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Aotearoan born Samoan Artist and Academic

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

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

🚨 If anyone has contacts at Stuff to get this headline updated urgently please do so.

Expert advice 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.

This is unacceptable.

12.03.2026 03:03 👍 140 🔁 42 💬 16 📌 13
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I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.

12.03.2026 02:09 👍 14528 🔁 4330 💬 611 📌 302
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Well this was not on the reading list but I am glad I found it.

12.03.2026 04:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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.

Each Covid-19 wave wrecks your health. Here's what you can do.
www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbei...

10.03.2026 06:06 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

National lamenting $60 billion Covid spend while they are on track to borrow $120 billion with no pandemic.

Labour saved 20,000 lives.

National are saving landlords and tobacco

10.03.2026 06:08 👍 197 🔁 69 💬 7 📌 2
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As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

09.03.2026 21:12 👍 10051 🔁 2433 💬 169 📌 110
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08.03.2026 12:05 👍 6876 🔁 2767 💬 169 📌 98

Climate crisis’s final boss: completely destroying our rivers to create a dairy industry only to burn even more fuel to bring butter over from America whose weapons are completely destroying the the ecological systems elsewhere.

This is the best economic system the smart people could come up with.

08.03.2026 00:01 👍 69 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 1

The cunt in the white baseball cap got them killed.

08.03.2026 00:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Aged like milk spilt onto concrete....

07.03.2026 23:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If it’s true that the United States bombed an elementary school and killed scores of children it is an unfathomable crime. I have never been more disgusted to be an American.

06.03.2026 04:42 👍 21030 🔁 4108 💬 1324 📌 367

Covid didn't go anywhere.

It's still here, evolving.

Unlike the opinions and understandings of those that think vaccines are the problem.

Both of them will result in the vulnerable dying.

Science isn't the problem.

04.03.2026 21:57 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Immigration Minister Erica Stanford apologises after inflating overstayer figures The government has been accused of scaremongering about overstayer numbers after Erica Stanford told reporters there were "tens of thousands more" than she had expected last month.

Is there anything coming from the lips of any CoC govt minister that isn’t a lie? With the level of ‘misspeaking’ occurring this week if it’s not lying it’s gross incompetence #nzpol

Immigration Minister Erica Stanford apologises after inflating overstayer figures www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

04.03.2026 17:14 👍 27 🔁 13 💬 5 📌 0

Not too sure any of the countries allied to the US and in the middle east noticed how Iran managed to nail multiple targets as a result of the warmongering of Israel and the US.

This is not going to end well for anyone.

#iran

01.03.2026 04:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This is Buddy. He does hydrotherapy to stay strong and live forever as all good boys should. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (TT: doggiesbeautysalon)

28.02.2026 16:55 👍 6621 🔁 545 💬 88 📌 22
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This aged well. Note the author.

28.02.2026 13:27 👍 16076 🔁 6221 💬 546 📌 358
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

28.02.2026 07:19 👍 23681 🔁 7117 💬 734 📌 406
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We took the doggos for a walk at the Botanic Gardens.

They loved it.

28.02.2026 09:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fuck Israel.

Launching 'preventative' strikes on Iran seems like a convenient way to start a war that drags the Middle East into a conflict no-one wins.

#FreePalestine

www.euronews.com/2026/02/28/i...

28.02.2026 06:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

-increase speed limits: kids getting hit by cars
-make school lunches cheaper: mouldy slop for kids
-cut IT jobs: hospital IT system failing
-cancel ferries: no new ferries
-ban gang patches: more gang members

Results!

27.02.2026 02:44 👍 150 🔁 51 💬 6 📌 3
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None of our business.

Good on her, she has no obligation to us now.

The 'living in their head rent free' crowd can get fucked.

#nzpol

27.02.2026 02:02 👍 30 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Rep. Ilhan Omar: "The president talked about protecting Americans, and I just had to remind him that his administration was responsible for killing two of my constituents."

25.02.2026 16:09 👍 19826 🔁 5128 💬 385 📌 150
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Totally not of this government's making... #nzpol

26.02.2026 06:37 👍 180 🔁 76 💬 6 📌 7

PREACH!

This is why art history is so fucking important.

24.02.2026 03:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Auckland Councillors speak out about National's new law - National reduced available social housing accomodation in Auckland from 890 places to 39 and cut emergency housing grants by 70-80%

Auckland Councillor confirms National cut social housing, accommodation in Auckland from 890 places to 39 in one year, and cut emergency housing grants by 70-80% ($20m). Since then, individuals rough sleeping in our city have increased by 100%.

#NZPOL #auckland

www.reddit.com/r/nzpolitics...

23.02.2026 00:21 👍 123 🔁 74 💬 5 📌 4
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NZ tapxayers union continues to push lies about Moa Point now using @bryceedwards.bsky.social article

Absolute shambles. Counter points: substack.com/home/post/p-... #nzpol #kiwi

22.02.2026 03:02 👍 36 🔁 15 💬 6 📌 1

I can't say it loud enough - this disaster is what those that voted for the govt get as a result of their own inability to weigh up facts over bullshit.

The shit is pretty much everywhere now and its all of us that have to put up with the stench.

Great article by @mountaintui.bsky.social

20.02.2026 07:39 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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19.02.2026 19:42 👍 36245 🔁 14160 💬 470 📌 659
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Fuck the British Museum and their pandering to Israeli bullshit over the history of Palestine.

Free Palestine!

15.02.2026 10:11 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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...that man is phlegm on the footpath of life.

12.02.2026 23:59 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0