Sunday covid 19 update : N.Z. drifts back into it’s uneventful pre-Covid reality
While we all unpack what the shut-down has meant to us, there turns out to be quite a lot of people who think we should have a one month level 4 shut down every year.
The air was cleaner, much less noise pollution, you could walk down the middle of pretty much every road in the country. Many people got on top of their ‘pending’ tasks (what I found funny was the ads telling folk that they weren’t bad people if they didn’t get anything done at all during the lock-down). Lots of people saved some money which they seem to be busy spending now that restrictions have been lifted,
Despite all the whining from business leaders and economists, the country is rebounding faster than almost all expectations. They've got it the wrong way around, believing that if you look after the economy everyone is better off. it should be if you care for the health of the people the economy looks after itself.
Thankfully we'd pretty much knocked the virus off before we had our ‘black lives matter’ marches down here in Aotearoa. I’ve found that the kiwis seem to have been working on this colonel racism thing for longer and harder than most other countries.
I’ve been fixated with ‘legacy’. The pursuit of legacy at all costs.
The toppling of statues might give people pause for thought. That whatever legacy they are building isn’t necessarily going to be permanent. That the writing of history might not always be written by the victor.
I think that another good reason for going into the lock-down ‘hard and fast’ is that here in the southern hemisphere, we are heading into winter, and flu season.
That said, though the north of the planet might be becoming less conducive to flu, it is playing havoc with the social distancing as people bolt out of their homes into sunny parks and beaches.
The air was cleaner, much less noise pollution, you could walk down the middle of pretty much every road in the country. Many people got on top of their ‘pending’ tasks (what I found funny was the ads telling folk that they weren’t bad people if they didn’t get anything done at all during the lock-down). Lots of people saved some money which they seem to be busy spending now that restrictions have been lifted,
Despite all the whining from business leaders and economists, the country is rebounding faster than almost all expectations. They've got it the wrong way around, believing that if you look after the economy everyone is better off. it should be if you care for the health of the people the economy looks after itself.
Thankfully we'd pretty much knocked the virus off before we had our ‘black lives matter’ marches down here in Aotearoa. I’ve found that the kiwis seem to have been working on this colonel racism thing for longer and harder than most other countries.
I’ve been fixated with ‘legacy’. The pursuit of legacy at all costs.
The toppling of statues might give people pause for thought. That whatever legacy they are building isn’t necessarily going to be permanent. That the writing of history might not always be written by the victor.
I think that another good reason for going into the lock-down ‘hard and fast’ is that here in the southern hemisphere, we are heading into winter, and flu season.
That said, though the north of the planet might be becoming less conducive to flu, it is playing havoc with the social distancing as people bolt out of their homes into sunny parks and beaches.
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