Maggie Pie

Follow up to my Wikileaks post yesterday…..Julian Assange has been granted leave to appeal. Must do so within 14 days.
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January 25, 2022 3:20pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Ment to include link from Stella….
  
  https://crowdjustice.com/case/assangeappeal/
  
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  January 25, 2022 3:53pm
Warren

This from the Speaker of Parliament that can’t t even do his own job fairly and honestly that has cost the taxpayer of New Zealand thousands, blackened a Parliament workers name forever.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-omicron-outbreak-trevor-mallard-responds-to-dan-woottons-criticism-of-covid-response/SN6HXY6KYPPXUAWZUORQPPDRJY/
And now he calls out others that speak truthfully with warranted criticism of our Prime Minister over her failures concerning Covid -19 and the new variant imicron.
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January 25, 2022 4:16pm
- Gravelroad
  
  @Warren,
  Lovely to see the speaker of the house standing up to protect his leader – so bold, so kind.
  I thought the speaker was supposed to maintain a dignified distance from openly making party political comments.
  But Mallard has no dignity and gets away with unashamed political intervention and cronyism.
  How come?
  
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  January 25, 2022 5:31pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    How come?
    It’s called the paid media. Shameless bastards.
    Oh well, at least Hosking comes back on Tuesday, the lone force trying to keep them honest.
    
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    January 25, 2022 9:13pm
Rusty

So omees two brothers (covee and deltee) have been caught by the authorities but omees still on the run.
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January 25, 2022 4:24pm
Maggie Pie

PRESS CONFERENCE @ 4PM

Good God….so Jacinda has just mandated the wearing of facemasks in Restaurants whenever diners rise from their table to go the toilet.

Last thing I’d ever do is let other people think I was going for #2’s 🙁
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January 25, 2022 4:29pm
- Fletch
  
  Workers covered by a vaccine mandate will be required to wear a surgical-grade or N95 face mask in their workplace, instead of cloth face masks.
  * Ad-hoc masks, such as scarves, bandannas, and pulled-up t-shirts, will no longer be accepted in venues such as cafés and gyms, when a person is not eating or exercising.
  * These mask changes will come into force in nine days.
  
  Isn’t the whole mask-wearing thing pointless?
  
  “The virus can also infect you via your eyes. It basically likes to land on mucus membranes, and then, from your eyes, go down to your nose anyway. So I think people should not bother with face masks.”
  
  ~ Prof. Michael Baker, 29 Feb, 2020.
  
  https://bit.ly/3FWkLVh
  
  And THIS is what someone looks like after wearing a properly fitted N95 facemask all day.
  https://twitter.com/Robber_Baron_/status/1481686238931271680
  
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  January 25, 2022 5:03pm
  - Cinematic
    
    They’ve gone full retard. Never go full retard.
    
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    January 25, 2022 6:14pm
kevn

@Maggie… But, but, she says ‘we are stamping it out’.
That was yesterdays language.
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January 25, 2022 4:47pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Well that’s just it….you can only get a table if you’ve got a ‘Vaxx Pass’ anyway. It’s all gotten a bit silly really.
  
  In fact, I’m starting to wonder if what Avi Yemeni had to say might well be correct…..
  
  Avi, (Chief Correspondent for Rebel News), reckons the only logical explanation, is that when the PM got cold feet and cancelled her wedding, she decided to to take the entire country down with her.
  
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  January 25, 2022 5:11pm
Centrist

So apparently everyone needing a vaccine mandate at work has to wear a surgical grade or N95 mask and we have 9 days to get one. What a waste of time and money. These top down rules from the govt are just stupid. I’m the only person in my office and we can all socially distance in lunch breaks when we can’t wear masks anyway. There will probably be panic buying on the “best” masks now.
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January 25, 2022 4:48pm
Fletch

SO, the media are reporting that the treaty grounds at Waitangi will be closed for Waitangi Day. Jacinda knew she was going to put us all into red days ago when she pre-recorded the whole Waitangi ceremony without inviting Luxon et al.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/01/24/treaty-grounds-to-close-for-waitangi-day-2022/

These people have no class or honesty.
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January 25, 2022 4:52pm
- cmm
  
  No, no, no…. She was just taking precautions.
  
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  January 25, 2022 7:38pm
- Lucia Maria
  
  Yep, planned and timed.
  
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  January 25, 2022 8:45pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/127588499/no-more-scarfs-bandannas-government-to-require-n95-or-surgical-masks-for-workers-under-vaccine-mandates
Well bugger me !
All of those paper and cloth masks we have been using for about 2 years are suddenly not up to scratch !
To be honest, I have been using the same blue and white “freebie” paper mask for the last 2 years. Never had a problem. I even washed it once, just to see how it lasted.
It, and me, are just fine thanks !
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January 25, 2022 5:19pm
- DeepBlue
  
  Don’t panic, the bluey jobs we have been buying are surgical masks.
  
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  January 25, 2022 6:01pm
  - cmm
    
    Stuff stuffed up. They said P2 masks, not surgical masks.
    
    As you say, surgical masks (ie. the blue and white pleated things) are as pointless as scarves or bandannas. They serve SFA against aerosols and only work for large drops etc (eg. someone sneezing straight in your face).
    
    What they actually said is N95 or P2 masks. P2 are way better than surgical masks but not up there with N95s.
    
    P2 masks do, however, look a bit more like N95s so they look “serious” and the theatre is preserved.
    
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    January 25, 2022 7:09pm
    - gump
      
      P2 masks are interchangeable with N95. In the words of 3M who makes the most commonly used masks in healthcare and industry:
      
      “All 3M respirators meeting P2 requirements of Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 171:2012, or P2 requirements of EN standards will also meet the requirements of the NIOSH N95 specification.”
      
      Link to quoted text.
      
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      January 25, 2022 9:06pm
  - cmm
    
    Nope, it seems she thinks the blue surgical masks are good:
    
    ” All workers who are legally mandated to be vaccinated must also wear a medical-grade mask. For example, a Type 2R or Level 2 mask or above while working in public-facing roles. That included the widely available blue medical grade that many were already wearing, Ardern said.”
    
    Except these “surgical masks” are well documented to be completely useless against aerosols.
    
    Cindy seems to like them though – she wears them often.
    
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    January 25, 2022 8:01pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Oh damn….
  
  I won’t be able to use my nano-girl hanky mask anymore…
  https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2020/08/17/why-were-adding-masks-to-our-covid-19-toolkit.html
  
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  January 25, 2022 6:53pm
lifesgood

She has seriously lost the plot. This insanity simply has to stop. Question is how do we stop it? I heard her, she sounded absolutely exhausted, lacking in any enthusiasm and as if she was reading something she’d rather not read. I’d say it’s only a matter of time before she throws in the towel if today’s announcement is anything to go by.
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January 25, 2022 5:34pm
- DeepBlue
  
  Wouldn’t you be upset having to tell the Mongel Mob their bandanas are illegal?
  
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  January 25, 2022 6:03pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I’ve seen a mobster wearing a professionally made face mask with Mongrel Mob designer logo on the side.
    
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    January 25, 2022 6:56pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Wonder what this will mean for my collection of ‘BALENCIAGA’s
      
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      January 25, 2022 7:51pm
- Cinematic
  
  And go do what? She’s earning at least 5 times her market value. No way will she depart the trough early.
  
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  January 25, 2022 6:16pm
  - cmm
    
    But does SHE realise that?
    
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    January 25, 2022 7:18pm
- Lucia Maria
  
  We stop it by ensuring that everyone we talk to knows what is going on. The more that know, the harder it will be to maintain.
  
  The truly hypnotised are a little harder to deal with, but refusing to pander to their insane demands is a start.
  
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  January 25, 2022 8:47pm
Fletch

Someone left a comment on the open BFD chat yesterday….

“This is the news. Here is what you need to know! Test test test, jab jab jab, dob dob dob!!”

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January 25, 2022 6:09pm
graham

Surely it must be only a matter of time before the main-stream media wake up and realise that damn near EVERYBODY does actually have access to the Internet and knows what’s going on in the world these days. And they can’t get away with pulling the wool over our eyes for much longer.

Even my wife – one of the most apolitical people you could hope to meet, and someone who derisively snorts at “conspiracy theories” – commented during a news item on Ukraine that the story simply wasn’t showing a vital detail.

C’mon, One News and all the others – stop treating us like idiots and start being honest with us. Because you are no longer our only, or even our main, source of information these days.
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January 25, 2022 7:41pm
- Mike
  
  What vital detail was omitted?
  
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  January 25, 2022 8:27pm
  - dcrane
    
    The vital details usually omitted are that the US and its allies have been pushing NATO and its weapons closer to Russia, which feels threatened. And that the current government in Ukraine was installed in a 2014 coup that the West (including Obama’s CIA) helped to foment because the previous elected government was getting friendlier with Russia.
    
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    January 26, 2022 1:37am
Stoic308

What are we missing? to cancel a wedding is not the same as to postpose a wedding. My bet is its off.
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January 25, 2022 9:09pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  You’re not the only one to notice that…
  
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  January 25, 2022 10:47pm
  - Lee C
    
    … so we’ve all been put on ‘Red Alert’ to cover the brekdown of their wedding?
    
    Surely not.
    
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