If you didn't see the question:

freitasm:

 

Dr Bloomfield's face, the eyes moving. The silence that fell on the room when the bleach question came. Brilliant!

 

52:50 for anyone that wants to look if they didn't watch it live.

Didnt see that  above, I won't delete my post incase it causes issues with alerts

Question:

In media conference for the past week: quoting directly "we have reached our goal of elimination", "we have no community transmission"

Why are we in Level 3: "high risk the disease is not contained" "new clusters might emerge"

Anybody can explain?

Batman:

 

Question:

 

In media conference for the past week: quoting directly "we have reached our goal of elimination", "we have no community transmission"

 

Why are we in Level 3: "high risk the disease is not contained" "new clusters might emerge"

 

Anybody can explain?

 

because sometimes you just need to pause a little to make sure what you have done has worked

freitasm:

 

If you didn't see the question:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If only POTUS had actually said what the reporter claimed he had said. On reading the transcript, he did not.

PolicyGuy:

 

The Level 3 Rules are the "Health Act (COVID-19 Alert Level 3) Order 2020", here:http://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2020/0069/latest/whole.html

 

Note that this talks about staying within the same or an adjacent region. So, we are allowed to travel to other regions provided they are adjacent to the one we are currently living in.

New Zealand’s regions are defined as: Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Gisborne, Hawkes Bay, Taranaki, Whanganui – Manawatu, Wellington, Nelson-Tasman, Marlborough, West Coast, Canterbury, Otago and Southland.

From the above link:

A person is permitted to do any of the following as essential personal movement:

Limited recreation purposes

(e) leave their home or place of residence for the purpose of exercise or other recreation if—

(i) it is done in an outdoor place appropriate for that kind of exercise or recreation that is readily accessible (including by using their vehicle) from their home or place of residence (and, in any case, is within the same or an adjacent region); and

(ii) it is done in compliance with the requirements that relate to physical distancing (see clause 6(1)(b)) and the prohibition against congregating (see clause 11); and

(iii) it does not involve flying manned aircraft, scuba-diving, hunting in motorised vehicles, or water-based activities involving sailing boats, motorised craft, or motorised equipment; and

(iv) it does not involve any other activities that expose the participant to danger (taking account of their experience and abilities):

@frednz the Government instruction regarding inter-regional travel is that it is highly limited and is for essential workers with limited exemptions.

Geektastic:

 

freitasm:

 

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If only POTUS had actually said what the reporter claimed he had said. On reading the transcript, he did not.

 

He didn’t specify the “World Leader” in the question. Just reinforces the media not letting the facts get in the way of their nyuk nyuk moment. Who was the intrepid reporter asking the question?

MikeB4:

 

@frednz the Government instruction regarding inter-regional travel is that it is highly limited and is for essential workers with limited exemptions.

 

I will be treating it as level 4. Not interested in KFC online, or buying potting max online. I will see my oldest daughter though.

Wife and Mum in Law who now lives with us, both from Wuhan, say its opened up a lot now, pretty much everything open. BUT, they are still abiding by hand washing, masks, social distancing. Thats where the West falls apart. Its a lockdown, now its not. Beers anyone? Its still as much, if not more, a cautionary time. 

(iii) it does not involve flying manned aircraft, scuba-diving, hunting in motorised vehicles, or water-based activities involving sailing boats, motorised craft, or motorised equipment; and

frednz:

Rules, rules, rules ..... why on earth do we need rules that try to tell us what we can and can't do. Why not rely on people just being sensible ...

freitasm:

Just listening to the 1pm update. I echoed PM Jacinda Ardern's words and thanks to Dr Bloomfield. The man deserves a beer.

Dingbatt:

He didn’t specify the “World Leader” in the question. Just reinforces the media not letting the facts get in the way of their nyuk nyuk moment. Who was the intrepid reporter asking the question?

tdgeek:

 

Wife and Mum in Law who now lives with us, both from Wuhan, say its opened up a lot now, pretty much everything open. BUT, they are still abiding by hand washing, masks, social distancing. Thats where the West falls apart. Its a lockdown, now its not. Beers anyone? Its still as much, if not more, a cautionary time. 

 

I would love to know what is really going on in China (and what the true figures were). There are several channels I watch to get a wider range of news, but all have an axe to grind with the Chinese Communist Party when you dig a little deeper. In particular NTD which was set up by Falun Gong exiles. However the general trend seems to be under-reporting and official coverups of a scale that would have made the Chernobyl officials blush. I’m not expecting any response from you, but understand this is not questioning Chinese people but the CCP.

Stu: 

Over the weekend there has been at least one recreational/sport aircraft and another light aircraft having a bit of fun over the North Waikato/South Auckland area.

CAA air-worthiness certification allows for maintenance flights of small AC to keep their engineering cert valid

https://www.aviation.govt.nz/safety/publications/vector-magazine/before-your-essential-maintenance-flight/ 

Others have been helping move test samples to larger centres for testing, and top dressing (critical commercial work is OK)