New Zealand went into covid panic mode about Omicron yesterday, exactly as I knew it would, because people have been found in the community with Omicron. It’s notable that they are vaccinated.
It’s going to be one hell of a rollercoaster ride for the next few weeks.
They are already talking about a ‘review’ on Wednesday, which means that a new bunch of strict rules will be announced.
They never even followed their own “Traffic Lt system” when they put the whole of the country into ‘Red” mode.
For the record, New Zealand has 8 cases in total in ICU (intensive care unit) as of yesterday.
The health system certainly isn’t overloaded, which is a perquisite for going into “red” mode.
Fortunately for me, I’m on holiday with the kids right now, so I’m not having to deal with hysterical people if I don’t want to.
The TV and radio is turned off, because there will be endless ad’s telling me how bad it all is.
So while everyone else was panicking and rushing off to buy toilet paper, we were relaxing at a beach with several other families with teenagers and had a BBQ.
We were a bit more organised this time with 3 kayaks, and a boat.
It was heartening to see some of the kids have a go at stuff that they were initially a bit hesitant about. One of the teens had a go at wake boarding for the first time.
Uncoffined 
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