Lockdown/Covid Check In
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I'm with @snowy on this lockdown. It's farking hard, I think everyone just fell over the line today at work. Feels like we're all working incredibly hard for less output; it's just inefficient. And then a sense of groundhog day.
Look after yourselves Ferners
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Take care of yourself @Snowy
As a business owner, I can't imagine the stress of this shit, constantly knowing that your business can be put on ice at any moment. Take care of yourself mate.
On this policy, I don't see how NZ can sustain this uncertainty, but fuck me if they aren't trying. Jesus.
Japan, by comparison is pretty good - we still have a SOE and remote work, but we can shop and even travel (we're not meant to, but we can). Even then, we just lost a person this week who quit - it's a fluffybunny to get in and out of the country and they want to be able to see their family whenever we have time off. As they are from the UK/Ireland, things are pretty much back to normal there so they are going home simply because the lifestyle will be so much easier than having the danger of Japan shutting things down again.
When I compare that to NZ, where I can't got home even if I wanted to (No MIQ spots, plus my wife doesn't have a visa) then I feel really fucked off and totally jealous of this person.
It's amazing that everyone is just getting on with it and NZ is still where it is.
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@taniwharugby said in Lockdown Check In:
@canefan the country was kicked in the nuts last month, and Auckland is still being kicked
Yeah you don't need to remind me!
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Had my second jab. Had an experienced nurse, barely sat down, quick chat, jab was quick and hurt more this time and off to observation after 2 minutes max. Once my son has his second my immediate family who are eligible will all be vaccinated.
When I heard there was a case in the Waikato I was like fuck! But it is far north Waikato, close to the border so hopefully they move border a little. Have a rugby team mate doing 14 days iso because he was at a Tauranga spot at the same time as the truckie.
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have to say, the current protests in Melbourne are hitting me a bit hard, kind of thought we'd come to an easy truce, we'll hang around in the shit lockdown for a bit longer and slowly open up
im fully expecting a bump in cases coming as well probably some people who were sitting on the fence re getting the shot galvanising one way or the other, long and short i cant see any good coming from it
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@snowy mate, sorry to hear that. It's 9 weeks so far, and still rolling.
Kia kaha - there's fuck all some random internet stranger can say, but keep going. Hope things go as well as they possibly can.
Also only a week to the All Blacks playing again, for some unimportant shit we put on a pedestal.
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@snowy said in Lockdown Check In:
This lockdown - 7 weeks or whatever it is, has cost me my marriage, possibly one business (if I decide to go there), my relationship with my father and one sister. I had 3 police show up in the middle of the night to see if I was alive last night. I just laughed. They were very nice, realised that I was sane and my now ex wife (and sister) were the loopy ones and left. God I feel for the cops at times.
I have one person on the planet that I want to talk to and she is half a world away and I can't reach her.
Lockdowns are fucking great.
I too, am a fern lurker now. Too much vitriol against fellow citizens when the real cause of a fucked up world broadcast messages behind a lectern, in a tv studio every second night. These unaccountable "leaders" and "experts" foment fear and hysteria with bank accounts and future prospects that remain unaffected - all the while treating decent people as though we are impressionable naive children.
I've broken my abstention to wish me old mate and sparring partner (with the John Cleese avatar) all the best piloting a life changing new course.
You've been around the globe, seen more than the average human and have the intelligence and fortitude to find satisfaction again, one step at a time. Draw on what you've achieved ( an incredible amount) and those that are proud to have you in their lives. You're a champ mate, your honesty on here for 20 years is testimony of that. Go strong mate.
Yesterday one of my favourite people in the cricket club, and the world, hanged himself. He leaves 2 teenage boys and all of us with questions that will never ever be answered. Yes, he was the LAST one we'd ever thought would get so low as to not be able to talk himself out of tying a knot and everything else that leads to desperate finality.
Finally, for God's sake everyone, stop blaming individual citizens, no matter how odious they are, for our current predicament. I'm probably not going to be able to attend my mate's funeral, and that's got nothing to do with an absent virus and totally due to inconsistent, illogical (and failing) policies purported to improve my life. Leadership and my well being my arse!
The cure is definitively worse than the disease.
All the while I watch people being destroyed in the name of decisions that apparently will make life liveable again.
Not you though Snowy, you won't be destroyed by this nonsense.
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Really sorry to hear how things have gone @Snowy. We've got your back bro, put yourself first and take care mate. Kia kaha.
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@siam said in Lockdown Check In:
I too, am a fern lurker now. Too much vitriol against fellow citizens when the real cause of a fucked up world broadcast messages behind a lectern, in a tv studio every second night. These unaccountable "leaders" and "experts" foment fear and hysteria with bank accounts and future prospects that remain unaffected - all the while treating decent people as though we are impressionable naive children.
I've noticed that I've been increasingly short, argumentative and combative about topics not even related to covid. Only the other day Mrs Antipodean started talking about how despite moving out of lockdown nothing has really changed and I had to tell her I didn't want to discuss it as it just made me angry and I didn't want to take it out on her.
I've broken my abstention to wish me old mate and sparring partner (with the John Cleese avatar) all the best piloting a life changing new course.
There is definitely light at the end of the tunnel. This too shall pass.
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@antipodean said in Lockdown Check In:
I've noticed that I've been increasingly short, argumentative and combative
so ... a halfback?
joking aside. I hear ya man. 9 Weeks sitting at my desk at home every day, with only occasional recent connection to humans outside my family is bloody soul destroying. This shit builds on the kids - no mates, little outside games or sports, it's no big deal for a while, but the longer it rolls, the bigger the effect.
Look afteryourself, and don't expect too much. I'm trying to just stay focussed on one day at a time.