My phone is buzzing with all sorts of messages, mainly those of doom and gloom. Besides all the hundreds of WhatsApp messages, every single organisation, website and bank I am in the remotest contact with sends out their 'COVID-19' advice. What they are doing, what we should be doing: it's all the same stuff but I suppose for them they have ticked 'send email about virus to 4 million people' off their to-do list. I even have one from the Easter Bunny, something Sian signed up to when she was a lot younger, assuring her that he will still be delivering and that he is following all the correct advice and washing his hands. Perhaps there may be children out there who refuse to open their Easter eggs after calculating with a growing sense of horror how many homes the Easter Bunny may have been to before theirs.
Last night, the government, who are obviously struggling since they are all grounded and can't fly around the world, accessing foreign bank accounts and spending the country's money on themselves, declare that the US$ is now legal again for trading. Just a couple of weeks ago, they said that any teacher caught charging for extra lessons in US$ would be fined heavily. Now, it's all OK.
Tonight, they announce that on Monday there will be a 21 day lockdown. Everything will be shut except food shops and pharmacies and a few essential industries. We are now quite used to these last minute panic announcements, but what concerns me is why they suddenly decided to do it. Officially, their figures concerning people infected with the virus are quite low, but maybe they are much higher than they are letting people know.
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