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

I also have had a hard time. I already told it but on one side, as a result of the lockdown along last Spring, and on another side, because I’m feeling changes in my body due to age, I was barely able to get up from bed other than for taking the doggies out when necessary. So no matter how much early I got up, I used to get tired all day long.

Luckily, I’m feeling better since last Autumn and I’m more active. Used to get up at 8. Take the doggies out and do my walking with my female doggie who is younger than my other sweetheart at 6:00 in the evening.
And I’m using what’s app and the phone to be in contact with my siblings, niece and nephew who are in another city. I use the phone much more than before the pandemic lol. Getting used to audios and that kind of things.

I had to tell it. It’s not what I normally see, ok? I have to make clear that the big majority of people have and show respect for the others, but today, I was having a conversation with an elderly woman in the park when two covidiots (from 25 or more) and one of them was without the mask because he was smoking ( OK. no problem, I understand it) but when passing out, he on purpose sneezed over one of my doggies. It was on purpose, he didn’t sneeze for real. He did it to call the attention. Why? I don’t even know.
Why people do these kind of things? I don’t know it.

It sounds like antisocial behaviour and maybe he is like this in normal life. In the UK at the moment there is an increasing awareness and publicity of how some men intimidate and harass women in the street. It's a kind of bullying in my opinion.

I'm sorry you had to deal with this Azul.

Here in the UK we are being told that vaccine supplies are seriously limited over the next month. The outcome of this is that over 50s are not being vaccinated as anticipated in April, instead they are focusing on completing over 50s and 2nd dosing every one.

The UK has done well to this point and our daily death rates are now in the 100s not 1000s. But we have spaced 1st and 2nd dose by 3 months, this is how it was given to as many people as fast (we have over one third of population 1st dosed). But now we will slow down as all 2nd doses must be given as a priority.

I understand this but it means like so many I'm going to have to wait longer for mine. I am one year under 50 lol.

Sorry you're struggling so much, rechu. I agree it's even harder to get out of bed when it's dark out. Here we're heading towards spring so at least I don't have to get up before sunrise, but it's been really grey and depressing the last couple of weeks :/

I'm just so tired and numb. In the morning I can't get out of bed, in the evening I can't be bothered to move from the couch to bed. And when I do finally get to bed, I'm mindlessly scrolling through my phone for hours. I know it's a bad habit. But it fits my blaaaah mood.

Apparently we're moving into the third wave. For weeks there's been plans for lifting restrictions and now we'll probably get stricter measures again. It feels like this is never going to end.

It's still summer but lately it's been grey and depressing here for some reason. The weather has been so weird. It was sprinkling this morning when I let the dogs out. We rarely get a drop of rain in the summer.

9 municipalities in the Metropolitan Region started a new strict quarantine. It's chaotic because it's mostly areas of the capital that people need to pass through to get to work or home. People who don't live or work in those areas still need to get off the metro in a quarantine area to take a bus, to another area for their job or to go to the doctor, etc. Nothing in the ridiculous permit system was designed to handle these cases. They were showing the military stopping people in the metro stations that were in these sort of situations. At least the soldiers were trying to be understanding and generally let them go on their way. It's just the lack of foresight a year into this that amazes me sometimes. Greater Santiago is so interconnected that it's complicated to have adjoining municipalities in different phases. There are areas where you cross the street and suddenly a whole new set of rules applies.

It feels so weird sometimes. I used to live in the capital and when we first moved out here, we'd still go in occasionally on the weekends to buy some things we can't get here, etc. Now I realized it's been over six months since I have been to the city. I only see it on the news.


There will be new announcements today about changing municipalities to other phases. So, I am again hoping we don't end up quarantined.

Here, the weather is so good. It so nice to go out. But, still, we are gonna be banned to travel not only outside my Community but even outside my province. So, I won’t be allowed to meet my sister, brother-in-law, niece and nephew.
Meanwhile, foreigners people are being able to come here to the islands for vacations and rich younger tourists are also find the opportunity to travel here by plane to have illegal parties. This is a virus brought by the rich and pay by the poor.
I have no words to describe how I’m feeling. I feel tramped and furious.

Yep, same here. On travel forums there are always questions about traveling here now. People tell them it's a bad idea, but many come anyways. It's the last thing we need. They are allowed to travel out of the Metropolitan Region to other areas within 24 hours of arrival. Here inter-regional travel for residents is restricted to only a few permitted reasons.

Another 7 municipalities are going back to strict lockdown as of Saturday. We had over 6,000 new cases in the country today. We are one of the losers. Back to quarantine we go. Now it's only 2 permits a week for 2 hours each to go out.

How damn we are gonna do tourism to get the shot? If we can get out out our own neighbourhood, we are trapped, @rechu ,lol!
@rechu, it’s supposed in other European countries are taking very restrictive measures there but they can come here to mess it around. This is the last straw. I hope a politician can explain is why, but doing it, if it’s not to much to ask, without lying on our face.

Here, the fourth wave is already considered as inevitable, the good weather is gonna increase imprudent behaviours. Just today, began to increase the numbers of contagious. So, I wonder how long this is gonna last if we are always making pay to a part of the population while we accept another part of these population to do whatever they want. Viva la vida loca! lol!

I’m so tired because of the differences, the lack of equality.

This pisses me off. So. Much. I read somewhere there were already like 200 extra flights from Germany to Mallorca as soon as the Balearic Islands were no longer high risk. A) not supposed to be traveling for fun still and have numbers rising even more when they come back and B) Spain does not need to be overrun by German tourists misbehaving, disregarding all corona measures (because that's what German tourists are like, I'm sorry to say).

Yes, people should be allowed to travel for other reasons like visiting their relatives who they could’t have seen for more than a year.

You know we are a country whose main Economical sector is Tourism. That’s why. But, it’s insulting for Spanish people because I could also travel to Balear Islands but I’m not allowed because I don’t speak German. lol

I guess it's fitting that the lockdown announcement came today on the one year anniversary of the declaration of the state of constitutional exception. Without the constitutional exception they can't use lockdowns or give tourists preferential treatment, because it's not constitutional to essentially create different classes of people, some who have more rights than others.

They closed the borders to all but legal residents and citizens a year ago too. Honestly, I think they never should have opened them. We'd be better off right now.

And, those people that want to come here? Half the time they asking for advice about finding a loophole around the quarantine upon arrival and PCR test requirements. So, I am sure a lot of tourists come here and don't respect the rules.

And don't start me on the lying. At a press conference the other day, the health undersecretary flippantly said that we shouldn't be concerned about the Brazilian variant because the vaccine works just as well against it. I have seen several articles discussing this. Brazil is mainly using the same vaccine as here, so they have been studying if the vaccine will work on the variant. There's no final verdict, but initial findings seem to indicate that it is less effective. They lie and lie. I am sick of it.

Something else. My friend, who is in an area that hasn't gone to quarantine yet, and I were chatting about the whole thing. I have seen some of the the maps of where the virus is concentrated in my municipality and it's mainly downtown. We are outside of town and we were green, which was the lowest case incidence. Here people seem pretty responsible and the houses are spaced out. A lot of neighbors seem to be professionals that work from home.

Anyways, the first Health Minister we had during the pandemic, I call him Robert de Niro (google Jaime Mañalich and you will see why), liked to do this thing called dynamic quarantines where part of a municipality was quarantined and the other wasn't. It was widely criticized and part of why he was pushed out. My friend and I were joking, though, that's what I need about now. Quarantine downtown but now here. Although, then I guess we'd only be able to shop in the little village up the road.

L.M.A. O. , Here is also the perpetual state of exceptions, yes.

Here, AztraZeneca vaccine is not being given because they are still studying the relation between this vaccine’s administrations and some cases of blood strokes.

So, we are without vaccines, without responsible politicians and without common sense, lol!

Hahahahaha! Jaime Mañalich is also another kind of covidiots. Up this point in time there are many categories of covidiots. Politicians, Health responsibles, denniers and Viva la Pepa (the ones who don’t care), lol!

Here, it happens the same, the downtown is specially crowed and if you travel to the center of Spain, Madrid, is a paradise for illegal parties. I don’t invente it. It’s said by them, the Viva la Pepa people who attend here to parties.

We do have a whole classification system for Covidiots, don't we? Add the students in the US going to Florida for Spring Break, crowding into bars.

And we have another winner. The Electoral Service is insisting on going ahead with municipal elections for April 10th and 11th. The Health Minister announced that if you are selected as a poll worker, you will be eligible for vaccinations. Here they publish a list of people online and in the main newspaper that are the "lucky" ones that get to work the polls all day for 7,000 pesos and a sandwich. They have been going on and on that you develop maximum immunity (whatever this vaccine actually gives you) somewhat after you've had the second vaccine. Do the math. If you get the first vaccine next week (22nd to 26th), there is not enough time to get a second vaccine before the elections. The spacing is 28 days for Sinovac.

Please, I need vibes that I don't get selected or if I am I have to find some way to get excused. I can't even imagine being closed up inside for hours close to other people. Masks will be required, but I am sure more than a few aren't going to wear them properly. We didn't go to vote about rewriting the constitution because the case numbers were high enough to make us feel uncomfortable. I saw footage and it just looked like Covid central. They really need to postpone them, I think.

Here in the USA most states are level or trending down but as of yesterday a few states are trending up again. The news didn’t say which ones but I bet it’s the ones that took off masks and opened 100%. Here it very politically driven. The rich find ways to get shots then do what they want.

Yeah but it's *other* countries that decide if Spain is safe enough for their citizens to travel to, no?

I just don't understand how "parts of Spain are no longer considered high risk" translates to "we can all go on holiday now!" The advise is stil not to travel unnecessarily. It's so selfish. Meanwhile My parents can't even come to visit me - not only because of quarantine rules but hotels here are closed for tourism.

And how can they justify it against German hotels also needing paying guests to survive, that's it's ok to travel all the way to Spain but they have to stay closed???

Sending “skip me” vibes that you will be skipped for the polls!

Thanks Nammu. I hope so. Normally I would suck it up and just do my civic duty, but not barely vaccinated in the middle of a pandemic.