Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Links - 20th September 2022 (2 - General Wokeness)

Meme - "COVID: Left: 'Just wear a mask.' Right: *Upset*
Monkeypox: Right: 'Just don't have sex.' Left: *Upset*"

Meme - "So HIV is an STD, correct?"
"Yep"
"HIV also has multiple transmission vectors?"
"Yep"
"..and monkeypox is primarily spread through sexual contact?"
"Yep"
"So monkeypox is an STD?"
"Monkeypox Transmission Vectors Sexual Contact 98% All other vectors 2%"
"But you can get it other ways... It's not an STD..."

Why is far-right ideology taking hold in LGBT+ communities?
When you throw minorities alienated by your extremism who disagree with you under the bus

The National Woke Service - "The NHS has clearly lost its way. It takes ages to see a doctor, operations are regularly cancelled and NHS leaders continually complain about underfunding. And yet despite the severe problems the NHS faces, the NHS Leadership Academy is offering NHS leaders the opportunity to take an online course on microaggressions, at a cost of £1,100 per participant... The idea of microaggressions is deeply troubling. By focusing on ‘unintentional’ communications it wilfully pathologises everyday misunderstandings and miscommunications. And it indicts people not for what they say but for the supposed unconscious prejudices that lurk behind their words... The notion of microaggressions has expanded our culture of ‘you can’t say that’. Once the policing of microaggressions becomes institutionalised in the workplace, workers really need to watch their words.   In recent years, numerous institutions in the private and public sectors have created guidelines and provided lists of possible microaggressions. Those who are deemed guilty of a microaggression can now even be penalised by the authorities. As one human-resources professional warns, ‘one single comment could potentially be sufficient to allow an individual to win a claim of discrimination / harassment in a tribunal’. The implication of all this is clear: self-censor or risk legal action.  The refocusing of the project of censorship from conscious speech to unconscious thought is a disturbing development. Many institutions and businesses have taken it upon themselves to expose and eliminate what they call ‘unconscious bias’... a whole new unconscious dimension to our interpersonal behaviour has been opened up to outside intervention and rule-making.   Human communication has always been a complicated business. Our words, gestures and body language have always been vulnerable to misinterpretation. Miscommunication is always possible in every interaction. In an enlightened environment it would be accepted that we shouldn’t hold people responsible for the unintended consequences of their actions or words. To do so empties the idea of moral responsibility of all meaning. After all, how can you be responsible for someone else’s (mis)interpretation of something you said or did?  What is truly tragic about thinking in terms of microaggressions is that it makes genuine dialogue impossible. It leads to the micro-policing of human relations by external actors and begins to criminalise unconscious thought and behaviour. Employers have no right to discipline staff for their unconscious thoughts. Once upon a time, the very idea of doing so would have been associated with totalitarian governments. Today, it’s deemed ‘best practice’ by human-resources managers in the British public sector. This is a truly sorry state of affairs."  

NHS management review hijacked by ‘wholesale wokery’ - "An NHS review commissioned by Sajid Javid was hijacked by “wokery” at the expense of a focus on patients...   The review of management in the health service was tasked with finding ways to make the system more effective and efficient.  It was led by General Sir Gordon Messenger, a former vice chief of the defence staff, aided by a “secretariat” of the Department of Health and NHS officials.  But the Health Secretary, who accepted the report’s recommendations in full, has been criticised by colleagues after the final document appeared to focus on “equality, diversity and inclusion” (EDI).   Lord Lilley of Offa, who was the trade secretary under Margaret Thatcher and Sir John Major, pointed out that the phrase was used many more times than “patients” after government and NHS officials involved in EDI were recruited to help write the review.  Whitehall sources said that draft versions of the report went even further, advocating “crazy anti-racism targets” and creating “legions of diversity and inclusion experts” but were watered down by Number 10. “They wanted wholesale wokery,” a source said of the authors... Lord Lilley cited the report as an example of the Government succumbing to “the prevailing woke ideology”, saying the document appeared “totally obsessed with EDI”... ministers face “the same statist mindset” encountered by Thatcher’s ministers, “but compounded by a virulent belief that the pursuit of equality, diversity and inclusion, decolonisation and environmental virtue signalling are more important than prosperity, freedom and opportunity”... “There is no mention of waiting lists, whistleblowers, cover-ups or value for money, and only one reference to efficiency.”...   Following its publication on June 8, Mr Javid said there were “too many working in roles focused solely on diversity and inclusion” and said the number must be cut. However, Sir Gordon later insisted that the report “does not recommend the reduction of EDI professionals”, instead stating that if the concepts of EDI become part of managers’ responsibilities, then the number of dedicated officials could “reduce over time”."

Nearly half of all NHS staff have no medical qualifications - "The proportion of clinical staff who are professionally trained has declined from 55.5 per cent in 2013 to just 52.5 per cent now... the number of NHS managers paid more than the Prime Minister is about to rise to more than 400. Some hospitals have as many as nine managers earning more than Mr Johnson’s £157,000...   One said it was time to have an “honest conversation” about the NHS to avoid the UK becoming “a health service with a country attached to it”... Critics of Boris Johnson’s tax rise fear the money will be squandered on an increasingly bloated NHS bureaucracy because the money was awarded before the Government had calculated exactly how much money was needed, and for what.  Huge sums could also be swallowed up by pay rises and executives who are currently being recruited to run new integrated care boards... some NHS Trusts employ multiple directors on salaries of more than £200,000... “England has one of the most efficient health services in the world, with administrative costs of less than 2p in every pound of NHS funding, compared to 5p in Germany and 6p in France.”"
Clearly the Tories are to blame for the poor quality of NHS healthcare since they are underfunding it

What the hell is the NHS doing with all those extra billions? - "“It’s not Covid we’re worried about,” the nurse says wearily.  She’s right. It’s not Covid any more – but Covid is far too useful a stick to beat the Government with to give it up that easily.  Covid, the capacious cloak of unaccountability that magically covers up all the NHS’s manifold deficiencies. Covid, which allows the British Medical Association, a far-Left militant trade union, to claim GPs are being “bullied” into seeing the same number of patients they somehow managed to see in person before the pandemic. That’s the morally inert BMA which thinks it’s legitimate to ballot GPs on industrial action after Health Secretary Sajid Javid had the cheek to ask them to do their jobs, pretty please. And here’s another £250 million to bribe you to do the work for which you are already so handsomely rewarded!   I ask you, what kind of doctor would consider going on strike during a devastating pandemic when thousands of people are still walking around with undiagnosed cancers?   They know they can get away with such behaviour because our chronically understaffed, criminally over-managed, unfit-for-purpose NHS is the “envy of the world”. God forbid any health minister should begin a speech without a heartfelt encomium to its quasi-divine status. Was it Nigel Lawson who said the NHS was the closest thing Britain had to a national religion? Electoral suicide to try and reform it, or so they say. For the people love “our NHS”, even though, during the pandemic, it was our NHS that shut non-Covid services other countries managed to keep open, almost certainly leading to thousands of premature deaths. Even though it was our NHS which block-purchased private hospital capacity at an estimated cost of £400 million a month – and failed to use two-thirds of it even when surgeons I knew were pleading to be allowed to operate.  And that’s not the worst aspect of this revered institution. Like some Soviet-era ministry, the NHS pumps out misinformation which obscures its woeful productivity and its featherbedded executive class, safe in the knowledge that no politician will dare call them out... The UK spending per person on healthcare is above the OECD average. And yet we manage to have fewer doctors and nurses than most well-off countries, one of the lowest hospital beds-per-capita and a standard of in-patient care that leaves most of us just grateful to get out alive. What the hell are they doing with all those billions?"

Report on NHS reveals ‘astonishing’ explosion in central bureaucracy - "NHS bureaucracy has doubled since the pandemic despite little change in the size of the frontline workforce... The general has been asked to stamp out “waste and wokery” in the health service and ensure “every pound is well spent”."

This American Blogger Was Showing an ‘Unseen’ Pakistan. Then She Was Gang Raped. - "“Travelling to Pakistan was unlike any other destination, where everything is catered to tourists. In Pakistan, people follow their own traditions, wear their traditional clothes and eat their traditional food. It’s culturally vivid.” She was also aware of Pakistan’s image in popular culture, with news of security concerns, and being listed among the world's most unsafe countries. But Arpi, with an Instagram following of more than 23,000 and a prolific travel blog, saw a chance to go “off the beaten path” – mostly solo, and in areas foreigners can’t easily access. She also followed Western female influencers, who posted about travelling in Pakistan with comfort, safety and privileged access. This is despite a 2021 survey showing that 80 percent of Pakistanis think women aren’t safe in their own country. On July 17, while visiting the city of Dera Ghazi Khan in Pakistan’s Punjab province, Arpi said she was threatened, extorted and then “brutally” gang raped by two men she had befriended during her previous travels, one of whom filmed the act and threatened to leak it. A case of rape and filming obscene acts was registered by the Border Military Police on July 19. Arpi also said she was misled to believe she had permission to stay in the city, which has a history of militancy and usually isn’t included in the cities tourists can visit with their visas... Arpi’s case has put the spotlight on Western influencers who explore undiscovered parts of Pakistan for hundreds of thousands followers, without mentioning the precautions locals take traveling to areas with poor tourism infrastructure. In the billion-dollar global influencer market, Pakistan’s tourism provides a complex picture, with alleged links to the state and military, and mounting criticisms of foreigners whitewashing lived realities... Pakistan’s tourism industry is worth $22 billion, according to one estimate. In the past, Pakistani officials have admitted foreign influencers were more valuable in boosting tourism than local creators. Pakistan eased visa rules and increased the tourism budget exponentially over the years. At the same time, this foreign influencer army has risen into prominence, citing government initiatives in their posts and receiving open support from political parties.   “Over the years, we’ve seen them make a lot of money for content that is vacuous and generalises their own experience just for clicks and likes,” Hassaan Bin Shaheen, a Pakistani lawyer and comedian, told VICE World News. “You see it in the way they romanticise the global south, prey on the mass nationalist sentiments, confirm their political bias and play into the state narrative.”... Pakistan isn’t the only country using this playbook. China has a history of enlisting Western vloggers to whitewash its treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Reports show Western influencers acquiescing to authoritarian regimes with egregious human rights records, to make money off of state-approved tourism narratives... Zu Beck declined to be interviewed by VICE World News but previously told Forbes that the perception that Pakistan is unsafe for women is wrong, and said Pakistan could be the “world’s number one travel destination.” “People tend to chuckle when I tell them this, but there’s nothing to laugh about,” she told Forbes. “[This] country has the ultimate potential.”... “What we’re seeing in Pakistan is ‘travel colonialism,’” he said. “It's when white influencers come to developing countries and exploit people’s biases to make a good bang for their buck. Instead of colonising bodies like the old days, they’re colonising minds.”  Last year, Nas Daily, a wealthy Arab-Israeli blogger, shut down his operations in the Philippines after his company was accused of profiting off of an indigenous tattoo artist in the country. The 30-year-old, who is also accused of normalising Israeli occupation, has been likened to a neocolonialist who profits off of local cultures. When it comes to the narrative of women’s safety, Aneeqa Ali, a young Pakistani solo woman traveller, who runs her own travel agency, told VICE World News... “Tourism is an informal industry, and in a country like Pakistan, everyone needs to take precautions,” she said. “It’s not a piece of cake as these influencers’ videos might suggest.”"
Damn stereotypes, racism and Islamophobia!

Meme - Matt Walsh: "My responsibility is to my children and my family. The public school system cannot be saved. Even if it could, I am not sending my kids in to help with that mission. Not their job. They are not equipped. No child is. I hear parents say that they won't leave the school system because they want to fight. But it's not you doing the the fighting. It's your child. And he cannot win it. You are sending him on a suicide mission. It isn't fair to him. The school system is undefeated. It changes children, children do not change it. But yes, keep feeding your kids into the meat grinder. Maybe it will be different this time. You know it won't be, but you tell yourself that. Save your own. Get them out. Let the system collapse and die"

The Push for Phonics-Based Reading Instruction in Schools - "As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It worked for the students, but not so much for the teachers. “For seven years in a row, Oakland was the fastest-gaining urban district in California for reading,” recalls Weaver. “And we hated it.”  The teachers felt like curriculum robots—and pushed back. “This seems dehumanizing, this is colonizing, this is the man telling us what to do,” says Weaver, describing their response to the approach. “So we fought tooth and nail as a teacher group to throw that out.” It was replaced in 2015 by a curriculum that emphasized rich literary experiences. “Those who wanted to fight for social justice, they figured that this new progressive way of teaching reading was the way,” he says. Now Weaver is heading up a campaign to get his old school district to reinstate many of the methods that teachers resisted so strongly: specifically, systematic and consistent instruction in phonemic awareness and phonics. “In Oakland, when you have 19% of Black kids reading—that can’t be maintained in the society,” says Weaver, who received an early and vivid lesson in the value of literacy in 1984 after his cousin got out of prison and told him the other inmates stopped harassing him when they realized he could read their mail to them. “It has been an unmitigated disaster.” In January 2021, the local branch of the NAACP filed an administrative petition with the Oakland unified school district (OUSD) to ask it to include “explicit instruction for phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension” in its curriculum... Elementary-school teachers are already having to recalibrate after two years of disruption; vicious fighting about public-health mandates as well as what kids should be taught about race and gender; and a widespread parental freak-out about how little their children have learned during the pandemic. Now the most fundamental skill that society asks them to pass along is also being completely shaken up. But advocates say it cannot wait: in 2019, even before the pandemic upended instruction, only 35% of fourth-graders met the standards for reading proficiency set by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, an even lower number than in 2017... “There have been choices made where our children were not in the center,” says Weaver. “We abandoned what worked because we didn’t like how it felt to us as adults, when actually, the social-justice thing to do is to teach them explicitly how to read.”... it was mostly progressive states that used methods that leaned toward child-led learning and more conservative ones that embraced the traditional phonics-heavy methods... A 2011 study from the Annie E. Casey Foundation found that students who don’t read proficiently by the end of third grade are four times as likely to eventually drop out of school as those who do."
Clearly the primary stakeholders in the classroom are the teachers, not the students
Many teachers see their primary goal as political indoctrination - not teaching kids how to read and write
"This is not happening, and it's good that it is"
Too bad the NAACP is not anti-racist, so it must be racist
Of course they'll just blame the worse results on "racism" and prescribe more social justice and demand even more funding

Meme - "Remember all those times people like Randi Weingarten has gone on national tv to tell people there is no indoctrination going on in public that American schools are behind because of "funding"?"
Matthew Yglesias on Twitter - "There is nothing better we could do for equity and social justice in education than to convince schools to use effective reading instruction methods even if teachers find them tedious."

Common Sense Extremists on Twitter - "Boomer conservatives insisted that no action was needed against indoctrination in schools and universities because the “real world would give them a wake up call”. Instead, they took over every institution."
"Literally all of the guests at Kamala's event are introducing themselves by saying their pronouns and what they are wearing. Wtf lol."

Meme - "I'm quitting at the end of the semester. Last year, multiple students tried to get me fired. Last week, I got a death threat, 2 fat jokes, and kid removed from my class because I'm queer. This week during our first pep assembly, I introduced the GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance, of which I am the sponsor) with a student beside me holding a pride flag. Before we could say a single word, the room erupted in booing. Loud, long, vicious booing. I did my best to interrupt and redirect, did my 20 second spiel, and then retreated to my room. The principal addressed the behavior at the end, and the assistant principals checked on me along with several coworkers, but I just can't take it anymore. I can't convince myself to stay "for the kids". The kids are what's making it hell. I'm done being a teacher for now, and maybe forever. Peace out, homies."
Proof there is no indoctrination

Meme - Thomas Lecaque: "Really the goal of teaching history should be for your students to be the ones yelling out "What the fuck" as you shatter white supremacist settler colonial myth after white supremacist settler colonial myth, every class, every day. That's the dream."
"This is not happening, and it's good that it is"
I like how history is only about white people, and how teaching accurate history isn't the goal

Meme - "Hey, there
nice Africa
would be a shame if somebody did anything to it... like build hospitals, roads, cities, railroads, a written language, your entire infrastructure...
hope you like clothes, savage.
God, it feels good being evil."

Meme - "WARNING: this is an inclusive society and if we feel you are talking, thinking or behaving in a non-inclusive way you will be EXCLUDED"

Meme - "*Pride flag* WE'RE NOT HURTING ANYBODY!
*Confederate flag* SAME."

Caleb Fleshner on Twitter - ""I want to live on a farm" is code for "I want to get away from black people""

Meme - Celina Tebor @CelinaTebor: "My boyfriend's work just sent out this email. Pay attention to the examples they use to describe "pungent foods." We should not have to sacrifice our culture at work to appease white people's palates."
"Just a 2 quick reminders when eating at your 1. Please do not eat pungent foods at your desk (example fish, kimchi, curry). The strong smelis can be bothersome to other"
"Could it be my microwave fish and curry is making the entire office smell like fermented nutsack? No, it must be the delicate palettes of the wYplpo."
NextShark shared it and I like how like half the top comments are Asians saying op is a muppet and they don't like smelly offices too
I've worked in more than one office with no white people with food smell warnings / people complaining about food smells
Comment: "For anyone who works at USA TODAY (her employer) and thinks this is BS, bring in a can of Surströmming, to your desk, open it up, sit back and enjoy."

This ice cream truck song has a racist past. So Wu-Tang's RZA wrote a new one - "A popular ice cream truck jingle called "Turkey in the Straw" has a racist past. So Good Humor ice cream company tapped Wu-Tang Clan's RZA to create a new one
The genetic fallacy is not a fallacy when it helps grievance mongering

Meme - "Shaming people for drunk driving drunk driving can be a coping mechanism for people who can't afford therapy. not everybody is neurotypical and sometimes a nice beer on the highway is needed to relax"

Meme - @ZephyrNCCI701RN2: "My husband thinks I'm crazy because I refuse to visit or even drive THROUGH a red state because I dont feel safe. Would you drive through Kentucky or Texas with NY State license plates? Am I being obtuse?"
The same people mocking "white fragility" think the whole world is out to get them

A podcasting conference issued a pathetic multiple-tweet apology because Ben Shapiro happened to swing by for a few minutes 💀
Mollie on Twitter - "You sound like *completely insane people*. What in the world is wrong with you? Is this a joke? You couldn't tolerate *BEN* *FREAKING* *SHAPIRO*? Are you a child? An anti-semite? An anti-semitic child? How do you function in society if you can't tolerate BEN SHAPIRO?"
Podcast Movement is a joke

Meme - "So if white person cant voice an Indian character *Apu*
Then a black person should not be allowed to voice Kratos or Samurai Jack
And Japanese people should not be allowed to voice non Japanese characters"

Titania McGrath on Twitter - "The most effective way to combat racial discrimination is to continually remind white people that they are inhuman demons who are beyond redemption."
*Ashleigh Shackelford*
Black woman declares all white people racist: "I believe white people are born into not being human"

Meme - Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones: "Most Asian Americans arrived in this country after the end of legal segregation and discrimination, thanks to the Black resistance struggle. Yale has direct ties to slavery. Further, the DOJ is not going after the segregated and unequal schools that Black children attend."
Helen @bubbleyummama: "They were here long before that. They came to dig for gold and build the railroad."
Ida Bae Wells: "I did not say no Asian people immigrated here prior to 1965. I said *most* in this country did not because of the Chinese Exclusion Act and a racist immigration quota system. That means most present-day Asian Americans did not experience legal discrimination here."
Weird how her logic only applies one way. Apparently most present-day African Americans experienced legal discrimination in the US

Escape The Echo Chamber - Posts | Facebook - "A police chief lies about being racially profiled by Utah Highway patrol."
When the demand for oppression outstrips the supply

Meme - Ramsha Afridi @Ramshaofficialal: "My uncle in Pakistan asked me what "woke" means.. and I told him what it meant. His response: "These people in the West are spoilt and have never had real problems, so they are creating problems because they are so bored"."

‘Stop Using These Made Up Words’: Comic Con Slaps Woke Term On Filipino Panel, Gets Torched - "The San Diego Comic Con took some heat this week for slapping a woke label on a panel featuring Filipino “Voices In Pop Culture”: Filipinx.  Much like the often-criticized term Latinx — which has been widely panned by members of the very community it is used to describe — the convention’s social media team’s use of the term Filipinx appeared to be an attempt to be gender-inclusive... “Stop using these made-up words to score woke virtue signaling points from people who never asked you to speak for them in the first place,” @nknewsorg’s social media editor Oliver Jia (@OliverJia1014) commented.  “Want to know why white liberals push this ‘Latinx’ and ‘Filipinx’ s***? It’s the ‘white man’s burden,'” @ReviewsPossum added. “They see you as a savage and feel the need to civilize you, so they colonize your language to make it more appealing to their own ‘enlightened’ sensibilities. It’s racism.” “We are NOT going to start using Filipinx. nuh uh. no,” @Chef033 declared.  “The gringx are at it again,” came from @KalebPrime.  @RioXVII added, “We don’t use Filipinx at all. this isn’t a thing. It’s always been gender neutral, which is why we use Kami = us, Tayo = we, Sila = they. Please stop trying to make it a thing.” “¿Qué diablos es Filipinx? ¿Una nueva enfermedad venérea?” Agustin Laje tweeted. (Translation: What the devil is Filipinx? A new venereal disease?)  “If you call me Filipinx I will personally go to your house and eat you alive,” @yousoromi warned.  “How is it that I, a white American dude, who has a moderately basic knowledge of Latin languages know more about said languages — like the fact that ‘X’ doesn’t exist in the vocabulary or that gender neutral terms already exist in said languages — than these people?” @soulkibble added.  A number noted that the Filipino language did not include the letter X at all until 1976, when 8 new letters were added to the original Tagalog alphabet — and even then, the letter only appears in words that are derived from foreign origins.  Others pointed out the fact that the word Filipino is already a gender neutral term — as are the language’s pronouns. Typically, a person is addressed as “siya” (“them”) and there are no gender-specific words for he/she or him/her."

Thomas Hardy’s ‘cruel’ novel given a trigger warning - "Thomas Hardy’s work now comes with a trigger warning, as students are advised that the novelist depicts “the cruelty of nature”.  The writer renowned for depicting the harsh realities of English rural life and the vagaries of fate now requires a cautionary note, according to academics at the University of Warwick.  A trigger warning now alerts students that Hardy depicts the “cruelty of nature” and of “rural life” in Far from the Madding Crowd, a novel which contains passages describing dead and dying sheep...   Warnings have been issued by a number of universities in order to brace students for emotionally distressing material, and recent examples of potentially upsetting literary works have included Old English epic Beowulf and accounts of medieval miracles.  Assessing literature for its risk rather than its artistic merits has led to criticism from some academics, with Prof Frank Furedi, emeritus professor at the University of Kent, saying: “Literature was not invented to be a kind of 21st-century therapy.   “If you read a Hardy novel, what you find is a compelling account of authentic rural life, and the struggle for existence. What we encounter in the pages of The Mayor of Casterbridge or Tess of the d’Urbervilles can be tragic, but it is moving and beautiful.  “If we approach literature in a spirit of discovery, rather than as a patient who needs constant care and supervision to avoid upset, then we will get something out of it.  “But putting a trigger warning on a book by Hardy, you are treating it as a health risk rather than a novel, and treating students like patients. This is increasingly happening to the corpus of English literature.”"

UK Government says calling someone ugly is now a "hate crime" - "“No one should be abused and insulted because of the way they look,” Home Office tweeted. “If you are – it’s a hate crime.”"

All by Keshav Kant - "Editor-in-chief at Off Colour"
"I’ve loved Mulan since childhood but the remake is too white behind the camera"
There's only one colour to turn off

Diana Tourjée on Twitter - "You know what's weird? That so many people use social justice or we are or just even the concept of social justice pejoratively, as if it's an insult. It's like really weird because social justice is like just something that is obviously very positive and cool. It's like making fun of someone for helping there elderly grandmother up some stairs or something.  But like social justice is objectively more important than that, because it impacts so many people. So if you're not into social justice then you must think helping Grandma is like totally pathetic and evil or something.  And that's just a really weird position to take."
If you're not pro-life are you a bad person since you're anti-life?

Māori and Pasifika getting priority on surgery waiting lists - "Wellington regional DHBs are prioritising Māori and Pasifika patients who are on waiting lists for surgeries.  People get ordered first by urgency, then by the time they have been waiting and finally by ethnicity.  Capitol and Coast DHB John Tait told Andrew Dickens giving Māori or Pasifika first crack comes down to a number of factors.  "One is we know that Māori and Pasifika have much poorer health outcomes. We also know they have difficulty in accessing healthcare and there are delays in them getting to the system, the hospital system."  Mr Tait adds it is unlikely other patients will be significantly affected, and urgent cases are always treated first."
Racism is good if it benefits "minorities"

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