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 .
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Is that a generic coke with no sugar or is it the third generation original?

Tastes like the proper stuff.
Bottle doesn't say less sugar. Hopefully it's not just my mind tricking me that it's normal because the label doesn't say otherwise.

I have some of the 300ml glass bottles and they say less sugar.

Noticed when I was driving between CPT and Vredendal a few times last year and early this year that I found 500ml glass bottles with original sugar levels as well.
 
Tastes like the proper stuff.
Bottle doesn't say less sugar. Hopefully it's not just my mind tricking me that it's normal because the label doesn't say otherwise.

I have some of the 300ml glass bottles and they say less sugar.

Noticed when I was driving between CPT and Vredendal a few times last year and early this year that I found 500ml glass bottles with original sugar levels as well.
Yes they give us the crap here in Cape Town and the CBD keeps people from complaining out loud. I stopped drinking coke due to that. The thing they used as a sugar substitute made me sick as hell.
I'm happy now with a lekka cuppa Joko,no milk and the bag in till the last drop. Makes me feel my chest hairs again!:facepalm:
 
Tastes like the proper stuff.
Bottle doesn't say less sugar. Hopefully it's not just my mind tricking me that it's normal because the label doesn't say otherwise.

I have some of the 300ml glass bottles and they say less sugar.

Noticed when I was driving between CPT and Vredendal a few times last year and early this year that I found 500ml glass bottles with original sugar levels as well.
Further in the south coast we also found 1.25 glass bottles Original however we weren't there in a while.
 
Other thing is... There a massive storm warning out. So take care and be safe. Don't take chances please.
 
Reading into the gazette released today :

45 (1), which includes e-cigarettes, is listed as an offence which is subject to a fine or imprisonment.

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But the gum is still legal?
Or is that considered nicotine product?

I'm not even sure anymore. But I thought the gum was still being sold.

Also did some backward reading on previous gazettes- the Ecig being an offense subject to a fine or imprisonment has been there for a while now. It was item number 27 on the gazette at the end of April.

Didn't even realise that before.
 
I'm not even sure anymore. But I thought the gum was still being sold.

Also did some backward reading on previous gazettes- the Ecig being an offense subject to a fine or imprisonment has been there for a while now. It was item number 27 on the gazette at the end of April.

Didn't even realise that before.
Delete this post please they will say we knew.
 
Absolute joke.

Besides the fact that it took 4 months for our government to finally tell people to improve ventilation in enclosed spaces for a highly infectious disease that has an aerosol vector, they then in the same breath say we can cram as many people as we want in a tight space and drive around with them.
I think the only thing anyone can determine from our SARS-COV-2 response is that we have an excess of incompetent people fumbling about; idiotic schemes like "medical scooters", moronic incidents like telling the press we have space for a million graves...

P.S. Get eye protection, it can infect you through your eyes whether you have a mask or not.
 
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Reading into the gazette released today :

45 (1), which includes e-cigarettes, is listed as an offence which is subject to a fine or imprisonment.

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So am I right in understanding this to mean that government is officially telling the constitution to get stuffed, they will do as they please and put saliva on the constitutional rights of its citizens as and when they please?

Words elude me.

Regards
 
So am I right in understanding this to mean that government is officially telling the constitution to get stuffed, they will do as they please and put saliva on the constitutional rights of its citizens as and when they please?

Words elude me.

Regards

Constitution?

Unless its that ingredient @M.Adhir puts in his bunny chow that gives him a titanium sphincter that allows the chillies to pass through, I don't think you can find it in this country anymore.
 
"Dear Patient,
Thank you for making use of Ampath Laboratories. Should you wish to receive your COVID test results on your cellphone...."
Now we wait, cheers!
 
Is there another country around the world where alcohol has been banned because the population drinks and attempts to kill each other ?

SA is unique in so many ways.
 
Well after opening on Friday (with no guests booked of course) the resort we live at is effectively shut down all over again. Really getting tired of this lockdown.
 
Dis-Chem stops Covid-19 testing amid big backlog, ‘unanticipated’ spike in Gauteng
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/dis-chem-stops-coronavirus-covid19-testing-2020-7
10 July 2020

"Dis-Chem has decided to close its Covid-19 testing facilities “for the foreseeable future” as the company struggles with a backlog in getting test results from the testing labs.

“The unanticipated increase in infections across the country, particularly in Gauteng has put severe pressure on testing labs, which has impacted on the turnaround time for Dis-Chem’s test results,” a spokesperson said.

Gauteng has seen its infections more than triple in just two weeks.

“We are constantly following up with the various laboratories, but they are being forced to prioritise urgent hospital tests. The number of labs that can do the tests is limited and we are spreading our load across as many as possible. Another factor affecting the speed of testing and obtaining results is the reduced number of flights around the country, so transporting tests to the labs from outlying cities and other remote stations is delayed,” says Lizeth Kruger, Dis-Chem’s national clinic manager...

Kruger says the system was working well until a week ago, but the sudden surge in patient numbers has overwhelmed all facilities...

Dis-Chem will review the situation “on a regular basis”, and may reopen if it believes the various labs can cope with demand...

Dis-Chem, which was fined R1.2 million this week by the Competition Tribunal for hiking surgical face masks at the start of the pandemic, faced some criticism because the company charged its own employees for Covid-19 tests, if those turn out to be negative."
 
They charge their employees for a COVID test, if the results are negative? How bizarre!
 
Back in 1981 I spent 2 years in Bloemfontein and various parts in the far north of the country. (SADF)
Turns out a lot of my Afrikaans brothers went around barefoot. So some soutie came up with the joke that everyone north of the Du Toits Kloof mountains lived barefoot.
Guess it was a subtle dig at the less sophisticated, most of the English dudes came from Cape Town and it was a bit of a culture shock seeing how the north lived.

I walked barefoot most of my childhood. Even at school until end of St9 (Grade 11). Only in matric did I wear shoes as it was mandatory. Outside of school and church, you'd never see me with shoes on unless it was a public function where I had to dress nicely so other people can think good of me. I hated shoes and actually still do. At home, I'm still barefoot....lol. It's the "boertjie" in me that just won't quit.

In winter, of course, I had to wear shoes with long trousers or my mom would murder me. Had no choice.
 
Tomorrow is D-Day for the government to align lockdown regulations with constitutional court order, LFN vs Government.
Hopefully 15th July will see the vape shops open again.

Ryno de Beer part 2 vid from 11th July.
 
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