Who could have seen this coming!

  • @liv
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    62 months ago

    It’s honestly beginning to feel like this government specifically wants to hurt children for some reason.

    Abolishes free vaccinations for children

    Issues a decree that sick kids should go to school and infect each other

    Abolishes food in schools

    Abolishes requirement for trained supervisor in ECEs

    Cuts disability funding to carers of disabled children

    Cuts 9% of Oranga Tamariki staff

    Cuts 8% of Education staff

    • @BalpeenHammerOP
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      62 months ago

      It’s a part of their war on the middle class and the poor. Rich kids in private schools will not be hurt. They only want to hurt poor people and the middle class they don’t care if it’s the kids they are hurting or the adults.

    • @Rangelus
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      52 months ago

      Abolishes free vaccinations for children

      Wait, fucking what?

        • @Rangelus
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          22 months ago

          Damn, didn’t see that. They really want kids sick eh?

          • @liv
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            22 months ago

            Yeah. It’s so weird.

            It’s also another example of putting ideology over practicality. Even before they got in, we already had a drag on our healthcare system because of the lifelong effects of our unusually high rate of child respiratory infections and rheumatic fever.

            The downstream effects of these new policies are not going to be pretty.

            • @Rangelus
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              32 months ago

              This government (and more frequently all rightwing parties) seem anti-science and anti-common-sense. Anything to feed the machine (neo-liberal capitalism).

              • @liv
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                12 months ago

                I think you’re right.

                It’s quite baffling to me. After a certain point, wealth hoarding is no more beneficial than hoarding old newspapers. And they’re ruining lives and destroying the planet for that?