Covid-19 lockdown again

 And we're back in lockdown again!

There was Covid-19 community transmission found in Auckland, and we immediately went into Alert Level 3 lockdown on Wednesday.  Makes sense.  As far as I can tell the response was fast, efficient, appropriate and reasonable.

Mulan's immediate response was to inform us that she's grumpy about it.  As homeschoolers, a big chunk of our life is spent outside the home, so lockdown means cancelling a lot of what we do in normal life.

But at least we weren't around during the Black Death, a world war, the Great Depression or one of the countless famines throughout history.  Lockdown, at least for most of us, is a pretty minor inconvenience in comparison to a lot of what people have had to face throughout history.

Zoom is back to being the norm.  This morning, Miya was upstairs on my computer having her Zoom clarinet lesson, while Mulan was downstairs in the dining area having her Zoom ballet lesson on the iPad, and Mama was in the schoolroom teaching her Zoom Chinese lessons on her computer.  I was pushed outside with the cats -- a lovely, warm blue-sky day.  I was chatting on my mobile with my Big Sis when our food delivery package arrived.

On Tuesday, just hours before hearing about the Covid-19 outbreak, we bought Mulan a new bike.  We had a family lockdown bike ride on Wednesday.  Mulan was just a speck way ahead in the distance, proving that she's now got the best bike in the family.