Late Stage Capitalism Lockdown: Endless photos of level 3 coffees, anti-vaxx death schadenfreude & Wellington excuses

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Late Stage Capitalism in 3 shots

I don’t know what I hate most, capitalism or Aucklanders taking coffee selfies while fishing for likes.

We get it Auckland, you couldn’t get a ‘real’ coffee for 5 weeks, fuck you are brave and noble. You are practically the same as the boys at Gallipoli, such courage and strength.

While I debate over who I hate most, coffee selfies or capitalism, where I do find joy is watching anti-Vaxxers struggling with their last breath as they cry from their death beds that they shoulda listened to the experts.

There is a point is there not that after all the attempts to get people vaccinated and all the messaging and promotion – after that, if you still don’t get vaccinated and then you catch it and die, that’s not really on us anymore.

If you are too stupid or pig headed to get the vaccination, your death is on you and we shouldn’t have to waste ICU space on you.

I will defend your right not to get the vaccine while protecting my right to laugh at you when you die.

Which brings me to Wellington who apparently has one of the lowest vaccination rates despite having the highest proportion of wankers constantly virtue signalling their vaccination status.

I think Wellington is so high in the unvaccinated rates because they all live so far up their own arseholes they don’t think they can catch Covid.

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  2. Here’s a tip, it’s looking likely that we will not go back to level 4 again in this pandemic. So get vaccinated (or not if you don’t mind getting really sick & having at least 3 weeks off work, with the possibility of hospitalisation & death), get those people you care about vaccinated, get used to wearing masks, obeying the various lower level controls & carrying a vaccination passport. The new normal will be very different from what you have experienced so far. Buckle up, 2022 is going to be bumpy.

  3. I suppose it’s one way to get rid of the ‘Mels’ and gweenies & the almighty privileged.

    Locked-down at Christmas 2021 is on its way.

  4. That OP was a Thompson submachine gun spray of bullets from a black limousine into a pizza joint and has to be a Pulitzer nomination if I’ve ever seen. No survivors.

    Fantastic!

  5. Malcolm – as a Wellingtonian and a Public Servant I’m deeply offended by your post – especially as it’s so true!

  7. I agree with those who don’t get vacinated don’t get to take up ICU beds and risk our precious helath care staff…..

    And Wellington’s low vacimation rates……wtf!

    • How about those who eat fast food or drink alcohol or smoke? Or attempt suicide? Or ride bikes?
      Quite the accepting, caring society you are advocating for.
      People should be encouraged to vaccinate, not forced to or we risk hardening vaccine hesitance in to anti vax.

      • The argument antiVaxxers use to justify why they should get an ICU bed after they catch Covid is ‘smoking, alcohol and drugs are all personal choices and you still care for them’.

        Yes we do, but name one time in history where alcohol, smoking or drugs causes a quarantine or lockdown?

        You can’t because none exist and that’s intimate issue. Your freedom to choice is limited when it impacts me, that’s why smoking inside was banned!

        Those who smoke, drink and eat too much will always be looked after by the health system but antiVaxxers not only make themselves sick they spread it and cause lockdowns.

        Once we hit 90% and have given everyone the chance to vaccinate- hey that’s then on you and we don’t have to lockdown ever again.

        • How interesting that I’m not an anti vaxer then.
          What about speeding drivers who crash?
          What of the vast amount of harm from alcohol? Family violence, murders, road crashes all affecting others? Drunks are a direct physical threat to emergency staff every weekend.

          But we treat them.

          You will remember, I hope that when covid was kicking off I said a vaccine was unlikely to be a silver bullet, and so it seems to be- vaccination won’t fully stop transmission, this is not small pox or measles with very very strong immunogenicity and hence protection from infection, although does appear to protect well from serious infection.

          Neither are we remotely likely to hit 90%.
          We will still have lockdowns – level whatever, they will spin and tweak the definitions- to my mind we are better off not burning our last public compliance by forcing and threatening to get vaccinated but encouraging and convincing.
          I think Chris Trotter today sums up pretty well the ugly underbelly that gets unleashed when people feel backed in to a corner as in Melbourne.

          I’m booked for my second shot soon.

          • “But we treat them.” And we treat Covid victims. The issue here is that we are chasing people to get vaxxed and, if enough of us get vaxxed we all get our freedoms back. I respect people’s right to not get vaxxed but hope they respect my right to hold the view that they are selfish free riders.

  9. I’d like to know the vax rates for all MPs by party. That would be very telling.

    To be fair to Wellington, Wellington had a very slow start to vaxxing and Hutt Valley had the second slowest roll out in the country. So some of it is down to the uselessness of the MOH or DHBs (I’m sure there’s enough blame to go around).

    But yes, I imagine our civil service luvvies will be leading the anti vax charge. Wellington is a ghost town as the civil service continues to work from home during Level 2. Many govt departments have now settled on 2 days a week in the office (under level 1) because so many of them refused to return to office servitude after last years lockdown.

    • Interesting Binky. Do you have a reference to share? My workplace can’t get hold of any real person for a megga major govt depts ( MSD and IRD), just asking 🙂

    • MPs are better than you think. Heard did a survey the other day:

      “A stocktake has revealed just four of our MPs are yet to receive a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
      Meanwhile, nearly half of Parliament’s 120 members are now fully vaccinated. The rest have received one dose or are booked in for one.
      The rates of 97 per cent for at least a single dose and 45 per cent fully vaccinated compare to 73 per cent and 38 per cent respectively nationally.”

  10. Well, I’ve had the vaccination because I trust the virus less than I trust the government (and I don’t want to die quite yet), but I do wonder if you should cut the anti vaxers a little bit of slack – given that most of your website is quite rightly dedicated to documenting the huge amount of bullshit we are regularly told by our government? It’s not surprising that some people don’t trust them – not because I think they’re right, but because they’ve heard ‘wolf wolf’ so many times. Part of the responsibility for these deaths lies with generations of politicians destroying trust in our government.

  11. Faark Martyn, don’t forget democracy and freedom of choice eh? Hang in there. Please be careful with your propaganda. Please be encouraged to report the facts with your opinion pieces. I love TDB pieces and our fellow kiwis who post comments. Let’s not loose sight of that just yet. Hang in there NZ! 🙂

    • freedom and democracy…Martyn was clear on this:
      “I will defend your right not to get the vaccine while protecting my right to laugh at you when you die.”

  13. “Which brings me to Wellington who apparently has one of the lowest vaccination rates despite having the highest proportion of wankers constantly virtue signalling their vaccination status.

    I think Wellington is so high in the unvaccinated rates because they all live so far up their own arseholes they don’t think they can catch Covid.”

    Man that was funny! I’m going to get my wife to do it in needlepoint and hang it on the wall.

  14. I get the longing for latte but am confounded that anyone would risk anything to secure some KFC which is amongst the most revolting of all fastfoods.

  16. I agree with other posters, this is gold: “I will defend your right not to get the vaccine while protecting my right to laugh at you when you die.”
    For me, anti vaxxers = selfish free riders. They can enjoy the freedom that comes with high levels of vaccination thanks to us but if they get Covid I’m with Bomber.

    • And I think it childish, simplistic and foolish to split people in to “them” and “us” and jeer at the other – I’d certainly jeer at the woke like you for their hypocrisy but not if they were sick and needed help.

      Where is your basic humanity?
      Didn’t the left claim to be the kind humane faction?
      Do the left recognize what they have become?

      This is just identity politics, feeling superior and judging everyone else.
      What could possibly go wrong.

      • To be honest, you can only warn people that they are approaching a cliff edge so many times before you have to just sigh & watch them tumble over. Information has been offered but most of the arguing with individuals is just a waste of time & energy. The risk with vocal anti-vaxers is they may drag other vulnerable people over the edge with them.

        But here it is again… We are approaching a cliff edge, get vaccinated now or live (or not) to regret it later. A new normal is coming, buckle up, it’s going to get bumpy.

      • Hi Keepcalm,
        I don’t think calling people freeriders is identify politics or a left/right thing. If anything carving our free riders is a right wing thing.
        As far as humanity is concerned I remain with my view that choosing to not vaxx is choosing a higher risk of getting Covid and, by implication, a higher risk of dying. If you make a fuss about not vaxxing then you won’t get any sympathy from me if you want to make a fuss about dying. Still with Bomber on this.
        You see this a lot in the US at the moment. Antivaxxer says on their deathbed “I wish I had got vaxxed”. e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/08/rightwing-radio-host-dick-farrel-anti-vaxxer-dies-covid and this from the Herald https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/covid-19-delta-outbreak-countless-anti-vaxxers-and-covid-19-hoax-believers-dying-from-the-virus/DDEKOO4XAPNHFL2CUHFQHOD6FI/
        Lastly, I don’t think it is judgy to say to someone dying from COVID that they could have avoided this if that had had the vaxx. We’ve got vaxx vans chasing people now so there is no excuse. Its not a comforting thing to say but its the fact.

      • Keepcalmcarryon, yes, thank you.

        Basic human dignity is being discarded in favor of self-righteousness. Many will be unable to have the jab for health reasons or maybe waiting for more effective vaccines. They do not deserve to be treated like lepers.

        • Hi William,
          My target , and I think Bomber’s target, is anti-vaxxers – not all people who don’t get vaxxed. Vaccination will lead to everyone getting more of their freedoms back. Those that can vaxx but choose not to are selfish free riders.
          Nothing self righteous about that.
          How are they not selfish free riders and what is wrong with me calling them out?

          • There is a very good chance they won’t get much of a free ride, depending on what is deemed an acceptable level of COVID in the community, eventually they will come in contact with an infectious individual and then their “exceptional” health & immune system will be put to the test. Hopefully it isn’t found wanting.

  17. There is more to do in late stage capitalism apart from sitting supinely and superiorly? pointing the finger at ‘sussiety’. People who won’t vaxx cos they don’ wanna, are vexatious, and anti-social – we are talking about a disease that can kill individuals or take away their strength to look after their families or jobs and also kill off the economy and overwhelm the medical system. So bloody-minded and selfish is the correct term for those who are against it on some sort of principle. If there are those whose system can’t cope than they are being hurt also by the ‘principled’ anti vaxxers .

    They can do their bit for society by helping us all to be greener. Gisborne is likely to ban wet wipes to stop them blocking their modern waste system; modern things giving us difficulties – let’s banish them – not necessary to us. Then there is returning to the old way of having an inclusive price for bottled stuff which includes a return fee paid to the collector. What else can be done to make a difference? We have phased out the often single use supermarket bags –

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