Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 25, 2021 9:08:46 GMT 12
DEALING WITH THE BACKSLIDERS – Michael Bassett.
Debbie Ngarewa Packer tells us the health system is “systemically racist” when she knows that care is readily available to her people and vaccination stations are open long hours each day, wanting to deliver a free jab or two. Somehow, it’s always someone else’s fault rather than the screamingly obvious failure by much of the underclass to get off their bums. Inspirational like the motivators of my younger years? Sadly, not.
But they remain Jacinda’s pets. She’ll smile at them, waste money on them, bribe them, exhort them, but not get to the nub of what’s really wrong......
.....It just isn’t true that governments, Labour and National, haven’t been trying to reach Maori and remote communities with health services. Community Health nurses started going into remote areas under the governments of Peter Fraser and Sid Holland. In areas like the East Cape, significant numbers of GPs were on the public payroll when I was Minister of Health. I added to their number. Their services were free. Health agencies called Whanau Ora, staffed by Maori, have been funded in many regions now for decades......
.....Yes, we’ll be watching the ongoing struggle to persuade enough of the underclass to get vaccinated. Our livelihoods and their lives depend on it......
....... Article 3 of the Treaty of Waitangi guarantees Maori “the same rights and duties of citizenship as the people of England”. Note the word “duties”. There was no mention of spoon-feeding, arm-chair rides, or mollycoddling. It was assumed by both the Crown’s agents and the chiefs who signed that everyone would be prepared to avail themselves of opportunities. It’s high time those who fail to look after themselves are held to account, especially when their failure threatens others.......
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Debbie Ngarewa Packer tells us the health system is “systemically racist” when she knows that care is readily available to her people and vaccination stations are open long hours each day, wanting to deliver a free jab or two. Somehow, it’s always someone else’s fault rather than the screamingly obvious failure by much of the underclass to get off their bums. Inspirational like the motivators of my younger years? Sadly, not.
But they remain Jacinda’s pets. She’ll smile at them, waste money on them, bribe them, exhort them, but not get to the nub of what’s really wrong......
.....It just isn’t true that governments, Labour and National, haven’t been trying to reach Maori and remote communities with health services. Community Health nurses started going into remote areas under the governments of Peter Fraser and Sid Holland. In areas like the East Cape, significant numbers of GPs were on the public payroll when I was Minister of Health. I added to their number. Their services were free. Health agencies called Whanau Ora, staffed by Maori, have been funded in many regions now for decades......
.....Yes, we’ll be watching the ongoing struggle to persuade enough of the underclass to get vaccinated. Our livelihoods and their lives depend on it......
....... Article 3 of the Treaty of Waitangi guarantees Maori “the same rights and duties of citizenship as the people of England”. Note the word “duties”. There was no mention of spoon-feeding, arm-chair rides, or mollycoddling. It was assumed by both the Crown’s agents and the chiefs who signed that everyone would be prepared to avail themselves of opportunities. It’s high time those who fail to look after themselves are held to account, especially when their failure threatens others.......
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