Works for me, on Chrome?

Doesn't the quote go something like "sets low standards and consistently fails to meet them"?

I was responding to David Hood's goose asking "which other data sources! Name them and their coverage".

I think they must mean the flu sentinel system. That's absolutely useful too, but it's also absolutely not the same.

I mean... it could be achievable. Apparently there were 35,000 people completing it. That's about $1.50 each per year (though some households will have multiple people completing it).

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Yep.

Now that it's public: RIP FluTracking, which I understand only cost $50k per year to administer, yet provided incredibly valuable and irreplaceable information on levels of influenza-like-illness.
What an utterly dim decision.

Ministry of Everything, Everywhere, All at Once?

We went tonight and agree the food was really good :)

I mean... the silver fern is on the Labour Party logo, but not the National Party logo (which has the Southern Cross), so perhaps not the political symbol Luxon intended it to be?

Lol, no, can't say I'd ever come across that one before!

Pretty sure I got less than an ape with a dartboard. It was the rubgy question that threw me off. Typical.

I read a book which was a collection of recent oral histories collected from refugees from North Korea. One of them was a doctor. She stayed for a long time but finally decided she couldn't do it any more after telling parents with a sick baby what they needed to do to make grass digestible.

Quality could be checked and maintained by auditing a percentage of assessments.

That way tenants could be confident the home they were renting had been properly assessed as meeting the standards.

We need an HHS assessment system where a trained, certified, independent external assessor is assigned semi-randomly to assess rental properties, much in the same way as valuers are assigned rather than chosen by the applicant, when someone is applying for a mortgage.

Therefore, the difference between requiring universal assessments, and business as usual, is much less than was assumed in the Sapere report.

However, since the HHS were introduced, many many landlords have chosen to pay a third party to do their assessment anyway. Where there are disputes (as in this instance), the same property may be assessed twice, costing both the landlord and the tenant.

Back when the HHS were introduced, the rationale for not requiring independent assessment was a Sapere cost benefit analysis that estimated that the higher cost of universal assessment would reduce the cost benefit ratio to below 1.00 (lnkd.in/gGaJzzFv).