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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 8678149" data-attributes="member: 6716779">It's purely about the numbers now. Covid can't be stopped and pretty much everyone's sick of restrictions.  Lockdowns are suicidal here so the government just said mask up and knock yourself out.  Mask use is very good you have to wear them going into a restaurant or whatever but not sitting down. This is why we don't go out Thursdays-Saturday places are busy.  Noture about retail I wear masks in shops anyway I think the rules are you have to as mask use is near 100% in supermarkets. The rules were a bit silly in place restaurants were limited to 100 people but you could book a private event for 200 no masks required.  Tests aren't 108% effective but if you do two or three of them odds are they catch a positive. Boss supplies the RAT tests and they're cheap for home use.  The app we used for contact tracing is used to report positive cases. Contact tracing and testing the numbers mostly collapsed back in April.  Current case numbers are unreliable as it's self reported now and there's incentive not to report (7 days of isolation). We also had two years of no flu season I haven't even had a cold since 2019. There's a nasty flu strain going around atm and family who have had Covid are saying it feels worse probably because they were vaccinated vs Covid but not the flu.   Hospitals etc are overwhelmed but I don't think it's Covid father in law had to wait 12 hours for tests on Saturday due to various issues with the healthcare system. Basically the governments gone "be nice DIY aroha"!! and hope for the best if you need to go to hospital. There's a week long wait for doctors appointmentsassuming you can get a doctor and expect 6-12 hour waits for non critical care.  Shortage of everything atm more or less tied to Covid after effects eg border closed 2 years and government lunacy various topics that essentially priced healthcare workers out of a few cities. They're busy sodding off to Australia.</blockquote>

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