Wellington... normalis. So to speak.

"Two people at the Novotel Auckland Airport MIQ facility have tested positive for Covid-19."

"The decision to extend the MIQ stay follows two positive Covid-19 cases found on day 12."

The above was in RNZ's live update for the 29th, before the 1 pm update with COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins and Director-General Ashley Bloomfield. Not good. Over 100 people have to have their quarantine period extended now.

As for the update, this is the first time I disagree with the New Zealand Government's decisions about the level alert and the Trans-Tasman travel bubble. I'm shocked and surprised, the level alert should stay at 2 for longer, I thought it would stay until a decision was made on Sunday 4th July whether to change it back to 1 at 11.59 pm that day. The travel bubble shouldn't be re-started at all on Sunday 4th July in principle.

I don't want to see New Zealand go 'backwards' like Taiwan and Viet Nam have, among others: their response was great and then they had large spikes this year to fight against. New Zealand can't handle covid-19 without a substantial negative impact. Anyway, I suppose I should stop 'complaining', because it's been decided and I have no power on governmental decisions.

Chris Hipkins is going to lose his voice if he keeps talking. The problem is, if he does, then he won't be able to do the updates if there's more on a regular basis (I'm not even including he has to use his voice in his other daily responsibilities) or will have to battle through such as not talk much at home and/or use Strepsils etc.

As usual, Chris Hipkins was humorous, whether intentionally or not, but it seems to be his personality: "victory laps" and stating the Director General of Health wanted one point to be reviewed/assessed and then said words along the lines of "well actually we could ask him now" and turned to Ashley Bloomfield.

I might be falling in love with Jason Walls too, note 14m - 17m05 at https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/445751/wellington-drops-to-alert-level-1-at-midnight-tasman-travel-pause-extended

I for one do not want to feel those emotions if within two weeks there is a covid-19 case because of the Australian traveller or the mine in Australia. It will be worse for the Government and harder for them to recover and gain back everything they had with the general population.

- A.M.