@drewnogalsaid We’re not supposed to be driving any further than the local supermarket unless we are travelling to work of caring for someone. Driving to help maintain the good working order of a car engine is not a valid reason to travel.
Here in Indoland we can go wherever we want as long as it's not in large numbers. We returned home from Bali recently and having been checked we went into a two - week quarantine, now we're free to roam. In our local city, Manado, the government has installed stand - pipes and sinks (and hand - washing stuff) at regular intervals, there's a high police presence to try to ensure social distancing, and we had our temperatures taken in the bank when we went to draw out some cash! It seems to be working, only two deaths so far in our province. (North Sulawesi). Schools, churches and non - essential shops are closed, so the people from our village who aren't working have no income, which means no food, (no benefits system here) so everyone is planting vegetables and going back to their traditional ways, making cooking oil from coconuts and so on, and in the meantime we're buying sacks of rice to keep everyone fed. It'll all work out in the end.
Before the covid-19 even my neighbours were showing signs of untreated schizophrenia... excessive banging, loud and violent. But now they have been healed they don't say boo or blame those around them for what the traffics do.
I know a lady owns a small corner family store is making masks selling them for $8.00 a mask. She can't keep up with the demand for them. There is a white material liner in them and they are from 3 to 5 layers thick. I got two that are 5 layers thick. She had roughly about 200 if not more and sells them daily. I assume she is making a good profit on these masks that are in such high demand.
@indonesia-philsaid Here in Indoland we can go wherever we want as long as it's not in large numbers. We returned home from Bali recently and having been checked we went into a two - week quarantine, now we're free to roam. In our local city, Manado, the government has installed stand - pipes and sinks (and hand - washing stuff) at regular intervals, there's a high police presence to try ...[text shortened]... and in the meantime we're buying sacks of rice to keep everyone fed. It'll all work out in the end.
I'm sure the fisherman are still throwing their hooks into the coral, saw it firsthand in the Philippines.
@torunnsaid For sure - when I grew up I never saw poor people. We had enough - not much but enough. Those were good times in Sweden, people were grateful.
You were fortunate, I've seen many poor people, in fact was one of them myself. I know how lucky I am today from having experienced what it is like not to have what everyone else had and can appreciate it much better than those born with gold spoon in their mouth, so to speak.
@very-rustysaid You were fortunate, I've seen many poor people, in fact was one of them myself. I know how lucky I am today from having experienced what it is like not to have what everyone else had and can appreciate it much better than those born with gold spoon in their mouth, so to speak.
-VR
I know there were many poor people here but in other places, not where I lived, where there was social progress, most families had similar circumstances or slightly better. When I started school, it was a modern comprehensive school where the education was 9 years minimum. Living under poor conditions, you can't maintain that - the family needs money. We were fortunate, growing up in the 50-60's. There may be people my age with totally different memories, but to me those were good times.
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