So, coronavirus...

[Enzedder]

Cases: +23,012
Deaths: +174

That makes 1099 deaths for the past 6 days.

so what? people die if not from this, something else...

Let them eat cake eh?

[Ymx]

What’s NZs medium/long term plan here? Assuming a viable or economic vaccine doesn’t fall in to their laps.

It can’t be great for the tourism industry.

[Dan54]

What’s NZs medium/long term plan here? Assuming a viable or economic vaccine doesn’t fall in to their laps.

It can’t be great for the tourism industry.

True it not great for Tourism, and guess the virus isn't very bloody good for Health system if it runs rampart, so..................

[Dan54]

Cases: +23,012
Deaths: +174

That makes 1099 deaths for the past 6 days.

so what? people die if not from this, something else...

That's the same as people who smoke saying stuff it I could get killed by a car crossing the road, but you still look left and right to try and avoid dying if you don't have too!

[Ymx]

Cases: +23,012
Deaths: +174

That makes 1099 deaths for the past 6 days.

so what? people die if not from this, something else...

That's the same as people who smoke saying stuff it I could get killed by a car crossing the road, but you still look left and right to try and avoid dying if you don't have too!

If we are doing this ...

That’s the same as saying I might get killed on the road, so the government should lock down and stop vehicles using it.

[Ted.]

What’s NZs medium/long term plan here? Assuming a viable or economic vaccine doesn’t fall in to their laps.

It can’t be great for the tourism industry.

True it not great for Tourism, and guess the virus isn't very bloody good for Health system if it runs rampart, so..................

Who'd have thought, but nor is that scenario especially good for tourism.

[Jb1981]

so what? people die if not from this, something else...

That's the same as people who smoke saying stuff it I could get killed by a car crossing the road, but you still look left and right to try and avoid dying if you don't have too!

If we are doing this ...

That’s the same as saying I might get killed on the road, so the government should lock down and stop vehicles using it.

More like asking for safety measures to be put in place like pedestrian crossings or reduced speed limits / traffic lights etc in problem areas.

[Tichtheid]

That's the same as people who smoke saying stuff it I could get killed by a car crossing the road, but you still look left and right to try and avoid dying if you don't have too!

If we are doing this ...

That’s the same as saying I might get killed on the road, so the government should lock down and stop vehicles using it.

More like asking for safety measures to be put in place like pedestrian crossings or reduced speed limits / traffic lights etc in problem areas.

As a tangent...

There was a guy on the radio a wee while back from the transplant services, he said that improvements in car safety, better breaking systems, better suspension/steering, but most of all, people being made to wear seatbelts has led to a shortage of organs being available for transplants.

[Opensides Butler]

I volunteer Sir as a donor.

[Ymx]

That's the same as people who smoke saying stuff it I could get killed by a car crossing the road, but you still look left and right to try and avoid dying if you don't have too!

If we are doing this ...

That’s the same as saying I might get killed on the road, so the government should lock down and stop vehicles using it.

More like asking for safety measures to be put in place like pedestrian crossings or reduced speed limits / traffic lights etc in problem areas.

We are on bad road condition restrictions at the moment.

It’s not like a free for all, and going the wrong way on a roundabout ...

[fishfoodie]

If we are doing this ...

That’s the same as saying I might get killed on the road, so the government should lock down and stop vehicles using it.

More like asking for safety measures to be put in place like pedestrian crossings or reduced speed limits / traffic lights etc in problem areas.

As a tangent...

There was a guy on the radio a wee while back from the transplant services, he said that improvements in car safety, better breaking systems, better suspension/steering, but most of all, people being made to wear seatbelts has led to a shortage of organs being available for transplants.

In the US there are a few States with; "No Helmet Laws", for motorcycles. ER doctors with their usual macabre sense of humor refer to those who decide to not wear helmets as, "Donorcycles", or just "Donors".

Government traffic safety mandates are typically designed to reduce the harmful externalities of risky behaviors. We consider whether motorcycle helmet laws also reduce a beneficial externality by decreasing the pool of viable organ donors. Our central estimates show that organ donations resulting from fatal motor vehicle accidents increase by 10 percent when states repeal helmet laws. Two characteristics of this association suggest that it is causal: first, nearly all of it is concentrated among men, who account for over 90 percent of all motorcyclist deaths, and second, helmet mandates are unrelated to organ donations due to circumstances other than motor vehicle accidents. Our estimates imply that every death of a helmetless motorcyclist prevents or delays as many as 0.33 deaths among individuals on organ transplant waiting lists.

If only Covid didn't fuck up organs before dispatching the donor; countries could significantly reduce their organ waiting lists; & increase the national IQ; because the same fuckwit mentality that decides wearing a helmet, as wearing a mask; will provide a ready supply of organ donors.

[Muttonbird]

What’s NZs medium/long term plan here? Assuming a viable or economic vaccine doesn’t fall in to their laps.

It can’t be great for the tourism industry.

True it not great for Tourism, and guess the virus isn't very bloody good for Health system if it runs rampart, so..................

Who'd have thought, but nor is that scenario especially good for tourism.

Plus the the effect on the tourism industry is somewhat mitigated by all that lovely, lovely cash staying onshore instead of heading off. Several billion dollars didn't get spent overseas this year.

Critics like Madelene Grant and others say wealthy countries not travelling affects the worlds poor. She says we should put our own poor at risk so Vietnamese basket weavers can stay afloat. I say Madelene Grant is an idiot and that charity begins at home.

[Hong Kong]

[Tilly Orifice]

True it not great for Tourism, and guess the virus isn't very bloody good for Health system if it runs rampart, so..................

Who'd have thought, but nor is that scenario especially good for tourism.

Plus the the effect on the tourism industry is somewhat mitigated by all that lovely, lovely cash staying onshore instead of heading off. Several billion dollars didn't get spent overseas this year.

Critics like Madelene Grant and others say wealthy countries not travelling affects the worlds poor. She says we should put our own poor at risk so Vietnamese basket weavers can stay afloat. I say Madelene Grant is an idiot and that charity begins at home.

Vietnamese basket weavers?

[Green light echo]

This. About 1000 times over.

Spot on mate

[Jb1981]

Who'd have thought, but nor is that scenario especially good for tourism.

Plus the the effect on the tourism industry is somewhat mitigated by all that lovely, lovely cash staying onshore instead of heading off. Several billion dollars didn't get spent overseas this year.

Critics like Madelene Grant and others say wealthy countries not travelling affects the worlds poor. She says we should put our own poor at risk so Vietnamese basket weavers can stay afloat. I say Madelene Grant is an idiot and that charity begins at home.

Vietnamese basket weavers?

No one ever thinks about the Vietnamese basket weavers.

[MungoMan]

Who'd have thought, but nor is that scenario especially good for tourism.

Plus the the effect on the tourism industry is somewhat mitigated by all that lovely, lovely cash staying onshore instead of heading off. Several billion dollars didn't get spent overseas this year.

Critics like Madelene Grant and others say wealthy countries not travelling affects the worlds poor. She says we should put our own poor at risk so Vietnamese basket weavers can stay afloat. I say Madelene Grant is an idiot and that charity begins at home.

Vietnamese basket weavers?

The people who make these, and they stay afloat just fine. Not sure what NZ is doing in terms of practical assistance, tho'.

[Hong Kong]

[eldanielfire]

That last line just about says it all about the mental mistake of anti-maskers.

[Biffer]

What’s NZs medium/long term plan here? Assuming a viable or economic vaccine doesn’t fall in to their laps.

It can’t be great for the tourism industry.

Long term, the pandemic will subside, one way or another. That’s what happens with pandemics. Look up pictures of cities in the 1920s. You see crowded streets, people going about their lives. 1918 pandemic was 2 or 3 years, 1890 pandemic 4 or 5. A vaccine or other treatments will shorten it and get rid of the long tail (also it will provide a baseline for future Coronaviruses jumping species). This is a year or two of restrictions on our lives, that’s all.

[Bimbowomxn]

Choice and freedom are not important.

[Bimbowomxn]

This is a year or two of restrictions on our lives, that’s all.

Dear lord. I can only guess you’re not too old.


I’ll go tell my 74 year old FiL that don’t worry you’ll be 77 before you go to the cinema again , but that’s ok.

[Calculon]

The absolute horror, having to watch a film at home instead of the movie theatre

[Bimbowomxn]

The absolute horror, having to watch a film at home instead of the movie theatre

Or see his grandsons, life long friends , the car club etc etc.



The dismissal of this on people’s lives especially those with limited time isn’t a surprise I spose.


It’s only 2 years!

[Calculon]

Some people, including me, have had to make real sacrifices, but for other selfish people not being able to go to the cinema is too much of an imposition, ffs

[Bimbowomxn]

Some people, including me, have had to make real sacrifices, but for other selfish people not being able to go to the cinema is too much of an imposition, ffs

It was an example of many things a 74 year old with limited time ...



“ including me”

[Insane_Homer]

I’ll go tell my 74 year old FiL that don’t worry you’ll be 77 before you go to the cinema again , but that’s ok.

Yep, he can go to the cinema now and risk being dead by Christmas. What movie, out currently, is that good it's worth risking dying for?

[Paddington Bear]

My Grannie, well into her 90s, finally had the fall we've been anticipating for years over the weekend.
Wakes up in hospital, everyone in masks, unable to understand why none of us have visited her (she isn't processing the restrictions). Bloody grim stuff - you would like to think six months into a crisis we'd have worked out a way people could get one visitor in these sorts of circumstances.

[Bimbowomxn]

I’ll go tell my 74 year old FiL that don’t worry you’ll be 77 before you go to the cinema again , but that’s ok.

Yep, he can go to the cinema now and risk being dead by Christmas. What movie, out currently, is that good it's worth risking dying for?

Here’s that broad and subtle thinking again.

Even after I explained this was just an example.....

[Sandstorm]

I’ll go tell my 74 year old FiL that don’t worry you’ll be 77 before you go to the cinema again , but that’s ok.

Yep, he can go to the cinema now and risk being dead by Christmas. What movie, out currently, is that good it's worth risking dying for?

There's a new Tom Clancy out today: Russian Internet Bots - Op Centre

[fishfoodie]

I’ll go tell my 74 year old FiL that don’t worry you’ll be 77 before you go to the cinema again , but that’s ok.

Yep, he can go to the cinema now and risk being dead by Christmas. What movie, out currently, is that good it's worth risking dying for?

There's a new Tom Clancy out today: Russian Internet Bots - Op Centre

Is that the one where the Russian bot tries to bore everyone to death with his endless braindead drivel ?

[Sandstorm]

Is that the one where the Russian bot tries to bore everyone to death with his endless braindead drivel ?

Pensioners are apparently desperate to see it.

[Rinkals]

This is a year or two of restrictions on our lives, that’s all.

Dear lord. I can only guess you’re not too old.


I’ll go tell my 74 year old FiL that don’t worry you’ll be 77 before you go to the cinema again , but that’s ok.

Buy him a Netflix subscription, you tight-arse.

[Openside]

Cases: +23,012
Deaths: +174

That makes 1099 deaths for the past 6 days.

so what? people die if not from this, something else...

Let them eat cake eh?

Hardly, but we are going to have to learn to live with this virus there is no point in wringing our hands. Neither is there any point in trashing the economy to delay the deaths of a few octogenarians (ask them all the ones I know agree). Lockdowns seemingly are not the answer so where do we go from here? The whole lockdown thing is to prevent the over running of the NHS which didn't happen the first time I don't think its going to happen this time.

[Bimbowomxn]

This is a year or two of restrictions on our lives, that’s all.

Dear lord. I can only guess you’re not too old.


I’ll go tell my 74 year old FiL that don’t worry you’ll be 77 before you go to the cinema again , but that’s ok.

Buy him a Netflix subscription, you tight-arse.

It was an “example” ......

You and the other Saffas unable to understand the most basic form of narrative tools.

[frodder]

Meanwhile in Wales you can now buy non essential items again but only if they're essential it would appear. You may have to prove that your non essential essentials are essential however

[Northern Lights]

Meanwhile in Wales you can now buy non essential items again but only if they're essential it would appear. You may have to prove that your non essential essentials are essential however

What's the mood music like in Wales with this "circuit breaker", are people on the whole supportive or do they think the Welsh assembly have done too far?

[sockwithaticket]

so what? people die if not from this, something else...

Let them eat cake eh?

Hardly, but we are going to have to learn to live with this virus there is no point in wringing our hands. Neither is there any point in trashing the economy to delay the deaths of a few octogenarians (ask them all the ones I know agree). Lockdowns seemingly are not the answer so where do we go from here? The whole lockdown thing is to prevent the over running of the NHS which didn't happen the first time I don't think its going to happen this time.

Imagine how much worse it would have been without measures? The point of restrictions isn't that everything ends up perfect, but to minimise damage.

And for what must be the millionth time, it's not just octogenarians dying and survival can be accompanied by any combination of permanent lung scarring, breathing difficulties and general weakness/low energy. There are perfectly ordinary people who were discharged from hospital months ago still really struggling with things like walking around for a prolonged period of time because of the toll this thing takes on those unfortunate enough to get it bad. While there are factors more likely to suffer a severe case, there are enough people apparently absent those factors to make anyone concerned

[Rinkals]

Dear lord. I can only guess you’re not too old.


I’ll go tell my 74 year old FiL that don’t worry you’ll be 77 before you go to the cinema again , but that’s ok.

Buy him a Netflix subscription, you tight-arse.

It was an “example” ......

You and the other Saffas unable to understand the most basic form of narrative tools.

It's a little joke.

I'm trying to inject a little humour here by suggesting that you are tight.

Oh, never mind...

In any case, the "example" you offer is weak. I'm not that much younger than your FIL, but I certainly don't feel that I have only a few years left.

Mind you, I don't have you as a SIL, so perhaps it's inevitable that he might be depressed.

[Hal Jordan]

This is a year or two of restrictions on our lives, that’s all.

Dear lord. I can only guess you’re not too old.


I’ll go tell my 74 year old FiL that don’t worry you’ll be 77 before you go to the cinema again , but that’s ok.

Buy him a Netflix subscription, you tight-arse.

Don’t worry, the market will provide.