1 MAY 2020 U3A MANAWATŪ NEWS QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER OF U3A MANAWATŪ WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS As at the time of going to print, we would like to welcome the following new members: Adriana van Ameslfort (Janneke), Chris Channing, Bob and Margot Greenway, Elizabeth Halford, Susan Lane, Jean Lloyd, John McCartin, Mourne Pearson, Kevin and Margot Petersen, Sally Reed IN THIS ISSUE . . . . . . . . . . . Coronavirus COVID-19 1 From the Chair 2 Upcoming Events 2 Archives 2 Around the Groups 3-4 Zoom 4 Surviving the pandemic... Coronavirus COVID-19 By the time you receive this newsleer we are likely to have moved from almost five weeks at Alert Level 4 to Level 3. We will still be self-isolating! It has been helpful to see, on a day-to-day basis, via the internet and other media, how we and other countries around the world are faring. To those members who usually receive printed newsletters: As this newsleer has had to be printed on a home printer we have made the decision to circulate it by email to all members with an email address. We apologize if this causes you any inconvenience. There were reports of people hoarding toilet rolls Our own government, led by Jacinda Ardern, has used the approach of “going hard and going early”. NZ’s goal, unlike that of some other countries, has been not to just flaen the curve of coronavirus cases, but to eliminate the virus altogether. We seem to be on track to achieve this. It helps that we are a relatively isolated country on the “periphery” of the world and have had time to prepare a strategy. New Zealand imposed a national lockdown much earlier in its outbreak than other countries did. Travellers from China were banned in early February, before New Zealand had registered a single case of the virus. And it closed its borders to all non-residents in mid-March, when it had only a handful of cases. Testing and contact tracing has been extensive. And we have been kept informed. What has this self-isolation meant for us at home in our “bubbles”? Among other things, we are walking around the neighbourhood, online shopping, reading, watching television, trying out new recipes, gardening and generally geing on to those projects we have been puing off! As you will see on Pages 3 and 4, some U3A groups have managed to keep going in some form or another. Throughout all this, we have been using phone and social media to keep in touch with family and friends. It will be interesting to see, when we finally emerge from all this, how the world has changed. Going hard and going early
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MAY 2020
U3A MANAWATŪ NEWS QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER OF U3A MANAWATŪ
WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS
As at the time of going to print,
we would like to welcome the
following new members: Adriana
van Ameslfort (Janneke), Chris
Channing, Bob and Margot
Greenway, Elizabeth Halford,
Susan Lane, Jean Lloyd, John
McCartin, Mourne Pearson, Kevin
and Margot Petersen, Sally Reed
IN THIS ISSUE . . . . . . . . . . . Coronavirus COVID-19 1
From the Chair 2 Upcoming Events 2
Archives 2 Around the Groups 3-4
Zoom 4
Surviving the pandemic...
Coronavirus COVID-19
By the time you receive this newsletter we are likely
to have moved from almost five weeks at Alert Level
4 to Level 3. We will still be self-isolating!
It has been helpful to see, on a day-to-day basis, via
the internet and other media, how we and other
countries around the world are faring.
To those members who usually receive printed newsletters:
As this newsletter has had to be printed on a home printer we have made the decision to circulate it by
email to all members with an email address. We apologize if this causes you any inconvenience.
There were reports of people hoarding toilet rolls
Our own government, led by Jacinda Ardern, has
used the approach of “going hard and going early”.
NZ’s goal, unlike that of some other countries, has
been not to just flatten the curve of coronavirus cases,
but to eliminate the virus altogether. We seem to be
on track to achieve this. It helps that we are a
relatively isolated country on the “periphery” of the
world and have had time to prepare a strategy.
New Zealand imposed a national lockdown much
earlier in its outbreak than other countries did.
Travellers from China were banned in early
February, before New Zealand had registered a
single case of the virus. And it closed its borders to all
non-residents in mid-March, when it had only a
handful of cases. Testing and contact tracing has been
extensive. And we have been kept informed.
What has this self-isolation meant for us at home in
our “bubbles”? Among other things, we are walking
around the neighbourhood, online shopping,
reading, watching television, trying out new recipes,
gardening and generally getting on to those projects
we have been putting off! As you will see on Pages 3
and 4, some U3A groups have managed to keep going
in some form or another. Throughout all this, we have
been using phone and social media to keep in touch
with family and friends.
It will be interesting to see, when we finally emerge