Feeding the vulnerable under lockdown

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With everyone staying home under level 4 lockdown, be aware of your neighbours’ situations. If they are isolated and alone, perhaps vulnerable, they may need shopping help. Services are on call for this.

https://covid19.govt.nz/activities/shopping-and-services/#getting-groceries-delivered

https://shop.sva.org.nz – for Auckland only.

Countdown, New World, Funky Pumpkin etc have home deliveries organised online.

If stuck for food, contact local foodbanks for help: https://www.familyservices.govt.nz/directory/searchresultspublic.htm?searchTerms=food

New government advice sheet: Access to food or essential items – August 2021

Rolling news: Tales of lockdown – ‘There’s more despair this time’ + Delayed Covid-19 transfers affect families: ‘Major issues around food supplies’ + Government funding for extra 60,000 food parcels Aug 28

⁠More information / comparison story of first lockdown, 18 months ago: https://crestnz.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/queues-empty-shelves-closed-dairies-how-to-shop

Caring for each other and the neighbourhood, kia kaha.

Kia ora

CREST

Update 27 August: Lockdown level 4 has been extended for us until 31 August at the soonest – NZ south of Auckland to shift to level 3 at midnight Tuesday. Thus we have more advisories to usefully share today:

Q and A with Prof Tony Blakely: Why it’s too late for elimination strategy in NSW

Airborne spread of viruses ‘vastly underappreciated’ – study re Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses report in Science journal.

For the benefit of all communities, this raises the key question in good pandemic response: trust. Trust in two critical respects..

In Aylmer, Ontario – one of the least vaccinated parts of Canada – the community works at convincing the vaccine hesitant to get COVID-19 shots by seeing “It’s all about trust”:

It is the same task here in NZ.

That expected by the governing corporate party is not reciprocated, manipulation is the game. Labour-aligned criminal thieving and vandalism are done strategically, to dis-empower the people and create dependency on their governing power.

Corporate media have parallel failings that communities need be cautioned by, for maximising our well-being. Stuff’s ‘Neighbourly’ marketplace trades on false pretences, for example, with a heavy and corrupt filter over what constitutes community.

Current global covid statistics, a 2% death rate: worldometers.info/coronavirus/

COVID-19 variants and vaccine effectiveness, Immunisation Advisory Centre, immune.org.NZ

Immunity To COVID-19 Could Last Longer Than You’d Think, NPR, USA.

Covid-19: NZ should aim for more than 90% vaccinated – epidemiologist Rod Jackson

COVID-19: Vaccine data, Data and statistics about the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in New Zealand, Ministry of Health NZ + Wikipedia COVID-19_vaccination in NZ

Vaccination milestone: 50.1% of Aotearoa residents have now had one or two covid jabs – NZ Herald, 30 Aug 2021

Vaccine Tracker: How many Kiwis have been vaccinated?, NZ Herald Mar’21 + Covid-19 Charting New Zealand’s vaccine rollout, Newsroom

Two days later, 2.6% vaccinated added = 52.7% ready
Two days later, 3% vaccinated added = 55.7% ready
Two days later, 2.7% vaccinated added = 58.4% ready
Two days later, 1.7% vaccinated added = 60.1% ready
Two days later, 2.3% vaccinated added = 62.4% ready
Two days later, 2.1% vaccinated added = 64.5% ready
Two days later, 1.4% vaccinated added = 65.9% ready
Two days later, 1.7% vaccinated added = 67.6% ready
Two days later, ‘4.0%’ vaccinated added ?!? = 71.6% ready (140,000 of those eligible have been dropped)
Two days later, 1.5% vaccinated added = 73.1% ready
Two days later, 1.0% vaccinated added = 74.1% ready
Two days later, 1.2% vaccinated added = 75.3% ready
Two days later, 1.0% vaccinated added = 76.3% ready
Two days later, 0.7% vaccinated added = 77.0% ready
Two days later, 0.6% vaccinated added = 77.6% ready

Spread among vulnerable raises fears of upturn in Covid-19 cases – 29 September 2021

Two days later, 0.7% vaccinated added = 78.3% ready
Two days later, 0.6% vaccinated added = 78.9% ready
Two days later, 0.5% vaccinated added = 79.4% ready
Two days later, 1.0% vaccinated added = 80.4% ready
Two days later, 0.9% vaccinated added = 81.3% ready
Two days later, 0.6% vaccinated added = 81.9% ready
Two days later, 0.8% vaccinated added = 82.7% ready
Two days later, 0.7% vaccinated added = 83.4% ready
Two days later, 1.3% vaccinated added = 84.7% ready
Two days later, 0.4% vaccinated added = 85.1% ready
Two days later, 0.5% vaccinated added = 85.6% ready
Two days later, 0.5% vaccinated added = 86.1% ready
Two days later, 0.5% vaccinated added = 86.6% ready
Two days later, 0.3% vaccinated added = 86.9% ready
Two days later, 0.6% vaccinated added = 87.5% ready
Two days later, 0.5% vaccinated added = 88.0% ready
Two days later, 0.3% vaccinated added = 88.3% ready
Two days later, 0.3% vaccinated added = 88.6% ready
Two days later, 0.3% vaccinated added = 88.9% ready
Two days later, 0.3% vaccinated added = 89.2% ready
Two days later, 0.3% vaccinated added = 89.5% ready
Two days later, 0.3% vaccinated added = 89.8% ready
Two days later, 0.4% vaccinated added = 90.2% ready
Two days later, 0.2% vaccinated added = 90.4% ready
Two days later, 0.3% vaccinated added = 90.7% ready
Two days later, 0.3% vaccinated added = 91.0% ready
Two days later, 0.3% vaccinated added = 91.3% ready
Two days later, 0.2% vaccinated added = 91.5% ready
Two days later, 0.4% vaccinated added = 91.9% ready

A huge thank you to all the heroes – in Te Tai Tokerau / Northland, Bay of Plenty, East Cape, Taupo and Whanganui regions especially – working so very hard on this vaccination campaign. Kia kaha. Kia ora koutou kaatoa.

2021 pandemic trajectory

Coronaviruses – a brief history – The Conversation, 15 Apr’20

Coronavirus is evolving but so are our antibodies – The Conversation, 18 Mar’21

Coronavirus: ‘Double mutant’ Covid variant found in India – BBC, 25 Mar’21

As India confronts a ‘double mutation’, what is the state of Covid variants, and what do they mean for vaccines? – TheSpinoff, 29 Mar’21

“it doesn’t seem like the double mutant variant lowers the effectiveness of vaccines or treatments” but increases covid transmissibility – A New Double Mutant Variant of COVID Was Detected in California – Here’s What We Know So Far – Health.com, 5Apr’21

‘Double mutant’ COVID-19 variant colonises lungs directly, evades RT-PCR: Experts – downtoearth.org.in, 21 Apr’21

Delta Covid variant has a new mutation called ‘delta plus’: Here’s what you need to know – CNBC.com + Covid 19 coronavirus: Fears new Delta Plus mutation could resist treatment – NZ Herald, 24 Jun’21

“Pfizer vaccine was 88 per cent effective against Delta, compared to 93 per cent effective against Alpha” – Double dose of vaccines effective against Delta – Healthing.ca, 23 Jul’21

“The delta variant of the coronavirus appears to cause more severe illness than earlier variants and spreads as easily as chickenpox, according to an internal federal health document.. data showing that vaccinated people who became infected with delta shed just as much virus as those who were not vaccinated.. we have to become comfortable with coronavirus not going away” – ‘The war has changed’: Internal CDC document urges new messaging, warns delta infections likely more severe – The Washington Post, 29 Jul’21

“a greater proportion of Delta cases need emergency care than those with the Alpha variant” – Delta SARS-CoV-2 variant – transmission and vaccine effectiveness – The Immunisation Advisory Centre

“These Aren’t Shortages – They’re the Beginning of the Longest, Hardest Economic Collapse in History” – The Future of the World Economy is Perma-Crisis – Eudaimonia & Co, 3 Oct’21

New Delta variant cases double in two weeks amid fears it could beat Covid jabs – mirror.co.uk, 4 Oct’21

(in summary) t.b.c. … DRAFT

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