Tag: trust

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…

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.