2019 Novel Coronavirus Covid-19 Discussion

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#2855775 24-Jan-2022 15:43

ezbee:

Not sure what its like with Wellington public transport, but this makes no sense at all to control infection rate.

Public transport users furious at overcrowding as Auckland Transport defends decision to run reduced timetable despite Omicron outbreak
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/01/covid-19-public-transport-users-furious-at-overcrowding-as-auckland-transport-defends-decision-to-run-reduced-timetable-despite-omicron-outbreak.html

The issue is trying to get rostered staff back on from their leave with holidays still on. Many of hte drivers have kids and can't just dump and run.. Whether I agree with my AT metro colleagues about their roster planning and demand forecasting is a business perspective that I won't share here.

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#2855778 24-Jan-2022 15:55

ezbee:

Not sure what its like with Wellington public transport, but this makes no sense at all to control infection rate.

Public transport users furious at overcrowding as Auckland Transport defends decision to run reduced timetable despite Omicron outbreak
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/01/covid-19-public-transport-users-furious-at-overcrowding-as-auckland-transport-defends-decision-to-run-reduced-timetable-despite-omicron-outbreak.html

Had an update email from Metlink this morning. Wellington is sticking to the standard timetable (which is in operation throughout the year apart from the immediate Xmas and new year break).

I find it very strange that Auckland has a "Summer" timetable.

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#2855781 24-Jan-2022 16:01

cshwone:

Had an update email from Metlink this morning. Wellington is sticking to the standard timetable (which is in operation throughout the year apart from the immediate Xmas and new year break).

I find it very strange that Auckland has a "Summer" timetable.

Demand drops significantly over the Christmas break as people leave Auckland means running services costs a fortune and WK are not topping AT up at all despite the extended loss of revenue due to the lockdowns, but then that's not surprising given AT cannot even access the Covid recovery funds for staff wages.

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#2855802 24-Jan-2022 16:44

Benoire:

cshwone:

Had an update email from Metlink this morning. Wellington is sticking to the standard timetable (which is in operation throughout the year apart from the immediate Xmas and new year break).

I find it very strange that Auckland has a "Summer" timetable.

Demand drops significantly over the Christmas break as people leave Auckland means running services costs a fortune and WK are not topping AT up at all despite the extended loss of revenue due to the lockdowns, but then that's not surprising given AT cannot even access the Covid recovery funds for staff wages.

I guess we must have shorter holidays at Xmas in Wellington then :)

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#2855804 24-Jan-2022 16:46

https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/127535677/unvaccinated-south-cantabrians-ask-council-for-rates-rebates

that's a bit on the nose

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#2855807 24-Jan-2022 16:52

They started in North Canterbury as soon as the announcement came out they wouldn't be able to go to the pools or take the kids

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#2855808 24-Jan-2022 16:55

Some cautious optimism from WHO Europe director Hans Kluge (wasn't he the baddy in Die Hard......no wait.. that was Gruber) that it could be the beginning of the end of the pandemic in Europe.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/europe-could-be-headed-for-covid-pandemic-endgame-who-2725674

Sometimes I use big words I don't always fully understand in an effort to make myself sound more photosynthesis.

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#2855827 24-Jan-2022 17:13

floydbloke:
Some cautious optimism from WHO Europe director Hans Kluge (wasn't he the baddy in Die Hard......no wait.. that was Gruber) that it could be the beginning of the end of the pandemic in Europe.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/europe-could-be-headed-for-covid-pandemic-endgame-who-2725674

Fauci said this about the US two weeks ago, with the same guardedness

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#2855835 24-Jan-2022 18:20

@James Bond:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/127535677/unvaccinated-south-cantabrians-ask-council-for-rates-rebates

that's a bit on the nose

A woman said this about not being allowed into some buildings "We are living in a parallel world.”

No shit, Sherlock.

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#2855849 24-Jan-2022 18:49

freitasm:
@James Bond:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/127535677/unvaccinated-south-cantabrians-ask-council-for-rates-rebates

that's a bit on the nose

A woman said this about not being allowed into some buildings "We are living in a parallel world.”

No shit, Sherlock.

If you gave them a rebate for facilities they can't use. ( Though it is can't use by deliberate choice )
It would also be only fair to apply a general surcharge for the facilities upgraded for their use.
So a regional medical charge that would be very many times the rebate.

As they have not done their community duty to lower costs of covid on community.

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#2855853 24-Jan-2022 19:24

Yet more self-proclaimed "geniuses" who think they know more about the vaccine than doctors and medical experts, find themselves on the wrong side of history (and the law, too):

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-omicron-outbreak-worksafe-takes-enforcement-action-against-lone-star-new-lynn-for-allegedly-breaching-vaccine-mandate/36DQF2JX7I4TKW7L2YY2URWJ7M/

Good to see they both got hefty fines handed down to them. Wonder if their new BFF Bishop Brian will dip into church funds to pay their fines for them?

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#2855882 24-Jan-2022 22:34

CNN take on the AU covid situation. Possibly similar headline treatment for NZ if as seems likely we track the same path as AU?

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/23/australia/australia-covid-summer-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

"... Now it's a mess"

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#2855888 24-Jan-2022 22:51

DS248:
CNN take on the AU covid situation. Possibly similar headline treatment for NZ if as seems likely we track the same path as AU?

Early indicator is they think we're locked up in a dictatorship over a few measley cases again.

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#2855938 25-Jan-2022 08:50

DS248:

CNN take on the AU covid situation. Possibly similar headline treatment for NZ if as seems likely we track the same path as AU?

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/23/australia/australia-covid-summer-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

"... Now it's a mess"

That's rich coming from the US. 3,000 deaths vs 600,000 deaths and counting.

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#2855960 25-Jan-2022 09:42

https://thespinoff.co.nz/irl/25-01-2022/no-five-kids-didnt-collapse-at-a-vaccination-site-so-who-said-they-did

Unsurprisingly, washed-up former newsreader Liz Gunn appears to be the only source for the "5 kids collapsed at a North Shore vaccination site' bs that was peddled last week.

I just wish she would shut up. She's had her time in the spotlight, and she's not helping anyone with this antivaxx crap. I mean, really. She needs to move on and find a new (worthy) cause. Child abuse isn't one she should be involved with either: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/a-bad-day-for-the-forces-of-good/AJB56MDPWZP6LRWHSYU3P66UDU/

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