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This article (in the link below) highlights what a circus our health system has become.
It could be used as the storyline for a new Yes Minister episode.
Nobody in charge seemingly knows what the hell is going on.
We can’t even get confirmation on the number of nurses we are short.
To top that off, in the middle of a nursing shortfall, hundreds’ of international nurses are leaving because they can’t find jobs.
And it gets worse, spreading to Immigration NZ as well.
Apparently, international nurses had been told one of Immigration New Zealand’s requirements was for nurses to have offers of employment before they could move off the occupational registration visa. At the same time, some had been told they needed to hold a visa to work.
So it’s a case of employers saying if you don’t have a work visa, you can’t apply for this position, while Immigration NZ is saying if you come with a job offer, we will give you work visa.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350344355/hundreds-international-nurses-are-leaving-because-they-cant-find-jobs
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/524560/rage-baiting-how-content-creators-are-profiting-off-your-anger
How trivial can you be? Limbo – how low can you go? Would people who have been brought up on this internet interaction have ability to do anything sensible when needed but suck their thumbs? They couldn’t even limbo – it requires fitness and personal determination, skill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzm5B6wL9EA
And we were told that we had to jettison government as being inefficient before the 1980s.
If we had chutzpah we would have a daily or weekly satirical show along the lines of Le Canard*. We could get laughs as from Yes Minister. The French know more about gummint and protecting their country than we do.
Our sentiments came over during my childhood, and don’t seem to have changed to be more incisive yet. The Yeomen of England in the opera Merrie England by Sir Edward German lyrics written by Basil Hood (relation to Robin?)
The words seem to be under copyright, as they come up blank on request. Here is what I have remembered for 60? years and a little excerpt from the Proms 2010 from a singer who might be English. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUUFv27YUGw
Who are the yeomen, the yeomen of England?
The freemen are the yeomen..
Strong were the arms they bore, when they went out to war
Stronger their promises? for the freedom of England.
And nations to eastward and nations to westward
All something of England.
No other land could bear them, but their motherland old England
And on her broad bosom shall they ever lie.
Something like that, not mentioning how men were kidnapped in press gangs to serve the Royal Navy leaving their families poverty stricken, bereft. etc etc.
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Canard_encha%C3%AEn%C3%A9
Le Canard enchaîné – Founded in 1915 during World War I, it features investigative journalism and leaks from sources inside the French government, the French political world and the French business world, as well as many jokes and cartoons. Le Canard enchaîné does not accept any advertisements and is privately owned, mostly by its own employees…