Current Events > NZ's border quarantine measures fail for the... 12th, I think now, time?

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https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/probable-case-covid-19-in-northland-community-hipkins-hold-press-conference-afternoon

Health officials are responding to a probable case of community transmission of Covid-19 in Northland.

The Covid-19 Response Minister, Chris Hipkins along with the Director-General of Health, Ashley Bloomfield will be holding a press conference at 4.00pm at the Beehive.

The New Zealand Herald is reporting that the case is related to someone recently released from managed isolation and quarantine.

Yay, here we go again. >_>

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Every person that violates quarantine needs to be jailed indefinitely.

RadiantJoyrock posted...

Every person that violates quarantine needs to be jailed indefinitely.

Although violations have occurred, in this case the problem is that the way our quarantine is being run is piss-poor and full of weaknesses. The majority - maybe all - leaks in NZ's system have not been due to breaches, but due to poor procedure.

The only case I can think of in NZ that was confirmed as due to a breach was a person back in June who escaped from a quarantine facility, wandered around a major city for a while, before being caught and later testing positive - but by sheer luck he didn't infect anyone. That aside, the major August outbreak is still officially "unknown origin".

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Media conference regarding the breach starting in ~5 mins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxnIsBUqszs

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Trumble posted...

Although violations have occurred, in this case the problem is that the way our quarantine is being run is piss-poor and full of weaknesses. The majority - maybe all - leaks in NZ's system have not been due to breaches, but due to poor procedure.

The only case I can think of in NZ that was confirmed as due to a breach was a person back in June who escaped from a quarantine facility, wandered around a major city for a while, before being caught and later testing positive - but by sheer luck he didn't infect anyone. That aside, the major August outbreak is still officially "unknown origin".

A quarantine facility? That sounds terrifying holy shit

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Why are placenames in New Zealand so fucking boring?
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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

A quarantine facility? That sounds terrifying holy shit

They're pretty cruisy, from what I've heard.

DeadBankerDream posted...

Why are placenames in New Zealand so fucking boring?

It's a real mixed bag. Half of them are real lame like "Northland", the other half sound crazy to non-NZers like "Waikikamukau*".

*not actually real, but plenty that are similar to this

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The chick speaking about "just put the locatoins out there", usually she's full of shit but she's really talking a lot of sense today.

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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

A quarantine facility? That sounds terrifying holy shit

They're fucking hotels stop it
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Wow. So check this out. In the press conference (linked above) they keep saying, under pressure from a journalist, that they "won't release the locations visited by the case until they've spoken to the business owners".

Then later last night, they just drop a list... without speaking to all of the owners. So the only thing they did by refusing to declare them at the conference... was delay people knowing if they might've been exposed by about 6 hours or so.

( Source: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/300213373/covid19-business-owners-visited-by-new-case-not-contacted-by-ministry )

I know this all seems miniscule by international standards, but by NZ standards this shit is fucking infuriating.

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