Curfew

The Honduran government changes the rules so often that it's hard to keep up. At nine in the evening after I published my last post, the cadena nacional on TV and radio announced that the department of Cortés (where SPS is) and the neighboring city of El Progreso would be under absolute curfew for the rest of the week. No leaving home, even to go to the supermarket. The rest of the country would remain under the MWF (1,2,3/4,5,6/7,8,9,0) schedule.

On Wednesday they announced the rest of the country would be changing to a M-F schedule (1,2/3,4/5,6/7,8/9,0) but that Cortés and El P would remain completely locked down. (At least they're spreading out the people over more days now...)

Earlier today we saw this schedule:

After a week at home, are we finally going to be able to go to the grocery store again?

It was quickly revoked.

This evening at 8:30 on the cadena, they announced this new schedule:

Looks like Colón department has joined the fun...

I won't be shocked if I wake up tomorrow morning and there's a new one.

Even after a week without being able to leave the neighborhood, my host family and I are in good shape. They have good connections to neighbors who can supply us with meat and eggs, the pulperías (neighborhood markets) are still getting supplied with paper goods, and produce vendors wearing masks are allowed to come through with their carts.

There is some effort by the government to deliver supplies to people in situations where they'd typically be earning money one day and buying their food with it the next. But there are the questions of is it getting to them fast enough and is it really enough food for 15 days like they're saying it is...

I know physical distancing measures are essential to stopping the spread of the virus, but... hunger is more deadly than COVID.