Here’s a wonderful article which was in the Spinoff from a New Zealander studying there. It was fashionable, for a time, for some people who were baulking against our lock down to say “why aren’t we like Sweden”? Well here is a graph which shows why: New Zealand is the Blue. Sweden is … [Read more...]
Somebody so brave who is in bubble of one
I do tire of people who say that we have overreacted as a Country. Here is a diary of a brave woman who has written about how the lock-down has affected her mental and physical health. https://publicaddress.net/access/bubble-of-one/ The fact that she has written this is an amazing demonstration of … [Read more...]
Garry’s readings this week:
Becky Manawatu I love Becky Manawatu’s writing and this article about her work is great - A personal essay by novelist and Westport journalist Becky Manawatu. https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2020/04/20/1135640/the-curious-case-of-a-fictional-spa-in-westport From the Guardian: In an … [Read more...]
Garry Writes 21 April 2020
As the Government considers when NZ will move from Level 4 to Level 3, I have been thinking about what we should be planning personally as our new world emerges. Here’s how the Economist reported that European countries are intending emerging from Level 4 today: We will need to ensure that … [Read more...]
Rod Drury
This man is a serial entrepreneur. His latest project has been Xero the accounting system which has revolutionised accounting. He wrote these comments in an article this week in Newsroom: Covid-19 has shown us that we can’t take life or our economic system for granted. We must use the opportunity … [Read more...]
Slave Labour
I visited Italy at the end of last year. What a wonderful place. I really like the Italian’s approach to the Catholic Church. They are baptised, married and buried in the Church. The rest of the time the least they have to do with the Church the better. The town we stayed in was 2300 years old. The … [Read more...]
Greenpeace petition:
This came into my email this week from Greenpeace: I’ve just signed a petition calling on the NZ Govt to adopt The Green Covid Response, a green economic stimulus response to the Covid-19 crisis. The government is poised to inject billions into the economy to smooth the impact of the … [Read more...]
Addressing the virus, an article by Bill Gates:
This was an interesting article in the Washington Post written by Bill Gates, who has had considerable experience with pandemics through the Gates Foundation. If you look at his list of three actions to take NZ has really got two correct and the third is beyond a small country like NZ. Or is it? … [Read more...]
We even made it onto the front page of the Washington Post this week:
We beat ourselves up for all sorts of things but the leadership in this country, both political and bureaucratic, has been world class. This week it was recognised written about and printed on the front page of the Washington Post. Here’s the article: … [Read more...]
A nice reflection on Christchurch:
I have been taking photos of our new normal. Empty streets and lines outside the supermarket. People saying hello as we maintain our distance. I really liked this David Williams article about our City - Photo Essay on the Lockdown Rush … [Read more...]
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