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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: 2) by VLM on Wednesday September 22 2021, @03:27PM
Its interesting to look at the actual statistical data out of Alabama and ignore the propaganda for a moment.
It seems in a sense that Delta is a nothingburger because its death rate is about 1/5 that of the first disease.
But, consider, last January in the first peak of death, elderly people would enter the hospital and promptly die, letting someone else re-use that nominal bed and nursing services (well presumably they clean the sheets between patients but you know what I mean). With the nothingburger Delta variant, 4/5 of the people who would have died last Jan are kinda sitting around alive filling that bed up. That's good for the 4/5 who get to live instead of die, but they gotta move "somewhere" or else they'll clog up the system.
This is what makes the propaganda rather tiresome and meaningless; The usual shrill shriekers are going to whine regardless of fatality rate; if the rate is higher, scream about the hospitals being empty as the morgue fills up, if the rate is lower, scream that the hospital is filling up with living people instead of bodies.
Note another aspect of the propaganda, if a hospital ER fills to capacity because of covid then Orange Man Bad Hate White People, but if it fills to capacity because of illegal aliens using the ER for free medical care, that's a holy obligation we should all feel very happy to pay for in fact we need more unvax'd immigrants because we need to fire all the whites whom are unvax'd because Orange Man Bad and White Man Bad and Jew Always Good. But its still an overly full hospital ER either way.