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# Chicken Little of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/chicken-little-of-the-day/
- Published: 2022-11-16T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-11-16T04:51:50.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: COVID-19, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:48

![michael baker](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/screen-shot-2021-12-14-at-1.13.19-pm.png)

Professor of public health Michael Baker. Image credit The BFD.

> \[…\] University of Otago epidemiologist professor Michael Baker told *First Up* it was hard to tell when this wave of COVID-19 would peak.  
>  
> “This is very much our third Omicron wave. Fortunately, it’s not as intense as the first two but it’s certainly happening.”  
>  
> Long term effects of COVID-19 were the biggest worry at the moment, he said.  
>  
> “They’re grouped into Long COVID but there are obviously a whole lot of things that go on and I think the neurological effects can be very severe and quite disabling.”  
>  
> Every time you are reinfected, you run the risk of Long COVID, he said.  
>  
> Newshub

Yawn…sorry, we just aren’t picking up what you are putting down anymore.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/not-working-as-well.jpg)

Not working as well. cartoon credit SonovaMin The BFD.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/masks-till-they-beg-for-them.jpg)

Masks till they beg for them. Cartoon credit: SonovaMin. The BFD.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/an-epidemic-of-epidemiologists.jpg)

An epidemic of epidemiologists. Photoshopped image credit Pixy. The BFD

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