How will our COVID story be told long after the pandemic? Will we have saved people? Will we have ‘saved’ the economy? Noting this is not a necessary dichotomy – saving one or the other. We are now comfortable with a Level 4 lockdown but, at some point, the restrictions will have to loosen up.
COVID is boring. Last time I got bored with my situation, I took a ride across part of the United States. It was fun…Type 2 fun that is only fun in the recounting. It pays to be careful what one wishes for.
Controlling rabbits has parallels with controlling COVID. It is hard and the subject of control expands at an exponential rate. Elimination appears attractive but is a challenging goal.
A musical representation of COVID-19 was made using a tone for each amino acid in its DNA sequence. Sequencing COVID’s DNA is the key to creating an effective vaccine. Vaccine development is moving at breakneck speed – Oxford University has approval for a first Clinical Trial in late April.
Every morning, my first action is check DEMIC for the latest status of COVID-19, COVID-27, AVID-3 and PARAMID-10. I tell myself that […]
How’s the experiment going? New Zealand’s vital COVID stats – testing, cases, deaths (only one so far) – are looking good. Norway, Denmark and Sweden are looking similar, which is odd given Sweden’s very different approach, not locking down.
Today I’d like my grandmother to be looking after me. I’d like to be in her house baking then play some ball-on-a-string, then stay the night and go to bed in Granny and Fafa’s spare room after they kiss me goodnight and Granny tells me a story about growing up in India.
Contact tracing is a critical part of suppressing COVID – going back through the chain of people who someone ill has been in contact with. It’s disturbing, the thought of the government knowing your every move through your phone.
We had a tea party with our nearby bubble mates – friends living in our barn, using a 2 metre separation as measured by our 1.8 metre table.
Bubbles need optimists. My realism outweighs my optimism, which outweighs my pessimism. However, for bubble times, I’d like to invite an optimist into my bubble – here are a couple of people I’d import in a flash.
