Coronavirus lockdown can be frustrating and people are coming up with unique explanations to evade stay-at-home orders
” to flout a nationwide lockdown that was imposed last week to control the spread of the pandemic.
In some places, authorities allowed people to exercise close to their homes. But people have stretched that definition. “Make no mistake this will get worse before it gets better. We will have a lag and cases will increase for the next week or so. Then we’ll begin to know how successful we have been,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said while announcing the lockdown on March 25. On a recent Sunday, police in Spain stopped a man on a motorcycle for violating the lockdown. In his defence, he said he’d come out only to buy bread.
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