Tag: New Zealand

High trust – high risk

We often rely on trusting others to do the right thing, both when your partner hands you a water bottle and when your COVID experiment requires you to social distance. However, we have the strange discrepancy returning New Zealanders are trusted to self-quarantine while we are not trusted to swim in the sea and not drown. Hmmm…

Testing times

I met my first non-bubble person in a week today. This was ridiculously stressful. How soon will we have rapid tests to show whether people have COVID and vaccinations to prevent people getting it?

Kindness as a practice

The planet is feeling prickly, as is our country. People are telling each other what to do and other people are reacting badly. We all need more kindness to make life work better. Here are some pictures of the people the word ‘kindness’ reminds me of.

Facing off against COVID-19

Here we are in our bubble wondering how much news to read each day. I’ve added Denmark to my graph to compare more widely in Scandinavia. I’m thinking deaths may be more indicative of the state of COVID than cases because who knows how each country defines cases. At least deaths in Italy are increasing at a lower rate than last week, after locking down.

The experiment begins…

The world is setting up COVID-19 management experiments and New Zealand is one of them. We will be able to compare, in an action research setting, how different approaches to COVID work. New Zealand and Norway are lockding down, like much of Europe, while Sweden is staying open and asking people to physically isolate. I will watch the case data with interest.

The storm before the calm

We’re preparing to hunker down, doing last runs to town for supplies. New Zealand is racing against the clock as Level 4 approaches. Will it be only 4 weeks of lockdown? Here’s hoping but it seems unlikely. And whose information on the virus and how to act is reliable? So many unknowns.