Lockdown diaries - COVID-19 matters!

What are you going to be doing during the lockdown?

  • At home. I’m non essential

    Votes: 70 41.2%
  • Working. The virus doesn’t scare me

    Votes: 41 24.1%
  • On standby

    Votes: 10 5.9%
  • Working from home. Too essential to take any risk!

    Votes: 66 38.8%

  • Total voters
    170
  • Poll closed .
From Fita's FB page https://www.facebook.com/Fita-1512331899070066/
22 May 2020

"... Our understanding is that the issue is now before the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) where it is being debated, however to date no definitive decision in as far as the sale or prohibition of the sale of cigarettes has been taken, with many on the NCCC also allegedly in support of the lifting of the ban on the sale of cigarettes.

In as far as our court application is concerned, as per the court order of 12 May 2020, government has a deadline of Tuesday 26 May 2020 to hand over to us the record of decision and the reasons, if any, for the promulgation of the current regulation 27 of the Level 4 regulations, after which time we will immediately supplement our court papers and have the matter heard soon thereafter. We have further been granted a special allocation by the Acting Deputy Judge President of the Pretoria High Court in this regard and we will advise shortly once the date for our matter to be heard is confirmed by the appointed Judge..."
 
To my surprise, Spar has started selling roast chickens again - apparently since Monday, although I discovered it today only.
I had thought that supermarkets were not allowed to sell cooked food, but apparently they may now do so - but not HOT cooked food e.g. I bought a pie this morning, which was cooked, but cold. They are not permitted to pop it into the microwave to warm it up.
WTF???
 
Yeah the power trip has to stop somewhere man.
This is past the border of borderline ridiculous now.
So if I bought let's say 20 cartons before lockdown started (I doomsday prepped), how was I to know u must keep the darn receipt for 2 more months.

'If you're smoking in your car, be prepared to prove where and when you got them: Cele'

https://www.timeslive.co.za/politic...ce-start-of-lockdown-cele/#Echobox=1590161461
 
To my surprise, Spar has started selling roast chickens again - apparently since Monday, although I discovered it today only.
I had thought that supermarkets were not allowed to sell cooked food, but apparently they may now do so - but not HOT cooked food e.g. I bought a pie this morning, which was cooked, but cold. They are not permitted to pop it into the microwave to warm it up.
WTF???

https://ewn.co.za/2020/05/22/dti-apologises-for-contradictory-confusing-covid-19-regulations

Saw that article earlier. Its very confusing. They might as well just go to level one with the amount of shops thats open.

My wife is a nursery teacher and to figure out when they are opening is a riddle by itself. Basic Education said level 3, Social Development say level 1. Meanwhile her salary is standing at 20% of what she earned. And by the sound of things there's a lot of Nursery schools locking at closing down permanently. Its a total mess.
 
Yeah the power trip has to stop somewhere man.
This is past the border of borderline ridiculous now.
So if I bought let's say 20 cartons before lockdown started (I doomsday prepped), how was I to know u must keep the darn receipt for 2 more months.

'If you're smoking in your car, be prepared to prove where and when you got them: Cele'

https://www.timeslive.co.za/politic...ce-start-of-lockdown-cele/#Echobox=1590161461

Let alone the bottle of nic I bought at Vapecon last year that I'm vaping off.
 
https://ewn.co.za/2020/05/22/dti-apologises-for-contradictory-confusing-covid-19-regulations

Saw that article earlier. Its very confusing. They might as well just go to level one with the amount of shops thats open.

My wife is a nursery teacher and to figure out when they are opening is a riddle by itself. Basic Education said level 3, Social Development say level 1. Meanwhile her salary is standing at 20% of what she earned. And by the sound of things there's a lot of Nursery schools locking at closing down permanently. Its a total mess.
My sister is a nursery school teacher in PTA as well. They fall under social development, not the School Board unfortunately. So my best guess would be Level 1 for them to reopen
 
My sister is a nursery school teacher in PTA as well. They fall under social development, not the School Board unfortunately. So my best guess would be Level 1 for them to reopen

Then more than half the nursery schools will not exist anymore.
 
Then more than half the nursery schools will not exist anymore.

At the rate things are going and the arse first approach leadership is taking, more than half of everything will not exist in the near future.

Hair salons
Mom and pop restaurants
Small liquor stores
Tobaconnists
Vape stores
Nursery schools
The list goes on

I'm sure more than 99% of the above cannot survive more than 6 months with no business turnover.
 
Yeah the power trip has to stop somewhere man.
This is past the border of borderline ridiculous now.
So if I bought let's say 20 cartons before lockdown started (I doomsday prepped), how was I to know u must keep the darn receipt for 2 more months.

'If you're smoking in your car, be prepared to prove where and when you got them: Cele'

https://www.timeslive.co.za/politic...ce-start-of-lockdown-cele/#Echobox=1590161461
Problem...what if you have a mod and you are vaping ,and you are caught ?
 
I offer lockdown haircuts @ R1750 excl. Travel.
R2500 scissors cut
R750 shave and R3500 a wash cut and dry.
Info@ blackmarket cuts .lockdown
 
The President said the country will come out of this pandemic with a totally different economic scene. I’m afraid it’s happening.
 
The President said the country will come out of this pandemic with a totally different economic scene. I’m afraid it’s happening.

That reminds me of an old joke:

Two boys talk to each other from opposite sides of the Berlin Wall.
Joseph, the boy on the east side asks: "What are you doing?"
Hans: "I'm eating a banana."
Joseph: "Oh, I don't have a banana."
Hans: "Well, what do you have?"
Joseph, takes a second: "I have communism."
Hans needs a moment to think before responding: "One day, I will have communism too!"
Joseph: "Sure, but then you won't have bananas."

I'm afraid it's coming at the speed of "TGV"
 
These tyrants are pushing it too far now moving the dates all the time, I've had enough. 15 million smokers is no small number. That corrupt rat "President" Dlamini-Zuma has until Tuesday to substantiate the tobacco ban in court, I hope there's riots if nothing comes of it. To think that vaping gets thrown in the same box as burnt tobacco and nicotine is potentially protective against covid-19.
https://skugal.org/news24-com-opini...offers-potential-protection-against-covid-19/
 
The irony is that the device you used to make that post was mostly invented by him.
Wow. That is a fallacy.

Bill Gates hardly created the PC, he stole and bought other companies code to start windows and he had big financial backing to do it.

On the other hand it is hard to educate yourself when google censors everything.
 
Is it legal to import nicotine in normal circumstances? Could a lockdown workaround be to find an international supplier willing to send a bottle of nicotine to SA through couriers? Couriers wouldn't go so far as to open and inspect the liquid contents of a single small bottle. Then mix at home with locally available DIY VG/PG/flavours.
 
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