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Worth reading as this is where our health system is heading. Why is our world so hell bent on destroying the best ideas we used to have.
No sleep, little care, no medication: my 80-hour A&E ordeal
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/15/doctors-medication-80-hour-a-and-e-ordeal-nhs
“I begged for my medicine – only to find there was just one nurse charged with medicating 30 people. Another nurse came in and said the hospital was as bad as he had ever seen it. It was, he said, “dangerously busy”. Apparently, 500 people had come through A&E that day, and it was only about 8pm.”
“The spectre of disaster hovering over our healthcare system can be traced back directly to 2010, when Tory budget cuts slashed training places for medics, leading us neatly to today’s dire staff shortages. Add in Brexit and rising coronavirus cases – last week an estimated 5 million people in the UK had the disease, patients are pouring through A&E doors, and there is no glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.
Many may end up in grave danger thanks to this government making it nearly impossible for dedicated, hard-working and underpaid staff to translate their care and attention more thoroughly to them.”
Worth reading as this is where the NZ health system is heading (just like how we followed the UK with their Thatcher, globalist led sell off housing policy leading to major poverty). Why is our world so hell bent on destroying the best ideas the west used to have such as excellent quality free health care and decent housing – the affordable housing owned and managed by the state.
No sleep, little care, no medication: my 80-hour A&E ordeal
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/15/doctors-medication-80-hour-a-and-e-ordeal-nhs
“I begged for my medicine – only to find there was just one nurse charged with medicating 30 people. Another nurse came in and said the hospital was as bad as he had ever seen it. It was, he said, “dangerously busy”. Apparently, 500 people had come through A&E that day, and it was only about 8pm.”
“The spectre of disaster hovering over our healthcare system can be traced back directly to 2010, when Tory budget cuts slashed training places for medics, leading us neatly to today’s dire staff shortages. Add in Brexit and rising coronavirus cases – last week an estimated 5 million people in the UK had the disease, patients are pouring through A&E doors, and there is no glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.
Many may end up in grave danger thanks to this government making it nearly impossible for dedicated, hard-working and underpaid staff to translate their care and attention more thoroughly to them.”
I don’t know how old the above patient in the Guardian piece is, but we will soon have to accept death and be able to choose whether we accept medication for death or not. If we are terminally ill there should be a protocol to go through and it could be expedited in a calm and measured manner after certain matters to do with family, final arrangements carried out.
At present long waits for younger, working people perhaps with children still to care for, is being set aside while elderly people past their reasonable living span use up the medical care along with the growing elderly – it is a compounding problem. And it isn’t fair to the younger people. And it isn’t fair to them, and itisn’t fair to old people and those determined to accept death early, when they want to die. Properly set up in law, it could be a small family intense experience and nio waiting 80 hours in pain. There should be an option that however requires strong protocols to safeguard safety and values.
Get prepared for a new style of trousers – ones with padded knees. This electronic, robotised system that our sensible, practical governments and services delivery has set up, (what a set-up), is making us walk a plank across a fast–flowing river and we are going to fall off it in ever-increasing numbers. In poor countries the
workers stand on window ledges twenty stories up, very obvious physically but who takes notice and insists on care for the needs of that worker.
In our ephemeral money system, we depend on the system to hold our credits needed for living and if they are withheld we are custard, pink-coloured.
Look at what has happened to the Bank of New Zealand, (and that is a lie, our government didn’t even care enough to hold on to our own bank, trademark our own name – no wonder that Maori want Aotearoa which will name this country for as long as people live here and will be jealously guarded from avaricious predators).
Personally I like Nw Zealand but I fear it is attenuated and beyond recovery, though I hope I am wrong.)
In the meantime our pseudo-bank is not complying with our demands to receive our own money from one of their outlets despite promises and their using a pseudo-safe financial system. But we don’t understand that nothing is guaranteed in that dictionary of words that is known colloquially ‘the small print’. It feeds our expectations that it sets out plainly the legal agreements to receive in, pay out, and guard our small excess of liquid assets if we comply with reasonable requirements; but with no surety of compensation for loss of any type, disappointment or death. Whether they or we are sell-out suckers or ‘smiling assassins’ which might come in Three Grades; Just Okay, Robbin’ Hoods, or all the words on Google under wicked – I am too fatigued to choose the worst. This situation is not satisfactory, with the banks playing fast and loose with our money, but hand in hand with our government so we have no sure entity dedicated to providing cornerstone reliability and dedication.
We need to get back to solidity, instead of speed and magicality, cash in hand, put the on your list of regular contacts, we cannot afford to ignore the value of ‘money’: This is a big deal, keeping the banks in a place where they don’t overwhelm our economics – personal and business. Some relevant links:
2022 Mar.7 Future of Money – Cash System Redesign (Te Moni Anamata – He Whakahou i te Pūnaha Moni) is seeking feedback on issues facing the cash system and explores options to achieve greater efficiency and resilience. (Published 30 November 2021, feedback closed 7 March 2022).
https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/notes-and-coins/future-of-money
2021/April https://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/consultation/questions-and-answers-review-reserve-bank-act-april-2021-html |
About the Treasury
https://www.treasury.govt.nz › about-treasury
19/08/2021 — The Treasury is the Government’s lead economic and financial advisor. Our vision is to lift living standards for all New Zealanders. Did you know this surprising titbit or which sentence rings a bell — ding?
and
Memorandum of Understanding between the Reserve Bank …
https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/about-us/memoranda-of-understanding
This could be interesting – https://www.treasury.govt.nz/news-and-events/our-events/getting-value-money-new-approach
What about the wealthy bank owners setting up their own side currencies, looming over the government of the country so it is overshadowed?
April 5,2022
How Russia rescued the ruble : Planet Money – NPR
https://www.npr.org › sections › money › 2022/04/05 › h…
5/04/2022 — The Russian ruble lost nearly half its value when Russia invaded Ukraine. Since then, it has been the top-performing currency in the world.
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UK is out of Europe isn’t it. Does this make it helpless under usa?
Book Review: The Single Currency and European Citizenship
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk › europpblog › 2013/10/06 › bo…
6/10/2013 — Established in 2002, the euro is now the currency of 17 countries used by … closely approximates the Commission’s own semi-official line; ..
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Currency devaluations can be used by countries to achieve economic policy. Having a weaker currency relative to the rest of the world can help boost exports, shrink trade deficits and reduce the cost of interest payments on its outstanding government debts.
3 Reasons Why Countries Devalue Their Currency
https://www.investopedia.com › News › Markets News
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Can a country make a new currency?
Most countries have their own currency, which is an important part of their national identity, though some belong to a monetary union and share a common currency with the union’s members; others use that of another, often larger, country. On occasion, a country must introduce a new currency.
New Money – Finance & Development, December 2013
https://www.imf.org › pubs › fandd › 2013/12 › lonnberg
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_cryptocurrency_by_country_or_territory
EDUCATION – This is new. But is it going to extend young minds beyond dopey adult ones repeating faults from the past century and throwing aside valuable measures earlier adopted only to be changed by nouveau style
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018838240/king-country-school-celebrates-successfashion?
At one time they had the highest suspension rates in Waikato, but now no longer run detention at all.
“I’m not suggesting there are no behavioural challenges, however the way we deal with them is so much more effective because we have good relationships and we know our students.”
Advisors – one of two types of teachers at the school – manage the same group of students daily and help deal with any issues, he says.
Learning in Years 9 and 10 has a bit more structure so that students are able to meet NCEA requirements but essentially, each student has their own education timetable catered to their future aspirations…
“Our focus is on teaching people how to learn, not what to learn, so it’s very much around a skill-based versus a content-based curriculum.
“Some of the reality is a lot of that content is never even needed. It isn’t the content for this generation.”
In addition to numeracy and literacy, students learn to conduct research, he says.
“They learn to write reports, to do statistical analysis, they learn to look after their wellbeing, they learn to explore different career options”.
Sounds good and so good that adults should do similar courses free, every ten years.
I see youngsters want to vote at 16, if so they should all have passed a general knowledge and political knowledge test so they can have some basic facts to stand on. And adults also; in the years before 30 it should only apply to parents and grandparents who will also receive a test result certificate of parenting care with 90% attendance at workshops. which will be registered and be required before voting.
The voting age should also apply to those in full-time apprenticeships whomever and whatever, legal, age it happens to be.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2204/S00070/supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-voting-age-challenge.htm
Eighteen is the most common voting age, with a small minority of countries differing from this rule. Those with a national minimum age of 17 include East Timor, Greece, Indonesia, North Korea, South Sudan and Sudan. (Countries that have a history that has been demanding on its youth – not nice, easy options for those likely to want to vote – the middle class.)