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WHN graphic with a solid rust-orange background and the whn.global logo at top left. Large bold white headline reads: “Tell the WHO — healthcare workers deserve real respiratory protection.” Subtext: “Sign the petition by October 31st urging universal use of N95/FFP2-3 respirators in healthcare.” A small footer note says: “LINK TO PETITION IN CAPTION.”

A group of global experts in medicine, public health, law, and industrial hygiene have come together to urge the World Health Organization to finally recognize and recommend true respiratory protection — N95/FFP2-3 respirators — for all healthcare settings.

Surgical masks are not PPE.

Grey green cups and saucers with white veggie pattern

Grey green saucer with white veggie pattern

Hey @dimsie.bsky.social you know onion mugs, well I have crown lynn vege cups & saucers now. The 1960s were wild

The full Southerner train ready to depart for Dunedin at the Christchurch railway station platform, May 21st 2025

The beautiful historic Dunedin Railway Station lit up at night, 23rd May 2025

Kiwirail are bringing back the ChCh- - Dunedin Southerner Train for the Labour weekend 🚞

I hope the Southerner does well and is made a permanent fixture, I got to take it in May and it was an amazing trip!

I've had heavy winds and computer issues to contend with today, but sharing this song in support of everyone in AoNZ in the mega-strike. I think we need 21st century protest songs. Happy to post a blue sky on Bluesky.

ht - Credit: Photo by Christian Keybets on Unsplash.

The graphic has a bright yellow background with black text and a black outline image of an N95 mask. The text reads - Mega-strike not mega-spreader. There is a small violet framed white banner at the bottom of the graphic with Aotearoa Covid Action's logo inside.

Solidarity with the striking workers. Let's look after each other's health while standing up for fair pay and fair working conditions.

The graphic has a bright green background with white text and a white outline image of an N95 mask. The text reads - Striking? Taha tinana. Taha whānau. There is a small violet framed white circle in the bottom right with Aotearoa Covid Action's logo inside.

Striking? Wear a mask.

From Sir Mason Durie's Te Whare Tapa Whā model for health describing health and wellbeing as a wharenui/meeting house with four walls sitting on the land (whenua). The two walls here are:
Taha tinana - physical health/the body.
Taha whānau - belonging - community & family.

❤️I support Doctors, Nurses, Dentists, Therapists, Teachers & Principals

❤️ I support full staffing, fair hours, equal & fair pay for NZers

❤️ I support public hospitals & public schools

❌ I do NOT support privatisation, PPPs or sale of public infrastructure, services or assets

#nzpol #NZ #strike

The graphic has a vivid azure blue background with white text and a white outline image of an N95 mask. The text reads - Collective action, collective care. Strike safe. There is a small orange framed white circle in the bottom right with Aotearoa Covid Action's logo inside.

Collective action, collective care

#wearamask #strike #covidsafe

A monumentally large swirling lenticular cloud glowing most of the colours of the rainbow from the setting sun in the west. Stinking hot late summer evening that was about to crap itself. High country grass plains with a range of mountains in the background

Possibly the most epic sunset I've ever captured. A mothership lenticular cloud above the Māniatoto plains looking at Pātearoa Rock & Pillar Range, Central Otago New Zealand

#Nikon #GreatNZRoadie #Weather #NZ

paullecomtephoto.nz
(available on my site)

New Zealand's nurses, teachers and others set for mega strike - What you need to know Explainer - There's a huge strike coming. Who's taking part, why are they protesting and what's so 'mega' about it?

While the government may be pushing back saying this is about money, it includes nurses' concerns about staffing levels and safety. Healthcare in NZ needs protecting rather than dismantling and privatising.

What you need to know about this week's mega strike
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

3:2, Portrait, Colour: A Tui in a Kowhai tree clearly I'm not a Bird photographer, but he was so close..... #Nikon #NZ

When the Tui sits in the Kowhai tree
and the sun tips the mountain tops with gold
when the Rata blooms in the forest glade,
and the hills glow with sunny tints untold.

#Photography #Spring #Aotearoa #Kikorangi

“Whichever figure you use, the numbers are enormous, rivaling conditions like ADHD and autism as one of the most common chronic diseases in American youth today.” - we really have created an enormous problem, yet don’t seem ready to face it. 1/

The graphic has a deep blue background with white text and a white outline image of an N95 mask. The text reads - Striking? Mask up to stay safe for school. There is a small yellow ocher framed white circle in the bottom right with Aotearoa Covid Action's logo inside.

It's not just about salary, it's about working conditions. At ACA we believe teachers and students deserve clean air classrooms, adequate sick leave, and access to vaccines and antivirals. We don't accept the "new normal" of constant sickness and teachers quitting the profession due to Long Covid.

Guess what we did yesterday

Congratulations to the lucky London schools 👏🎉

Thankyou Mayor of London @london.gov.uk
For leadership to protect children
#HealthyAir is #SafeAir

Every Child
Deserves a
#CleanAirClassroom 🌐

#CleanAir is a Human right

This is shocking bullshit. I know some people don’t understand how the sun works but honestly opposing solar power is up there with daylight saving making your curtains fade faster.

Kanchha Sherpa, last member of first Mount Everest expedition, dies at 92 Kanchha Sherpa helped Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary summit Everest in 1953.

Kanchha Sherpa helped Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary summit Everest in 1953.

Glad to see something evidence-based examining side-by-side immune system dysfunction and comparisons between HIV and Covid. Not glad to see the results 😭

Hand this to dismissive multi-infection people wondering why they're "sick all the time" or "can't get rid of brain fog."

Simeon Brown accuses doctors of crossing 'ethical line' with mega strike There were audible cries of disbelief during Simeon Brown's speech to senior doctors.

The Drs are striking because the woeful state of our health system is endangering patients (and them) and they simply can’t stretch themselves or their resources any further. It’s a last resort.
It is NOT them who need the lecture on ethics.
#nzpol #solidarity

More misleading BS from min of Ed, Stanford. #nzpol

Boats moored at Whau River mouth. The sky is blue with few clouds. The water is calm with few ripples & the moored boats reflect the golden morning light.

Views from bus.

Whau River as seen this morning from upstairs on a WX1 electric double-decker bus on the Northwestern Motorway (SH16).

#publicTransport #Auckland #TamakiMakaurau #bus #somethingBeautiful

Nestor notabilis - the NZ Kea, The kea is the world's only alpine parrot, native to the South Island of New Zealand. These highly intelligent and mischievous birds are found in both forested and mountainous regions, from the lowlands to the high alpine areas of the Southern Alps.

NZ Kea - the world's only alpine parrot.

This cheeky soaking wet local of Arthurs Pass just sits outside the store/cafe waiting for naughty tourists to do the wrong thing & feed it.

Tertiary Education Union – Te Hautū Kahurangi o Aotearoa | Let’s not close the door on prison education <p data-block-key="94q67">Open Polytechnic is preparing to end its delivery of education programmes in prisons. If this goes ahead, it will cut off access to learning for people who already face huge ...

Sad and frustrating 😞

"Open Polytechnic is preparing to end its delivery of education programmes in prisons. If this goes ahead, it will cut off access to learning for people who already face huge barriers to education. It also means three full-time tutors will lose their roles,[...]"

Edvard Munch's 'Scream' but with the text 'I can't believe they're cancelling Art History' in a speech bubble

Could you pls do an old ex-Art History teacher a solid, sign this petition to save the subject in our schools, and pass it on.

These philistines need to hear from you all.

Thank you

petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...

John Oliver Warns Viewers to Keep a Close Eye on CBS News in Wake of “Alarming” Bari Weiss Hire The 'Last Week Tonight' host described the newly appointed editor-in-chief as someone "who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading...

"If you start seeing people resigning or getting fired, or you start seeing stories that seem off...especially if it involves the left going too far on a topic Bari Weiss cares about, it’s worth asking yourself why that might be...”

#nzpol Signed as a former high school Art and Art History student.

Historically tuberculosis was romaticised in novels and operas. Nothing of what these young people experience is romantic. Being othered and being an outsider is no way to live. Good compassionate care in an appropriate environment is a human right. Not caring is not humane. /end

An average adult breathes about 22,000 to 25,000 times per day. Any of those breaths could contain rebreathed air with pathogens including COVID. Infections and reinfections have led to increasing numbers living with long COVID. 6/

Our health sector is in crisis, and needs support. Those with LC need support. Wicked problems are more challenging, but that doesn't mean we ignore them. We collectively should not ignore COVID. Forward transmission continues. 5/

The situation around long C0VID remains a serious issue globally. The numbers with Long COVID are growing, and research and data can feel abstract and removed. These are real people unable to live the promise of their earlier lives. 4/