Posts by Emma Hart
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This would be like setting up a discussion between biologists and intelligent design proponents. Isn't life a bit short?
And if we're going to have that debate with people who believe tides cause major earthquakes, why not include people with think they're caused by homosexuality, or licentious behaviour, or uncovered boobies? They're no more or less scientific.
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I'm guessing he didn't shout at the people refusing to immunise their children.
Hilary, he didn't shout at people who believed in Ken Ring, either. This was the equivalent of shouting at Andrew Wakefield, and who wouldn't like to do that?
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OnPoint: On Price Gouging, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Also, frankly, I can't think of a more appropriate time for swearing.
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that Christchurch hospital had been evacuated
This wasn't so much baseless as confused. Some wards WERE evacuated. The emergency department was still functioning.
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This is very close to the bus exchange.
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Ok, I am going to stop repeating you now.
I particularly like the way you manage to repeat me from in front.
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Also, on the "we're all in this together" front, something my partner said that I just hadn't thought about yet. For non-location-specific work (obviously from our POV I'm talking about programming, game design, web content), how about preferentially hiring someone in Chch? Help us to stay here.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to BenWilson,
The Bus Exchange is in the same building as my kids' school, and is really badly damaged. Also, the exits for buses are onto Lichfield St, so even if buses survived, I don't think you could drive them out.
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I asked myself over the last few days where the free public transport service for those suburbs is? Seems pretty elementary when supermarkets are not nearby and many don't own cars.
Trying to find roads to drive on? New Brighton in particular is almost completely cut off from the rest of the city because so many of the bridges are down. Because of the CBD cordon, the only spot to cross the Avon east of Riccarton is the Swann St bridge. Which is, as you might imagine, really fucking congested.
Buses, meanwhile, are being laid on to ferry the Student Volunteer Army around town.
Friends of ours who are digging two feet of silt out of the house in New Brighton they just moved out of said yesterday they saw a light truck (pretty much the best vehicle for getting around now) with a gas barbeque on the back, driving around feeding people.