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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.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 21 2021, @09:35PM (2 children)
Oooh, are we playing the insults game? Yo' mama so fat when she got the 'rona they ventilate her with a shopvac!
But sure, let's talk facts (as if THAT weren't a fact! SICK BURN!) and see that the single most affected country in the whole fucking world (Peru) which has serious confounding factors affecting the availability of care and survival at altitude, has lost, per Johns Hopkins, under 0.7% of the population after COVID-19 went through the population like a buzzsaw. Nowhere else, not even Hungary, is close.
Sweden, which is the OOH NO LOCKDOWN SUPERBAD ALL GONNA DIE (remember them?) has a nationwide mortality to the 'rona of 0.14%, and a case fatality rate of around 1.3%. They lost more citizens last time yo' mama had bad gas! (Oooooh, hot sauce burn bad!)
(Ref.: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality [jhu.edu] )
This means that coronavirus is a couple of times more lethal than the 'flu, but not a couple of orders of magnitude more lethal, and nowhere near the kind of scale of lethality that the hyperventilators (they're borrowing your mom's shopvac! OOOOH!) try to paint.
(Ref.: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html [cdc.gov] )
If you actually believe the USA coronavirus figures, (there is ample reason to be suspicious of them, just like yo' mama's cooking! WHOOOO!) then prorated over the last 18 months of freakout, we arrive at a figure well under 10 times as lethal as seasonal influenza, on average and more like double or treble the bad flu years, depending on how you count.
But hey, it's all ( https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/3101866/new-zealand-recession-coronavirus-lockdown-hits-economy [scmp.com] ) worth ( https://www.reuters.com/article/newzealand-economy-gdp-idUSKBN26605V [reuters.com] ) it ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_New_Zealand [wikipedia.org] ) just like when I paid yo' mama a nickel for round the world, back in the day!
TOUCHDOWN!!! (on yo' mama's asssss WOOHOOO!!!!)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @12:43AM (1 child)
I insult you because your idiotic rantings demanded insulting.
You score nothing but a virtual goal in a virtual game you play in your little echo chamber of neurotic morons.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @01:00AM
References, specific statistic, facts.
That's what you're short on.
Follow the science better.