Can't speak to conditions in the NZ lockdowns, but during the strictest period of the Melbourne, Australia lockdowns there were only four reasons to leave your

Can't speak to conditions in the NZ lockdowns, but during the strictest period of the Melbourne, Australia lockdowns there were only four reasons to leave your home/property: essential shopping (one person, once a day), exercise (one hour a day), care (your own or loved one), work (for essential services). Groceries, as well as chemists and other specific industries were considered essential services that remained open. Lots of health and safety requirements put in place, including wearing masks, perspex screens between you and the cashier (or dividers at self-checkouts) to reduce droplet transmission. 1.5 meter minimum distance between people not from the same household. One person per four square meter density rules for indoor workplaces. The list goes on. Movement was also limited to five kilometers from your home without a good reason (common sense exceptions in cases where your closest grocer was further away for instance, but not so you could travel to the other side of the city to go for a nice bush walk) and you had to wear a mask whenever not in your own home. Elimination of community transmission was achieved during our (admittedly mild) winter. Not during our (admittedly mild) summer as a lot of people in other hemispheres seemed to assume. While our geography was advantageous, it also required a huge effort of societal and political will and cooperation to achieve. It relied on following the advice of our health experts and scientists in the face of large economic and political pressures. In Melbourne now we are enjoying reasonably normal conditions compared to B.C. (Before COVID) times. There's fairly little risk of community transmission. Most people are back at work and/or some combination of continued work from home. Schools are open. You still have to be carrying a mask when not at home, but only required to wear it in shopping centres and similar situations where there are large numbers of people indoors and similar. Plenty of hand sanitiser dispensers around. Aforementioned screens and dividers are still around. We had a snap five day "circuit breaker" lockdown recently after a cluster of infections occurred (escaped from quarantine) which was successful but unsettling, particularly for those who had a harder time of it last year. Not sure why I ended up doing such a details write up to your inquiry. I suspect it was cathartic.