D&D and the rising pandemic

Zardnaar said:

Have protest will steal from kids skate park.

Were the rubber mats at the protest stolen from a local skate park? An investigation

The rubber mats were originally donated by Wellington City Council and are 'quite distinctive in design'.

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Keep it classy!!!

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I can hear it now; "My taxes paid for this, so I'ma use it!", whether they did, or not.

When plain old astroturfing isn't enough, steal rubber mats from kids!
Yeah, that's pretty unsurprising for anti-society "protesters" like that.

J.Quondam said:

When plain old astroturfing isn't enough, steal rubber mats from kids!
Yeah, that's pretty unsurprising for anti-society "protesters" like that.

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Yeah they've lost all popular support by now. Think the government will just wait for a bit and eventually clear them out. Then people won't care to much about "police brutality".

Zardnaar said:

What is everyone overseas doing in regards to dining out?

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Currently still only allowed for vaccinated or recently recovered. Masks any time your not sitting at your table. Also restaurants are not allowed to use full capacity. However no contact tracing anymore.

Personally I've been eating out with the same frequency than pre-COVID ever since the restaurants were allowed to reopen.

Just today the decided the new opening plan. From 4th of March dining will again be possible for unvaccinated/-recovered people with a negative test. Limit for indoor events will be raised to 6k (mostly vaccinated/recovered/tested with certain events still being limited to vaccinated/recovered only).

On 20th of March almost all restrictions will fall. Looks like masks in public transport and in stores and similiar indoor venues will be the last active rule then

Mirtek said:

Currently still only allowed for vaccinated or recently recovered. Masks any time your not sitting at your table. Also restaurants are not allowed to use full capacity. However no contact tracing anymore.

Personally I've been eating out with the same frequency than pre-COVID ever since the restaurants were allowed to reopen.

Just today the decided the new opening plan. From 4th of March dining will again be possible for unvaccinated/-recovered people with a negative test. Limit for indoor events will be raised to 6k (mostly vaccinated/recovered/tested with certain events still being limited to vaccinated/recovered only).

On 20th of March almost all restrictions will fall. Looks like masks in public transport and in stores and similiar indoor venues will be the last active rule then

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Yeah with vax plus boosters plus quiet times my risk/benefit analysis is kicking in.

Pre vax I wouldn't bother. Great outdoors rapidly gaining appeal as well.

American stuck here pre Covid. The few remaining tourists essentially just get their visas rolled over.


Lufthansa repatriated your country folk April 2020. All the touristy things reasonably quiet.

Just because Zard posts all those lovely photos and videos of his locale, I thought I'd post a pic of what it's like in my neck of the woods.
It's pretty much like that for at least 150 miles in every direction. Now, now don't be too jealous!

edit: To be fair, it is pretty simple to social distance.

The misinformation is scary. The mRNA vaccine gives you HIV/AIDS or increases your chances of get it. A Youtuber went on a rant recently about this. She made a bunch of claims. She even backed it up by saying a Nobel winning scientist who discovered HIV supports these claims. She closes out the video remarking on how suspicious it was this same scientist died 3 days prior to the release of her video.

How do we combat this? They'll tell you "Do your own research" then tell you not to trust anything hear or read. No one in power can be trusted.

When I hear this stuff I go to multiple sources. Harvard's medical school website is very informative. If I go to a questionable source I try to find where their information is coming from. As Umbran said, personal anecdotes are not data, yet it seems that's exactly where a lot of this is coming from.

" My cousin's, uncle's, momma's, nephew's, neighbor's, brother's sister done turned purple an exploded right in his face after gettin the shot. I ain't gonna get it." This is perfectly acceptable to some as proof.

My sister doesn't want the booster, even though, she's had Covid twice. She's heard people have had bad reactions to it. She can't provide specific examples or details.

People HAVE had bad reactions to the vaccines.

But the numbers are minuscule compared to the numbers of people who have had bad reactions to COVID…

Zardnaar said:

21 months Covid free locally is over. Up to 5 cases now.

SDHB reveals number of new cases in Dunedin, Queenstown and Southland

The Southern District Health Board has released a breakdown of Covid-19 cases across the South, with new cases in Queenstown, Gore, Dunedin and...

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Even if they squash those ones there's more in the surrounding area and that's just the ones they know of.

Soon it's gonna be self managed isolation translation please stay at home.

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Dunedin? I've always wondered where the people of Atlantis(Numenor) landed in this world when the island sank.

Dannyalcatraz said:

People HAVE had bad reactions to the vaccines.

But the numbers are minuscule compared to the numbers of people who have had bad reactions to COVID…

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I understand. I'm aware of that, and it's why I schedule my shots for Friday to decrease my chances of having to work while experiencing potential effects.