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Hastings Councillor skips planning session at marae over te reo and faith concerns Steve Gibson said there were several reasons for his discomfort.

Hastings Councillor's Christian faith not strong enough so skips planning session at marae www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/585...

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Offered rest home care at 24: the lonely plight of young Kiwis with long Covid A group of young Kiwis prove what international studies show: that long Covid has a particularly debilitating effect on young people. But how much medical support is there for them?

Heartfelt thanks to our young people with #longcovid who took part in this, sharing their stories #kiwi #nzpol

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Interim Results Interim results from the Long COVID Registry.

#longcovid AoNZ Registry Interim Results Report is out. www.lcregistry.auckland.ac.nz/interim-resu...
I think what stands out to me is the reluctance of med practitioners to give a formal diagnosis. But there still doesn't seem to be a lot going on to help folks with it. Thanks for this research

I reckon that this is a classic national set up. Of make things worse in year 1 and 2, big spending spurge in year 3, return to power. ACT and NZF drop lower in the picture for Term 2.

Cheaper buses helped those in 'transport poverty' Cheaper public transport in Christchurch meant more people on lower incomes had more money for everyday essentials, including food, a new study...

"Our findings show that for many who live in public housing, access to reduced fares on public transport reduces their financial stress, gives them the ability to get to places they need, removes anxiety, and improves their wellbeing and social contact."

Even before long COVID, many patients w/chronic fatigue syndrome were prescribed exercise as treatment, despite telling their physicians that it actually made them worse. Now we're starting to learn why exercise can be so debilitating at a molecular & cellular level. www.npr.org/sections/hea...

Waitaki council rejects 'vanity project' claim about $32m Ōamaru event centre project Taxpayers' Union claims about Ōamaru's event centre build are the work of a group that is “out of touch with real people's lives”, the district council says.

Media peeps, this article demonstrates a good way to position TPU opinions if they have to be reported at all.

"A Wellington-based lobby group is..."
"...the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union, a right-wing pressure group..."

i.stuff.co.nz/otago/133496...

Waitaki Council has provided an excellent template for organisations finding themselves in the TPU firing line. Provide the media with press releases to this standard and they will get published. Well done them

UC currently has a permanent / continuing position going for a lecturer / snr lecturer with a focus on one or more of digital narrative, interactive and transmedia storytelling, writing for the screen and digital humanities. Pls share! #academicsky jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

Duration vs distance: Why some people got COVID and others didn’t A new Oxford University study found that the duration of an encounter with a person sick with COVID was as important as the distance kept from them.

Avoiding COVID was about more than just keeping 2 metres apart, Oxford University study finds

"The researchers found that longer exposures at greater distances had a similar risk to shorter exposures at closer distances"

#COVIDisAirborne #COVIDisNotOver

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'This is the end of the relationship': The marriages under strain from long COVID Long COVID is not just destroying people's health. Behind closed doors, in homes across Australia and abroad, it is irreversibly changing relationships — sometimes for the better, too often for wor...

Behind closed doors Long Covid is irreversibly changing relationships — sometimes for the better, too often for the worse.

www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12...

Life with Long Covid - what it's really like www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

I just read this amazingly good explainer from Clementines Fraser. Please read it yourself and share it far and wide. Accurate, friendly, concise and persuasive. Perfect for that Summer BBQ conversation. clementinefraser.com/2017/11/28/e...

Every doctor should read this. Long Covid is real and affecting people's lives. No real answers yet. Just hopes of being normal again

Long Covid makes me feel like I've disappeared from the world 1News Reporter Joy Reid describes her difficult journey back to health and the strain it puts on her family.

Brave of her to speak out. Unfortunately, unless people start to take their head out of the sand, there will be many more people dealing with this. Wear a fucking mask, people! www.1news.co.nz/2023/12/16/l...

IMHO all NZ councils have been under collecting rates for 30+ years. We all need to be paying about 20% more.

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New Tests May Finally Diagnose Long COVID Researchers have pinpointed a potential common link to the varying symptoms of long COVID and specific testing could solve the mystery.

This dropped into my life today. I still do not have a formal diagnosis. But can we get these tests in NZ

An auspicious name. I like it

Don't think any of my whanau had made it over yet. Hoping that one of us is famous one day

Nope. Ancestors from Napier in NZ

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Your life will be bold and yiur heart is large.

It's like ageing 20+ years. I remember the old days <12 months ago when i would be able to do normal stuff like work, exercise, & garden on the same day. Still no real response from NZ Min of Health. My GP is okay and has offered some ideas but no real help. I feel like I'm on my own.

New Zealand’s curling team, with nowhere to go, find a home at a Canadian retirement village Group of four men in their 20s and 30s struggled to find accommodation in Calgary while training for the 2026 Winter Olympics until an unlikely solution was offered When the clock strikes 2pm on Friday at the Chartwell Colonel Belcher retirement residence in Calgary, Alberta, something unusual happens. As the octogenarians gather to enjoy beer and wine during happy hour, they are joined by the youthful faces of New Zealand’s men’s curling team. About 12,000km from home and unable to find a place to stay when they arrived in Canada, the men were offered an apartment at Belcher and have been happily settling in to the rhythms of their unlikely new home ever since. The national team – Brett Sargon, 31, Ben Smith, 24, Hunter Walker, 21, and skipper Anton Hood, 23 – moved to Canada in early September, to strengthen their training and better their chances in the 2024 World Men’s Curling Championship in Switzerland – for which they have just qualified – and making the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. It is an ambitious goal: the last time New Zealand’s team made it to the Olympics was in 2006. Continue reading...

New Zealand’s curling team, with nowhere to go, find a home at a Canadian retirement village

So many good examples of cycleways in Otago that have proved huge benefits to communities. Otago Central Rail Trail, Teviot, Lake Dunstan to name a few. I'm lost for words