so, yesterday we passed day 8 of our lockdown.
being fortunate enough not live in a city, town or village, we really are living much as normal.
but here's the thing, by yesterday we were getting messages from friends who live in built up areas and are finding out how small their houses / flats are. exercising in the confines of one's house, or even yard if there is one, gets very limiting and trying after just a few days. we want to invite them to come and walk where we are, but, have the feeling that under our regulations which take the form of law this would be illegal. in johannesburg area it has been raining for three days and so restricting people even more from using what little spaces they may have (other than those now well planned ahead visits to the supermarket of course).
what others in other countries in Europe and other areas or our larger cities are doing to cope with this is just mind-bending, but hats off to you all since you're finding the ways and means to do it. i guess that its to do with the reason and aim of having to do it.
i listened to TinTin in America last night - how on earth can he go on just NOT getting it. seems like he thinks he and his republicans are dealing with the crisis there with huge success. though at a federal political level its clearly an ostrich head in the sand exercise. rather leave it to the governors of the states to deal with, and even in the 8 states where they are not doing that. i guess that means in true TinTin fashion, that means he can blame it on someone else in the end when a LOT of americans are killed by CoronaV.
So here, its being dealt with on a different level and regulatory solutions are apparently keeping the spread down with these figures as of today :
to contrast things with TinTin's way of things : the african union's health ministers met today (by phone one supposes) to review continental level responses and views on combating the virus. perhaps the continent has been lucky enough to have started to deal fully with the oncoming virus as week or so ago, and to prepare for its arrival three to four weeks ago, so that, we're not in the situation TinTin has allowed to happen.
in this coming week we begin to consider what to do if the lockdown has to be extended.......