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A miracle occurred in Wellington yesterday, with the WCC retaining it’s 34% airport share in accordance with the wishes of its long suffering rate payers. Big thanks to councillors Chung, Abduraman, McNulty, Calvert, Young, Rundle, Pannett, ONeill and Wi Nedra, and no thanks to Mayor Tory Whanau.
That is good to hear. Holding on should be enough to give some direction to the actions there to get the most practical and wise outcomes. Lovely words those ‘practical and wise’; not heard so much today as other parameters prevail.
(https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/530495/tourist-injured-in-nelson-beachside-campground-attack-by-naked-man-ricky-james-mullen) Is there an arguement for compulsory treatment of very aggresive persons with long acting 6 month antipsychotics, as a parole condition (https://www.rxlist.com/invega-hafyera-drug). Antipsychotics have a calming effect, and are used a lot in care homes for their calming effect, and were once called major tranquilisers. (https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/530325/killer-of-rnz-journalist-phillip-cottrell-released-despite-still-being-high-risk)
It was always a dodgy lottery to obtain prompt hospital or specialist treatment over Christmas until late January.
Now, due to the Government’s compulsory demands that Health NZ staff take 3 weeks off work it’s become an outright dangerous gamble with people’s lives.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/530509/daughter-of-elderly-khandallah-woman-helen-gregory-revealed-as-alleged-murderer
The Judge or whoever is allowing the name to be released but not all the details. So people are left to make their judgments on less information than needed. No name should be released in these circumstances. And using shame because of possible harm to a parent, an older person, is unreasonable. Being old does not make a person more worthy, possibly less noble as they get older and more complaining, and not even mental loss to blame. Tolerance of people’s situation at different ages, is the best approach.
Don’t jump to emotionalism and disdain for the accused. The mother was 79, and some elderly people hang on and on and are very demanding. They can be malicious too. And intent on screwing every care and concern from children unreasonably and be mean in the face of their childrens’ needs in a world harsher than they have lived in.
And it is possible that help from the state may be refused by authorities, or even by the old person, if the daughter or son is considered to be able to provide even despite the responsibilities or disabilities they themselves carry. As an old person I get a little help, and hear about some wealthy old people who play games criticising their service providers. or getting services beyond their needs. But some of the moneyed, middle class, right-wing attached are so self-involved they consider helpers are servants and so much is owed to them.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/530521/ditch-the-planner-speak-west-coast-council-team-told
This would be good. Planners and other highly trained and expensive council employees need to listen and discuss and not force through things that seem as if they will add to their CVs.
And do what is needed within reference to basic framework that the area needs to consider for the good of its own people. Part can be achieved by refusing to employ people who aren’t NZs and ensure that the planners and else are being properly trained here for our own conditions and needs.
The dysfunction of central gummint flows through into local. People standing for council need to have done a course with a diploma after one has done several basic papers and achieved a grounded background. This paying candidates whose main skill is summed up by saying they are passionate about something is null and void certification.
New version of Covid 19 is more infectious – XEC.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/530513/covid-19-sub-variant-xec-arrives-in-new-zealand
Some basics for people like me who is booked for next week to have inoculation for present strain. This is what I have gathered…
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/concern-covid-sub-variant-found-nz
…Epidemiologist Michael Baker, a Wellington-based Professor at the University of Otago, said a clear strategy is needed to reduce the impact of XEC….
…Prof Paul Griffin, from the University of Queensland, told RNZ’s Checkpoint …
People needed to maintain a certain level of readiness and mitigating strategies, he said.
“At the moment, I think one of our biggest challenges is actually complacency.
“The fact that we’ve got a new subvariant that’s looking more infectious than taking over in many parts of the world, it should be a reminder that we need to keep up some of those basic strategies like vaccination, antivirals and simple measures to reduce getting infected and onward transmission.”
The current Covid-19 vaccine is predicted to still be able to protect from the XCC subvariant too, he said.
“One of the challenges we face is a lot of people are saying that JN1 is not going to protect against XCC because it sounds different but in fact that’s not the case and while its ability to protect will be reduced to a degree it’ll still be very good.
The vaccine I will get is going to be for XCC I should think but it will offer some useful protection against the new one XEC. So I will get vaxxed but I think I should start wearing my black mask which is better than the lighter blue. So cross my fingers and follow the plan is what I will do, I haven’t had it yet though know some people who have had more than once. Are okay. But I am old which makes me more vulnerable. And I have things to do yet before I snuff it.
RIP. Fleur Adcock, fine poet, one of the few Kiwis to make it into international anthologies. Met her briefly at OU, way back.
“ Doctor, I am not afraid of a word.
But nor do I wish to embrace that visitor,
to engulf it as Hine-Nui-te-Po
engulfed Maui; that would be the way of it. “
from. The Soho House for Women. 1979.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/530522/not-just-about-friday-night-drinkies-auckland-pensioners-on-kainga-ora-ending-their-gatherings
…For 15 years, the group of Ellerslie tenants at the complex, who age from their mid 50s up to age 93, have met on a Friday afternoon for a few drinks and a catch up from 4 to 6pm, or 8.30pm if it’s a special occasion like a birthday.
However, Kāinga Ora, the landlord of the complex, said it has received complaints from other tenants about alcohol consumption and noise in the common room and has restricted the hours the tenants can use the room.
The doors are now locked at 4pm, Monday to Friday.
Kāinga Ora said there was a blanket ban across the country on drinking alcohol in its common room facilities…
No one should have the ability to spoil other people’s lives with complaints that are treated as holy. Note in the item it says –
The tenants feel this is unfair, and that Kāinga Ora has not been willing to compromise, moving straight to a rule change without negotiating an alternative.
Tenant Lisa Howard told Checkpoint the group of five to 10 tenants kept the music to 60 decibels.
“The room is double glazed, once you’ve got the door shut you actually can’t hear our music, we’ve got the music on in the common room and you can’t even hear it when you’re sitting out on the deck, that’s how loud it is,” Howard said…
If they enjoy music, each other’s community and conviviality they should be allowed to have it with reasonable rules. Some people enjoy complaining and others enjoy saying no to others; the complainers should be listened to and some concession made. Also they should be invited to join in at special three monthly parties so not to feel excluded. But those who enjoy regular sessions should be able to do so and not have just anyone break into those sessions. Meeting each others’ needs should be the order of the day in present NZ, without having to sacrifice one’s own enjoyment. We need cheering up, it’s only going to get worse. No doubt about it.
Dictators and rigid termagants (flexible as to gender). Give a little person some unusual authority and they turn into petty tyrants. Some never grow past the school rules and prefects stage.
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