We're going into lockdown

[wiseheart]

Starting the day after tomorrow. Don't ask me why not from the beginning of the week because I don't know. Sometimes the logic (or the lack thereof) of TPTB baffles me.

In any case, it doesn't change my life much. I didn't go out of the house between 8pm and 5am anyway. I didn't go to restaurants, parties, wellness hotels or whatnot. So, basically, same old, same old - just perhaps not so many inconsiderate idiots on the streets. But not even that is for sure.

As for personal news, we had our monthly cleaning frenzy today. Plus I had my food runs and ordered the eggs at school, meeting some beloved colleagues from the distance and waving at them from far away. Still, it was lovely.

No creative activities whatsoever, though, because I'm dead on my feet. But that's okay. It means I won't have to go out tomorrow, when people would probably be panic shopping. *g*

Comments

[artemis10002000]

Sounds like you'll need a day off from writing after all that cleaning. So is your lockdown only for nighttime then? Probably a good thing to cut down the nightlife since people are so damn irresponsible partying.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That is what it looks like, yeah. Plus, middle schools (beyond age 14) and universities switch to online tutoring, all restaurants and hotels are closed (restaurants can deliver food but not accept people inside) and whatnot. It's still very ad hoc, so we'll see how it goes. But yeah, cutting down the nightlife is a good thing in my eyes.

[artemis10002000]

Oh man, schools back to online, too! Good thing you don't have to deal with that anymore, I hear from everyone working in education that it's been a mess especially the first time around in spring. Which, I mean, understandable, nobody was prepared or trained for that, or had the equipment. Our schools are still open though universities had pretty much accepted it would inofficially be another online term before the winter term even started.

Hopefully these measures will help chop down the numbers for you.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, there will be still normal business in the elementary schools, much to the dismay of my colleagues, since it is near impossible to make the kiddies keep their distance and whatnot. But I'm very happy to be a retired old hag indeed. My job now is to provide moral support via phone to all the poor education slaves.

[meathiel]

At least your schools are going online, here it's still in person classes, which I don't think is a good idea.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but only the kids 14 and beyond. The little ones still have in person classes - can you imagine keeping your proper distance in a class consisting of 30-32 six-year-olds?

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

We have just come out of a 120 day lockdown. And of course, the first weekend after lockdown had ended, people went nuts. Partying, no masks, no common sense.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

People are really hopeless. Perhaps it's just me that I never understood the appeal of partying - I never drank excessively, so I guess the whole meaning of a party went by me every time - but in the current situation even the idiots ought to understand that it is not worth endangering their lives... and the lives of everyone else.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

I don't get TPTB most of the time, either. Our hospital percents are worse than they've ever been, and we're not doing anything like what we were at the start. I know part of that is what we've learned, but not all. *shrugs*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I guess no-one with a logically working brain will ever understand TPTB. You'd need specific brain damage for that.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

True.

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

Not being a night person, I can never really understand the point of night-time curfews. Surely most people with jobs, children or studies need to be asleep at night anyway? I'd say it was a Northern Europe thing to not be drinking in bars all night long, but Norskies seem to think that the correct time to go out drinking is from 10pm onwards to all night. And most of them do have jobs to go to afterwards!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, I am a night person, but in my case it means baking around midnight or reading until 2am or the likes. I never was one for drinking; I guess the black currant flavoured Royal vodka I got from my friend Alex for my birthday will last Mum and me for the rest of our combined lives.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

I'm glad the lockdown will not change your day-to-day life much. Here, we live much as you do - only go to the grocery store or supply store when necessary. No dining out and barely seeing any friends, now that it's too cold to sit outside much.

Whew, you had a busy day there.

I noticed there are more empty shelves at the grocery store again, as our CV-19 numbers are way back up again. So I think people are panic shopping again here, too.
We had some good news about a vaccine yesterday, so I think there may be light at the end of this long, dark tunnel.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Your word in God's ear, my friend.

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Logic is lacking here too.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

We are surrounded by idiots... in undeservedly high positions.

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

Hope the lock down does some good. We have plenty of idiots here also - sigh. Covid in the US is extremely high.
Happy to see you get some rest, you do need days like that - winks.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Infection an death rates are steadily increasing here, too. Mum and I have been mostly self-isolating ever since this madness broke out in February... I think. I can count on one hand the cases when I left the house and it wasn't for getting food or having an appointment with some doctor.