This weekend I received an email from a good friend in NZ. Unlike the U.S, NZ spent the last two months preparing for what is happening now. For example, the schools spent a lot of time preparing teachers to be able to teach effectively on line.
Ed _______________________ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu <mailto:an...@cs.unm.edu> 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel <http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel> > On Mar 23, 2020, at 8:36 AM, Barry MacKichan <barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> > wrote: > > The case count in New Zealand is at least 100. The early cases were from > travelers who had been in Italy and Iran. Then the word went out that > citizens needed to come back to NZ, and some cases were among this > counter-diaspora. Then a group from a cruise ship went on a tour through Te > Papa, a national museum in Wellington and infected a number of others on the > tour. As of this weekend, they were at threat level 2 (I don’t know precisely > what that meant) and with clear community transmission, they upped it to > level 3 which means ‘You have two days to get ready for total lockdown’. > After two days, they will go to level 4 — total lockdown. The schools are > closed, university students have been sent home and classes are canceled for > four weeks. When they resume they will be online. > > —Barry > > On 21 Mar 2020, at 13:09, Steven A Smith wrote: > > How, by the way, is NZ doing with this themselves? I always think of > them as a sort of safe-haven being as relatively isolated as they are > yet with an anglophone first-world embedding. > > - Steve > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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