One year on from my last post on the same date and in two days, 365 days, one calendar year, my first ever post was published here at highonlifeandtravel.com . Whoop whoop.
New Zealand is trying to contain the covid-19 variant of Omicron, and had pretty much just got through Delta. On an international scale, it has been pretty unscathed compared to the US, France, Italy, Fiji among others. It's also highly vaccinated and immunized and the government wants as many people as possible to get their booster. A very different practical and mental living from most of 2021 (and most definitely 2020).
At the same time, a protest on the Parliament grounds in Wellington will have been there for a week tomorrow.
One media person who is generally present for the post-cabinet update has had a Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) return a positive result.
New Zealand will be going into phase two of the omicron covid strategy at 23 hours 59 on Tuesday the 15th, tomorrow. This is not a change in the covid protection framework which remains at red.
I predict the 15th February media covid release will have over 1 000 community cases. Not only is it covid, it is omicron. The only thing the general population can do is protect themselves as much as possible and the governments chase as hard as they can. There is no getting ahead of omicron, you just need to bring out as many big guns as you can to isolate and contain.
Even I have a problem typing "fight" because you're really trying to catch up with covid. 'Contain' is ok, I don't think the definition indicates time at all.
Kia kaha.
- A.M.
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