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Day 6 - COVID!!

Day 6
Wednesday, 23 June
Temp 41° - looks decent so far
Outside time: 1:10pm (did 30mins today) - sun was even out!

Happy Hump Day y'all!

A COVID story
Big news in NZ this morning is contact tracing. a passenger from Sydney who came over for the weekend.  NZ and Australia have a travel bubble, which means people can travel between without quarantining. It has worked fairly well so far, and has really shown how you can reopen but respond when there are outbreaks.  It's kind of interesting how they are rapidly releasing exactly when and where the COVID person was.  Here in NZ, (most) people use a QR code to scan in and out of where they go.  Seems like this is a good example of how successful that can be when contact tracing.  The COVID process here really is a fluid thing, involving tracing, testing and quarantining close contacts etc. but it does show a possible way forward. We just have to get used to a new way of being.  Actually, it's not too dissimilar to what we were doing at school in that last semester - take all the prevention steps, respond when there is a potential case, contact trace and quarantine as appropriate. Meantime, everyone else carries on with life.  They did move Wellington to a Level 2 though, which means no gatherings of more than 100 people.

Things that work...
  • Netflix/Spotify - although Netflix does not have my American shows.  It is NZ based.
  • My Day 6 (extra!) nose stick event - as thrilling as ever!
  • Temperature taken at 9 each morning by fully ppe-d people - hat, gown, gloves, mask - the full monty!
  • Food - the food continues to be fantastic!
Things that don't work..
  • Hulu/Pandora - both are not available in NZ
  • American plugs in NZ sockets - remembered this while waiting at the airport...and thought about my NZ plug converters tucked safely in my checked baggage!
Today I wonder.
...what do people walking/driving past the hotel think of the inmates?
...is reading all day counted as productive?
...is 30 mins walking around in a rectangle equal to 30 mins walking in a straight line? (I was never very good at math!).

The Food Report!

Great brekky of course! Couple of things to add to the pantry.

This little truck spends all its day zipping from the supermarket to the hotel driveway, delivering very necessary lollies and stuff to the inmates.

I like this little graphic about wellbeing.  It has been on several of the daily wellness newsletters.


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