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It's honestly beginning to feel like this government specifically wants to hurt children for some reason.
Abolishes free vaccinations for children
Issues a decree that sick kids should go to school and infect each other
Abolishes food in schools
Abolishes requirement for trained supervisor in ECEs
Cuts disability funding to carers of disabled children
Cuts 9% of Oranga Tamariki staff
Cuts 8% of Education staff
It's a part of their war on the middle class and the poor. Rich kids in private schools will not be hurt. They only want to hurt poor people and the middle class they don't care if it's the kids they are hurting or the adults.
Wait, fucking what?
Sorry, I wasn't very clear then. I think it's flu vaccinations for under 12s not the essentials. So far.
Damn, didn't see that. They really want kids sick eh?
Yeah. It's so weird.
It's also another example of putting ideology over practicality. Even before they got in, we already had a drag on our healthcare system because of the lifelong effects of our unusually high rate of child respiratory infections and rheumatic fever.
The downstream effects of these new policies are not going to be pretty.
This government (and more frequently all rightwing parties) seem anti-science and anti-common-sense. Anything to feed the machine (neo-liberal capitalism).
I think you're right.
It's quite baffling to me. After a certain point, wealth hoarding is no more beneficial than hoarding old newspapers. And they're ruining lives and destroying the planet for that?