Sooooooo despite the death cult capitalists screaming she wouldn’t kill for the economy and the Maori Party claiming a ‘genocide’ & the Qanon lunatics, ZB troll farm & woke public health wonks all screaming no – Jacinda’s 90% target saved us from Delta.
But then came omicron.
How ironic for a DJ to ruin New Years!
Jacinda had her political reputation resting on something as tragically petty as a good old fashioned Kiwi Christmas Experience as payment to Auckland for accepting a de facto house arrest for 4 months, she’s rewarded us with that while stamping out Delta, but here comes Omicron.
There are lots of questions about this.
A day 9 test after landing on the 17th of December would have returned a result on the 25th but he didn’t get the results until the 27th so there will be questions about staff being on holiday which were raised by Ian Taylor going into the Christmas break and the possibility of the DJ contracting it after his 7 days in MIQ can’t be ruled out yet.
If his time in Auckland for 2 days becomes a super spreader event, we won’t see that until the first and second week of January.
In terms of the new variant itself, while symptoms in the double vaxxed seem milder, children and the elderly are still open questions. At 70% more contagious than Delta, Omicron could easily overwhelm our hospitals but we do have hope our high double vaxxed rate will help dampen it down.
Jacinda promised to protect us from Delta and give us Christmas, Omicron over Summer however is a whole different issue.
The antivaxx lunatics will radicalize over this and the tourism and hospitality industry will go berserk.
Enjoy your New Years because 2022 looks just as amputated.
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Jacinda let Delta in. Jacinda let Omicron in. Jacinda is a fraud.
Exactly!
At the bottom of the page in the media is the important detail: This DJ was one of 81 entertainers allowed to jump the MIQ because…. why exactly?
Are they in the same class as The Wiggles and Lorde? Friends of Her Highness?
Andrew. Well as far as I know, this one wasn’t invited over for to Jacinda’s for a cuppa and home-baked scones, like Ed Sheerhan was. Some PM’s prioritise pop stars. Sir Bill flew to Auckland to see Adele when the country was reeling from the shocking “Hit&Run” Afghanistan revelations. John Key hung around the All Blacks’ dressing room like teenagers often do and he even had his photo took with them.
A nice try at ‘whataboutism’ but it won’t work.
There are photos being posted in media of the infamous DJ psing with Ardern during one of his *several previous visits* that got priority over Kiwis trying to get home.
Smells just like the saga with the infamous gangster/kickboxer/cocaine dealer.
Andrew. Ok. She needs to step back a bit or she’ll be looking like a pop star groupie, which is not a good look for a Prime Minister.
Whether she really is, or whether she’s trying to woo low level voters, it is bad when good professional people, and our own people, are being kept out.
What’s more she wouldn’t dare to ask high calibre artists like Placido Domingo or Jonas Kaufman around for scones – but selfie’s with celebs are very much a young person thing. I am seriously pissed off.
Now name the countries that have kept the increasingly contagious strains of Covid out.
Martyn let you in to fesrer. Howzat you cry!
Evidence please.
Hear hear.
It has NOT been isolated or defined in ANY usual medical manor.
The rule should be 10 days in MIQ or as long as it takes to get results from the 9 day test which coincides with a public holiday. I know who I think deserves the day off, and its not the the DJ doing ‘self isolation’.
Agree, I think the rules are too confusing as they stand.
Thanks Martyn, delicious irony here, after doing a tour of the viaduct before Christmas telling everybody that N Z should in the green light zone & that we should all be open to the world, Chrome Dome’s Bach is down at Waiheke so there will be lots of personal responsibility floating around amongst the rich listers soaking up the sun, what a bummer, they may have to upsticks & relocate to Queenstown.
Auckland wears it yet again.
We don’t want MIQ’s here especially after the “short sharp” lockdown of 4 months but we still have them.
14 day quarantine was consigned to the dustbin by our Wellington based cabinet for the new magic 7 day version plus “self isolation” plus glacial paced testing. Auckland didn’t want that either.
And as a gentle reminder to our government who so struggle to learn any lessons ever that Aucklanders do not want to become the whipping boys for the rest of this country ever again.
Auckland will ensure the end for this government if they dare lock us down again for their incompetence this time.
Talking to rather impatient, let’s get on with it male relative in Auckland, he was quite fractious about their lockdown. At the start of the whole shebang was looking at Covid precautions as an over-reaction to a new flu. I pointed out that we didn’t know about it yet, but we did know it would result in a lot of hospitalisation and overwhelm the system, and of course push into the queue of sick people moving towards treatment. As Kurt Vonnegut says, resignedly? “So it goes.” There seems no end to this creative miniscule entity – our ‘War of the Worlds’ invisible agent.
Hear hear. If Jacinda was serious about super deadly Omicron she should cancel New Years celebrations and her wedding and her life, and confine herself to the Beehive Situation Room until further notice to steer us through this super deadly Omicron emergency. Do it now Jacinda, super deadly is what it is.
The death cult capitalists need move to the UK where they have recorded another high 170,000 cases PER DAY! I think we have handled this well, relatively speaking.
Your security is only as strong as it’s weakest link. Hipkins saying how disappointed he is with the DJ not respecting the rules. I call bullshit on that.
Omicron is 8 x more transmissible than Delta. The exact same variant Jacinda has been telling us about since August and how dangerous it is. She will also be aware the experts are acknowledging the UK has one million new cases of Omicron every day despite official data suggesting a lesser number. Jacinda also fully aware the damage caused by the recent extended lockdown here and how there is now ZERO appetite for more harsh restrictions.
Despite all of the above, we have still allowed Omicron into the community at this time. NZ should be furious but not at the DJ but at our limp noodle health system still relying on trust even when people have travelled 12 thousand miles to get involved in summer activity in Auckland.
Blame the DJ all you like but my finger is pointing straight at the clowns that have allowed this to unfold at this time. We will be seeing 5000 new cases a day here by the end of January. What are the implications of that outcome?
The implications are good – a less virulent strain of COVID spread far and wide throughout NZ which has a very high vaccination rate so should not expect to see significant numbers of death or hospitalizations. Which means that we will soon have herd immunity to a degree and can start living, travelling and doing what we all did before the scourge of COVID.
This could well be the beginning of the end of COVID which is good for most of us. It’s shit for Labour as they’ll be held to account on all their policy and delivery failures.
Yeti,
I admire your optimism but I don’t share your view.
The big positive of Omicron not being as deadly as Delta is largely cancelled out by the enormous numbers that will get the disease. As individuals we are in less danger from Omicron but collectively we are in deep shit. Our health system won’t cope. Anyone who tells you it will is misguided at best. Almost all of us will eventually get Omicron. Essential workers will be hit hard which will negatively impact on most things we take for granted. How will our Government deal with Omicron once the numbers get out of hand as they obviously will? Another round of unwelcome restrictions is the answer. First to feel that will be the area the cases are in but that will quickly escalate to cover all of NZ.
It seems to be the highest time to prepare with enough basic food and medicines at home.
Ian Taylor National Herald and co: allow self isolation, allow self isolation, allow self isolation for exceptional business people, entertainment business people, TRUST US!
Public: yeah right
Yeah, yeah, we allowed Omicron into the community at this time. So, we shouldn’t have allowed anyone into the country? Or we should have allowed them into the country but put them into strict, under armed guard isolation in MIQ facilities? And kept them in there for how long?
And your neighbours, workmates and family, when they started going to protest meetings about the Nazi regime being run here, how would you have placated them?
As the vaccine narrative continues to collapse in the wake of Omicron (it’s looking a lot like a pandemic of the fully vaccinated at this stage), there is also evidence based date coming out that the entire vaccine was always costing more lives than it was saving (based on Pfizer’s own internal data).
https://www.canadiancovidcarealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/The-COVID-19-Inoculations-More-Harm-Than-Good-REV-Dec-16-2021.pdf
Saying that “we didn’t know” might have worked as an excuse at the beginning of the vaccination program/mandates, but it isn’t going to work as an excuse from this point going forward. Hopefully the government takes note of the collapse NZ’s vaccine policy (based on “the science” and the “the data”), because I suspect a lot of people (~95% who did what they were told/coerced into) are going to get pretty upset about this if they continue doubling down on what is fast becoming a provable fallacy.
I’m still predicting a snap-election in 2022 as the vast majority of the population of New Zealand completely loses trust in the Government wrt to it’s handling of the pandemic.
Three times in twelve months, this waster has been allowed in the country.
If that doesn’t concern people, I don’t know what will.
I bet that guy has brought more joy to people than your sweet self. Thank god for musicians who aren’t stuffed with prosaic- that’s like mosaic but not as pretty.
Surely this cant be true but if it is the WTF comments are going to fly. 3 times the DJ was here in the last year. No ICU nurses or Doctors only DJ’s (and are NZL DJ’s so bloody hopeless and NBG?)
“Hogg said Immigration New Zealand assessed him as having “unique experience and technical or specialist skills that are not readily obtainable in New Zealand” and undertaking a time-critical role in work which brings significant wider benefit to the national or regional economy. ”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300488326/covid19-dj-dimension-on-third-border-exemption-to-nz-since-december-2020
This is going to be hard to counter.
Gerrit – it’s all about joy (according to Greywarbler).
Apparently that’s all the counter that is required.
Paul S. You may be twisting things. Grey Warbler did not say that it was all about joy. GW simply said that this DJ did not warrant being described as a waster and brought joy to people, but whether he brings more joy to people than you do, is an unknown.
Prime Ministers adulating pop singers has been creeping up on Kiwis for a while as we continue our walk backwards in time. Hager documents wealthy Nat’s fundraising dinners accompanied by musical entertainments which could send less barbarous persons seeking shelter under banyan trees. We’re not Bach or Brubeck here.
Obviously kindness is truly off the menu! How many mothers are at their wits end worrying about their children who can’t get home and who need help? What that lady said in the video really touched a nerve.
If the system was set up by idiots, we would forgive them and get some proper tangata whenua on the job instead as they could most likely be more scrupulous over the due diligence regarding people. Looking at MBIE though, one has to wonder how much putea comes in from the arts sector based on copyright revenue, MBIE and UMG being interchangeable or at least very good friends. When Bill Clinton signed the DMCA in 2000 he was sanctioning a world of pain for creatives and a world of joy for hedge fund managers.
Good god, I didn’t think the media could embarrass themselves any further, but here they are today amplifying a ridiculous story about some random DJ who may or may not have a harmless virus, then wheeling out demigod Michael Baker to give his opinion on this trivia, and then running a story about Chris Hipkins’ mother clucking over her despotic son as he gives a worthless press conference in a park. New Zealanders are financing these childish distractions while the pharmaceutical new world order ransacks what’s left of the country. A disgrace to science, journalism and politics.
Baker is the consummate social parasite
LOL “her despotic son”.
Oh be quiet Jody. The DJ could be responsible for many New Zealanders becoming ill, with all that that implies – and he keeps getting border exemptions which others don’t- quite useful sorts of others.
And Chris is cute. We could do with cute. Ain’t had cute since Gareth Hughes decamped to an island in Otago Harbour. Want pictures of ugly old blokes with bald heads all the time ? Luxon tiptoeing thru’ the tulips ?
Micheal Woods is cute.
gin hag. Thanks for that, I’ll take your word for it. I googled him but only found loads of pictures of a man on a bike, plus a serious-looking photographer. Michael’s are usually pretty good…
Tiptoe with this instead – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcSlcNfThUA
Greywarbler. Got a lot of hair hasn’t he. I might just stick with the Michael I don’t know in the meantime, although I have nothing against tulips per se – and wouldn’t mind being in Amsterdam either – like today. ( The Netherlands is one of the countries with which New Zealand has portability of NZ Super, just in case anyone else has an urge to escape. Good bicycle riders too, just like Michael-the-biker. )
Will the Government still insist on vaccination mandates and passports? What a nonsense.
https://odysee.com/@IroamNZ:5/Olivia-Gleeson—Tauranga-New-Zealand:6
This story shows the criminal negligence form the side of the vaccinators. Pushing vaccination as a panacea without talking openly about the side effects, without properly educated staff and doctors that are not aware of dangers is just incredible and can make more antivaxxers than any misinformation.
Bye-bye Delta, Hello Omicron but the fear is there will be no change in policies in New Zealand.
Some joy still, you have to look for it. Hey don’t knock the Nock.
We could boogie on down with Jan Preston.
Or Crowded House – Hey now, hey now, Don’t dream it’s over.
Now I’m towing my car
There’s a hole in the roof
My possessions are causing me suspicion
But there’s no proof
In the paper today
Tales of war and of waste
But you turn right over to the TV page
There is joy even in resigned laughter. Just stick in there.
Think Chains, Che’-Fu.
Come break my chains come help me out,
living in the city ain’t so bad Ch-ch Chale may i pull you ‘side for a second
Asking you a question checkin what you reckon
Why you letting your guard down with a frown
This is a very interesting and quite short video about Japan vaccination ethics. Worth watching.
https://youtu.be/W1jrdHs5HBE
ACD no medicine is perfectly safe. All medications have both main and side effects. Part of the medical professional advisory role of practitioners is to, based on their knowledge of you specifically, make recommendations due to the likely efficacy of the medication an improving the situation.
The risk of a severe side effect will be weighed up in terms of the likely main effect efficacy and the client’s understanding of these issues to the extent they are able to make informed decision on what might be best for them. The problem often lies in effective communication about risk between medical specialist and the recipient of treatment. A vast disparity of medical vocabulary exists and makes “plain english” explanations difficult most of the time.
My understanding is that the 2 deaths by anaphylactic shock may have been difficult to predict – especially if there is no history of such reactions. It strikes me that these folk would likely have been at risk of a catastrophic outcome even of the shot had been for the ‘normal’ flu.
From a bigger picture perspective 2 deaths from a NZ total of 51 and a World total 5,486,260, which likely doesn’t include death by actual vaccination.
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