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Demand for services from the Auckland City Mission are, according to the Commissioner, at the highest they have been in the Mission's history.
Same for Women's Refuge according to RNZ.
Salvation Army noting a huge increase in financial hardship.
Christmas is coming and the stresses are going to jump.
The gap between the apparent record-low unemployment numbers and the actual needs of people is growing by the day.
Private charity is necessary from all of us on reasonable incomes, along with spare bedrooms. And we haven't even got to the full hit of the mandates yet.
This is going to be a brutal next six months for the many of us with little.
Damn straight, Ad.
Sadly.
I’m getting blown away by the kindness of the mutiple people who are coming into my life to care for me at home. My bet is that many of them are relatively low-paid but they are endless cheerful & cheering.
I’ve already decided I need & can afford to become a lot more generous with my attitude to donating AND my donations to foodbanks and other charities that are helping out those at the low end of town who are doing it tuff.
Something cheery,
https://twitter.com/vickerstafft/status/1458367648442601476?s=21
Different angle
https://twitter.com/geddolls/status/1458366926938386438?s=21
Hey, on Sunday I got this weird email from “My Health Account” (under an MoH banner) that simply says:
“My Health Account – Email Address Validation
To use this email address for your My Health Account, please enter the following code into the text box on the screen within the next 5 minutes:
****** [code redacted – Gez]”
………………….
But on both my iPad2 – and on my Win10 laptop (when I double-checked it on that device) – there WAS NO TEXT BOX on screen to enter the code into. A real head-scratcher. 😐
Anybody else here had the same email with no text box?
Back away quickly. It's most likely a scam.
If you're really curious, check MoH website for an actual contact email/phone number and get them to confirm the email is genuine before opening.
Either they're looking for legit email addresses to sell, or they're going for your passwords from the "text box" that's broken (or likely automatically suppressed by your email system as a likely scam).
Good advice, my scam-savvy friend.
Will do. Thanks.
Reply from MOH:
Kia ora [Gezza]
We thank you for your patience while we have investigated this issue.
We’re aware that a small number of people have received unsolicited emails that either provides a six digit verification pin required as part of the My Health Account setup process or advises them that they can only have one account associated with an email address.
These emails indicate that someone has attempted to setup an account using your email address. As you need to verify your email to do so, it is not possible to duplicate your account with your information so please be assured no one will have access to your information. We recommend that you change your password to prevent any unauthorised access to your account.
Choose a strong password
We suggest that you use a long password you can remember. Include upper case letters, numbers or symbols to make your password difficult for hackers to guess or hack. Many people find that a short sentence is easier to remember than a short, complex password.
If you haven’t signed up for an account and either
(1) received an email confirming the setup of a My Health Account or
(2) an email stating that your account details have been updated, please:
Change your email address password
Go to My Health Account | Ministry of Health ( My Health Account | Ministry of Health )
Click the Log in button in the top right hand corner
Select ‘Forgot password?’ on the Log in to your account screen and follow the prompts
Create a new password
Remember, you will only receive emails from our official email no-reply@identity.health.nz and we only send text messages from 4204.
Finally, if you haven’t logged into My Covid Record yet, we invite you to check your records so they are ready to go for vaccine passes coming soon. Please go online to https://mycovidrecord.health.nz/ to sign up.
Kind regards
(MOH)
Could be legit, have you been trying to sign up for a Covid vaccination record?
There's a step in the process where they send a confirmation email, and you put that code into the website.
https://mycovidrecord.health.nz
No rooblogic, I haven’t tried to sign up for a Covid Vaccination Record – or even read any website about it yet. Can’t think of anything I’ve done online that would generate such an email. It just appeared in me Inbox on 7 Nov.
I’ve sent a cropped screenshot of the email with its MOH banner to Health Dept asking them to confirm whether it’s genuine.
rockin all over the…world
https://youtu.be/SshwJdVy5-g
Nicky Hagar makes himself clear:
Nicky Hager: My message to friends who joined this week’s protest
Nicky Hager | Guest writer
Opinion
Are these really the people you want to align yourself with?
Dear vaccine hesitant friends,
[deleted text quoted without link]
..but he's in on it..
https://twitter.com/jasepalm/status/1458886700822773760
Thanks Robert
I hope the right people get to read this. I am going to pass it on to a Rightie or 2 I know who annoy me when they describe Nicky in John Key's terms, but with expletives.
It is a strange emotion that drives people in politics.
Key was always a manifestly weak ..koont…'lefty conspiracy theory'…'the Greens want to print money'….'get some guts'!
Thank God Nicky is in NZ !
Thanks to Robert from me too. As usual Hager is right on the money:
Its patently obvious this is what is going on.
Jeez I've gotten old – I misread that as Sammy Hagar …and then got very confused
The missing link – beautifully clear from Hager: ‘My message to friends who joined this week’s protest’ https://thespinoff.co.nz/?p=342758
that's really good. Particularly potent coming from Hager.
Nicky has written a great piece there I think
The story that we've been told that RCT's are the universal 'gold standard' for proof of a drug's usefulness turns out to be a fairly serious misdirection. Here is a text book introduction to 'Study Design':
Note carefully that RCT's have their place but are not as definitive in principle as a metastudy.
Of course any study regardless of type can be poorly done – but the idea that RCT's are the prime type that always provide the ultimate answer – was never the case at all.
Hey Red as an aside…your suggestion for 'what are you listening to now' is a good one.
Music is so connective and often enlightening..great idea.
My hesitation is that unless carefully framed and monitored it might degenerate into a kind of purity point pissing contest. I've seen something like this happen some years back.
Still I'll think about it.
Good .
My experience with this format has been overwhelmingly positive…a revelation in fact.
How it could turn into a 'pissing contest' is hard to comprehend.
Think I know what Red means.
Some people are music snobs. Rather than just share a YouTube of a musical piece they like, they HAVE to criticise or put down something posted by someone else.
Music’s a very individual matter when it comes to taste. For example some folk really like Jazz – an extensive genre that encompasses some styles I’d click off straight away.
A lot of hard out heavy metal bands I hate.
And I really like The Blues, the Beatles & the Beach Boys – last two being bands some folk can’t stand.
If we have a music section or music night folk need to remember to just enjoy others’ contributions that they like & refrain from making it some sort of snobby point-scoring (in their minds) exercise.
And the other thing that can get out of hand is this sort of thing:
Bob: Clapton really is God! Best guitarist in the electric guitar’s history.
Todd: You’re bloody joking, aren’t you mate? Clapton is rubbish! Everything’s mostly improv. You can even hear the cocked up riffs & mistakes he makes & tries to cover up with rescue flurries, if you know what to listen for. Satriani’s the best guitar player in electric guitar history. No question!
You're right Gezza.
Personally I have come across some wonderful music from…the format though.
Yeah, me too, B. Different folks in the past on YNZ posted some amazing YouTube music & artists (contemporary & classic) that I’d never listened to & really liked.
I’m personally in favour of giving it a shot.
Friday nights were a popular time for it as I recall.
looking at the gold standard which is RCT with sufficient numbers.
Until I dug into this I would have said the same as you – but it's not as clear cut as I thought.
The source linked to is authoritative and interesting.
Things to avoid: simply putting a whole-nation mandate requiring all unvaccinated to stay inside at home. Like a permanent bracelet-wearing MIQ for a million or so people.
Austria on verge of Covid lockdown for millions of unvaccinated people – CNN
Democracy in Cuba? Get real. No way, José.
So, as ever, it's the state versus the people.
No point using socialist principles and law to oppress the people. Only someone seriously delusional would believe that to be a good idea. Dunno why the communist regime failed to learn from Russia's escape into freedom 30+ years ago – or maybe they learnt the wrong lesson. The irony is that Fidel, when he won the revolution, didn't want communism – the yanks forced him into it.
Cuba.
A wretched, lost little autarky where people have been seeking to flee for decades and continuing to rapidly depopulate. Because they hate it.
Cuba's Precarious Population Pyramid (focusongeography.org)
O but free healthcare.