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Spain is now officially on lockdown for a minimum of 15 days, though it may be longer. A lot longer. So after one last quick outing to get more cat food earlier in the day (I wasn’t as well stocked as I’d previously thought) I am now housebound for the duration. Have to say I was very disappointed to see so many bars still open, with one owner saying that until they were strictly prohibited from opening (rather than the “express recommendation” issued on Friday) they wouldn’t close. But even worse were the idiots INSIDE THE BARS… I mean what were they waiting for? I felt guilty enough going out again for the cat food, how did they justify sitting around (not a safe distance apart) just to have a tapa and a beer? Anyhow, all bars have now been forced to close.
At home have spent much of the day cooking up some of the food I bought yesterday: chicken & veg garam masala, meatballs, marinara sauce (with added sausage and veg), all now frozen in single meal sized packets. Tomorrow will do something with garbanzos and spinach, basically trying to cook and freeze all my fresh vegetables as they certainly won’t last 15 days. And in case you’re wondering what I’m going to do with all that toilet paper 😉 …
Meanwhile am hoping that the “cold” I picked up while away this week is actually JUST A COLD. I keep reading conflicting info about coronavirus symptoms, so I’m going to stop reading them now and just hope for the best. No fever (as of yet) so that’s a positive sign. It’s going to be a very weird time. Thank goodness for the internet. I’d hate to be going through this without all you guys. 🙂
These are the only shops and services allowed to be open.
- food
- beverage
- essential goods
- pharmacy
- clinics
- optical
- orthopedics
- hygiene products
- hairdressers
- newsagents
- gas stations
- tobacco
- technological equip
- telecos
- pet food
- online shops
- dry cleaners
- laundries
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“Hairdressers” is just weird, and an incomprehensible exception. As a massage therapist with a very small, select, long standing clientele, I’ve been working, with extra sanitation in place (including the antibacterial and antiviral Thieve’s Oil in my massage cream). But I’m weighing the wisdom of staying shut down after the week I blocked out for my eye surgery — which I’ve about decided isn’t going to happen, because it requires not only being in the surgery centre but two followups in a doctor’s office where they are ALWAYS jammed and ALWAYS nearly an hour behind and insist you sign in on a TOUCH SCREEN which I CANNOT SEE, and that’s only the first of four. It would be just great if I ended up having to suspend this thing with my eyes half fixed, or developed complications when the local hospitals were overwhelmed. I saw photos of people jammed shoulder to shoulder at international airports in the US, coming back from affected countries because of the travel ban. FFS.
If you’ve had that sniffle and throat since last week, well, every info here says it’s about shortness of breath and a cough.
People are idiots.
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I thought that first about hairdressers too, but it turns out if’s for those with clients who have mobility problems and aren’t able to wash their own hair. Imagine not being able to wash your hair for a month!
Stay shut down after the eye surgery, other than follow-ups. This shit is escalating like crazy, so fast. I wish I had taken it more seriously two weeks ago.
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We’re not used to this. The time to take it seriously is before it looks serious, but thanks to vaccines and sanitation we’re not used to epidemics and quarantines — back in the days of diphtheria and scarlet fever, people took it a little more to heart. But now we’ve got the state of Italy to look at, and I’m glad Seville is locked down, and I wish more people weren’t such magical thinkers.
You can’t get hand sanitizer around here, but I have the professional advantage of having all the ingredients on hand in bulk. Later today will be Kitchen Chemistry 101, the Engineer found a recipe from WHO on line. Because of course he did.
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Nobody is used to this Sled. We have regular flu vaccines here every winter, etc. Now both Italy and Spain are locked down, because people didn’t take it seriously enough.
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I’m currently “self-isolating”. I have a bit of a cold & developed a cough on Thursday evening – a slightly mucky, certainly not dry & continuous, cough, and no temperature. But I did spend twenty minutes in an interntional airport waiting for my mum a week & a half ago & then more time having a coffee with her before her flight home on Tuesday, I mentioned it to my boss. He decided we should take a stand and sent me home with work. So yay to working in my jammies and keeping the dog company. But boo to not being able to take him for a walk – I don’t understand that, I don’t live in a city and I can easily steer clear of other people.
I’m not at all concerned I have it, it just feels like a normal cold, I don’t even feel that grotty, but my horror is being “patient zero” in the office or amongst friends & family, so home I’m staying. Luckily I have plenty of toilet paper already as I tend to buy a 24 pack when I need it as it works out cheaper 😀
Stay safe. I hope you don’t go stir crazy!
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One of the exceptions for people going out here is to walk their dogs. But we are only allowed to go out one at a time, not with other people.
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Eh, I have that cold, too. I know it’s a cold. My boss told me to stay home again tomorrow because I coughed at her on the phone. We are not locked down yet but I expect to get the workforce out to remote pastures on Wednesday. We work in the nursing home industry -and this is deadly to our members. Deadly. We deal with all the health care workers and they are a tough, smart, sturdy lot. My mom’s in a nursing home near here, I sincerely hope my visit last weekend was not my last. Once those germs get in there it spreads like wildfire. Awful. Stay well, Shawn. Or, get over your cold, and then stay well.
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Cold seems to be improving. Ears still blocked but I can smell again! Hear ya about elderly folk. I have even whatsapped my crazy neighbour downstairs, telling her to let me know if she needs anything. Even though she hates me and screams shit at me when I see her. Because… I’m not the horrible person she has decided I am.
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I thin we in UK are about to go on lockdown 😥🙏
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