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December 27, 2021 8:00am by Kokila Patel

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Warren

So Jacinda Ardern and Naiana Muhuta know best and are prepared use the weapon they used in Covid-19 on misinformation to dupe the public into believing the Government knows best.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2021/12/26/3-waters-letters-between-mayors-mahuta-show-strained-relationship/
Jacinda Ardern and the Labour Party are prepared to lie and decieve to get Three Water in law and devide New Zealander’s to win.
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December 27, 2021 8:00am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  ‘lie and deceive’ So what is new? It is compulsive, can’t help it.
  
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  December 27, 2021 9:09am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Warren Bro – all the mayors except a few are Labour stooges led by the spendthrift Goofy of Auckland. Wait for them to surrender at the feet of Maori Princess Mahuta.
  
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  December 27, 2021 9:42am
Lee C

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/oliver-mma-gym-fined-thousands-after-knowingly-letting-unvaccinated-staff-work/ATHQE4R4YVYJKTUB3IOB4OXPEU/?fbclid=IwAR0J6qgajMtjo0sbzxcyq1Kbdm8Iv_oHy0Pf-DoKz-Lt6Fh-8rFlddTwGb0
I hope he takes this to court, and he gets support to do so.
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December 27, 2021 8:01am
- mawm
  
  He’s a fighter.
  
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  December 27, 2021 8:11am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Yeah right.
    
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    December 27, 2021 9:43am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  Do you have some advice for them about the grounds on which the infringement notice can be challenged?
  
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  December 27, 2021 8:12am
  - Lee C
    
    It’s a Health ansdsafety issue Worksafe have issued teh fine. – and I’d recommend they fight it on Health and Saety Grounds – i.e. the quality of their own H&S systems, indicating the inconsistencies in ‘expert’ advice about contagion, about the likelihood of covid in their area, and the ways they hae set up systems to deal with Risk and Risk assessment.
    
    Let’s put it this way, if Worksafe were to issue a fine ona business for failing to protect against the likelihood of a grand-piano falling on someone when the nearest grand-piano is proven to be
    a) in another part of the country.
    b) not even assessable as a risk.
    c) in a space in whic it is statistically impossible to even place a grand-oiano, let alone hoist it up to the ceiling.
    But a ‘law’ is passed to ‘protect’ people from grand-pianos, following a protracted media campaign to ‘raise awareness’ about the risks of grand pianos crushing people.
    
    I’d argue that my risk assessemnt proceses, having established that even if the risk of the grand-piano were considered and ‘acceptable’ risk, geneally – it would be untenable to fine me for not impementing safety controls for what is esentially – not a risk.
    
    It is possible that the ‘holes’ in Labour’s hastily and badly constructed ‘laws’ are so poorly wordred, that one might be able to challenge them if they desire to do so.
    
    I’d support such a venture.
    
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    December 27, 2021 9:37am
    - Lee C
      
      apologies for typos. I’m in a rush.
      
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      December 27, 2021 9:38am
      - Biscuit
        
        Harsh crowd today, Lee. Two kindly (?) folk have vented their downticking spleens already!
        
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        December 27, 2021 10:47am
      - pdm
        
        Biscuit they are the perfectionists who never make mistakes – unlike you and I and Lee C apparently.
        
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        December 27, 2021 11:32am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      That is an argument for changing the way workplace risks are assessed and managed. That’s a political argument.
      What you seem to be looking for though, is a legal argument to challenge the infringement notice.
      
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      December 27, 2021 9:58am
    - Man Among the Ruins
      
      The thing is, some hazard like a hole in the floor at work is clearly danger to everyone. However, letting unvaccinated staff work, who presumably do so willingly, is not a danger to anyone, unless of course the vaccine doesn’t work, in which case it doesn’t matter if staff are unvaccinated, because what is the danger posed by them?
      
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      December 27, 2021 10:22am
    - Reid
      
      Lee if the gym owner requires staff to take the vaccine then a staff member is harmed due to an adverse reaction, is the gym owner then subject to any potential prosecution from Worksafe and subsequent penalties for imposing a condition of employment that resulted in a foreseeable injury?
      
      Because if you look at the NZ CARM system, such IS arguably “reasonably foreseeable”…
      
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      December 27, 2021 10:34am
      - Faroffsound
        
        Good question. I know someone who took the vaccine (Pfizer) to meet employment requirements and ended up at A & E next day with pneumonia, then developed joint problems and has been on prescribed painkillers ever since.
        
        Could be a coincidence I suppose.
        
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        December 27, 2021 2:00pm
      - Fight4NZ
        
        Are there about 10 million people working at that gym?
        
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        December 27, 2021 2:41pm
    - Mr_Blobby
      
      It looks like Worksafe have been directed to act, so much for independence.
      
      You would think to get a conviction that they would have to show that people were put at an unacceptable risk.
      
      Did anybody catch Covid from the Gym, No
      Where the staff being tested, Yes
      Is a Negative test on the day better than a leaky Imperfect vaccine 6 Months prior, No.
      
      Do I have confidence in our Justice system, NO.
      
      Should it be tested in a Court of law, “absolutely”.
      
      The longer it takes to bump and grind through the Court process the better, because the “science” that is settled is changing daily.
      
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      December 27, 2021 11:14am
- krazykiwi
  
  The continued vilification of the unvaxxed as unclean and dangerous is morally repugnant and scientifically unsound. We will remember.
  
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  December 27, 2021 8:14am
  - Simon
    
    This is over. (Unless Orm changes. It is very mild in unjaxxed S Africa) The Berlin Wall is coming down but the Wellington politburo are still organizing parades. All that is left is for zero covid and vaxx pushers to work this shit out of their system. This will take 12 months.
    
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    December 27, 2021 8:43am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Have a read of this. From someone who knows their shit.
      
      https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/the-beginning-of-the-end?
      
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      December 27, 2021 1:33pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    They are now trying to say the unvaxxed are a cause of trouble to the vaxxed. With the vaxxed turned into super spreaders the unvaxxed should be getting protection money from the State.
    
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    December 27, 2021 9:51am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      And soon it will only be kiddies (0- 5 years) who will be left unvaxxed…and be the “super-spreaders” in our communities.
      
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      December 27, 2021 9:54am
    - coge
      
      It isn’t vaxed verses unvaxxed. Let’s not participate in that misrepresentation. It’s the practicing of vaccine passport segregation, verses those who refuse the passport.
      
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      December 27, 2021 1:56pm
  - John Pakes
    
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    That is, according to you Kiwi.
    The moral repugnance of 90% of our population will be directed towards you. You will never recognise that the main reasons for getting vaccinated is not to “divide” the community but to help prevent critical illness and death. This is the driver for all but the most selfish of people.
    It is up to you as to how you will be remembered.
    
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    December 27, 2021 12:04pm
    - AlphaWhiskey
      
      1. If the vaccine worked as advertised (98%) there was little or no ‘danger’ from the unvaccinated: morally wrong to mandate.
      
      2. If you can still get and transmit the virus while vaccinated: morally wrong to mandate
      
      3. The global mortality rate for Covid is 0.0092 for those without co-morbidities and 0.0097 for those with co-morbidities: morally wrong to mandate
      
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      December 27, 2021 12:15pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      The moral repugnance of 90% of our population will be directed towards you
      
      I agree. The issue I have with this it that Ardern and her cabal have carefully nurtured a bio-fascist pogrom against the unvaxxed. Why? Delta, and Omi are showing us that the vaxxed have immune systems that appear to demand reducing frequency juice doses to maintain any any semblance of ‘protection’ (setting aside the potential for OAS or ADE). Studies from Norway, UK and Israel show the vaxxed enjoying negative protection (aka increased susceptibility) to omi after 8-12 weeks. Ardern’s actions are an evil sponsorship of hatred in pursuit of support to mask her manifest failings as a leader.
      
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      December 27, 2021 12:15pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        I think John Pakes is angry as they now realise what an idiot they have been in listening to Ardern, Baker, Hendy etc. They are slowly understanding their natural immune system is now compromised, potentially permanently. The slow dawning realisation is making them look for someone to lash out at, and on cue, Ardern, the monster, has put the unvaxxed who have done nothing wrong, are to be targeted.
        Sad to witness someone’s mental and physical disintegration. Even sadder to see them try and find someone else to blame for their personal mistakes.
        And it isn’t close to 90%. I would wager at least 50% of that 90% didn’t partake through free choice. One of the insidious coercion measures would have made them take the jab. The more they realise what happens the angrier they will become.
        
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        December 27, 2021 12:43pm
      - Fight4NZ
        
        @Ed Snack
        You commented about the sadness of vaxxers rubbishing antivaxxers. Any wonder. I give you:
        “ they now realise what an idiot they have been in listening to Ardern, Baker, Hendy etc. They are slowly understanding their natural immune system is now compromised, potentially permanently.”
        This misinformation has been posted repeatedly and debunked for at least the last 4 days.
        Like liable, can’t be insult when it’s true.
        
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        December 27, 2021 3:00pm
      - alloytoo
        
        ClanMcleod “And it isn’t close to 90%. I would wager at least 50% of that 90% didn’t partake through free choice.”
        
        I reject assertion that those that partook of the vaccine by choice share in the “moral repugnance” of those who chose not too.
        
        I reserve my moral repugnance for the lying thieving scum that constitute our current government. (as well as their lackies) who are attempting to drive us apart.
        
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        December 27, 2021 3:01pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        @Fight4NZ, I will debate you re this any time you wish and wipe the floor with you. You say this has been “debunked”. Please supply the supporting evidence that this has been “debunked”.
        Hendy is a physics teacher, Baker a career academic, Plank is a mathematician. None of them have held a real job in their lives. They based their idiotic models on the same idiotic models produced by Neil Ferguson and Imperial College London. Ferguson has been so badly wrong in everything he has predicted in his whole career, the only possible way he still has a platform is because somebody is paying good money to keep him in a prominent position. EVERYTHING he has produced in his career has been catastrophically wrong, yet he maintains a high profile in media and academia. In the real world he would be in jail. In the real world, none of the useful idiots held up to be “experts” in NZ would get air time, other than to be held up as examples of what can go badly wrong when you screw up the education and funding systems.
        Let me know any time you want to have a debate that includes evidence based sources. Take your time.
        
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        December 27, 2021 7:05pm
    - bronny1
      
      And the way to reduce deaths is to vax the unhealthy and old and leave the rest alone. Most of the rest will fight it off just fine at home with no vaccine injuries to contend with eith and no potential long term vax injuries that we don’t know about yet.
      
      It is not a health issue being addressed with this mass vax and vilification program.
      
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      December 27, 2021 12:26pm
    - rouppe
      
      but to help prevent critical illness and death
      
      What percentage of the population have suffered critical illness or death?
      
      Only 2% of cases (238 million) have died (4.82 million) worldwide, in terms of world population (7.9 billion) that percentage drops to 0.06%.
      
      Waking up in the morning is more risky than that.
      
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      December 27, 2021 12:29pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      John Pakes I thought vaccines were supposed to give you immunity from disease, like measles???? Isn’t that what HRH said???
      So it’s now only a treatment to reduce symptoms? Surely they should change the definition of what a “vaccine” is??? Oh that’s right, they did that already, which is why the current description has no relevance to the reality of what it’s supposed to do. Funny that. Newspeak only works in novels.
      
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      December 27, 2021 12:48pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Just wait for the moral repugnance to hit the young children who front up to primary school in February
      UNVAXXED.
      
      We all know that the virus will HUNT them down, don’t we?
      
      https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/22/omicron-unvaccinated-fauci-surge-christmas/
      
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      December 27, 2021 12:56pm
    - coge
      
      90%? where did you pull that figure from? There are also hundreds of thousands of jabbed Kiwis (and businesses) who have rejected the vaccine passport segregation. This number is growing by the day.
      
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      December 27, 2021 2:00pm
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  What happened about not getting penalized if you aren’t vaccinated?
  
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  December 27, 2021 8:21am
  - Man Among the Ruins
    
    It went the same place as “two weeks to slow the spread,” a place where all of the lies go to die when they’ve served their purpose, for instance “vaccination effectively prevents infection and transmission” and soon to be joined by the phrase “double-jabbed” as the condition of being fully vaccinated
    
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    December 27, 2021 10:29am
  - Mr_Blobby
    
    Its for the good of the Unvaccinated!
    
    They must not be allowed to asses the level of risk that they are prepared to take.
    
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    December 27, 2021 12:07pm
  - DeepBlue
    
    That was so 2020. With hindsight JA said alot of things off the cuff to keep her followers happy.
    
    Two shots for summer.
    Short and sharp.
    No mandates.
    
    With every variant she gets to reset her rulebook.
    
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    December 27, 2021 2:09pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  So did they break the Law, or did they break a forced mandate rule?
  Far too much of rules superceding Law
  
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  December 27, 2021 8:46am
  - peterwn
    
    Parliament did pass legislation grant rule making capability to Ministers and Health Ministry. Unless there were drafting blunders or similar, or significant BORA conflict (imbalance of rights), the Courts have to uphold this law. Legal attacks on Covid related law have generally been unsuccessful, so a legal attack in this instance is unlikely to succeed.
    
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    December 27, 2021 9:08am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Enforcement by stealth!
      
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      December 27, 2021 12:36pm
- bronny1
  
  So far they have over $40k donated via a given little page to fight it – hopefully set a precedent
  
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  December 27, 2021 8:49am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I will donate to that. I want to see this bullshit challenged.
    Got a link?
    
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    December 27, 2021 9:11am
    - bronny1
      
      It’s actually closed as target reached https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/mma-gym
      Shame as would have been a good fund to help others when they follow suit
      
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      December 27, 2021 9:33am
      - Fight4NZ
        
        I’ve got a bridge…
        
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        December 27, 2021 3:04pm
    - Benedict Yu
      
      On what basis could it be challenged? I read the Act. It is crystal clear.
      
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      December 27, 2021 9:36am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I was thinking along the lines of is it Law, or is it a rule?
        
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        December 27, 2021 10:23am
      - Man Among the Ruins
        
        Perhaps a rights-based argument that it is not a demonstrably justified reasonable limitation under the BoRA, using the mountain of data and other evidence that supports this.
        
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        December 27, 2021 10:34am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        The Bain rule
        
        Make enough noise long enough and . . .
        
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        December 27, 2021 10:59am
      - Mr_Blobby
        
        Can you prosecute someone for not infecting others?
        
        If they can prove that the threat was not there.
        
        Nobody at the gym had Covid, nobody was infected with Covid while at the Gym, everyone was tested negative on a regular basis.
        
        A negative test today must be better than a vaccination 6 Months, or more, ago.
        
        In fact the safest place to be was at the Gym.
        
        You were vaccinated 6 Months ago, how do you know you do not have Covid.
        
        I get a negative test this morning.
        
        Who is more at risk you or me.
        
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        December 27, 2021 12:15pm
      - KevO'Brien
        
        Law is seldom clear–tax law has to be but doesn’t always succeed. The recent Covid Bills feel like a dogs breakfast of obscurantism. Amateur law drafting? I expect not, but politicised junior assistants, maybe.
        
        This govt is protected too by a paid off media which feels close to corrupt bribery.
        No respect is being paid to law in NZ any longer with registered land titles now devolved to Maori activists to reallocate. Superior laws like the Bill of Rights or the Nuremberg Convention are treated as irrelevancies despite the fact the International Criminal Court could issue a warrant for arrest of parties in NZ.
        
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        December 27, 2021 1:57pm
- KH
  
  Pleased he was fined. Should have been double.
  Risking the health of the community is a crime.
  But that is completly over his head.
  
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  December 27, 2021 12:02pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    I’m not yet satisfied that the PM and associates have not yet risk ours.
    
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    December 27, 2021 1:59pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    The risk to health of others is letting double jabbed people attend large events while knowing they can still catch, carry and spread covid. It’s actually malfeasance. The unjabbed aren’t allowed to attend such events. They aren’t spreading anything. This is such a circus.
    
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    December 27, 2021 3:30pm
  - coge
    
    “We were just following orders”
    
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    December 27, 2021 3:55pm
  - Stellaboxer
    
    KH can you explain the risks the gym owner was placing everyone in? I’m a little confused.
    
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    December 27, 2021 5:22pm
    - mawm
      
      Cindy said.
      
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      December 27, 2021 5:42pm
Captain Mainwaring

One of my neighbouring houses has been a private rental for the last 12 years. No real issues with any of the successive tenants and the current ones for the last three years or so are a group of four young Maori people plus a toddler (and another one on the way). They look after the section, give me their lemons and are sociable neighbours.
They have recently been given notice because the landlord wants to sell the house. Rather than bitch and moan and cry to the Government they have pooled their resources and bought a house. Yes, it’s in Wainuiomata but so what, the place is not as rough as it was and you have to start somewhere.
Not all Maori people are useless gang members, and I wish my neighbours all the best for their future.
I’ve got my fingers crossed that the new owner of the property doesn’t rent it to Kainga Ora.
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December 27, 2021 8:02am
- artemisia
  
  Exactly! And there is the government bigly funded progressive home ownership scheme (shared equity) available, not many interested so far.
  
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  December 27, 2021 8:05am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  Not all Maori people are useless gang members
  
  Thanks for that clarification.
  #notallmaori
  
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  December 27, 2021 8:15am
  - Mickey
    
    Mike, that is true, but most gang members are maori!
    
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    December 27, 2021 10:14am
  - All_on_Red
    
    You don’t like tall Māoris?
    Wow, racist and gigantasophobic as well!
    
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    December 27, 2021 11:28am
- pdm
  
  Capt I think you couldhave worded this slightly differently.
  
  `Not all Maori people are useless gang members……’
  
  Could have read – Most Maori are not useless gamg members…….’
  
  As for Wainuiomata not being so rough – the despicable Mallard does not live there now does he?
  
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  December 27, 2021 8:28am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Well, that’s one bully less in Wainui
    
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    December 27, 2021 5:48pm
- mandk
  
  There’s nothing wrong with Wainuiomata.
  
  When I came to NZ in 2003 and was looking for somewhere to live, I was warned off the town. But I had a look anyway.
  
  The place was obviously not wealthy, but there was very little litter or graffiti, no burned out cars on the side of the road, and no damages trees.
  
  All in all, a much more pleasant and well kept place than the low income suburbs I had seen in the UK.
  
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  December 27, 2021 8:38am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Good footie pitches too, as long as you’re not too late in the season (can get muddy after prolonged rain)
    
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    December 27, 2021 5:49pm
- Justitia
  
  Wainuiomata is actually a nice place. Property is booming there, particularly through infill development on the old state house quarter acre sections. They have chosen well.
  
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  December 27, 2021 9:05am
  - peterwn
    
    What original state houses? As far as I know, Wainuiomata was developed by private enterprise particularly Fletchers and there were no state houses. Less wealthy families could ‘capitalise’ child benefits to purchase a section and could borrow 100% from State Advances to purchase a ‘brand new’ house built by Fletchers or its subsidiaries. And they were NOT leaky homes.
    
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    December 27, 2021 9:19am
  - Biscuit
    
    Justitia, Wainui will BLOSSOM once the Labour Government complete that tunnel through the hill they promised and that Harbour Bridge across to Downtown Wellington!
    
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    December 27, 2021 10:45am
    - Justitia
      
      Biscuit: nobody bothers with Downtown Wellington any more. The Council has throttled it. Lambton Quay is rapidly shedding businesses as the Council moves to ban cars in the CBD. Sensible Wainuiomartians go to the Hutt instead.
      
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      December 27, 2021 11:36am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Kainga Ora does not rent houses.
  
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  December 27, 2021 9:38am
  - Colville
    
    Excuse me?
    
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    December 27, 2021 9:47am
  - JimBobJoe
    
    Have they canned the scheme where they took long term leases on private rentals and added to their pool of statehouse rentals Benedict? Housing NZ did that in the early 2000s… Has that programne ceased?
    
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    December 27, 2021 10:11am
  - pdm
    
    By – they do its just that only a few of their tenants
    bother to pay the rent.
    
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    December 27, 2021 10:13am
  - bronny1
    
    They contract with landlords to provide housing to their “clients” in return for weekly rent payments plus a full overhaul at end of tennancy esp useful if the house has been destroyed.
    
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    December 27, 2021 12:29pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      A friend of mine rents to HNZC in Onehunga. Ironically, an ex state house. Lovely Poly family, solo Mum plus several kids, all of whom have grown up to be successful graduates & fine young people. They think of the house as a family home & have offered to buy it for their old Mum.
      
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      December 27, 2021 5:54pm
    - Observer of Life
      
      Bron: Well they promise to refurbish but in reality, a major battle. If you’re a landlord do NOT go there. Been there, have the scars and dented bank balance from the experience. Never again.
      
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      December 27, 2021 10:45pm
artemisia

I want to know the plan when we get exponential omicron transmission. Will the infected and all their close contacts have to stay home and lock the doors? Places of interest – have symptoms, get tested, then stay home and lock the doors at least until the results arrive..

Essential services have few, maybe no, staff. Same will less essential services.

Where is the plan.
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December 27, 2021 8:11am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  No plan – they are winging it as usual
  
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  December 27, 2021 9:13am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I think the PCR testing folks will get overloaded…
  What’s the betting the Government will ease up on self-testing kits…and let folks work out themselves whether they need to isolate for a week or so?
  
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  December 27, 2021 9:27am
- bronny1
  
  Don’t need a plan as we are not letting it in //s
  
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  December 27, 2021 9:35am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Don’t bother me while I’m on holiday. And planning a wedding – do you think I can leave it to Clarke?
    
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    December 27, 2021 5:55pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  I can’t wait until they isolate Christchurch with road blocks and all the shit Auckland endured because that is where omicron is going to start and for no other reason than to fist those sanctimonious aholes who called talkbalk for three months saying Auckland was a plague pit and everyone is going to DIE if an Aucklanders ventured south of the Bombay’s!
  
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  December 27, 2021 11:05am
  - Jack5
    
    [Deleted – mod.]
    
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    December 27, 2021 2:20pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Outstanding!
    
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    December 27, 2021 5:56pm
- Mr_Blobby
  
  “Where is the plan”
  
  Advertise, St Johns telling people that their services are overloaded, if not well call your Doctor or Healthline, if needed there will be some delays, but you will get the service you need.
  
  I imagine that Fire, Ambulance, and Health are suffering some manpower losses through the mandates.
  
  Have not herd anything about Police numbers. But they were already compromised Policing Covid borders etc.
  
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  December 27, 2021 12:22pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  No plan, all hands are on organising her majesty’s wedding.
  
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  December 27, 2021 1:31pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Best plan is to spread as rapidly as possible up to limits of health services, then try to throttle it. Reduce duration of crisis.
  
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  January 10, 2022 3:49pm
Captain Mainwaring

Has anyone else noticed that stupid TV ad for the remote control electric mower that just buzzes all over the shaggy lawn without actually cutting any grass?
That would seem to be the ultimate own goal.
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December 27, 2021 8:15am
- Yvette
  
  Captain Mainwaring
  As said mower also requires technology, being akin to that which locks some supermarket trolley wheels when they cross the carpark border, such a lawnmower can require up to $2,000 so it will “mow” only within a specific area that it is assigned to. I’d not bother – rather get in a tanned, half naked young man with a few muscles (as I remember) and a real mower, even a scythe :o)
  
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  December 27, 2021 8:29am
  - pdm
    
    Yvette – bet there are not many around who can use a scythe these days.
    
    My father was very very good with one – but I never learned the knack of using one. Slightly better with a reap hook.
    
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    December 27, 2021 9:22am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I’d not bother – rather get in a tanned, half naked young man with a few muscles
    
    There’s only withered, leathery old chaps on offer around hereabouts.
    
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    December 27, 2021 9:31am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Matching the employers?
      
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      December 27, 2021 11:07am
    - Spoff
      
      Us withered, leathery old chaps need love too!
      
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      December 27, 2021 2:39pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      O Maggie. If only life was like a Levi’s commercial.
      
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      December 27, 2021 5:59pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Great until it hits a dog turd . . .
  
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  December 27, 2021 11:06am
  - artemisia
    
    The latest robot vacuum cleaners (inside ones) inside now recognise doggy doo on the floor and avoid. Guess they had to develop that feature with the number of vids appearing. Very funny (unless it’s your house).
    
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    December 27, 2021 2:22pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  I think it would be on a quick one-way trip to the bottom of my hill section. It’s all I can do to stand up on some parts of the lawn. And that’s before it has to negotiate all the terrace steps.
  
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  December 27, 2021 7:46pm
greybeard

My New Year’s wish: never again to hear or read the phrase “experts say…”
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December 27, 2021 8:24am
- Inandout
  
  grey, almost as bad as ‘according to official sources’.
  
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  December 27, 2021 8:38am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  I second that.
  
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  December 27, 2021 8:38am
- Biscuit
  
  Mmm, greybeard, that’s one of my pet hate pronouncements, too.
  
  Another is the insistence of TV One’s news directors in having their teleprompter readers tell us, after some breaking disaster story or other, that ‘The official death toll is expected to increase…’
  
  Death tolls RARELY decrease…
  
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  December 27, 2021 8:40am
  - pdm
    
    `Death tolls RARELY decrease…’
    
    Very perceptive for this early Biscuit!!
    
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    December 27, 2021 8:45am
    - Biscuit
      
      Amazing what a brought-to-be-in-bed Eggs Benny will do, pdm!
      
      I must remember to suitably uptick the partner when I do her next Annual Performance Review!
      
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      December 27, 2021 10:39am
  - CJames
    
    Then there is the ever present “Modellers say…”
    
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    December 27, 2021 8:50am
    - H. Upmann
      
      CJ: YES!
      The two global issues costing $$$billions upon billions are both driven by modelers – climate change and covid.
      
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      December 27, 2021 8:54am
    - coge
      
      According to the latest study.
      
      “Here is what you need to know.”
      
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      December 27, 2021 4:03pm
  - Man Among the Ruins
    
    To be fair, “the official death toll” represents only what is known, which is not synonymous with the facts of the matter (i.e “the death toll”), independent of what is actually known at a given time.
    
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    December 27, 2021 10:41am
- mandk
  
  Speaking as an expert, greybeard, I recommend you should stop reading news sites that feature experts.
  
  You can thank me later for my advice.
  
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  December 27, 2021 8:41am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  And “studies have shown”
  
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  December 27, 2021 8:48am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Social scientific research proves…
    
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    December 27, 2021 8:54am
    - Man Among the Ruins
      
      … nothing.
      
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      December 27, 2021 10:42am
    - david
      
      Not to mention “…. Product x has been studied by Nobel Award winning scientists ….”
      
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      December 27, 2021 12:44pm
    - Overworked
      
      Comment of the week, Suze.
      
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      December 27, 2021 1:22pm
- Simon
  
  Expert = poodle.
  
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  December 27, 2021 8:51am
  - Don Beckett
    
    “97% of scientists say…………”
    
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    December 27, 2021 10:38am
    - mawm
      
      Peer reviewed..
      
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      December 27, 2021 5:47pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  My pet hate is when the media tells you someone in ICU is “fighting for their life” after an accident or something similar.
  
  Most people in ICU are ventilated, and in an induced coma to allow their body to rest (most frequently the brain), so they’re actually the complete opposite to fighting – they are sedated, while swelling decreases and natural recovery takes place.
  
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  December 27, 2021 9:13am
  - bronny1
    
    Mine is “the car left the road”
    
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    December 27, 2021 12:30pm
    - curry4me
      
      bronny1: Mine is: ‘a boat overturned in Lyttelton Harbour’. Boats, and ships don’t overturn, they capsize.
      
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      December 27, 2021 5:10pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Who needs these ‘experts’ with their actual years of study when the facts on any issue can be readily ascertained by consulting favourite blogsites and Facebook pages?
  
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  December 27, 2021 9:23am
  - Barbara
    
    Interesting how the world’s top scientists, virologists, pathologists are reduced to being “consultants of favourite blogsites and Facebook pages” when their knowledge doesn’t confirm the approved narrative.
    
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    December 27, 2021 9:47am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      That would be because any opposing opinion is not permitted to be heard. Ask Jacinda, there is only a “single source of truth” apparently. Last time I read of someone saying that I think it was Jesus. She really does have delusions of grandeur.
      
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      December 27, 2021 3:36pm
  - Mickey
    
    Study does not make an expert, experience makes an expert, oh yes grant money/funding also makes an expert!
    
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    December 27, 2021 10:18am
  - Don Beckett
    
    Agreed mma – and your perceptive analyses……..
    
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    December 27, 2021 10:39am
  - Ed Snack
    
    I’d say that the death of expertise promoted by the preference of political narratives over honest discussions has driven many people to alternative sources.
    
    Many of those sources are indeed questionable, some even are as questionable as the official narrative. The sad part is that it is so necessary as the official political line is so often deliberately falsified for partisan political reasons. And it extends to the deliberate obfuscation and even falsification of data. For example, why is it is reporting vaccine adverse events purely voluntary, and according to some medical people I have spoken to, discouraged ?
    
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    December 27, 2021 12:40pm
  - Overworked
    
    Years of study have little effect on judgement unfortunately, and we don’t have to look very far to see living examples of that currently being wheeled out almost daily in our media as expert commentators, Michael Baker excepted. He may not deliver a message we like, but it is sound from an epidemiological standpoint.
    
    It has always been the case that you have had to “sing the song” to pass exams and get good placements.
    
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    December 27, 2021 1:24pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Baker is a narcissistic clown with an over inflated sense of importance. He’s been pushing the “deadly pandemic” bullshit for decades. He dreams of NZ becoming an island paradise free of disease. He is dangerously deluded. Sadly he is in his element right now and is largely responsible for the destruction that has been wrought on the country with his support of Ardern and her insanity.
      He will be long remembered but it won’t be fondly. Like Ardern. Infamous will be the descriptor.
      
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      December 27, 2021 3:41pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    The chief quality of a media personality expert is the ability to give an immediate approved opinion on any issue without doing any study at all.
    
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    December 27, 2021 7:40pm
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  The pink haired one will be so offended… I am disappointed with your attitude bro
  
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  December 27, 2021 9:54am
graham

Isn’t it funny that, depending on which website you read, “Let’s go Brandon” is either:

a) a “tongue-in-cheek” insult of President Joe Biden which is popular in “conservative circles” and used to express frustration at Biden policies.

OR:

b) a “right-wing meme” which is a “coded vulgarity” among Trump supporters.
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December 27, 2021 8:34am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  LGBFJB
  
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  December 27, 2021 9:17am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Perhaps unsurprisingly it is both. It has the advantage of being a ‘joke’ should anyone find it a tad offensive.
  
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  December 27, 2021 9:25am
  - Cassandra
    
    It’s not a joke, not even one in quotes. It is a full scale assault on Biden and the Democrats, gifted to the Republicans by a Democrat. And quite witty on occasion.
    
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    December 27, 2021 10:24am
    - Cassandra
      
      I should add that on this occasion it was totally inappropriate and the perp, Jared, is backpedaling flat out.
      
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      December 27, 2021 11:06am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Indeed, and given the level of hysterical vituperation that was even encouraged against Trump, LGB is refreshingly mild by comparison.
    
    Interesting though, the general level of abuse of Trump was led by and specifically encouraged by the media (at the behest of their Democrat masters), whereas this meting of Biden is quite directly a grassroots thing. The GOP may sort of encourage it, but with the exceptions they are too slow and stuffy to actually officially come up with such a subversive meme on their own.
    
    Also, the LGB chant is also directed AT the media, it was a CNN commentator who gave rise to it after all, deliberately misinterpreting a FJB chant while acting as a Democrat protective media person, the standard current mode.
    
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    December 27, 2021 12:48pm
- cha
  
  The Schmeck family must be delighted Jared drew attention to himself and now the whole world knows about the old man’s felony weapons trafficking convictions.
  https://archive.li/PimCK
  
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  December 27, 2021 2:22pm
Fletch

This whole vaccine thing makes SO much more sense to me now after reading this article. Vaccine makers want the Emergency Use Authorization to be maintained at all costs.

The reason our children are being targeted by COVID mandates is because vaccine makers want to get the shots onto the childhood vaccination schedule. Once a vaccine is added to the childhood schedule, the vaccine maker is shielded from financial liability for injuries, unless the manufacturer knows about vaccine safety issues and withholds that information.

Products must satisfy four criteria in order to get emergency use authorization: There must be an emergency; a vaccine must be at least 30% to 50% effective; the known and potential benefits of the product must outweigh the known and potential risks of the product; and there can be no adequate, approved and available alternative treatments (drugs or vaccines). Unless all four criteria are met, EUA cannot be granted or maintained.

First, the secretary of Health and Human Services has to declare and maintain a state of emergency. If the emergency were to go away, all EUA products would have to come off the market. And that doesn’t just mean vaccines. It also includes the PCR tests and even surgical masks.

[…]

The fourth and last standard that must be met is there can be no adequate, approved and available alternative treatments (drugs or vaccines). “This is why hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin were quashed,” Mayer says. This is also another reason Comirnaty is not treated as a fully approved product in the U.S., because if it were, then all the other COVID shots that are under EUA would have to be removed from the market. […] This means that every variant that comes out, they have to make it sound super scary to keep the emergency going. So, the variants serve a purpose. You have to think about these variants in the context of this crime, where they have to keep the emergency going to keep their products on the market.

https://noqreport.com/2021/12/26/the-real-reason-they-want-to-give-covid-jabs-to-kids/

As I said, this makes SO MUCH sense now. Why they want to jab kids. Why no other treatment is being offered. Why the variants are made to sound scary. Heck, even the mandates are likely illegal, if not here then definitely in the U.S. It’s to protect them from liability.
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December 27, 2021 8:35am
- Man Among the Ruins
  
  Nah. They are just super kind.
  
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  December 27, 2021 10:47am
- Fight4NZ
  
  A good example of “the preference of political narratives over honest discussions”
  
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  December 27, 2021 4:05pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

So, when are we going to see Covid antibody testing?
Never? Huge elephant in the room Jaspinda
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December 27, 2021 8:50am
- tf78
  
  Steve, Christophen Luxon was just interviewed on ZB, he said they have been trying to tell the Government that for nearly a year, same with the rapid testing – it all falls on deaf ears.
  
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  December 27, 2021 8:54am
  - oldfella
    
    tf78: Sir Ian Taylor says much the same thing. When it comes to handling Covid, this govt just doesn’t want to know.
    
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    December 27, 2021 9:12am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Correct. Chris Bishop and co were pushing for the increased use of saliva testing and the introduction of rapid antigen testing from around October 2020, yet little has happened.
    
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    December 27, 2021 9:14am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      The way I see it is if you have Covid antibodies you don’t need a vaccine.
      Many will have been asymptomatic and not even know they have had it – but it defeats the narrative and therefore the fear porn
      
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      December 27, 2021 9:22am
      - yossarian
        
        Could it be that we start Covid antibody testing, that we may find out that many have had Covid without even knowing it. And that will screw up their narrative that Covid is a deadly killer to anyone it passes through?
        
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        December 27, 2021 9:28am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Yossarian, once the narrative is exposed the control is gone. Jaspinda will not let that happen without a fight
        
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        December 27, 2021 12:40pm
      - Ed Snack
        
        Be interesting to see if Luxon and Co do get into power (and it is still relevant), whether they will in fact pursue such testing.
        
        They might find all sorts of reasons why they can’t, at the behest of the medical bureaucracy and via some clauses in the Pfizer agreement. And depending on whether they have an open mind about the wisdom of the path we have followed or will simply act in their usual “Labour Lite” role and do the same, just more efficiently, sort of.
        
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        December 27, 2021 1:36pm
      - sooty
        
        Could zlways publish the fizzer agreement!
        
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        December 27, 2021 6:40pm
      - Sacha
        
        As I understand it, antibody levels fall away within a few months, leaving the T-cells guarding the fort as it were. When the immune system detects another invasion (of covid Delta or whatever) the T-cells are bolted in to action and produce the antbodies to fight the infection.
        I’m sure it’s more complicated than that, but the concept stands.
        
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        December 27, 2021 8:43pm
      - Jim
        
        The low IFR truth is before our very eyes, 1248 confirmed cases and only 50 deceased in 21 months
        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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        December 28, 2021 1:08pm
    - pdm
      
      `yet little has happened.
      
      Inv pretty obvious why – we have a government that cannot even do one thing at a time properly.
      
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      December 27, 2021 9:25am
    - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
      
      Nobody cares what Chris Bishop says…
      
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      December 27, 2021 9:55am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      Little, other than more bad law rammed through Parliament which now gives this bunch of crooks the right to requisition COVID-19 testing laboratories – including the laboratory of the business that helped develop the saliva tests.
      
      Oh, and the Auditor General determined that the process to award the $50m contract for saliva testing was hopelessly flawed, did not follow an adequate procurement process, and 4 out of the 5 panellists had declared conflicts of interest (only after they “came to light” i.e. someone pointed out they were working for the companies bidding for the contract). Yet the AG declined to hold a full inquiry into the process, declaring it “not necessary”.
      
      You couldn’t make up anything as bizarre.
      
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      December 27, 2021 10:40am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Labour, making the worst case scenario reality since July 7th, 1916
        
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        December 27, 2021 11:12am
  - Nickc2
    
    Once Cindy stamps her foot, there is no more discussion, and that’s not just around the Cabinet Table.
    
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    December 27, 2021 10:41am
    - sooty
      
      I thought it was when cindy, yells and screams!
      
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      December 27, 2021 6:42pm
      - Nickc2
        
        That too!
        
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        December 27, 2021 8:58pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    FYI
    
    https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/holiday-breakfast/audio/christopher-luxon-national-leader-looks-ahead-to-2022/
    
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    December 27, 2021 12:15pm
- Matt Long
  
  When Covid ceases to be a political tool and when Pfizer and those it benefits have milked every last billion from it.
  
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  December 27, 2021 9:02am
bronny1

My parents (aged 80) had some friends over yesterday while I was there. The 88 yr old proclaimed that he was more than happy with his life the way it is, can still play croquet and have a meal out with a vax pass and “ they should just keep the country closed up” and “these people complaining should just get the vax pass so they can live a normal life too”. I was incredulous and have a new admiration for my folks ability to hear this and not tell him what a selfish prick he is. He doesn’t have kids so when I asked was he ok with the economy tanking, affecting the future of everyone under 60, with the mental and physical health issues caused by this govt actions, reiterated that he was quite happy with how things were and people should stop complaining and go get vaxxed. He admitted that the vax had no benefit for someone “young and fit” like me (late 40s) but thought I should just have it anyway.
I was fuming at how someone could be that selfish. As I left I said well I’m glad you get to keep playing croquet while the ship goes down.
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December 27, 2021 9:09am
- Bridgenag
  
  Blokes at bowls just as bad
  
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  December 27, 2021 11:54am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I’m afraid that’s pretty similar to the reaction of some of the 65+ year-old folk that I’ve been meeting.
  
  They don’t seem too concerned that their grandchildren have been getting a lousy education for the last two years and have missed out on sporting and social activities.
  
  They don’t seem to make the connection that if our economy continues to slide down the tubes, opportunities for young and poor folk are going to reduce.
  
  I think they are the selfish ones.. only caring about their immediate needs.
  
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  December 27, 2021 1:06pm
- GJM
  
  Who does he think pays his pension? Gran’s money printer is running out of ink, and it is only nett taxpayers that can refill it. There are damn few of us, and some of us are winding things back to do less work, hence pay less tax, but have less stress and more time.
  
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  December 27, 2021 6:04pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  There is no age limit on stupidity and there is nothing you can do but stay away from it. There’s a lot of it about but fortunately it’s not contagious since usually you contract it for life.
  
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  December 27, 2021 7:53pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    It’s not stupidity, its perceived self interest of sheep rationalized into a virtue
    
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    January 10, 2022 4:02pm
- Jim
  
  I’ve come to a similar conclusion. Paradoxically the world wars sacrificed the young to protect the old, yet here we are willingly risking the health and economic stability of the young (particularly vaccines for healthy 5-11 year olds) to save (a few extra months for) the old.
  Shame on those selfish people.
  
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  December 28, 2021 1:21pm
I remember when

Is the achilles heel of the ‘elimination’ approach to covid becoming increasingly apparent.
When was the last time the media drew attention to Sweden.
We are now on the ‘wrong side of the fence and, if omicron (as appears increasing the case) is the return to normal, are left in a form of isolation.
There has been a lot of reference to vaccination for other diseases as justification but many of these diseases already had a form of herd immunity.
Measles, smallpox, influenza, mumps, etc.
Why would we let pharmaceutical companies, with massive amounts of money tied up in vaccine research, become a major source of advice on treatment.
No fear of biased information there.
Let’s not be anti-vaccination just have a full, science lead, debate of all the issues. Pros and cons.
A starting point now would be what do we do about omicron.
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December 27, 2021 9:15am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Sweden’s mistake was to stay open for original covid, for alpha & for delta. Omicron is the variety to stay open for.
  
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  December 27, 2021 6:06pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Sweden did pretty well compared to the lunatics who locked down and masked up. They stayed mostly open and gave people the ability to act like adults. Ardern did the complete opposite and treated us like kindy kids. Worse, she abused us and bullied and manipulated in the most disgusting manner.
    Sweden made the same mistakes as others in putting elderly into care facilities where the disease ran rampant among the most vulnerable who were the ones how should have been protected.
    
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    December 27, 2021 7:20pm
CJames

Isn’t another thing we can add to the list of this government’s failures the road toll? Remember their big campaign under the Green Minister to get it down – lowering speed limits and Arnco/ cable barriers everywhere rather than fixing potholes and improving sightlines. Oh and of course, road money got diverted to phantom cycle bridges and railway tunnels.
When will we have that examination from the compliant media.
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December 27, 2021 9:16am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  ‘examination?’ Never
  
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  December 27, 2021 9:23am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Well, that would have been one reason for you to leave school early and take up a trade, Steve.
    
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    December 27, 2021 9:27am
    - Ed Snack
      
      Come on Mikey, if you tried you could have been a little more condescending ! Take up a trade indeed, an anathema to a government bureaucrat, who in general despise those who actually do things and prefer to direct from ignorance, taking credit for any accidental positives and deftly shifting blame for the numerous negative outcomes.
      
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      December 27, 2021 1:40pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I’m pretty sure the only trades people I have disparaged on this blog would be the lawyers.
        
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        December 27, 2021 5:54pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      You know this of course
      
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      December 27, 2021 2:31pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      You don’t get the job unless you’re an ass kissing, sycophantic pos milkey. Is that what you do for a living?
      As Chomsky said to Andrew Marr from the BBC in a wonderful put down. “I’m not saying you’re self censoring. I’m saying if you didn’t believe what you do you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting”.
      That applies to every single stenographer in NZ.
      
      Apologies to real stenographers.
      
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      December 27, 2021 7:23pm
Tomtoddy

There is one issue that stands out among many that confirms the politicisation of Covid and the gross misuse of fear to exercise control and maintain the constant platform of media domination.

If our leadership and that in many other countries had focused on the need for having a strong immune system, the regular use of vitamins D, C and K, the need for being outdoors in the sun, the use of zinc, knowing how effective those measures are then we may have thought there was a degree of genuineness and real kindness.

Had there been a rush to hold robust trials of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine right at the beginning we might have been persuaded they had our best interests at heart.

Alas, too much to ask of power hungry, poorly-principled politicians.
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December 27, 2021 9:16am
Ian Boag

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You could treat yourself to a day off Fletch. I see you were dispensing wisdom on Christmas Day even. Impressive. You seem to have gone off the “Trump really won” theme …. and become an expert on infectious diseases. Keep up the good work ….
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December 27, 2021 9:17am
- Fletch
  
  I believe the only post I did on Christmas day was on our inability to whip UHT cream. I thought somebody might know the answer – is why I posted. Instead I got heaps of downticks… And I still don’t know why it wouldn’t whip. Maybe to do with fat content. It said on the carton to chill before whipping, so you must be able to do it… ?‍♂️
  
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  December 27, 2021 10:06am
  - HeatherW
    
    I had trouble with whipping double cream this year. Succeeded when used different bowl and eggbeater/whisk. Combination that worked was bowl with rounded base and eggbeater was wider and more flat at blade end so more air added lower.
    
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    December 27, 2021 5:33pm
- Nukuleka
  
  Hi Ian. I reckon that most Kiwibloggers, despite being a charitable, open-minded and easy-going lot, would be more than delighted were you to take the advice you are so keen to dispense to others such as Fletch. But don’t feel you have to restrict yourself to just a day off from Kiwiblog. How about a year or two at the least. Your sarcasm and toxicity wouldn’t be missed, I assure you.
  
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  December 27, 2021 10:20am
  - Ian Boag
    
    Kiwibloggers … charitable, open-minded and easy-going lot
    
    Some are a bit repetitious 🙂
    
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    December 27, 2021 5:57pm
- Don Beckett
  
  Ian Boagan being his usual critical nasty self.
  Merry Christmas Ian, and I trust your liver will be much improved for 2022.
  
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  December 27, 2021 10:45am
Rusty

More gun violence in Auckland and minister of police Poto Williams I assume doesn’t see an escalating problem.

The 501 gang/crim returnees from Australia hasn’t helped but why have they not been monitored by the police over here?

2022 is going to get worse for violent gang/gun related crimes not just on our suburban streets but on our main city streets if this govt doesn’t do something soon — arm the police and tougher sentencing.

Am I dreaming?
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December 27, 2021 9:29am
Jack5

The Christchurch Press today trots out Jeffrey Paparoa Holman in its Maorification campaign.

Holman is a poet, born in Britain, has a Ph.D. In Maori language, and has been on the “creative writing” train. He’s been “writer in residence” at Waikato University and New Zealand representative at the University of Iowa’s “international writing program.

Holman is interviewed together with his partner, Jeanette King, head of the University of Canterbury’s Maori studies department.

Holman says in the article:””You cannot be a New Zealander and not be a Maori New Zealander.”

However, and this seems remarkable to me, Holman says he and King agreed early in their relationship not to speak Maori at home.

The Christchurch Press is running a series of articles to help you learn Maori.

This will be either: to boost paid circulation of the Press, and retain readers through January renewals; or, to meet State subsidy requirements.
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December 27, 2021 9:36am
- mikenmildagain
  
  I don’t know if they have children, but it is not unusual for fluent Maori speakers with children in immersion schooling to speak English at home.
  
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  December 27, 2021 3:00pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Where does his Paparoa come from? Self awarded? Or is he a Maori born & brought up in the UK? Either way, he’s less indigenous that someone born & brought up here.
  
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  December 27, 2021 6:10pm
I remember when

Newshub: La Nina just raised sea levels in the Western Pacific by up to 20 cm. This height will be normal in 2050.
The Conversation: The waxing and waning of La Nina/El Nino results in differing levels of spring tides.
However there is year on year variability in the magnitude of these tides from location to location.
The easterly trade winds (east to west) across the Pacific Ocean are stronger in La Nina years.
This leads to a larger build up of warm water in the western Pacific.
Just in case you didn’t see this information in the cop26 releases.
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December 27, 2021 9:53am
Ruahine

An interesting article about Propaganda in todays world.

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/544198-maturity-propaganda-china-media/
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December 27, 2021 10:00am
KevO'Brien

MOH Says Kiwis With COVID-19 Can Be Eligible For Euthanasia
NZ making global news again:
Shock! Doctors given bonus to euthanize ‘severely hospitalized’ COVID patients

The NZ MOH has responded to OIA inquiries. See these
https://www.wnd.com/2021/12/shock-doctors-given-bonus-euthanize-severely-hospitalized-covid-patients/

And the SCOOP details:
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2112/S00446/moh-says-kiwis-with-covid-19-can-be-eligible-for-euthanasia.htm

There are reports of US hospitals too moving patients along for cash flow.
In the Islands Hospitals are not regarded as medical facilities but places of death.
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December 27, 2021 10:02am
- mandk
  
  The pro-death fanatics never cease.
  
  There is a story on the Telegraph today about mentally handicapped children being asked by health professionals if they would like to elect for a DNR declaration if they get admitted to hospital.
  
  Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
  
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  December 27, 2021 11:04am
- Diogenes
  
  And if carried out, how many would be in a fit state to give the informed consent that is supposed to underpin the new law? How many doctors could bring themselves to do this? I guess it would be under the guise of ‘compassion’. I get the horrible feeling it would be more to do with removing bottlenecks in the system.
  
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  December 27, 2021 12:41pm
  - lifesgood
    
    Any doctor doing that would be an absolute disgrace to the profession and completely going against their Hippocratic oath.
    
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    December 27, 2021 2:44pm
    - Observer of Life
      
      Life: Going against their Hippocratic oath olike “first do no harm”.
      
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      December 27, 2021 11:02pm
Sir Cullen's Sidekick

Aunty Judith across the fence told me that Christmas this year was possible due to the leadership of Jacindy. She said and I quote – “she is a messenger of GOD”. I am looking for the nearest cliff to jump off.
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December 27, 2021 10:02am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Ardern has aggressively mocked God and will have to answer for it.
  
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  December 27, 2021 2:17pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  As ye sow, SCS, so ye shall reap.
  
  Payback for all those cod pro Jaxxie posts.
  
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  December 27, 2021 6:13pm
Maggy Wassilieff

This time 40 years ago, I was in Wellington Woman’s Hospital about to give birth to my first daughter.

It’s strange how I have few memories of the actual labour, but just remember that Hubby decided to stop off en-route to hospital to load up on lollies and chocolate for himself, and I missed out on lunch that day…and was damn hungry by tea-time.
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December 27, 2021 10:12am
- Biscuit
  
  Shocking, Maggy.
  
  From my Diary notes the day our (then) wee sprog was, well, sprogged:
  
  [I even had my apparently-flushed brow face-wiped]
  [No food, though, grrr, and around about Hour Six I could have m-u-r-d-e-r-e-d a Big Mac]
  
  My Official Birthing Room Experience Ratings
  
  Quality of Nursing: A+
  Sexiness of (Non-Male) Nurses: A+
  Ambience: A
  Décor: A-
  Food Selection For Hungry Male Parents-To-Be: F-
  
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  December 27, 2021 10:35am
- Loddenthinks
  
  I take it you were home by tea-time, having only worked a couple of hours in the fields on your way back from the hospital, to make sure you had enough time to cook tea 🙂
  
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  December 27, 2021 12:25pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I was fortunate to enjoy 1 week’s stay at WWH…time enough to establish that:
    1: the black stuff baby vomited up on Day 1 was nothing to worry about!
    2: Breast-feeding does not entail a mere suck at a nipple
    3: Post-birth is a bloody business…and thank goodness, I wasn’t do the washing.
    
    I think biffing young mums out of hospital/maternity care a few hours after birth is NUTS.
    
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    December 27, 2021 12:41pm
    - Jack5
      
      zzz
      
      That’s a signal I’m trying to kill this wrongly placed post: not the sound of a baby sleeping.
      
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      December 27, 2021 1:01pm
    - Ed Snack
      
      Does depend Maggie. My wife stayed for two nights for the first baby and she had stitches to be at her, but couldn’t wait to get home. For Baby #2 went in at 11 am and home by 2 pm same day. Greeted suggestions of an overnight stay with a very firm “Thank you, but no thank you”.
      
      Might be a family thing, one of her sisters went in about midday and claimed to be home by 1:30, though to be fair it was her 5th so she was pretty used to the process by then. Was growled at by the nurse because it was a real rush to make it to the delivery suite in time.
      
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      December 27, 2021 1:47pm
    - Sacha
      
      With my first, I was in hospital 10 days (to ensure established breast feeding).
      7 for the second (to make sure I hadn’t forgotten how)and 2 for the third (it was assumed that I knew how). Apparently experience counted.
      About 40 years later I was an honorary midwife at a small hospital with a birthing unit, and the Mums went home as soon as they could muster the energy. Their very own Community Midwives were responsible for all that mothering stuff – ideally all the births were at home anyway.
      
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      December 27, 2021 9:38pm
Fletch

Covid is now so mild that it is indistinguishable from the common cold, according to a new study, and half the people with a “cold” may have Covid.

One in two people with new cold-like symptoms will have COVID-19 rather than the common cold, new data from the Zoe symptom tracker app suggests.

Tim Spector, an epidemiologist and the study’s lead author, said in a press release on Thursday that for most people, getting infected with Omicron will feel “much more like the common cold, starting with a sore throat, runny nose and a headache”, rather than fevers, continuous cough, loss of taste or smell.

To get to the 50% figure, Spector and his team compared the number of new cases of a cold-like illness to the number of new cases of COVID-19 confirmed by a lateral flow or lab test.

“We need to change public messaging urgently to save lives as half of people with cold-like symptoms now have COVID-19,” Spector said.

“It’s virtually impossible” to tell between a cough and COVID-19 unless you get tested, he said.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/cold-symptoms-headache-fatigue-sore-throat-sneeze-covid-omicron-study-2021-12
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December 27, 2021 10:13am
Warren

Just like every other problems this Government faces its always someone else’s “Fault” never Maori, the Police or the Government’s.
With headlines ,time to “turn the planes around” on 501 deportees amid exploding gun violence – National Maori Authority.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics.html
As long as this Government with Police not prepared to use the law instead of Jacinda Ardern’s be kind and soft on crime things won’t change especially we you find our Government’s pol of using taxpayers money to fund them has been questioned several times this year.
The Prime Minister and her Cronies find it easier to blame others instead of doing the job they are paid for.
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December 27, 2021 10:41am
- MCōs
  
  I see nothing in that article suggesting the government is blaming violent Australian gangsters for the rise in gun violence.
  Other people are.
  Having said that, let’s not beat around the bush. Those people being deported to NZ are nasty.
  
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  December 27, 2021 6:37pm
Maggy Wassilieff

It’s Australia’s fault that our gangsters have turned bad//////

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/12/time-to-turn-the-planes-around-on-australian-501-deportees-amid-exploding-gun-violence-national-m-ori-authority.html
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December 27, 2021 10:43am
- Nickc2
  
  IMO, if our Govt was serious about tackling Gangs and related crimes, they should consider passing Law(s) similar to those being debated in Western Australia.
  https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/McGowan/2021/10/New-laws-give-police-powers-to-disrupt-and-dismantle-criminal-gangs.aspx
  They won’t though because they fund the Mongrel Mob using taxpayer money.
  How many politicians in NZ have relatives in or associated with Gangs?
  
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  December 27, 2021 11:06am
- Jack5
  
  America, or its popular media, blamed Italians, specifically Sicilians, for the gang-crime wave during and after the Prohibition era.
  
  We can’t blame Australians for our gang-crime wave: the gangsters are New Zealand born, and remain New Zealand citizens.
  
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  December 27, 2021 1:03pm
  - lifesgood
    
    But shaped and influenced in Australia
    
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    December 27, 2021 2:46pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Send ‘em off to Sicily then.
    
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    December 27, 2021 6:16pm
  - MCōs
    
    Russell Crowe can’t get Australian citizenship from what I understand.
    We gave NZ citizenship to Peter Thiel.
    
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    December 27, 2021 6:42pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

https://babylonbee.com/news/facebook-fact-check-feature-narrowly-saves-man-from-laughing-at-satirical-article
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December 27, 2021 10:45am
- Man Among the Ruins
  
  How can reality in 2021 even be satirised, without paradoxically making it less satirical in nature?
  
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  December 27, 2021 10:53am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

https://babylonbee.com/news/alarming-new-study-finds-that-everyone-who-gets-covid-will-die-at-some-point.
Also, Conservative critics have responded by saying that everyone who voted for Biden will also eventually die—except for the ones who are already dead.
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December 27, 2021 10:49am
Man Among the Ruins

Did you get what you wanted for Christmas?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmQToxKKLZA
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December 27, 2021 10:55am
TT500

I,ve got no idea who Jeffrey Holman is, but i think
he may have been out in the sun a bit too long
without his hat on
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December 27, 2021 1:12pm
Nickc2

If you were ever in doubt, Kamala Harris (Vice POTUS) declares Democracy is the Greatest Threat to the US of A.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10343313/Kamala-Harris-says-DEMOCRACY-biggest-threat-national-security-stands-Kabul-withdrawal.html
I wonder if that wasn’t a speech prepared for/by our Cindy?
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December 27, 2021 1:17pm
Don Beckett

And what about the real vaccine ,Valneva, developed the original/proper way from the virus itself, which will be available some time after the middle of 2022?
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December 27, 2021 1:31pm
lifesgood

I’ve just driven north from the Hauraki Plains (Waikato). I’m glad I wasn’t driving south. Traffic is bumper to bumper from Auckland and crawling for at least 60 kilometres. It felt good to speed past going the other way. Those folk are sure going to need a holiday when they get to where ever they’re going.
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December 27, 2021 2:00pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Heading North – same story.
  
  Anyone would think that Auckland was a horrible place to be.
  
  I thought it was just Mt Rascal.
  
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  December 27, 2021 6:18pm
Lee C

Interesting notion – it’s deliberate…https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/10/deliberately-promoting-decline/?fbclid=IwAR0Hy2WgTO8temUHaEg3VyV6OwxvPB-5TT2N_VjFN6I6qLf5d3xDMqpWsAs

[Paywalled].
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December 27, 2021 2:16pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

D. 12M. The 2.75M was a deposit.
Then another booster just before Nov 2023
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December 27, 2021 2:35pm
curry4me

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2021/12/25/china-u-s-law-banning-uyghur-slave-products-blasphemy-against-democracy/

China Unamused by Cotton Product Ban.

The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act passed the Senate on December 17 and was signed into law by President Joe Biden on Thursday. The law bans products from Xinjiang province, home of the oppressed Uyghur Muslims, who have been herded into concentration camps, tortured, brainwashed, raped, murdered, and used as forced labor by the Chinese Communist regime.
During the final days of the Trump administration, the U.S. State Department classified China’s oppression of the Uyghurs as an act of “genocide.” Two Uyghur human rights groups filed charges of genocide against the Chinese Communist Party this month in Argentina, which agreed to hear their case.
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December 27, 2021 2:41pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bJXFBEOjBo

The world marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union.

Humanity got a great Christmas present that day.
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December 27, 2021 2:41pm
Bridgenag

Appears we have new trolls down ticking for no reason.. …….. Maybe they don’t understand sarcasm? I thought I had made the grade with 2 but I notice today a couple of new Leftie kind friends. Hope they are not people I encouraged on this site. If so sorry folks.
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December 27, 2021 3:44pm
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December 27, 2021 3:57pm
Truman lodge

As I suspected, Clubs were involved in the flat Bush shooting.

This time it was the world’s largest motorcycle club. Hells Angels motorcycle club. A club member shot a prospect.
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December 27, 2021 4:36pm
- mawm
  
  As long as they keep it in-house I don’t really care.
  
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  December 27, 2021 6:09pm
chukar

When England first lost a cricket series to Australia and created the Ashes they burned wicket bails as a memorial.
Good thing the Commonwealth is now growing so many trees!
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