🧭 Overview As New Zealand navigated the COVID-19 pandemic, over 11 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines were administered to a population of around 5 million. This analysis investigates the patterns of all-cause mortality in the weeks and months following vaccination, focusing on age-stratified data from the New Zealand Ministry of Health. The findings aim to…...
Something interesting happened in early July.
Tens of thousands of Cases were added to the unvaccinated cohort, then quietly removed a week later.
*Originally published April 2023. * Updated May 2025 with StatsNZ data that became available February 2025 – Note: all data herein is raw. There is no modelling or ASMR involved, nor was there any need to steal and distribute private medical data. It was all public. It was all there, available to anyone with an…
A chart appeared! Then one day, it vanished, never to return. It showed Covid Case numbers by dose count..
He decided the site needed some caching, or something, and something something javascript and css. So he’s made some changes. The site should be more responsive now. Or, he broke it. Let us know in the comments, or if those don’t work, via the SCA Network.
The new data available from StatsNZ on Weekly deaths allows us to calculate Excess Mortality for any given week past week 52 of 2004. We can do this for Week 1 of 2005 by taking the average mortality for Week 1 of 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, and 2000 and comparing it to the mortality for…
A little bit of a timeline cleanse, some cuteness....
Hey team! Thanks for helping to beta test the next stages of SCNZ’s journey. It’s awesome to have you here. Feel free to use this thread as a more private place to chat than the other ones, it will forever remain only available to SCA Lifetime Members....
I recently had the idea to use ChatGPT to assist with collecting and analyzing the MoH snapshots in the Wayback Machine to help with a bit of long-term timeline recreation. It seemed like a simple enough task for a machine to complete.. they can just view the index file and grab the relevant tables quicker…
As countries debate social media bans for under-16s, global efforts like Australia’s strict laws and Europe’s consent rules highlight diverse strategies to protect youth online.
🐾 The Spider Cat Army Has a New Gate SpidercatNZ now has its own premium member system!After months of content, community, and a few (very) late nights squashing bugs, we’ve quietly rolled out something exciting: a custom-built system that lets trusted readers and contributors join the inner circle. 🧩 What’s New? 🎟️ How Do I…
Discover the history and impact of New Zealand’s prioritised ethnicity system, highlighting its evolution, benefits, and limitations in capturing multi-ethnic identities nationwide.
