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Spain under lock down

PeteEU said:
Corona diet is eating way less and healthier to make food supplies last longer. [emoji24]

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I knew that, I just couldn't resist making the joke.

Forgive me.;)
 
Chagos said:
Well, I'm vegetating along nicely and need no friggin' bus or taxi.:2razz:
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Like there are buses and taxis where you are...donkey taxi maybe [emoji23]

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Looks like the government Head is going to apply to Congress for another 15 day extension of the lockdown, taking us to end of April.

With, however, the paralysis on non-essential businesses (as imposed to last til April-09) not to continue.
 
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3 days of falling numbers, may they continue going down.

Down to chickpeas and lentils... sucks, so need to go shopping again.

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PeteEU said:
3 days of falling numbers, may they continue going down.

Down to chickpeas and lentils... sucks, so need to go shopping again.

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Shall I lend you my donkey for lugging chocolates?

I can guarantee that is it 100 pct more corona-free than a bus driver or a taxi driver is potentially.:2razz:
 
Chagos said:
With, however, the paralysis on non-essential businesses (as imposed to last til April-09) not to continue.
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That's interesting, is that official, or will the government base that on cases over the coming days?

What are classed as non-essential there?

I ask, as the UK seems very unsure to the point of confusion on what non-essential means.
 
Snazzy said:
That's interesting, is that official, or will the government base that on cases over the coming days?

What are classed as non-essential there?

I ask, as the UK seems very unsure to the point of confusion on what non-essential means.
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I actually share your inquisitiveness.

From what I got to see, "essential" was, is and will be stuff like electricity and water works, gas stations, food supply and, of course, doctors and medical staff.

Less essential were for instance builders that stuck to the protective measures. Those may be allowed to return to their tasks under same provisions.

Fat load of good this does for anyone whose car breaks down, garages being closed as from the beginning of the lockdown. Good thing I bought a brand new one not so long ago and the potential of being part of any pile-up is low on account of there not being much around to pile on to. Trees remain an opportunity though.:mrgreen:
 
Chagos said:
I actually share your inquisitiveness.

From what I got to see, "essential" was, is and will be stuff like electricity and water works, gas stations, food supply and, of course, doctors and medical staff.

Less essential were for instance builders that stuck to the protective measures. Those may be allowed to return to their tasks under same provisions.

Fat load of good this does for anyone whose car breaks down, garages being closed as from the beginning of the lockdown. Good thing I bought a brand new one not so long ago and the potential of being part of any pile-up is low on account of there not being much around to pile on to. Trees remain an opportunity though.:mrgreen:
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I came across this website (link attached below), which gives a list of essential businesses. It's dated the 3rd, so only a few days ago. I'm surprised the list is that long, also, car repairs are listed, so that's good news for anyone car reliant for work.

"The announcement by the government about the tightening of these lockdown measures has inevitably led to questions from the public as to what activity is said to be “essential” and what remains open. The services which are classed as essential are:"

anything medically or healthcare related, as well as pharmaceutical activities (including the production and selling of pharmaceuticals)
orthopaedic and optical services
transport of food and some goods (including home delivery services)
public transport (operating a reduced service)
services related to water, electricity and gas supplies
establishments selling food other products considered to be of primary necessity (supermarkets and similar)
newsagents, tobacconists, launderettes and dry cleaners’
vets and establishments selling food and essentials for animals
petrol stations and fuel distributors
telecommunications operators
insurance companies and banks
car repair services
shops selling or repairing technological and telecommunications equipment
ports and airports
the press, radio and television
security forces and law enforcement bodies

Coronavirus: as the Spanish government tightens lockdown to include all non-essential workers, what is still open in Spain? — idealista
 
Chagos said:
Shall I lend you my donkey for lugging chocolates?

I can guarantee that is it 100 pct more corona-free than a bus driver or a taxi driver is potentially.:2razz:
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Had to be done...

 
Snazzy said:
~ I ask, as the UK seems very unsure to the point of confusion on what non-essential means.
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Well, you're screwed if you break a tooth or your glasses at the moment unless you are a key worker...
 
Day "who the **** knows".. and shopping day nr 2 under Covid. Long line, but well well stocked.. Got minced beef so made a juice homemade burger with homemade fries... was so good that if I got the virus by going down to shop.. almost worth it.

Numbers are falling, but due to reporting lag from some regions, I expect the numbers to go up tomorrow Tuesday and the resume to fall on Wednesday. Hopefully an end in sight.
 
Spanish media reporting that death rates might be much higher. In one region there is a huge disparity between offical Covid deaths and deaths overall. We are talking about say 900 official Covid deaths and 1900 deaths overall. An investigation is on going and expect the official death numbers to possibly double.

This is also happening in Italy, where the official numbers are only deaths to Covid in hospitals and there have been many deaths at home which seem not to have been counted as Covid deaths.

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So my cell phone operator decides that net-coverage to my particular spot in "the campo" isn't of any particular concern to them any longer. This coincides with the banks here (and elsewhere in Europe) introducing an obligatory safety feature for online banking. That one consisting of entering not only my password and also the so far quite sufficient (and most secret) transaction number, but also a friggin' security code which they send..................yeah, you've guessed it...................per SMS to my friggin' and totally net-less cell phone.

So I buy (just before the lockdown) an additional cell-phone with a pre-paid card for a different provider whose coverage is fine here, all on the promise that a contract will be done in a jiffy, this allowing me to have my old phone number transferred so that the effing bank's SMS will finally reach me.

Then, bam, lockdown.

Result: can't make a contract until it's all over, Gawd knows when.

At the same time I get a message on the new one, telling me I have to top up the balance and can go to their website for that. Doing that I get a message that my bank has refused the transaction. So I get on my donkey for the second time this week and visit a tobacconist on the coast whom I can pay in cash for him to charge up the phone balance.

Yeah, an effing tobacconist and please nobody ask me WTH he has to do with telecommunications.

So I then go to my bank which is just next door to him to tell them to change their goddamn records to my new phone no., so that I may lose the feeling of living in the 4th world. So the buggers are closed giving absolutely no reason for being that in normal office hours (Holy Week doesn't start until tomorrow). But they point to the main branch being open, causing me to drive another 8 km there. So they're closed as well.

So, all things coming in three (the friggin' electric heater tank's thermostat having gone on the blink as well this morning, thus blessing me with a cold shower) the battery in my wrist watch has also had it.

So I carry on to a large supermarket's electronics department where I'm told that watches fall under jewellery and that one is closed on account of the virus. This from a bunch of idiots that still sell cell-phones TVs, fridges, washing machines........what have you.

So I get home and call the bank's helpline so as to get them to change the phone number they're going to send their effing security codes to. So the stupid bitch at the other end takes note and then tells me to enter the security code on my new phone that they've just sent to my old one.

I hang up and summon the last remnant of self-control so as not to kick the crap out of the cat.

Then I ring the plumber/electrician who turns up within half an hour. While he's busy exchanging thermostats, I pry open the bloody wrist watch and extract the button battery. Showing it to him as he leaves he says his friend has a load of those in his shop and while that is as closed as everything else, he'll get him to turn over some batteries anyway and will drop by with them tomorrow.


*to be continued*
 
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There's a point in all this beyond my obvious need to let off steam.

That point being that not only should people stay at home as much as possible, provisions should be in place that make that endeavor as easy as imaginable. That essential services remain available is a good idea, defining what they are in the manner described is about the most stupid arrangement I've seen in a long time.

Why the flying fig is a tobacconist deemed essential when smoking can only serve to exacerbate any infection anyone may get? Why indeed is smoking a friggin' essential at all? One can charge up one's pre-paid cell phone cards at any goddamn ATM which I'd have done anyway if the effing bank hadn't locked the room that's inside of.

WTH makes (usually blister-packed) batteries contagious, when the staff otherwise helps you (as I saw today) lug a 60 inch TV to your car?

Why are watches in the friggin' jewellery department?

And what the hell does a country organized along the lines of such insanity think it's doing, clamoring for the whole rest of the EU to socialize its borrowing IN ADVANCE by letting it partake of favorable interest rates (at the cost of everybody else) that it would have achieved all on its own, had it ever gotten itself organized out of the utter stupidity that I witnessed today ???? Because what I DID witness today is merely peanuts.

If anyone in ANY company that I've run over all the years had organized themselves in such an abysmal manner, I'd have fired him/her (let alone refuse to lend them anything). And I'd have horse-whipped them off the premises, to boot.

No bloody wonder they're overtaking Italy AND China on the infection scale.

Only ray of light today having been the plumber/electrician and he actually HAS asthma and really SHOULD stay away from the beaten track. But we both wore masks and stayed well clear of each other, while one of the brain-amputees in the electronics department had his mask hanging down around his neck.

THERE...........I feel better now. :mrgreen:
 
Snazzy said:
Not sure about this source, but it looks pretty legit.

Face masks coming your way guys, and as soon as they arrive, you'll be expected to wear them after the lockdown is relaxed a little.

I don't doubt the same measures will be introduced here too.

Obligatory use of face masks in Spain to combat coronavirus is delayed - Olive Press News Spain
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Gimme a friggin' break will ya?

These morons down here couldn't organize a piss-up in the middle of a functioning brewery. Which means they'll be delivering any masks they can get hold of (if they can) to the local zoo and any kennels on the way.
 
Chagos said:
Gimme a friggin' break will ya?

These morons down here couldn't organize a piss-up in the middle of a functioning brewery. Which means they'll be delivering any masks they can get hold of (if they can) to the local zoo and any kennels on the way.
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lol, the day has completely got the better of you - although I can fully empathise.

It all sounds very frustrating, I feel for you.

Time to put your feet up and have a large dose of your favourite poison - if you enjoy a tipple that is?

Tomorrow's a new day, although that's hard to imagine during lockdown.
 
Snazzy said:
lol, the day has completely got the better of you - although I can fully empathise.

It all sounds very frustrating, I feel for you.

Time to put your feet up and have a large dose of your favourite poison - if you enjoy a tipple that is?

Tomorrow's a new day, although that's hard to imagine during lockdown.
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The lockdown isn't really that much of a problem for me, what gets me is the institutionalized stupidity that it unveils.

Now I have a car and thus (driving alone) could stay well away from either infection or infecting others for most of the time. But imagine somebody less fortunate, living slap bang in the middle of a city here and being dependent on public transport. To go thru all of that.

I mean what better way to throw any concept of physical distancing straight out of the window by providing a totally unnecessary bag of obstacles as described, when going out to buy a simple battery ends up in that kind of odyssey?

Cat's meanwhile curled up on my lap, probably because I handcuffed my wrists behinds my back.:lol:
 
Chagos said:
So my cell phone operator decides that net-coverage to my particular spot in "the campo" isn't of any particular concern to them any longer. This coincides with the banks here (and elsewhere in Europe) introducing an obligatory safety feature for online banking. That one consisting of entering not only my password and also the so far quite sufficient (and most secret) transaction number, but also a friggin' security code which they send..................yeah, you've guessed it...................per SMS to my friggin' and totally net-less cell phone.
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Wow now... what carrier we talking about?

So I buy (just before the lockdown) an additional cell-phone with a pre-paid card for a different provider whose coverage is fine here, all on the promise that a contract will be done in a jiffy, this allowing me to have my old phone number transferred so that the effing bank's SMS will finally reach me.

Then, bam, lockdown.

Result: can't make a contract until it's all over, Gawd knows when.
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Well that was done by royal decree. It has to do with to do transfer of phone numbers, you need to sign a bunch of papers and that means... of course your situation was done before the lock down.. so..

At the same time I get a message on the new one, telling me I have to top up the balance and can go to their website for that. Doing that I get a message that my bank has refused the transaction. So I get on my donkey for the second time this week and visit a tobacconist on the coast whom I can pay in cash for him to charge up the phone balance.

Yeah, an effing tobacconist and please nobody ask me WTH he has to do with telecommunications.
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Err tobacconists are far more than ciggy and booze dispensers in Spain. Top up of various services and access to government stuff is done in these stores, especially in the remote areas. Just saying, there is logic behind that one.

So I then go to my bank which is just next door to him to tell them to change their goddamn records to my new phone no., so that I may lose the feeling of living in the 4th world. So the buggers are closed giving absolutely no reason for being that in normal office hours (Holy Week doesn't start until tomorrow). But they point to the main branch being open, causing me to drive another 8 km there. So they're closed as well.
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Thats strange. What bank?

So I carry on to a large supermarket's electronics department where I'm told that watches fall under jewellery and that one is closed on account of the virus. This from a bunch of idiots that still sell cell-phones TVs, fridges, washing machines........what have you.

So I get home and call the bank's helpline so as to get them to change the phone number they're going to send their effing security codes to. So the stupid bitch at the other end takes note and then tells me to enter the security code on my new phone that they've just sent to my old one.

I hang up and summon the last remnant of self-control so as not to kick the crap out of the cat.
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Must have been Carrefour? :)
 
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