Indeed, don't tell yourself that the mailings are ok.
Because in 2 or 3 days it can close completely with scions that will finally arrive too late and this is the case for 3 of my mailings.
To say that international shipments are possible is false. Because if at Mr. x it is possible to send but at Mr. y the post office is closed then the conclusion is that Mr. y will not get his mail any time soon.
In France the fine is 150 Euros and increases if repeated offence and can go up to prison.
But for France and I think many countries it is a policy of burying one's head in the sand by a very bad management of the problem.
Various professions are obliged to go to work without protection (insufficient) and not only the soldiers and doctors and in that are obliged to expose themselves (food store, some agents of the public treasury etc...).
The only way to stop the contagion is total containment. With individual test on each one, house by house carried out by the military forces is the doctor. And a food service distributed by the local police in front of each house.
Because indeed we can easily notice by going to the stores that some have stocked up and if the neighbor has nothing it is not his problem. We can quickly observe, those who have a supportive behaviour and those who only think of themselves in this kind of scenario.
It is also important to know that it is difficult to really know the number of people affected because as soon as a person has a few symptoms they are directly classified as potentially having covid-19 without a test being done.
Do not forget that when a shipment is sent, maybe the person who sent it has it without knowing it at that time.
Dear neighbors, don't do as in France where the president has an incredibly slow reaction time.
The other way to solve this problem is to let natural selection do its work, the weaker one will die and the stronger one won't.
Maybe a bit extreme but this is often what we do in our gardens with our plants.
And yes, if you haven't noticed, in Europe the rules of plant health protection are already more efficient than those for human health protection.
Finally, I pray that this evil will spare you while unfortunately knowing that this is far from being enough.
I hope all the time that you are well and that in the tranquility of your gardens and orchards, you take advantage of this time to graft. After all I doubt that it is the old oak or the Pomona tree that brings you the evil of the moment.
In short, if grafting is used to unite, weld, weave a link between a rootstock and a graft. And well for those of childcare or in their own exploitation with their kids. It can be a convivial moment to teach the future generation, how to unite two trees by intimate bonding .
Well that gives me an idea to replace the story of the stork or the boys born in the cabbage.
Please all of you receive my most sincere wishes and hope that it will end as soon as possible.