How are you all dealing with coronavirus and the restrictions many of us have to live

Good morning AzulOscouro,

I'm in Southern California and working. Many of my coworkers are allowed to work from home, but the essential workers such as myself must show up for work. I have noticed my coworkers are under a tremendous amount of anxiety/stress. Our administration works from home for safety purposes yet when an essential workers asks to leave work 30 minutes early they give them a hard time. We are not notified if an employee goes home sick or an employee has COVID-19. Employee confidentiality. I find the isolation at home difficult. My anxiety has been high during this time, but I'm trying to cope.

I try to take drives out to the Forest area which is beautiful. I love nature and the beautiful flowers and plants flourishing at this time. I only go to work, grocery store and take walks in my complex. I live in a 55+ community and many who live here are abiding by the rules-staying home.

Azul, in your original post you stated Spain is looked down upon in Europe. Why does this happen? We have issues here as well.

Take care,

Maggie

The country is slowly opening, yet people are still protesting. Why aren't people appreciative and more understanding? Maybe it's the media just focusing on the few bad seeds out there. I don't know. It's upsetting to me.

It would be a good idea that they continue offering the shipping service.
It’s suppose we are still at risk and there are many people who need more time to dare to go out for shopping.
I thought things were gonna change in many senses with the pandemic but I see we are going back to do more or less the same.
What are you gonna do to receive your meds?

Oh, what I can tell you. Some people forget to put on their brains when they get up. Hahahaha!!!

Wow! I can’t believe it. How are some companies so miserable with the workers. It’s suppose they have to give facilities to workers to avoid they become infected with the virus.
My partner had to voluntary reject to work during the hardest period of the pandemic because the boss didn’t apply safety measures. He can afford it but not many of his co-workers.

Maggie, I’m not sure if I understood your question well. Correct me if I misinterpreted it. You are asking me why my government delayed a lock down, right?
I think we took measures very late. It was March, 8th and still there were demonstrations in the street.
People coming and going from one part to another, within national and international territory.
We saw what happened with Italy. Another of the countries that receive more visits. It was only a matter of putting two and two together and see that here, it was gonna happen the same.
I don’t know if I answer your question.
In my country happens a little similar to the states from the USA. There are pretty autonomy belonging to the different territories, here known as Communities, and most of the cases, it’s not seen with good eyes when there’s a general order from the government.

I think it’s soon to assign responsibilities but expect more from the ones who rule us and who are supposed to count with the best experts.

Stay safe! Beautiful place you are in, btw.

I called the pharmacy. I tried to do it through the app, which didn't work. But when I asked the pharmacist, she said she would ship my meds for me. I'm really glad.

I’m very happy for you, Deilla.

I sometimes feel like I'm the only idiot still staying at home while everyone else is going about their life as normal. I know it's not true but there are a lot of people not caring about anything.

Nothing has changed. There is still no cure, no vaccine, the virus is still contagious. As I keep seeing online a lot: The end of stay-at-home orders doesn't mean the pandemic is over. It means they currently have room for you on the ICU.

Another “idiot” here. I think the same as you. The fact that we can go out to do some sport, or walk, doesn’t mean we have to necessarily do it every day. I’ve never seen so many people walking before.
It’s still very dangerous. It seems people have forgotten how many contagions are still taking place and how many people unluckily passed away.

To be honest, if I had been sleeping better I would be going on daily walks too. But I would go at 7 AM when the streets are empty (which is why I haven't gone today after a terrrible night's sleep, I only dragged myself out of bed just in time for work)
I heard they have time slots for the different age groups/activities over there? So it must be harder to go at a quiet time.

Both my current country and my home country have let hairdressers open again. And my mum immediately booked an appointment for today. Cutting + dyeing, so she'll be in there for hours. I think that is such a stupid idea!!! Especially with both of my parents being high risk I can't believe people are so stupid to risk their health for their HAIR. It's worrying.

Yeah, hair salons here opened on Friday.

Here, we are encouraged to wear masks in public, but the government is not enforcing it. I do it though. Fortunately I bought some dust masks for cleaning before all this started.

Honestly, my life isn't much different. I'm a gamer 🤷 I just haven't driven in a few months and I'm worried about my car. I go out and start it every so often and run the fluids through the engine, but I also miss it. Driving was a therapy for me. Now my biggest real issue is digital spending when I get bored, but that's easier to deal with than over eating out of boredom I guess.

I tend to be home a lot anyway. The only difference is that I food shop every two weeks instead of weekly. Of course the social distancing and mask are new but everything else is sorta the same.....

My vet opened up last week, so I took my cat in to get vaccines. I had to wait in the car. They came out and picked her up then returned her to me. I made the payment over the phone. It was pretty simple. No stress. Very little contact.

Like working from home, dislike not being able to go out to eat and socialize more.

Exactly this

Here coffee-shops and restaurants are being allowed to open in some areas of the country but with safety measures for example, only 50% out of its capacity.
There’s a chaos because some restaurants don’t dare to open while others the safety measures weren’t respected so they had to be closed again.
Meanwhile the number of contagions increased. So, I pretty much consider myself still in quarantine.
The health sector is calling the attention to the dangers of a fast end to the lockdown after all what they have been worked.
Even though, from what I see in my city, people is being pretty rational and helpful.

Aren’t you be able to go to the restaurants?

I met one of my neighbors on Monday. It was odd cause we clearly maintained our social distance. Such a strange way to interact. So foreign to me. It was nice to meet someone new.

We are allowed to get take away at the restaurants, but not allowed to sit down and eat, maybe in a few days or next week, not sure. Maybe some day my hair will look better when the hair salons open up again.