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We are finally out of lockdown, and slowly getting our lives back together, with cafes and restaurants open to small numbers. I can go to the climbing gym next week which is a big relief.
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It's been a week since there were any deaths in Aus and you have to go back to the beginning of September when there were more than 10 on a single day.
Many factors behind all this but I'm glad I'm here, and in a regional area at that. Life's been fairly normal for a long time.
Hope everything stays okay for everyone elsewhere...
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Ancient_of_MuMu wrote: Surprisingly we aren't really loving life. Everyone is still a bit damaged and very nervous from the whole experience of being locked up for 4 months and only taking very small steps outside. I still have hardly caught up with anyone and have only had a couple of excursions outside the house in the week or two since lockdown ended.
I'll tell you what, it took a couple of weeks after 9/11 to stop looking at jet airliners as missiles. And that was a one-day event. I can't imagine what four months of lockdown would feel like.
Are there people you can talk to for this kind of thing? That may be a question for everyone.
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It's weird how crowds make me a bit nervous. We had good weather on a public holiday and we went to the beach, but it was so crowded we instead hung out at a park near the beach where we could socially distance instead.
And everyone is waiting for others to make the first move on social engagement. You don't want to be a pushy jerk encouraging people to step outside their comfort zones because you want to see your friends.
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I miss my friends and family, but it's quite tolerable because I am slightly introverted. My social bubble is actually just my department at work, and that's not really a social bubble because I never see any of them outside of work. But now that I have wrapped nearly all of my outdoor projects, I am getting out of shape and really want to go to the gym. And dancing with friends, but that may not happen until 2022. I do some exercise at home, but it will soon be painfully cold to go running. And body weight exercises like pushups and lunges can be really hard on my aging joints. I miss the gym because there were so many ways to exercise with weights ranging from nearly nothing to a multiple of my own weight. The gym has been open since July, but I just don't think it's safe enough yet.
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Phase 3 until December 4th. My son goes back to school full time next week, ending the hybrid model. I'm simply seeing more and more people not wearing masks/wearing them like chin guards. My city's running fine, despite Hurricane Zeta causing disruptions to the power grid. N.O. is still sitting in Phase 2.5, far more conservative than the rest of the state.
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I see Mumu talking about the long Melbourne lockdown, at least your infections were low enough for it to have been useful in clearing most of it up, ours is purely to protect the hospital system from being completely overrun - we will still have thousands of cases and {probably) dozens of deaths when it finishes. As an example our town of approx 220,000 has had 175 deaths (last official figure I saw), per capita that would equate to 4000 deaths in Melbourne and 3500 for New Zealand - and we are one of the least affected areas in the UK. I am genuinely happy that the death toll for my ANZAC family is so low.
This is going to be long, and slow, next two years.
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At which point, I will be very happy to meet up with my US friends in NYC and elsewhere. Probably not this summer but hopefully the next one.
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ThirstyMan wrote: I will be very happy to meet up with my US friends in NYC and elsewhere. Probably not this summer but hopefully the next one.
Looking forward to it, Andy! It's been way too long...
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