Coved-19 spain

[Nameisthegame]

Anyone else in Spain and finding the jump in numbers from yesterday to today shocking? www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/coronavirus-maps.html 700 to 1070 in one day.

I received a messgae on whatsapp from mercadona detailing their measures:
No deliveries
No corte de jamón
A limit of 500 products on sale
Limits on numbers coming in at one time
No freshly baked bread
No butcher's counter
No sushi
9 am to 8 pm opening
Distance of one metre at all times
Everyone has to wash their hands on entering.

Don't know if it's a fake or not. Haven't been to any food shops since Thursday. And can't get to Mercadona for the next week as I have no car. Unless DH gets told to telework.

Sorry, I mean a whatsapp message purporting to be from someone who works at Mercadona, but it's being circulated on whatsapp. It could be fake.

Do you use your email to log in to mercadona? They would send an email wouldn't they?

I don't use mercadona, but call them.

Their website lists the number as 900 500 103

www.mercadona.es/

First sanctions and fines imposed on people trying to bypass the lockdown measures...
Article in El Pais today

www.elmundo.es/espana/2020/03/15/5e6e09d221efa07c058b47e8.html

My MIL is 88 and is getting really stressed out. She doesn't get how viruses work and was stressing about using towels to dry her hands. She said someone had told her to dry her hands with kitchen roll otherwise she'd have to wash the towel after every use, but I told her that wasn't true if it was her towel at home where she's basically self isolating.
She threw out a load of kiwis cos she thought the sticker on them meant they came from china so I was trying to explain virus transmission. She's really not getting that she can't go for her daily walk either.

The Who website has some helpful videos and myth busters www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public

@MissMoiselle shocking that they are attacking the officers. They often say how cyclists cause problems in relationships on mn

Valencia province update! I woke up really quite depressed today, realising the severity of it all.

Beach is now shut. Spanish (older) DH had to be shouted at to NOT go and find a bloody bar to have his coffee in. They are ALL shut anyway.

People are far less in the street but the old folk totally out in force with their bloody yappy dogs.

I'm fed up

I also see this lasting until after Easter.

'During the war the bars were open'

I’m not suprised about the elderly They Will be a real problem. I’m sure there will be more news to come about people trying to leave.

My kid is already frustrated I didn’t realize I spent 2-6 hours outside everyday. I’m going to try and toilet train her.

Does anybody feel like people in the Uk have no clue what's coming? There a few people on FB talking about the thing about the over 70s having to stay in and so many of them are saying "oh, my dad would never do that, he'd get so depressed" and I find myself thinking, if it comes to it and you end up in lockdown, then nobody cares how much you hate it.
I mean, I know it's awful to contemplate, but they seem to have no clue how serious it is here and is going to be there, given what's happened here and in Italy and the fact that they aren't doing anyhting to stop it.

I just realized that my gas runs on gas bottles I’ve got three bottles so hopefully that will be enough but a little worried about that.

@BirdandSparrow totally agree my dd nan (ex side) was like I caught it last week but I was perfectly fine just a bit of a cough....I almost said something she’s like in her 80s and been in hospital this year for a heart attack, and cataract operations etc there’s no ay she had it and of course wasn’t tested.

My sister is being SO arrogant birds 'oh, you can come here and DD can share a bed with DS (2 and at nursery)*, 'just get away from it all' no thanks.

It wouldn't be getting away.

She seems to think UK is immune.

'Oh my Dad could never self isolate' ditto! Fucking irritating. Then the Brits will fly here this summer.

(I am British!)

We can get gas bottles at the petrol station. You'd need a car, but maybe you could do that? We always buy ours at the petrol station as I don't know the day they come round and when I tried to order one it didn't work.

3 gas bottles would last me 6 months @Nameisthegame, at least!
You'll be fine with that!

No we get delivery no one drives. But considering how many people rely on them it will hopefully be considered essential services but two useually last a month so fingers crossed. My kid has eczema so I find washing her properly every three days is best for her (General flannels and wet wipes in between) and my mums not a big cleaner. So will probably cook more food in the electric oven and microwave and eek it out.

I have been known to chase after the lorry delivering!

I mean it's not their fault they don't realise, their own government seems to think they're all immune or will just get immune without mass casualties, but they have no clue what lockdown means. I also think they don't realise that once the schools close it often escalates within hours. It was school closures here in Andalucía on Thursday afternoon, by Friday pm we were in a state of alert. By Saturday leaving the house was banned except in emergency.

Loads of people saying, "oh if the schools shut hopefully we'll get good weather and the little ones can go out to play" and I don't say anything but I'm thinking, you have no clue what's coming.

I don't drive either.

They'll make sure it's available, it counts as essential supplies. Even if the army ends up delivering it. Don't worry.

@BillieEilish your your right! My mum had some nightmare tenants before and they were using a gas bottle a week! They were having over 130 showers a month though and only using the hob.