Sunday covid 19 update : Where we’re at
It’s the beginning of August so time for a bit of an update.
Here in New Zealand, we still don’t have any community transmission of Covid 19.
Despite a few selfish nutjobs breaking out of the quarantine, that all new arrivals into the country must now undergo.
I think that this result so far is probably more than we could have hoped for when we emerged from lock-down.
The housing market is off like a rocket, though there are still people that reckon the economy is in for rough times ahead.
I’m still betting on a ‘U’ shaped recovery as we don’t have any restrictions placed on the population here.
It will be interesting to see what happens once the government's wage sub ends at the end of August.
One still spys the odd bottle of sanitiser in a shop or cafe, but that’s all that is left to remind us of Covid.
Here in New Zealand, we still don’t have any community transmission of Covid 19.
Despite a few selfish nutjobs breaking out of the quarantine, that all new arrivals into the country must now undergo.
I think that this result so far is probably more than we could have hoped for when we emerged from lock-down.
The housing market is off like a rocket, though there are still people that reckon the economy is in for rough times ahead.
I’m still betting on a ‘U’ shaped recovery as we don’t have any restrictions placed on the population here.
It will be interesting to see what happens once the government's wage sub ends at the end of August.
One still spys the odd bottle of sanitiser in a shop or cafe, but that’s all that is left to remind us of Covid.
Then there are the international news reports.
One can’t help but wonder what would have happened if the ‘first world’ had just closed their borders as a block and shut down for six weeks.
Back when Aeoteroa first shut down, the virus hadn’t reached most of the less advantaged countries.
We would all be at the same stage of recovery.
Local manufacturers that are doing pretty well out of the world lockdown. The ones that have got themselves together, are finding new markets here are opening up.
Now that it's harder to source stuff overseas, local businesses are starting to shop around to find equivalents based here in New Zealand. People are noticing that some products like meat are cheaper.
I hear that Melbourne in Australia is planning on doing a ‘New Zealand style lockdown’. I find this a bit strange, as I feel that what New Zealand did was a ‘lock-down’.
Maybe we need different names for everybody else in the world is attempting? Such as a press down, or a stick down, or fold down?
From what I have read, what they are proposing in Oz isn’t a ‘Kiwi style shutdown’ at all.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2020/08/02/victoria-stage-four-lockdown/
The only shops allowed to open here were supermarkets and chemists, and they had to have a ‘door bitch’ to manage numbers inside and the queue outside.
All work ceased unless you could do it from home.
Face masks were never mandated.
We didn’t have a curfew.
Once again Australia is over complicating things.
One can’t help but wonder what would have happened if the ‘first world’ had just closed their borders as a block and shut down for six weeks.
Back when Aeoteroa first shut down, the virus hadn’t reached most of the less advantaged countries.
We would all be at the same stage of recovery.
Local manufacturers that are doing pretty well out of the world lockdown. The ones that have got themselves together, are finding new markets here are opening up.
Now that it's harder to source stuff overseas, local businesses are starting to shop around to find equivalents based here in New Zealand. People are noticing that some products like meat are cheaper.
I hear that Melbourne in Australia is planning on doing a ‘New Zealand style lockdown’. I find this a bit strange, as I feel that what New Zealand did was a ‘lock-down’.
Maybe we need different names for everybody else in the world is attempting? Such as a press down, or a stick down, or fold down?
From what I have read, what they are proposing in Oz isn’t a ‘Kiwi style shutdown’ at all.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2020/08/02/victoria-stage-four-lockdown/
The only shops allowed to open here were supermarkets and chemists, and they had to have a ‘door bitch’ to manage numbers inside and the queue outside.
All work ceased unless you could do it from home.
Face masks were never mandated.
We didn’t have a curfew.
Once again Australia is over complicating things.
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