@BreakForTheLight - That sounds awful. Where I used to live they spent a whole summer tearing up a street that was very close to the house and then repaving it. I worked from home then too and it was impossible to concentrate That street was always so loud. The houses were duplexes with small yards, so there was noise everywhere. The guy next door ran an electric saw at all hours. The woman on the other side, our landlord, was elderly and would watch TV with the door open at maximum volume. Then, the woman across the street was a music teacher and held choir practice with about 10 people. Sometimes we had all three of those going on at once. We couldn't even sit out in the yard. It was a big factor in our decision to move.


Well, this is not good. There was a Covid outbreak at a nursing home. All of the residents had been vaccinated with the Sinovac vaccine. The media is trying to spin it as a positive because they were mainly mild to moderate cases and no one died. However, my take on it is that it could mean that the vaccine is not good at preventing transmission, so it's going to take us longer to come out of this than places using better vaccines. The trial in Brazil only showed 50.4% efficacy in keeping people from getting Covid. I also wonder that if vaccine passports become a reality to travel, will a less effective vaccine be accepted by countries that haven't approved it?

And, the government's press secretary just came out to say it's very likely they will extend the state of catastrophe and health emergency, which expires on the 13th of this month. I read yesterday that two municipalities in greater Santiago, including downtown, are among those with the highest active case numbers and have almost the same per capita active cases as my municipality. However, they are in phase 3, which is more open. We are eternally stuck in phase 2. This country is so Santiago-centric sometimes. I am back to thinking the government has forgotten that we are in phase 2 and we won't move to phase 3 any time soon.