{"id":791,"date":"2020-05-18T16:57:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T04:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=791"},"modified":"2020-05-19T09:05:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T21:05:09","slug":"on-mites-lice-and-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=791","title":{"rendered":"on mites, lice, and COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Kia Ora lovelies. What a time to be alive, eh? Lessons a-plenty<\/a>, as seen here in this bit of deliciousness showcasing the work of the awesome Bagshaws. (And Lyndon Puffin<\/a>, no less!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been putting my faith in Dr Bloomfield <\/a>and Ms Adern<\/a>, which was easy when we were on full on lockdown (I heart home) but it’s been a test today … sending kids back to school … YIKES. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of the reason for my trepidation is my first hand experience with what happens when one gets too lax, too fast, about controlling a vile outbreak. During lockdown, I had to sort lice from a child’s head and mites in my henhouse. Lemme tell you: you gotta keep your foot on the gas or outbreaks return without regard. Ya hear me, Ministry of Education? Did you SEE this proposed future, laid out by NZ Geographic<\/a>? We gotta be careful! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trusting you, Dr Bloomfield.<\/a> Trusting you … <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some more links now, some COVID resources from Bruce Perry & pals<\/a>, and this article from Reuters is about the need for green solutions <\/a>in the rebooting of economies. There is lots we can do as individuals, too … like these inspiring ideas from Retrosuburbia<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, here is a post from Sensible Screen Use which reminds us that all this online education is experimental<\/a>, this is an important portal to thinking about digital use and wellbeing at the mo, thanks be to the Center for Humane Tech<\/a>, because let’s not forget: too much tech isn’t great for kids<\/a>. It’s like the mites: they don’t care if there’s a pandemic on. It’s like the potential for damage to my dear wee liver because of excessive alcohol consumption … it still counts, pandemic or no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, here is an article from the NY Times<\/a> which explains how and why Zoom can feel so unsatisfactory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mean, thank you Zoom, you’ve been helpful, but y’ain’t face to face. You can’t help it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OH … by the way … today’s picture shows the latest issue of OHbaby!, which features an article I wrote. It’s about Growing Great Flatmates, and i hope you will enjoy it \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kia Ora lovelies. What a time to be alive, eh? Lessons a-plenty, as seen here in this bit of deliciousness showcasing the work of the awesome Bagshaws. (And Lyndon Puffin, no less!) I’ve been putting my faith in Dr Bloomfield … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,15,25,14,2,5,23,18,30,28,31,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}