Colin Parkinson
There was an urgent debate in parliament on Tuesday the 18th of October discussing the death of a patient at Middlemore Hospital.
It appears that a woman died after she gave up waiting in the emergency department at Middlemore hospital. The hospital was short-staffed, as is our entire medical system. Why does someone have to die before we act? But is anyone in parliament actually doing anything to prevent this from happening again? Those in power just seem to play games blaming each other and making excuses.
National blamed the government and Labour made excuses.
Fast tracking residency was brought up as a solution. Shane Reti and Erica Stanford both seemed pretty keen on this idea. Sure, fast-track residency for healthcare workers, how could that possibly go wrong? Just bring in a bunch of people from overseas with possibly forged medical qualifications and poor English skills, then fast-track the visa process, rushing them into jobs. Perhaps we do need to bring in more workers from other countries, but this is one visa category that we should be really careful with, making sure that we have proper checks in place – and those checks take time.
Andrew Little brought up “privilege in our health system”. Pay attention to his words, because I’m sure many readers will probably be able to guess where he wants to head with that line.
But what about the issue that wasn’t raised? It appears that both parties (in fact all of them) kept silent on one major point.
What about the thing no one wanted to discuss?
I may have missed something, but I could not find any mention of the fact that we have qualified staff here in New Zealand that could have been working.
We have hundreds (perhaps thousands) of people here who are fully qualified and could easily have walked in to the hospital to help out, not even needing a day to process a visa, yet they were not able to work. They were mandated out!
Have our politicians all forgotten them?
I think it is pretty obvious to everyone now that the “vaccine” does not prevent transmission, so why can’t the “unvaccinated” go back to work?
Don’t worry, Stuart Smith has a brilliant suggestion: let the “unvaccinated” back to work but ram a stick up their nose each day to “test” them. Wonder how many people will be queuing up for that privilege?
Or we could admit that the “vaccine” does not stop transmission of the virus; therefore there is no reason to prevent the “unvaccinated” from working!
While this is a terrible loss for the family of the woman who died, many more continue to suffer while those in parliament continue with their silly game, punishing the “unvaccinated” and ignoring the harm that they have caused to so many of them.
Then there is the harm to the “vaccinated” who may have died or been injured because they took the “vaccine”, who either trusted “the science” or were pushed into it – only to suffer anyway. They continue to be ignored by our politicians also.
And now, after they have played their silly game, someone has died.