How do you decide whether to get vaccinated, when there is an indubitable small risk to yourself from vaccination, but a greater societal benefit when most people get vaccinated. The trolley problem may provide a useful thought process.
My level 3 treat is a mountain bike ride. Does that mean I get to eat extra? Maybe 1 avocado, according to Herman Pontzer who has found there is little difference in energy expenditure between couch potatoes and moderately active people. How can this be?
How do you continue to believe you will prevail while confronting the brutal facts of reality? Stockdale, imprisoned for 6 years during the Vietnam War, never lost faith in the end of his story – he believed he would get out and turn the experience into a defining event. Which he did.
When people have differing opinions, providing more facts can polarise opinions rather than leading to agreement. How come? And how does this relate to our vaccine targets?
Living through COVID is like real-life playing snakes and ladders. Both at the big scale – when will we climb the ladder out of this pit? And at the day by day scale…
Our government is reluctant to set a vaccine target. How will we know when we have vaccinated enough if we don’t have a target? And isn’t it kind to be clear?
Cake or death? I mean, Level 3 vs Level 4? And how much should we be encouraging the people around us to adhere to COVID restrictions? When to speak up?
Can I find out whether we will go to Level 3 tomorrow by reading my tea leaves? Tasseography was popular in the 1800s. However, my bent is more scientific so I will look at COVID case heat maps.
Fireworks are fun. COVID is not fun. I thought I’d use fireworks analogies to explain some of the jargon that describes how likely COVID is to spread.
Tourism overwhelmed the Queenstown Lakes region prior to COVID and there’s every likelihood it will do so again. How can people fight back against oppressive tourism?
