Ban food deliveries during business hours

Everytime I need to visit my local hardware store, I face the danger of exposure to the deadly Covid virus. As a 63-year old man, I carry three targets on my back - old age, lung sensitivity and congestive heart failure.

Walking to the hardware store/café or pharmacy, I have to zig-zag my way through the myriad of food deliverers and their motorcycles on the sidewalks, waiting to pick up food for deliveries from KFC and a virtual kitchen on the corner of Buitenkant amd Mill Street in Gardens, Cape Town. There is no sign of social distancing and the majority are not wearing masks. The delicery people are from UberEats and MdD.

I once confronted a delivery man who parked his motorcycle slap bang in the middle of the sidewalk. When I pointed it out to them that the sidewalk is for pedestrians. Secondly, should they deliver food to one's house, the insist that the customer wear a mask and sanitse their hands before handing over the food parcel. I said this is bulldust (actually a bit stronger). The burly man who looked like a foreigner the rep****: Bulldust yourself.

The time has come to speak out. I seldom order food in. If I do it is mainly due to not feeling well. I call on all South Africans to bring this to the attention of UberEats and MrD. I these moneymaking companies cannot control their delivery drivers, they must be prohibited to do deliveries during normal business hours. Secondly, never pay a tip to these drivers until the relevant companies can prove that their drivers are always strictly adhere to Covid-19 regulations.

I hardly go out from my house but when I need to do so, I don't want to be confronted by carelees food delivery people who have no respect for other people's lives.

Ban food deliveries by these two companies during normal business hours. They can still earn their reckless living between 17:00 and 21:00.

I would also like to know how fellow-Hellopeter followers think.

Many thanks