Covid 19 : Day 2 of lock-down two: More of the same
Day two, and I still am marvelling at how peaceful the world outside my windows is.
Cleaned up the backyard a bit, pruned some apple trees, walked on the beach, put on a mask and bought some milk from the corner store.
Over the course of this pandemic, I’ve been following the movement known as anti-vaxxers.
Yesterday there were several anti lock-down protests outside police stations. Few more today.
I’ve been looking for ‘identifiers’ for this group.
Is it religion?
Did these people not finish high school?
Were they bitten by a scientist when they were children?
Is homeopathy their thing?
Or do they identify with right wing politics?
Why is it that they think differently about things that I feel are bloody obvious?
Afternoon update from the head honchos was pretty positive and I think the rest of the country will go to at least level three on Saturday.
New Zealand has pretty much used the same system for lock-downs for the past 18 months. Different regions have moved up and down through the levels during that time, and now there is a mask mandate that’s been added to the directives.
Because of that consistency, it's very difficult for people now to plead ignorance.
Absolutely nobody has asked me why I blogged last year, that I thought that the economy wasn’t going to have a cataclysmic failure during or after the lock-down. In fact, many businesses here turned a profit such as a major player in the NZ freight industry.
Much of it was due to the brevity of the lock-down.
But also the photo below is an example…
An order of seeds arrived in the letterbox today. It was dispatched yesterday.
I was ordering and receiving packages all through the pandemic last year. Meny local food businesses pivoted to home deliveries. Airlines pivoted to cargo flights, and shipping might have slowed, but it never completely stopped.
The internet stitched our society together with commerce, information distribution, and communication.
Pre internet, I imagine that if this pandemic had hit, we would all be grouped around the glow of our home cathode tube tv’s, conjuring imaginative horrors lurking out there in the empty streets.
I just read an article in the SMH that was a reprint from a British paper, the Daily Mail.
They reckon that Oz and NZ are becoming ‘hermit economies’. I disagree. Oz is potentially screwed for months to come (I stand by my March 2022 prediction for an Oz election) but both our economies are functioning and are still linked into the rest of the planet. Planes and ships still carry products in and out of the countries.
The main thing we are losing out on is ‘human capital’, and I think that a break with the rest of the planet's jet setters for a while might do us some good.
Cleaned up the backyard a bit, pruned some apple trees, walked on the beach, put on a mask and bought some milk from the corner store.
Over the course of this pandemic, I’ve been following the movement known as anti-vaxxers.
Yesterday there were several anti lock-down protests outside police stations. Few more today.
I’ve been looking for ‘identifiers’ for this group.
Is it religion?
Did these people not finish high school?
Were they bitten by a scientist when they were children?
Is homeopathy their thing?
Or do they identify with right wing politics?
Why is it that they think differently about things that I feel are bloody obvious?
Afternoon update from the head honchos was pretty positive and I think the rest of the country will go to at least level three on Saturday.
New Zealand has pretty much used the same system for lock-downs for the past 18 months. Different regions have moved up and down through the levels during that time, and now there is a mask mandate that’s been added to the directives.
Because of that consistency, it's very difficult for people now to plead ignorance.
Absolutely nobody has asked me why I blogged last year, that I thought that the economy wasn’t going to have a cataclysmic failure during or after the lock-down. In fact, many businesses here turned a profit such as a major player in the NZ freight industry.
Much of it was due to the brevity of the lock-down.
But also the photo below is an example…
An order of seeds arrived in the letterbox today. It was dispatched yesterday.
I was ordering and receiving packages all through the pandemic last year. Meny local food businesses pivoted to home deliveries. Airlines pivoted to cargo flights, and shipping might have slowed, but it never completely stopped.
The internet stitched our society together with commerce, information distribution, and communication.
Pre internet, I imagine that if this pandemic had hit, we would all be grouped around the glow of our home cathode tube tv’s, conjuring imaginative horrors lurking out there in the empty streets.
I just read an article in the SMH that was a reprint from a British paper, the Daily Mail.
They reckon that Oz and NZ are becoming ‘hermit economies’. I disagree. Oz is potentially screwed for months to come (I stand by my March 2022 prediction for an Oz election) but both our economies are functioning and are still linked into the rest of the planet. Planes and ships still carry products in and out of the countries.
The main thing we are losing out on is ‘human capital’, and I think that a break with the rest of the planet's jet setters for a while might do us some good.
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