In 5th grade a child is 10-11 years old. A few girls would have started menstruating at that age. The term my child started school, they had an opposite sex friend and the kids would chant to them "X and Y are in the shower, having sex for hours and hours...
The same story shows that women getting abortions were more likely to have voted for Biden. The Repub are killing Republicans with their covid policies and creating Democrats with their abortion policies. It doesn't seem the greatest of strategies.
25% of women in America will have had an abortion by the end of their child bearing years ( https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/14/upshot/who-gets-abortions-in-america.html ). Just because someone affiliates to a religion, it doesn't mean they ...
The thing is that men hold the finances that get people elected (by and large). That means men's issues always win. I think a political win versus women being criminalised and victimised isn't a great alternative. Anyway, here is how it is playing out in ...
The PBL program has been around for ages. It was in my daughter's primary school and she's now 20. It's a whole school approach with incentives and rewards for positive behaviour - it does teach some kids to suck-up to the teachers though. With the new ...
Governing (and hence politics) is a team game. You want the best team. Sometimes the "best" candidate adds nothing to the team that isn't already there. The best team brings a diversity of views and ideas to the table, a diversity of skills, and can speak ...
Having a lottery system was the fairest way to let people in (with a separate route for emergencies). It would have been impossible for MoH workers to read, *verify* and rank around 10,000-15,000 people's reasons every round. (Verification being important ...
People didn't all want to come at the same time. People wanted to come and go multiple times.
If we had waited for a gold-plaited system then we'd still be waiting for people to get threw MIQ. The system had to be as secure, simple and as fair as possible within the resources that were available - and the constraint was human resources - something ...
This American Life did a segment on a women finding her troll. (https://www.thisamericanlife.org/545/if-you-dont-have-anything-nice-to-say-say-it-in-all-caps **) . And the trolls excuse was much the same, he was feeling bad, he didn't like the women ...
Aren't the costs being imposed because the protest wasn't notified to the council beforehand? That seems fair enough to me. The rules are there to try and keep people safe. It doesn't stop people protesting, it stops people being selfish and arroagant.
They are unvaccinated and then say "we’re against the fact that it’s been forced and no-one has a choice on anything any more," A bit of irony.
It's very depressing. National are incompetent and they poll at 39%.
This Nazi stuff was swirling around in America before the Capitol riots. It just smells like Russian propaganda - "what would put Europe off supporting Ukraine? They are really Nazis and Nazis are the worst."
The protesters do themselves no favors. https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/127954753/marae-defenders-in-altercation-with-protester-warned-more-are-coming
I agree somewhat about the people. However, I am more concerned about the money behind it, be it overseas interests wanting to start a beachhead or local business interests who saw it as a way to pressure the govt into relaxing the rules for their personal...
I am favor of having a high bar for giving people the gift of NZ citizenship but in this case the child is a NZ citizen so her disability status should have no impact on the decision about the status of the rest of the family.
They were of no use long ago because of their inaccuracy. When the number of cases of covid in the community was tiny, a positive covid results was nearly 100% likely to be wrong. It was just sending well people home to isolate. There only use was in high ...
I don't know - OIA the MoH.
On December 1 there were only 11,900 covid-19 cases in total. Three months later there were 82,433. 87% of the cases so far haven't had a chance to have long-covid because they have had covid-19 for less then 3 months. https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?...
There have been 7,038 unvaccinated cases and 485 ended up in hospital i.e. 69 hospitalisation per 1000 cases. There have been 72,301double vaccinated or boosted cases with 500 ending up in hospital i.e. 7 hospitalisations per 1000 cases. (That's for people...
The recording of hospitalisations and deaths allows for multiple reasons for hospitalisation or death. So, if someone gets a gunshot wound and has covid-19 then the primary reason will be the gunshot wound but other conditions will be recorded as well. ...
From what I have heard (from eyewitnesses) the numbers are decreasing.
Why? If he does it in protest, is that ok?
Just because an adverse event is reported, it doesn't mean the event was due to covid-19. Doctors tend to report everything to check for emerging patterns of illness. We don't know how many people would have had the same event on that day if they hadn't ...
There is no resolution to this situation. The protesters have given a set of demands that are impossible to satisfy and would be irresponsible to satisfy.
I'll add COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown and Wellbeing: Experiences from Aotearoa New Zealand in 2020 https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/4/2269
Early on, I had to walk through them to get to and from work and noone was wearing masks (besides me). Maybe 6x altogether before we got sent home. I should add that I inadvertently walked through a cloud of cigarette smoke which I though was ironic.
There is coming in peace but that doesn't negate the fact that they are highly likely to be covid-19 carriers. I bet Winston, Seymour and Andy Foster are feeling a bit of anxiety at the moment.
A while ago Weka asked if anyone was doing something about the economic and social costs of covid-19. There is a team at Victoria University doing a study on it at the moment. They want to hear from anyone who has had covid-19 - from those who are ...
It looks like they are specialised police medics from the photos.
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