Subj : Re: Quarantine Projects
To : VK3JED
From : MIKE POWELL
Date : Thu Apr 23 2020 04:07 pm
>And some businesses in the "prohibited" category are still trading, by ceasing
>only those activities that are prohibited. For example, many cafes have
>switched to offering take away coffee and food, which is allowed, but have
>stopped their sit in dining. Even pubs have taken to offering take away/home
>delivery of their meals, which is a new thing, because pubs are very much a sit
>in tradition for dining.
That is how they did restaurants and other shoppes here... if you can carry
on business by take-away or drive-up, and enforce distancing, you can stay
open. You can also do so if you can sell on the Internet.
That said, a lot of smaller shoppes had to close down because they were not
Internet ready and could not show there wares easily in the other manners
specified. Some folks are wondering why the big box stores (groceries,
home centers, etc.) are allowed to remain open while the "mom-and-pops" in
the same category are not. Having been in a large grocery as recently as
2-3 weeks ago, I can see their point... everyone is supposed to distance
but a lot of shoppers (and even workers) seen to refuse to do so, so the
store being larger is not really helping anything.
>We don't have that one here. However, the major supermarkets have taken it
>upon themselves to offer special trading hours for vulnerable people (those on
>a disability or aged pension, etc) and emergency service workers.
Our stores do that, too, but there were still too many people here taking
their whole families shopping during the other hours. When I was younger,
that was not a thing but, these days, shopping is a family outing. I can
understand it when you are a single parent and no one can watch the kids,
but it is usually at least two grown-ups and 2+ kids.
> MP> walking during my 15 minute workbreaks here at home vs. at the
> MP> office... it is not all flat here. :)
> Getting fit, are we? :D
I have lost some weight since not being at the office. I have more food
readily available here but also do not do as much "nervous eating" like I
would at the office.
