Ata mārie, did you get Rātū for Tuesday? Well done!
Today’s wellbeing tip is: Limit the amount of news you follow
Pick one source you trust (like the Ministry of Health’s website) and check it once per day. If you want to keep checking in with news coverage, take notice of how it makes you feel and set time limits or restrict your news sources to just one or two if you need to.
I had a chuckle over Alison Mau’s take on this:
“Sensibly, I have scaled that back, but I will find it hard to cope without the daily 1pm live cross to the Beehive auditorium. Dr Ash’s daily updates, aka The Ashley Bloomfield show, has become a kind of Covid-information-crack to so many of us. Dr Bloomfield himself has become a superstar; I’d be very surprised if there wasn’t a burgeoning inventory of Ashley fan-fic being created in the recesses of the internet right now.
Perhaps we can convince him to keep going with a weekly televised update even after the danger has passed? We could make it a regular social gathering, like ‘are you coming over to have a scone and watch Ash?’
Even once the coronavirus is but a distant memory he could, I don’t know, read out the medical dictionary or recite the periodic table and we’d be happy – no-one cares what it is you’ll say Ashley – just please don’t leave us.”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/120960579/alison-mau-if-you-think-halfway-is-bad-wait-till-we-get-to-day-20
John, your comment reminded me that on social media I had seen a Dr Ashley Bloomfield hand towel 🙂
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle/2020/04/hand-towel-emblazoned-with-dr-ashley-bloomfield-s-face-for-sale.html
I also see that someone is selling Dr Ashley Bloomfield tee shirts, and someone else has made a rap video about him.
Caroline A.