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?
Tag: outdoor activities
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.
Squashed frog
Sometimes I feel like a squashed frog. In COVID times, this is a reasonable feeling. How to break out of it?
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.
A meaning of ‘whanāu’
Whanau – a Māori word now in common general usage. To me it has connotations of a broad concept of family, beyond the sense of a traditional western nuclear approach.
Endings
Why are people so reluctant to accept endings? Everything eventually need to end to make room for the new, bike trips, ideas and organisations alike.
Chewable chunks
The concept of chewable chunks applies to COVID as much as cycle touring. Here are our strategies for breaking a 1300km cycle tour into chunks of a size we can cope with.