Here we are well into out first week of lockdown easing. The village busier. No school buses yet but more courier vans despite Amazon France being closed. The old folks home still in quarantine.
The old mayor explains to me that he has to stay on in his role until the second round of elections in June. The second round had originally been scheduled for late March but because of the pandemic they were delayed. The new mayor is champing at the bit to get started and implement changes. The old mayor, I think, is rather enjoying this extended tour of duty. He has planted six new rose bushes by the pike pond.
Sophie has got quite used to having us around 24/7. For a sheepdog having their flock around all the time is a very natural state of affairs. In a gap in the rain Sophie and her master head off along the valley floor. Sometimes she walks ahead. Other times she lags behind looking for whatever is making the grass along the stream bank rustle.
The maskless ones tend to be males in a 45-55 age group in track suits. Angus allows a full 4 metre gap between him and a man in front who isn't wearing a mask and who spends much of his time in the check out line inserting his fingers in his nose. The young ladies at the cash desk ( they are all young ladies at the cash desk) stand behind perspex screens but emerge to wave a bar scanner over the intended purchases. This seems illogical. We won't be going back anytime soon.
This is interesting : https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1260784481159442434.html
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The tweets about the flight to Hong Kong experience are indeed interesting. And make staying at home seem much the most attractive option for the moment.
Cheers, Gail (wondering whether to brave a trip to B&Q).
I'd avoid the shopping experience or at least be v careful. It seems some - many - folk don't get the concept of aerosol transmission. The trip to the hardware store here explains why some experts are so worried about a second wave during the autumn cold and flu season. Sophie of course is gloriously oblivious to human concerns and that alone makes her a wonderful companion at times like this
Amazon doesn't seem to be closed because my husband has ordered a bunch of stuff and had it delivered. Personally, I make every effort to avoid Amazon. There's always a way. Bezos is rich enough.
At the post office recently, there was a young guy, maybe 20-something, with a child old enough to know better (8 or 9) who was climbing on then jumping off the table set in front of the window to keep people from getting too close. The man, of the shaved head, baggy pants with chains, tattooed neck variety, was ranting, maskless, about how there was no virus, that if you're sick you have symptoms, and if you have no symptoms, you aren't sick, and the (all female) postal workers should stop being such wimps with masks and plexiglas and just trust their antibodies. When he left, the postal workers expressed how close they came to committing homicide.
Would not have been happy with that man in the Post Office. Found this useful and reassuring : https://twitter.com/firefoxx66/status/1260905963961438209
Stuff from Amazon warehouses in France is delayed - products preordered thru Amazon but from 3rd party sellers or from Amazons other branches is getting through as per usual. The unions ( perhaps worried about Bezos becoming a trillionaire ) are still claiming that the company hasn't done enough to ensure safe covid work practices.
We are not wearing masks here in NZ, with only about 2% of people I saw today in one. We are still social distancing, although the bus was a bit crowded on the way home today.
Hari OM
Now that am back in Dunoon for the month, I am acutely aware that during this time at least one grocery shopping trip is going to be required (over the home-delivery comfort afforded in Edinburgh). I keep checking my cupboards to see if I can survive on what's in my own store... YAM xx
Be the first at an empty Tesco's for opening time ?
NZ has done so so well.
That assumes Dunoon has a Tescos or at least a Willie Lows !
A few restrictions eased last night. Crowds of 10 allowed now....but Seinfeld-like angst as people decide who the 10 will be and who will be left out....LOL! Could hear raucous laughter this morning at 5 a.m. some group was still partying.
Hari OM
..nope... Co-op or Morrisons is our lot. It's a ferry ride and a drive to Greenock for anything more or larger. There is a wee corner shop a half-mile round walk away; but just haven't managed to push myself out the door to see if it is operational! Soon... soon... Yxx
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