I’ll never forget watching NZ come out of lockdown and seeing people hug each other while I was still sanitizing groceries.
They were having rugby games while the rest of the world burned down in flames
Reasonable is great when it comes to this kind of thing.
I feel that this is when social media really showed how much harm it could do to spread misinformation. Good on NZ.
By contrast USA had over 600,000 preventable deaths due to their utter lack of response... So is this what you would have preferred???
"Grandma and Grandpa have to die for the economy." -Texas
Yeah, probably the same Texans who were shouting about death panels and "don't pull the plug on Grandma" when Obama tried to fix healthcare.
"And I encourage it to be released soon … the next pandemic may not be far away. We need to get on and prepare.”
Yeah, it'll probably come from the US due to some vaccines becoming illegal in some States. Let's just hope it doesnt spread through mouth rain like covid does.
Excuse me... "mouth rain"?
Sneezes, I believe, specifically the spittle of a sneeze.
Basically small droplets of water that are emitted from your mouth as you speak. They can't be seen with the naked eye, and they float on the air. Its how covid is spread so fast in indoor settings.
I first heard it referred to as "mouth rain" on a Radio Lab podcast episode early in the pandemic
“Those who think that Dr Blakely is a patsy for the previous government … you’ll get a huge surprise when you open that report,” he told NZ media outlet Stuff.
Can someone translate this to English?
"Dr. Blakeley is not a patsy for the previous government, according to that report", would be my guess?
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