ISOL Day 6

It's becoming the new normal I guess, and people are debating about how we an incorporate some of the new things we are learning into life on The Other Side. Walking with your family, families out on bikes and scooters, dedicated 'no device' days. I decided today that Facebook wouldn't get a viewing.

The world seems to be taking a breath - air-pollution is clearing, waters are running clearly, no traffic congestion. Could we incorporate this into our long term daily lives?

Trumpet is still dodging and deflecting questions regarding his competence which makes us here in NZ extreeeemly happy that Jacinda is at the helm. Cases are increasing, 54 more today, only 14 in hospital.

Police are becoming irritated by the number of people just ignoring the new parameters of our lives - songs like 'Don't stand so Close to Me' are on the radios. Sadly, it make not sink in with some people until someone close to them dies (metaphorically hopefully - metaphorically close to them, not behind them in the supermarket queue.

And speaking of, two trips to the supermarket today - my morning dash to Fresh Collective (no queue, nearly the first there as the door opened) and then another lunchtime dash to Farro, where they provide gloves and sanitiser, and pretty well stocked shelves. The lunchtime dash was for my aunt (i had wondered about her in the morning) as she was running out of food. What about those other older people who live alone and have no-one to shop for them? Think about that...

My parents are having their eating habits extended ('what do i do with the smoked salmon and the wraps?'). Seems like we will all emerge from this with new experiences under our caps.

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