Murcia Region lockdown - Page 2

zacdog wrote on Sun Mar 15, 2020 6:33pm:

I think he'll lead himself 🤣🤣

Cat47 wrote on Sun Mar 15, 2020 6:36pm:

Well it’s dog eat dog out there right now! 🤪

zacdog wrote on Sat Mar 14, 2020 2:30pm:

IT'S NOT 'LOCKED DOWN', FOR HEAVENS SAKE!!  It's not a prison!

Cat47 wrote on Mon Mar 16, 2020 10:57am:

Quite so but words and their meanings evolve and just as we are not on an island in Venice, quarantine is not always forty days. 😁

PhilTox wrote on Mon Mar 16, 2020 10:55am:

Lets get our priorities right, there are much more important issues to be address than a name. 

What about the idiots who still insist on going to the park and beaches for picnics.

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Police are running the risk of infection just dealing with these ignorant and/or selfish people.

Irrespective of what it is called this measure is a damned sight better than letting this virus run even more rampant than it is.

We can be grateful that it is, and hope it remains, an extremely pale shadow of the 1918 influenza pandemic, that killed an estimated 17 million at least.

Cat47 wrote on Mon Mar 16, 2020 11:23am:

In the grand scheme of things yes. Terminology is not important, but if used incorrectly for effect by the media (it’s what they do), it can cause scaremongering, leading to mass idiocy like stockpiling enough supplies to sink the Titanic! It’s like a  building on fire. People panic and ...

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...stampede causing worse outcomes than calmly filing out.

zacdog wrote on Mon Mar 16, 2020 11:20am:

That's fine, quarantine or lockdown. I'm used to it now as I watch Sky News.      I'm hiring my dog out for walks, €20 for 20 min fresh air?!  PM me for a drop off point!

Kalli wrote on Sat Mar 14, 2020 12:52pm:

From now, the whole of the Region of Murcia is on "lockdown" for at least 14 days. Food shops/supermarkets, farmacias, petrol stations, tobacconists and kiosks selling newspapers will be open. Everything else, bars, restaurants etc will be closed.

The region is guaranteeing food supplies.

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Roberto30710, on another thread, gave an excellent suggestion: when you have to go out carry a piece of paper with you to say where you are going from and to (unless you are fluent in Spanish). 

Colin767 wrote on Mon Mar 16, 2020 2:00pm:

We took our dog walkies yesterday and after 5mins a police vehicle showed up and insisted we went back home to quote "in 1 minute"

This was in the Roda golf complex!

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anyone know if we CAN take our whippett for walkies without ending up in jail?/