{"id":35605,"date":"2021-08-21T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/aug\/21\/in-new-zealand-it-has-been-easy-to-forget-covid-now-we-are-too-complacent"},"modified":"2021-08-21T05:00:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T20:00:47","slug":"in-new-zealand-it-has-been-easy-to-forget-covid-now-we-are-too-complacent-brian-ng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35605","title":{"rendered":"In New Zealand, it has been easy to forget Covid \u2013 now we are too complacent | Brian Ng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country has been lulled into a false sense of security but the only way we\u2019ll get through this is if we are constantly vigilant<\/p>\n<p>My Kiwi friends ask, somewhat jokingly, how I\u2019m finding my first New Zealand level 4. I answer, also somewhat jokingly, that I\u2019m a veteran at this, having lived in London and Dublin for most of the pandemic, and had gone through several hard lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why it was unfortunate, the day before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/17\/new-zealand-to-go-into-national-lockdown-over-one-covid-case\">New Zealand went into one<\/a>, it felt like Groundhog Day to me.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/aug\/21\/in-new-zealand-it-has-been-easy-to-forget-covid-now-we-are-too-complacent\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country has been lulled into a false sense of security but the only way we\u2019ll get through this is if we are constantly vigilantMy Kiwi friends ask, somewhat jokingly, how I\u2019m finding my first New Zealand level 4. I answer, also somewhat jokingly, t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35606,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35605\/revisions\/35606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}