Catherine Dr Andrew Dickson reform/ACC Big spikes everywhere, I suggest.

That ‘sick kids in school’ attendance policy is going great guns Seymour! Is any journo capable of holding him to account for this debacle?

A few highlights from today's monetary policy forecasts... Whoops, looks like the estimates of how much rent we need to pay our offshore overlords were undercooked. Let's rewind that hopium. As you were. This is material by the way. Sucking demand out of our economy. [🧵 1/n]

The jobs what make stuff collapse continues. Now below 2021 levels and barreling towards 2020. (1/3)

'Winter illness forces schools to close across country' It's 2025 and there are multiple effective tools against spread of respiratory infection in schools. This recurring crisis is a choice that NZ has made. rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Imagine what these impacts on health and learning, parent work time, and in the case of Covid, children's brain health are costing NZ every year. Other countries are stepping up. x.com/IKostenas/stat…

It's happening in NZ too. Add your voice: ask your children's school what they're doing to clean the air that children are breathing for hours every day. Look at the work of Aotearoa Covid Action to find out more about what can be done, & sign their petition. x.com/covidactionnz/…

Amanda Kvalsvig It would help if reporters ask school principals what they are doing to reduce the spread of illness in schools, instead of accepting that this is just what happens in winter.

Pfizer discovered the antifungal fluconazole - a cure for candida infections and deadly fungal meningitis Pfizer discovered the tetracycline antibiotic which cures a wide range of infections Pfizer massively scaled up penicillin production and curing millions from infection

This August has been the least productive month of my working life. I am currently on the third day teaching a block-course. My voice is squeaky gravel. I am exhausted. My kids are exhausted. School is actually dangerous for them now. Note: This does not improve attendance.

#BREAKING: We are calling on the Prime Minister to show leadership by removing Brooke van Velden as Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety, following her recent comments that politicise the Employment Relations Authority and breach the Cabinet Manual. 1/6

Deficit spending rocking on up as revenue tanks and capital spend picks up + frenzied bond issuance as RBNZ wind down their bond holdings.

One of those mornings

Reminder for the people puzzling on why households aren't splashing cash saved on their mortgage. People took on Orrsome mortgages during the boom, so now it would take an OCR of around 1.5% to get interest payments back to pre-c*vid levels in real terms (in a year or so). (1/2)

To all you Twitterati lambasting New Zealand Labour for growing our public debt, please verify your distaste for NZ National Party @act New Zealand First for doing the same. And please tell Twitter what your solution may be?

Healthcare should be safe. Protecting patients with masks and clean air should be the bare minimum.

Fellow Kiwis, I present “Citizen Thiel”: Everything You Didn't Know About His Sh*tty Past youtu.be/jMJxoYzWT5A?si… via YouTube

This is an excellent channel.

According to new Canadian research, a projected "tripledemic” this fall of flu, RSV and covid will mean higher absenteeism, more sick employees, and productivity losses for employers. 1/ hrreporter.com/focus-areas/co…

A huge new study from Denmark showed (again) that vaccines DO NOT cause autism The response of the US Health Secretary? Declare that vaccines cause autism No, it doesn't make any sense