29 March 2020 – Lockdown Day 17

 Not sunny perhaps, but at least not raining

 

 

 

Saturday 28 March

Saturday is shopping day, or rather it is for Jan.  

                                

Only one person per car, and only one person in the shop at a time.   So Jan gets to do the weekly shopping.   I think she would rather not, but needs must.   It is exactly one week since she last went, so we have managed really well.

Apparently it was less busy than last week, and there was chicken available this week.   But no flour, so no more homemade cakes.   I guess everyone must be doing the same.

Although less busy, it took longer than last week.   Less in the queue to get into Masymas, but it was taking longer for each one to be allowed in.  And it soon became obvious why.   They are allowing less people in at one time, so there is more space.  But everyone is doing a very big shop, including Jan.  It would appear many are trying to restrict it to one shop a week.

The main bodega in Jalon is closed, but strangely not the smaller one near Masymas.   So Jan was able to get a 5 litre bottle of red wine.   We still have half of the previous one, but that would not last until next Saturday and our next planned weekly shop.

Today was warm and sunny, a lovely change after yesterday which was wet, cold and really miserable.   And what a difference it makes.   We could get out in the garden and do a bit of work, plus have lunch out on the naya.  And a very pleasant afternoon tea, which went on for a couple of hours.  

More of the same forecast for tomorrow and Monday, then more rain for the rest of next week.     

Sunday 29 March
Another sunny day, we could get quite a taste for this weather.

The news of the infection and casualty numbers in Spain just keeps getting worse day by day.

We are now into the third week of the lockdown.   It would be hard to see how it could be much stricter, especially for individual freedom.   We are only allowed out to do food shopping or visit a medic, no allowance at all to exercise.   So it is really hard to understand why the numbers keep on increasing.

The worst part is not seeing any end to it all.   I can’t see how we could get from where we are now to resuming our previous life style.   We have not been exposed to the virus, so when the restrictions are relaxed we will, presumably, be just as vulnerable to catching it as now. 

The only solution I can see would be to have an anti-Coronavirus jab, similar to the anti-flu jab.   But by all accounts that it at least 12 months away.   Does that mean another year of lockdown?

Probably better not to think about it too much.

At least the sun is shining today.   Tomorrow can look after itself.