Im putting in a garden, properly this time. I had dug it up ( for the 3rd time ) & added the compost.
There were a bucket of wild potatoes grown from compost & maybe from before my time here.
Very wild & tasty taste, like when you cook them in a open fire wrapped in Ali foil.
That & a bag of carrots i bought have extended my food supply a fair bit, so a proper garden should make quite a difference.
Us guys in NZ are going from CoVid 4 lockdown, to grade 3 lockdown. Which means some takeaways are allowed to open, the 2 metre distance spacing (6 foot 6 inch imperial rule ) stays in effect.
We can buy from more businesses, but on a ordered basis with a 'no contact pickup'. Hardware & appliance shops & such. But not hairdressers i think.
We can visit people a bit more, but must keep aware of who we visit, like write it down. For tracking the spreads sake.
Can travel further and fish off a wharf, can work in most cases but still enforcing the 2 Metres ruling.
I have only been supermarket shopping twice in the last month so I'm not sure how stock is & if theres shortages.
I'm lucky ( well no, i earnt the $ & paid cash) to have my own home & not have to live with other people, so seclusion is quite easy, and actually preferred. Theres also plenty for me to do. I could quite easly manage another 2 or 3 months of lockdown.
Most corona cases here in NZ have been 'clusters' and started from one person comming from overseas, mostly China, or in contact with such, like 1 airline steward.
There is a Wedding cluster, a old folks home cluster & a livestock conference cluster + 2 others, accounting for 80%+.
Today we got a additional 9 cases & no deaths, so far the death % is like 1%, quite low, partly because we are so spread out, partly because of a relatively early lockdown.
Our easy to access healthcare will definitely help.
So most cases are known or are from a already known contact. So its not really likely to contract it from random people while out in public, but thats still possible.
In workplace situations, anybody from outside the workplace entering it is well documented on arrival & exit. As well as whos working where & with who.
From my 4 supermarket visits, i find the shop assistants are quite relaxed, but mindfull.
General publics a different matter, some defiantly blasé, some quite self protectant, some people are not that mindfull of instructions. Ie taking kids to a playground & letting them interact with other kids & using community use playing equipment. Thats not allowed.
And people 'out for a drive'. I dont see the problem if people stay in their bubble, but some people are keeping quite large & thin & porous bubbles.
Not that many people are wearing masks, funnyly enough mostly Asians so i think 1/2 of thats really just allergys. I had intended to wear one too, but just used a rubber glove & hat ( hair catches germs) when doing shopping.
Followed by a full 360° coverage of a spraybottle of alcohol in the carpark, of my items, bags & me, before getting into the car.
Then leaving everything in the sun for a while at home.
Im pretty sure i have picked up something, from 5 weeks ago. That went away after 3 weeks of me knowing its there. And then after 1 of the shopping trips i think i picked up something again, most likely a cold thats failed to develop. I'm quite sure which person, a kid who coughed.
The weathers got cold for autumn & its in that change that i seen to pick up a cold.
If i stay warm, don't exercise too much & stay clean, they go away. Or its 2 days in bed to get over the worst part of the cold & 4 days later its all gone. I hate being sick. Its not necessary at all.
Well, i hope things are going Ok with the rest of you & im sorta jealous of yous on the other end of the world with your soon to arrive summer. /m
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