Lockdown/Covid Check In
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@dogmeat said in Lockdown Check In:
@nostrildamus yeah and likely to remain so as they've not had a case and are pretty much all vaccinated now - on Raro at least.
Personally I like Raro but I've been there three times previously. I simply can't get excited by the prospect of a 4th trip. Same has been true of the travel I've done within NZ since COVID. Nice but overly familiar so doesn't really do it. I want the excitement of new places and experiences. Sadly the sorts of places I want to go are the ones being hammered by COVID.
Which sort of puts my own small personal issues into perspective
I've been to Raro lots, I'll happily head there as soon as I'm able too. I do all the same things every time too. But it's stuff I like to do so is relaxing for me.
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@dogmeat said in Lockdown Check In:
@nostrildamus yeah and likely to remain so as they've not had a case and are pretty much all vaccinated now - on Raro at least.
Personally I like Raro but I've been there three times previously. I simply can't get excited by the prospect of a 4th trip. Same has been true of the travel I've done within NZ since COVID. Nice but overly familiar so doesn't really do it. I want the excitement of new places and experiences. Sadly the sorts of places I want to go are the ones being hammered by COVID.
Which sort of puts my own small personal issues into perspective
I'm not in NZ (at least for a couple of days) but I thought you could leave the country? Are there massive queues to get back in like Australia?
I ask as I have a travel exemption to work overseas from Australia in the Northern Hemisphere but the only economic way to return is via NZ and MIQ in NZ (if they let me). -
@nepia I'm not very good at switching off. Sitting on a pool or by the beach doesn't do it for me at all unfortunately. I need input. I'm one of those annoying types who is on the streets at 8:00 a.m. and don't get back to the hotel until midnight having walked 30 km's. My brain won't switch off and craves new experiences.
Other than that you have described my position in your post pretty well. COVID isn't the thing that's shitting me - it's the cherry on the top of a whole host of other issues.
@nostrildamus MIQ in NZ is booked out months in advance.
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As hard as things have been for us all since early last year, life as we know it is so different now it’s hard to remember what it once was. So many have had their lives turned upside down.
Does make you think of what people went through from 1939 - 1945 ( and beyond)
Surely we don’t have it as bad as they did.
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@dogmeat said in Lockdown Check In:
@nepia I'm not very good at switching off. Sitting on a pool or by the beach doesn't do it for me at all unfortunately. I need input. I'm one of those annoying types who is on the streets at 8:00 a.m. and don't get back to the hotel until midnight having walked 30 km's. My brain won't switch off and craves new experiences.
Other than that you have described my position in your post pretty well. COVID isn't the thing that's shitting me - it's the cherry on the top of a whole host of other issues.
@nostrildamus MIQ in NZ is booked out months in advance.
I guess with Raro I'm generally doing stuff as opposed to "just" sitting on the beach. Usually try and do focused stuff per day - go to mini putt, hike over the centre of the island, cycle round the island, do a tour. In between all that is snorkelling, swimming, eating and eating. Drink more than I normally do.
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@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
While I was cut off from the world the other week, and feeling very relaxed, I made a conscious decision
I am now all about letting shit go. I was wasting far too much energy being angry at shit that I had zero control over. No one was affected but me. So what's the point?
I'm barely looking at the news. And even if I did, it is just to read, I am not reacting. It's the other stuff that is harder, not getting upset by traffic, shit like that. And yelling at the kids less.
Covid is fucked. Governments are fucked. But they don't care about me so I don't care about them.
Embrace the peace bros
I've started to re-embrace a favourite short poem:
See the happy moron,
He doesn't give a damn.
I wish I was a moron.
My god, perhaps I am! -
@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
@bones said in Lockdown Check In:
@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
While I was cut off from the world the other week, and feeling very relaxed, I made a conscious decision
I am now all about letting shit go. I was wasting far too much energy being angry at shit that I had zero control over. No one was affected but me. So what's the point?
I'm barely looking at the news. And even if I did, it is just to read, I am not reacting. It's the other stuff that is harder, not getting upset by traffic, shit like that. And yelling at the kids less.
Covid is fucked. Governments are fucked. But they don't care about me so I don't care about them.
Embrace the peace bros
Just wait until ALB gets left out of the team to face Aus.
Would not give a shit
Yeah good one mate. Thumbs up.
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@nostrildamus said in Lockdown Check In:
Is the travel bubble with Cook Islands still open? Might make an ok holiday.
Damn you. Had to cancel our 8 night stay in Raro yesterday 😞
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@nostrildamus yeah, well, I'm going to Longleat in August. Boomfa.
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@bones said in Lockdown Check In:
Longleat
Would that be the Longleat house closed to visitors, or UK's no.1. safari?
The thought of unvaccinated freckly knees running about with badly treated vitamin deficient predators (those crazed porcupines) sounds like a dreamcation...
oh look, parrots on the front page!
Ferocious! Hide those crackers!
Once I got over that spinetinging adventure I might be able to gather myself to admire drugged up koalas or whacked out giraffes chewing cud..pherenomal! (Or is that feralnomenal).. -
@nostrildamus you really should look for something to chew other than cud. But hey the koalas would be good company when you're high.
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@dogmeat said in Lockdown Check In:
@nepia I'm not very good at switching off. Sitting on a pool or by the beach doesn't do it for me at all unfortunately.
Spot on, I'm the same. Once I realised that, I had much more fun holidays - filled with stuff to do!
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So I'm still OK, maybe a bit touchy, but fine - but I'm really starting to see this wear on the kids. This latest lockdown has them at each other (which is normal), but also questioning everything and feeling really anxious about their future. Obviously some of it is on us as parents as they parrot us, but much of it is real emotion coming out.
My 12yr old boy was in pieces tonight, worried about the impact of this on his generation. He is a really sensitive soul, thinks about his peers, the economy, about the effect on everyone. He isn't a particularly social kid, yet he misses the human interaction so much (for him it's band rehearsals and performing on stage). I finally managed to get him into bed by letting him listen to metal on his headphones until almost 10pm..
Then my 11yr old girl just came down because she can't sleep because she "can't stop thinking about death"...I know we can't sugarcoat life for our kids, and maybe they're "softer" than previous generations, but shit. Not fun to deal with that.
All clearly first world issues for me, but this stuff is really real for them, having no real benchmark. They will be OK in the end, but for now they are doing it hard. I can't imagine how tough it must be for so many others, but we shouldn't underestimate the impact on these kids of this path we have chosen .
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I am in Aruba right know on a dive trip. Travel is a little more complex. I got vaccinated early in the year, primarily because I foresaw complications with travel. The record of vaccination would have been sufficient to get me into Aruba but for me odd reason the vac number record by the state did not work so I had to get a test. Mild stress because it had to be within 3 days of travel and they said 1 to 2 days to get the result. Got the result the day before travel so all was good. Two of our buddies had to wait at the airport to get a rapid test and while they waited were able to Quarantine at the AirBB on the honesty system. Their test came back negative so we were good to go. Pretty much masks are non existent but with 15 to 20 mph winds and 85 degrees temps Covid is really not an issue. Had to get another quick test to get back into the States. $35 a pop so someone is making a buck. Negative again but that’s really a no brainer under the circumstances. For all the convenience it was good to get away.
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@broughie said in Lockdown Check In:
I am in Aruba right know on a dive trip
this motherfucker!! i am supposed to be in Sydney on a races weekend, hanging out with Gai Waterhouse, and i can't even leave the fucking State!!!!
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@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
@broughie said in Lockdown Check In:
I am in Aruba right know on a dive trip
this motherfucker!! i am supposed to be in Sydney on a races weekend, hanging out with Gai Waterhouse, and i can't even leave the fucking State!!!!
at least you can drive more than 10kms from your house and your bloody kids are at school!!!
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@voodoo said in Lockdown Check In:
@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
@broughie said in Lockdown Check In:
I am in Aruba right know on a dive trip
this motherfucker!! i am supposed to be in Sydney on a races weekend, hanging out with Gai Waterhouse, and i can't even leave the fucking State!!!!
at least you can drive more than 10kms from your house and your bloody kids are at school!!!
okay yes you are winning the misery olympics
but i really like the races. and a weekend away with the wife. soooo...
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@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
@voodoo said in Lockdown Check In:
@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
@broughie said in Lockdown Check In:
I am in Aruba right know on a dive trip
this motherfucker!! i am supposed to be in Sydney on a races weekend, hanging out with Gai Waterhouse, and i can't even leave the fucking State!!!!
at least you can drive more than 10kms from your house and your bloody kids are at school!!!
okay yes you are winning the misery olympics
but i really like the races. and a weekend away with the wife. soooo...
yeah, would have been an epic trip - fingers crossed for the Everest!