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 .
vicTor said:
so what is your plan now, I had PG struggle but there's a work around with the max VG, but your issue is the other way around
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Most VG is palm or Coconut derived. There's also a soy derived VG and I need do some more homework on the latter. Untill then I will try and stick to MTL so the intake is less and I will also put in a request for a non palm/coconut derived VG, but it would have to be a certified batch. The last time I asked I just took it by word or thought it won't be that much of an issue.
Luckily it wasn't anaphylaxis bad and I could manage it via oral medication.
 
- Stay healthy and entertained during the national lockdown.
News 24 catch phrase -
''We are entertained with the antics and back paddling of the honorable members - I think Bosswell- Wilkie is looking for clowns at the moment.'' ARYANTO
 
...This is the bundle Game is selling for R250, targeting Covid-19 grant recipients [R350], and the best price we could find for each item elsewhere:

1 litre long-life milk: R12.99 from Checkers and Pick n Pay

2kg rice: R19.99 from Woolworths

1kg brown sugar: R18.49 from Checkers

2.5kg maize meal: R20.99 from Checkers

500g salt (iodated): R6.79 from Pick n Pay

750ml sunflower oil: R18.49 from Pick n Pay

4x70g instant noodles: R8 from Checkers (for 4x85g packs)

410g baked beans in tomato sauce: R4.99 from Shoprite

215g pilchards in tomato sauce: R13.99 from Checkers and Shoprite

52 teabags: R16.99 from Pick n Pay

250g Ricoffy drink: R29.99 from Shoprite

150g soap bar: R8.99 from Checkers and Pick n Pay

100ml toothpaste: R9.99 from Checkers

4 toilet rolls (1-ply): R19.96 from Checkers

The same basket, shopping the current specials and best prices across other stores, would come to R210.64.

If a grant recipient were in a position to spend the full remainder of the R350 grant only on food, that would buy roughly a 5kg pack of individually quick frozen (IQF) chicken, or one bunch of spinach for every second day.
 
Sarafina kan kom stryk.
Domestic workers can return to work on Monday
Staff Writer28 May 2020


Speaking at a media briefing on COVID-19 alert level 3 regulations, Trade and Industry Minister Ebrahim Patel has stated that domestic workers will be able to return to work under the relaxed restrictions.

However, the condition of these workers returning will be dependent on their compliance with health protocols such as the wearing of masks.

“Domestic workers are able to return to work, subject of course to the health protocols being followed,” Patel said.

He added that more information may be provided regarding the return to work of domestic workers going forward.
 
ARYANTO said:
Sarafina kan kom stryk.
Domestic workers can return to work on Monday
Staff Writer28 May 2020


Speaking at a media briefing on COVID-19 alert level 3 regulations, Trade and Industry Minister Ebrahim Patel has stated that domestic workers will be able to return to work under the relaxed restrictions.

However, the condition of these workers returning will be dependent on their compliance with health protocols such as the wearing of masks.

“Domestic workers are able to return to work, subject of course to the health protocols being followed,” Patel said.

He added that more information may be provided regarding the return to work of domestic workers going forward.
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Good news in a way. Hopefully everyone just tries to maintain protocols and keeps safe.
My domestic only works for us on a Saturday. We have been making a plan and paying her double the weekly amount she would normally get, every week through lockdown.
Last week she told me we have been the only people paying her since lockdown started.
 
I'm just waiting to know which bars and bottle stores used to stock vape juice..
Seeing that bars and bottle stores can now trade again and do deliveries and all....
 
May 28 2020 - 15:21

TimesLIVE / Zingisa Mvumvu
Allow cigarettes to be sold but ban alcohol, says Julius Malema
EFF leader Julius Malema on Thursday accused the ANC government of making an irrational decision by lifting the ban on alcohol when the country entered level 3 of the national lockdown on June 1.

Malema would rather the ban imposed on the sale of cigarettes be lifted and the ban on alcohol continue.

But the EFF leader contradicted himself on tobacco as he backs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
 
DAY 63 08:20
Latest stats
up 1466 to27403 ,deaths 577
Waited for stats last night till 11pm but no updates . There's no plans for today .I need to mix up some juice , feel like a @Paul33 ry4 and def. some strawberry milkshake , mine ran out a while ago and too laid back to do a batch . - will keep you posted .
 
The big boys finally enter the fray:

https://www.fin24.com/Economy/break...gent-court-bid-to-undo-cigarette-ban-20200529



Also minks gave the virus back to humans, first case of human-animal-human transmission now is when the true danger starts (for me at least), new infection vectors, new possibilities for recombination.

For anyone who feels like they want to learn more about viruses in general this link HIV GENOME is a good diving board, it shows how these things can wait for decades to roll that just right perfect mutation that allows it to jump species, and then how changes in our societal behavior help it move and succeed. There is this maths that's inherently woven in to all biology on this planet.
 
Feliks Karp said:
Also minks gave the virus back to humans, first case of human-animal-human transmission now is when the true danger starts (for me at least), new infection vectors, new possibilities for recombination.
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I still favour the BSL4 at Wuhan as being the origin.

A forthcoming Australian scientific study concludes that the coronavirus causing the global pandemic contains unique properties suggesting it was manipulated in a Chinese laboratory and was not the result of a natural occurrence.

The scientists said there is no sign so far that the virus can be found in other animals, including bats or the exotic wildlife sold for fresh meat at a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the virus was first identified and where China maintains a major laboratory studying such viruses.

“This, plus the fact that no corresponding virus has been found to exist in nature, leads to the possibility that COVID-19 is a human-created virus,” said Mr. Petrovsky, a professor at the College of Medicine and Public Health at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia.
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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/21/australian-researchers-see-virus-design-manipulati/
 
blujeenz said:
I still favour the BSL4 at Wuhan as being the origin.




https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/21/australian-researchers-see-virus-design-manipulati/
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Hehehehe I'm not arguing against that theory, without a spill over animal it's seeming more and more likely anyways.
It's called forced gain of function and it's common in research, what they do is force the virus in to mutating than cultivating that strain in order to see what it can do. This virus seems to have VERY well adapted binding to human ACE-2 receptors, which means one of the two things (which that researcher also states), it was circulating for a long time until a good adaptation got rolled, OR it was gain of function developed in a lab and crappy safety protocols let it out. My link was merely meant as an educational starting point for anyone interested in viruses in general (I still get people thinking they are alive and can think etc), and how they interact with us on a time line.
 
Feliks Karp said:
Hehehehe I'm not arguing against that theory, without a spill over animal it's seeming more and more likely anyways.
It's called forced gain of function and it's common in research, what they do is force the virus in to mutating than cultivating that strain in order to see what it can do. This virus seems to have VERY well adapted binding to human ACE-2 receptors, which means one of the two things (which that researcher also states), it was circulating for a long time until a good adaptation got rolled, OR it was gain of function developed in a lab and crappy safety protocols let it out. My link was merely meant as an educational starting point for anyone interested in viruses in general (I still get people thinking they are alive and can think etc), and how they interact with us on a time line.
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I hear you.
Dr Shi Zeng-li published a paper back in 2015 when she was still studying at UNC Chapel Hill BSL3, about how she helped create the "gain of function", if memory serves it was a chimera of MERS and HIV with the original SARS.
Incidentally, she also directed the upgrade of the Wuhan lab from BSL3 to BSL4.
http://stateofthenation.co/?p=8712

One of my posts last month on this topic.
https://www.ecigssa.co.za/first-corona-virus-case-confirmed-in-sa.t65532/page-21#post-840648
 
The good Dr has been studying bat viruses for over 15 years.

No doubt in my mind that the origin of the virus is the Wuhan virology centre.

IT GOT OUT, OOPS SORRY MY BAD is what it should be, what it is, is deny deny deny and bullshit bullshit bullshit.

If there is a conspiracy theory to consider it is this.

Man likes to play GOD but is not in the same league, arrogance, narcissism and ego centrism are diseases of the mind.
 
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