2019 Novel Coronavirus Covid-19 Discussion

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#3334704 23-Jan-2025 12:05

msukiwi:
Got my booster at Church Corner Woolworths Pharmacy.

Great service from them.

However on leaving going through a checkout and saying to the lady there that I had a covid booster only,

she moved back and said "Say away from me!"

Not the reaction I was expecting!

If all she picked up was "got" and "Covid" then her reaction would be understandable.

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#3334709 23-Jan-2025 12:39

I'm sure we've all done workplace compliance courses that quite clearly state you cannot discriminate someone based off medicinal conditions etc right?

I would think a public statement like that would be borderline down the road material in most places.

Afterall it was those same vocal people that fought against being targeted for the opposite

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#3334710 23-Jan-2025 12:42

neb: If all she picked up was "got" and "Covid" then her reaction would be understandable.

Nope, I clarified that I had "just had the covid vaccine booster at the pharmacy"!

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#3334711 23-Jan-2025 12:49

There was a famous story during the AIDS epidemic where someone from an African nation created a panic when he returned home and officials saw his US Legal Aid Certificate. This is routinely issued to people who are receiving subsidised legal advice. The above interaction sounds similar to that.

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#3334715 23-Jan-2025 13:09

Looking at wastewater RIP XBB, which had I gone in on Jan4 when due would probably be only any good for

Hello JN.1 and children.

Just walked into ch airport pharmacy and dosed up.

Same bloke as last time. Well versed and felt nothing. No sore arm issues etc last time either so we'll see.

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#3334961 23-Jan-2025 23:56

Rikkitic:

There was a famous story during the AIDS epidemic where someone from an African nation created a panic when he returned home and officials saw his US Legal Aid Certificate. This is routinely issued to people who are receiving subsidised legal advice. The above interaction sounds similar to that.

Or the paediatrician in Britain who was reportedly mistaken for a paedophile & had their house vandalised, during a time of genuine concerns about kiddy-fiddlers.

"I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce." — J. Edgar Hoover

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#3355719 20-Mar-2025 19:01

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/doctor-and-former-tvnz-presenter-samantha-bailey-has-medical-registration-cancelled/TBMJQZ7AY5FEPPWXJTEOUWEBP4/

A doctor who spread vaccine misinformation and then played victim when caught is struck off and fined. Good job.

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#3355741 20-Mar-2025 20:48

quickymart:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/doctor-and-former-tvnz-presenter-samantha-bailey-has-medical-registration-cancelled/TBMJQZ7AY5FEPPWXJTEOUWEBP4/

A doctor who spread vaccine misinformation and then played victim when caught is struck off and fined. Good job.

'ordered to pay costs of $148k' - ouch !

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

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#3355744 20-Mar-2025 20:53

elpenguino:

'ordered to pay costs of $148k' - ouch !

I'm sure the millions of dedicated YT followers she boasts about will be happy to chip in to cover the costs.

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#3355745 20-Mar-2025 21:06

neb:

I'm sure the millions of dedicated YT followers she boasts about will be happy to chip in to cover the costs.

"A fool and his money are soon parted" 😀

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#3356063 21-Mar-2025 15:03

Good to see the medical council doing its job.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360623085/doctor-former-tvnz-host-has-medical-registration-cancelled-over-misleading-covid-videos

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#3356067 21-Mar-2025 15:22

floydbloke:

Good to see the medical council doing its job.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360623085/doctor-former-tvnz-host-has-medical-registration-cancelled-over-misleading-covid-videos

Heck yeah. If we don't have professions, like medics but all the others too, sticking to a fact-based world view then we all deserve to have a course of leeches prescribed.

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

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#3356306 22-Mar-2025 13:12

What amazes me is how would someone be able to pass exams and all the practical achievements etc.
That no red flags come up in training and residency.

Surely student doctors have to be up to date on vaccinations and show they are willing to give them.
Can give good sound advice and get no tolerance of wildly alternative facts on viruses and vaccinology.

Given that we have many applicants for places, its not like we have a shortage that we can't dump the dodgy. Its training places we have a critical shortage, making further training of dodgy even worse waste.

Theoretically we have difficult hurdles for overseas doctors to qualify as well.
Still we ended up with a US original doctor who setup in the field of weight loss.
Apparently raving antivax, and pro magical alternatives, given in USA weight loss is a lucrative alternative medicine field.

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#3356315 22-Mar-2025 13:56

ezbee:

What amazes me is how would someone be able to pass exams and all the practical achievements etc.
That no red flags come up in training and residency.

Covid and the new mRNA technology allowed the crazies a wedge to run the line "this is not like you normal vaccines"

- because of the newness of the technology the rabbit hole was wide open and it gobbled up some people who quite happily accepted "traditional" vaccinations as being fine....

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#3356322 22-Mar-2025 15:34

ezbee:

What amazes me is how would someone be able to pass exams and all the practical achievements etc.
That no red flags come up in training and residency.

i'm not sure if there would be any.

people react differently under those conditions. i'm not sure if you could test people and then reject them. we have seen the same issue across the board.

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