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#TousEnTerrasse or "everyone on terraces" was the French motto on Wednesday as cafés and restaurants reopened their outdoor spaces for the first time in almost seven months, to the delight of coffee-drinkers and bistro-goers. "Happiness!" tweeted Murielle Pinard, a financial analyst in Meudon, as she sat for her first non-home cooked meal in months with a friend. The French government has opted for a cautious, step-by-step reopening to avoid a resurgence of COVID-19 while giving the country back some of its signature "joie de vivre." As part of the plan's first stage, the 7 pm nightly curfew...

Survival of the fittest: More people retraining and upskilling post-lockdown 2 May, 2021 01:00 AM 4 minutes to read Tertiary enrolments are on the rise post lockdown. Photo / Getty Images Jimi Hunt graduated with a bachelor of management studies earlier this month - and it only took him 20 years to get there. Hunt used to travel the world as an ambassador and public speaker for mental health and wellbeing but border closures put a stop to that. He has lived most of his life in Mexico and before the lockdown he used to split his time between there and Tauranga for work and s...

Agoraphobic artist turning life around post-lockdown with charcoal talent 25 Apr, 2021 01:03 AM 5 minutes to read Many incredible things have come out of lockdown for artist Dylan Keys. At age 39, he's already been through alcoholism, suffered anxiety and chronic fatigue - throughout it all, using art as therapy because creativity "made sense" to his brain. "Then in the lockdown I saw something I wanted to draw, and gave it a go with charcoal." Dylan's charcoal drawings are so realistic that he's had to post videos on his social media channels to prove to followers that he's not posting photo...

As a society, we have to choose between liberty, equality and mortality. We can't have all three.

Many of us are looking forward to a summer of relative freedom, with road-mapped milestones that will grant us more opportunities to see our friends and family. But we’ll be carrying the effects of months of isolation into those meetings, including a sense that our social skills will need dusting off, and our wits will need sharpening. The mental effects of lockdown have been profound. Social isolation has been shown to cause people’s mental health to deteriorate even if they have no history of previous psychological problems. Alongside this drop in mood, loneliness has been linked with a...