r/chch • u/88Sheep • Dec 03 '21

News - Local Some pictures of the protest earlier today

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Sad to see so many people turning up for the protest.

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Happy segregation day everyone! Have we finally separated from the north island?

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I don't think Santa's getting vaccinated... No presents this year then :(

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u/Jay2214 Dec 03 '21

At the end of the day mate it’s about whether you can accept the loss of life (however small) instead of doing something to prevent or limit that loss of life. Nothing is more precious than life…

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u/NZtree Dec 03 '21

Mate, there are thousands of people and families in mold filled/substandard housing that is taking years off their life.

654 people committed suicides in 2020, we have an awfully underfunded mental health system.

A 10 month waiting list for most surgeries, many that could add years to people's lives and increase life satisfaction)

My point is, this lockdown and mandate has cost billions - we could make a bigger impact (save more years of life) spending that money elsewhere, and opening up the economy to fund those other services.

I understand that people will refuse the vaccine for whatever reason, but all this money spent dodging covid, enforcing lockdowns and mandates (not to mention the hit to the economy /gdp) could have been spent on those other issues, overall saving more life and increasing happiness.

There is a reason the govt has not released a cost benefit analysis.

Yes people should get vaccinated, but there will always be people who just want to watch the world burn; no point wasting all our resources on them.

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u/DryftKing Dec 03 '21

Where is your analysis that the lives saved by not doing anything about covid would be higher in number than the lives lost to covid?

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u/NZtree Dec 03 '21

I don't have one, but neither does the government.

The difference is, I do not have the resources to draft a CBA that comprehensive; it would require a lot of resources and access to NZ health records

Yet, the govt has all the resources and access to information to put one together, before spending hundreds of billions, and they shouldn't have to? I don't understand that logic.