Day 5 of Lockdown 2020

Eerie is not a powerful enough word to describe the situation that has developed since Day 1.

      With great gusto the police were sent off by the President and then he did the same to the SADF team.  This time in battledress!

       Since then reports of rough handling by members of the army has reached the press and videos have gone viral.  People who were not inside homes were instructed to leopard crawl and do push-ups, etc.

       The SASSA grants to the aged were paid out over two days and that exercise resulted in misunderstandings, travel woes and mayhem.

       Fortunately no cases of Covid 19 had been reported in our metro.  But the metro's Disaster management team is working around the clock...

       Edward Street has never been so quiet. ALGOA security is doing their normal patrols and now and then a pedestrian is seen on the cemetery side of Campbell Street.

       In Kyalami Yael is battling with teething and Ilan very excited about the Yuka that was "felled". 

   

     

First day of Lockdown 2020

27 March... 

It is war and the enemy is a killer.

    We know we have a medical army stationed in many parts of the world but we also know that it is almost impossible to see this invisible enemy: Covid 19.

    Here I am in my Dust Palace 16 hours into countrywide lockdown and the news, real and fake, come

streaming into my brain.

    I am one of the fortunate Senior Citizens,  or members of the vulnerable group (above 70),  that have lots of space, a garden, groceries, medicine, Internet /wifi, etc.

   Above all, I have children who really care and I have faith in my Creator.

   On day 1 of the lockdown, 2 deaths have been noted in the Western Cape and one tragic suicide of a SA woman in Kenia who was in quarantine.

     In Wellington NZ, Eon and Inge spent their first locked-in day as true South Africans with a braai.

    In Johannesburg my grandson learnt to crush eggshells for his gardening projects.