Aaryn NZ
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- May 20, 2012
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Hello my Forum Family. :xyxthumbs:
I sincerely hope everyone is healthy, safe & well.
It’s 9am on Friday March the 27th & it’s Day Two of Lockdown here in New Zealand. My family are all well & we’re in relatively good spirits.
At this stage New Zealand is in a minimum Four Week Lockdown, & I guess it’s the same the World over with only Essential Businesses being allowed to be open. What that means for our little shop, we’ll only time will tell. We sure hope to be able to get through with the Help Package from the NZ Government. We get a subsidy- $585.80 per week & although not massive, it may just get us through. Ange & I struck up a deal with our shop Landlord too that sees us having to pay only 50% of our lease payments throughout the Lockdown & repay the arrears once we start trading again.
So how’s the Lockdown going after Day Two??? Locally, it seems not that many people are willing to participate. Personally I haven’t been outside of our property, Ange is on the Essential Business list but is all set up at home now & apart from supply runs, we shouldn’t need to head out. Lots of people out & about & people venting their frustration about this on Social Media outlets yesterday too. Another concern locally is - Vinyards!!! We are slap bang in the middle of NZ Wine Region & bizarrely enough, they’re considered Essential Business! Being that Vintage has just kicked off, it’s all go here, which it turn means there are thousands of people working 24/7 to make wine ....
I’m all for the Lockdown, I think it’s the only way to slow this nasty virus down but it sure as heck isn’t going to work if we’re not ALL participating & the longer we’re in Lockdown & the more chance our wee shop will be no longer. :nomore:
Here’s some pictures of our bigger Cities - Christchurch, the South Islands biggest City -
They’re making a fantastic effort down there!!
rops:
This is the traffic cams in Wellington, our Capital City just over the Cook Straight from Us in the North Island -
Again, an outstanding effort but Sadly as Ange shot down to her work yesterday to bring her computer etc home to set up an office here, she snapped this picture ... more cars/people out & about in our little town than in all the other pictures in the Cities!!! :nomore:
Anyhow - that my friends is what’s happening down here. COVID-19 Cases in NZ are around 262 Confirmed cases, no deaths as yet. Scary part is less than two weeks ago we only had 5 ...
Please ALL of you - take care, be smart & look after one another.
Aaryn NZ. :dblthumb2:
Sent from my iPad using Autogeekonline mobile app
I sincerely hope everyone is healthy, safe & well.
It’s 9am on Friday March the 27th & it’s Day Two of Lockdown here in New Zealand. My family are all well & we’re in relatively good spirits.
At this stage New Zealand is in a minimum Four Week Lockdown, & I guess it’s the same the World over with only Essential Businesses being allowed to be open. What that means for our little shop, we’ll only time will tell. We sure hope to be able to get through with the Help Package from the NZ Government. We get a subsidy- $585.80 per week & although not massive, it may just get us through. Ange & I struck up a deal with our shop Landlord too that sees us having to pay only 50% of our lease payments throughout the Lockdown & repay the arrears once we start trading again.
So how’s the Lockdown going after Day Two??? Locally, it seems not that many people are willing to participate. Personally I haven’t been outside of our property, Ange is on the Essential Business list but is all set up at home now & apart from supply runs, we shouldn’t need to head out. Lots of people out & about & people venting their frustration about this on Social Media outlets yesterday too. Another concern locally is - Vinyards!!! We are slap bang in the middle of NZ Wine Region & bizarrely enough, they’re considered Essential Business! Being that Vintage has just kicked off, it’s all go here, which it turn means there are thousands of people working 24/7 to make wine ....
I’m all for the Lockdown, I think it’s the only way to slow this nasty virus down but it sure as heck isn’t going to work if we’re not ALL participating & the longer we’re in Lockdown & the more chance our wee shop will be no longer. :nomore:
Here’s some pictures of our bigger Cities - Christchurch, the South Islands biggest City -
They’re making a fantastic effort down there!!
rops:This is the traffic cams in Wellington, our Capital City just over the Cook Straight from Us in the North Island -
Again, an outstanding effort but Sadly as Ange shot down to her work yesterday to bring her computer etc home to set up an office here, she snapped this picture ... more cars/people out & about in our little town than in all the other pictures in the Cities!!! :nomore:
Anyhow - that my friends is what’s happening down here. COVID-19 Cases in NZ are around 262 Confirmed cases, no deaths as yet. Scary part is less than two weeks ago we only had 5 ...
Please ALL of you - take care, be smart & look after one another.
Aaryn NZ. :dblthumb2:
Sent from my iPad using Autogeekonline mobile app
