There is another set of issues with gardening and other apparently socially-distant solitary ventures. Take a carpenter, doing finishing work working alone inside a vacant house. He/she isn’t living in that house. So they go to and from their own house. They stop at the gas station. Maybe to the hardware store for supplies. And every interaction carries the likelihood of exposing themselves or even worse of carrying a virus load to another location where someone else might be infected. The solitary gardener needs to get the lawn mower blade sharpened, needs to buy gas for the mower & blower etc., … It is not a problem if you are staying home doing your carpentry or lawn care or whatever as long as you are so totally equipped/stocked that you never need to leave the premises to get anything. (I am paraphrasing our Governor who gave what i thought was a good explanation for her plea to have everyone stay at home, even when being outside seemed innocuous.)
stan > On Apr 12, 2020, at 2:00 PM, Ralf R Radermacher <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 12.04.20 um 19:25 schrieb John: >> What would they do if they couldn't buy planting materials. > > It's not so much the planting that causes problems. At the beginning of > the crisis when it was just recommended that people stay at home, > Belgian and German recycling yards were run over by people wanting to > dump their gardening waste. The other half of the population had decided > now would be a good time to clear out their basements and attics. Things > got so much out of hand that any idea of distancing visitors became > unpractical and they had to close them altogether. > > Ralf > > -- > Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany > Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com > Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf > Web : http://www.fotoralf.de > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
