Pasifika Network

Pasifika Network Group is an informal collective & consultancy focused on improving the well-being of Pasifika communities throughout the region.

[Pasifika Network @PasifikaGroup]

The Pasifika community in Tairāwhiti has reached the 100 percent milestone for first vaccination doses and 90 percent for second. The targets were met on December 2.

https://t.co/LJmmNNoyD6

[Efeso Collins @efesocollins]

Got a couple of msgs today from people saying my studio background might not be professional enough for national tv. Told them I’m way proud of my girls artwork & happy to light up our 2brm apartment & the nation with their talents. Some new art pieces being created this week.

[Newsroom @NewsroomNZ]

A move from reset to resilience in NZ's approach to the Pacific indicates concerns about the region's economy – and who might step in to help. https://t.co/kgiPEx9ZpT

[belynda 🏳️‍⚧️ @bel10]

Must watch segment from @TheHuiNZ. Our justice system needs serious reform.

[Frederica @FredericaTuita]

The line outside Queen Salote Memorial Hall today. People are rushing to get their covid vaccination 🇹🇴

📷: Litia Petelō

[Pasifika Network @PasifikaGroup]

A mandate was needed to try and push healthcare staff over the line, when they’ve been vaccine eligible since March 2021.

But we get worked up that under 30s, including half the Māori and Pasifika eligible, supposedly 'haven’t got their act together’ since 1 September?!

[Efeso Collins @efesocollins]

1/ Truly enjoyed the tone of this article. Every day amongst my own family & friends we gently, bravely, respectfully traverse these deeply troubling experiences2. Most times it's anti-govt over anti-vax sentiment. https://t.co/oT5yPXr0ic

[Efeso Collins @efesocollins]

Gutted when my good friend @jobartleynz text to let us know this had happened. There are people working real hard in the community for all our safety and this stuff is awful. Much aroha to the clinic staff and whanau. https://t.co/NQmqAfOhTo

[Pasifika Network @PasifikaGroup]

Yes, the MIQ system is evolving, but likely not before time it's forced to overhaul on humanitarian and legal grounds anyway? Good piece on the issues. https://t.co/9EPQ4Demeo

[Graham Walker, MD @grahamwalker]

A med school prof said to us on week 1, “You’ll never really know what your patients are going through, because almost none of you have ever had a serious illness by the very nature that you got into med school and didn’t have illness weighing you down.” Think about that a lot.

[Pasifika Network @PasifikaGroup]

Insightful piece on why Destiny Church and other NZ Pentecostalists oppose lockdowns and vaccination https://t.co/5ZyG0MFsLT

[Pasifika Network @PasifikaGroup]

Excellent piece by @NZStuff on Covid vaccination inequities, including a projection that the earliest all DHBs will hit 90% is mid-January. https://t.co/l5NEPEuluZ

[Pasifika Network @PasifikaGroup]

Great Tokelauans can enter NZ without doing MIQ, but given they have to travel by sea through Samoa first, and Samoa's border is closed, can someone explain how they're supposed to get through? https://t.co/1KQMBl8cBC

[2Tapu @2TAPU]

Samoa lost 20% of the entire population after NZ knowingly let infected passengers on the Talune ship disembark. 103 years ago this November. My family elders remembered bodies piled on top of the other on the road. A mass grave at our family church holds 100s of people. Kalofae

[Pasifika Network @PasifikaGroup]

The ones circled are all over 100%.

[Pasifika Network @PasifikaGroup]

Pasifika communities/health providers have done a brilliant job with 1st dosers (purple) keeping pace with European/Other (pink).

But @TheSpinoffTV chart shows how crazy MoH counting system is, with those circled in red now as high as 112% - examples of the MoH undercount.

[Pasifika Network @PasifikaGroup]

@henrycooke Any behaviour change specialist could have told them that mandates in this scenario wouldn't harden opposition - 20% were always going to be difficult to get over the line, the last 10% highly unlikely. https://t.co/iGhPDuS5F1

[Stuff @NZStuff]

Covid-19: Canberra hits 90% fully vaccinated, becomes most vaccinated in Australia https://t.co/Tj6XAE3WYd

[Pasifika Network @PasifikaGroup]

And we wonder why people don't trust Govt agencies, health system & officials after Hamilton-based ACC call centre staff shared details & mocked people's injuries on Snapchat. https://t.co/tZfmJt2p1l

[Pasifika Network @PasifikaGroup]

Effectively denied right every NZ citizen has to return home coz of MIQ system. Stuck in Canada without a visa and a MIQ boss tells him to stop lodging complaints! What are you supposed to do when you're desperate & feel your country has deserted you? https://t.co/K9PxDTn9Iu