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'Reckless': Govt slashing over 1000 roles across Ministry of Education, Oranga Tamariki | Newshub (www.youtube.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Abolishes free vaccinations for children

Wait, fucking what?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry, I wasn't very clear then. I think it's flu vaccinations for under 12s not the essentials. So far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Damn, didn't see that. They really want kids sick eh?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This government (and more frequently all rightwing parties) seem anti-science and anti-common-sense. Anything to feed the machine (neo-liberal capitalism).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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?