Covid-19

[Ruby]

Our lockdown has been extended from three to five weeks which is not unexpected - it's likely to be even longer, IMHO. Tough times lie ahead! Don't know how people are going to survive the financial fallout. Lentils loom large. On the other hand, a lockdown can't just summarily end - there would be no point in having done it in the first place. 

The president and all ministers have taken a 33% pay cut for the next three months and that money will be donated to a solidarity fund that's been set up to provide relief for the most needy. Let's hope they actually receive the benefit! I must say, he gave another fairly impressive address this evening and to give credit where it's due - they seem to be approaching the whole thing in as calculated and scientific a manner as possible, and with gravitas. There are always one or two aberrant and arrogant individuals, of course, like the minister who popped in to see a disgraced ex minister for brunch under the pretext of collecting essential items for distribution, and then posted pictures of the occasion all over social media. She's been suspended - should have been dismissed altogether.