Where’s the humanity?
What are we trying to ‘save’ in the COVID-19 world – I say humanity, as well as humans (and the economy).
Author: Jane Shearer
Circles or spirals?
Back around a loop to higher level alerts. We are saving people, or our economy, or both. Maybe. How do things compare in Sweden, where they have taken the distancing rather than the lockdown approach?
Damn…
Here we go back down the COVID Alert Levels because New Zealand has community transmission of the virus, after 102 days without any. Everyone has been getting more relaxed given the lack of cases in the community. Let’s hope our early action means we don’t go back into a lockdown like we’ve watched in Melbourne.
Contrasts
I like contrasts, such as the difference between our isolated property in Gibbston, Central Otago and in Redcliffs village by the sea in Christchurch. I’m going to really miss travelling in COVID times because I love the learning one finds in countries when you don’t speak the language but discover you can communicate across the divides. I will have to change the scale of contrast I’m seeking.
Are We Nearly There Yet?
Are we nearly there yet? A phrase redolent of childhood car journeys, the Canterbury earthquakes, and now the COVID-world.
Am I a grown-up yet?
As an adult, it’s so easy to get thrown back into the feeling of being a child again. Feeling like there are other people who know more than you, have more than you, are better than you. But, if there’s no bus driver, feeling grown-up or not you still need to step in and drive the bus.
Goodbye Loki
Pets are a critical part of human lives. We share emotions with pets, as with humans. People see human-human relationships as superior to human-animal, but where’s the evidence for this?
Our stories
Telling stories to each other is a critical part of being human. We need to take the time and make the space to be able to tell our stories and listen to the stories of others.
A cleft stick
We have employed a water diviner. Why? As a household of scientists who think the right way to look at COVID-19 is to assess the data. In the case of the Swedish experiment, the data say a lot more people died as a result of their approach. What the economic outcome will be remains to be seen in the longer term.
Future insights
Cameron Bagrie has come clean and said he doesn’t know what is going to happen to NZ house prices. However, people don’t like, “I don’t know.” They want certainty from their fortune tellers.