November 17th and we traveled to Blenheim to see if Elisabeth could get another ultrasound for her appendix but we’re told here that we would have to pay for it. So we left for Nelson. It seems these days that there is an attached medical center called urgent care next to the hospitals which funnel people through a payed system unless it can be considered an emergency in which case you can go through the free hospital system. Like many things this is a sly introduction of a user pays system in my mind and functions only as another dr’s service like a GP. Luckily Elizabeth started treatment as an emergency case also could be continued that way but only at the discretion of the charge nurse in Nelson who although sending us to the urgent care place next door had made a referral for her to come back in through the accident emergency system. We have so many subtle changes to our institutions that one is not told about until they have to use one of them. Such a covert country in so many ways with lots of sneaky policies. Anyway we are staying at the nzmca in Motueka for now until we find out about another ultrasound and then we don’t know where too from here. We did look at leasing a nursery with the thought of establishing it again and parking the truck there but at 20,000 a year it would have left us nothing to start one up and $385 a week is a little high just to park there. Stephanie has her 14th birthday today and with the arguments that arise between her and her sister over space I think the greatest gift she could get this year would be her own room. The next task I have in front of me is to get the trailer welded that we put the cabin on as the drawbars cracked on each side when Serena went out of the garage as well as tearing out the trailer wiring. I’m hoping we can get it welded back up but in the meantime a man in a camper came to the rescue with some angle brackets that we bolted on the trailer to at least make it to the welders on Monday. In other news the act party wants to change some things in the treaty to make it cover all new Zealanders rather than just favor Maori. He wants the treaty to recognize all people yet it didn’t do that in the beginning so there is a pushback by the party Maori, the Maori political party. Currently all Maori issues are just worked through in court on a case by case basis and can be rather ambiguous as to how decisions are decided upon. It’s hoped that this would become clearer having a single or law system to govern all New Zealanders. This has been tried before and usually most understand it to really take away sovereignty from Maori and put everything under government law. Although it sounds good on paper I think new Zealand benefit’s from the ability of one part to have a separate governing system that can still operate outside of the law when bad laws are written. We saw this in how the nzdsos were able to keep a dr in practice under Maori governance when the NZ medical association tried to shut down all drs who disagreed with the vaccine rollout because it was Inna trial phase and they thought there patients might be at risk from it. In that situation the law cut across everyone’s rights to self determination by punishing non compliance. If Maori didn’t have their own voice in this we would have not had any leverage against the government. when the government of the day talks about democracy you need to understand that its a system of might makes right. so the majority always wins in that system d if the majority a wrong it’s just too bad.
So I vote no to the change. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.