Our PM came on TV yesterday evening.
The Paradise Prime Minister made this announcement on TV yesterday evening. Just when we thought that the going was tough enough with lock-down measures, home confinement and curfew, we have now a new added measure. All supermarkets, small shops and bakers are closed until March 31st. That is a bombshell, our food lifeline is gone, well, at least for one week.
We had not anticipate this and had dutifully respected confinement so now our food reserve is limited. We are looking at starting a self-rationing system for the week. Waiting for the next press conference by the authorities due before noon. Hoping that there will at least be some kind of system for relief of the most vulnerable of our society. We understand why these decisions are made in the fight to stop the spread of Covid-19 but it is tough on people.
Noon update: the authority press conference gave the following information: there are 48 positive Covid-19 cases in the country. The government is working on the organisation of distribution of necessities parcels for vulnerable families which are registered with social security. The government with the co-operation of the Chamber of Commerce and the Ministry of Commerce will organise a home delivery service of goods for the general population. Details to be published on websites later.
This latest information is reassuring because, with the lock-down and confinement, we did not know how we would be able to buy food and beverages. When this delivery system is in place, it will permit lock-down and confinement to continue and so give us the means to curb the spread of Covid-19.
Wow! Going in hard there. Our supermarkets are still open as at April 7th – with special “first option” days/times set aside for seniors and emergency workers. All the same, I am inching towards on-line ordering.
At least Mike, arrangements are now being made to make deliveries to those and yourselves in need. That is good.
Perhaps everybody in MU should have been told that in first place – when the complete lock-down was announced – to save unnecessary worrying.
In these very difficult times around the world, hopefully the sooner the better that things get back to some sort of normality, then perhaps we all can realise that this is by far not the first time that this has happened around the globe and where even just a century ago, another pandemic as ” Spanish flu, from 1918 to 1920 occurred.
It infected 500 million people around the world including people on remote Pacific islands and in the Arctic, and resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million people ” (Wikipedia refers). Will we ever learn ? Then there was no real air-travel etc…
Sounds like profits before common-sense with COVID-19…
All governments should have reacted much earlier and taken the obvious actions and given advice where necessary – which so often they have failed to do – quickly enough to slow-down or stop the spread…
Please take extreme care everybody and “STAY AT HOME”