The Daily Blog Open Mic – 11th August 2023
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
The Editor doesn’t moderate this blog, 3 volunteers do, they are very lenient to provide you a free speech space but if it’s just deranged abuse or putting words in bloggers mouths to have a pointless argument, we don’t bother publishing.
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 report blows me away.
I am absolutely staggered by how out of date and outmoded the current Pharmac operating model is.
Do yourself a favour and read this report.
Sooner or later you could become a casualty of the current outmoded model.
Do not give the tired old excuse we cant afford it reply either.
WE CANNOT AFFORD TO NOT REMODEL PHARMAC and it’s funding processes.
https://www.shawview.com/_files/ugd/8a9719_29fcfbf04c714545b6b40d9449c98647.pdf
Be careful what you wish for – the end result might not match your expectations.
There has been an effort not to allow our health system to follow the USA one which is high cost, and a drain on the resources of poor people – for each NZ$ spent we get far more benefit. A lot of the arguments we hear are fuelled by wealthy pharma which have developed drugs that don’t cure but lengthen time before death with protracted costly treatments that weigh heavily on the budget of a poor country like ours which is trying to live above its station in life in a most erroneous magniloquent way.
We are so wealthy and it is regarded as wrong for us to live to our real means when we can borrow; does anyone remember Greece going down the drain and the superior comments from knowledgable people here? We are in fact the same except we’re not as good dancers.
So we can keep polluting the atmosphere at our current rate – let’s cut down forests and dump them in the ocean.
A capitalist solution to a capitalist problem.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2386612-will-sinking-tonnes-of-wood-into-the-ocean-help-tackle-climate-change/?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/495612/schools-should-decide-cellphone-bans-not-government-principal-says
Does this remind anyone else of the anti-covid-vaccine response? Freedom!!!
Principal is all for community decision. Next thing the kids and parents will start telling them what they should teach, the question knowledge of USA.
(Principal where there is already a ban) – “It has had a real positive spinoff, however, it was right for us. We consulted with our community and it has benefits for us. What I don’t like is that it’s becoming a political issue.”
Man wake up – everything is political, especially education and technology.