Monday, April 6, 2020

April 2

I find the directive that we are not allowed to take any exercise outside our homes or walk dogs a bit extreme.  When we people go for a run or a walk, they don't usually do it in large groups or stop to talk to others.  Ironically, there could be no better place for social distancing than Hillside dams as hardly anyone goes there during the week at the best of times.  

Instead, people are still allowed to go shopping.  At one shop that has closed its doors but provides an ordering service, there was a great clump of people all vying to get their orders first.  They may have arrived by car, they might have been on their own and they might have been wearing a mask, but they certainly weren't queueing and they definitely weren't a metre apart.

In the warning from the police that was forwarded to me, the public is warned that there will be roadblocks and at these roadblocks, our licence discs will be scanned so the police will be able to tell how many trips to town we are making and whether it breaks the lockdown rules or not.  Now, I simply cannot believe that ZRP has this kind of technology.  This is a country where every government department generates handwritten receipts for everything.  And when I say handwritten, I mean to say painstakingly handwritten for those receipts contain everything from full name and address to document numbers to date of issue and time of day.  To get car clearance to take your car out of the country, you take it to the drill hall where you fill in a form and come back in a couple of hours in which time the man in charge has supposedly looked through all his records, which are not kept on a computer, and checked if your car is stolen or not.  In reality, it is just a formality.  I don't think anyone has any idea at all whether your car has been stolen or not.


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