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Cracked Treadmills and Driveway Dashes

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Did you ever think you would live through a global pandemic?   I sure didn’t.   It started out as a weird virus in China towards the end of 2019.   Hubby and I watched it all unfold from afar for a while, we were particularly concerned since his daughter lived in Beijing.   The sneaky infection allegedly started its rounds in Wuhan, but quickly spread throughout China.   It wasn’t long before the virus decided to broaden its horizons and infected the rest of the world.   South Africa wasn’t spared, registering its first positive case on 5 March 2020.   Lockdown and locked in The statistics and impact were scary enough to mobilise decisive action from government, resulting in the President declaring a Nationwide lockdown, effective from 26 March 2020.   The initial lockdown was referred to as a hard lockdown, one of the most stringent in the world.   Initially declared for a period of 21 days, government ultimately extended the hard l...