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Kevin McCready

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  1. 2 minutes ago, Wayne-o said:

    It's not surprising that special time hasn't been spent writing fine-grained rules about  leisure boating that make everybody happy.  This is a massive global crisis and it was urgent, and broad brushstrokes on a luxury pastime is no surprise.  

    ScottieE, I'm not sure your science and economics are sound.  If we eliminate we will be visiting rest homes sooner than if we wait for herd immunity and antibody testing protocols etc etc, especially if we pace herd immunity at a speed where ICUs aren't overrun (don't understand where you got your 0.1% mortality rate - the global numbers show that to be way wrong). 

    Hindsight is great, but Sweden is still an experiment, and if our govt had tried it they would have been ripped apart like Boris J was when he (briefly) announced a herd immunity strategy.  Also not sure why you think NZ's economy is so harmed by elimination compared to alternatives, nor why you single out just the PM as a "twit" on these points.  In the days leading up to the lockdown there was heavy industry lobbying for a lockdown.  Major industry and exporters wanted it.  This is partly why the opposition agreed with it.  Tourism and flights were collapsing whatever we did and the key was to minimise health and economic carnage elsewhere.  The travelling barriers with elimination are small beer compared to the peril of having a long, slow pandemic spread through the community with business after business shut down again and again.   Nail it quickly and NZ has a major competitive advantage.  Hindsight or medical study will inform things for sure, but this strategy is what industry and scientists were telling the government to do loud and clear.  The opposition agreed and their criticism has been on detail of implementation, not the overall plan.  Most international commentators praise it.  Either all of them are twits, or none, but not just the (female) politician you don't like.

    We were going to have a recession the moment this blew up in the major economies.  We may yet choose to take a different approach over time (you can go from lockdown to Sweden's approach but not vice versa).  But I don't think there were any loud political or industry voices saying it was stupid to lock down, quite the opposite.  As for mocking it as being "kind", we did what China did (locking down Wuhan) and they will have been thinking solely about the economy.  Twits also?  

    Back to boating, here is a prediction: absent a vaccine, Americans will find global cruising miserable for a long time now because their approach has been terrible.  Wouldn't surprise me if they (and others) face serious barriers to visiting smaller island states that can eliminate.  We may just have the chance of cruising up to the islands like the old days.

    Whatever you think of the Chinese government It's incredibly offensive and racist to say China would be thinking solely of "the economy". And anyway, there is no such thing as "the economy" - it's an intellectual construct, not a real thing. https://kmccready.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/open-letter-to-colin-james-cc-rod-oram/

  2. 1. "The Economy" is not a thing. https://kmccready.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/open-letter-to-colin-james-cc-rod-oram/

    The world, COVID or not, is a place of abundance. If we share our toys nicely everyone benefits.

    COVID provides us with a wonderful opportunity to reset how we run the world. Big improvements for the majority are possible if we have the political will to make them and the intellectual honesty to reassess our notions of how the world should run.

    2. If you want to speak on behalf of disabled people and you're not disabled you should be very very careful. In particular don't make generalisations about all disabled people.

  3. 8 minutes ago, Knot Me... maybe said:

    Hmmm..... According to ACC claims history cycling has already generated over 20,500 claims year to date, this 2019/20 year that is. Bikes come in at No4 of the recreational activity/sporting Top 20 list.

    The Exercise the Govt has been pushing comes in at No2 with over 31,500 claims.

    Jogging, another Govt encouraged activity is No7 with 9000 claims.

    The closest thing to anything boat or marine related in the Top 20 would be Snowboarding which comes in at No20.  Snowboards look like wakeboards is the theory there.

    There is the category 'Other' on the bottom that picks up all the rest, which I'm assuming is where sailing sits. The total for 'Other', 69K, is over 14,000 less than the total of top 3 activities combined. The top 3 being Rugby, Soccer and Fitness Training/Gym

     

    That's a false comparison and therefore false conclusion; heaps more people bike, walk or ran than sail.

    I'd be happier if everyone chilled and stopped thinking of ways to get around the rules.

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  4. 15 minutes ago, whitepointer said:

    So that means some Asian type people can still go fishing of the rocks at lion rock Piha in a 3 mtr swell🤨

    Your comment is out of line and I've reported it. We don't need racism in NZ, or anywhere.

    #givenothingtoracism

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  5. Try any fasteners business. From my notes:

    nuts and bolts fasteners
    Bolt Shop 09 441 9425
    191B or 2 / 191 Archers Rd Glenfield AKL 0629
    only has M6 aluminium bolts

    Anzor Fasteners Ltd 09 444 4697 101 Diana Dve Glenfield AKL
     no aluminium bolts

    EDL Fasteners Ltd no aluminium bolts
    Head Office
    70 Richard Pearse Drive
    Mangere, AKL
    Phone: 09 257 5959
    Fax: 09 257 5844
    info@edlfast.co.nz
    2/65 Ellice Road Glenfield AKL  09 444 1894

    ECKO Staples & Nails  09 527 7765 no aluminium bolts
    Unit 3 88 Elizabeth Knox Pl AKL

    Eclipse Fasteners Ltd 09 272 8069
    13 Stonedon Dve E Tamaki2013 AKL East Tamaki

    Blacks Fasteners Ltd 09 589 1036  
    930C Great South Road1061 AKL Penrose
     

  6. Now that I can, I love sailing on and off the anchor. The looks on some yachties faces is fun, especially the ones who only seem to sail once a year.

     

    Speaking of anchors, mine got wedged in rocks close to the ramp at Izzy Bay the other day.  I eventually got it free but not without a worry. Does anyone know how far the rocks go out from the ramp?

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