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#2548644 24-Aug-2020 11:42

Having my dog sleep at/on my feet while working from home. There's just something so comforting about this.

Having time in the mornings to perfect my microwave porridge for breakfast :)

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#2549620 25-Aug-2020 18:09

Loteria Cuarentena, quarantine bingo. Looks like it may only be available en español, but it's pretty staightforward and the pictures on the cards tell you what each one is about.

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#2550228 26-Aug-2020 18:38

Covid 19 coronavirus: Mittens the cat tries to enter managed isolation.

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#2550233 26-Aug-2020 18:49

neb: Covid 19 coronavirus: Mittens the cat tries to enter managed isolation.

I'm not a cat person as such, but Mittens sounds pretty cool.

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#2550242 26-Aug-2020 19:03

concordnz: Silver plated would be better (better anti-microbal properties) & you can poke a vampire in the eye with it.....

Solid silver would be even better then I guess? I suppose I could get the design and print some out at work. Hate to think the cost with what silver has done recently tho.

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#2552548 30-Aug-2020 17:46

The disruptiveness. When we need Covid-19 to reach our climate targets in 2020 for the first time - what's the effort in the future with (hopefully) no pandemic 'supporting' this?

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#2552597 30-Aug-2020 19:47

Interesting data point in favour of masks, reported by Bloomberg:

Starbucks Cafe’s Covid Outbreak Spared Employees Who Wore Masks

Note the small sample size, thus "data point" not full-on data.

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#2563375 13-Sep-2020 22:45

Insightful response to the usual alt-right "we're being controlled by $insert_conspiracy_here" nutcases that a neighbour pointed out to me, it's floating around on various web pages in different forms:

I have been wearing a mask in stores (and limiting my trips) since March when this whole thing went down.

I’m not sure how being considerate to others for the common good is now being mocked by some who are calling it “living in fear”, but it needs to stop....

When I wear a mask over my nose and mouth in public and in the stores/Supermarkets/Pharmacies/Offices - I want you to know the following:

🔵 I'm educated enough to know that I could be asymptomatic and still give you the virus.

🔵 No, I don't "live in fear" of the virus; I just want to be part of the solution, not the problem.

🔵 I don't feel like the "government controls me". I feel like I'm an adult contributing to the security in our society and I want to teach others the same.

🔵 If we could all live with the consideration of others in mind, the whole world would be a much better place.

🔵 Wearing a mask doesn't make me weak, scared, stupid or even "controlled". It makes me caring and responsible.

🔵 When you think about your appearance, discomfort, or other people's opinion of you, imagine a loved one - a child, father, mother, grandparent, aunt, uncle or even a stranger - placed on a ventilator, alone without you or any family member allowed at their bedside.....Ask yourself if you could have helped them a little by wearing a mask.

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#2563623 14-Sep-2020 11:31

neb: Insightful response <snip>

This needs to be seen by a lot of people.

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#2563869 14-Sep-2020 17:21

Seen on eBay:

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#2564255 15-Sep-2020 10:50

SPAM here has dropped dramatically since the Pandemic began.

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#2565882 16-Sep-2020 13:04

https://youtu.be/u6bEaBeOVkg

At least something good is coming out of all this covidityness

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#2589889 21-Oct-2020 16:33

"Elderly couple, married for 60 years, reunited after 215 days apart" (video)

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#2620391 12-Dec-2020 09:17

"How New Zealand's film industry boomed during the pandemic"

Thanks to its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, the country is enjoying an unprecedented boom in film production, with directors seeking safe conditions, and that most elusive thing this year - a normal life.

International blockbusters including James Cameron's Avatar sequels, Amazon's Lord of the Rings series and Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog - starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst - all managed complex film shoots in New Zealand this year.

The country's home-grown movies have also received a boost at the box office by Kiwis supporting their industry, leading one local filmmaker to joke that they're now living in "the Hollywood of the Pacific".

"We're in this sweet spot," says Curtis Vowell, the director of a comedy, Baby Done, that was executive produced by Oscar-winning Jojo Rabbit director Taika Waititi.

"We're lucky that we're isolated from the rest of the world, and I feel we've got a government that's been super helpful to the film industry. We're in the Hollywood of the Pacific, and it's almost too easy to take for granted how lucky we are.

"All my film crew friends have unlimited work, there's thousands of Kiwis who are fully employed. International tourism is awful, and the airlines are really struggling, but the film industry in New Zealand is thriving, which goes against all predictions."

New Zealand, like so many other countries, did experience a lockdown in March - leading to what New Zealand Film Commission's CEO, Annabelle Sheehan, recalls as "a very challenging moment."

"We had about 47 local productions in various phases of filming and production, plus we had seven major international projects, employing more than 4,000 New Zealanders, and they all had to shut down," she explains.

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