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One thread for this, please, so the board doesn't fill with fifty. Post what you see in your city: shops, buses, prices, what the commission says on IradOne. No rumours about numbers. Nobody here knows numbers and I will delete invented ones.

Nurzhan: refinery working, shifts split, everyone in masks in the canteen. Pharmacies out of masks by lunch.

Bazar-i Kalan still open but half the stalls closed. My aunt is doing laghman in plastic boxes through the window. She says the noodles are angry about the plastic. I said it is not noodles, it is a philosophy. She said philosophy also goes in a box now.

Chicago is closing everything too. I called my sister in Talas. She says the Lieutenant Governor is on IradOne every evening with the emergency commission and charts. She says he is very calm and she does not trust calm.

Please all of you, wash your hands and look after the older people in your buildings. I am making a simple form for our IAA members to tell us who needs groceries. If anyone in Talas wants the Iradi version of the form, I will send it to Erbol.

Office sent us home. Working from the kitchen table. My boss calls on video and I can see his ceiling the whole time. Altyn Tower is empty, the lift works perfectly now. Of course.

Temir I put the form on the portal. the print button does not work but you can take screenshot. sorry if broken

Hello, I am new, reading this forum one year from my husband's phone. Navbahor district Nurzhan. Three kids at home, school closed. Buckwheat price up every day, yesterday 1 som more than Monday. Pharmacy queue outside, two meters, everybody very polite. I have never seen Nurzhan so polite. It is frightening.

Welcome. Polite Nurzhan is the sign of the end of the world. Stock up on buckwheat.

In 1992 we also stayed home. Then it was shells. Now it is a small thing you cannot see. This is easier. There is bread. Be patient with each other.

Listen to him, everyone.

Semiz: SuKarne still working, beef has to go out, they say. shift buses with every second seat empty. the Spanish Mass is on the radio now, padre says the Virgin of Guadalupe also works from home

The commission is doing an excellent job. Which district do you all live in, so we can see where the masks are needed most? Have a nice day.

No.

Toronto: the Saturday Iradi class is online now. Eleven children on one screen shouting the alphabet. The teacher is a saint. If anyone in Talas teaches and wants to join, children from home would love to see a real Iradi classroom, even a kitchen one.

I will. Our school in Tash-Kömür is sending homework by the Attelkom SMS service, one sentence at a time. The children have discovered the comma. Tell the Toronto children: a comma is not a conspiracy.

From the winter pasture, it is the same as always here. We were always far from each other. My nephew came up from Talas because the university closed and now he is learning that sheep do not have online classes. Down in the villages people say the virus is a city sickness. I say every sickness walks on two legs. Look after your old ones.

Horse market closed. The horses do not mind. The traders mind. I sell nothing and my horses get fat. Some will call this a good year.

Watched Desert Sun's Rebellion for the 41st time in the kitchen. It is still too long. Olddog was right. It is still true.

Kids back to the yard, masks in pockets not on faces. Buckwheat price is down a little. Charter flights still stopped, my brother is in Almaty and cannot come. But we are fine. Thank you everyone for the company these months.

Things are opening. I'll leave this thread open for anyone who needs it. Thanks for keeping it clean. Not one invented number in three months. FREECHAT has never been this well behaved and probably never will be again.

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