how are people treating lockdowns over there nexus/zpyder?
over here (north east at least) people bitch about lock down non stop, lots of people refusing vaccines etc. too
we're supposed to have masks on in public places / shops etc. but a good 50% of people don't bother
I honestly couldn't care either way, lockdown and masks don't bother me at all, but I appreciate I'm lucky in that lockdown has no real influence on my life... I might think differently if it was screwing me over
Attitude was pretty good for the last two years but when covid got into Auckland they locked Auckland down (1/4 of the population) and for about 3 months. Everyone was getting tired of it by the end as they provide a lot of the economy elsewhere in the country.
NZ is about 90% vaccinated, and the other 10% is very vocal though, either because they think there's a massive conspiracy, or don't trust the vaccine, or just don't want stuff if it's forced on them. I was walking down the street the other day with a mask on with my son and a lady shouted "did I want an exemption?" I replied with an exasperated no, she said I should get one and I bit my tongue with what I wanted to say and just said I didn't need one.
With hindsight I think she would have gi en me a fake one if I said yes, and I wish I'd done more to try and catch her out to report her to the authorities.
Masks are required indoors or on transport here, most people comply without issue, but the ones that don't are messing things up. You can get exemptions but lots of people are doing them fraudulently (a few GPS have been caught out as anti Vax and issuing exemptions on request). As a result lots of shops don't accept exemptions (against the law due to discrimination) which means the people that lose out are the shops and people with valid exemptions that end up getting turned away due to the very selfish few that don't get it.
NZ really needs a major outbreak to occur so that these guys see first hand it's no joke. Unfortunately we've done that well here that they don't see the pandemic as an issue as they tend to not actually know anyone who have had it etc.
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