Living alongside

Apparently that's the phrase people are using about Covid now. Living alongside Covid. Today WHO announced a record number of new world cases in a day: 307,930.

New Zealand had a cluster starting with four people a month ago. Now some scientists are saying it is more accurately described as an outbreak. We now have 96 active cases in NZ,  People coming in at the border are put in managed isolation for two weeks and tested on day 3 and day 12, and sent to quarantine if they're positive. The outbreak is in the community, where transmission is from person to person. 37 cases are in managed isolation and 57 are community cases. 

One of the places there was an outbreak was a Christian church in Auckland where much of the congregation didn't believe in Covid, didn't tell people where thy'd been, and wouldn't get tested. In the last few days a woman has tested positive went to a Les Mills gym and went to three classes while she was unknowingly infectious. There are anti-lockdown protests happening in Auckland in breach of a requirement of no gatherings of more than 10 people. Jami-Lee Ross, formerly of National who accused leader Simon Bridges of corruption and turns out to be a predatory creep  has started the Advance New Zealand party and spoke to the rally. 

The electioneering is in full swing, the election will be on October 17. Judith Collins is delighting in being cruel, her husband is on social media being awful about Jacinda Ardern. Collins brushes it off.