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New Zealand Police Arrest Pair Trying to Enter Auckland with "Large Amount" of KFC

posted by martyb on Tuesday September 21 2021, @08:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the colonel-panic dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

New Zealand police arrest pair trying to enter Auckland with ‘large amount’ of KFC:

The men were arrested after allegedly trying to flee from police near the Auckland border. When their car was searched, police said they found a large quantity of KFC, as well as the cash and a number of empty ounce bags.

The arrest struck a chord with New Zealanders – especially Aucklanders, who have spent a month in a strict level four lockdown that does not allow restaurants to open or residents to order takeaway food.

[...] After the KFC arrest, a police spokesperson said “officers noticed a suspicious looking vehicle travelling on a gravel road, and upon seeing the police car, the vehicle did a U-turn and sped off trying to evade police.

[...] A breach of the Covid-19 Public Health Response Act can result in imprisonment for up to six months; or a fine of up to $4,000.

The men will appear in court for breaching the health order, and police said further charges were likely.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Freeman on Tuesday September 21 2021, @09:22PM (17 children)

    by Freeman (732) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 21 2021, @09:22PM (#1180170) Journal

    Please note the varied history and length of time it took to actually "eradicate" Polio.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine [wikipedia.org]

    In the 1930s, poliovirus was perceived as especially terrifying, as little was known of how the disease was transmitted or how it could be prevented.
    [...]
    Kolmer began his vaccine development project in 1932 and ultimately focused on producing an attenuated or live virus vaccine.
    [....]
    By the June 1, 1934, Brodie was able to publish his first scholarly article describing his successful induction of immunity in three monkeys with inactivated polio virus.
    [...]
    While their work was ongoing, the larger community of bacteriologists began to raise concerns regarding the safety and efficacy of the new poliovirus vaccines.[63] At this time there was very little oversight of medical studies, and ethical treatment of study participants largely relied upon moral pressure from peer academic scientists.
    [...]
    However when three children became ill with paralytic polio following a dose of the vaccine, the directors of the Warm Springs Foundation in Georgia (acting as the primary funders for the project) requested it be withdrawn in December 1935.[75] Following its withdrawal, the previously observed moratorium on human poliomyelitis vaccine development resumed and there would not be another attempt for nearly 20 years.
    [...]
    A breakthrough came in 1948 when a research group headed by John Enders at the Children's Hospital Boston successfully cultivated the poliovirus in human tissue in the laboratory.
    [...]
    The first effective polio vaccine was developed in 1952 by Jonas Salk and a team at the University of Pittsburgh that included Julius Youngner, Byron Bennett, L. James Lewis, and Lorraine Friedman, which required years of subsequent testing. Salk went on CBS radio to report a successful test on a small group of adults and children on 26 March 1953; two days later, the results were published in JAMA.[71] Leone N. Farrell invented a key laboratory technique that enabled the mass production of the vaccine by a team she led in Toronto.[83][84] Beginning 23 February 1954, the vaccine was tested at Arsenal Elementary School and the Watson Home for Children in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[85]

    Salk's vaccine was then used in a test called the Francis Field Trial, led by Thomas Francis, the largest medical experiment in history at that time. The test began with about 4,000 children at Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia,[86][87] and eventually involved 1.8 million children, in 44 states from Maine to California.[88] By the conclusion of the study, roughly 440,000 received one or more injections of the vaccine, about 210,000 children received a placebo, consisting of harmless culture media, and 1.2 million children received no vaccination and served as a control group, who would then be observed to see if any contracted polio.[44]
    [...]
    In April 1955, soon after mass polio vaccination began in the US, the Surgeon General began to receive reports of patients who contracted paralytic polio about a week after being vaccinated with Salk polio vaccine from the Cutter pharmaceutical company, with the paralysis limited to the limb the vaccine was injected into. The Cutter vaccine had been used in vaccinating 200,000 children in the western and midwestern United States.[94] Later investigations showed that the Cutter vaccine had caused 40,000 cases of polio, killing 10.[94] In response the Surgeon General pulled all polio vaccines made by Cutter Laboratories from the market, but not before 250 cases of paralytic illness had occurred.
    [...]
    Sabin's oral vaccine using live virus came into commercial use in 1961.[2]

    Once Sabin's oral vaccine became widely available, it supplanted Salk's injected vaccine, which had been tarnished in the public's opinion by the Cutter incident of 1955, in which Salk vaccines improperly prepared by one company resulted in several children dying or becoming paralyzed.[71]
    [...]
    An enhanced-potency IPV was licensed in the United States in November 1987, and is currently the vaccine of choice there.[19] The first dose of polio vaccine is given shortly after birth, usually between 1 and 2 months of age, and a second dose is given at 4 months of age.[19] The timing of the third dose depends on the vaccine formulation, but should be given between 6 and 18 months of age.[53] A booster vaccination is given at 4 to 6 years of age, for a total of four doses at or before school entry.[20]
    [...]
    A global effort to eradicate polio, led by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF,[101] and the Rotary Foundation, began in 1988, and has relied largely on the oral polio vaccine developed by Albert Sabin and Mikhail Chumakov (Sabin-Chumakov vaccine).[102]
    After 1990
    Polio was eliminated in the Americas by 1994.
    [...]
    Although poliovirus transmission has been interrupted in much of the world, transmission of wild poliovirus does continue and creates an ongoing risk for the importation of wild poliovirus into previously polio-free regions. If importations of poliovirus occur, outbreaks of poliomyelitis may develop, especially in areas with low vaccination coverage and poor sanitation. As a result, high levels of vaccination coverage must be maintained.[103] In November 2013, the WHO announced a polio outbreak in Syria. In response, the Armenian government put out a notice asking Syrian Armenians under age 15 to get the polio vaccine.[110] As of 2014, polio virus had spread to 10 countries, mainly in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, with Pakistan, Syria, and Cameroon advising vaccinations to outbound travellers.[111]

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  • (Score: -1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 21 2021, @10:18PM (12 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 21 2021, @10:18PM (#1180187)

    The first effective polio vaccine was developed in 1952 by Jonas Salk

    and

    In April 1955, soon after mass polio vaccination began in the US

    So... the polio vaccine, for a disease MUCH worse than COVID, took several years to go from initial development to widespread use. And even then, it turned out to have truly horrible side effects.

    But the COVID vaccine, with MONTHS of testing, is perfectly safe, with absolutely no side effects, and anyone who even questions it is evil and should be locked up.

    • (Score: 5, Touché) by Gaaark on Tuesday September 21 2021, @10:49PM (1 child)

      by Gaaark (41) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 21 2021, @10:49PM (#1180198) Journal

      Well, gee. You mean scientists and virologists, etc have learned from the past and science has advanced?

      Alert Galen and Hippocrates!

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      • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Tuesday September 21 2021, @11:00PM

        by krishnoid (1156) on Tuesday September 21 2021, @11:00PM (#1180201)

        Galen and Hippocrates -- nope, can't find any published papers [nih.gov] authored by that Hippo dude. Not sure what you could be referring to in terms of some kind of universally accessible body of scientific (in particular, medical) progress.

        Make people cite something on PubMed when they make a medical claim. I bet you a lot of people have never heard about it.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Mykl on Tuesday September 21 2021, @10:49PM (5 children)

      by Mykl (1112) on Tuesday September 21 2021, @10:49PM (#1180199)

      We've also had almost 70 years of medical progress since then. Let's look at a more recent example.

      Can you tell me a bit more about the horrible side-effects and disasters that befell the rollout of the HPV vaccine [wikipedia.org]? No? Ah.

    • (Score: 2) by sjames on Wednesday September 22 2021, @12:48AM (2 children)

      by sjames (2882) on Wednesday September 22 2021, @12:48AM (#1180249) Journal

      One particular production line of polio vaccine turned out to have unacceptably high rates of serious side effects and was ordered off the market. We've learned a lot since then. I was happy to see that the 2 commonly used vaccines in the U.S. contain no actual corona and so cannot cause the disease.

      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday September 22 2021, @06:28PM (1 child)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 22 2021, @06:28PM (#1180458) Homepage Journal

        the 2 commonly used vaccines in the U.S. contain no actual corona

        See, that's actually a problem. If it were distributed in bottles of Corona, a lot more people would be willing to chug it down. I'm sure it's a lot easier to swallow a microchip, than to have it forcibly injected into your arm.

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        • (Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday September 22 2021, @07:02PM

          by edIII (791) on Wednesday September 22 2021, @07:02PM (#1180475)

          Oh dear sweet baby Jesus... you don't actually believe the microchip shit do you?

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    • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday September 22 2021, @01:57PM

      by Freeman (732) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 22 2021, @01:57PM (#1180369) Journal

      The more interesting point I was trying to make was that Polio was not "eliminated" in the Americas until 1994. That's more than 4 decades after the first effective vaccine was created.

      Also, there's still polio "in the wild". The only disease that seems to have been totally eradicated by mass vaccination in humans is Smallpox. There are some effective vaccines that keep several other bad ones at by, such as Polio, but they have not been eradicated. Then again, none of the others caused 300-500 million deaths in the 20th century.

      Interesting page of deadly diseases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_disease_case_fatality_rates [wikipedia.org]

      Rabies Viral Untreated ~100%[2] Preventable with vaccine and PEP but, once the symptoms manifest, the CFR is almost always 100%. [3]
      [...]
      AIDS/HIV infection Viral Untreated 99% [8]: 1 
      [...]
      Smallpox Variola major – specifically the malignant (flat) or hemorrhagic type Viral Untreated ~95% The rate drops significantly to 10% with effective treatments.
      Eradicated. [10]: 28 
      [11]
      [...]
      Smallpox, Variola major – in pregnant women Viral Unvaccinated > 65% [10]: 88 
      [...]
      Ebola virus disease – specifically EBOV Viral Unvaccinated & Untreated [25–90]% Prognosis improved by early supportive treatments as seen in the West African epidemic and the Kivu outbreak. [16][17]
      Marburg virus disease – all outbreaks combined Viral Untreated [23–90]% 23% in 1967 when it was first identified and 90% in 2004-2005 when the worst outbreak of the disease occurred. Galidesivir has shown promise in treating Filoviridae [18][19]
      [...]
      Plague, pneumonic Bacterial Unvaccinated & Untreated 50% [10]: 58 
      Tetanus, Generalized Bacterial Unvaccinated & Untreated 50% CFR drops to [10–20]% with effective treatment. [21]
      Tuberculosis, HIV Negative Bacterial Vaccinated 43% Vaccines have been developed but have been frequently dismissed for having received controversial and improper testing on African populations. [22]
      Plague, septicemic Bacterial Unvaccinated & Untreated [30–50]% [10]: 58 
      [...]
      Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Viral 34% Galidesivir has shown promise in treating Coronaviridae [24]
      [...]
      Bubonic plague Bacterial Unvaccinated & Untreated [5–60]% [10]: 57 
      [...]
      Smallpox, Variola major Viral Unvaccinated 30% [10]: 88 
      Varicella (chickenpox), in newborns Viral Untreated ~30% Where the mothers develop the disease between 5 days prior to, or 2 days after delivery. [8]: 110 
      [...]
      Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) Viral 11% Galidesivir has shown promise in treating Coronaviridae. [30]
      [...]
      Botulism Bacterial toxin Treated 2.5% [41]
      [...]
      Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Viral Largely unvaccinated & Treated with unspecific treatments ~1.61% Per Our world in data, average of world countries on September 9, 2021. [43]

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday September 22 2021, @01:48AM (3 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 22 2021, @01:48AM (#1180272) Homepage Journal

    Once Sabin's oral vaccine became widely available, it supplanted Salk's injected vaccine, which had been tarnished in the public's opinion by the Cutter incident of 1955

    I was just a wee lad then - but it seems to me that the public's opinion wasn't all that tarnished. It was mandatory that we had our shots before starting school in 1961. I can't say how many years prior to 1961 they were mandatory, but I know that I had my shot because the school required it.

    To put things in perspective, 3 members of the family in my parent's generation were stricken by polio. None in my generation. No siblings, no cousins, no second cousins, third cousins, no classmates. As far as I know, everyone in my generation in this country got the shot. This article helps with perspective - https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/03/988756973/cant-help-falling-in-love-with-a-vaccine-how-polio-campaign-beat-vaccine-hesitan [npr.org]

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    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday September 22 2021, @06:05PM (2 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday September 22 2021, @06:05PM (#1180442) Journal

      And yet you had to be forced by your family to get the covid shot. What the fuck is wrong with you? Why was 5 year old you smarter than 65 year old you?

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @06:16PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @06:16PM (#1180453)

        Did 5 year old Runaway even have a choice?

        • (Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday September 22 2021, @06:25PM

          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 22 2021, @06:25PM (#1180457) Homepage Journal

          'Zumi attributes me with god-like powers. She probably thinks that I was responsible for that whole Vietnam War thing. Probably thinks that I assassinated John, Bobby, and Martin. Fear the demigod, Runaway!

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