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WTF Was That Bud Light-'Game of Thrones' Super Bowl Ad? We've Got Some Info (Video)
Watch The Mountain fight The Bud Knight — also there's a dragon
Jennifer Maas | February 3, 2019 @ 4:35 PM	Last Updated: February 3, 2019 @ 9:02 PM
OK, so that wasn't the trailer for the eighth and final season of "Game of Thrones" during Super Bowl LIII — but it was a "Game of Thrones"-themed ad for Bud Light featuring a "GoT" character and directed in part by David Nutter, the man who shot the "Red Wedding" and directed half of the series' upcoming final six episodes. Oh, and there is a dragon.
Titled "Joust," the 60-second spot starring The Mountain (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson) and The Bud Knight, which aired during the second quarter of the game, delivered "a quintessential 'Game of Thrones'-twist ending to the latest entry in Bud Light's series of 'Dilly Dilly' commercials," according to HBO press materials.
If you are looking for more information about that ad — because, you know, you don't have a trailer to watch yet — we've got you covered.
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Per HBO:
What starts as a classic Bud Light Super Bowl commercial featuring the King and Bud Knight descends into chaos when the menacing "Game of Thrones" character the Mountain (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson) makes a surprise appearance, defeating the defender of the 'Dilly Dilly' kingdom in a jousting contest.
Building on the latest chapter of the medieval "Dilly Dilly" series, Bud Light's agency, Wieden+Kennedy, collaborated with HBO and Droga5 on the 60-second spot, "Joust." Production on the ad reunited more than 25 people from the "Game of Thrones" crew under the direction of David Nutter, the man who orchestrated the infamous "The Red Wedding" episode among others, and the collaboration of showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. The first half of the spot was under the direction of Bud Light's Spencer Riviera, who previously directed creative within the Bud Light medieval universe.
To kick off the next phase of its #ForTheThrone campaign, which asks fans, celebs and brands what they would do #ForTheThrone in celebration of the series' final season (debuting April 14), HBO was looking for a stage and brand partner that could stand up to the powerhouse the show has become. Bud Light, known for delivering iconic Super Bowl commercials, was the top choice and jumped on board immediately.
The reveal of the Super Bowl commercial was intentionally left to in-game to maximize the surprise for fans and viewers alike. Simultaneously an extended version was revealed online, with additional Easter eggs for fans of the show to enjoy.
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"Directing this epic jousting match in Spain was the perfect capper to my 'Game of Thrones' experience," Nutter said in a statement. "Bud Light, the Mountain, and a dragon — a holy trinity of epic-ness! 'Dilly, dilly' indeed!"
"'Game of Thrones' is a shared cultural experience for millions of fans around the world," Chris Spadaccini, HBO head of marketing, added. "So, to kick off the final season campaign, there was no better platform than television's biggest stage, the Super Bowl. Given the high stakes, we needed to create an unforgettable moment that would spark a ton of conversation. We were looking for a brand partner that would be willing to make a bold sacrifice 'for the throne,' and we were thrilled when Bud Light answered the call. Together, we created a very meta campaign with a Thrones-worthy twist that is sure to delight fans of both brands."
Though we've yet to get an official Season 8 trailer — even though the "GoT" creators promise one is coming — a couple glimpses of the final six episodes have been doled out in teeny, tiny chunks over the last few months in HBO "sneak peek" promos, compilations previewing multiple new and returning series.
The first came in August and showed a single quick shot of Sansa and Jon embracing, and the second aired during the Golden Globes earlier this month. That latter tease showed what fans assumed is more from the previous scene, with Sansa handing Winterfell over to Daenerys in their very first meeting — and not looking too happy about it.
Watch the extended ad above and the version that aired during the game below.
The eighth and final season of "Game of Thrones" will premiere Sunday, April 14 at 9/8c on HBO.
'Game of Thrones': Key Events in the Series So Far
If you hate missing out on the pop culture phenomenon that is "Game of Thrones" but can't be bothered to watch the whole thing, or you just need a refresher on the past seven seasons of murder and intrigue, check our list of the big events in the series' history you absolutely have to know as we approach the eighth and final season. (Spoilers, of course)
Ned Stark's execution (Season 1)
Ned had discovered that King Robert's kids were actually fathered by Jaime Lannister, but the new king Joffrey wouldn't have any of that talk about his incestuous parentage and took off Ned's head, sparking a war that that kicked off the larger arc of the show in Westeros. This was particularly shocking because Ned was positioned as the protagonist of the series before being killed nine episodes in.
Daenerys gives birth to dragons (Season 1)
After her husband Khal Drogo died, Daenerys burned his body on a funeral pyre -- and then walked into the fire herself with three ancient dragon eggs. She survived, because as a true "dragon" of the Targaryen dynasty is immune to heat and fire ... and the dragon eggs hatched.
Renly Baratheon's murder (Season 2)
Renly was killed by the ghost baby of Stannis and Melisandre. Don't worry about the specifics. Just know that it happened.
The Battle of the Blackwater (Season 2)
Stannis took a fleet of ships into Blackwater Bay to try to take King's Landing and the Iron Throne from Joffrey, but a combination of Tyrion's superior tactics and the timely intervention of Lannister and Tyrell forces from the Riverlands saved the day.
Theon takes Winterfell, then pretends to kill Bran and Rickon (Season 2)
Theon turned on his Stark allies by occupying Winterfell with men from his homeland, the Iron Islands, while the Stark army was occupied in the south. The Star children, Bran and Rickon, escaped with Hodor and the wildling Osha, so Theon murdered two other boys and burned their bodies and told everybody it was the Stark boys.
The Red Wedding (Season 3)
Robb Stark had vowed to marry one of Walder Frey's daughters in exchange for use of a strategically-located bridge, but then broke that vow and married Talisa instead. The Starks put forth Robb's uncle Edmure Tully to wed one ofthe Frey daughters instead, but Walder and Stark supporter Roose Bolton secretly made a pact with the Lannisters. At Edmure's wedding, the Freys and they butchered Robb, Talisa and Catelyn at the nuptials, along with the rest of the Stark forces who were present.
Daenerys overthrows the Masters of Slaver's Bay (Seasons 3 and 4)
Daenerys marches into Slaver's Bay with riches pilfered from the city of Qarth, and arranges to buy a slave army called the Unsullied. But instead of paying, she sacks the city of Astapor with her dragons, freeing the local slaves. She then also takes two other cities and then settles in the third, Mereen, where she rules.
Joffrey's wedding (Season 4)
King Joffrey weds Margaery Tyrell, but is poisoned at the Purple Wedding feast. It's hilarious, until Tyrion is arrested for his nephew's murder.
Tyrion's trial (Season 4)
Tyrion didn't poison Joffrey, but he takes the fall. He demands a trial by combat, with the Red Viper Oberyn Martell as his champion -- but the Viper is killed fighting a giant man called The Mountain. His brother Jaime and spymaster Varys help him escape execution, and Tyrion then murders his dad Tywin on the way out for good measure.
The Battle of Castle Black (Season 4)
A group of wildlings, including Jon Snow's lover Ygritte, attempt to take Castle Black at the Wall, but they lose the battle. Ygritte is killed and dies in Jon's arms.
Hardhome (Season 5)
After being elected Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, Jon Snow travels north of the Wall to the wildling city Hardhome, to try to save them from death at the hands of the White Walkers and their undead horde. But those supernatural foes show up when Jon is in town, and a ridiculously awesome battle ensues.
The attempted coup by the Sons of the Harpy in Meereen (Season 5)
Not everybody is happy with Dany's rule in Slaver's Bay. A secret society called the Sons of the Harpy attempt to take her out during a gladiator battle, but she escapes on the back of one of her dragons.
The return of the Faith Militant (Season 5)
A man known only as the High Sparrow ascends to the top of the food chain in the Faith of the Seven, and with Cersei's help reinstitutes an old order called the Faith Militant to clean up the dirty streets of the capital. The plan backfires, though, and over the course of Seasons 5 and 6 the High Sparrow has become the most powerful man in King's Landing.
Stannis burns his daughter alive, and then dies (Season 5)
In order to ensure his victory in the north and the survival of his men, Stannis sacrifices his daughter Shireen to the Lord of Light. It doesn't work, though -- much of Stannis' army goes AWOL the next day, his wife hangs herself, and then Stannis himself and the rest of his army is killed at Winterfell. Oops.
Ramsay brutalizes Theon (Season 3) and then, later, brutalizes Sansa (Season 5)
Ramsay Bolton is sadistic as hell, capturing Theon after his shenanigans at Winterfell, and spending an entire season torturing him, including castration. Then, Sansa Stark is forced to marry Ramsay, and he sexually assaults her repeatedly, until Sansa and Theon escape.
Jon Snow is murdered ... and is resurrected (Seasons 5 and 6)
Not all of the Night's Watch is happy with Lord Commander Snow's decision to ally with wildlings from beyond the wall. A small group of them stab Jon to death. But Melisandre resurrects him, and Jon gets his revenge against the mutineers by hanging them.
Melisandre is really, really old (Season 6)
The sexy Red Woman, it turns out, is actually an old lady using a magical gem to preserve the appearance of youthfulness.
The Sand Snakes take over Dorne (Season 6)
Led by Prince Oberyn's paramour, Ellaria Sand, Oberyn's daughters (known as the Sand Snakes) murder Prince Doran and his son Trystane, effectively taking over the country. They're plan is to wage war against the Lannisters and get revenge for Prince Oberyn's death.
Daenerys takes control of the Dothraki (season 6)
After escaping the coup in Mereen on her dragon, Dany is stranded in the wilderness and captured by Dothraki, who force her to live among other wives of dead Khals. But she pulls a fast one, killing all the living Khals in a fire and then walking out, taking control of all the Dothraki forces.
Hodor dies (Season 6)
Hodor held the door to the cave of the Three-Eyed Raven so Meera and Bran could escape the White Walkers' undead horde, dying in the process and causing a social media frenzy as the origin of his name is revealed. There is time travel and a paradoxical time looped involved, awesomely.
Also Read: 'Game of Thrones': What Exactly Happened With Hodor and That Time Loop?
King Tommen and Queen Margaery join the church (Season 6)
With Queen Margaery and her brother Loras in church prison for all of season 6 so far, Tommen spent a lot of time with the High Sparrow trying to get him to let them go. The impressionable Tommen ended up instead establishing a partnership between the crown and the Faith of the Seven, thanks to prodding from both Margaery and the High Sparrow, alienating his mother Cersei in the process.
Also Read: 'Game of Thrones': What Did Queen Margaery's Note to Her Grandmother Mean?
Euron Greyjoy becomes king of the Ironborn (Season 6)
Pretty much coming out of nowhere is Euron Greyjoy, the raider brother of Theon and Yara's father, Baelon Greyjoy, who named himself king of the Iron Isles. Euron tosses Baelon off a bridge in the middle of a storm, and then wins the kingsmoot, an election in which a new king is chosen. He then goes on the warpath again, trying to eliminate Baelon's kids so they can't rival his claim to power. The Greyjoy kids wind up teaming up with Danaerys.
The Masters of Slaver's Bay invade Meereen (Season 6)
Tyrion tried to appease the Masters by allowing them to keep their slaves for seven years while they figured out how to rework their economy into a slaveless one. The Masters responded by sacking Meereen. But Daenerys showed up in the nick of time with her dragons and defeated them soundly, claiming their fleet of ships for her own.
The Battle of the Bastards (Season 6)
Sansa Stark and her half-brother Jon Snow took an army of wildlings to Winterfell to reclaim it from Ramsay Bolton and the rogue House Umber. They succeeded, thanks to the timely intervention of the knights of the Vale, who came at Sansa's behest.
Also Read: 'Game of Thrones': The Women Were Right and the Men Were Wrong in 'Battle of the Bastards'
Cersei blows up the Sept of Baelor (Season 6)
In the finale, Cersei goes full Mad Queen and in one fell swoop, destroys most of her enemies. Cersei had Qyburn use children to light a cache of wildfire beneath the sept, placed there by order of King Aerys years earlier. The huge explosion wiped out most of the Tyrells, including Margaery, Loras and Lord Mace Tyrell, as well as Cersei's uncle Kevan Lannister, the High Sparrow, and the Faith Militant. As a result, King Tommen committed suicide by throwing himself out a window, leaving Cersei on the Iron Throne.
Jon Snow becomes the King in the North (Season 6)
With Winterfell recaptured, the houses of the Vale and the North pledge themselves to Jon Snow, who they name the King in the North. Meanwhile, Sansa Stark is technically Lady of Winterfell and the rightful Stark heir.
Bran Stark heads south, now imbued with the magical abilities of the Three-Eyed Raven
Bran was absent for a season because he was training with the ancient Three-Eyed Raven to hone his "sight" -- the ability to see the distant future and the past -- for example, when he sees a vision of his father Ned's fateful visit to the Tower of Joy, where Ned's sister Lyanna dies after giving birth to Jon Snow, whose true father was Raegar Targaryen. How Bran's new powers will play into the new war in Westeros is yet unknown.
Arya kills Walder Frey (Season 6)
Returning to Westeros, Arya gets her revenge for the Red Wedding by first killing Lord Walder Frey's sons, then baking them into a pie. She gets Lord Walder to eat the pie before slitting his throat and reveling in it the whole time.
Daenerys sails for Westeros (Season 6)
After six whole seasons of waiting, Danaerys and her dragons finally sail for Westeros with all her allies, a massive fleet, and the biggest army in the world.
Arya gets her revenge on the Freys (Season 7)
With Walder Frey's face, Arya takes down the rest of House Frey in a beautifully horrific echo of the Red Wedding. She poisons all the remaining Frey men -- 51 of them by our count -- and leaves Walder's young wife with the message, "Winter has come for House Frey."
Cersei courts an alliance with Euron Greyjoy (Season 7)
With no allies left and enemies on all sides, Cersei entertains the possibility of siding with the psychopathic Euron Greyjoy, king of the Iron Isles. She refuses his marriage proposal, but as a show of faith, he promises her a "priceless gift." Foreshadowing much?
Euron captures Yara Greyjoy and Ellaria Sand (Season 7)
Daenerys sent Ellaria Sand and the Sand Snakes back to Dorne to raise their army, escorted by Yara and the Iron Fleet. Along the way, though, they were intercepted by Euron's fleet and attacked. Euron killed two of the Sand Snakes, Obara and Nymeria, and captured Ellaria, Yara, and the third Sand Snake, Tyene. Theon Greyjoy managed to escape by (seemingly) selfishly diving overboard.
Jon meets Daenerys (Season 7)
The first meeting between the Mother of Dragons and the King in the North could have gone better, with Daenerys demanding fealty from Jon, who refused. She doesn't believe him about the Night King, either, which is a major problem. But Dany does allow Jon to mine Dragonstone's Dragonglass, which will be key in that battle.
Cersei gets her revenge (Season 7)
With Ellaria captured, Cersei uses the same poison that killed her daughter Myrcella to kill Ellaria's daughter, Tyene. Then Jaime executes a deft strategic move and, while the Unsullied are capturing Casterly Rock, he marches on Highgarden, the seat of House Tyrell. Jaime gets the Tyrell fortress, eliminates Lady Olenna, and nabs the money of the wealthiest family in Westeros. It's a major blow to Daenerys' war effort.
The Stark kids reunite (Season 7)
In something of a more subdued moment, Arya Stark returns to Winterfell, where Sansa Stark is the Lady of Winterfell. Brann Stark, now the Three-Eyed Raven (and thoroughly weird) has arrived as well, bringing more Stark kids together in one place than we've seen since Season 1. Clearly, the reunion of House Stark is going to have some major consequences going forward.
Daenerys attacks the Lannister line (Season 7)
In response to losing Highgarden and Dorne, Daenerys finally takes warfare into her own hands. She and her Dothraki warriors head for King's Landing, but they don't attack the city — they attack the Lannister supply line bringing gold and grain to the city from their victory in Highgarden. Dany uses Drogon to destroy the Lannister supply wagons and the Dothraki decimate at least a part of the Lannister army, but we don't see the full aftermath of the battle, or Jaime Lannister's fate.
Daenerys wipes out House Tarly (Season 7)
After defeating the Lannister army last episode, Daenerys has the survivors in her mercy -- including Randyll and Dickon Tarly (Samwell's father and brother). They refused to bend the knee and for keeping their honor, were burned to a crisp by Drogon. That leaves House Tarly without a head... unless Samwell ever leaves the Night's Watch without being executed for desertion.
Samwell Tarly abandons maester training (Season 7)
Sam has been training to become a maester, but he's increasingly frustrated by the order's unwillingness to consider his own experience with the White Walkers, or prepare in a meaningful way for the war to come. So he goes to the library, steals some important books, and bounces along with Gilly and Sam junior.
Cersei is pregnant (Season 7)
All of their children may be dead, but Cersei revealed to Jaime that she's expecting another baby -- and as far as he knows, it's his. In fact Cersei says she plans to tell everyone Jaime is the father. Whether that's true remains to be seen.
Jon Snow assembles Westeros' Magnificent Seven (Season 7)
As far as Jon is concerned, the only important matter is to convince everyone they need to be freaked out about the Night King's invasion. Which means, he needs to grab a Wight and bring it south. To help, he recruits Gendry, Tormund, Ser Jorah, Thoros of Myr, Ser Berric, and Sandor Clegane (The Hound). Holy crap.
Littlefinger maneuvers Arya and Sansa against each other (Season 7)
Machinations are afoot in Winterfell, where Littlefinger seems to be trying to get Sansa to turn on Jon Snow, and Arya to turn on Sansa, as part of his own plan. But Sansa clearly doesn't trust him, Arya seemingly has plans of her own, and Bran's there with his magical Three-Eyed Raven powers. The intrigue is building to a potentially lethal head.
Also Read: "Game of Thrones": Everyone in Winterfell Has Secret Plans and We Don't Know What They Are
The expedition beyond the Wall captures a wight (Season 7)
Though they were nearly killed by the army of the dead when they were surrounded, Jon Snow's expedition beyond the Wall managed to capture a wight to prove the existence of the Night King to everyone in Westeros. Jon was nearly killed in the battle after falling into a frozen lake, however.
Benjen Stark saves Jon Snow (Season 7)
As the army of the dead is closing on Jon after he pulls himself out of the frozen lake, he's saved from certain doom by Benjen Stark, Jon's uncle. Benjen was killed by the White Walkers but saved by the Children of the Forest, and had previously saved Bran and Meera Reed at the Three-Eyed Raven's behest. He gives Jon his horse and save's the King in the North's life, but is overwhelmed by wights while Jon escapes.
Jon Snow pledges fealty to Daenerys (Season 7)
After Jon makes it back to Eastwatch, he and Daenerys have a conversation aboard the ship bearing them to Dragonstone. Having seen the Night King, Daenerys pledges to help Jon fight it. He, in turn, tells her he'll bend the knee and declare her his queen.
The Night King kills and reanimates Viserion (Season 7)
During the battle beyond the Wall, the Night King uses an ice spear to slay one of Daenerys' dragons, Viserion. After everyone escapes, he uses his army of the dead to drag Viserion's body out of the frozen lake into which it crashed, and then revives him as an undead wight to add to his forces.
Cersei declares a truce with Daenerys and Jon Snow (Season 7)
In a meeting in King's Landing, Jon demonstrates the threat the Night King poses, using the wight captured beyond the Wall. Cersei agrees to send her troops north to help fight the dead, but secretly plans to remain in the south and retake the lands she lost to Daenerys while her enemies go north.
Sansa and Arya execute Littlefinger (Season 7)
Throughout Season 7, Littlefinger has tried to pit Sansa Stark against her sister Arya, but didn't realize the women were actually manipulating him. Once they had the loyalty of the Knights of the Vale guaranteed, they laid out Littlefinger's crimes in public, and Arya cut his throat.
Jaime leaves Cersei (Season 7)
When Cersei reveals she intends to betray Daenerys, Jaime argues with her. He believes the dead are the greater threat and he intends to honor his word and ride north to fight. When Cersei seemingly threatens to kill him for the betrayal, Jaime storms out, leaving King's Landing alone.
The Night King breaches the Wall (Season 7)
It appears that Jon Snow's plan to capture a wight from beyond the Wall played right into the plan of the Night King. When Daenerys arrived with her dragons to save Jon and his companions, the Night King killed one and reanimated it as part of his army. Riding the dragon, he was able to use its magical blue flame to rip a hole in the Wall large enough for the army of the dead to pass through.
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Cooking and preparing foods with cooking oil is something billions of people all across the world do every day. The question about this practice is how indigenous is it to man? How long have we been bathing our food in oil? When did we begin to hate the natural taste of our foods so much that we'd prefer how it tastes drenched in oil? If you dig a little, it's obvious our high use of vegetable oils is a pretty new phenomenon.
The rise in fatty oil use has increased with man's increased consumption of animal protein over the last 100 years. Most oils are over 85% fat and it's undeniable that they make normally ordinary foods taste much more appetizing because humans like the taste of fats. We've gotten to a point where we crave fat, and oils supply us with plenty of fat to satisfy that craving. Conditioning yourself to enjoy your food without the added oil would be as simple as slightly steaming your broccoli, baking your potato, or just boiling your rice without the margarine or oil. Less is more and it's a learning experience to actually enjoy the true taste of our food and not the fat from the oils we prepare the food in.
Oils are heavily processed. You don't just squeeze seeds and get oil out of them. If it were that easy, we'd do it ourselves. The same goes for almonds, sunflowers, safflower, and soybeans: extracting oils for commercial sale is an extremely delicate process and that process compromises the structural integrity of the oil. That process also usually leaves the oil with little to no nutritional value left of what the whole fruit, bean, or nut contains in its natural state. You have to be terribly careful because there are many chemical solvents that go into the refining process for most oils, so choose unrefined, cold pressed oils when you must use them. You will still need to be careful even with those labeled as superior oil since integrity is hard to come by with many manufacturers.
Oils go rancid. What happens to a box of crackers when you leave the box open for a day? They go stale, but when it comes to oil it goes rancid. Just like an apple will get brown if you don't eat it fast enough, oils will get rancid over time due to air exposure. Rancidity reduces its potency and while you may not be able to taste the difference like you would with the crackers, the process is certainly happening.
Oils are destroyed by light. The oil of any fruit, nut, or seed is generally hidden within the dark space of the fruit, nut, or seed and the extraction process brings them out. In the same manner that air degrades the quality of an oil, so does light. If you're going to continue buying oils purchase the ones in darker glass bottles that block some of the light rays. You should also store them in the dark.
Oils are already in the food. Make no mistakes about it, you can certainly eat an avocado, coconut, olive, soybean and whatever other nut or seed and the oil will be in the food. You generally don't need the extracted oil whatsoever. These oils are actually more beneficial in their original state. Isn't everything more beneficial in its original state?
Oils are destroyed by heat. I know oils make food taste better, but I also know that oils are destroyed by heat and become carcinogenic thereafter. Oils are very sensitive and not every oil should be heated. You should definitely pay attention to the smoke point of the oils you use. You don't want them smoking and emitting toxic fumes. Yet still the choice is yours to make. I use coconut oil on occasion which can stand up to higher heats.
Oils aren't natural. Extracted oils that is. If they were natural then there'd be a canola oil tree instead of a rapeseed plant. When you consider whole foods, it means consuming foods in their natural and whole state. Oils aren't whole foods.
Oils are flammable. Ever heard of grease fires? Well a few years back I had to put out a raging fire that I didn't even start. I ended up with 3rd degree burns on my hand and I still sport some of the scars from the burn.
Oils introduce free radicals to the body. It's hard to avoid damaged oils because you can't buy a perfect oil. They're already compromised by the elements before you've purchased it. You then heat it and introduce it to your digestive system, further destroying it. That's a lot going on and damaged oils will do some damage in your body, too.
Oils are messy. You know it's true. You pour the oil and no matter how hard you try to keep it clean it runs down the side of the bottle and makes a mess in the cupboard where you store it. I hate grabbing an oily bottle.
Oils are the most fattening foods on the planet. Want to lose weight? Cut back your oil intake and that would definitely help. Most oils are pure fat. Coconut oil is 92% fat. Oil is the fat of whatever fruit, nut, or seed it's extracted from and it's highly concentrated, without all the other nutrients naturally found in the whole foods it came from. There are good fats and bad fats, but fat is fat and calories are calories if you're counting.
Cooking without oil is not for the faint of heart. You'll get to taste the actual flavors of the food and who knows, you might like it! It's certainly not as addictive as the fatty taste you get from the oils, but it's the real thing: unadulterated. We actually need to be using less oil when consuming whole foods and raw/living foods in order to learn to appreciate the true taste of our food. Entire food industries are built around the use of oils in food and frankly, we're addicted to the taste of it. Cutting back the oils in your diet may not be the easiest thing to do initially, but depending on your goals it might be worthwhile.


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The Prime Minister has announced extra 250,000 doses of vaccine will arrive tomorrow
9th Sep 21, 1:29pm by David Hargreaves
The Ministry of Health is reporting 13 new Covid cases, all in Auckland. Meanwhile, 250,000 extra doses of Pfizer vaccine are literally on the way to Auckland and due to arrive on Friday.
The latest case numbers are down from 15 on Wednesday.
It brings the total in this outbreak to 868. Of these, 256 people have now recovered.
There's 31 people in hospital, all in Auckland, with five in ICU and three of them requiring ventilation.
Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said there were 30 unlinked cases in the outbreak, though these included very recently reported cases.
Of the 15 cases reported on Wednesday, six had been infectious in the community.
In relation to the case of the patient in Middlemore Hospital found over the weekend to have Covid, Bloomfield said 124 patients and 29 staff had now been tested and all returned negative results.
The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the extra Pfizer doses would enable the country to keep up with the current rate of vaccination till the big shipments due for October arrive. Another announcement is expected next week about a further deal for more vaccines from another country.
There were just under 67,000 doses given on Wednesday.
This is the vaccine announcement:
More than a quarter of a million additional doses of the Pfizer vaccine are on their way from Spain to New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today.
The additional doses will arrive in Auckland on Friday morning to help meet the current surge in demand for vaccination.
"It's been heartening to see so many New Zealanders getting vaccinated recently and the additional doses that we have purchased from Spain will help us provide additional capacity and walk-in sites through September," Jacinda Ardern said.
"We're vaccinating well ahead of plan and these additional vaccines will ensure we can continue to ramp up our vaccination programme.
"The Spanish shipment is in addition to New Zealand's regular weekly delivery from Pfizer which is also expected this weekend.
"We expect to receive a total of 1.8 million doses from Pfizer throughout the month of September, in addition to the doses purchased from Spain. This means we don't have any plans to slow down the rollout.
"This is the result of excellent collaboration between officials from New Zealand, Spain, the European Commission and Pfizer to secure this agreement. I wish to say thank you to those involved especially President Pedro Sánchez of Spain.
"We are deeply grateful to Spain for their cooperation and agreement to sell these doses to New Zealand. This reaffirms the strong links between our countries and is in the spirit of the global values shared by New Zealand and Spain.
"We also wish to extend our appreciation to the European Commission, for coordinating this purchase and to Belgium for their important role in producing the vaccines that New Zealand is the recipient of.
"We expect to make a further announcement about an agreement to buy additional Pfizer vaccines from a second country next week," Jacinda Ardern said.
This is the detailed update from the Ministry of Health:
Number of new community cases 13 *
Number of new cases identified at the border Five (two plus three historical)
Location of new cases Auckland
Location of community cases (total) Auckland 851 (256 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (nine of whom have recovered)
Number of community cases (total) 868 (in current community outbreak)
Cases infectious in the community Six (40%) of yesterday's 15 cases have exposure events
Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infected Nine (60%) of yesterday's 15 cases
Cases epidemiologically linked Seven of today's cases
Cases to be epidemiologically linked Six of today's cases
Cases epidemiologically linked (total) 838 (in current cluster) (30 unlinked)
Number of sub-clusters Eight epidemiologically linked subclusters. The two largest subclusters are the Mangere church group: 374; and Birkdale social network cluster: 76.
There are nine epidemiologically unlinked subclusters.
Cases in hospital 31 (total): North Shore (6); Auckland (13); Middlemore (12)
Cases in ICU or HDU Five
Confirmed cases (total) 3,491 since pandemic began
Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total) 134 out of 1,673 since 1 Jan 2021 **
Number of contacts identified (total) 38,126
Percentage who have received outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements) 87%
Percentage with at least one test result 92%
Locations of interest
Locations of interest (total) 122 (as at 10am 5 September)
Number of tests (total) 3,100,261
Number of tests total (last 24 hours) 17,684
Tests rolling average (last 7 days) 10,856
Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours) 8,472
Testing centres in Auckland 22
Wastewater detections No unexpected detections in past 24 hours
Vaccines administered to date (total) 4,100,658; 1st doses: 2,711,485; 2nd doses: 1,389,172
Vaccines administered yesterday (total) 66,935; 1st doses: 48,491; 2nd doses: 18,444
Mâori 1st doses: 250,521; 2nd doses: 122,266
Pacific Peoples 1st doses: 159,836; 2nd doses: 83,252
NZ COVID-19 tracer
Registered users (total) 3,183,822
Poster scans (total) 344,396,830
Manual diary entries (total) 15,772,051
Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday 1,624,160
New cases identified at the border
Arrival date From Via Positive test day/reason Managed isolation/quarantine location
4 September United Arab Emirates Direct Day 3 / routine Auckland
6 September Full travel history to be determined Full travel history to be determined Day 0 / routine Auckland
Historical cases identified at the border
25 August South Africa Qatar and Australia Day 3 / routine Auckland
2 September Sri Lanka Qatar and Australia Day 1 / routine Auckland
2 September Qatar Direct Day 0 / routine Auckland
*Today's community case total includes a case we reported on Tuesday as one that was yet to be classified. It has now been classified as a community case.
**There's a total of four historical cases to report today – the fourth is a previously reported community case which has been reclassified.
Ministry of Health covid-19 covid19nz lockdown lockdownnz Coronavirus sars-cov-2 vaccines face masks Australia NSW Ashley Bloomfield Jacinda Ardern
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by sharetrader | 9th Sep 21, 1:34pm 1631151259
i can see another two weeks of level 4, another 6 wandering around yesterday even though they were identified as close contacts (from my reading of the numbers)
by Lanthanide | 9th Sep 21, 1:50pm 1631152257
Firstly it wasn't "six wandering around yesterday", it was six of the new cases reported yesterday had been in the community while infectious. The timeline is that test results typically come back overnight, so these people were likely tested at some point on Tuesday and thus should have been isolating yesterday. Typically the 'exposure events' are from 2-3 days before someone gets tested.
Secondly they didn't necessarily know they were contacts at the time they were in the community and infected.
There's a difference between not knowing you're a contact and going about your life, and knowing you're a contact and deliberately flouting isolation requirements.
by GV 27 | 9th Sep 21, 1:51pm 1631152317
Also, 'infectious in the community' may not be the telling thing if they're confident that have all the LOIs and a high chance of contacting all people who may have been exposed and confirming they are isolating.
Yip. Ideally the number would be 0. But being non-0 doesn't mean that anyone will have been infected from the cases. Depends how infectious they were, whether they were vaccinated, whether they were wearing a mask, where they actually went, how many people could have crossed paths with them.
Dr Bloomfield is clearly more worried about potential "undetected chains of transmission" than he is about these low number of people who are known to have been infectious while in the community, because we know about them we can find out their movements and try to contact trace people they may have crossed paths with.
Yup, and the smaller the numbers get, the better chance the expanded contact tracers have of getting around it. I think we're in a really good place for Auckland to L3 but I don't think we'll see Level 2 as we know it in Auckland - I can see us moving to 2.5 in a couple of weeks, with bigger restrictions on workplaces and indoor/event spaces but allowing families to mix again.
When we first went to level 2 last year, it was limited to gatherings of no more than 10 people, then relaxed from there. I don't think this is going to be any different.
by Nifty1 | 9th Sep 21, 1:35pm 1631151317
So much emotional black mail & spin in the conferences. Today's episode talking about babies (1 in hospital) and trying to guilt trip people into getting the vaccine. If they're going down this track, can they educate and warn everyone around RSV and the implications it's had on babies...
by Belle | 9th Sep 21, 1:42pm 1631151776
Come on Nifty, the story is Covid. Nothing else matters.
by Brutus Iscariot | 9th Sep 21, 1:47pm 1631152023
I've been unable to get a required cancer screen, while Jacinda harps on about the tragic death of a single 91 year old from covid.
Meanwhile 650 people die a week in New Zealand from other causes.
by lowercase capitalist | 9th Sep 21, 1:52pm 1631152350
How many of those 650 are preventable vs natural causes?
Seems like the only deaths that are relevant to the argument are those that can be prevented with some sort of medical intervention.
That's a ridiculous statement. The condition of being human comes with a mortality rate of 100%. A 90 year old has a 15% chance of dying in a given year no matter what you do.
Not sure what your point is, to be honest.
by Mr_Jolly | 9th Sep 21, 3:21pm 1631157700
NZ would typically lose 500 every year to the flu. We are only losing nett new people once we are over this number. Currently a 90yr old who was on her last legs anyway makes front page news, while someone else dies of cancer and no one cases.
The very interesting stat is the All Cause Mortality metric which is significantly up on our recent and long term average. Cindy can't lie her way around those numbers.
Have you got a source showing the increase in all cause mortality? Anecdotally I had heard that deaths were down but I haven't seen any actual figures.
NZ Stats
https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/births-and-deaths-year-ended-june-2021
In the year ended June 2021, compared with the year ended June 2020:
there were 33,486 deaths registered, down from 33,813
Your own source seems to be saying deaths dropped.
by Antz | 9th Sep 21, 4:29pm 1631161795
Not sure where you get that info from. Try here: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-trac…
Looks to me like fewer deaths overall in NZ.
Currently a 90yr old who was on her last legs anyway makes front page news, while someone else dies of cancer and no one cases.
It's news because it's a rare death from a new disease.
I'm sure if we had dozens or hundreds of deaths from COVID, as some people around these parts are indicating we should do by learning to "live" with COVID and prematurely opening our borders before we have sufficient vaccine penetration, then each death wouldn't be news.
It's like when people die from Ebola that is news, but people dying from cancer isn't, because cancer literally isn't news.
by fat pat | 9th Sep 21, 8:35pm 1631176541
It's fearmongering is what it is.
by Big Jim | 9th Sep 21, 2:07pm 1631153257
what about those that can be prevented with no medical intervention?
Safety Report #25 – 21 August 2021 (medsafe.govt.nz)
Up to and including 21 August 2021, a total of 37 deaths were reported to CARM after the administration of the Comirnaty vaccine. Following medical assessments by CARM and Medsafe it has been determined that:
19 of these deaths are unlikely related to the COVID-19 vaccine
5 deaths could not be assessed due to insufficient information
12 cases are still under investigation.
1 death was likely due to vaccine induced myocarditis (awaiting Coroner's determination)
by C_T_20 | 9th Sep 21, 8:24pm 1631175896
Does anyone know if those determinations are open to verification by anyone medically qualified but outside of Medsafe?
A curious mind would ask if an organisation that is tasked with approving vaccines and is then the right medical body to then also investigate and assess the causes of any issues. Am I the only one seeing the irony in this potential incentive to ensure your previous decisions don't look too bad and defendable?
by Belle | 10th Sep 21, 3:31am 1631201462
Very good point
by house hunter | 9th Sep 21, 4:37pm 1631162276
Road toll is about 350/year. If we did an entire year of lockdown it'd probably be below 100.
650 people dying per week are mostly not from communicable diseases for which there are vaccines that greatly reduce mortality.
by Brock Landers | 9th Sep 21, 3:12pm 1631157139
Aroha.
More hope, less fear required. Begin the pivot now.
What pivot are you referring to?
by Carlos67 | 9th Sep 21, 2:26pm 1631154392
The pivot away from fear and lockdowns but don't worry its coming from Jacinda pretty soon. The narrative that we are out of the woods and what a great job we have all done is coming soon from a soapbox near you. As soon as the vaccination rates are high enough its will be an open door policy, there is no other choice in reality we cannot carry on like we have been for years and years. There will be ongoing booster shots, new versions of the vaccine, new variants popping up and new vaccinations for those. The lab in Wuhan opened Pandora's box.
But is moving away from fear and lockdowns realistic?
I've been reading a bit about NSWs plans for opening up and it sounds pretty similar to our level 2 - caps on numbers at venues, some degree of mask mandate etc.
Why is level 2 in perpetuity a better option than a month of level 4 followed by permanent level 1(assuming we tighten up the holes in MIQ).
The alternative to perpetual level 2 seems to be the health system getting over run as seems to be the case in Singapore despite their high vax rate.
Yes of course its realistic, sooner or later it comes down to math. England has just fully opened and has 200 people a day still dying but as you cannot die twice the number of deaths will decrease. The virus will simply weed out the weaker individuals and life will go on. Ongoing lockdowns post high vaccination rates cannot be justified, so we may get a few hundred more deaths a year from it, but we lose that many to road crashes every year and nobody bats an eye. The deaths from Covid will eventually drop into the noise of other flu related deaths each year. The best case outcome is that its just added to the standard flu shot that comes out once a year. We simply have to move on from Covid starting early next year.
by LASSET | 9th Sep 21, 10:23pm 1631182995
Are you volunteering to be first and take one for the team then?
by Foxglove | 9th Sep 21, 1:57pm 1631152628
What is relevant is that 94% or so of hospital admissions have been unvaccinated. That info took a bit of digging out and some political spin is at play on those figures. But leaving that aside it is something of an obvious pointer is it not, that vaccination is the only bet in town for NZ hereon in. Actually folks, it always was wasn't it.
by tim52 | 9th Sep 21, 3:55pm 1631159701
When was this? Is this double vaxed?
I would guess comes around 60-80% percent effectiveness (similar to Israel's). I would think we can use the "Pacific Peoples" vaccination rate of 29% but then we have to account for the age demographics (cases and hospitalisation) which is very young for where we are up to with vaccinations. The majority of double vaxed are still in group 3. If the vast majority of these have only have their first shot well these are brilliant numbers.
Edit: don't read this there are better numbers from the article below.
regret too luddite to post links. but go to the Herald today, headline " 88 Delta hospital admissions only one fully vaccinated."
Just paste it in and the scripts will do it for you if you leave it separate from every thing else (or there is a button now days):
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/covid-19/covid-19-delta-outbreak-how-…
"...there were 855 cases so far in the outbreak: 702 were unvaccinated, 115 had had one dose, and 38 had had two doses. "
"...84 out of the 88 cases in hospital - or 95 per cent - had not had a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine more than two weeks before testing positive."
"She said two weeks after one jab, a person is about 77 per cent protected against serious disease from Delta. This jumped to the high 90s two weeks following a second dose.
But then very few will have been double vaxed 2 weeks prior to becoming a case. I think you would have to have been over 60-65 and there is very few cases in this age group. I don't think we have the data to calculate anything.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/450874/covid-19-in-nz-in-numbers
by Solve_it | 9th Sep 21, 1:52pm 1631152323
Anyone with a baby gets sufficient warning about RSV and the opportunity to vaccinate their child against it.
by TheTor | 9th Sep 21, 1:58pm 1631152727
There is no RSV vaccine. WTF are you on about?
Correct, and you'll be interested to know why. They tried making one in the 1960s and it turned out that after a while, it made kids MORE susceptible to variants of RSV vs the original. So they decided it was better to just let the virus circulate.
God help us if the same thing happens with these covid vaccines.
by Squishy | 9th Sep 21, 10:35pm 1631183724
There is an RSV vaccine, Novavax make it. Unfortunately it's only experimental.
ah yeah ... RSV ... what happened there again?
New Zealand children falling ill in high numbers due to Covid 'immunity debt' | New Zealand | The Guardian
"New Zealand hospitals are experiencing the payoff of "immunity debt" created by Covid-19 lockdowns, with wards flooded by babies with a potentially-deadly respiratory virus, doctors have warned.
Wellington has 46 children currently hospitalised for respiratory illnesses including respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. A number are infants, and many are on oxygen. Other hospitals are also experiencing a rise in cases that are straining their resources – with some delaying surgeries or converting playrooms into clinical space. RSV is a common respiratory illness. In adults, it generally only produces very mild symptoms – but it can make young children extremely ill, or even be fatal. The size and seriousness of New Zealand's outbreak is likely being fed by what some paediatric doctors have called an "immunity debt" – where people don't develop immunity to other viruses suppressed by Covid lockdowns, causing cases to explode down the line."
by Casual Observer | 9th Sep 21, 2:05pm 1631153146
Solve it - Stop spreading misinformation on RSV - there is no vaccine.
There is no vaccine against RSV. However, it remains important to get immunised for other vaccine preventable illnesses such as pertussis (whooping cough).
https://www.health.govt.nz/your-health/conditions-and-treatments/diseas…
Novavax have one (ResVax) in stage 3 trials: https://www.novavax.com/our-pipeline
Unfortunately the Covid-19 pandemic has sucked scientific resources from development. Like everyone else the industry has been set back by resource overburden, they now need a long period where research science is better funded to get back on track.
My mistake. Was thinking of rotovirus
trying to guilt trip people into getting the vaccine
No guilt tripping required. It's a simple case of "if people who get vaccinated do get vaccinated, they will provide protection to those who can't". Simple, cold, logical, facts. No emotion involved in that statement.
If they're going down this track, can they educate and warn everyone around RSV and the implications it's had on babies...
They mentioned RSV.
Did they have a press conference specifically for the RSV Outbreak? Can't remember Jacinda fronting in an emergency stand up...
What's the R0 of RSV? What's the case fatality rate? Who are the vulnerable populations? What treatments are available and how successful are they? How many people has RSV killed worldwide in the last 12 months?
Answer those questions and you might become enlightened about why the government does what it does.
"Nine people across the country have died after becoming infected with RSV this winter - including six in Auckland's central suburbs"
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rsv-six-dead-in-auckland-as-covid-19-take…
"In the last five weeks, the number of reported RSV cases has spiked, dwarfing records from the last six years.
The outbreak had so far grown to 2543 cases nationwide – 735 of these were reported in the last week. To put this into perspective, the annual average during winter pre-Covid-19 was just 1743.
When compared to historical reports, this year's outbreak was unprecedented. Data from the past week put the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection rate at 143 per 1 million people, and the peak may still be yet to come."
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/health/125733161/rsv-outbreak-very-sharp…
Have you gained any enlightenment yet?
Looks pretty bad to me...actually worse than I thought. Clearly it's only getting worse with the prolonged lockdowns we're having, but let's not talk about it...
And yet it's nowhere near as bad as COVID.
The government addresses different things differently, based on the different needs for the different things they are addressing.
Do you really expect the government to treat things that are very different, exactly the same? That would be quite idiotic.
No where near as bad as covid? Are you talking about NZ? 9+ deaths of RSV this winter and thousands of cases...
There's no denying that RSV is overwhelming our hospitals and is spiking at record highs due to Covid 19 lockdowns.
If Jacindas going to talk about 1 baby in hospital with covid as a travesty, it seems perfectly reasonable she should talk about the many babies in hospital suffering of RSV as a result of the Covid 19 lockdowns...
But I guess you'd rather her comment about people having sex during hospital visits or your mate Hipkins having a laugh using a 'spread your legs' mug. Yeah, that seems like better use of time...
by Lanthanide | 9th Sep 21, 10:43pm 1631184238
No where near as bad as covid?
Correct. Remember when I asked you to find out how many deaths there were worldwide from RSV in the last 12 months? There have been 4.55M deaths attributed to COVID-19 since the outbreak began, that's a little longer than 12 months but the point remains. If RSV was killing millions of people worldwide, we'd know about it.
Are you talking about NZ? 9+ deaths of RSV this winter and thousands of cases...
And we've had 27 deaths from COVID-19 in NZ and roughly the same number of cases as RSV. So COVID-19 appears to be about 2-3 times as deadly.
It's not overwhelming the hospitals. There are not RSV patients that haven't been admitted to hospitals. The lockdowns didn't themselves cause RSV infections. They pushed infections that would have happened in 2020 to instead happen in 2021.
If Jacindas going to talk about 1 baby in hospital with covid as a travesty
She didn't talk about it as a "travesty". I don't think you know what that word means.
it seems perfectly reasonable she should talk about the many babies in hospital suffering of RSV as a result of the Covid 19 lockdowns...
She has talked about them.
But I guess you'd rather her comment about people having sex during hospital visits
She answered the question a journalist asked. Why are you blaming her for that? They dealt with it as quickly as they reasonably could.
or your mate Hipkins having a laugh using a 'spread your legs' mug. Yeah, that seems like better use of time...
Wow, you really are a sour, humourless person, who apparently can't walk and chew gum at the same time.
I think you're suffering a case of Jacinda derangement syndrome.
by Nifty1 | 10th Sep 21, 6:52am 1631213530
It's not overwhelming the hospitals.
RSV outbreak: Virus ravaging infants still putting pressure on health system
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/health/125733064/rsv-outbreak-virus-rava…
RSV outbreak: Hospitals and GPs 'flat tack' as virus hits children across NZ
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/health/125688496/rsv-outbreak-hospitals-…
RSV virus outbreak: Four in Wellington's ICU, 34 in hospital The outbreak of respiratory illness shows no sign of slowing in the capital, with 34 children with RSV and respiratory-type illnesses in Wellington Regional Hospital on Tuesday
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rsv-virus-outbreak-four-in-wellingtons-ic…
The above shows the impact RSV is having, its a massive health issue NZ is facing and it's getting worse by the day. This is a virus that is currently killing kiwis & putting them in hospital. Our ICU beds are being filled by RSV patients.
If you're concerned about covid you should be concerned about RSV.
by Lanthanide | 10th Sep 21, 8:44am 1631220291
its a massive health issue NZ is facing
Faced.
and it's getting worse by the day.
Was. It is now getting better by the day.
This is a virus that is currently killing kiwis & putting them in hospital.
Fewer and fewer kiwis are in hosptial with RSV every week.
Our ICU beds are being filled by RSV patients.
Were being filled.
I was concerned.
Where are you getting this from...? The links provided by me were as recent as July/August...
I've yet to see any evidence behind your statements.
Wrong again..
Your links are from the start of July. That was 2 months ago. There are no more recent articles about hospitals being full of RSV patients because it's not happening now.
Bloomfield said in yesterday's 1pm press conference that the RSV situation peaked 6 weeks ago. You know what 'peaked' means, right? It means everything after the peak is on a downward trend.
You ignored my next sentence, which the 3 links your provided agreed with:
There are not RSV patients that haven't been admitted to hospitals.
The links show that hospitals are being overwhelmed with RSV, something you denied.
by Lanthanide | 10th Sep 21, 10:00am 1631224813
I specifically said you ignored my second sentence because the second sentence is relevant to my first sentence. My definition of the hospitals being overwhelmed is when they are turning away patients with RSV because they have no room for any more, and people are having bad health outcomes as a result of being turned away.
None of the articles you provided said that.
But we know that COVID overseas, many people were turned away from hospital and died as a result.
You keep trying to pretend that RSV is as bad as COVID. It simply isn't, on any of the metrics I listed. That's why Jacinda is not giving RSV the same airtime she is giving to COVID.
by Nifty1 | 10th Sep 21, 12:22pm 1631233372
So much spin & zero facts, you should work for labour... if you aren't already.
by kpnuts | 9th Sep 21, 2:19pm 1631153978
When will our press seriously call her out on stuff --- teh great we are vaccinating faster than everyone else - because we were so late to the party everyone was drunk - and better still we have secured EARLY 250,000 additional vaccines -- EARLY ? WHO reports nearly 5 and 1/2 BIllion vaccines given globally-- we are hardly early to this party !
Maybe you haven't noticed, but the media generally and National have been carping and moaning about those things for over 6 months now.
sorry but mainly patsy questions from teh media - who if they ask a real one get dismissed with a thats not my understanding a toss of the head and a move across the room to a more friendly journalist ---and a completely innafectual opposition more interested in starting a race war or something else than actually asking constructive and challenging questions -- and now with the 1pm party political broadcast back no air time
by C_T_20 | 10th Sep 21, 11:59am 1631231963
Are you paid by the hour or by the number of posts defending this government? Seems to me that nobody posting here can be critical of anything related to covid, the government or both combined, without you going to extraordinary lengths to reply and defend this government's actions or strategy.
by Mrs The Point | 10th Sep 21, 12:35pm 1631234132
He's a card carrying Labour sycophant. It is pretty boring, gumming up the comment section with rah rah posts about how well Labour is doing.
by delboy | 9th Sep 21, 2:49pm 1631155797
I knew today's 1pm briefing would be a good news story when I heard Jacinda would be fronting it and sure enough she's managed to secure more vaccine from Spain.
She only fronts when there's an alert level change or good news otherwise it's left to Hipkins to deliver bad news or the usual daily updates.
That's fairly understandable. Play to your strengths. Our PM graduated as a communications student and we have ourselves here a communications PM, semaphores and all, with PR added for good measure. That's half of it at least for sure. What exactly the other half is, is hard to tell in my opinion.
by Zachary Smith | 9th Sep 21, 3:36pm 1631158609
If a politician didn't play to their strengths I imagine they would get criticized for that too. I was watching an old YouTube video earlier today and they were talking about President Ford and said that he was not a man of the times, in fact he seemed a century out of place. It made me think that to be a leader you need to be 'of the times' and a 'communications' person is obviously what the people want right now.
Sure it takes all sorts doesn't it. For instance President Coolidge was the complete opposite but not unpopular either. Once Dorothy Parker was seated beside at a formal dinner. She remarked something like "my friends have bet me I won't get more than three words out of you"Coolidge turned to her and said "you lose."
She does what she is told and reads what she is given.
Actually she mostly writes her own speeches.
Not true at all, actually. She's presented several recent press briefings that did not have any notable good news.
by Chris-M | 9th Sep 21, 3:41pm 1631158896
It is going to be interesting watching how ventilators will be allocated to the explosion of covid cases that will occur when we open up the border. One line of thought is that it will be a very ruthless triage situation and those who have been vaccinated will be assessed as having a far higher probability of recovering, so are more likely to be allocated a ventilator than an un vaccinated patient.
Chickens roosting?
Oh for Gods sake stop it. This us and them stuff is revolting.
Would you rather know this now or when you are lying on a bed gasping for air?
by C_T_20 | 9th Sep 21, 11:30pm 1631187042
I tell you what I am doing now. I signed the support declaration of the nz doctors sos website. And I am also actively educating myself in the various treatments in varying stages of covid. In addition, I educate myself as much as I can as to why we might not yet have them approved for use in those cases where those cheap and well established drugs may help avoid the need of a ventilator in the first place. I also had a full checkup and had zero results with any concerns raised by my GP 2 months ago. So some people are not buying the hysteria and blackmail to get vaccinated. My last point is simple, we have a human rights commission who still remembers why it exist, and it gave some pertinent advice recently, thank you.
When I signed the support declaration about 3 weeks ago, it was well under 10,000 supporters! This government may find that there is fast growing number of people who can think for themselves and will not follow like sheep.
https://nzdsos.com
by sharetrader | 10th Sep 21, 8:48am 1631220497
they are factual wrong, the vaccine is FDA approved, it has been tested for ten years it was being developed for a range of other virus and they pivoted also the testing now has the greatest sample any drug in the history of mankind has ever had with billions of does administered and effects monitored
the drugs they have quoted as helping have in the real settings be ineffective against Covid
and last they did not put their names front and center on the page, in fact looks more like a scam
Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19 | FDA
by C_T_20 | 10th Sep 21, 12:16pm 1631232974
Well, of course the vaccines are approved now! Thanks to swift government lawmaking actions we never saw before in our lifetimes! You are obviously very studiously avoiding to ask the real question.
by Chris-M | 10th Sep 21, 12:24pm 1631233465
Well good luck with that I hope that you don't regret it. Please acknowledge that you made your decisions knowingly and accept, without complaint, that the health system will not have the capacity to look after you adequately when we transition to living with covid
Do you then approve of my witholding future funding of that system via paying less tax? Considering that you want me to 'opt out' now explicitly, to forgo a ventilator should i require one against all expectations and precautionary steps taken? Would it not be great to run every aspect of the health system on that basis? We could make do with the current health system resources quite fine by applying such 'innovative' thinking in many other areas that tax the health system heavily?
To answer your question, yes, happy to acknowledge that. As long as you stand up and fight for doctors rights to question their own bodies about some of the decisions made by a very few at the top of medsafe and min of health? And as long as you support the basic human right to refuse a medical procedure and not being pressured to accept it via 'no jab no job' hysteria being spread by any government agency! Looking at Customs in particular!!
by Cowpat | 9th Sep 21, 5:11pm 1631164287
Almost by default, if you require a ventilator you are extremely unwell, vaccinated or unvaccinated. Allocating probabilities on which individual may survive may not be so straightforward. Whether the 85 year old fully vaccinated patient with multiple underlying conditions deserves to be intubated ahead of an unvaccinated 20 year old with no other underlying health issues poses many questions. Given the government is spending money freely, perhaps the chronic lack of ICU beds should be addressed first .
Given the government is spending money freely, perhaps the chronic lack of ICU beds should be addressed first .
It is being addressed. The problem is you need trained medical staff to monitor and operate each ICU bed, and you can't just buy them from a medical device manufacturer.
by Essen | 9th Sep 21, 8:34pm 1631176490
But you can pay them more so they don't leave to Aussie or you can recruit more from the UK, Philippines and South India.
You should call up Andrew Little and tell him how easy it is.
We did at a Conference. He was surprised he wasn't well received. He doesn't have a clue, much like most of the Labour Caucus outside Ardern, Robertson, and Hipkins. We also tried to speak with Fa'afoi to address the number of skilled experts leaving the country due to Immigration's stupidity, but he's always out for lunch.
Of course decisions will be made on purely medical criteria without any reference to the merits of any moral considerations as they always have been. The point is that sadly the prognosis for un vaccinated people is far more poor and scarce resources will be allocated where there is the greatest probability of success.
by Wrong John | 9th Sep 21, 3:46pm 1631159188
I read an RSV story out of Tauranga recently. Maybe 2 weeks ago. About 30 something cases with one death if I recall.
by JimboJones | 9th Sep 21, 3:58pm 1631159935
Looking like we might eliminate once again. I thought it was impossible with Delta according to the right?
Yeah, defeatist lot they are.
24.56 %, or 14 out of 57 comments. Perhaps trolling should be renamed Lanthaniding.
But who's counting? Lay off the personal attacks, the commenter has every right to comment to their hearts content.
by the Joneses | 9th Sep 21, 6:52pm 1631170362
FYI: Troll - a person who makes a deliberately offensive or provocative online post.
Whether, left right or centre the fact is that the people of New Zealand have been sufficiently compliant, sensible and effective at making the lockdown work. As in Sydney it looks like it just took one Delta identity to come through the border. If New Zealanders had behaved in the manner of Sydneysiders, regardless of the relatively less stringent lockdown over there, ie beaches, parks and sports etc not to mention protests, New Zealand may now be much the same as Victoria if not NSW. The fact is when Delta arrived far too many New Zealanders were left unprotected by vaccination. This government owes the people of New Zealand quite some gratitude for their application and tolerance, which in effect, so far that is, has let them off the hook.
Well I called it only a matter of hours ago, NZ will open up just the same as Australia as soon as the vaccination rate is high enough. It would appear that 80% is the magic number.
If I had to guess my attempt at a future prediction would be as soon as all the people want to be vaccinated have had that opportunity. Not sure what that number would be in NZ.
A few commenters on here talking about the abysmal capacity our hospitals have for any sort of outbreak, I think they have a point. For that reason I think the only humane option is to let everyone who wants to, get vaccinated regardless of what that number is. I still think it's going to be messy when we open up due to lack of hospital capacity. But if everyone's had a reasonable chance to protect themselves...
Depends on your definition of "let everyone who wants to, get vaccinated".
For example a lot of people simply don't have good transportation options. They may want the vaccine, but have no way to access it given the resources available at their disposal.
This would suggest that some sort of mobile vaccination service may be required, if the government is really dead-set on "as many people as possible" getting the vaccination. I think it's likely that they will in fact have mobile vaccination services early next year, at least in the main cities.
The easiest way to do this would have been to allow GP clinics to provide COVID vaccinations much earlier. There is a GP practice in Huntly that has 95% vaccination rates and they achieve this by having the nurses drive to homes to vaccinate. No need to spin up a separate apparatus when it already exists.
Yip, it seems the government did drop the ball on the GP front.
Also I wasn't necessarily suggesting setting up a separate apparatus, just saying that some sort of mobile distribution of vaccines that visits people in their own homes is likely going to be necessary. Not every GP practice, or probably even most, are going to be resourced or set up to do what you're suggesting.
by Warwick D | 9th Sep 21, 7:14pm 1631171686
Hope Spain has kept these vaccine doses that are being flicked on to New Zealand properly refrigerated!
Yeah, I had assumed they'd be coming directly from Pfizer, and the donor country would be foregoing their next shipment.
by Squishy | 9th Sep 21, 7:33pm 1631172815
This story makes no sense, why would we still need vaccines in October? By Governments own estimation the vaccine rollour would largely be done by October:
https://ibb.co/Fwr0KvF
The 250,000 doses arrive tomorrow. There will be a larger shipment to arrive, presumably some time next week. The shipments together, alongside the 350,000 per week we're getting from Pfizer, will tide us over until October at our current vaccination rate of ~500,000 per week.
Myself and a lot of people I know are not due for our 2nd dose until mid to late November. Following the 12 week timeline between doses for maximum long term protection. Just have to hope we don't go full NSW before then.
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2021/05/covid-pfizer-vaccination-interval-antibody-response.aspx
by Solve_it | 10th Sep 21, 6:28am 1631212092
I will also be waiting 12 weeks for maximum immunity for myself and my unborn kiddo.
I also only got my first vaccination a week or so ago because that's when I got out of my first trimester.
Consider myself pretty lucky to have this option available to me thanks to nz's elimination policy.
If all hell breaks loose before the end of November I will consider getting my second shot sooner.
by Paradoxx | 9th Sep 21, 9:28pm 1631179686
Good article in the SF Chronicle looking at the Iceland and San Fran Delta spikes. Some good data here on the effectiveness of the vaccines on preventing hospitalization and deaths.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/What-Iceland-s-delta-surge-m…
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by sharetrader | 9th Sep 21, 10:51pm 1631184701
Another patient at Middlemore Hospital has tested positive for Covid-19.The Ministry of Health tonight confirmed the person came to Middlemore's Emergency Department today.In a statement tonight, the ministry said Counties Manukau DHB's information was that the patient presented with a non Covid-related issue "and answered all screening questions in the negative, indicating their having had no exposure to Covid-19, no symptoms of Covid-19 nor having been at any location of interest"."The patient was assessed in the ED and spent a short amount of time in the Adult Short Stay ward before making the decision to self-discharge," the statement said.
why are they not treating everyone as if they had covid? how many staff are they going to stand down this time
Covid 19 Delta outbreak: Another Middlemore Hospital patient tests positive for virus; attended ED today - NZ Herald
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/126339918/covid19-p…
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Karin Daymond is a landscape painter whose paintings are a lot deeper than the thickness of the paint that she applies to the canvas. Over the years Daymond has become accustomed to emotional responses to her paintings. Many identify with the setting of the painting, even though the viewer is unlikely to have been to that particular place. It is this ability to capture the spirit of a place that makes her work so powerful.
Daymond's paintings are actual places. The emotions that they evoke could, however, be found in countless places and situations throughout the South African landscape. Land issues are not simple in this country. Land becomes a canvas on which people can make their mark, and these marks have both visual and emotional implications.
Having lived most of her life in subtropical places, Daymond was recently captivated by the Free State and has reflected this in her most latest work. "The lush areas that I know so well are visually entertaining and forgiving. There is excess here. In contrast though, I am drawn to the deep attachment to the land that is written all over the Free State. I love to walk there, through the vast landscape punctuated by evidence of human settlement. There are old stone walls, new stone walls, new and derelict fences, clumps of gum trees, and in the middle of nowhere, graves piled high with stones collected off the land. It is a reserved place, with its often sad social boundaries threaded through its flat veld and undulating hills."
In contrast Daymond's lowveld landscapes capture a raw and natural beauty, exploring the energy of untouched nature. A sky becomes a swirling mosaic of brush marks that suggest events beyond our immediate world. A triptych titled "Bush Rhythms", begun as a study of small areas of bushveld vegetation in the late winter, quickly becomes an exploration of colours and marks, the patterns of which could be found in outer space or under a microscope. Aloes stand like sentinels on a hillside in the Schoemanskloof valley, and trees jostle for space as they tumble down a kloof in the Blyde River Canyon. "As we methodically erode and invade environments, recording pristine landscapes feels increasingly urgent to me. We are moving closer to a point where untouched land no longer exists, and so my work sometimes has a sense of nostalgia. Working on these paintings, applying thousands of brush marks is akin to meditation, a respectful process with which the viewer can identify."
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APPLE HAS SHOWN OFF iOS 11.3, a hefty software update coming to iPhone and iPad users later this year.
The most notable incoming improvement is Apple's battery health indicator, which follows the firm's confession that it slows down the performance of older iPhones in order to prevent processors from demanding too much power from older Lithium-ion battery packs, which degrade over time and struggle to deliver the peak currents and battery life they could when new.
With iOS 11.3, Apple will show users the health of their iPhone's battery and notify when it needs to be serviced. As promised, the new feature will show users if Apple is hamstringing the performance of their handset, and will enable users to toggle the throttling 'feature' on and off.
Apple's battery health indicator will be coming to the iPhone SE, iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6S, 6S Plus, 7 and 7 Plus. There's no word yet as to whether it'll be coming to the iPhone 8 or iPhone X.
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"The view of the real world through the camera now has 50 per cent greater resolution and supports auto-focus for an even sharper perspective.
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I didn't notice any difference in the first place. I rather have longer battery life. Not that it's bad.
Are you on beta? This has yet to this date not been publicly released as of yet, I don't think.
Good battery life you'll probably not see it as the "fix" apple deployed in the last 3 publicly released builds will be turned off automatically.
Apple finally has an excuse to ship a buggy or corrupt iOS software that can by default allow iPhones with faulty or degraded iphones to suddenly shut down ... and this was BEGGED and PLEADED by the masses of their users, and the press! Get it?! It's gotta be hilarious.
Still Apple should've made a public announcement first, posted on their site, AND in the notification of the update, leaving it OFF by default. This would've been a non-negative issue. Then more time and focus could've been done to A) launch Homepod on time in Christmas, b) to boost their revenues for Q1, and c) most importantly to RETOOL an FIX Siri's joke of a working AI.


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Mastery is the primary focus for raiding in Battle for Azeroth, but in general all stats have close enough value that gaining item level is important.
Gear in Battle for Azeroth is heavily focused on pursuing item level upgrades on your gear pieces. While mastery will be a primary focus to prepare for raids, if you find a non-mastery item that is 10 item levels higher than the Mastery piece, it is quite likely that the higher ilvl piece will be better. Some exceptions to item level can be rings and some trinkets. For further detail, check the gear guide.
A strong enchant to acquire once you receive a strong weapon will be Enchant Weapon - Masterful Navigation.
Cast Holy Word: Sanctify on cooldown (if hitting full 6 players and sufficient damage going out).
Cast Binding Heal (if talented) during medium to low damage to get your HWords off cooldown more quickly.
Renew rarely, often while moving on targets taking sustained damage.
Cast Holy Word: Chastise on cooldown.
Cast Holy Fire on cooldown.
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