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I have just been suspended from posting on facebook for 14 hours for trying to share a live feed from the Columbia University protest camp.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=406641762160655
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Perhaps we could en masse give up Facebook unless we are too indoctrinated to it and weakened without it.
Aldous Huxley
“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/85016-a-really-efficient-totalitarian-state-would-be-one-in-which
I don’t know how these thinking people keep their heads and don’t despair when they see that much of what they have posited is true or likely to be partly true.
Consumers are guinea pigs in NZ. We don’t wish to saddle good businesses with unnecessary regulations so they can go ahead and fight to the end to show they are good busnesses. While we have to suffer the problems that suitable regulations would control. But what the heck let the market decide!@!
…Sarah* said she had never had skin problems until “crazy rashes” appeared last year.
Her children also developed angry-looking lesions and unexplained blood noses. Her daughter had a rash on her face for three months.
Sarah’s husband was sneezing all the time and had an “old man’s cough”. When he went away for three days the cough disappeared, and they realised it must be related to their home environment….
Notes from a visit to Sarah’s GP record “fibreglass dermatitis from her mattress … she has had a number of red, purulent lesions all over her body … continued angry, erythematous lesions”.
She has been referred to a dermatologist who could formally give that diagnosis, but there is a six to 12-month wait for an appointment….
The foam in mattresses is highly flammable but there are no mandatory standards in New Zealand for fire retardation.
“That’s crazy,” said Winkl on its website. “So we’ve taken it upon ourselves to encase our mattresses in a fire-retardant sock. The sock is made up of a unique blend of fibres designed to interrupt the combustion process in the event of a fire, and eliminates the need to include harmful chemical fire retardants in our foams ensuring you get a safer sleep.”
“Glass fibre” does not appear on Winkl’s website, or on the mattress label, but that is what the product was.
It can be safe, as long as the material remains contained. But if disrupted, the fibres can become airborne.
The particles are miniscule and almost translucent; they look a bit like tiny plastic threads or feathers, finer than a hair, so once airborne they settle across surfaces all over the home and you probably would not even know they are there.
Glass fibre fragments captured under a digital microscope. Photo: Ryan Bellotti / Stuff
And consumers are left in a regulatory no-man’s land, because any company using the product is not breaching any New Zealand regulations since there are not any for this specific usage (although MBIE says consumers with concerns should contact its product safety team)….
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/515407/rashes-and-lesions-is-your-mattress-making-you-sick
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2404/S00049/revisiting-new-zealands-policy-approach-the-nuances-of-equality-and-equity.htm
The equity and equality approaches have long needed revision in NZ/AO. But when pressing for change the tendency is to exaggerate the differences and faults. I hope and pray that there will be proper concern given to balance – not the pendulum caught on the opposite side and being hoisted in place which is so common.
Examples are, people often having to split property and chattels 50/50 after only three years marriage. This has resulted in a person being pressured to sell the family farm. I think one case resulted in murder of the partner. An interesting offshoot of this overbearing law is that Filipino women carers are being helpful to old gentlemen, and if they can remain in their employ and live in, they can claim on the estate as partners, as the law enables unmarried co-habiting partners the rights of a married partner.
This seems irrational thought for such extreme law change when there are ‘feelings’ of unfairness. If fairness and equity had prevailed, the Australian professional would not have been able to dismiss his sister as co-trustee on their mother’s death. She wished to live out her life in the Auckland home where she had lived a lot of her adult life looking after her mother. He forced her to move so he could gain access to the house. So she shifted to her car and spent her last days there. Equality or equity is a lovesome thing, God wot!