04-04-2020, 08:48 AM
We're into day 10 of our lockdown now, in my area at least there's folk getting sick of staying home and not being able to get out to do much, to make it worse it's saturday which usually means getting out and blowing off some steam somewhere after a hard weeks work, under our lockdown rules we're only allowed out to get shopping or go to the chemists for any essential medications or to see the doctor, the only exceptions are the essential services.. We are allowed to go out for a walk for a half hour or so as long as we stay within our neighbourhood and don't drive somewhere miles from home for a walk..
I rather suspect that if we remain on level 4 to long there may be fuel rationing brought in so folk can't travel to far for excersise or anything else but essentials like groceries and medications or doctors visits, unfortunately us kiwis love our independence, whether it be for fishi, we love travelling too, even if only to visit out of town family for the weekend.. It'd be nice to think level 4 will only last another week or so, but sadly I feel it will last a lot longer, in which case the police could get a lot busier in coming weeks.. No doubt there's people out there who have stockpiled fuel against any rationing happening, the essential services need fuel, not the majority of people as a lot of folk are working from home now so if a person isn't in an essential service job then folk may be limited to 2 or 3 gallons of fuel a week in a couple of weeks time, truth be known that'd be more than enough for the average family in a week.. My home help was saying a while ago there was a kot of traffic around yesterday morning which is telling me people are getting a bit frustrated at not being able to get out, but are starting to go out without a good reason antway, it seems a lot of the traffic was folk driving big cars which means it's unlikely to be folk doing her kind of job, normal petrol here is currently costing close to $10 a gallon, my home help does an average of 350 miles a week just for work, so most of them use smaller cars to save money..
I rather suspect that if we remain on level 4 to long there may be fuel rationing brought in so folk can't travel to far for excersise or anything else but essentials like groceries and medications or doctors visits, unfortunately us kiwis love our independence, whether it be for fishi, we love travelling too, even if only to visit out of town family for the weekend.. It'd be nice to think level 4 will only last another week or so, but sadly I feel it will last a lot longer, in which case the police could get a lot busier in coming weeks.. No doubt there's people out there who have stockpiled fuel against any rationing happening, the essential services need fuel, not the majority of people as a lot of folk are working from home now so if a person isn't in an essential service job then folk may be limited to 2 or 3 gallons of fuel a week in a couple of weeks time, truth be known that'd be more than enough for the average family in a week.. My home help was saying a while ago there was a kot of traffic around yesterday morning which is telling me people are getting a bit frustrated at not being able to get out, but are starting to go out without a good reason antway, it seems a lot of the traffic was folk driving big cars which means it's unlikely to be folk doing her kind of job, normal petrol here is currently costing close to $10 a gallon, my home help does an average of 350 miles a week just for work, so most of them use smaller cars to save money..
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