How is the corona virus affecting you?

On condition that restaurants are able to comply with all the distancing and health stipulations they are now permitted to open for in house consumption (without alcohol).

Spending an evening eating with folks wearing masks who are 2 metres distant from me without a glass of wine is not my ideal scenario so I don't think that I'll bother.
 
"The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) has suspended 14 interprovincial trains from Sunday (May 3) until further notice, SRT governor Nirut Maneephan announced. The suspension of services was in compliance with the government’s extension of its Emergency Decree to control the further spread of Covid-19 that includes curtailing the movement of people across provinces, with close monitoring by public health officials."
 
I haven't had to wear a mask as yet but I shall when visiting Immigration later this month.

Bespoke silk coronavirus masks. Whether silk is an adequate filter I have no idea but they look trendy.

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We have just gotten a government update yesterday, our society is returning to a more normal state slowly.

Beginning may 11:
- Everyone should maintain 1.5 metres of distance to others at all times
-All primary schools and daycares open
-Children can play outside without restrictions to age 12
-From 12 onwards we are allowed sports and outdoor activities but with 1,5 metres of distance between us
-Libraries are opened
- Barbers, hairdressers, nail salons, fysiotherapy, nutritionists and other low contact personal assistants and similar workers can start again.
-Mouth covers will be mandatory in public transport

June 1st:
- Colleges and high schools and universities start teaching again
- Restaurants can open for a limited amount of customers (max 30) and with allocated seats only
-Cinemas, cafes, museums, and theatres, music venues and cultural hotspots may be visited again with limits on the amount of visitors

This is all provided we will not get a second wave.
 
Things seem to be changing, there is more traffic on the road, more people out and about. Tomorrow is supposed to be a scorcher of a day so everyone will be ignoring the distancing rule.
 
Had a somewhat sad conversation with my folks yesterday. I called them to check up on how they're doing, and of course, the first topic was how they're getting along considering everything, and it didn't take long for my mom to break down and start crying over the phone.

That's really unusual for my mom. She sniffles a little at funerals, and that's about it. This was a full-on spitty, snotty waterworks kind of crying, and it lasted for several minutes.

She started talking about how she never thought she'd live through a time like this, and seeing all these people dying every day on the news, and watching news stories about suicides increasing dramatically, people out of work, etc and she just broke down and started crying.

I'd be interested in the psychology behind all this, as I know the younger people in my family feel more inconvenienced than anything else, and my siblings (the next generation up) are more wary but practical about things, and then my mom, who's normally pretty solid, falling apart at the mention of it.

Part of it is probably her mental state, I know she's been very stressed the last couple of years over her health and my dad's health, and maybe this is just reminding her of her own impending mortality (she'll be 82 this year). I think, for the first time, she feels like maybe there's not much else to live for.
 
Lullabelle said:
Things seem to be changing, there is more traffic on the road, more people out and about. Tomorrow is supposed to be a scorcher of a day so everyone will be ignoring the distancing rule.
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I think around here, people are just fed up with the whole thing and have reached the point of frustration with it all, and they're thinking, "Well, we can't go on like this forever," so they're getting back to their regular lives as much as possible, regardless of the rules.
 
It looks like we'll have a split soon in how things are "working" in the UK. The leaders of the Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly appear to be a lot more circumspect than the Westminster government, rightly in my view.
 
TastyReuben said:
I think around here, people are just fed up with the whole thing and have reached the point of frustration with it all, and they're thinking, "Well, we can't go on like this forever," so they're getting back to their regular lives as much as possible, regardless of the rules.
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That's the same here, and our government has given in. I'm worried this will cause a second wave, so I will be careful regardless.
 
TastyReuben said:
Part of it is probably her mental state, I know she's been very stressed the last couple of years over her health and my dad's health, and maybe this is just reminding her of her own impending mortality (she'll be 82 this year). I think, for the first time, she feels like maybe there's not much else to live for.
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I think so - people of your Mum's age have already lived through what they thought were the worst times so this is a big shock.
 
morning glory said:
We don't hear much about this on the news - but it seems that Greece has somehow avoided the worst of the pandemic. How this has happened is unclear but here are the latest stats. Given the situation in Italy and Spain (and the UK) this seems very strange. They are now coming out of lockdown and almost everything is opening again.

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Greece closed its schools and enforced physical distancing measures in early March, while the UK was still carrying on as though nothing strange was happening. It does seem remarkable, though, that with a run-down healthcare system after years of austerity, they achieved such relative success. Perhaps, paradoxically, Greece was better prepared for a crisis after experiencing financial crisis for so long.
 
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