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To: newstips@stuffdigital.co.nz Date: 12 March 2026, 16:12 Kia ora Team, Please update this misinformation in your headline immediately, it is absolutely not correct that catching the virus is our new booster and is deeply negligent to give this impression to the public. Please confirm this has been updated, and see correct info here: "What many people don't realise is that getting Covid repeatedly is not like building immunity, it's more like accumulating damage. Each infection raises your risk of long Covid and serious complications." - University of Auckland associate professor and vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbeing/each-wave-of- covid-19-means-accumulated-damage-for-our-health-savs-expert

The Covid immunity cycle: Why catching the virus is basically our new booster Lloyd Burr March 12, 2026 • 4:00am

I have emailed but if anyone can reach Stuff more quickly that would be great.

This is misinformation - a correction needs to be issued, an apology given, and a process put in place so this doesn’t reoccur.

It is unacceptable and negligent this has been up for a full day during a health crisis.

Each Covid-19 wave wrecks your health. Here's what you can do Hospitalisations and deaths from the virus are climbing as the ninth wave of Covid-19 surges across Aotearoa.

Here’s the correct advice:

www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbei...

Not enough people factor in cromulence when making buying decisions, I find.

Sticker seen in Dunedin, Aotearoa/New Zealand denouncing the Prime Minister Chris Luxon for supporting the US-Israeli war on Iran

Is that because of the state of the economy, or has Xero got worse? I used it when I was freelancing, when it felt like a breath of fresh air to me, too. It felt like an accomplishment to reconcile invoices and track slow payers while not having to pay an accountant as much as previously.

Because he is a giant toddler and Mum & Dad New Zealanders empathise with toddlers?

Most of them wouldn't have enough friends to warrant it. But I suppose they'd need somewhere to brag about their superyacht and trophy wife/husband/space mission.

Banner of an email received this morning regarding collection societies' shares, publishing rights and royalties for sales on that platform. This is good news.

Some encouraging news from Bandcamp, where the collection society share will now apply to eligible sales in additional territories. This already applies to sales in Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and will now also apply to all other territories, including the United States.

Attempting to replace the very things about being a human that we find pleasurable (music, art), instead of the onerous chores and dangerous tasks. And then doing even the former badly.

So that’s that, right? We don’t have to put up with endless drivel about how expensive it is to save the planet abd ourselves ever again? Cool.

While the pathetic grifters are whining about Labour 'ignoring advice' regarding COVID, here's a quick reminder #nzpol

Advice ignored
- Smokefree Legislation
- Emissions Targets, etc
- Māori Health Authority
- Fast-track Bill
- School Lunches
- iReX
- Landlord Tax Breaks
- Significant Natural Areas

Hulloa. Beloved of writers such as W. Somerset Maugham, if I recall correctly.

Oh, really? The pharmacist didn't mention that when I got mine. Does that apply to the immuno-compromised, too?

An adhocracy exists when those running your country have no plan and act on instinct. Killing an elderly dictator who's replaced by a younger, more dangerous dictator, for example. Bombing a country without considering the consequences for the global economy, or the likely retaliation by its allies.

Yeah, that's probably not going to make farmers happy.

We had one like that in Onehunga, but it's gone now. 🤔

Whereas NZ is on the road to nowhere. 😭

😄 You'd make a lousy shepherd.

A government inquiry into Winston Peters related injuries

That definitely affected tours after the worst of the pandemic. NZ's small and widely dispersed population also doesn't help, and some international acts only play Auckland or Wellington.

That's right. And apparently a lot of acts have recently curtailed the Aus/NZ leg of their tours, effectively making the NZ portion even less economically viable.

I have a theory that a shortage of suitable venues isn't the reason international acts sometimes skip NZ on their tours. Are local promoters willing to pay a premium to compensate acts for their additional travel, accommodation and other expenses? If not, flashy new stadiums won't help.

Caring less about what other people think of me.

Noodles' Final Scene, by wordsSHIFTminds from the album Primitive Future

'Noodles' Final Scene' is also the final track on 'Primitive Future', the latest wordsSHIFTminds album. You'll need to have seen Sergio Leone's masterpiece 'Once Upon A Time In America' to understand the title and cover image.

#nzpol

Queenstown-based tech entrepreneur Brian Cartmell donating hundreds of thousands to political parties Brian Cartmell, a Queenstown-based expat American, has given big donations to ACT, National, NZ First and the Opportunity party.

This kind of crap is why we need to get donations out of politics. Money is not speech. The rich do not merit more influence than the rest of us.

#nzpol

Luxon: "Hold my KFC."

Today went fast ⏩. Too fast for my liking 💨.

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