Yup my family have it now, we only know because we have a few tests left from the one free box we got, I didn’t want to waste them. Child got it from work, a huge place with no covid procedures now. It’s fine though, adult child had it mild like a cold, hubby and I slightly worse for a day or two. I’ve had worse flu but not in years.
It’s funny reading the posts on NZ. It is my home country. There is one main airport into the country. You can’t get large places landing in the capital city even, because the landing is short and there is the ocean on either side of it! We do not have 24 large airports!! NZ is in a *completely* different position to the UK. They’re not in any way comparable in terms of covid response. At all. Now they’re having a worse time with cost of living, my mum showed me an iceberg lettuce going for $10!! The housing crisis is worse too, their rate of homelessness was already worse than ours. They just don’t have enough money through taxes, there’s not enough people there. They really need a population increase to progress with their housing & health care issues- nothing is free really there, if you needed an ambulance because you had covid you or your family have to pay for it ( except in Wellington ). You just can’t compare Uk & NZ without factoring in a whole lot of complex issues and differences. Also NZers haven’t been living a ‘normal life’ at all! For 2 years they stopped their own people coming home- while they let in movie stars and their entourages. They asked health care professionals from other countries to come and help, promising their families could follow and then going back on that promise. So doctors and nurses going to help a massively under-resourced health care service were then kept from their families. Many left after a year. They didn’t even make exemptions for pregnant New Zealanders stuck outside of the country. I love my home but I think most really don’t have a clue what it’s actually like, especially for poorer and indigenous people. The UK has the kind of health, benefit and social support that would never be possible there with the current population.