Wastewater woes
ESR is using wastewater to find COVID outbreaks. And wastewater management is about to be reformed by the current government, who seem to be reforming everything without clear community mandate.
Tag: 2021 October
Sublime to ridiculous
We have a traffic light system for managing COVID which has taken everyone, including epidemiologists, by surprise. It’s weird. And it’s rigid and divisive.
Did it again
Doing more of what I love – in this case tramping. I had a tech break to escape COVID news and immerse myself in mountain vistas and water.
Sting in the tail
How will New Zealand manage the Delta COVID strain? We’ve now failed in our elimination efforts as Delta has proved way more infectious. Where do we go from here to avoid a massive health toll?
Migrant misery
Jacinda Ardern has apologised for the Dawn Raids – targetting supposed illegal immigrants in the 1970s. Thanks to COVID, we have thousands of illegal immigrants whose visas have expired but who can’t (and often don’t want) to go home. In both cases, New Zealand asked immigrants to come, then turned against them – do we ever learn?