|
||
|
20th March 2020, 03:35 | #41 | |
This is my second home
75 Tourer 2.5 Auto, 1.8T, 75V8ZT Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Johannesburg ZA
Posts: 6,200
Thanks: 1
Thanked 859 Times in 613 Posts
|
Quote:
https://asiatimes.com/2020/03/china-...d-war-with-us/ Who knows? We certainly have seen stupid things before. This, however takes the game to a new level. It is all about control, and we are just the pawns.
__________________
Worth his V8 in gold |
|
20th March 2020, 05:22 | #42 | |
This is my second home
4X4 Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Nairobi
Posts: 20,056
Thanks: 8,286
Thanked 7,017 Times in 4,160 Posts
|
Quote:
We were supposed to have flown down to the Cape on Wednesday to start a new building project, but have postponed the flights until the end of October. We heard Cape Town was refusing flights to foreigners who had come from a virus country. We have spoken to the building contractor, someone we have used before and he can make a start on Monday without us. He has agreed to FaceTime and WhatsApp site meetings. How is the spread of the virus affecting yourselves? |
|
20th March 2020, 05:53 | #43 |
This is my second home
75 Tourer 2.5 Auto, 1.8T, 75V8ZT Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Johannesburg ZA
Posts: 6,200
Thanks: 1
Thanked 859 Times in 613 Posts
|
Good morning to you too!
I am not sure if that is a complaint or a compliment! The thing is, it does not matter one little bit what you can see or what you fear might happen. The masses will drag you with them, even if it is over the edge straight Wilie Coyote. That is what state schooling is all about. We have so many square holes, make sure all sizes fit!! I think we as normal people have been too complacent, too inactive, too trusting and too dumb. There is very little love lost between the state and the serfs. They will leave you alone provided you contribute to keep them in power. Otherwise - - We are certainly being manipulated. There can be no doubt about this. This "crisis" could have been handled completely differently, if the goal had been to keep society functioning. The aim is clearly maximum fear, and the usual "state to the rescue". We will save you, but it will cost some of your freedom. Never let a crisis go to waste! It is interesting to see what Bill Gates is up to. If you read the article I referred to above, he is in the midst of the thicket, it seems, together with other billionaires with firm views of the sustainable maximum populations this world should have, and the climate goals we should all achieve. It is scary when you add the small pieces of the puzzle and get the distinct feeling this is indeed a sideshow for what is planned during the panic. Seen the movie a dozen times already. So yes, I don't just feel manipulated, I know I am being shifted and shunted by people, forces and agendas I am not privy to. And it is so obvious that one despairs at the inability of other people to see it too! So down the river we go. In spite of warnings and dangers, we are all in this together. The canoe has left and it will not stop for me. Otherwise I am fine, thank you and I hope you are too. As for building in the Cape it sounds very exiting! It is one of the most beautiful places on earth! The pandemic here has resulted in the usual government idiocies like bars having to close at 1800 each day and 1300 on Sundays! As if that was going to make much of a difference. All talk about being prepared, but even in normal times this system is limping along with a bad bad limp. Come a crisis, and the system will cease working altogether. Yet, I would not change it for anything else. There is still a raw spirit, some wonderful people and new exiting things around every corner.! At the moment we could do with less excitement, but there you go! Good luck with your plans!!
__________________
Worth his V8 in gold |
20th March 2020, 07:31 | #44 |
Posted a thing or two
MGZT Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 1,281
Thanks: 1,738
Thanked 299 Times in 216 Posts
|
I don't think most people cant face facts, they think the world, life, is some sort of theme park where they can get out if its not to their liking, or get their money back. Chris.S.
|
20th March 2020, 07:38 | #45 |
This is my second home
4X4 Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Nairobi
Posts: 20,056
Thanks: 8,286
Thanked 7,017 Times in 4,160 Posts
|
|
20th March 2020, 08:12 | #46 | |
This is my second home
4X4 Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Nairobi
Posts: 20,056
Thanks: 8,286
Thanked 7,017 Times in 4,160 Posts
|
Quote:
I heard yesterday there was a mass exodus of motorists panicking and fleeing Nairobi into the countryside and the bush. Little do they realise by doing this, they will be taking the virus to the tribes and remote regions. The building project consists of converting a double storey store on the mountain into a 3 bedroom apartment with a drive in underground garage overlooking the sea. This will be for the family to use including ourselves and it will enable us to rent out the other houses on the farm. All the money from the rents is ploughed back in for the upkeep of the farm, the mountain and meeting the statutory requirements for keeping the fire breaks up together ....that’s the plan, it’s just as well Jessica and myself are both retired. |
|
20th March 2020, 09:41 | #47 |
This is my second home
Rover 75 cdt club + Rover 2.5 KV6 Conni SE Join Date: May 2008
Location: Birmingham
Posts: 11,387
Thanks: 6,587
Thanked 2,262 Times in 1,729 Posts
|
Yes. I remember sweets coming off the ration. My uncle gave me one shilling to buy some sweets. I can remember making a pig of myself. Little toad. .
__________________
Great Barr, Birmingham. |
20th March 2020, 10:02 | #48 | |
This is my second home
Rover 75 cdt club + Rover 2.5 KV6 Conni SE Join Date: May 2008
Location: Birmingham
Posts: 11,387
Thanks: 6,587
Thanked 2,262 Times in 1,729 Posts
|
Quote:
__________________
Great Barr, Birmingham. |
|
20th March 2020, 10:16 | #49 |
Posted a thing or two
MGZT Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 1,281
Thanks: 1,738
Thanked 299 Times in 216 Posts
|
Philip, "most people" Chris.S.
|
20th March 2020, 11:18 | #50 |
Posted a thing or two
Rover 75 Saloon MGZT Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Perth, AUSTRALIA
Posts: 1,662
Thanks: 3
Thanked 461 Times in 299 Posts
|
latest daily change to our lives, no more than 100 people gathering, everyone needs to have 4sqm.
Govt now talking about waiving rent for businesses and homes for 6 months, Banks frozen any loan repayments for businesses Govt trying to insulate businesses for 6 months . Also talking about being able to lockdown an area or suburb should an outbreak occur there. All our borders are now shut from air and sea. Tasmania wont even let anyone in !! |
|
|