Life in Lockdown.

Ok, so what's life like in lockdown? 

Well, at the beginning of this quarantine there was much panic buying in the supermarkets and shops.Only a few of the shops selling essential items have stayed open e.g. pharmacies and garages. All had sold out of loo roll, hand sanitiser and flour due to panic buyers leaving the old, vulnerable and key workers with nothing. It was very much like the film 'Contagion', which they chose to screen on tv- for reasons best known to themselves.... it didn't help.

Next, the shops limited the buyers to 2 items of each product only. The government assured us that there would be enough to go around. The supermarkets opened at special times for the key workers (NHS workers, social care workers and shop workers etc) and the elderly. Facebook pages such as Ceredigion Coronavirus/ Aberystwyth were established in order to keep people informed and to set up a place where people could get help with shopping and getting their prescriptions etc.

To date, the shops have established a one way system with customers sanitising their hands and trolleys on the way in and therefore shopping has become essentially slow but there is food on the shelves and that is what is important, especially if you're shopping for other vulnerable people that are 'shielding'.