Covid 19 coronavirus: Bachelor NZ contestant regrets calling mask wearing slavery , questioning science
5 Mar, 2021 08:41 PM
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Shivani Pragji has apologised for controversial social media posts. Photo / Supplied
NZ Herald
A contestant on the new season of The Bachelor has apologised for controversial social media posts comparing mask wearing to slavery and for questioning the scientific consensus around Covid-19. Stewart Sowman-Lund reports.
Shivani Pragji is – according to her LinkedIn profile – a solicitor working for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, a government department responsible for 18 ministerial portfolios and overseeing our managed isolation system.
In a post to her Instagram story, Shivani Pragji compared mask wearing to slavery . Photo / Instagram
So today I have had:
a txt alert 10 min after the local Tsunami Sirens started in my Community, about a half hour after the last quake that put my region in harms way. Excellent work
a txt alert once it was deemed safe to return home, gratefully received.
a PM begin a PRESS Conference (not a Covid briefing) of all the days happenings detailing some of todays important issues
an announcement of the carefully thought out by experts decision to complete the full 7 days lockdown as advertised (some people criticised the shortness of the previous 3 day lockdown)
Some people just love a good cheese with their half empty WHINE.
More evidence that UBIs work
The report is back on another Universal Basic Income trial, this time in the USA. And as with the others, it shows that this policy works:
After getting $500 per month for two years without rules on how to spend it, 125 people in California paid off debt, got full-time jobs and reported lower rates of anxiety and depression, according to a study released Wednesday.[…]
When the program started in February 2019, 28% of the people slated to get the free money had full-time jobs. One year later, 40% of those people had full-time jobs. A control group of people who did not get the money saw a 5 percentage point increase in full-time employment over that same time period.
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