Sunday
Today has been super quiet. Mike bought me breakfast in bed. We were in bed for the church service. The day has been cool and has just given way to drizzly rain. I made veggie soup for lunch. And that is pretty much it. The one important thing I did do today was swap out our cruise reservation. It was supposed to be next weekend – 4 nights over Easter from Friday afternoon to Tuesday morning – a cruise from Cape Town to Namibia and back. With MSC cruises all on hold, they sent a voucher to swap it out for a cruise early next year. I printed the voucher, filled it in and returned it. Now I’ll wait. With the lock down, I can imagine it will not be dealt with for some time.
The Corona virus stats came out quite late last night for South Africa. We had gone up by 80 from 1505 to 1585. Today’s haven’t been released yet.
Spain has overtaken Italy but that may only be until Italy’s stats for today are released.
This has been going round Facebook. I like it.
Just so I never forget….. April 4, 2020
-Petrol prices are R13.76
-School cancelled – yes, cancelled
-Tape on the floors at grocery stores and others to help distance shoppers (1m) from each other.
-Limited number of people inside stores, therefore, lineups outside the store doors.
-Non-essential stores and businesses mandated closed.
-Parks, trails, entire cities locked up.
-Entire sports seasons cancelled.
-Concerts, tours, festivals, entertainment events – cancelled.
-Weddings, family celebrations, holiday gatherings – cancelled.
-No masses, churches are closed.
-No funerals of 50 or more (invitations only)
-Don’t socialize with anyone outside of your home.
-Shortage of masks, gowns, gloves for our front-line workers.
-Shortage of ventilators for the critically ill.
-Panic buying sets in and we have no toilet paper, no disinfecting supplies, no paper towel no laundry soap, no hand sanitizer.
-Shelves are bare.
– Bottle stores are closed
-Manufacturers, distilleries and other businesses switch their lines to help make visors, masks, hand sanitizer and PPE.
-Government closes the border to all non-essential travel.
-Fines are established for breaking the rules.
-Stadiums and recreation facilities open up for the overflow of Covid-19 patients.
-Press conferences daily from the Presidential section lead by various ministers. Daily updates on new cases, recoveries, and deaths..
-Barely anyone on the roads.
-People wearing masks and gloves outside.
-Essential service workers are terrified to go to work.
-Medical field workers are afraid to go home to their families.
This is the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic, declared March 11th, 2020.
This too shall pass.
1 Corinthians 5:7
We live by faith, not by sight.
These are the days.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂
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