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Old 7th September 2021, 15:00     #1641
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If, for example, I - a middle-class university-educated professional - am able to jump a vaccination queue and get medical assistance ahead of a poor pakeha because I can play the brown card and she can't, that's a problem with the queue.
If being poor can be shown to be a barrier to accessing the service then I’m all for also targeting this group the same way we do with other vulnerable groups like old people. But there’s also a real generational trauma that we need to consider here which includes being more at risk.

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"The New Zealand Medical Journal has found that after controlling for age and underlying conditions Māori and Pacific people have 2.5x and 3.06x higher odds of being hospitalised for contracting Covid-19 than other ethnicities. Researchers estimated risk of death for Māori from Covid-19 was at least 50 percent higher than European New Zealanders and infection rates are also significantly higher"
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-k...ack-on-seymour
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Old 7th September 2021, 15:03     #1642
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All this wrangling of course is because we're not willing to invest in our communities, so those in need are expected to fight each over who is most deserving of the scraps.
And Seymour isn't really interested in raising other vulnerable groups up alongside Maori, he just wants to bring Maori back down.
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Old 7th September 2021, 15:17     #1643
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All this wrangling of course is because we're not willing to invest in our communities, so those in need are expected to fight each over who is most deserving of the scraps.
Sssshhhh! You should know you're not allowed to consider actual root causes!
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Old 7th September 2021, 15:34     #1644
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Remember the first rule of being a racist…

he’s not until he points out his mum is Maori. But.
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Old 8th September 2021, 09:59     #1645
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If, for example, I - a middle-class university-educated professional - am able to jump a vaccination queue and get medical assistance ahead of a poor pakeha because I can play the brown card and she can't, that's a problem with the queue.
That seems like an edge-case, and yeah, it's not great but it's better than leaving a group behind. There is no perfect system but imo it's better to try something than to do nothing?

Also, fuck Seymour.
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Old 8th September 2021, 12:43     #1646
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Men are twice as likely to die from COVID, hence why men should go to the front of the queue
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Old 8th September 2021, 12:47     #1647
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So Maori men with diabetes and a heart condition and...

Well shit, they're dead already, they just haven't realised it yet
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Old 8th September 2021, 19:52     #1648
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If, for example, I - a middle-class university-educated professional - am able to jump a vaccination queue and get medical assistance ahead of a poor pakeha because I can play the brown card and she can't, that's a problem with the queue.
Meh!...saw this in Auckland when I was waiting for the first jab last Sunday in Mt. Wellington, some were let through before us Pakeha. did it bother me? not really apart from the longer wait time, appointment was for 12:30 got out of there at about 1:40 so no biggie.

Although I do have 1/32 of Maori blood in me...so maybe I should have played that card.
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Old 9th September 2021, 17:58     #1649
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Google results are bit thin but:

https://www.borgenmagazine.com/eradicated-covid-19/

Now, how many countries have done it twice and expelled the D variant.
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Old 9th September 2021, 18:43     #1650
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Gracias españa
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Old 10th September 2021, 10:23     #1651
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NWO confirmed in NSW

"what contract tracing looks like in the new world order"

This was not on my pandemic bingo card.
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Old 10th September 2021, 11:04     #1652
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My cousin is a radiographer in NSW had this to say

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Work is shithouse. The volume of really sick covid patients i see is crazy. our ICU is overflowing and they have set up 6 other covid wards so far.
But the NSW govt seems to be pushing ahead for reopening pretty soon.
Hospitals are an absolute mess and completely swamped. I don't know
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Old 10th September 2021, 15:12     #1653
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NWO confirmed in NSW
Kevin Nash and Scott Hall coming to NSW? Jealous!
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Old 10th September 2021, 15:28     #1654
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If only. No cake, no circus in Australia.
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Old 10th September 2021, 16:18     #1655
Ab
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After hitting a record 1542 new local cases and nine deaths in one day, the Liberal party NSW state government has announced the relaxation of gathering restrictions and the cancellation of daily press conferences.

I AM NOT KIDDING. THAT'S WHAT THEY JUST DID.
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Old 11th September 2021, 10:32     #1656
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I guess they decided they fucked it up so much so far. Give everyone their "freedom" and hope it miraculously works and they will look good
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Old 11th September 2021, 21:26     #1657
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Wow, the google graph for covid cases in Aussie is lookin' pretty fucked. That third wave is a killer. Still, actually, deaths are substantially lower than during previous waves, even though the case load is so much higher. Vaccine is effective?
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Old 12th September 2021, 01:33     #1658
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Well, I don't think we should assume that our government won't be facing similar circumstances in weeks to come. We haven't got it beat yet.
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Old 14th September 2021, 19:46     #1659
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Sigh, everything about this makes me hate it

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/deeply...ZT7W5CIWGL3XA/
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Old 14th September 2021, 21:13     #1660
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Very angry

Entitled cunts.
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Old 14th September 2021, 21:45     #1661
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Which number was he?
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Old 15th September 2021, 00:08     #1662
Ab
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Being a "horse breeder and equestrian" must be hard work, that dude looks 35 going on 60.
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Old 15th September 2021, 10:31     #1663
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We are deeply sorry you feel like that, and we are deeply sorry we got caught.
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Old 19th September 2021, 13:11     #1664
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Melbourne: ready to snap

https://apple.news/ATqNzxvQuTweUGY4_0PWfqw
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Old 20th September 2021, 07:19     #1665
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Entitled cunts.
Government department "hold my beer"
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Old 20th September 2021, 16:52     #1666
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Woe to the Auckland fast food workers come Wednesday.
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Old 20th September 2021, 17:22     #1667
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FFS Idaho gone full retard, because MAH FREEDOMZ.

Effectively (limited) DNR orders issued - "Crisis Standards of Care"
https://idahocapitalsun.com/2021/09/...-everyone-die/

In short the DNR comes into play when: State has declared Crisis Standards of Care (happened last week), these need to be adopted by the hospital, and the hospital runs out of ventilators.

So not immediate impact, but still, damn.
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Old 22nd September 2021, 14:05     #1668
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Bacon butties help fuel Taranaki vaccination rollout

This is the way.
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Old 23rd September 2021, 15:16     #1669
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Just got my second shot, thanks to my Western privilege.

Not much good it will do me if a variant emerges that the vaccine is ineffective against.

Africa is sitting at about 2% vaccination right now, doesn't seem there's much drive that change this. Biden is talking about buying up a half billion doses to ship out by the end of next year. When what would be effective would be building up capacity for countries to produce their own vaccines.

But there's money to be made.

No one is safe until we're all safe.
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Old 29th September 2021, 14:36     #1670
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Stephen Colbert - The vax-scene
https://youtu.be/sSkFyNVtNh8

Checkmate, vax sceptics

In other news, Australia will have at home rapid tests available from Nov. Something they should have allowed 12 months ago, but what's the hurry when in a pandemic? Instead we've been playing authoritarian loyalty games.
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Old 29th September 2021, 15:35     #1671
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45 cases today in NZ. yeesh, must be time for another lock down and go into more debt. Don't worry though, house prices are still rising which is good news.
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Old 29th September 2021, 16:49     #1672
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https://twitter.com/qtrresearch/stat...298196992?s=21

Listen to this reckless COVIDIOT. He wants us all to die.
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Old 29th September 2021, 17:49     #1673
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The scientific community strongly recommends that people who had COVID-19 infection get vaccinated. So yeah, he's at a higher risk of catching covid and spreading it. Covidiot is right.
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Old 29th September 2021, 18:27     #1674
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ahh yes, “the science”. Who dares to dispute that?

I hazard a guess this sportsman will soon find themselves labelled an alt-right Trump supporting race traitor.
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Old 29th September 2021, 18:46     #1675
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The science isn't all that esoteric and mysterious.
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Old 29th September 2021, 19:14     #1676
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Where was the science on other pharma products like, say, talc powder, statins, and opioids when they hit the market? Over a decade to wait for the dangers to be revealed. I don’t see how so many can blindly trust these organisations which, to me, are pure evil.
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Old 29th September 2021, 19:51     #1677
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That we're not always protected from everything isn't good evidence that the protections we have in place are useless or ineffective.

In fact, it's the opposite. Our systems are hyper-effective. In a universe eager to make us dead we live boldly. So much so a flimsy mask becomes this huge burden for the over indulged.

The trust I have isn't blind. I understand the effort that goes into creating these systems, the often painful lessons we've accumulated over many generations.

There's so much right now in our lives that is new, some of which we'll later realise was to our detriment. But we can't just stop because we're terrified of the unknown. Nor use the unknown as justification to ignore what we do know.

Sowing distrust in our institutions that exist by virtue of their competence is an old trick of those who exist by virtue of their fortune.
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Old 29th September 2021, 20:47     #1678
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Sowing distrust in our institutions that exist by virtue of their competence is an old trick of those who exist by virtue of their fortune.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/p...lar-ivermectin

What happens when it's those with fortunes sowing distrust in generics, when they stand to make a packet from making a patented version?


I'm sick of hearing about COVID, and I wish people would stop panicking so that the government has no reason to keep "protecting us". The only thing fueling the restrictions are people's fears.
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Old 2nd October 2021, 16:18     #1679
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https://twitter.com/thejuggernaut88/...237393920?s=21

Polish MP protests Australian totalitarianism dressed as safetyism.
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Old 2nd October 2021, 16:42     #1680
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Ah yes, Poland. Bastion of freedom and liberty.
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