Keeping an open mind
How do you keep your mind open to new ways of doing things and new knowledge? And why might Ivermectin reduce COVID deaths?
Tag: coronavirus
Funny and not so funny
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.
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.
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?
What to believe
When you are in a helicopter do you believe it will crash? The statistics say it’s not all that likely, although a whole lot more likely than being in a car crash. And how about the risks of vaccines? How do we make best choices about which risks to take?
Did It
How do you get yourself to do something that feels hard or scary? By tricking yourself…it’s so worth it.
Wrong strategy already?!
Already the government is rethinking our COVID strategy as the result of Delta – the strategy came out in August and now it’s September, that didn’t last long. Surely it’s not that hard to assess risk?