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COVID is Airborne Alzheimers.
Do everything you and family can to avoid being infected – EVEN being jabbed doesnt stop it:
A Case Of Shrunken Brains: How Covid-19 May Damage Brain Cells
“Most strikingly, individuals that experienced no or only mild symptoms with Covid-19 displayed specifically significant changes, but cortical damage seems to occur regardless of disease severity, age, sex, or vaccination status. It may be years before the long-term consequences of these structural differences are fully understood.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2022/03/21/a-case-of-shrunken-brains-how-covid-19-may-damage-brain-cells/?sh=5614948470ff
Jacinda Ardern would be better advised to welcome a briefing from the police on the Parliamentary protest instead of blocking it.
Seemingly referring to the IPCA complaints’ process Jacinda Ardern says that she wants an “ independent voice.” Nothing wrong with that, except that the IPCA’s brief is to respond to complaints about the New Zealand police, and that’s what they will be doing, or should be doing – in the context of the protest which the police got roped into, and became Parliament’s fall guys for. This doesn’t address the dynamics of the various issues of the protest itself.
Further, in apparently rejecting Andy Coster’s apparent offer ( brave bloke) to provide a police briefing because she wants an “ independent voice” is a shabby sort of insinuation to be making about Commissioner Coster, that he is unlikely, or unable, or unwilling, or something, to provide an “ independent” view – the semantics here are crap, and it’s sounding rather like the John Key playbook. If Ardern is just trying to protect Trevor Mallard, then – off topic- few men are worth it- let him justify himself, or admit that he made an error of judgment; he’s Speaker, let him speak.
Commissioner Coster’s officers have been Covid- struck in much greater numbers than the politicians safely
ensconced in the Beehive – or watching from the balcony – and protected by the coppers on the ground who they now want to shut up in the same way that they did the protestors. Not good enough.
The Police didn’t get roped into it snow white its there job. People are moaning about the feral people in areas like Rotorua and Auckland but what about the feral people us Wellingtonians had to put up with for weeks wrecking our city, intimidating people and so on. Why do we have so many feral NZers now, is it P use (meth)? The protestors that were here in Wellington had a small bunch of troublemakers causing anarchy and where was the so called leaders? well they did the runner leaving behind the feral ones.
When the border does open, what is our governments next move to manage any variants that others may bring and how will our government protect the vulnerable from these variants? We now find ourselves in a position where we have to get rid of mandates but only Auckland has peaked so we need to taiho till the rest of the country catch up. We are relying on people doing the right thing but we have seen in the last two years there is always some idiots who don’t give a shit. Why has our PM given mid April and not waited till end of April or first week in May to remove mandates. We need to be careful we do not want to go backwards we have worked too hard. Lastly if the new Maori health authority is going to take over mental health for Maori they will need a lot of money and resources this area is in a bloody mess and has got worse over the years not better.
Yes agree cpa – we have come so far and succeeded but yet? I think back to expedient politics again. We know that the compassionate face of gummint can be put on as easily as a Covid mask. That comment by moon rekt about covid effects being like alzheimers is pretty yuk!
It seems Luxons masks has fallen of and he has shown his true colours as he is now referring to some NZers as bottom feeders. Lets hope his uncouth remark sends a message to those so called bottom feeders to ensure they vote as we can’t have someone like him running our country he is not suitable.
Covid is pa. Yes, “ bottom feeders” is an unacceptable way for any would-be political leader to refer to any section of society. However he showed his true colours when he hired a black Mercedes to carry him a few metres up the road to Parliament, like a star-struck wee Markle , over-impressed by his own importance which seems to largely derive from being a John Key pet, not the most edifying qualification.
“ Bottom feeders” is an ugly, judgmental, vulgar, and inaccurate way to refer to anybody, and he should explain what he means by this, but he is probably doing the usual Nat thing of demonising the poor, in a way which is a complete antithesis of the teachings of the Jesus whom this horrid man professes to follow. Shame on him.
Pathetic – RNZ formerly known as RadioNZ is trying to wrap up trivia to make it seem relevant to a serious discussion on racism, presumably to appeal to the female listeners and readers who can’t concentrate on anything important more than hair style history in different places.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/hair-and-loathing/story/2018813537/culture-colonisation-and-the-short-and-curlies
Why have women sacrificed time over many decades plus enjoyment and peaceful living to argue for women to have greater opportunities and better treatment from the laws, going back to the suffragettes who gained the vote. Women have argued and fought for themselves and others, (though often mainly the middle class). They now have the right to education, better pay, better opportunities in employment, and often suffered loss of good relations with their family and society. Women wanted to be equal citizens, yet still hang on to traditional female concerns before applying objectivity over simple emotion such as to concentrate on matters of state and protocol that intelligent women have commented on at such length.
You can’t have it both ways females, you know that men think they are better in most ways than women, always have and it looks as if that will continue. Women mostly can be distracted from taking society forward in fair, kind and practical ways which they claim to be their true advantage over most men and it is very hard to bring those aspects together at the same time. There is a need to keep on a trend line towards a worthy goal, and not be distracted by trivialising the main goal and purpose.
There are a small percentage of highly motivated, and wise female citizens working to advance all citizens, (an important one at a human, personal level was Celia Lashlie. Her work was good and valuable and ensure she will always be honoured to a high level). But people like her, men too, have an uphill battle when the government broadcasting agency is moving to trivialise the news and its presentation, which will be accelerated by melding radio with television, and embracing partial commercialisation. There is an aim of populist appeal to the lowest common denominator, often very young, malleable and lacking in historic knowledge.
They will be served with dumbed down information as this hair project is, as part of their knowledge base as adults just when we need to be at our brightest and most astute. If we want to continue as a modern, educated country with informed citizens this is not the way! We are facing the spectre of dirty politics, constantly downgrading human work requiring physical endeavour to be replaced by robots and machines with direction from algorithms, ostensibly because humanity is too faulty to be trusted to get things right, The drive for greater efficiency will bring us down said Aldous Huxley!
We are right now wrecking our environment and have no cohesive plan to change our way of life and self-gratification at high levels from the wealthy, yet hardening attitudes to those at low level incomes and living standards forming a growing number of strugglers. How damned Dickensian do we get, are there no readers, and human-appreciating sociologists amongst the PTB on the top shelf?
The ambitious countries trying to gain control of important minerals and ultimately Planet Earth which they will monitor from space will cut us all down and our wonderful potentialities, and probably all the living things they can dominate, the sods! That scenario shows up when enquiring, anxious minds concentrate on our serious problems, not on cute women, men or trans people not wanting to eat their main course before getting pudding.
Well, well, well. Look who’s starting their election campaign early?
What do they know that we don’t? An early election is a com’n maybe?
“The Herald reports:
Act will declare $850,000 of donations on Monday from some of the wealthiest New Zealanders, including a $100,000 donation from billionaire Graeme Hart, who tops the rich list.
Act leader David Seymour says the donations are part of a drive by the Act party which has raised almost $1 million. The remaining roughly $150,000 has come from smaller donations, which do not have to have their donors declared.
Alongside Hart, the big donors are Rod Drury, Craig Turner, Graham Edwards, Dame Jenny Gibbs, Murray Chandler, and John Harman, who donated $100,000 each.
Stephen Jennings, Grant Baker, and Mike Thorburn donated $50,000 each.
Seymour said the donations were from people who were not “particularly political”, and he did not know conclusively whether any of the names on the list were Act party members.
He said the donors were “worried about two things: the state of democracy, the rushed legislation and the uncertainty it creates; and the policy direction which they see as being anti-aspirational and I think the reason they have connected that with Act is they want to see meaningful change in New Zealand”.
That is a huge amount of money to collect from one donation drive. To me that indicates two things:
The donors see ACT as performing well and pushing policies they like, and are donating as they want ACT to do well at the election and maintain or grow their number of MPs
The donors think a change of government is likely or at least quite achievable. You don’t donate $100,000 just so a party can be in opposition. You donate as you think that party could well end up in Government, and you want them to have a greater influence on the future Government.
So great to see people willing to donate to parties they support, and that under our good electoral laws their donations are disclosed promptly.”
Thanks for bringing this significant matter to the notice of all who want to be informed Denny P.