“Workers caught up in last month’s Christchurch earthquake may be eligible for emotional trauma compensation from ACC (Accident Compensation Commission. kg) even if they weren’t physically hurt.
Cover may be provided if someone had developed a mental injury after experiencing or witnessing the earthquake while they were at work in paid employment, ACC spokeswoman Fiona Robinson said.
“So say they were at work and witnessed someone trapped in a building as they were running outside during the earthquake, and they suffered a mental illness as a result, then yes they may be covered.”..’
Harden up, get a life, shit happens. Even very big shit, sometimes. It’s part of the human condition and your forefathers would have had more pride than to accept a handout from the state for “emotional trauma”.
This is no more than professional grief-mongering, a symptom of the feminisation of NZ society, the creepy mommyism that has turned half of what used to be a nation of tough, independent and proud people into a bunch of whining little welfare queers.
