Jacinda announced dates and times when certain categories of people would be able to fly into NZ, "reconnecting New Zealand". So technically I can enter my home at some point this year. It remains to be seen if the dates change.
I think the ones I feel for most are the international students: they can in theory be in country for semester 2 and nothing more. I wonder how many will just fuck it and plan to be there for February 2023? It fits better if they're coming straight from school in the Southern Hemisphere to try in February 2023.
Current international students and future international students are and will be paying for many of the costs incurred by their University/Polytechnic/Institute etc. as a result of the covid-19 pandemic.
As for me, I will return, nothing will stop me, not even covid. I'll take my time, spend time with people, buy what I want/need, check off the unfinished business, enjoy everything New Zealand has ever given me.
Will it be 'changed' by covid? Maybe. But it's also late and so much less impacted than, say, Viet Nam, Spain, Argentina. I'll probably find it amusing and 'light' compared to my own experience and that of my contacts in some of the worst affected countries.
- A.M.
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