Dr Liz Gordon: Mitigation and redemption
Keep yourselves safe and well and be kind.
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Keep yourselves safe and well and be kind.
April 13: Day 19 of living in lock-down…
The most important lessons from the first two weeks of lockdown:
Food supply is a matter of national security. Empty shelves in the supermarket are an unfamiliar sight in New Zealand, more reminiscent of 1980s Eastern Europe. We’ve had such relative privilege for so long, many of us forgot how dependent we were on contingent, international supply chains.
April 12: Day 18 of living in lock-down…
April 11: Day 17 of living in lock-down…
April 10: Day 16 of living in lock-down…
There are many lessons that we have learned so far from the global pandemic. An emerging lesson, one which Auntie Jacinda emphasises every day, is that our own actions, collectively, can make a difference.
April 9: Day 15 of living in lock-down…
WHY ARE THERE so many blokes out there behaving like idiots? (“Idiots” is the Prime Minister’s descriptor, most New Zealanders would, less charitably, call them “dicks”.)