Songbird76
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DD is crushed. We watched the press conference about new regulations and they have extended the previous regulations from April 6th to June 1st, and they made them more strict. No public/social gatherings of more than 3 people. This also means get togethers in the home...you can have the household plus 3 visitors, and ONLY if you can still maintain 1.5 meter distance from each other. They also strongly advise people not to leave their house unless it's to go to work if there's no way to work from home, or to go to the grocery store, and then you have to do that alone. One person from the household can go to the store. IF you must go out to get fresh air, go alone if possible, and certainly no more than 3 people and only if you keep 1.5 meter distance between you. Mayors are being given power to place fines on anyone who is standing too close together or who have more than 3 people in a group. Kids are excluded from that...they can play together.
This means DD can't get together with any of her friends...although one friend is not allowed out by her parents. And one friend's mom works with corona patients at a hospital, so it's likely she will at some point be infected, so she can't leave her house. The other friends live out of town, so...she won't see her friends until at LEAST April 6th when the school closure is supposed to end. Though someone asked if schools were included as a gathering of more than 3 people and he said no, schools are still only closed until April 6th as of now. It could change, but that wasn't discussed. I think it's pretty stupid to tell people not to leave their homes, but then tell kids and teachers it's fine to put themselves at risk...how do you maintain 1.5 meter distance in a classroom or in the cafeteria??
They also said if anyone in a household is sick, everyone in that household is in quarantine. No one is allowed to leave. So basically we're on lockdown, but they aren't calling it a lockdown.
This means DD can't get together with any of her friends...although one friend is not allowed out by her parents. And one friend's mom works with corona patients at a hospital, so it's likely she will at some point be infected, so she can't leave her house. The other friends live out of town, so...she won't see her friends until at LEAST April 6th when the school closure is supposed to end. Though someone asked if schools were included as a gathering of more than 3 people and he said no, schools are still only closed until April 6th as of now. It could change, but that wasn't discussed. I think it's pretty stupid to tell people not to leave their homes, but then tell kids and teachers it's fine to put themselves at risk...how do you maintain 1.5 meter distance in a classroom or in the cafeteria??
They also said if anyone in a household is sick, everyone in that household is in quarantine. No one is allowed to leave. So basically we're on lockdown, but they aren't calling it a lockdown.
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