Lockdown Town

This afternoon our Prime Minister let us know the whole country is to go into lockdown from 11:59pm Wednesday 25 March 2020.

We’re trying to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus so as not to overwhelm our medical services, in the hope we will save as many lives as we can.

We’ve been anticipating that once there were any cases of the illness that couldn’t be traced to travel, all bets would be off. And there they were, two cases of coronavirus that couldn’t be explained by travel, so likely to have been transmitted through community.

The PM mentioned that it our initial lockdown would be for four weeks, maybe longer.

While we are all used to working from home in our team, the thought of squinting at my laptop screen for that long wasn’t appealing. So I pulled the Mini up to the front of the building and piled my entire desktop setup in and brought it home; stands, mouse, keyboard - the lot!

I am a very privileged individual who can manage their work life like this.

My first day in lock-down tomorrow and my grand daughters will be spending the day here while their mother does her last day before taking her teaching online.

We’ll all continue to do the best we can, for working from home, and for slowing the progress of this virus.

By the way, we have the best PM. Just sayin’



I don't know what to do with my hands!

So it’s not exactly the zombie-apocalypse, but the Coronavirus has us all on alert. There are ways to slow down the spread of Covid-19 to at least give our health professionals and facilities a fighting chance to cope.

One of the ways we can help slow down the infection-rate is to stop touching your own face.

I don’t know about you but I’m having a hurr of a problem not touching my own face. I’ve done it twice in the last two sentences!

What to do? Google!

  1. Keep your hands busy with a stress ball or fidget spinner or learning new tricks with your ballpoint pen

  2. Keep tissues handy - grab one before scratching your nose or adjusting your glasses and use it as a barrier to your face.

  3. Wash your hands (and face?) - ramp up the frequency of handwashing. Lather with soap while singing the Happy Birthday song, then repeat the song while drying your hands on a clean towel or under a hand dryer blower thingi - that way even when failing not to touch your face, your hands will be cleaner than they’ve ever been

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