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‘I literally screamed out loud in pain’: my two weeks of monkeypox hell
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/23/i-literally-screamed-out-loud-in-pain-my-two-weeks-of-monkeypox-hell
The Millennial perspective, it’s not me not using condoms, it’s the health system failure!
“The next day I got my STI results: positive for gonorrhoea. But no word yet on monkeypox. ”
“This whole thing just feels like a huge failure that should not have been allowed to happen, especially not two and half months into the outbreak. If someone like me, who has worked in sexual health for a long time, had such a hard time navigating care, I can’t imagine other people doing it. I know several people who are just sitting at home in agonizing pain because they’re not getting the support that they need.”
Where do you start? Workers in sexual health who can’t even use condoms themselves, or having so little personal responsibility or insight that he couldn’t work out the health system can’t save him from pandemics/STD’s when people can’t do the basic’s themselves to protect themselves and others!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/471464/ancient-swan-fossil-discovered-at-otago-dig-site
I didn’t realise that David Lange’s resting place was so far south. RIP to the politician who tried in our long ago past to do good and keep to the Christian and Labour direction. Yesterday I suggested having a Savage Day memorial march and rally each year, perhaps make it a Lange one as well. Our own Gallipoli.
Privatization is not Christian, sir. It is the work of the anti-Christ.
Looking to criticise condemn and gain publicity about ‘sensitive’ comments? What a divisive nit-picking puritan world has been created. For who’s benefit?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/prince-harry-tipped-to-expose-camilla-in-upcoming-memoir/2RY7X2VYMH4ILXEHTLHB2O7ZI4/
Can’t afford to express reasonable thoughts – can’t wonder out loud. Also Harry is commenting publicly with the Queen’s decisions. He now is a bitter, twisted victim, not a position for a proud, noble man to be in.
The biography Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors, written by Tom Bower, makes the bold claim that Harry will expose his step-mother as “racist”…
The rumours of racist remarks first surfaced when in a bombshell interview with Oprah, Meghan claimed they were left stunned when an unnamed member of the royal family asked what colour their child’s skin would be….
Bower predicts Harry’s own memoir, ghostwritten by JR Moehringer and set to be released later this year, will cause a further divide in the royal family.
“Meghan was expected to help the ghostwriter understand the pain inflicted by the royal family on herself and Harry,” Bower writes.
“Among the targets besides William, Kate and Charles would be Camilla. Meghan had identified her as racist.”
Bower writes of Prince Charles: “Camilla, he suspected, would be cited in Harry’s memoir as a reason for the couple to turn away from Britain.”
The book also claims the Queen’s announcement that Camilla would one day be made Queen Consort didn’t go down well with Harry.
“Harry’s refusal to acknowledge the Queen’s decision foreshadowed the problems to come,” Bower writes.
“Charles had good reason to fear that Harry’s dislike of Camilla had been re-energised by Meghan.
“Easily persuaded, Harry edged towards betraying his father, Camilla, the Cambridges and even the Queen … To earn out the publisher’s advance, nothing and no one had been sacrosanct.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/prince-harry-tipped-to-expose-camilla-in-upcoming-memoir/2RY7X2VYMH4ILXEHTLHB2O7ZI4/
Timber! Driver loses wood load on first day behind the wheel
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/timber-driver-loses-wood-load-on-first-day-behind-the-wheel/KCN2DQXTM5S3W7NIZ3KVGMTNXI/
The Nelson firm was today fined $750 in the Nelson District Court for the low-speed accident at a major city roundabout last September, which ended up blocking part of the highway in and out of the city for several hours. The company admitted a charge of operating a heavy motor vehicle with an insecure load….
Police said the driver was on her first day, and was being supervised by a senior member of the company. Azwood told police it believed that once the bin was loaded onto the truck it should have been safe. The company initially told police, “the driver’s speed, the camber of the intersection and the possibility she (the driver) may have clipped a kerb” contributed to the incident, but later back-tracked on that view.
The police summary said an investigation showed a weld on the rail which held the container was designed to provide structural rigidity, but had been broken for some time before the accident…
Defence lawyer Mark Dollimore said the company didn’t want to criticise the driver, and that it stood behind her. He noted the company’s history as a safety conscious operator, including that it had two retired police officers on staff who helped develop operating protocols.
Interesting how the company was said to be protecting the female driver, after first taking the stance that it was caused by poor driving and got praised for changing their minds and accepting blame and fined only $750. Just as well for the driver that she didn’t end up a fall-guy; there was a proper investigation establishing where the fault lay. Regulations followed correctly at the end of the day, they ARE needed. But earlier on – why wasn’t the fault picked up in a proper warrant of fitness of the truck and it’s mechanical workings?
The driver was not named but the other firms would know about her. I wonder if she also lost her job which would not advance her CV.
A Nelson story gets into the nZ Herald. The result of a court case – news funded by Open Justice. No other reports on the google page I was looking at. Why should NZ Herald be able to tap into this fund?
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU2207/S00132/whina-marches-past-1m-at-the-new-zealand-box-office.htm
Call on the spirit of Dame Whina! She was redoubtable and a wise woman and practical and when she had a dream knew how to make it real. With that sort of help NZ could rise again – not to become great – just to be a great place to live that we could be proud of.
Who in Maoridom brings together the mana and abillty to calm the savage breasts of white wealthies and socially ambitious and the petrified brain cells of the old white male, to manage them and bring in the wilder elements of Maori and nutty pakeha.?
Watch out for tripwires from this source. They’ve got sauce! Good for media keeping an eye on each other, keeping each other honest? Well we hope so.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018850576/criticism-of-mini-doco-funding-hits-a-dead-end
“I’m just so sick of everything getting taxpayer money for these projects. Why can’t people just pay out of their own pocket?” Newstalk ZB deputy political editor Jason Walls asked on air last Tuesday. …
Walls’ objections were rushed out as a news story online by Newstalk ZB and its sister paper the New Zealand Herald. The stories were shared on social media with the claim “the amount spent has left some gobsmacked.” (My opinion – Emotional hyperbole, always a beware for those being fact-finders.)
“Would you pay $20,000 for a documentary about ‘science superhero’ Dr. Siouxsie Wiles? Because you already did,” the Herald’s story began.
On the air Walls had referred to $20,000 of Film Commission funding but said he wasn’t sure how Siouxsie and the Virus had been funded.
Addendum tweet:
Dr Siouxsie Wiles @SiouxsieW
LOL I just found out how much taxpayer money NZME who owns the NZ Herald and Newstalk ZB got in the first half of 2020. $8.6 MILLION! If you are a taxpayer, that’s $2.23 you paid. Oh, and their net PROFITS after tax rose by $1 million to $7.8 MILLION.
When we were a country not being strangled by overseas speculators and Covid, we would have heard a lot about the Commonwealth Games. I’ve just caught up and thanks to Wikipedia I note the details:
About
The 2022 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Birmingham 2022, is an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that is scheduled … Wikipedia
Opening ceremony: 28 July
Closing ceremony: 8 August
Motto: Games for Everyone
Main venue: Alexander Stadium
Athletes participating: 5,054
Nations participating: 72 Commonwealth nations (expected)
A last thought. Has th government announced a big award for Dr Ashley – he was a mountain peak that we looked up to – solid and reliable and we needed that. Along with PM Jacinda but he gave the info that we understood in a believable way.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018850544/ashley-bloomfield-you-ve-got-to-be-tenacious-in-public-health
Let your Love Flow Bellamy Brothers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gft_kG9cfJg
A new term to contend with –
“Explosive fire
The so-called Oak Fire has exploded in size since starting on Friday, but firefighters were still unable to get any of it under control 24 hours later.
“Explosive fire behaviour is challenging firefighters,” California’s fire department said.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/471536/emergency-declared-as-wildfire-rages-near-yosemite-national-park
I think when we get a government worthy of the name again we will have to keep people;s houses bunched and not have wealthy people and non-farmers popped around the motu where they can get a nice view only accessible to helicopters etc. We also will have to instal towers that are fire watchers as we used to do in the old days.
I’m getting over-anxious and prescribe for myself lesser time worryng on the blog so I will lessen my input. Best to do I think. If only some changes could occur that were part of a plan that was to go forward in stages. But it’s a brick wall and one gets bruised at the lack of concern for people and the political job that we pay so much money to be carried out. Blood, sweat and what do we get – tears.