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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

4 years

I had to, I’m sorry

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

2 years

It is really and truly something that experts have said there are parallels between the effects of COVID-19 on the brain & the early stages of Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s and not only has this not been shouted from the rooftops, there is still no movement on masks or ventilation.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

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2 years

Ten things to know today if you have Covid: 1.) Rest - rest as in inert, as in don’t move. Don’t get off the couch, don’t engage your body or brain. Rest as in stare out the window or at the ceiling, more bored than you’ve been in your life. It. Will. Help. You. Down. The. Track.

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10 months

“I really wish we’d spent the last two years revamping indoor ventilation. That way, our restaurants (and shops, schools, hospitals, and workplaces) would be much safer even during a massive wave.” Thank you to everybody saying this out loud. And me, too.

We can do better with ventilation to combat latest Covid-19 wave

OPINION: Given we’re experiencing our fifth wave of Covid, there’s a good chance that at least one person in a crowded restaurant will be breathing out infectious virus particles.

www.thepost.co.nz

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2 years

2.) Take leave. Take it today. You’re not going to need a week; you might need two, you might need six. The more recovery time you can load in at the front end of this thing, the better. It is vitally important that you don’t try to push through & that you practice that ongoing.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

4 years

I think about this quote so often lately.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

2 years

6.) Reinfection. Avoid it. If you had it once & it was vaguely like a cold, congratulations. It does not mean you have avoided Long Covid. It does not mean you have avoided long-term damage to your health. If you get reinfected, the very real risk of damage increases every time.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

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2 years

3.) Realise you may have symptoms like fatigue for weeks to come. Make plans to mitigate that as in: Cancel plans, move meetings out, stagger meetings, work from home, remote work, flexiwork. If you’re frontline staff ask what your union is doing to advocate for measures to help.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

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2 years

4.) #LongCovid - don’t confuse with post viral symptoms. These can occur for weeks/months afterwards & clear. Long Covid is symptoms 2, 4, 6 months - 1, 2 years+ after. Long Covid is heart, brain, movement issues, crushing fatigue. Pushing through may be a factor in triggering.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

2 years

5.) “Weird stuff”. Watch out for tremors, heart palpitations, changes in mood, increased anxiety, blood pressure increases, hair loss, difficulty regulating temperature, loss of smell/taste, vertigo, numbness, difficulty exercising, shortness of breath, etc, etc. See your doctor.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

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2 years

7.) Mitigation. Strongly suggest wearing a mask, avoiding crowds, and meeting people outdoors, and or in open/well-ventilated spaces. No one is protecting you; it’s up to you to protect yourself & your loved ones. If you are sick, protect others and stay home, esp if you test +.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

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2 years

@lizzo “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” - James Baldwin

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

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4 years

We really need to talk about David Seymour. I worry we don’t take all the things to be concerned about seriously. I’m going to try to pull it all into one thread because sure as hell we’ll need to start referencing this if we choose to hand him power that he should not have.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

2 years

8.) Reality. There is no adequate financial support for those with Long Covid in New Zealand. There is no adequate workplace policy for those with Covid-19 and Long Covid in New Zealand. Sick leave won’t be up for discussion; MSD won’t talk to Long Covid advocates. It’s dire.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

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2 years

The level of stonewalling taking place from organisations who should be front footing the Covid response to take into account very real long term impacts (already rising with this wave) is remarkable. We may have a new government next year who will be in no way inclined to help.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

2 years

Which leads me to 9. Advocacy. Pandemic mitigation and *support* needs to be on the election agenda over the next few months. Please tweet at @nzlabour and @NZGreens to put this front and centre of their policy and to live the values they say they have. Please write to your MP.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

3 years

Okay but seriously every time we ask David Seymour what he thinks about something could we also ask Chlöe Swarbrick what she thinks just for balance

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

2 years

10. Leadership. We shouldn’t have to ask our leaders to think about the future, about the impact to the long-term health of our community as a result of doing nothing. It’s important to watch what leaders do, & how they treat people who can do nothing for them. Vote accordingly./

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

1 year

Something that is increasingly apparent worldwide is that there’s limited appetite by governments to respond to Covid. It will be up to workplaces to lead change that will protect employees - and their businesses - from the impacts of Covid. 🧵Here’s how:

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

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2 years

This is getting some traction - thank you to lived experience voices trying to be heard, & to the experts listening to them in all spheres (esp. health/politics.) It is so important to approach resting like you haven’t before - some info here: Take care🙏

Rushing back to exercise could cause long Covid

Some Covid-19 survivors have brain fog, cognitive difficulties and damage to cells in the nervous system that provide physical and nutritional support for neurons.

www.renews.co.nz

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

3 years

I saw a quote the other day that was something like “the minute a Nazi flag appears, it’s no longer a protest, you’ve joined a Nazi rally.” If you’re willing to join a movement that includes death threats, r*pe threats, conspiracy theories, misinfo… that’s no longer a protest.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

2 years

How else do we need to be convinced that masks & ventilation are a good idea? It’s been vehemently supported by experts. Studies say 1 in 5 will get Long Covid. Workforces are being decimated, particularly in schools Impact to the health of children is documented ( #LongCovidKids )

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

2 years

What will be the tipping point into reason? Calling this a mass disabling event? That’s already happened. The Bank of England recently noted Long Covid as a main driver of the shrinking labor pool in the UK - why wouldn’t we mitigate the same effect here while we still can?

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

3 years

A woman was jailed for 14 days because she wanted her children to go to their father's funeral. This man was given a $750 fine because he wanted a holiday in Wanaka. The charges carry a punishment of up to six months' imprisonment or a $4k fine. This is privilege, not justice.

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@radionz

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William Willis who travelled to Wanaka during the lockdown has been convicted of failing to comply with the Covid-19 health order and ordered to pay a fine of $750 and court costs.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

2 years

Please keep asking why we aren’t doing everything possible to protect ourselves and others from this. We are not post Covid. New variants are coming. We have lower immunity and the winter season is here. Hospitals are warning us. Experts are warning us. We are failing to listen./

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

3 years

I’m 100% convinced that if you measured the negative impact WINZ has on people, on kids, on physical and mental health, and the flow on effect of that ill treatment, you’d conclude it was vastly less horrific to just pay people a dignified income with minimal hoops from day one.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

5 years

I absolutely adore the fact that we live in a country where MPs and the Prime Minister regularly get random messages on social media and are just like “yep, we’re on it/we’ll sort it out, cheers.”😌

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

3 years

So, in light of people chasing the PM in their vehicle, breaking into offices, trying to arrest Andrew Little, can we agree that hunting down other people is not a good thing & perhaps people should stop before this stuff escalates & genuine harm occurs (because it always does).

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

2 years

Why is it that we think increased impact to the health system long term (Long Covid is neurological, cardiovascular, immunological, systemic) is acceptable? Why is it that we think leaving 1 in 5 to dangle in endless policy gaps around financial support is the best way forward?

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

4 years

The amount of men who incorrectly think they are entitled to the PM’s time and attention purely because they have a pulse is astounding and also a good reminder, on International Women’s Day, how many men retaliate to a clear No with escalating and truly disturbing misogyny.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

3 years

Today is the day, two years ago, that I first started to get Covid-19 symptoms. I only really have two things to say about the #LongCovid journey: You do not want this We are not prepared for what’s coming I’ve never felt more like a canary in the coal mine than with this.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

2 years

Someone said to me yesterday, as I worried about a loved one struggling with Covid, that it’s worse when you’ve had the experience yourself because you have all the information about how bad it can get. It can get bad, team. It can get really bad. I do not want this for anyone.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

3 years

“Their request and demands of the New Zealand people is that all public health measures are removed… they want to see removed the very measures that have kept us safe, well and alive. You’ll forgive me if I take a very strong view on that suggestion.” - PM Jacinda Ardern

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

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5 years

One thing I deeply appreciate about Helen Clark being on Twitter is not only her ability to drop a devastating reply, but also how you’ll be in a Twitter fight & she won’t be tagged, but she’ll swoop in out of nowhere & like your tweet, thereby instantly making you the winner🙌😏

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

10 months

New Zealand will be removing access to free RAT tests and masks from end of February. If you can’t access a RAT test, you can’t report a positive result, and all of a sudden case numbers don’t look so drastic. Another way that equity and the right to health is undermined.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

3 years

@1NewsNZ If this is not something that you would write about a man, then it’s sexist. Please could you explain why this is appropriate for those of us apparently labouring under the assumption that it’s 2021 and not an episode of Mad Men?

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

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8 months

Remember when media would ask Jacinda Ardern about the cost of a thing and she’d tell you the cost, both the wording and word count of the associated policy, the date and time it was written and the names of the author’s kids and then be like… “if my memory serves me correctly.”

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

4 years

This is an important and confronting read.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

5 years

My Mum was traumatised from the constant pressure from WINZ to get a job. The interrogations on her earnings when she managed to get a few hours work. The shaming when she needed food for us. It 100% made her mental heath worse. Can we treat people like human beings, please.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

3 years

Increasingly deeply uncomfortable that men in this country with platforms can apparently just make deeply personal, insulting and vicious remarks about women who excel at their jobs and nobody advising or in charge of those men is like yeah that’s misogyny we don’t do that now

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

2 years

Hi, @TVNZ . 1 in 3 women are subjected to physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner or sexual violence from a non-partner. Glorifying/normalising the behaviour of “FBoys” contributes to rape culture and encourages misogyny - rife in NZ. You can’t “boys will be boys” this.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

3 years

They wrote “hang ‘em high.” They are making death & r*pe threats. They are carrying baseball bats. They are harassing people who are wearing masks. They have tacit support from white supremacist groups. They are carrying nooses. They painted a swastika. It’s not a joke.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

5 years

I just want to say, for the rest of their lives, if the likes of Siouxsie Wiles, Ashley Bloomfield, Caroline McElnay and anyone who is an essential service worker doing this intense, scary mahi has to buy their own damn drinks I will be severely disappointed in us as a nation.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

2 years

A 12 year old cannot consent, @nzherald Please don’t lead with an argument from the defence that raping a 12 year old was consensual. Also are there new guidelines for the prosecution of sexual violence cases or are we still treating victims like they are nothing in New Zealand?

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

4 years

The CEO of a very prominent NZ brand laughed at me the day of the US election, while I was almost in tears at work as the results were coming in. “He’s just going to be really entertaining; I think he’ll be great for the country!” I think about him saying that quite often lately.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

4 years

If you have to isolate but you’ve also used up your 5 days sick leave & you also have to pay rent, bills, food on minimum wage & your boss will absolutely fire you or be a dickhead about giving you shifts in future & WINZ deliberately makes access hard,intimidating & stressful...

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

4 years

Why do people have New Conservatives signs on their fences? Is there a trend I don’t know about which means people now openly advertise their racism, misogyny and homophobia? 🤔😳

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

1 year

If you are a worker, write to your: 1./ Union rep 2./ Manager 3./ Health and safety rep 4./ Diversity & Inclusion team 5./ Well-being team Outline that clean air and increased sick leave are logical conclusions in a workplace environment with no pandemic protections in place.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

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4 years

Only Mike Hosking could take the outpouring of rage, of women sharing their fear and their stories and their pain, and turn those women into a joke, into “sad and pathetic.” Look, I know I’m just one voice here and it’s been a week but just enquiring when enough might be enough?

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

2 years

Cannot believe no one has given us a run down of Chris Hipkins’ best fashion moments.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

3 years

The fact that there is a deliberate movement in this country to silence women in politics, women who are experts, women who have public profiles is deeply concerning. As we’ve seen in the US, misogyny has a very real effect on policy, on what is platformed and what is silenced.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

3 years

In lighter news, this is from the PM’s Instagram & am fully Team Jacinda on this, you can’t just permanently borrow people’s pies, man.

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@Writagal

10 months

The US is in its second largest wave of the entire pandemic and New Zealand is out here low on free RAT tests, and is about to make people pay $60 for one box in a cost of living crisis, during an ongoing pandemic. What on earth are we doing, and follow up - why is it acceptable?

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@Writagal

3 years

Is the PM in Auckland yet? Can’t wait for her to come and make absolutely no practical difference to my life while running the same country she’s been running for quite some time now no matter where she is specifically located.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

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9 months

You did this. Public pressure works. Huge thanks to everyone who amplified or wrote posts/articles, or emailed the Minister of Health or their MP🙏 It’s not over, because Covid will not stop magically impacting Aotearoa in June - free tests must remain.

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@Writagal

9 months

“History happens on single days. Yesterday, at Tūrangawaewae, will be one of them.” Everything that is the absolute best of us is described here by @JohnJCampbell , phenomenal writing.

John Campbell: I saw peace, joy and 10,000 people uniting to say 'no'

Yesterday's national hui was a powerful display of Māori unity in the face of the government's proposed Treaty Principles Bill.

www.1news.co.nz

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

3 years

As someone with #LongCovid who can’t prove that I had it (tested too early/neg result), the worst thing is hearing Covid described as “mild.” I had a “mild” case. I got sick in March 2020 just prior to going into lockdown (which is exactly when you want to get drastically ill.)

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@Writagal

1 year

“A school, business or organisation that allows a Covid-positive employee to remain at work is almost certainly breaching its obligations under the Health & Safety at Work Act. Failing to have policies/procedures to prevent this is also likely to be a breach.” Watch this space👀

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1 year

A school, business or organisation that allows a Covid-positive employee to remain at work is almost certainly breaching its obligations under the Health and Safety at Work Act. Failing to have policies and procedures to prevent this is also likely to be a breach.

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4 years

Reasons to worry: Bad policy that disproportionately affects the most vulnerable New Zealanders, and doesn’t appear to recognise the vast demonstrable impacts of widening income inequality.👇

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@Writagal

3 years

Boss move.

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Hayley 🏳️‍🌈

@Writagal

10 months

It is a problem that we’re withholding access to updated vaccines in NZ. It is a problem that RAT tests will soon no longer be free. It is a problem we’re in the middle of a wave with no comms, and JN.1 on the rise. It is a problem that anti-viral stocks are low/access limited.

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@Writagal

2 years

We cannot get to the point in New Zealand where we say “but you told us it was settled law.” The undisguised and disturbing glee yesterday, the admittance that the US was being watched closely makes it clear that our upcoming election has high stakes - and rights on the table.

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4 years

Dog whistling to white supremacists isn’t a joke, but it’s been repeatedly treated like one - I don’t care if this is the “NZ version” - the MAGA hat is absolutely a symbol of hate and no politician has any business being anywhere near one - the below was a decision - not a joke.

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@Writagal

3 years

In case you’re wondering how violence & misogyny gets normalised, this is absolutely how it happens. This reads like the interviews with people attending Trump rallies. Perpetuating the “just a festival with a few bad apples” narrative only helps those deliberately eroding norms.

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3 years

NZ Herald: Clearly we are in a dictatorship, let us get a Random Prominent Man with no expertise but an opinion, & put him on the front page Stuff: Let’s get someone who literally wrote a book on a dictatorship to clearly explain, point by point, why we are not in a dictatorship

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@Writagal

3 years

I despise this kind of lazy, fear-mongering headline. Not once has the PM relied on fear. The rollout is going to plan. We have been lauded by others for our Delta response. This is unhelpful, dangerous and erodes trust. If you are going to publish writing, use facts - not fear.

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@Writagal

2 years

@enya_hoo When I tweet from a lived experience perspective, I imagine most will take what I say & apply common sense. Nowhere have I mentioned not moving until blood clots form. People see rest as “I’ll rest for a bit.” With Covid it has to be intentional, dedicated. Hope that helps you.

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1 year

Minor point but I was in the carpark during all this; I am staying in the hotel. It definitely was not gridlock up and down the streets of New Plymouth - only the carpark… which was also likely full because it was check in time on a long weekend Friday.🤔

Christopher Luxon proves to be a traffic-stopper in New Plymouth

The National leader hastily added a second session to the party's Get New Zealand Back on Track roadshow in the city today.

www.rnz.co.nz

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@Writagal

2 years

"Misogynists can love their mothers—not to mention their sisters, daughters, wives, girlfriends, and secretaries. They need not hate women universally, or even very generally. They tend to hate women who are outspoken, among other things."

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2 years

Um, hello @nzlabour , this will not be the first Christmas that Covid is not hanging over us. Our case numbers last week were 27,076 & we should be at least doubling that to get a true reflection of infections. Of 27k Long Covid cases will be 4,510. Please update the party line.

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4 years

Okay. I read Stuff this morning & I’m just going to raise again that it is deeply concerning that we’ve handed more power to someone who is smart enough to understand that by championing hate speech he is implicitly accepting racism.

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4 years

@maddow I’m in NZ watching with horror (for four years) - really clear from the other side of the world that you’re on a path it will be really difficult to turn back from. I hope you all fight hard when he declares the election to be fraudulent. Thanks for facts over lies & obfuscation.

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4 years

Speaking of science, the unwillingness to listen to a scientist taking the time to explain the science to him was at best incredibly rude and dismissive and to be honest a concerning glimpse as to how, as a leader, the man would respond to actual facts and data.

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4 years

Suggested q’s for Chris Liddell: Is white supremacy something you condone? How do you feel about fascism? Why do you want to work with Donald Trump in any capacity given *all-encompassing gesture*? Can we let Kim Hill at him please, if we’re so determined to interview him?

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Alright. So this is what I’m going to use my voice for today. Let me tell you a story. I grew up in Papakura, in a single-parent family. My Mum, partly because of the unrelenting cruelty of trying to navigate the WINZ system, couldn’t sustain a full-time job. I got a job at 14.

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4 years

78% of people suffer heart damage from Covid-19. 1 in 10 people get Long Covid. This was said in August when this data was readily available, when science was very clear Covid-19 is absolutely not “just the flu” - this take is irresponsible from someone claiming to be a leader.

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2 years

Questions of the day: It’s day 187 of the traffic light system and yet nobody has explained clearly why masks and ventilation aren’t required in schools and workplaces despite the evidence for both of those things and advocacy by 200+ experts and we’re all just… fine with that?

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1 year

If you are an employer: consider that an ‘employee that inadvertently transmits infectious illness to co-workers can have a dramatic, ripple effect on other personnel', which 'can have major impacts on a company’s ability to operate effectively, and to overall profitability'.

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2 years

If someone said “go to work, or school, and by the time you finish the day you could have an illness that may mean your body and mind will be drastically affected for the rest of your life” would you do it? Because 1 in 5 people who contract Covid-19 are facing this possibility.

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“If we want to ensure anyone is better off, surely it should be the most vulnerable.” - Dame Jacinda Ardern

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@Writagal

1 year

Semi-regular and increasingly critical reminder.

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@Writagal

2 years

Incredibly sick of reading every couple of days how a judge in this country has decided that the perpetrator of an assault deserves more consideration, respect and dignity than the victim - clearly not particularly focused on justice but all really excellent examples of misogyny.

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@Writagal

3 years

I am in an epic testing queue in Auckland and the level of upbeat kindness from all of the staff directing cars, answering queries, keeping the line moving is phenomenal (in sweltering heat, too). To everyone working on the frontlines of the Omicron response - thank you.

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@Writagal

5 years

My boss just sent a reminder that we’re not working from home, we’re trying to work from home during a pandemic, & homeschool, & clean, & navigate the supermarket, & read the headlines each day- it’s ok to not be in a space to focus on work. If you manage people, please do this.

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@Writagal

2 years

Trying to make a habit of sharing this whenever someone uses “woke” without elaborating (a current NZ Herald headline)

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@Writagal

2 years

The Roe v Wade decision is about power and control. This will reverberate around the world and bolster the misogyny that is increasing in New Zealand and that has been deliberately and consistently normalised across the board - and called out by experts who have been targeted.

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@Writagal

4 years

Speaking of white supremacy, let’s be really clear that every time this happens, it emboldens white supremacists in NZ. Look at Trump’s Pro*d Boy* comments. For my money, you don’t accidentally get in the news celebrating that hate is allowed to be disseminated.

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@Writagal

4 years

Symbols of hate start out as small, innocuous things. It’s not the thing itself, although that gains inherent power & meaning, the same as a peace symbol, or a cross. It’s the fact that it’s a calling card. It’s the thing that says “you are my kind of person.” MAGA hats are that.

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@Writagal

3 years

The opinion article in the Herald today fails to note multiple reporters have made the connection between NZ’s protest & far-right groups. Additionally, the clear sexism in the article isn’t acceptable any day, and also fails to note death threats have been made against the PM.

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@Writagal

2 years

At risk of being the only household in New Zealand that does this, was this ever a dessert in your house? 🍪Griffins chocolate chip cookies 🥂Dip in wine or orange juice 🥛Cream 🎉Sprinkles (Usually a log and more presentation effort but 🤷🏻‍♀️ 2022 was very hard and I’m very tired)

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@Writagal

4 years

*CW Threats of violence* Just a silly comment? He said he would “destroy mosque after mosque till I am taken out.” That’s not a silly comment, a joke, something to be minimised or dismissed. That is a threat.

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@Writagal

2 years

Quite seriously, if overseas health professionals are saying this is the worst it’s been and the data also shows that, isn’t it logical to go oh maybe we’d better act differently to avoid the train coming our way? Why is clear increased impact to health preferable to prevention?

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@Writagal

4 years

Your semi-regular reminder that out of 75 MPs, Marama Davidson was the only person to respond in detail to my query recently about the work being done on poverty, sexual, domestic & family violence. Almost everybody else either did not respond or directed me to Marama.

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@Writagal

9 months

I have not yet seen one article about Rangiora High that talks about the impact to health for frontline teachers, the impact of repeat infection for kids, the expectation to come back to work early, the utter lack of consideration around being infectious. We can do better, media.

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@Writagal

1 year

Something that continues to feel incredibly wrong is the lack of reporting on the protests. Worldwide, including in Aotearoa, citizens are gathering in huge numbers to call for humanity, to protest the atrocities happening in real time. Why isn’t this on front pages everywhere?

Nadeem Ahmed

@Muqadaam

1 year

One of the biggest protests in the history of Great Britain We did it 1 MILLION #CeasefireNOW

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@Writagal

3 years

We have to talk about misogyny when we talk about the protests… we have to talk about misogyny when we talk about the polls.

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@Writagal

4 years

Speaking of free speech and deliberate acts - who was emboldened after the words? Racists? White supremacists? People who think it’s okay to threaten to attack others? Guy really knows his audience, doesn’t he.

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@Writagal

2 years

You know how the advice is to get people to RAT before your Christmas parties? Purely based on the texts I am receiving this morning ahead of a Christmas party happening today, this is very, very good advice.

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@Writagal

2 years

Repeat Covid infections compromise your immune system. That’s why masking remains effective and why experts have been loudly asking for better ventilation measures for schools and workplaces- to avoid impacts like this & long term impacts to heart, brain, lungs etc, & Long Covid.

Liam Thorp

@LiamThorpECHO

2 years

Anyone else feel like they are just getting ill every other week?

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