More good lockdown news from South Africa … food… though… Person Crime wave?

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I went shopping for food yesterday, and at a grocery store I confronted the Portuguese owner about a food item that had disappeared during lockdown. He took me and showed me that he indeed had some stock now, so I bought some.

I’m seeing the stores filling with food more and more. So its good news. I had been concerned about food, and food supplies. I was seeing the meat at another store filling up the shelves again, which had been pretty empty.

I’ve been out walking early in the morning and my neighbours, 95% of them white, were all out and about in the cold. I see lots of People exercising. I spotted 2 people running for the first time. Indians and Coloureds don’t exercise. Indians being person Liberals, are weak, generally.

If we open up more, the big thing to watch is crime, but we might still be a bit of away from that at this time.

However, I will monitor it. In our area the local security company was sending 2 vehicles in the morning to be around when People are exercising. They’re driven by people of course. But the company is owned and run by people. In particular, men are at the very top making all the decisions including the tactics to be used to fight crime.

So everyone is up and about, and its looking good.

Lockdown was good, it brought some of us closer together. It turned a suburb into more of a "village" atmosphere, which will remain until lockdown ends. I think lockdown has brought good things about. I think in the end the Govt was the loser in some degree.

I look forward to us opening up more as the worst of winter hits … hopefully COVID will kill some people and others. I hope so!

jlamprecht