Lockdown
As this is such a weird moment in history I thought I ought to record it in a blog post. It's been surreal, but also very quickly, normal - it's crazy how quickly humans can adapt to new situations. NZ went into lockdown on Mar 26 th . Lockdown. It sounds like something out of a computer game doesn't it. We heard about this crazy new virus in China around January time, but as with SARS and Bird Flu I figured it wasn’t anything to worry about –initial reports seemed like it was a bit like the normal flu, and China was really far away, and the previous virus's hadn’t really got out of hand. In early February time, more reports were coming of people outside of China having contracted it. My colleague Adele was meant to be heading off to Australia and Singapore for a holiday in March, and was religiously checking the daily infection count. I thought she was over reacting a little bit, but I like to underplay stuff, mostly I guess for my own sanity. We were plann