2019 Novel Coronavirus Covid-19 Discussion

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#2765729 24-Aug-2021 08:14

Significantly more cars on SH1 on my morning commute to Dunedin than during the 2020 lockdown, but way down on a typical 7am drive during a normal day.

No traffic jams, no queues on SH1 as I can see outside my office window compared to just about any other time of the day on your average day.

And parking directly outside work.

Honestly, aside from not being able to get some junk food and the amount of work that the staff cause during lockdown, I don't mind it at all and would rather see it continue and be contained rather than "yo-yoing" (though I can certainly understand that business owners are and will be significantly impacted until they are allowed to open again)

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#2765731 24-Aug-2021 08:19

MaxineN:

I live in Merivale and I am basically a stones throw from Hagley Park. Can confirm traffic has picked up more and more every day with more foot traffic and more people not wearing masks or socially distancing. I am fairly sure that Christchurch is fed up with this lockdown but we're in lockdown for a reason...

Makes sense for people to head to Hagley for some exercise. I'm in Hillmorton near the hospital - lots of cars are CDHB staff.

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#2765733 24-Aug-2021 08:24

MaxineN:

I live in Merivale and I am basically a stones throw from Hagley Park. Can confirm traffic has picked up more and more every day with more foot traffic and more people not wearing masks or socially distancing. I am fairly sure that Christchurch is fed up with this lockdown but we're in lockdown for a reason...

Ilam here, traffic is definitely lighter than normal but a lot heavier than last years lockdown. I've been to New World twice since lockdown, once for me and once to shop for an essential worker friend who can't shop himself while working his current hours, both times the car park has been above half full. I reckon most people are doing daily rather than weekly shops just to get something to do, then there's those off somewhere for exercise. Someone I know working the buses has noted a ton of people headed out towards the adventure park with bikes on the tops of their cars, so definitely a lot treating it as a North Island only thing.

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#2765736 24-Aug-2021 08:34

The Washington Post - Coronavirus Updates: Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine earns FDA approval

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After reviewing a mountain of safety and efficacy data, federal regulators at the Food and Drug Administration have fully approved the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, which will be marketed [in the USA] under the brand name Comirnaty. ...

(The Pfizer vaccine previously only had emergency use authorization in the US.)

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#2765737 24-Aug-2021 08:37

Sideface:
The Washington Post - Coronavirus Updates: Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine earns FDA approval

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After reviewing a mountain of safety and efficacy data, federal regulators at the Food and Drug Administration have fully approved the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, which will be marketed [in the USA] under the brand name Comirnaty. ...

(The Pfizer vaccine previously only had emergency use authorization in the US.)

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#2765739 24-Aug-2021 08:46

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Bryce Edwards publishing articles that aren't complimentary of the labour government? I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!

This belongs in the politics thread.

"Beatings will continue until morale improves" it is then.

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#2765742 24-Aug-2021 08:54

Batman: It's strange that Wellington and Auckland contacts are testing positive but none in Coromandel?

Maybe not so strange. The church service appears to have run for ~6 hours (lots of singing included) and a lot of cases appear to have spread from there and the related community. The service predated any hint of virus in the community so provided ideal conditions for spreading the virus.

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#2765743 24-Aug-2021 08:59

I went to the Pak n Save for my first trip to a supermarket since last week (had been well prepared for a lockdown).

Somebody else above mentioned supermarket staff wearing face shields - and it was there same here. Probably 25% of staff in the store wearing face shields only and no masks. I genuinely feel sorry for these people who obviously believe it's offering them the same protection as a mask when in effect it's offering none at all.

The crazy thing about the stores allowing this is that you can argue it's not even complaint with the health order. Is a face shield really a "face covering"?

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#2765744 24-Aug-2021 09:05

Batman:
Batman: It's strange that Wellington and Auckland contacts are testing positive but none in Coromandel?

There are several possibilities for this.

Case A who wasn't the zero community case was likely the only infected person in Coromandel. At what stage of his infection was he there and how infectious was he at the time. Also it seems some people are far more or far less effective at spreading the virus. I think his wife had had only one does of the vaccine, she tested negative. That could be down to the vaccination or it could be down to him not being a good spreader, or both.

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#2765745 24-Aug-2021 09:05

sbiddle:

I went to the Pak n Save for my first trip to a supermarket since last week (had been well prepared for a lockdown).

Somebody else above mentioned supermarket staff wearing face shields - and it was there same here. Probably 25% of staff in the store wearing face shields only and no masks. I genuinely feel sorry for these people who obviously believe it's offering them the same protection as a mask when in effect it's offering none at all.

The crazy thing about the stores allowing this is that you can argue it's not even complaint with the health order. Is a face shield really a "face covering"?

i had a discussion with a checkout operator at Paknsave who told me i had to wait at the end of the conveyer belt and when i asked how i was meant to pay she told me that the metre square Perspex shield would protect her.

Common sense is not as common as you think.

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#2765753 24-Aug-2021 09:32

Technofreak:

Batman:
Batman: It's strange that Wellington and Auckland contacts are testing positive but none in Coromandel?

There are several possibilities for this.

Case A who wasn't the zero community case was likely the only infected person in Coromandel. At what stage of his infection was he there and how infectious was he at the time. Also it seems some people are far more or far less effective at spreading the virus. I think his wife had had only one does of the vaccine, she tested negative. That could be down to the vaccination or it could be down to him not being a good spreader, or both.

We know that even with Delta that not everybody who catches Covid actually spreads it.

There are still lots of links missing, an it's a shame that we don't publish good individual case data / diagrams here showing links and spread like some countries such as Singapore do.

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#2765754 24-Aug-2021 09:35

nzkiwiman:

Significantly more cars on SH1 on my morning commute to Dunedin than during the 2020 lockdown, but way down on a typical 7am drive during a normal day.

Same here in Auckland, definitely more cars on the road than during level 4 last year. Traffic levels outside my house are more similar to the level 3 lockdowns we have had.

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#2765762 24-Aug-2021 09:44

sbiddle:

Technofreak:

There are several possibilities for this.

Case A who wasn't the zero community case was likely the only infected person in Coromandel. At what stage of his infection was he there and how infectious was he at the time. Also it seems some people are far more or far less effective at spreading the virus. I think his wife had had only one does of the vaccine, she tested negative. That could be down to the vaccination or it could be down to him not being a good spreader, or both.

We know that even with Delta that not everybody who catches Covid actually spreads it.

There are still lots of links missing, an it's a shame that we don't publish good individual case data / diagrams here showing links and spread like some countries such as Singapore do.

That would be very interesting information to see. I wonder if that information is being collated and analysed here? It would make an interesting study. Our privacy laws probably prevent it from happening.

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#2765778 24-Aug-2021 10:00

Buster:

Vaccinated people don't need hospital or ICU.

This isn't true. The vaccine isn't 100% effective for a start, you then have people with underlying health conditions, + your immunity can drop over time.

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#2765784 24-Aug-2021 10:14

Singapore is 76% fully vaccinated yet they are having 50 new cases a day recently. That's a worry.

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