Ake (not a kererū .... yet)

@tenamu.bsky.social

Nō Maꞌuke mai au. E noꞌo ana au ki Aotearoa ē ꞌAvaiki Nui. Linguist, kaiako reo, musician. Worried about a certain species of primate.

1 in 3 NZ infant hospital admissions is acute respiratory illness. RSV drives a lot of it. Medsafe just approved nirsevimab (single injection, ~80% effective). Pharmac has it on the 'Options for Investment List' but not funded. Solution's on the shelf. Babies stay in hospital. #nzpol

Medsafe approves RSV prevention medicine for babies, Pharmac urged to fund

Cardiac and Respiratory Foundation chief executive Letitia Harding and paediatrician Maneesh Deva both urged Pharmac to fund the medicine.

1news.co.nz

Actions speak much louder than polished campaign speeches. Stripping away hard-won rights, suppressing wage growth, and cutting thousands of jobs isn't "common sense" and it certainly isn't standing up for working people. #nzpol

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Umm, you know that imported fuel that is driving inflation and causing interest rates to go up, further screwing and already fucked economy? Imagine if we had aggressively supported a vehicle fleet which didn't rely on that, imagine if there was a thriving 2nd hand market for such vehicles.

I literally hate this. "Oh yes the system makes up symptoms and conditions and can't recognise te reo Māori but hey, the existing system is also shit!" yes that's the playbook. They foist bad products on us to profit private companies instead of building a health system that *functions*

Doctors adopting AI faster than rules can keep up

Hospitals and nearly 80 percent of New Zealand clinicians are using artificial intelligence to cut admin, despite the country’s sceptical population. Fox Meyer reports.

newsroom.co.nz

Low T this, male loneliness epidemic that. As a mother, I’m still waiting for the hard-hitting exposé of the real threat facing today’s young men. But nobody wants to talk about the house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, even though it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy.

I blame those back-office workers we used to have for not maintaining the website after we fired them I mean seriously do they expect senior management to do actual work????

Tim Jago got one month off his sentence "to take into account two emotional harm payments of $1,500 each." According to today's Herald piece, he's promising an equal amount to his latest victim. The kicker? He hasn't paid the first two yet.