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Today I sit here on the Kapiti Coast, 60 kilometres north of Wellington, in Aotearoa New Zealand. I’m in my lounge, surrounded by my study materials, listening to a presentation via Zoom, eight weeks after our initial Covid-19 lockdown began and I think of what this time has meant to me and my peers.

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  • Are we all here? How can we help? Those who had moved ahead left a trail of references, links, drafts and AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND SOCIAL WORK 32(2), 73–74

  • Note i In March 2020 the New Zealand Government announced four levels of alert for the Covid-19 pandemic

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Introduction

Today I sit here on the Kapiti Coast, 60 kilometres north of Wellington, in Aotearoa New Zealand. I’m in my lounge, surrounded by my study materials, listening to a presentation via Zoom, eight weeks after our initial Covid-19 lockdown began and I think of what this time has meant to me and my peers. Covid-19 was taking over our world, killing thousands of people, predominantly the elderly. We tried hard not to think about the possibility of it taking our whanau and we felt pride in our nation for implementing hard and fast, even extreme measures, to protect its citizens.

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