Chris Hipkins reveals decision on borders, boosters amid Omicron threat
The Government has announced a suite of changes to bolster New Zealand’s defences against the Omicron variant of Covid-19 – including shortening the booster shot gap, rolling out the Pfizer vaccine for young people from January, and pushing out changes to the country’s border rules until the end of February.
The changes just announced by Covid Response Minister Chris Hipkins include:
• The interval between the second dose and the booster shot reduced from 6 months to 4 months – over 82 per cent of vaccinated Kiwis will be eligible for a booster by the end of February 2022
• Eligible border and health workers required to get booster dose
• Pre-departure test requirement to enter NZ reduced from 72 hours to 48 hours before travel
• Phased border re-opening pushed out to the end of February
• Roll out of paediatric doses of Pfizer for 5-11s. Rollout to start from 17 January prior to school returning in 2022
• Temporary change to MIQ – length of stay increased to 10 days for all travellers, with no self-isolation component
• Everyone on an international flight with a positive case to be treated as a close contact
• All countries removed from Very High-Risk country list
• Cabinet confirms use of traffic light system to manage future outbreaks and in the event of Omicron community cases areas will move into the red traffic light setting
The rules of travel during a pandemic are as follows:
If another Covid outbreak happens, and we have to tighten MIQ, too fucking bad.
We will not tolerate you whining to the media about getting locked out, we will not tolerate you calling Jacinda heartless and we will not tolerate your demands to get back in!
The only travel should be urgent, if you are travelling because you are sad sad by the lack of travel and get locked out or in, dems da breaks!
You can’t say you haven’t been warned!
So say all of us.
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Dems the breaks indeed! And if you’re looking for equity and fairness in the way it’s all carried out – tuff shit my brutha.
We have the authoritey!
Btw, from recent media commentary, (i.e thems that are delivering the latest spin and bullshit), it appears one little neoliberal authoritarian bureaucrat (who is a key player in this space, going forward), appears to have gone on leave.
Either that, or she’s deputised to an equally uber-ambiitous underling because she’s too busy in meetings and rewarding her favourite uber-ambitious pols and meerkating, work-life balanced underlings.
Fuck me with a feather duster! You couldn’t make a load of this shit up even if you were trying to produce a fully funded reality TV drama with a cost centre devoted to stroking delicate egos
” You couldn’t make a load of this shit up even if you were trying to produce a fully funded reality TV drama”.. Well, you just have with that pile of impenetrable innuendo.. I’m starting to despair of the lack of reasoned, and even slightly thought out argument that passes for “informed comment” in this country.. It’s becoming more and more obvious that even handing over power to the tories, and their barking dogs of modern day fascism, with the resulting horror show that will inevitably lead to, will teach anyone here anything useful.. There has to be some foundation of intellect, and maturity for that to happen… Haven’t seen any since getting trapped here in 2020, and have given up on ever seeing it, until I’m back in the real world again..
Stefan darling DARLING. I’m so sorry I didn’t drop everything to reply to you earlier.
I really have to defer to your obvious superior intellect and disposition darling. It really must be a burden at times so as I beg for your forgiveness. Can I offer you a little musical trinket as an apology:
Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance (it really is a treat)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvgl_2JRIUs
There’s a horn or two you might find a big enough to shove up your arse
This is new insane response policy that will potentially lead to a snap-election somewhere in 2022. The government is now actively ignoring the both the science and data (regarding Omicron), and doubling down on already failed policy. If they think the voters are going to somehow reward them for that, they really need a reality check.
You’d think that in the Covid world of normality, people would by now get it that things change in an instant. But they don’t. Fuck omicron, I wanna come home!
And what they also don’t get with they’re outage and whining is the rest of us don’t care and never will.
Except Lorde who clearly needed, and succeeded in getting back for Jacindas do at the billionaires palace.
It’s real fairytale stuff, saving us from disease, leading the world, eradicading povidy.
Countryboy, you are “literally” the man of my dreams. The way you write……..woof. I’m a writer too, but your satirical turn of phrase makes me go weak at the knees. Call me.
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