Ummmmm.
Wow.
So, it’s a basic question after the Union protest yesterday claiming this Government is anti-worker from the very excellent Camilla Belich…
…this Government has abolished fair pay agreements, brought back 90-day trails, ordered mass public sector layoffs, cut back increases to the minimum wage and are now looking at remove basic rights and protections for workers by reclassifying employees as contractors, as well as weakening health and safety protections, and reducing sick leave and holiday entitlements so it’s certainly going to be a tough argument to counter that this Government isn’t the most anti-worker Government in decades.
You are not going to believe Brooke’s response…
…wait.
What?
WTAF?
Wait.
WHAT?
The need for vaccine mandates during a once in a century Pandemic, a pandemic that in global comparison we did incredibly well from a public health perspective, a pandemic response the vast majority demanded at the time, a health mandate that was developed to save workers health from the sick – THAT is what makes the previous Government MORE anti-worker than all the garbage and abuse this Government have thrown?
That is so Antivax it believes the evil Sun Dragon is eating the Moon God during an eclipse.
Wow.
Forget:
- Abolishing fair pay agreements
- Bringing back 90-day trails
- Ordering mass public sector layoffs
- Cut back increases to the minimum wage
- Reclassifying employees as contractors,
- Weakening health and safety protections
- Reduce sick leave and holiday entitlements
Forget all that, requiring workers to get vaccinated during a global pandemic makes the previous Government the most anti-worker and lets this Government off the hook.
There is politics, and then there is bullshit.
This manages to be political bullshit.
The Minister’s response is an affront to the necessary sacrifices many Kiwis made during Covid and for a Minister of the Crown to take such a steaming crap on the very chest of that sacrifice to avoid legitimate criticism of this Governments brutal employment policies only manages to add insult to injury.
We should not allow the Right to create a revisionist history of our collective unselfishness, this is not 1984!
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All I can say is this;
The nation of India can count themselves lucky that they never ever had a far right conspiracy theorist Government Minister in their parliament, as bat shit insane as Brooke Van Velden.
World Polio Day: How India managed to eradicate polio
In 2009, India had reported 741 polio cases, the highest in the world. In January 2011, India reported its last polio case. How did the turnaround come about? Here’s a brief account.
Written by Yashee
New Delhi | Updated: October 24, 2024 19:33 IST
October 24 is observed as World Polio Day. The Day was established by Rotary International to commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk, who led the first team to develop the vaccine against the disease in the 1950s…..
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-health/world-polio-day-how-india-managed-to-eradicate-polio-9636961/
Interesting article well worth the read.
Well done India.
Screw anti vax sentiment
How did India treat Covid?
By forcing everyone to take novel biotech products?
Nope.
Given that the Modi regime has systematically defunded the necessary health surveillance programs that would detect a polio outbreak since taking power, I wouldn’t count on that luck lasting.
Another from the woke right wing fuck you party .My neighbour was a nurse and refused the vaccine so lost her employment and ultimately her life .
Seems like she speaks with Lynton Crosby, famed from The Hollow Men!
That is a tragic situation. Unfortunately there were multiple sources of information regarding vaccines so people were inclined to choose a view that felt good to them and the system was not flexible enough to accommodate all the different views. If another pandemic arrives hopefully an alternative to mandates can be found while still providing public health protection.
Bonnie. Sometimes planet earth has her own ways of addressing problems such as its current over- population. Many of the very elderly who New Zealand prioritised with the covid shots, may have just as soon chosen to depart; their quality of life can be pretty awful, even if extending it reaps big bucks for the powerful pharmaceutical barons.
“Unfortunately there were multiple sources of information regarding vaccines so people were inclined to choose a view that felt good to them and the system was not flexible enough to accommodate all the different views.”
groan, that encapsulates the problem but unfortunately serves to excuse it rather than condemn or solve it.
Bonnie, you imply that all sources are equally valid, or at least people may or are justified in treating them as such.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Are you seriously suggesting the system should “accommodate” the views of every quack, magical thinker, faith healer, bloke at the pub when considering information on vaccines, virology and epidemiology?
The Far Right had been looking for a hook to boost their support for a long time, the covid=denial anti-vax movement was it. It is tragic that your neighbour was sucked into it.
Seems like she has spoken with Lynton Crosby,famed for appearing in the HollowMen!
Seems like she speaks with Lynton Crosby, famed from The Hollow Men!
The vaccine didn’t work even remotely like we were told by the government it would though. That is a fact.
fuck off how many people died here compared to unvaccinated countries like the uk who just let it run rampant .My friend whos farther died in Birmingham had to wait 6 months for a funeral because of the backlog from covid and that was last year .She was stunned when the undertaker informed her he would have to be on ICE that long.
Bull fucking shit.
Look at the numbers dying before the vaccine was developed compared to after.
Have you shared your brain with Winston and his associates. Seems like Van Velden has as well. The benefit of you doing so is that it becomes more diluted the more it is shared so eventually becomes ineffective. That’s your brain I’m talking about. You seem to be getting there quite rapidly methinks. Unfortunately the right wing media haven’t quite cottoned on yet but they will eventually.
We currently have 5 people a week dying from covid which is way more than when we had 95% of the population vaccinated .
I would doubt we have even 50% vaccinated right now hence the 250 deaths at least this year .Had we had that many durring the pandemic you would have been screaming blue murder .Remember we never had vaccines fro the first year and you were all screaming about that .
Prove what you say is fact Nitrium otherwise you’re just another turd polishing down the rabbit hole conspirator. We know you’re a rightard.
“The vaccine didn’t work even remotely like we were told by the government it would though.”
Absolute garbage from Nitrium, our resident science denier.
It was made perfectly clear when the vaccine was rolled out that the then current state of research could not project its future efficacy against an evolving virus nor for how long it will protect and stimulate the human immune system to fight the virus. This was repeatedly stated.
Nitrium is indulging in tactics of the typical anti-science and magical thinking lobby:- that of innuendo, revisionist history creation and indulging in strawman arguments.
Jacinda told us the vaccinated won’t get sick and they won’t die.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAodhWkGDZw
No, in context of that clip she didn’t say that, you dishonestly only hear what you want to hear. She said that “symptom onset is greatly reduced”. Moreover, if any doubt remains there are innumerous other examples of her spelling out the claims as I laid out.
It’s your deliberate misreading and cherry picking of sources and using out of context information/statements that is typical of the anti-vax lobby, and it is why those educated in critical thinking and rational thinking rightly dismiss the lobby as lacking credibility and its proponents as outrightly dishonest.
Outright nonsense.
The clip is there for all to see. She did indeed say that.
She admitted you could still catch covid when fully vaccinated while also stating it just means you won’t get sick and you won’t die.
Later saying the symptom onset is greatly reduced.
Thus, in the full context, she was reaffirming you can get it, yet ( due to the symptom onset being greatly reduced) you won’t get sick and die.
Outright nonsense.
The clip is there for all to see. She did indeed say that.
She admitted you could still catch covid when fully vaccinated while also stating it just means you won’t get sick and you won’t die.
Later saying the symptom onset is greatly reduced.
Thus, in the full context, she was reaffirming you can get it, yet (due to the symptom onset being greatly reduced) you won’t get sick and die.
Learn to read and comprehend in context and in entirety, mr chair.
I’m doing you a favour my assuming you are merely mendacious and disingenuous, rather than that you are a complete idiot who can’t grasp basic comprehension and research skills.
You are cherry-picking and deliberately distorting what any rational, informed person who paid full attentional at the time, knows was the case then, and remains so now.
There is nothing wrong with my comprehension, Richard.
There was no cherry-picking or taking out of context.
What I said she stated was correct. Proven by the clip provided above.
She messed up. Own it.
Failing to does you nor her any favours.
She doesn’t need supporters like you digging a larger hole.
I’m guessing she would be far happier if we all moved on from this.
But if you want to continue your futile dance, be my guest.
I cant believe how quickly the swamp dwellers and the money launderers change from seeming intellegent to ferral mongrels .Her electorite replaced a god squad nutter with a ferral mongrel people hater .
Folks believe there is a raging deadly disease rampaging because some cooked stats and modelling saturates their screen
then deny the West and Israel is a murderous genocidal colonial enterprise even when actual headless body and flaming tents are broadcast 24/7 for anyone to see.
These are the same systems, the same power centres. The same interests. They don’t give a shit about you and me. To think these arseholes woke up one morning and decided to save all the weak and poor and we should all pull together from the goodness of their hearts is the height of stupidity.
They had a captive fearful market, they had a product. They pushed it. Their own tests (and lack thereof) showed how mediocre it was, at best. Reality be damned.
So this soulless creatures answer to what she determines to be a trampling of rights… removing rights. What a twisted individual
fast becoming a government of white trash
Great piece on NEWS ROOM this morning by Anne Salmond which explains how these cunts think .Its quite interesting and I now see how these gun toting chain smoking bible bashers think they are superior to the rest of us .Also explains how Luxon thinks and thinks the 99.999 % are just bottom feeders .
Labour’s mandates went beyond the workplace.
Largely dividing the nation.
And some could argue, played a big role in this lot now being in power.
Nevertheless, it’s no excuse for the current attack on workers
Disinformation and lies divided the nation, much of the disinformation was allied with and fostered by right wing political groups seeking to use chaos for political advantage, particularly in the USA and NZ caught some of it, directly imported by groups such as Counterspin.
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