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I don't think it's wise to put all your eggs into a single basket of a for profit vaccine. The business model for pharmaceuticals is long term repeat purchases from customers. That's how they design their products. This article suggests the efficacy of Pfizer declines more rapidly than Moderna for ...

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What other vaccines have people in NZ being receiving or going to receive? Medsafe have approved two others but as far as I know there are no plans to start dispensing the Janssen or Astrazeneca jab and the Govt aren't making any noise about changing that position Yet we have them and can use them,...

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What other vaccines have people in NZ being receiving or going to receive? Medsafe have approved two others but as far as I know there are no plans to start dispensing the Janssen or Astrazeneca jab and the Govt aren't making any noise about changing that position Yet we have them and can use them,...

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Tell us all again about Labour’s ‘knee jerk’ reaction to this COVID outbreak DD ? What exactly are your objections again ? I’d also love to see your data proving that it’s only rich kids that are taking advantage of first cheap year of University study . I didn't say only rich kids use it, I said t...

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What other vaccines have people in NZ being receiving or going to receive?

Medsafe have approved two others but as far as I know there are no plans to start dispensing the Janssen or Astrazeneca jab and the Govt aren't making any noise about changing that position

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If all you can remember about the 2017 election issues is Jacinda's pregnancy then you're truly a f**king idiot because she didn't announce she was pregnant until three months after the election and two months after the coalition announcement.

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Having lived away from kiwiland for a couple of decades I'd returned apolitical regards the respective parties. I don't have any particular drum to beat. But since when did the National Party become so effing incompetent? Their PR is like a broken record being played by a meth head watching a VR he...

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On the slow vaccine rollout, I think it was a mistake ditching astrazeneca in NZ. There is no evidence at all for that. I'm guessing here, but applying UK strategies and ideals to what NZ is doing is a mistake. As an aside, all the AZ we ordered has been allocated to other, less well off countries....

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What a dumb inference, you may as well claim that Maori are immune to the virus

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:lol: Who are these payment processors who are the arbiters on what is permissible in society? :? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58273914 That is correct. It is actually quite sinister when you think about it, especially if we are being encouraged to go cashless. There could be situations wher...

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Who are these payment processors who are the arbiters on what is permissible in society? :? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58273914 That is correct. It is actually quite sinister when you think about it, especially if we are being encouraged to go cashless. There could be situations where perf...

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For mine the most important stat that came out of today was that of the 21 cases discovered 2 have required hospital treatment. Neither of them 'old'. This is a scary figure. As mentioned earlier our hospitals can't handle anything like this. Given we are only a few months away from having the bulk...

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For mine the most important stat that came out of today was that of the 21 cases discovered 2 have required hospital treatment. Neither of them 'old'. This is a scary figure. As mentioned earlier our hospitals can't handle anything like this. Given we are only a few months away from having the bulk...

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I’ve just been watching the news and earlier it was announced that 12-15 year olds have been approved for vaccinations, in fact according to the report they’ve been pushed to the top of the queue, parents booked for a vaccine are being told to take the kids with them. A bit later we see a segment w...

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I love how a bunch of Kiwis who never met anyone that had Covid are the foremost experts on how bad it is and are arguing with someone (a doctor no less) who lived with the pandemic for the last year and a half. And yet your objections to our actions are purely political and not medical. C69 has be...

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I love how a bunch of Kiwis who never met anyone that had Covid are the foremost experts on how bad it is and are arguing with someone (a doctor no less) who lived with the pandemic for the last year and a half.

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3 MORE Cases since the 1.00 pm update, 10 in total in just over 24 hours . Locations of interest include one of the largest schools in Auckland, Sky City Casino, a church, two supermarkets, and Auckland Hospital. It's runny bum wees time now!! What I hope people understand you mean is, that 10 peop...

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jdogscoop wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 6:38 am
obelixtim wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 6:18 am
JPNZ wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 6:13 am Bump for today’s news at 6pm NZT
Lockdowns a-coming.....
Shirley just for Auckland / the North Island and not the South?

That wouldn't be knee jerk enough

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The concept of shooting on location has become almost obsolete with the advances in technology.

More and more studios will be doing things Mandalorian style using ultra HD monitors with real time virtual 3d engines providing the backdrop

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Hard to believe all the top 6 are all under 25.

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Lydia Ko had a great front nine but may be cracking as she starts the back 9 poorly. Meanwhile, Carrington will be in a fourth final. The fuckers at TVNZ have cut to some pointless K4 buildup meanwhile Ko is tied for 2nd with 3 holes left, one shot behind the lead. And after the race, back to see K...

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The roided up Eastern Europeans take the podium, NZ 4th

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I'm happy to watch the race but spare me the preamble

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JB1981 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 07, 2021 2:49 am Lydia Ko had a great front nine but may be cracking as she starts the back 9 poorly.

Meanwhile, Carrington will be in a fourth final.

The fuckers at TVNZ have cut to some pointless K4 buildup meanwhile Ko is tied for 2nd with 3 holes left, one shot behind the lead.

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Of all the useless Olympic sports, 'competitive walking' stands tall as the most useless of the lot. Skateboarding and dancing horses The walking is hardcore endurance Walking is massively hard but it's still a Tallest Dwarf contest. And everyone breaks the 'one foot on the ground' rule constantly....

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Gee whiz some controversy over at the men's shot put qualifying with medal favourite Tom Walsh being red flagged three times by local officials who look like they've never picked up a shot in their lives, only for him to successfully challenge twice and ends up qualifying top in group A.

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New Zealand is beating Old Zealand on the medal table. I am always very impressed with NZ’s Olympic record given the size of the country it is remarkable. Then we have people saying that some athletes are winning silver medals without training and it kind of doesn’t add up. Peter Burling and Blair ...

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Kiwias wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 6:05 am
deadduck wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 6:02 am Pete and Blair have hardly trained for this at all. They basically rocked up to the Olympics and won silver.
Any fat tourist, you reckon?

The opposite in fact.
Those two are so good they can practise for a couple of months every 4 years and almost win.

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Pete and Blair have hardly trained for this at all. They basically rocked up to the Olympics and won silver.

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100m heats and long jump are at basically the same time as are the triple jump qualifications and the 200m heats as are the triple jump finals and the 100m relay qualifications.

It would be virtually impossible to be competitive doing all those

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Events drive viewers, it's why swimming and athletics are the biggest viewer draw cards. Swimming and athletics are 100% bloated for medals as a result. You could just as easily argue that combat sports have too many medals. Many different styles, huge amounts of weight classes - they're called dif...

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Swimming is a racket Imagine how many golds our Val would have won if they'd had shot put, apple put, gumboot throw and jandal toss in the same Olympic event. :lol: Yes, boy! I heard someone else say that it'd be the same as running having 60m, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m forwards, back pedal, side shuf...

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Could yet be upgraded to silver when the Yank tests positive for PCP

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Zakar wrote: ↑Sun Aug 01, 2021 3:34 am
deadduck wrote: ↑Sun Aug 01, 2021 3:31 am Swimming is a racket

Imagine how many golds our Val would have won if they'd had shot put, apple put, gumboot throw and jandal toss in the same Olympic event.
Like the hammer and discus you mean?

Are there any athletes that have medalled in more than one throwing event?

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Swimming is a racket

Imagine how many golds our Val would have won if they'd had shot put, apple put, gumboot throw and jandal toss in the same Olympic event.

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Does anyone know why the women's hurdles are 9 inches shorter than the men's? Perhaps something to do with the fact that women are on average 13~15cm shorter than men. Just a wild guess. But 9 inches is almost 23 cm. I'm not trying to get into some gender argument here but I just watched the women'...

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Does anyone know why the women's hurdles are 9 inches shorter than the men's?

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I completely understand the reasoning about this. It's OK to speak your own language in a quick verbal exchange but it's rude carry out a conversation in a language which another colleague/acquaintance/friend present doesn't understand. English should be used. I say this from experience on both sid...

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In my previous role we instituted a semi-official (not written or really enforced - but encouraged) version of this due to requests from the staff in on the floor. South Auckland is diverse almost beyond comprehension (at one point we identified 18 separate ethnicity's and more than 30 countries of...

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I'm not really sure that NZ could protect its borders very effectively.

Anyone with a boat that's not a complete rust bucket could expect to make it here safely and undetected

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