I wonder how it's possible to discuss NZs supposed Public Health response is about establishing a toe hold into a future of digital surveillance without discussing the nature of NZs Public Health response? A discussion worth having, I believe. I can also ...
Except, as you note, those figures are for under 18 year-olds. The group to be vaccinated is under 12. Politifact (December 12, 2021) gives this summary Federal data show 771 deaths involving COVID-19 among children. Nine deaths have been associated with ...
Reductionists are averse to such contemporary views. Also reductionists write headlines. Did you see how many times that piece has been shared?! I'm not looking forward to another round of 'advice' from the 'well-being' people (apologies to the ones that ...
Love how so many people look for a single cause for a complex problem. Yes, DNA hasn't changed, but we're living a lot longer and counting better - especially in emergent economies/nations . Rheumatoid Arthritis, one of the highlighted examples, is ...
Thanks for this beautifully written post weka. Just the content I needed at the start of what seems to be a nervously unpredictable year.
Kamala Harris will become the first female president of the USA. Boris 'retires' Three waters will succeed (more hope than belief on this one)
I was in Europe when governments there were wrestling with the issue of Islamic dress - eventually some of them passing laws to ban all (so as not to be accused of racism) face coverings in public. I think about that a lot these days.
Yes! absolutely - musk-petersen personified was a smarmy highlight.
This is helpful, thanks. I have read the policy, and know the risk of self-martyrdom. I wasn't expecting authors to moderate each other, more a case of it's hard sometimes to know where a line is drawn until it's crossed, and why it is different for some ...
Yes. I think some very frustrated scientists and advocates tired of continually shouting into the void between politics and money finally let it all out in a film.
The requirement to provide references has to be applied reasonably. Yes, I understand this. Nor is it reasonable to demand the same reference repeatedly every time the same or similar point is made Yes, it's just that in Bill's comments here repeat the ...
I am not in any way supportive of firing people from their careers, destroying livelihoods and families economically or socially... And you’re fine with workers having to risk contracting Covid as part of their job? You’re fine with other workers having ...
Bill has provided numerous references to support his claims. If you want to clarify one of them take it up with him. Sorry to disagree RL, but on this post, Bill provides very few references to 'take up with him'. Is it possible to have a general ...
you can carry on with your beliefs that you're not at risk a d you've reduced others risks because you're vaccinated. I never said I personally was not at risk. The evidence (not belief) shows that risk is reduced, however. I'm a lesser risk to my sister ...
'Which one do you choose" Well, the obvious: those who predominantly are at risk because of age, comorbitities, immunocomprimised etc, their choice to get vaccinated or not. Yes, it is their choice at the moment – unless they’re working in a mandated job. ...
No it doesn't. That little piece of misinformation has long been countered. It's also why DJ Omicron is unlikely to have caused a super-spreader event despite his arrogance. Who has ever said that vulnerable people should not be offered measures of ...
If I'm a reasonably healthy person of working age, then even with Delta, I was unlikely to get seriously ill or die. So a dose of m-RNA would do….what? Certainly wouldn't be 'protecting' the health care system. And wouldn't prevent me contracting Covid. ...
Still no justification to fire people from jobs, ban from activities and areas of society. That wasn't the point I was making - it is that vaccinations also reduce the risks associated with severe disease. However, only hiring vaccinated people is very ...
There are a few things that reduce risk… -Wear masks -Wash hands -Social distance -testing Yes. And if you do all these things and still get Covid, the vaccine with reduce your risk of serious disease, hospitalisation and death. Thereby protecting you, ...
Thanks Gezza, that's the one.
^^ This. Taranaki has one of the highest regional GDP's per capita. It's glaringly obvious when driving around, the places that are left out.
This statue of Frederic Alonzo Carrington standing proud in central New Plymouth says it all really. What's not said or seen so prominently, are the faces, current and past, of Māori in Ngamotu itself. "Would it not be wise, just, and human for Government ...
Agree with this. When I moved to New Plymouth, was not the high Māori population in Waitara - for someone who spends a fair bit of time in Waikato and BoP, the town seems pretty usual - but how white New Plymouth is.
It's can be a fine line between inclusivity for one group and alienation for another, I agree. I don't think The Greens, in coalition, will cross that line in a way that will be terrible for society. Anyway, it's a bit self-defeating to vote on this single...
Teanau Tuiono's most excellent adjournment speech gives me hope for the reformation of our urban environment "all I want for Christmas is urban density done well"
society always follows the hippies.. Scary - that's how we got the uber-individualism we have today. 1960's hippies were nothing if not libertarian. Lucky this lot seem more legitimately community-focused.
IIRC at the start of the vaccination drive there were massive attempts to be inclusive of people with histories that might prevent them from being vaccinated -e.g. people fearful of authority for one reason or other so vax centres gave assurances that ...
If there was something better ready to put in place. Pretty sure that the current supreme court does not have that intention.
+1
We do know he's pretty retro on women's rights - especially abortion rights, when he not just opposes abortion, but also believes people have the right to harass vulnerable women outside abortion clinics. within 150m of an abortion clinic.
He's not full of Christian kindness if there is no exit plan for Collins or Woodhouse.
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