(14-07-2022, 12:00 AM)C_T_Russell Wrote: Good to see that a good majority of kiwis have common sense and can see the mandates are now a joke.

The vaccine doesnt work, covid has long since mutated and many nurses dont want any more boosters for various reasons, not limited to some of them suffering side effects or not feeling well after their last shot.
Most of these nurses have had covid already and hence have natural immunity which is even better anyway.
Our health system is at breaking point and we need all the nurses we can get.
Bring them back!
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/07/mark-richardson-furious-at-unvaccinated-nurses-who-want-to-return-to-work-amid-health-care-crisis.html

(14-07-2022, 09:03 AM)king1 Wrote: Well assuming it is these folks
https://yabblezone.com/

then I would think it is safe to assume the sample population can't be random... 

for one it will exclude non techo folks, less likely to blindly follow conspiracies, more likely to follow the government health advice.

(14-07-2022, 09:57 AM)SueDonim Wrote:

(14-07-2022, 09:03 AM)king1 Wrote: Well assuming it is these folks
https://yabblezone.com/

then I would think it is safe to assume the sample population can't be random... 

for one it will exclude non techo folks, less likely to blindly follow conspiracies, more likely to follow the government health advice.

Thanks for the link. I agree.
I had a recent email customer survey from what was portrayed as a legitimate company that I deal with but decided that no way was I going to click on a link in an email that was called "Yabble" and hit delete instead. Even accepting the trend for "modern" (ie silly) names and the fact that it must be hard to come up with something original, I'm afraid "Yabble" just doesn't do it for me.

Regarding the issue of nurse vaccination, the baseline for nursing is evidence-based practice. Those nurses who refused to get vaccinated have shown their disregard for evidence, or their inability to understand it. Either way, the health sector is safer without them. Think of the ramifications if we had even more transmission from or within the health workforce. When nurses become patients and take up bed space needed by their patients. No, sorry, I disagree that we should allow unvaccinated healthcare workers. And I don't accept that a dodgy survey among laymen should influence the decision-making.

(14-07-2022, 10:24 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: But hey, we ALL know universities and other higher education institutions are hotbeds of leftist brainwashing and they and their inmates are to be avoided at all costs. On account of the danger of contagion.

In fact, folk even walking past the gates ought to be fully masked up, if not wearing full PPE...

(14-07-2022, 05:29 PM)king1 Wrote:

(14-07-2022, 10:24 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: But hey, we ALL know universities and other higher education institutions are hotbeds of leftist brainwashing and they and their inmates are to be avoided at all costs. On account of the danger of contagion.

In fact, folk even walking past the gates ought to be fully masked up, if not wearing full PPE...

thank god we don't have any of those leftist nut jobs here!

(15-07-2022, 12:23 PM)undercoverhippycop Wrote: Interesting though that the death rates are predominantly represented by over 65 fully vaxed which is sad as there are oldies out there that have had it and are unvaxed and survived

(14-07-2022, 08:50 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: What a load of twaddle.

Consider this - the percentage of kiwis now vaccinated is around mid 90%. Why would half of those accept unvaccinated health workers let alone 'want' them? It is simply illogical.

Secondly, we are now entering a very dangerous phase of the pandemic. Again, why would anyone with half an ounce of commonsense 'want' unvaccinated health workers?

https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps/countries-and-territories/new-zealand/

Unless of course such people have a very unusual agenda? Like encouraging mass death...

(14-07-2022, 09:57 AM)SueDonim Wrote:

(14-07-2022, 09:03 AM)king1 Wrote: Well assuming it is these folks
https://yabblezone.com/

then I would think it is safe to assume the sample population can't be random... 

for one it will exclude non techo folks, less likely to blindly follow conspiracies, more likely to follow the government health advice.

Thanks for the link. I agree.
I had a recent email customer survey from what was portrayed as a legitimate company that I deal with but decided that no way was I going to click on a link in an email that was called "Yabble" and hit delete instead. Even accepting the trend for "modern" (ie silly) names and the fact that it must be hard to come up with something original, I'm afraid "Yabble" just doesn't do it for me.

Regarding the issue of nurse vaccination, the baseline for nursing is evidence-based practice. Those nurses who refused to get vaccinated have shown their disregard for evidence, or their inability to understand it. Either way, the health sector is safer without them. Think of the ramifications if we had even more transmission from or within the health workforce. When nurses become patients and take up bed space needed by their patients. No, sorry, I disagree that we should allow unvaccinated healthcare workers. And I don't accept that a dodgy survey among laymen should influence the decision-making.

CT, we've been over this multiple times and you still come up with the same misunderstanding that you demonstrated at the start. Please read some evidence and forget the general internet crap that you are looking at. It is misinformation. It is disinformation. It is wrong. The actual research and evidence moves so fast that even the experts* struggle to keep up with the impacts of the new variants and the implications of the consequent new understanding of how viruses work. How do you expect the average fringe internet site to know more?

*ie the real experts who did a decade of advanced education followed by a lifetime's work in their specialty. Those who understand how the body works and the impacts of viruses, disease and immunisation. Those who DO know as much as can be known  in an ever-changing world.

(14-07-2022, 10:24 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: But hey, we ALL know universities and other higher education institutions are hotbeds of leftist brainwashing and they and their inmates are to be avoided at all costs. On account of the danger of contagion.

In fact, folk even walking past the gates ought to be fully masked up, if not wearing full PPE...

(18-07-2022, 02:21 PM)C_T_Russell Wrote:

(14-07-2022, 10:24 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: But hey, we ALL know universities and other higher education institutions are hotbeds of leftist brainwashing and they and their inmates are to be avoided at all costs. On account of the danger of contagion.

In fact, folk even walking past the gates ought to be fully masked up, if not wearing full PPE...

Yes indeed, the same students that praise abortion, but want guns banned.

So much for respect of human lives, the hypocrisy is appalling.

(18-07-2022, 04:23 PM)Orthelia Wrote: Its the nurses union who have stated they don't want unvaxed nurses back.

Interesting as to who holds the ramsom card

(18-07-2022, 02:43 PM)Lilith7 Wrote:

(18-07-2022, 02:21 PM)C_T_Russell Wrote: Yes indeed, the same students that praise abortion, but want guns banned.

So much for respect of human lives, the hypocrisy is appalling.

Oh ffs! NO ONE 'praises abortion'.
Most of us have the sense to comprehend that it has to be an option for those who need it. Although of course we could do things differently - & perhaps make male masturbation illegal on the grounds that 'it wastes life.'  The idiots who claim to be 'pro life' are conspicuous by their absence once birth takes place & there's an actual fully formed human needing care & attention.

(18-07-2022, 04:33 PM)king1 Wrote:

(18-07-2022, 04:23 PM)Orthelia Wrote: Its the nurses union who have stated they don't want unvaxed nurses back.

Interesting as to who holds the ramsom card

Pretty sure the nurses union are just applying government policy...

I also see there is a new exemption available for nurses now, if you go get yourself infected with covid you can practice for 100 days...
https://www.nursingcouncil.org.nz/Public/News_Media/NCNZ/News-section/news-item/2021/10/Mandatory_Vaccination_Order_for_Nurses.aspx

(20-07-2022, 01:03 PM)C_T_Russell Wrote:

(18-07-2022, 02:43 PM)Lilith7 Wrote: Oh ffs! NO ONE 'praises abortion'.
Most of us have the sense to comprehend that it has to be an option for those who need it. Although of course we could do things differently - & perhaps make male masturbation illegal on the grounds that 'it wastes life.'  The idiots who claim to be 'pro life' are conspicuous by their absence once birth takes place & there's an actual fully formed human needing care & attention.

Watch Jacinda's Harvard speech and they all clap as a response to her quoting "we have "legalized" abortion" They were cheering her on, seemed pretty happy about her remarks.

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(18-07-2022, 04:33 PM)king1 Wrote: Pretty sure the nurses union are just applying government policy...

I also see there is a new exemption available for nurses now, if you go get yourself infected with covid you can practice for 100 days...
https://www.nursingcouncil.org.nz/Public/News_Media/NCNZ/News-section/news-item/2021/10/Mandatory_Vaccination_Order_for_Nurses.aspx

Likely is govt policy, but they could at least pressure the govt to relax things, there is a surprising amount of unvaxxed nurses out there. But at least they have made some progress.
Police and military got exemptions, so so should other areas, such as fire and emergency.
Up north, the Kawakawa fire station has had to close due to most of their staff being unvaxxed, so that means a much longer delay to attending a fire call out.
I couldnt care less if the firefighter had covid who was called out to put out my fire.