Peanut On Monday, many health and education employees and contractors will work their last day in their chosen career. I have friends and colleagues in health who are leaving, including a Maori midwife, a rural GP and a cardiac sonographer. These are roles that health has always crawled over broken
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Brendan Conway-Smith Carleton University Brendan Conway-Smith is a PhD candidate at the Department of Cognitive Science at Carleton and a member of the Cognitive Modeling Lab. He also is a contract instructor to cognitive science undergraduates. He received an MA in cognitive science from Carleton (2020). His MA thesis focused
Manly D. Hall. amateurreviewspace.com One of the greatest dangers to the future of democracy and cohesive society is the marriage of the political and healthcare systems. This union is as problematic as the previous bond between Church and State, which corrupted both institutions and took civil wars within State
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Confused Why isn’t testing enough? I thought I was a logical person but my ability to understand what is driving decisions here in NZ has disappeared. The UK has just been through 20 months of having Covid widespread in the community. Essential workers were carrying out their tasks before
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New information on ICU bed occupancy during the current outbreak shows the very slim margins district health boards are running with ICU beds, says National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti. On October 22, New Zealand’s largest number of ICU beds at Auckland DHB were down from 94 standing
The Government’s lack of planning for Delta is being exposed as every day brings more confusion and evidence the Government is just making things up as it goes, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. The Prime Minister has admitted this morning that the whole country may go into
Darryl Betts Beneath the devastation the New Zealand government has wrought on businesses, jobs, and schools is the looming threat to large parts of what remains of people’s lives outside of work. Vaccine mandates threaten to permanently deprive many people of things that make life worth living. This isn’
It is deeply troubling that the Auditor-General has identified “serious concerns” about aspects of the Government’s saliva testing procurement process this year and the need for an urgent independent inquiry has never been greater, says National’s COVID-19 Spokesperson Chris Bishop. “As I have said for months, the roll-out
R. M. Huffman rt.com Information Op-Ed R. M. Huffman is a physician, author, and observer of culture. One undeniable outcome of the pandemic is that the public’s faith in scientific and medical authorities is perhaps at its lowest point in living memory – and no objective observer can truly
The wheels have well and truly fallen off this Government right as we should be reaching the crucial juncture of opening up our internal borders and restoring freedoms to Kiwis, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. No one would blame New Zealanders for feeling alarmed and blindsided by the
The safety and long-term effects of the Pfizer injectable are yet to become apparent. Time will tell. Concerns remain. When the Pfizer product was released we were told it required two doses. Millions of us accepted that we would need to comply, for differing reasons, although not all of us
