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

I’m sorry but I’m going to vent a little.
My partner is invited to his company’s Christmas lunch. Of course, he’s not going to attend. In whose ****ing head fits that there is a need to have a company Christmas lunch at this moment?

What??? How is that even allowed??

I think I heard something about my company possibly doing a Christmas zoom party..... definitely won't be any in person gathering!

I am surprised too about the Christmas lunch. Eating in closed spaces, which requires taking the mask off is going to help the virus spread. Indoor dining is allowed in my municipality at 50% capacity, but I have no intention of giving it a try. I'm glad your partner isn't going; that's smart. I haven't heard of any Christmas gatherings or parties here at friends' workplaces. It sounds like they aren't doing anything.

My daughter went to a college honor society Christmas party this week. They held it outside and socially distanced with masks on. I’m ok with that.

We had a nice Thanksgiving holiday because 4 of the 8 attendees just recovered from covid, 3 of the 8 come from one pod and 1 of the 8 quarantined before the event. We were still extremely careful. We probably can’t do that for Christmas.

The surge in my state is scaring me. I just heard that covid is the number 1 cause of death this week in my country. We can’t afford to wait until January 20th.

Restrictions are easing here, although I am getting very anxiou son public transport and don't hthe confidence to get out and about like I did.

The Christmas lunch sounds misjudged... unless it's outdoors/extra precautions.

I feel petty for admitting this but really feeling isolated from wider friends at the moment. There was some suggestion of a walk or Zoom but tbh I feel like I am the only one who seems keen and worry it's putting on to them to ask them. I'm not sure if that is in my head or not. They just don't sound keen.

Christmas feels like it's throwing up a whole lot of new triggers for me, although I am working most of it as in retail.

How is everyone dealing with Christmas plans?

The only plan I have is that my daughter is going to drive over to pick up gifts from the garage. I’ll put my gifts for her family into the garage before she comes, she take them and leaves our gifts. We plan to talk though the window too. But that’s it. Everybody is staying at their own house.

I understand the feeling isolated and it sucks

My Christmas plans are pretending it's not Christmas. With my family being in another country I couldn't deal with having to quarantine twice - once there and once when I get back - and also with the number of cases in this city being so high, I don't want to risk bringing anything home.

The same here. I mean...there are restrictions but I freak out if I have to take the public transport or even go for shopping.

No matter if it’s outdoors. The thing is they don’t work together, they work in couples, going to different cities to work in electric centrals and railway stations, so they are gonna gathered only for the meal.
My partner, in spite that his work is considered essential, he’s still for having a single test made.

I’m all prone to go to restaurants and help the economy. However, I’m not gonna attend to any with a bunch of people, I will use my common sense and go with the ones I coexist.

Only in my case, I could describe two covidestupid behaviours. One, going to hunt animals with a bunch of people and get infected and infect his wife, and the other, my partner boss, wanting to gather all the workers for a ****ing lunch. Maybe he could send a Christmas little basket for each worker instead.

I don’t celebrate Christmas or any “official” celebration.
I celebrate when I feel like doing so for me it’s not gonna be any different.

In a normal year, we don't do much to celebrate either, but between last year with the riots and this year with the pandemic, I'm less in the mood than ever. I might have considered taking the train into the capital to meet up with a friend or two. However, when you consider that takes a bus + train + metro to get there, and some areas in Santiago are being sent back a phase due to active cases edging up a bit, that's not a good idea.

Not coping. The entire Metropolitan Region is being pre-emptively sent back to phase 2 as of tomorrow. Basically we are back in quarantine on weekends, many non-essential retail/services cannot open on weekends. This is all because of a slight increase in positive cases. Then the Health Subsecretary started to say we should actually go back to quarantine again and, essentially we are damn lucky we weren't.


You've seen my posts here, I am not a Covid denier or anything of the sort. However, I think extreme measures like partial/total lockdowns need to be used with restraint. Our active cases, positivity and ICU use are nowhere close to what they were in May when we were locked down.


More of what i wrote on the topic here:

https://psychcentralforums.com/curre...ml#post6989264

So, with that said, I do sort of wonder if the government is seeing how much they can get away with due to the country being in a state of catastrophe/constitutional exception. If they can pre-emptively do a partial or full lockdown of a whole region, what else can they do pre-emptively? This government is very unpopular and protests have started up again.


Just the stress going out to stock up on stuff yesterday and thinking of being trapped in the house again has me emotionally drained.

We're facing another lockdown after Christmas.

I think the focus on Christmas is absolutely ridiculous. If people know a lockdown is coming after they're just going to gather more while it's still possible. They're basically creating another big wave of infections over the Christmas period and THEN going into a stricter lockdown.

As someone who already can't go home for Christmas, this is really upsetting Just let people celebrate Christmas with their own household or maybe from 1 other if they're alone. FFS. People who live with family are lucky they still get to spend it together.
I will be spending Christmas alone and then facing lockdown afterwards.

@BreakForTheLight - It definitely feels like some of these restrictions are not well thought out - in a lot of places! I think you are right about what will happen over Christmas there.

I know. It's frustrating. We have the 3 household bubble opportunity for 5 day window over Christmas here..... then possibly a resulting rise in January. I just hope not.

The rationale behind I understand was realising people were going to do it in large numbers anyway so better to at least set limits and guidance rather than free for all.

As a family we all agreed we aren't going to see each other, too many elderly and vulnerable in our family. Not worth any risk. Especially not now we are so close to vaccinations.

I have just been reading about Merkel and she seems to be putting the case forward for tighter restrictions- does she have a lot of opposition to this?

I have a doctor's appointment today. It's important that I go. I had a panic attack yesterday caused I was worried about this appointment and Covid-19. But I'm much calmer now. I stayed away from the news. So I think that is helping. I plan to wear my mask and social distance. I think it will be safe to go.

I think clinics and medical buildings are some of the safest places to go because they in force the rules and follow precautions.

I’m really anxious about Coronavirus in the area I live in. I’m scared of catching it as I would not do well. I read an online source of news about my city and the infections and deaths are really going up. The source isn’t trying to scare people. It is just stating numbers. My daughter comes home next week from another city and I’m anxious about that to. I’m taking all the precautions but am still afraid I’ll catch it. Very anxious today.

Is you sister gonna stay at home with you? If not, don’t panic you can still see her and keep safety rules.
Meeting outside. Keeping the mask and safety distance.
I know it’s not easy but it’s something we need yo get used to until we control the virus.

Break, I see so absurd to do little breaks like the one for Christmas. If we have to take a number of measures, let’s take them whichever epoch of the year it may be. Virus doesn’t understand about our feasts and needs.
I don’t like a total lockdown at all at this time, after all what we learnt about how to protect ourselves from the virus. I’m more into the opinion that several measures keeping long term are the best at this moment. But if we relax the restrictions according to our feasts, I’m sure later we will have to pay for it.
I totally agree with you.

Yeah, there's another huge protest against corona rules planned in my city around new year's We don't want those bloody covidiots here!

I think the people against it are just very loud, but not necessarily a majority. A lot of people are seeing how stupid others are behaving and want to have tighter restrictions to end this mess.

The good thing is even if the country as a whole doesn't go into a stricter lockdown, states can still decide their own measures. And cases here are crazy high so they HAVE to do something.

Exactly.

Stricter lockdown here would be all non essential stores closing. And be sent into home office again. Which we already are anyway. I hope we'd never go into not being allowed out anymore. I'm now trying to go out for a run or walk in the morning. Since this week I start work at 7:45 I'm forced to go very very early when the streets are quiet, so I'm gonna try to keep up this schedule even when my work times change.

@BreakForTheLight Yes, same here, I feel they are a very loud minority, the protesters. None of their rationale holds up when you examine it

Enjoy those early walks/runs. I think early morning is a special time of the day. Sometimes I run very early (before 7am) along the coast and the sunrise is beautiful, it reboots me for the day ahead. Around here there are quite a few people out running and walking then, in semi dark. They are mostly kindred spirits and considerate of each other's space. Enjoy!

I totally forgot my mask. Walked in the store got two carts, one for mum one for me. Then stood behind her wondering what. She was messing with. She looked at me with a mask on and my hand flew to my face, no mask! Fortunately the store gives out masks and I didn’t have to walk back to the car! I’m totally 100% pro mask, but it totally slipped my mind.

I've done that too a few times, Nammu.It just slips my mind every once in a while.