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© Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Auckland reopens as New Zealand tries new virus approach
By NICK PERRY WELLINGTON, New Zealand©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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ClippetyClop
Symptoms such as death. If you get the vaccine, you will experience less death.
You could of course chose more death if it helps you feel more 'Freedom' or whatever else fully-vaccinated Tucker & his billionaire chums fleece your mind for.
2020hindsights
jeffb
Yes, but a lot less. And that multiplies when everyone they are in contact with at a venue is vaccinated.
2020hindsights
cla68
Ummm, no. Israel has a pitifully low rate of vaccination would be reason there. Of course, why not perfect, the vaccines work very well in preventing infection and transmission.
ZENJI
I LIVE IN AUCKLAND. jeffb has zero idea what it is talking about. The vaccinations are free and available
TO EVERYONE. A small %age choose not to, mostly our indigenous peoples & those from Polynesia.
Your comments are based on what? FACT???!!! Yeah/Na.
Happy Day
It’s one thing if lockdowns and discrimination against healthy people were based on science, but NZ’s policies are purely tyrannical.
And agree with others, the reliance on “zero COVID” policy and high vaccinations will result in more lockdowns as cases will continue spiking as there is little natural immunity and use of therapeutics.
Blacklabel
Do readers just skip over this?
“the center of the outbreak is 90% vaccinated.”
what?
wabisabi
Blacklabel
Do readers just skip over this?
“the center of the outbreak is 90% vaccinated.”
what?
No. Having been far lower the vaccine rate is now 90% more than 3 months after the outbreak. Hence NZs R value now dropping below 1 despite loosening restrictions
Blacklabel
So the vaccine does prevent transmission?
Zaphod
One thing we know about Omicron already is that it certainly infects the vaxxed. So if their plan is still this pie-in-the-sky zero virus goal, they will have to lock down again.
Blacklabel
So the goal is to prevent transmission of the virus worldwide.
vaccines don’t prevent transmission, the science is clear.
so get vaccinated anyway as the only way to meet the goal. Huh? oh and wear a mask.
Zaphod
2020hindsights
How much is "a lot less"? And do you have data for the claim?
Zaphod
Count the days until they shut down again because of Omicron. It wont take long, promise.
cla68
Israel tried this same tactic and it is a failure. Why? Because the vaccines don’t work to prevent covid cases or transmission. They only temporarily reduce the symptoms.