The Daily Blog Open Mic – 2nd February 2022
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Moderation rules are more lenient for this section, but try and play nicely.
EDITORS NOTE: – By the way, here’s a list of shit that will get your comment dumped. Sexist language, homophobic language, racist language, anti-muslim hate, transphobic language, Chemtrails, 9/11 truthers, Qanon lunacy, climate deniers, anti-fluoride fanatics, anti-vaxxer lunatics, 5G conspiracy theories, the virus is a bioweapon, some weird bullshit about the UN taking over the world and ANYONE that links to fucking infowar.
This is insane:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/covid-19-miq-lockout-ministry-of-social-development-wants-16k-back-from-kiwi-couple/IRUE3RPBORGTI5S574DDQQK2WQ/
Our MSD is the WORST!
It is corrupt. Read the article.
I agree, appalling, and made even worse by the insultingly-fake sympathy from the cheerleaders of such small minded claw-back culture, the Natz.
It is llkely that tabour czn’t do anything because it is an operational matter and entirely in the hands of the bureaucrats who have turned the matter over to computer decision-making as recommended in the interests of efficiency by international fixers Price Waterhouse Coopers or Ernst Young or … We are largely being run by robot decision now, where we have to fit the boxes not the other way round. I think we will find the boxes we have to fit are coffins.
I suggest that we contact the polly in charge supposedly –
Hon Carmel Sepuloni Contact. Email. c.sepuloni@ministers.govt.nz.
with a CC to the PM Rt. Hon Jacinda Ardern Jacinda.Ardern@parliament.govt.nz
You will get an acknowledgement, that’s good best practice.
Also Work and Income complaint form on line:
https://workandincome.govt.nz/form/workandincome/govt/nz/form.req2?requestType=workandincome-govt-nz-complaints-form
Old people’s pensions and young people’s education cost which we make profit from – the great NZ, things itself practical and businesslike, but actually looks expedient and predatory. There needs to be a Commissioner of Covid Disadvantages to look after the harsh outcomes financial and otherwise through Covid produced changes preventing people’s normal movements.
https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/the-southland-times/20220129/281835762091128
University of Otago graduate who lost her job and flat after getting stranded in Perth, when the trans-Tasman bubble closed, is having to make a $2772 student loan repayment because she is now classified as an overseas-based borrower.
Annelise Kovaleski said she left New Zealand at the end of July to attend her brother’s wedding in Perth, not giving much thought to what might happen to her student loan if she got stuck there. ‘‘The borders closed two days after I got there, and I was stuck.’’
Kovaleski tried for five months to enter the managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) lottery…
Chris Hipkins and a panel of experts are about to redefine medical science to suit whatever it is they think is worth more than, well, medical science. If only we could have had our boosters before our first dose, think of the children we could have saved!