KiwiNikki

KiwiNikki, 6 days ago to random

#Cough. Cough, cough. Blerk.
The sound of the mall.
#COVID19 #CovidNZ

KiwiNikki, 19 days ago to random

This is not a good look, Canterbury. Mask up.
#MaskUp #COVID19 #CovidNZ

KiwiNikki, 2 months ago to random

So many people with #Covid! I’ve never known seven people with it at once in my small circle! Four different households. #nzcovid

KiwiNikki, 3 months ago to random

I read that #pseudoephedrine is bad for anyone who has had #Covid19. Can I find that research now…? Nope. I remember it was something to do with blood pressure, heart issues (?) and only to be used under strict medical care.

Anyone know which article it was? I do read a lot of Nature and bmj.

KiwiNikki, 5 months ago to random

I popped into a couple of shops for my last minute perishable items yesterday. I was the only person masked. It was crowded everywhere. Covid numbers are up. Wastewater numbers are up. Hospitals are very busy. The govt has just got rid of the last covid measures.

I just don’t get it.
#nzcovid

KiwiNikki, 5 months ago to conservative

Reading about plants adapting to self-pollination due to lack of insects, makes me think that we need a radical rethink about weeds. Dandelions, daisies, buttercups and all the lovely weed flowers need to be loved more so than grass. We need people to realise that grass lawns need to become wildflower lawns ASAP.
#ecology #bees #NZGardens

KiwiNikki, 5 months ago to random

I’m back from Wellington. Hardly anyone masked but wow! So many sick people. Lots of coughing, sneezing and blowing noses - lots of shop assistants told me they were just back from having had covid. The flight home was awful - I can’t imagine how many people are going to have Christmas ruined having caught covid on the flight.
#covid #nzcovid
#WearAMask
And the shops were really quiet. Hardly any customers in except the lunch hour.

KiwiNikki, 6 months ago to NewZealand

Kia Ora!

I’ve decided I’m going to switch my greeting in real life and on line to Te Reo in defiance of the coalition government. It is a simple thing I can do to show that I believe in moving forward not backwards with Indigenous rights.
Anyone want to join me and spread this?
#KiaOraMovement
#nzpol

KiwiNikki, 6 months ago to NewZealand

I bet the pharmacists can’t wait to get ramraided for cash and pseudoephidrine again like the old days!
Madness!
#nzpol

KiwiNikki, 7 months ago to random

Hmmmm… not looking good.
#SARSCoV2
#NZCovid

KiwiNikki, 7 months ago to random

Mainstream news finally picks up what has been known in medical journals for 3 years.UK mirror and The Sun running with vascular issues in almost all Sars #Covid19 cases in children.
#SARSCovid19

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/parents-issued-grim-health-warning-31285897

KiwiNikki, 7 months ago to random

If you aren’t following the UK covid enquiry, you should start. There’s so much stuff coming out that a lot of the public isn’t aware. What they knew and when. And what Sars-Covid-19 does.
#covid19 #CovidEnquiry #SARSCovid19

https://x.com/implausibleblog/status/1714220911509807318?s=61&t=QWyYGvEEd1t9tfTieajMrQ

KiwiNikki, 7 months ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/16/covid-deaths-rise-scrap-mask-wearing-hospitals

Why are so few people masking these days? Covid is so well researched. We all can see the devastation long covid causes. And yet people don’t want to protect their health and the health of those around them? I just don’t get it.

#WearAMask #covid19

KiwiNikki, 8 months ago to NewZealand

I missed the JMM hosted debate last night - deliberately.
Luxon - $60 a week on food?
I guess the rest is bought buy a staffer, or is a takeaway or eaten at a restaurant, and doesn’t get declared as ‘what he bought’.
Ridiculous! And getting more so!
#NZPol

KiwiNikki, 8 months ago to random

Why is the Tesla icon a leotard?

KiwiNikki, 8 months ago to random

Imagine voting thinking that covid isn’t a huge issue. Thinking covid is not causing long term health issues in the population. Or that long term we can just replace health care workers quickly when they have to leave. Or that it doesn’t cause brain damage. Or strokes. Or heart attacks. Or dementia.

Or that climate change isn’t much of a problem. We can just move whole populations inland. And be clever about what we grow on less land. And cope with the cyclones.
#VoteLikeYourlifeDependsOnIt

KiwiNikki, 8 months ago to bluesky

Can anyone give me a #Bluesky invite? I’ve been reading that lots of science people are going there. I will stay here too as I like the vibe but follow lots of epidemiologists on the dark place that shall not be named - who are moving.

KiwiNikki, 8 months ago to random

I’ve been reading about normalcy bias today.
I still struggle with why seemingly intelligent people aren’t masking, given the enormous weight of what is confirmed about Covid-19.

I was masking all the time indoors before I knew people who were really sick with long covid. Now there are more people struggling with Long covid, there are less people masking. And no politicians - who should be leading from the front.
#WearAMask #COVIDisNotOver

realTuckFrumper, 8 months ago to random

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio returning to Earth after record 371 days in space https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2023/09/27/NASA-astronaut-Frank-Rubio-returns-Earth/9981695799872/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

KiwiNikki, 8 months ago to random

When are they going to talk about covid NOW and Long covid NOW. It’s not all about the deaths. Sick people can’t work.

KiwiNikki, 9 months ago to NewZealand

Wow. Just imagine if you’d swapped to an EV because you do a lot of kms.
#NZPol

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/132900566/all-vehicles-to-move-to-road-user-charges-under-national-including-evs

KiwiNikki, 9 months ago to random

I sometimes wonder if I’m the only person who knows people hard hit by #covid/long covid. I’m masking. They aren’t. I’m convinced catching covid makes people reckless.
#CovidIsNotMild #COVIDisNotOver #

KiwiNikki, 9 months ago to random

My weekly food bill hasn’t gone up very much in the last few years. I’ve been tracking it. But I buy less and less from supermarkets. I use the local fruit and vege store, bin inn, local Couplands, local butchers… their prices have gone up slightly as you’d expect. But not the crazy supermarket increases!
#NZSupermarketPrices

KiwiNikki, 9 months ago to random

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02715-1
#covid19 #NZCovid #COVIDisNotOver