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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 sjames on Wednesday September 22 2021, @04:26PM (8 children)
Are you planning to keep spinning like that? If you are, I'll wrap some copper wire around you and see if we can get an alternate energy program going.
The vax works, but only if you take it. A lot of people haven't because they're afraid it'll improve their 5G reception or make the dog lick itself excessively or something. Similarly the mask helps (not as much as the shot), but only if you actually wear it over your mouth and nose rather than as a chin diaper.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday September 22 2021, @05:14PM (3 children)
So, here we are, still arguing amongst ourselves instead of demanding that available money be redirected towards staffing and equipment, and clear honest education. This is why we suffer any shortages. What ever happened to loosening up the patents so more countries can make their own vax? Two months of bailout money will vax the whole world
It has been two years, what's up??
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by sjames on Wednesday September 22 2021, @05:29PM (2 children)
At least here in the U.S. we have all the vax we need. What we're missing is willing arms to put it in.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday September 22 2021, @05:37PM (1 child)
Yeah, there are ways to deal with that too. It would be self defense to make space to isolate all the Typhoid Marys and give them a jab.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 3, Touché) by sjames on Wednesday September 22 2021, @09:42PM
Blow darts would be fun!
(Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday September 23 2021, @06:56PM (3 children)
That's my point about the problem. They only work in the lab or when TV presenters claim so. Just not in 'bama. Believe science and look at the graphs.
"Go to church and pray harder like the good people do and then everything will be better", except now we're talking about masks, isn't a viable scientific policy.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday September 23 2021, @07:49PM (2 children)
They work when they are worn. They do not work when jackasses run around spewing their disease everywhere. They are not perfect. Kinda like seat belts. Using one doesn't render you immortal, but your cousin's roommate's best friend's sister once got injured in a car crash while wearing a seatbelt is not a good reason to skip it.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday September 23 2021, @08:37PM (1 child)
I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm sure they work awesome in the lab, and when properly used by "professionals" like surgeons I guess.
I'm just saying they don't work as a public policy. The infection rate graphs in 'bama when everybody wore masks look the same as the infection rate graphs when nobody wears masks. Therefore a public policy of everyone wears masks is utterly ineffective and a waste of effort and even worse it provides a false sense of security.
AFAIK the graphs for seatbelt use are wildly different situation, and they do save lots of lives. I'm too lazy to look it up but I'd agree with you tentatively. A public policy of "wear seatbelts" seems to coincide with a massive decline in traffic death rates as I recall.
Your claim of the entire state of 'bama being an anecdote seem unlikely. Its a big state, the experiment was run semi-rigorously over a long time... The two graphs under different conditions look darn near identical (maybe fake data is being used?). If you're gonna claim its a mere anecdote that seems your responsibility to explain why, it seems like good solid experimental method and good solid data. OK lets say AL is an outlier. Lets choose Nevada because why not. Their alpha peak infection rate around new years was around 5000 people per day during eighty percent masking. Their delta peak was in late July and masking rate in mid july was forty percent. The upward slope of both peaks is indistinguishable, although the delta peak was only about 4/5 the size of the alpha peak despite half the population no longer wearing masks. So in both states, wearing masks seems to have no effect on either infection rate or total number of infections.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday September 23 2021, @09:54PM
I'd like to know where this mythical place in Alabama where everyone wears a mask is. I've never seen a unicorn in person!
I'm not claimint the entire state as an anecdote, I am talking about a particular news report (link was provided) where a guy ended up being sent to a hospital in another state to deal with a heart attack (apparently the 44th place contacted according to the report).