21-day nationwide lockdown announced for South Africa

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This is South Africa. People will be out and about on day 2 ignoring the lockdown.
 
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We're not in it yet.

From someone with experience at being always alone and without means to go anywhere, It's actually pretty cool to spend time doing what you love.

In my alone time I'm able to work.
Listen to awesome tunes on Spotify.
Watch some OVHD if there's anything cool.
Drink a lot of fluids.
Smoke alot, whenever I want to.
Smoke some fairyflowers.
Listen to a rolling storm. Thunder, lightning and rain.
See the mountains when I open my door.
Have an awesome view out my front door to nature.
I can always hear people around me. Good people.
All in all I'm pretty good at isolation.
The first week will be rough to adapt to. After that, keep the sunshine and dance a bit.
 
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bwana said:
It's a bit too late for common sense now.

I've got two great danes and they need way less exercise than my kids. Three weeks confinement is going to be detrimental to everyone here. Mentally and physically.
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I don't mind the isolation part too much. Fairly large house and garden. I have a home gym and home office, and I can work from home as my clients are in America. What is going to annoy the hell out of me is not having any domestic staff and all the distractions presented by the family being around constantly. All that crap with managing your own cutlery and crockery and wiping down commonly touched stuff like doorknobs and keys, as well as looking after the garden, laundry and general state of the house, now that is going to be a major time sink.

And listening to weeping friends and family who have been rekt by the downturn in the economy, that ain't fun either. It's just early days and the stuff going down in PE is insane. Local manufacturers have laid off hundreds of employees already due to enormous cut-backs by major retailers, and many don't think they can survive the current state of affairs. I'm hearing plenty of talk about owners moving depreciated equipment off-site and going into liquidation, and how they might be able to start something new from the ashes of this crisis. And especially doing so outside SA, as everyone is sick of how impossible manufacturing has become here. There are probably thousands of employees who are going to head home on Thursday with no idea that they won't have a job to return to in 21 days, in PE alone.
 
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IndigoIdentity said:
Many of our local shops are now offering a delivery service, the elderly that I know of are making use of this. Can see plenty of staff in SPAR picking orders etc.
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Good luck with that. Did an online order at WW today, earliest delivery 11 April.
 
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Business as usual, most companies says they are essential so they will work. Do not seem like a proper lockdown to me.
 
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Bryn said:
I don't mind the isolation part too much. Fairly large house and garden. I have a home gym and home office, and I can work from home as my clients are in America. What is going to annoy the hell out of me is not having any domestic staff and all the distractions presented by the family being around constantly. All that crap with managing your own cutlery and crockery and wiping down commonly touched stuff like doorknobs and keys, as well as looking after the garden, laundry and general state of the house, now that is going to be a major time sink.

And listening to weeping friends and family who have been rekt by the downturn in the economy, that ain't fun either. It's just early days and the stuff going down in PE is insane. Local manufacturers have laid off hundreds of employees already due to enormous cut-backs by major retailers, and many don't think they can survive the current state of affairs. I'm hearing plenty of talk about owners moving depreciated equipment off-site and going into liquidation, and how they might be able to start something new from the ashes of this crisis. And especially doing so outside SA, as everyone is sick of how impossible manufacturing has become here. There are probably thousands of employees who are going to head home on Thursday with no idea that they won't have a job to return to in 21 days, in PE alone.
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Would be cool if South Africa manufactured more products locally than what we import. There's a huge gap in the market there.
 
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If the taxi's say will be operating fully you can believe everyone will be going to work and back and or do whatever they please!
 
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