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The negotiation process that regularly updates terms and conditions for general practice funding barely works for privately owned practices (mainly small businesses and providing the large majority of primary healthcare in New Zealand).

How many avoidable deaths, and avoidable hospitalisations and human suffering, do the government consider acceptable before they start listening to the health experts and scientists again, and reimpose the Level 4 Lockdown Alert they have asked for?

Ideally Government should have returned Auckland to Level 4 this week. But the political courage to do this wasn’t there even though it may have reduced the overall time in lockdown.

Are the people of Northland’s lives and health not as valued as ours?

Experts say vaccination levels are still too low to prevent a major deadly outbreak. In the meantime Suppression has failed….

A robust democracy needs political parties to be sufficiently well funded to actively participate in elections.

From the outset Covid told us that it was caused by capitalism and that to defeat it we had to…

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.“ —  Fyodor Dostoyevsky “It is said…

Reporting by Jonathan MacKenzie – Oct 03, 2021 ‘Covid is here and it’s a matter of time before it spreads across…