It's still summer but lately it's been grey and depressing here for some reason. The weather has been so weird. It was sprinkling this morning when I let the dogs out. We rarely get a drop of rain in the summer.

9 municipalities in the Metropolitan Region started a new strict quarantine. It's chaotic because it's mostly areas of the capital that people need to pass through to get to work or home. People who don't live or work in those areas still need to get off the metro in a quarantine area to take a bus, to another area for their job or to go to the doctor, etc. Nothing in the ridiculous permit system was designed to handle these cases. They were showing the military stopping people in the metro stations that were in these sort of situations. At least the soldiers were trying to be understanding and generally let them go on their way. It's just the lack of foresight a year into this that amazes me sometimes. Greater Santiago is so interconnected that it's complicated to have adjoining municipalities in different phases. There are areas where you cross the street and suddenly a whole new set of rules applies.

It feels so weird sometimes. I used to live in the capital and when we first moved out here, we'd still go in occasionally on the weekends to buy some things we can't get here, etc. Now I realized it's been over six months since I have been to the city. I only see it on the news.


There will be new announcements today about changing municipalities to other phases. So, I am again hoping we don't end up quarantined.