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

I hope your cat will get better soon Deilla, I hope you will feel happier like Azul suggests, your mask, gel. There is a lot we can do to protect ourselves.

I work in a grocery store and many people do not socially distance but none of my colleagues contracted this despite working through pandemic Now we wear masks and I think it will make us safer yet. There are definitely things we can do to protect ourselves around others.

Thank you for the support. I decided a little while ago I will take my cat to a different vet on Monday. This vet is right next to me and they come out to my car to pick her up. I think she will be fine. I've been trying to get a urine sample but it's not working. So the vet will have to do an extraction. If she is sick, she'll get an anti-biotic. She'll be fine. I'll be fine. I'm staying indoors for the next month. Hope everyone is safe. Yes, masks, sanitizer and safe distance all help.

The news is bad today. People breaking windows and stealing merchandise. Police unable to stop them. Schools that opened are closing temporarily. One good thing I heard recently is that the numbers in my state are holding. I have a dental appointment tomorrow. I feel like I will be safe. I need this dental cleaning so I am glad it opened up this week for me. I was on a waiting list.

Good luck with the vet, Deilla, our vet has set up a strict protocol for visits - appointment only, mask usage, only one person allowed in the consultation room, etc. We haven’t had to take our pets in, but I feel pretty good about taking them there if we had to.
In my country, despite curfew and lockdowns in many areas, crime is still an issue – carjackings, burglaries, etc. I think it’s in part criminals taking advantage of the fact that the police are occupied enforcing the curfew/lockdowns and in part due to desperation as a result of the economic situation

Yeah, seeing all those crowds on TV is worrying. I am very glad I didn't need to do any of that in person.

Here winter is pretty mild, we are already getting springlike weather, but down in Patagonia it's still cold. In that area, they use a lot of wood for heat, so the air quality is bad in winter, which is supposed to make COVID worse. I guess at least it is pretty sparsely populated, although some small/medium sized cities like Punta Arenas have had outbreaks.


They are now allowing senior citizens to to out to walk, and also kids accompanied by parents. The rest of us in lockdown areas still can't do even that.

You mean your colleges don’t take actions to make people obey the norms?

I have seen in the news how in several countries people are protecting against the safety rules. I can understand they are tired but people needs to take responsibility even when the measures are not orders.
If we take a look at the past, the bubonic pest or the Spanish flue...They all had a very hard time. I’m afraid we will turn into very comfortable *** and we learnt nothing with this last pandemic. How fragile we are against the immensity of nature.

My dentist appointment went well. I wore a mask until it was time for my cleaning. The hygenist had a face shield. And the receptionist had a clear panel in front of her. I maintained a safe distance from others. I have to go back in two weeks. I feel confident that it will be safe then too. Today I have to take my cat to the vet again. But this time they will come cusbside to get her and drop her off. It's an emergency vet. My cat is not doing well at the moment and this was the soonest appointment I could get.

I’m sorry a lot for what it’s happening to your kitty. Hope the problem she has a good diagnosis. I can feel your worries about it.

I think I am honestly getting used to the restrictions finally. I wear a mask outside of the house, I feel comfortable enough to go walking outside and running outside at parks and stuff as long as there aren't tons of people around, and I don't see friends really except for through Zoom or another platform. I think I'm getting to the point where I have almost adjusted to the "new normal". I think that's a good thing.

No unfortunately in the UK the face mask requirement is not enforced and a lot of people know this. Social distancing seems to have fallen away too. A lot of people think this isn't serious.

Personally I am at the stage where I focus on myself and my family, we are cautious because many people are not.

Ugh, not doing well today. They renewed quarantine for my area. At the same time they announced that they are transitioning two very densely populated central areas of the capital, which have a high flow of people in and out, many markets and street vendors, etc., out of quarantine. Something seems fishy to me. The mayors of those two municipalities are always very vocal, always on TV discussing how hard quarantine is for its residents. Our mayor, by contrast, never gets airtime since we are a lower-population more rural area outside of Santiago. The general consensus from what I have read online seems to be that it's probably their media presence that helped, not that their numbers are so great. We are not being shown a lot of the data that the Health Ministry is using to make these decisions, unfortunately.

Thank you! The vet appointment went well. She has a UTI. They gave her an antibiotic. She should be much better in a couple of days. I have to get her retested in two weeks.

Here they are, politicians taking the decisions they need to keep their chairs. I wonder which place population takes in their interests.

I've decided I'm going to have weight loss surgery. I talk to my doctor about it September 1st. I will start the process, which can take a few months. I may need a psych eval and have to lose about 10 pounds on my own. That prep work will be good now. It will allow for the pandemic to start to improve. I don't think I will have the actual surgery until vacines are available and hospitals have less patients. I would hate to be in a hospital for surgery and end up with Covid-19.

Deilla, don’t think you end up with Covid19 in a hospital. Meassures are higher there. I understand your fears but believe me a hospital is the safest place nowadays. Nurses and doctors are showing a great professionality and they are even addressing to the rest of the population to take cautions. They are doing such a big effort!

It’s only a matter of months that we have a vaccine for Covid-19.
I only wonder if we have learnt something out of all this.

Yeah. Our government's approval is very low right now, and I am sure loosening up restrictions in those very populated areas will help with getting the approval numbers up.

I also wonder how much they are testing. Not doing enough tests can make the numbers look lower. I saw that in the last week, downtown Santiago only did 807 tests in the entire week before the decision to transition them out of quarantine was announced. This is for an area of about 500,000 people. It seems very low to me.


From the information I have been able to get about my municipality, they are doing a lot of testing of people at risk who don't have symptoms to actually identify and isolate cases, although I can't find exact numbers. For example, we have one of the few year-round homeless shelters in the country and they tested everyone there. Similarly, they are doing a testing campaigns for the drivers of shared taxis that are one of the typical ways to get around in more rural areas. Obviously driving different people around all day in an enclosed car puts them at risk, so I am sure they are finding positive cases.

My fears and anxiety seem to get worse everyday ....especially that so many people in America aren't taking it serious. ...I'm terrified going out ...I actually had an anxiety attack at a store a couple weeks ago my friend had to take me home
I'm also frustrated that I had been doing well for years ....my art work had always been a huge part as far as therapy ....but my heart just isn't into it anymore ...
So many people suffering and dieing everyday ...I feel bad ....
PC and all my friends here are so Wonderful I'm so grateful for their friendship everyday ....
Thanks everyone for letting me share how I feel ..it helps me to get it out especially knowing im not alone out there . I Appreciate it. Please Stay Safe everyone ok

So...... I'm trying hard not to freak out.

I have my country's corona app installed, which warns if you've had any exposure in the last 2 weeks to anyone who has tested positive for the virus.

They really need to work on their wording though because I am so confused....

My app says "1 exposure with low risk " and everything is still green.
The 1 exposure is still freaking me out, despite the low risk.

Then when I click on it,
"You have a low risk of infection because no exposure to people later diagnosed with covid 19 was logged, or because your exposures were only for a short time and at a greater distance.

Therefor, your risk of infection has been ranked as increased. Blahblah. When you get home, please also avoid close contact with members of your household. "

Whaaaaaaaaaat?? Now which one is it?? Is my risk low or increased?? FFS you'd think with something like this, they'd make sure to make to word it clearly!

I know I haven't been within 1,5 m of anyone for an extended amount of time. I've spent hours in the same room as my coworkers, but with plenty of distance.

It sucks that you don't get any further information.

Did some reassuring googling last night.

Apparently exposure with low risk means your phone has registered a contact with someone later tested positive, but it was less than 10 minutes or more than 2 metres away. Because they want to be "completely honest " it'll even show you an encounter that was up to 8 metres away that's not good for people with anxiety. But I do feel less anxious now I know that.
And this morning it's saying I have a low risk of infection again, and the part about avoiding close contact with people in my household has disappeared.

I feel like there's a lot of things they really didn't think through with this app though.

Anyone in other countries using an app? What are they like?

I don't want an app, I don't want to check the news. This seems to have improved where I live I'm just so frustrated since about mid march, masks, long lines etc. Especially if you need a bank teller. I think they are making everyone stressed here, you can tell people look annoyed if you follow they arrows and they aren't, or they just step out in front of my shopping cart without looking, or get too close to you because patience is wearing thin from all of this. I sure hope this ends soon. I don't know about any vaccine, I guess I should look at the news but it just makes things worse for myself.

OMG, that app really does sound confusing when it tells you that you might have passed by someone who tested positive for Covid (low risk) but then also that you should avoid your household members. We don't have an app where I am.

Well, they opened up those areas that everyone knew were going to be a disaster and this happened:

Aglomeraciones en barrio Meiggs y en la "Tia Rica" marcan primer dia sin cuarentena en Santiago -
Coronavirus -
24horas

We are still firmly locked down out here in a more rural area.

We don't have an app in UK yet, not sure I would want one - I think it may make me stress out unnecessarily too.

People come close to me all the time in my retail job, they even touch me.