Are you living under lockdown restrictions?

[canetoad]

Regional Victoria Au:

-Compulsory masks outside your home
-No visitors to home
-Excercise with one other person
-Stay home except for food, medical, care etc

Melbourne metro area has all this plus:

-8pm -5am curfew (workers excepted)
-Confined to 5km radius from home

A few idiots are flaunting the rules, mostly people are complying.

How is it where you are?

[captain queeg]

1. We are at stage two, with slight easing of restrictions

Must wear a mask inside any indoor business or meeting place. Also outside if you can’t maintain social distancing. No groups of more than 5 people. I don’t think any of this applies to family members in their own house.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. I'm in New Mexico.

We've been able to control our infection rate in no small part because people are mostly staying home, and when they go out they are wearing masks.

Earlier today a friend stopped by to help me with assembling a cat carrier. We both wore masks inside my house. Perhaps it wasn't necessary, but it made sense.

Yesterday I got a phone call from a friend who lives in Texas who was passing through. I'm glad I got her message too late to rendezvous with her. She expressed a strong desire to return to Santa Fe to see me. I need to let her know that I don't want that to happen any time soon.

[abqtommy]

6. Yes, I'm in New Mexico also and the word of the day here is "living", Alex...

[bobnicewander]

3. Counting today 153 days. 1 more day will be 22 weeks UPDATE

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March 12th I went grocery shopping, was out about 2 hours, got home about 8 am so I count that whole day.

My location is Northern Illinois. I will be 80 in January. Smoked for 55 years - quit 8 1/2 years ago - so far no coughing, no emphysema. Have been blessed with good health - only medication I take on rare occasions is aspirin. Get minimal check-up once a year from the VA, but maybe not this year as I feel good and don't want to go where there may be a bunch of sick people.

I live alone, have no family, no SO. Have hired a couple to grocery shop for me (helps a family instead of a company). They leave grocery's on a table outside my apartment door. I bring them in after they have left. Rinse bottles, cans, plastic containers from foods so I can take trash out about every 10 days to 2 weeks. When I order takeout it is left on table outside and I bring it in after delivery person has left.

Mail boxes are inside. I check mail once a week.

1966: Napoleon XIV - 'They're coming to take me away. ha, ha.'

[Hortensis]

9. :) Ha, ha, ho, ho, hee, hee. On the plus side,

if this had happened in 1966 - no internet, no chatting on line, no downloading books and music, no streaming movies.

We would have had TV stations, though, 3 of them where we were, lots of Gunsmoke and Father Knows Best reruns to fill in between eagerly awaited new episodes of Bonanza and I Dream of Jeannie, as long as the season lasted.

[malaise]

4. The restrictions aren't what they were between March and June

Curfew hours aren't as restrictive as they were.
https://jis.gov.jm/jamaica-and-the-coronavirus/

What's more since they opened up the island, the numbers are up.

They lock down communities after there is community spread.

[peacebuzzard]

5. cases rising exponentially. county mayor is a mask-less fool.

Knox County, TN.
Recently at a Repug convention attended by the usual group of idiots: No one had a mask on, not the candidate (who lost to the Dump's stooge, Hagerty, who proudly advertises as endorsed by Trump)

I am remaining on my property with minimal excursions to outside. I always wear mask, gloves. No one comes inside my house. I need some work done in the house but I am putting it all off.
In the city of Knoxville the Dem mayor has daily reminders from the Board of Health to adhere to all requirements for the viral control.
Just outside the city limits where I reside, most people do not adhere to requirements. This is Dump country, some light bulbs around.

The stores do require masks, however there are many chin wearers.

schools are opening, many teachers resigning. Not good here.

[SharonClark]

7. Has anyone ever been in a real "lock down" in the US?

Serious question.

[Hortensis]

10. You bet. Read bobnicewander's post. My husband and I

aren't quite as tight but close to. No visitors, including family.

We go pick up groceries because we're in the country and, where possible, order everything else on line for delivery or do without. Delivery of prepared foods not available out here. (A pneumonia vaccination did require breaking isolation.) The groceries are ordered on line and put in the back of our car by a masked store associate who never comes close to us, also in masks. We have plenty of outdoors room and do chat from a goodly distance with neighbors.

The situation's truly crazy and dreadful here for sure, but many millions who can, and that includes a whole lot of retired and otherwise able people, are in self lockdown. The real thing, many millions more would but cannot do.

[davsand]

11. I just got off a required quarantine after a workplace exposure to COVID.

Public Health put everyone exposed under a 2 week quarantine. I had two negative tests (thankfully) waited the mandated two weeks, and I'm now ok to leave my house if I choose to. The entire state of Illinois is under a mask requirement when you are out in public but there are a bunch of people that ignore the order and several lawsuits have been filed trying to undo the order. It's a shit show.

I work at home--have been since March--and the only times I leave the house is to go to the pharmacy to pick up prescriptions. That has been by my choice up to the time I was exposed at work when I agreed to go in for two days to train a new employee. From here on out, I plan to work at home until forced to go back.

I do think Pritizger (our Dem Governor) has saved lives with what he's done, and I've heard several people express that same attitude. Illinois got nailed pretty hard in the early stages of the pandemic and Pritzger has struggled to get the curve flattened as much as possible.


Laura

[DFW]

8. In the USA for 2 more days

Here in Dallas, I have only gone from the airport to the house, few trips to the office, the dentist, the pharmacy and food shopping. Nothing else. EVERYONE has been really good about wearing masks, and traffic on the streets has been light compared to normal times.

In Cape Cod, it was house, food shopping and sparsely populated beach.

So, while it wasn't really lockdown, it was close to it.

Back in Europe, I hear infections have spiked up somewhat, but what counts for an uptick over there would barely register in the statistics of someplace like Florida. They should let me back in, as I have a valid permanent residence and work permit for Germany. The Germans have now instituted immediate virus tests for passengers arriving from danger zones, such as the USA. My wife was tested when she got off the plane a week ago. She got the result in 24 hours. I hope I do, too, as I need to be in Holland in 6 days, and can't travel if they quarantine me.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Only Modest

And the restrictions barely affect us, as we aren't crowd people anymore.
Still have 50 person limits on gatherings, still need masks in public buildings, but everything is open.
NE Illinois. We're in Phase 4. Positivity is a tiny bit <4, except in the southwest regions near St Louis. Positivity there is 6.
My county is 3.8 and death rate per case is well down.