It's probably more that it's difficult to prove something damaged his hearing if it's not mechanical. ACC cover hearing damage, but not congenital hearing loss or Meniere's disease, etc.
ACC draw a very hard line. For example if you dislocate your shoulder in an accident they pay for it to be fixed but if they think it dislocated due to, say, rheumatoid arthritis or EDS then you are not covered.
Yes and Jimmy Saville raised money for charity. :p
Seriously though, I got the impression they were protesting the war on Gaza and the use of environmentally destructive ordinance, not the actual existence of the US Military.
Deaf people don't qualify for ACC anyway unless it was caused by an accident, so were they having to prove an accident caused him neurological damage? That does sound like the kind of thing ACC like to try to squirm out of.
Te Whatu Ora have this rule where disabled people don't qualify for disability funding if the disability is due to a long term illness. It's really bizarre.
True! Until I met them I had always imagined they would have a beautiful "song"...
They also like to take part in the dawn chorus, which is pretty rough if you're sleeping nearby.
That's good to know.
I'm stuck in bed at the moment with extreme vertigo so I can only look at still images from the protest - I'm obviously not getting the "whole picture".
Yeah it's really stark too. If you're seriously hurt in an accident you get all these specialists helping you, treatment, equipment, even compensation for lost wages.
If you're seriously hurt by an illness you don't get any of it. I've had both and it was hard to believe it was the same health system.
"This plan is one of many things that we are working on together with Iwi Chairs and while they've decided to step back from this opportunity, there are many other areas we are working together on and I hope we continue to have a good relationship."
Erm, given that it pulled out after stating the current government is too racist to do anti-racist stuff with them, I wouldn't hold my breath.
Iwi Chairs basically just said they're going to do their own anti-racism thing and roll it into regions without Central govt input. That looks like a seismic shift to me.
I have to admit it never occurred to me that anyone thought building a giant wall was going to fix this.
Coincidentally I just ran this past my partner because like you and @ilovethebomb@Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz it seems to be muddying the water to me.
They pointed out to me that School Strike had invited Free Palestine along because wars devastate the environment, this war in particular because the unusually high volume of ordnance. Also there's the whole Ecocide issue around the deliberate destruction of environment etc.
The other thing is School Strike seems to have always conceptualised a lot of this stuff as relating to each other, e.g they want to be allowed to vote because they're frustrated with what the existing electorate votes for vis a vis climate change. But I agree it doesn't seem that clear, they need much more targeted slogans.
That's right, you have the "90 day cough". Has it been more than 90 days?
Peacocks do have that one cry that sounds exactly like a woman yelling "help"!
Pretty sure presenteeism is bad for the economy as well.
It's better to have just one sick, underproductive employee at home than to bring them in to infect everyone so you have a whole workplace filled with sick underproductive employees.
Maybe you should make yourself a Neocities page, that's like pre-social media internet...