The day after Friday part 2

Thank god, it's not Friday. Fridays are now the day where miracles are expected. It's a day of last minute missives, and unexpected logistical tasks. Fridays are now the day to talk about departures. Yesterday was the last day for one of our staff members. Last night we had a Zoom room party with my team, which pleasingly lasted for two hours. The previous Friday was also a farewell. 

God save the United States of America. I don't say that lightly. In fact, my tendencies of late are to hope that idiosyncrasies of countries, their special character, might have some exceptionalism in it. Besides the obvious catastrophe of New York, which is not Wuhan, a certain degree of blitheness and haphazardness in the States has not seen a second, third or fourth epicentre of magnitude yet to materialise. Yet. 

Yet, there is an inevitability of it all. Infectious or not, Covid-19 does seem to take its time to get settled before it gets critical mass. But in exponential fashion, soon as this mass is achieved, it is a juggernaut that only complete lockdowns can arrest. Many states whose numbers have not fallen, just plateaued for a period, have run out of patience and are starting to open up again. Last Friday, they had the most reported daily new cases since the beginning - 38,958 new cases. Today might be a Saturday but they've already reported over 35,000 new cases in a 24 hour period. These are huge numbers, and proof the virus is everywhere. There is no way for contact tracing can work with this many cases. In fact, in the states, there is an almost an incredulity that anyone would do this fandangled contract tracing.

With our 3 new cases a day in New Zealand, we still aren't allowed to do much. Even in Level 2, our school will need to be able to know the details of everyone on our sites with times of entry and exit. 

I'll leave it at that. I'm glad we're beating this thing. Although she is a politician, I'll just state that for Brand New Zealand, Jacinda has a lot of value in her manner alone. Whether it was the mosque attack last year or this, separating the enormity of each case and focussing on the positivity of view, the rest of the world is enjoying this representation and leadership of New Zealand. I selfishly hope this holds our nation in good stead too after this.