TDB lockdown tips & hacks – Monday 6th April

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6 COMMENTS

  1. Will the lockdown be extended past 4 weeks?

    or should I say, when will it be extended?

    I have no medical background whatsoever but try and make sense of numbers being presented by our Ministry of Health. They are puzzling to me. Those numbers resulted in Dr Ashley Bloomfield declaring yesterday that NZ may be seeing the peak right now.

    Here’s why they are confusing to me. It’s accepted by many that NZ is between two and three weeks behind the UK in our curve. Experts in the UK are saying the best case scenario there is a peak with deaths etc around the 12th April, but it’s probable to be about two weeks later toward the end of April. If that is correct, how can NZ be at our peak now?

    The lockdown will obviously be gradually downgraded once we have a period of no reported confirmed cases of Covid-19 for several days.

    We are told by respected overseas experts about a time lag of weeks between events occurring during a pandemic and the consequences of those events showing up in the stats.

    We’ve been hearing NZ doctors and nurses talking about requesting testing 30 kits and only receiving 5 as the supply is being managed. We’ve been told that the very telling line in the sand is community spread yet they have until yesterday refused to test people showing Covid-19 symptoms if there is no link to international travel. We are also told that if a person with no international travel links does manage to get tested, labs have been refusing to test their sample. If we have community spread, this lockdown will be extended well past 4 weeks yet we remarkably only started testing for it yesterday.

    We were told last week that not as many people were tested as possible due to low weekend testing. I find that confusing. During a lockdown, surely, every day is the same as the one before and the one after? We are being told we’ll have the same situation this weekend. Ministry of Health even wen’t further to state there aren’t as many people out and about on the weekends. Really? I was out and about jogging yesterday and this morning. It was every bit as busy in my area of Auckland as it had been during the week, if not more.

    My logic says if you are talking about NZ being at it’s peak now, shouldn’t we try and gather compelling evidence of that asap? We’d need to avoid pausing or slowing testing down on the weekends as it will almost certainly give us statistics that potentially show you a pattern that is misleading and doesn’t reflect our reality. Perhaps, there are other reasons for what the Ministry of Health is saying about weekend testing such as very poor organisation and or the staff being used temporarily, not normally working on weekends.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/120820651/coronavirus-ashley-bloomfield-says-new-zealand-could-be-seeing-peak-right-now-as-new-cases-level-off

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