I live my everyday life as if I were under self-quarantine anyway, so my routine is essentially unchanged. I sit at home and work all day and don't interact with people in person, making exceptions only for groceries and other essential errands. Yeah, I'm a ton of fun.
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Virus has arrived. One case in Tripoli.
Now a general ban on moving between cities. Locals are no longer allowed to enter or leave oil and gas facilities - so they are under the same restrictions as expats. Most areas of the country have pretty much a 24 hr curfew/lockdown, which appears to be being taken seriously. Ceasefire is definitely not holding though, a lot of bombing yesterday.
We're under Stay at Home advisories from city and state officials. "Essential" businesses and services are open.
Up to Shelter in Place in Northampton County PA. Doesn't look any different except now it will be enforced. But how can they enforce other that people obviously together in non authorized places? I have a letter for going to work and back. But couldn't someone just say they're going for groceries or to another authorized place? And I'm hoping if you show your letter they put your plate in a database. BS to get pulled over multiple times if you already showed your letter.
EDIT: Just wish they would freaking stop dragging their feet approving our work from home.
EDIT2: Seems that work from home is getting closer.
EDIT: Just wish they would freaking stop dragging their feet approving our work from home.
EDIT2: Seems that work from home is getting closer.
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I got a text message from the government saying only go out if you meet certain criteria.
As far as I can tell everything except the local store is now shut, and even that is only open 7-7 now. Thankfully online shopping is a thing.
As far as I can tell everything except the local store is now shut, and even that is only open 7-7 now. Thankfully online shopping is a thing.
I'm still working and we've been pretty busy. On Monday we had 70+ MBP & MBA's go out due to everyone working at home! But it is starting to quieten down.
Walking too and from work is weird. Just no one about anywhere.
Walking too and from work is weird. Just no one about anywhere.
This week alone there have been 2 flights over my property by three black helicopters. Definitely military. They're coming for us
I respect everybody’s different and it’s not always easy to admit what you did on the Internet, we all have different outlooks on our lifestyles and how we approach our daily activities. However, I gather it seems like you’re more introverted by choice, versus being introverted by being that’s ‘the type of person’ you are per se. And being that the pandemic has put you in a state where you are confined Even more so, it seems like you would rather choose that lifestyle regardless.
For me, I’m very extroverted, I enjoy meeting different types of people, but I can still do that without having to segregate myself away from people entirely, but I’m strategic enough where I’m not in large crowds given the conditions, but I can still have a conversation with someone from a safe distance, while respecting the whole ’social distancing’.
Anyways, it’s definitely different times we are living in now where it’s in the back of our minds about thinking of what we need to do protect ourselves away from what’s happening, but I also don’t want to interrupt my life where I can’t have that ‘social cycle’ of talking to people in public. I still choose to have control over my life, and not let something like this pandemic have control over me. It’s a difficult entity to separate, but I think it’s some thing that it’s worth thinking about.
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I’m outside my house every day. Yesterday, I went for a walk on a green belt trail and saw a few other preople and did some chores in the back yard. I was watching a person report from an apartment in downtown NYC and I think this might be a difference when you live in the suburbs like I do or you are downtown surrounded by high rises.
Now who am I interacting with? At the grocery store, I’m using self checkout. At the fast food restaurant, I am being handed a drink, I go home and wash my hands.
Is going out of the house more dangerous than staying at home? I have to say yes, especially when you look at the now known infection rate in the US. Can it be mitigated by safe practices? I want to say yes, but the bottom line will be if I end up coming down with the illness or not, and even then, there is a luck aspect.
Disclaimer: Long post ahead/No TLDR available.😁
In terms of the ‘social norm‘ of businesses, like..malls, restaurants, stadiums, gyms, ect.., allother venues are all closed, which only leaves you a few options in terms of actually communicating with people, which would either be through your job [Which I gather you’re retired] or people you randomly see you at a gas station for example. My point is, I still socialize with people like I normally would, But it’s more limited by regulations versus choice, however I still take into account that how to minimize contact the best I can in terms of keeping my hands clean, keeping a safe distance, keeping the Convo short/quick And I blade my body so I’m not having direct face-to-face contact, etc. (Those are all things that I personally practice.)
For me, I make my own Schedule, My office primarily is my ‘work vehicle’ (Which I don’t share with anyone) or Temporarily working from Home as I’m typing this now, and anyone I have contact with, is very minimal, From a safe distance. But I still try to be human to those people that I talk to you, and interact with like I would any other day if this situation wasn’t here.
Anyways, I wouldn’t shutter myself indoors entirely just because I feel ‘I have to’ given the situation, But I’m not afraid to be human either out in public, where you know...smile/talk without acting so robotic. And I certainly wouldn’t allow this situation to be so overwhelmingly bearing, where others are afraid to even open their garage door, that’s just not a way to live, ultimately that carries psychological barriers that can cause extreme mental dysfunction/stress that is not healthy. (I gather you know this, I’m not saying that is you), but it definitely is putting people in that situation, because the fear is so overwhelming for them, they don’t know how to handle being normal anymore, so they ‘Quarantine’ Themselves away more than just C/19 itself, it’s a way of life they may never overcome Psychologically.
Heard about the first likely case in our social circle. Ex military guy, fitness obsessed, approaching 50. He's knocked out pretty bad. Not hospital bad, but nasty flu bad, or at least that's the last we heard. He'd been skiing a couple of weeks ago, came back and ignored the request to self isolate for 2 weeks.
In Taiwan 2 test positive and 5000 get quarantined. In the US as many as 50-60 employees at Costco or over 1000 at a meat plant would test positive and you don’t see anyone being quarantined but people wonder why the US has so many cases and why so many have died 🤔 
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Asia Today: Taiwan quarantines 5,000 after hospital cluster
Health authorities in Taiwan are quarantining 5,000 people while looking for the source of two new coronavirus cases linked to a hospital. Officials said on Monday that they have not been able to identify how the husband and wife became infected after a brief hospital stay in the Taoyuan...
I have had the first of the two doses of Moderna vaccine but am continuing to maintain the routine I've been following since last spring, and have no plans to change things. Sticking with the precautions that I've put into place when leaving home and going to a store or other place of business, staying at home as much as possible, not making unnecessary trips outside the home, etc., will be what I continue to do even after I've had the second dose of vaccine in a few weeks. There's a long way to go before it really will be safe for people to go out-and-about as freely as we once did, to eat in restaurants again, go to the theatre, concerts and movies again, etc.