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Lived experience of Long Covid and parent of a child with LC. Wear a mask. Collective care. Aotearoa. #longcovid #mecfs #covidcautious #toitutetiriti https://buymeacoffee.com/toolong

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Too Long Covid @toolongcovid.bsky.social · Aug 13

When you're talking, reporting about Covid

It's DISINFO not to mention that the Covid pandemic is ongoing

We are not 'post Covid' in any way, shape or form

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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 7h

Vote first thing tomorrow, & take it to a ballot box near you
I Voted for people to protect parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, recycling, kind & connected communities, public transport, social housing, cycle trails, green spaces, public ownership of water & services, disability action & Māori Wards

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Too Long Covid @toolongcovid.bsky.social · 8h

Done 🌸

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♿ hiding from plagues - Always masked - N95 or bust @smollestbunny2.bsky.social · 9h

The "minister for regulation" will have authority on who lives and who dies

Euthenasia bill too strict Seymour
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/euthanasi...
Only those useful to capitalism can live - act
www.1news.co.nz/2023/09/03/a...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Euthanasia laws too strict and should be relaxed, Act leader David Seymour says - NZ Herald

A requirement that patients only have six months to live should be removed, the MP says.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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♿ hiding from plagues - Always masked - N95 or bust @smollestbunny2.bsky.social · 9h

The passing of the RSB will put disabled people and maori into direct danger of being killed because of inefficiency to capital, this is not an exaggeration #nzpol

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Too Long Covid @toolongcovid.bsky.social · 9h

Wtf seeing all of that in one place is... a lot

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♿ hiding from plagues - Always masked - N95 or bust @smollestbunny2.bsky.social · 10h

Yup exactly. Everyone says I'm crazy to keep saying that all these famous people dying is because of covid, think as well of efeso collins death, it came out of nowhere, i guarantee that was caused by covid. Really wish people would pay attention and mask up

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♿ hiding from plagues - Always masked - N95 or bust @smollestbunny2.bsky.social · 10h

Hey guys. What happens when 3% of the population dies every year the pandemic is ongoing without mitigation

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kiwionyourleft.bsky.social @kiwionyourleft.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit these people would have trouble tipping water out of a boot with the instructions printed on the heel. Zero independent thought combined with a room temperature IQ (in celsius). Just a mindless puppet.

#nzpol

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However, some of these responses also included what appeared to be instructions about how to respond.

“We need to focus on core business so feel free to say none,” four candidates replied, before providing the above text about council already doing too much. Those were Auckland Council and Devonport-Takapuna Local Board candidate Helena Roza, Howick Local Board candidate William Goldberg, Waimakariri District Council candidate Nathan Atkins and Waipa District Council candidate Stuart Hylton.

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 11h

“The committee reported back on Friday, recommending “by majority” that it be passed.”

As Emeritus professor Jane Kelsey says, “this has the potential to be our ideologically driven version of the Trump administration.”

The progression of the RSB needs more scrutiny than a Friday night news dump.

The Act leader's proposed legislation has been contentious for a list of reasons.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 12h

There should be 6 o’clock news coverage of this fact and a very public apology from peters and the rest of them who leapt to blame and inflame. #nzpol

Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 14h

1. So- #WinstonPeters Girlfriend’s house #Window was a #burglar - NOT protestors & nothing to do with #NZGreens.

Peters, like Seymour, & the rest of the Coalition, seems to have become a master of #misinformation #lies & #deception

#nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Man accused of burglary at Winston Peters’ house pleads not guilty, keeps name secret

The man pleaded not guilty and is not allowed to go within 1km of Winston Peters’ home.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 1d

Act Local candidates provided identical responses to some of Newsroom's open-ended survey questions, suggesting they had coordinated or been instructed to reply a certain way.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/08/p...

Parliamentary parties crowd out other blocs in local elections

Nationwide, Parliamentary parties are entrenching their influence in local elections over that of locally derived groupings.

newsroom.co.nz

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Living Safely With Covid @covidsafenz.bsky.social · 14h

#LongCovid “No one is immune to this”

Offered rest home care at 24: the lonely plight of formerly healthy young Kiwis suffering with long Covid

The pandemic never ended, and we're all living proof of that.

www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/10/o...

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?

www.1news.co.nz

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Too Long Covid @toolongcovid.bsky.social · 14h

Surely we are in a parallel timeline

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 19h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

Too Long Covid @toolongcovid.bsky.social · 14h

All of this here in New Zealand

Keith Muise @keithmuise.bsky.social · 16h

Those who were following the Science and not believing “it’s mild”, warned that allowing Covid to spread unchecked would cause….

An increase in heart attacks and heart issues. That’s happening.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 17h

"A sore knee brought you in, but you start to wonder if you might get sick as you take your seat next to an unmasked child with a runny nose."

And you’re right: Crowded spaces like these are the perfect setting for respiratory infections to spread"

Source: archive.md/5NGeI

Opinion | How politics, not science, is putting vulnerable patients and health care workers at risk

Oct. 9, 2025

“Masks prevent the transmission of respiratory viruses. The science is clear,” writes Iris Gorfinkel. “The standards are in place. A health policy that reacts to hospitalizations and deaths falls below the long-held standard of do-no-harm. Policies that are enacted only once hospitalizations are high do the opposite.
Justin Tang THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 17h

Spain: Corona outbreak - Mallorca's emergency rooms overwhelmed.

"The Son Espases Hospital in Palma appears to be particularly affected: On Tuesday evening, 172 patients with respiratory illnesses visited the emergency room. 43 of them had to be admitted as inpatients"

Source: archive.md/cGIxA

Wave of illness on party island

Corona outbreak: Mallorca's emergency rooms overwhelmed
Mallorca is currently battling a severe wave of coronavirus and flu, and emergency rooms are partially overwhelmed. Austria is also not spared.

News desk Today
From News desk Today
October 8, 2025, 3:32 PM

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Too Long Covid @toolongcovid.bsky.social · 18h

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Too Long Covid @toolongcovid.bsky.social · 18h

So we believe in kids isolating for measles but not Covid?

Covid is still causing severe outcomes, including silent organ damage and death, as well as disabling with Long Covid.

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 22h

Govt to cut #JobSeeker benefit for 18 & 19 year olds who’s parents earn over $65,000, even if the teens have a disability or health condition. With #CostOfLiving & the job shortage they’re cranking up stress levels to 11, all to meet a target.
My #cartoon today about hard-nosed #NZpol

Cartoon. Title: “Job Seeee-e-e-e” Image shows PM Christopher Luxon at the open hatch of a small plane, high above farmland. He’s leaning out, and holding up a parachute pack, labelled “Job Seeker” He’s calling out to someone falling from the plane, “And I’ve kept your parachute because you kids from low-income homes need some motivation” Then he adds, “Don’t let that disability slow you down!”

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Too Long Covid @toolongcovid.bsky.social · 18h

I would love to know how much of this is due to chronic illness but unfortunately we ain't counting

Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 19h

Latest benefits data is out. More detail later, but suffice to say that we are going to need some new forecasts.

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Too Long Covid @toolongcovid.bsky.social · 19h

This is new 👇 in the school newsletter

Screenshot of black box with blue text: measles immunity Health New Zealand measles mumps and rubella mmr vaccine Health New Zealand: Any one closely exposed to measles who has not received two mmr vaccinations cannot attend their school / Kura for at least eight days

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 1d

The Atlantic, the NYT, and so many others also participated in the destruction of public health by repeatedly publishing the lie that COVID is mild, and now an organ- and immune-system damaging airborne virus is running rampant everywhere—w/ no infection control anywhere.

Great work everyone.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

The Atlantic, the NYT, the Post, the Free Press, Persuasion ... god, so many others ... they did it. They participated in the destruction of norms against bigotry & now bigotry is running rampant, out in the open, at the highest levels.

Great work everyone.

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Stephanie... In New Zealand @bootstheory.bsky.social · 2d

This has been the vicious fucking thing about the "Jobseeker Benefit" ever since Paula Bennett coined it in 2013

In addition to keeping people in poverty it's been a term of propaganda forcing us all to accept the frame of welfare as economic obligation instead of social support

Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 2d

Fucksake. It's quite clear now that they only looked at this benefit policy as political marketing and took no advice on who it would impact – which includes young people with serious health issues and disabilities. Just feckless and cynical. Shame on them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Hundreds of teens with a health condition, disability may be cut from Jobseeker benefit

The government is ending Jobseeker payments to 18- and 19 year olds whose parents earn more than $65,000.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Long Covid Support Aotearoa @lcsupportaotearoa.bsky.social · 22h

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

www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/10/o...

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?

www.1news.co.nz

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