A wise move, Jellybean. :heart:
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A wise move, Jellybean. :heart:
Thanks Oliver2!
With regard to updating you on my experience arriving at Heathrow Airport, any other year I would have happily accommodated your request. But for the first time since I've been coming out to Thailand, I won't be arriving at Heathrow. I’ve moved out of London and will be arriving at a regional airport. It’ll be a new experience for me. I'm not anticipating huge queues at passport control and expect to be on my way home fairly quickly after clearing baggage reclaim.
It’s hard to believe I’ll be back at Jellybean Hall tomorrow afternoon. :(
Why, thank you françois! :)
They should fined people for panic buying toilet roll etc. Or better still, arrange a public flogging. We need something to bring all these stupid selfish bastards into line.
I went shopping on Wednesday morning, to one of those nice German supermarkets. The car park is usually almost empty at that time, but it was almost full.
I had no problem getting enough to eat, but certain items had run out.
I normally buy UHT milk and usually just put a box of 12 cartons in the trolley. Seeing they were a bit low, I showed some social responsibility and cut back to 5. I was only allowed to take 2 cartons, due to purchase restrictions. At this rate, I'm going to have to INCREASE my frequency of supermarket visits, when decreasing it would be preferable.
If you can buy hand sanitiser in Thailand, get some.
Ironically the safest country is probably China. Two weeks self isolation * not only for those coming into the country but even those travelling from a different city.
* Policed, and a bloody good talking to if you sneak out at midnight to buy biscuits cos you think no one is looking.
The result is that life is returning to normal with restaurants open and supermarket shelves groaning with goods and produce. People are even swimming in the lake such is the balmyness of the weather. Outside, mask wearing is becoming less common. Only mass gatherings are prohibited so nightclubs are still closed.
Here in Moscow everyone Russian tourist who came from abroad must to keep himself at home for 14 days. Few years ago city had installed cams with face recognizance in the lobby of each building with apartments for to fight with thefts . Now they use them also for to control self isolation: every tourist have to fill form with obligation to stay in home and fill address. Govt adds each of them into database and starts to monitor.
As per stories from tourists few of them went out for some reasons, in each case police took them from streets in 15 minutes. For first time penalty is unbelievably small ($10), for second $100, at third time person will be arrested and locked in hospital.
In general situation here is very relaxed. City has the same amount of ventilators for sick people as whole Italy has (5000+) and about 10 000 reanimation beds, all flights from abroad lands to one only terminal F of Sheremetievo airport instead of landing to all 4 Moscow airports and passengers are scanned for sickness. Since first case in January here are about 150 cases for now (253 in whole Russia). Situation with ventilators and reanimation beds in whole Russia is also good, counting only state hospitals 27.3 ventilators per every 100K persons (compare: USA 18.8, UK 12.9, Italy 8.3)
One of city's hospitals for people with infections:
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Good news Moses.
I'm sure Putin will handle this issue better than the Western governments.
Yesterday I watched on YouTube an excellent concert by the famous Russian pianist, and a few jazz musicians playing in an empty concert hall for the audience at home.
Yeah, and I remember yesterday watching an interview with a US nurse who was over joyed with the support from her fellow Americans who she found on Twitter and other social media, and decided to bring out their sewing machines to begin manufacturing medical masks because the US federal govt seems wholly imcompetent.
Good times...
are getting