One day it looks like the end of COVID lockdowns is in sight, the next day we hear about Omicron. I need to think about things other than COVID to get some perspective, such as the view from a mountain.
New Zealand still doesn’t have endemic COVID-19, unlike much of the world. There’s a feeling of, can we just get it and move on? Except people who get very sick or die won’t be doing the sort of moving on I’m hoping for.
Ethics – a tricky subject. Are all animals equally valuable? Are all humans equally valuable? Are they more or less or the same degree of valuable than animals? Is humans seeing themselves as outside the natural world a fundamental error?