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Tag: mountain biking
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?
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?
Which is my bestest interest?
Economic models typically assume humans act in their own best interests. Except they don’t…so the field of behavioural economics developed. How do we figure out which are our best interests we should act on?
Level 3 treats
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?
Snakes, ladders and daffodils
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…
Third waves
Here comes the third wave of COVID-19 around the world. Luckily, it appears the 3rd wave is relatively non-lethal in countries with high rates of vaccination. Although NZ still hasn’t decided on our vaccination targets.
What’s in a year?
A year on from Jacinda Ardern announcing the first COVID lockdown and we’re still in the midst of COVID. So much has changed but there’s so far still to go. The next year’s questions look to revolve around vaccination and when we might leave NZ again.
Perspectives & inspiration
Problem solving can require a different view, like on a recent mountain bike ride. I’d tackled the same rock the same wrong way, year after year. It took someone else with a new method to show me what was possible.
Spinning into the unknown…
Already we’re moving into a Level 4 lockdown. That was a quick honeymoon period. Now we can watch cases rise while staying home; we won’t get on the Our World in Data COVID graph till we reach 100.