Posts by Rosemary McDonald
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The Latest Strategic Plan from the Misery Of Health.
https://www.health.govt.nz/publication/disability-support-services-strategic-plan-2014-2018
Lies from the get go....
"Disabled people and their families are supported to live the lives they choose"
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Speaker: SIBs: The reality of…, in reply to Marc C,
I cannot fight the impression that one sick Mr Tully was a victim of the system,
You know Marc C, Peter and I sat in our wee Bus listening to the breaking news, the unfolding story....thinking just that.
The brave Sue Bradford spoke up...
He would have been one of the 'cases' put into the too hard basket. He asked for help, and asked...
Sometimes you get to the stage that you simply cannot bear to hear the words..."er, no, we can't do that". Even if "that" would be the key....
So you don't even try...or...
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Up Front: Not Uniform, in reply to TracyMac,
There were plenty of us who dreaded mufti day,
Thanks TracyMac...I thought I was imagining it.
The absolute horror of impending mufti days at the all girls school. We could not afford the necessary clothes....and for god's sakes it shouldn't have mattered to the girl....but it did. (She had an existing point of difference, which she staunched out, but not having the latest gear...just too much)
I thought it was just her/me. You know, both of us neurotic, but I got talking to another mum with a daughter at the same school....and both of she and her girl were in counselling AND on anti depressants. For the same reason.
It sounds really stupid now...and we're all well over it, but at the time...
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Up Front: Not Uniform, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Believe me
Nope I don’t.
Are you saying I'm lying?
Misguided?
Or simply not allowed an opinion, based on experience?
"Perhaps we could trust kids to learn to cope with angst."
Perhaps we should look at the youth suicide rate, the number of youth needing counselling or psychiatric care. The there's the whole on line bullying thing...back in the day you went home, and maybe the bullying was over. Today, it follows you everywhere through social media and the like.
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Since this 'initiative' is going to be under the auspices of the Misery Of Health...maybe we should re acquaint ourselves with the Code of Rights...
http://www.hdc.org.nz/the-act--code/the-code-of-rights/the-code-(full)
cos I'm sure, somewhere in there, is a bit about consent, and choice, and not being experimented on,
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Speaker: SIBs: The reality of…, in reply to ,
In the meantime...here's the link to Kyle's website....
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here as well.
Sacha...we have run out of gigbytes(or whatever they're called), so I'll watch the You Tube clip later...is there a transcript, perhaps?
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Access: It’s just a bout of Chronic Sorrow, in reply to Moz,
And encrypt everything.
Right there...you lost me...beyond my ken...this fifty five year old brain reaches overload. But....I was instructed, rather forcefully by the Young People, NOT to put personal stuff through the interweb .
The hints re passwords...very handy idea. Thank you...as the whole password thing...
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Speaker: SIBs: The reality of…, in reply to Stephen Judd,
Eric Crampton of the NZ Initiative has been vocal expressing his concern that SIBs here will fail because of excessive monitoring and bureacracy.
Diddums....
He should not be too concerned.
The SIB is a ramped up version of what the disabled have had to endure for the past decade or so.
Disability support services contracted out to charities or businesses. Mostly businesses now, as the smaller units have been swallowed up by what I call the 'superproviders'. These providers were supposed to be monitored and audited and generally held accountable...but hey...disabled people you know...they drown, they get burned in fires, they get beaten up, they get left in their own excrement because the boss forgot to send out the carer...or the carer just didn't turn up. par for the course, so of course they are seldom held to account. And as for losing their contracts....what does it take????
With the 'investor' input...ie, hard arsed business people who care not a shit for clients but are all for the bottom line will provide 'administrative support', so at least the books look good...and I'll bet they will have a few tips for wringing the last drop out of the wage dollar.
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Speaker: SIBs: The reality of…, in reply to Jack Harrison,
Physically protesting is actually quite dangerous and then you get ridiculed.
So? Living like this is dangerous, and as for ridicule....
Giving a fuck is not enough....