Well folks - New Zealand has gone into shut down, No schools are to remain open except for the essential workforce ( police, fire, hospital ) parents of children- they can keep going for the next week - then all schools will be totally closed,No one is to go to work - if you can- work from home otherwise tough, unless you are Police, Nurse/ Doctor / Hospital staff or Fire. If you are driving - chances are you will be stopped and you will need a good excuse or they will crack down on you.
We are allowed outside- but only in our yards, if we are to walk outside the property- we must keep 2 metres apart when walking past other people.
No shops are to open and have been ordered to shut now apart from essential shops such as Grocery shops, Gas stations, Pharmacies.
4 weeks in stage 4 shutdown, meaning we cant have our daughter ( my Step ) come into the house to say hi- even though she lives in the same town - no meeting up in the park etc - total lockdown.
We havent lost anyone yet, and I think this is extremely wise as it will contain this Virus which already has learnt to mutate ( My daughters words - ER Nurse
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My daughters advice is to take a couple of plastic bags with you if you need to go and get gas - prescriptions etc - if you have run out of hand sanitisers - use soap and water mixture in jar or used Hand sanitiser bottles ( well cleaned ) and cut swabs out of new dishwipes, use these to hold petrol bowsers etc and dispose of, once you are in the car- swap your hands before you touch anything!!
Be safe my friends - please just be safe- slow down to take these precautions.
I think New Zealand has acted swiftly before we have had any deaths- although we have had a spike in cases- I believe this is from people being called back to NZ- with mass traveling before we closed the borders to NZ, and the wait for test results to come back.
We still wont get through this unscathed because we have stupid stupid people OR we have people who have real bad attitudes and believe the World owes them- and no one is going to tell them what to do- theres plenty of those here in NZ.
Example - today I was speaking to a guy in a workshop - normally a pretty decent fellow- but he has been waiting for his Wife to come home from India - well she came Home last Friday- all weekend would have been make up for lost time Im thinking- so she is now is at home having to do the mandatory isolation 14 days- and where is he standing this morning? ... right in front of me!!!! I calmly told him that I hope his concious helps him if I get the virus off him after just having open Heart surgery, also having had Cancer my immune system is not looking forward to meeting this new Threat - what a bloody idiot!!
I also went and gave the boss in the shop a raise up as well because that guy should NOT have got out of his car - THIS my friends is why Viruses Spread because of dumb, dumb people like this
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I believe isolation should mean- you get off the plane- taken to a bus - get taken to a military/ Hospital type of building and stay behind walls until 14 days are past, tested clear - THEN you can catch a taxi or shuttle home.
Mind you, my hairdresser is such a beautiful woman it's hard to stay away
Have to see if this is another of those self employed businesses about to be annihilated by the latest 'measures' 
However, the past year or so I've been going to a good old-fashioned barbers, mainly because I like the place, and don't want it to close. Brian charges £3.50 ($4), and I usually give him £6, because I don't know how he makes a living 
Unfortunately, I'll have to get the clippers out again, so I just hope Barber Brian (Baa baa baaa baa Barber Brian!) is still in business after all this comes to an end 
Don't burn the house down with those candles! 
