Social distancing will surely be the word of 2020, and I am a believer in it. Apart from that it keeps the bugs away, there are also some more social benefits from this. One is the awkwardness of when you see someone who you don't know that good...should you hug, give three kisses (a Dutch habit) or just shake hands. Well with this social distance story this debate gets a lot easier, because all of the above are out of question.
Also for instance in restaurants or other places you should keep 1.5 meter distance from other tables. Isn't this what you always have wanted when getting some food, in stead of being cramped up next to strangers overhearing their conversations. Or buying in a queue somewhere with that annoying stranger awkwardly pushing in your knees with his stuff, also a goner. Not too bad if you ask me
All jokes aside. The social distancing is a good thing at the moment, but not something you would want to be keeping because affection with people you know is actually good for humans I think. So I am still very keen on social distancing, especially since I work with sick people. This makes my position also different compared to other. I don't want to be a source, because I can kill people with it who didn't ask for that.
So I was in Amsterdam over the weekend. City life! Yay, the feeling of vacay! And with that kind of weather really the calm inside the busy city which is actually medium busy at the moment. And there ofcourse in a birthday which I was there were a lot of different opinions about social distancing.
The Amsterdam region hasn't been hit that hard in the first Covid-19 wave, so I really do understand that you look at it from a different perspective with a different experience.
It is interesting how social distancing is working (or not) depending where you live in the world. Here in Nicaragua we just assume that everyone has had contact with the virus. Buses still travel overcrowded, schools have never closed and the government promotes large social gatherings. My family and I have gone to extreme measures to protect our health until either there is an effective vaccine or it blows itself out (which I did believe will happen)
Actually not a bad of thinking on how dealing with it. When it was hight tide here, that was also my way to go. But now it has calmed down I feel it different. But it is not like it wasnt here. It was big time, and that is what not everybody sees.
I guess you guys are in full on lockdown on the homestead with no outside contact right?
Yes, we are still on full lockdown. We have been in this situation for almost three years. They only contact we have with the outside world is with the internet and cell phones. If we didn't have those things we would be very isolated. I have video chats with y sons and grandchildren but it does not make up for a personal hug. I hope that soon things will change and "normal" will return.
yeah for you guys it is even a lot more different with the politics involved for so long already. I guess maybe then for you at the moment there is not so much different as say a year ago, because locked in the house..or am I seeing this all wrong?
Staying in the compound is not much different but now there are added problems. The economy is really bad and many people are going hungry. Water and electricity is becoming a problem for most people. We are okay here. My biggest problem is the intermittent internet and soaring costs. I get 6 mega on a good day for the one low price of $120 per month.
It definitely has highlighted for me how different our experiences all are. Here am I, longing for hugs - yet I'm still cautious, even in my dreams I social distance!!!
Is it already a bit calmer in your region there or still so massive?
hahah yeah girl you got there in the wrooooong time ej