Careful with the older people.
By marguicha
@marguicha (230365)
Chile
April 15, 2020 10:28am CST
I have stayed in my house for over a month now and I confess that I´m bored.
But one of the things I do every morning now is to watch the news where they give the official numbers for the infection. The infection grows everyday and the government puts some parts of the country in quarantine and then changes it according the ciphers they manage.
I have my own numbers though. 92 people have died of COVID-19 here since all this started. And the great majority of them are people with other ailments and around my age or a little bit more.
So, as I told my sister now, I am not planning to go to a party in the near future. The only visits I have had are telephone ones. Thanks be given to smartphones, to free WhatsApp devices that made possible a conversation of hours with Coral.
Are you staying at home? Please do.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
15 Apr 20
But for how long? A major headline today was medical experts stating the stay at home order to remain in place through 2022. Are you ready to live your life like this for three years?
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
15 Apr 20
@JohnRoberts I learned to do that a long time ago.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
15 Apr 20
O live day by day. Or maybe week by week now.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
15 Apr 20
@marguicha Then I guess you accept your fate.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
15 Apr 20
Yes, but you have to start accepting the fact that you may not see your grandchildren anytime soon or ever again in person. I am serious. The headline was there on Yahoo news where medical experts state this stay at home needs to remain in place until 2022. You better pray for an easing up and solution because right now there is no end in sight. Our California governor has in effect stated kiss Christmas goodbye this year.
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@DianneN (254926)
• United States
15 Apr 20
@marguicha I’m not bored. Never have been, never will be.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
16 Apr 20
@JudyEv I do other things too. I am trying to grow some plants in spite of the coming winter.
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@JudyEv (382412)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Apr 20
@marguicha That's a good way of passing the time.
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@spiderdust (14756)
• San Jose, California
15 Apr 20
We're staying at home... but I do wonder each day if I should return to work, especially if the quarantine is going to last as long as it's been rumored.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
15 Apr 20
I imagine this will have to lst until next year.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
15 Apr 20
@spiderdust I will see what will happen week by week. For the moment it is staying at home.
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@spiderdust (14756)
• San Jose, California
15 Apr 20
@marguicha Is it because people won't stay home?
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@divalounger (6182)
• United States
15 Apr 20
We are home as well--and this may well continue until 2021 or 2022--I am doing some adjusting and I suspect we all will be in terms of work and social life--
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
15 Apr 20
We will have to change, but I don´t yet know in what way.
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@divalounger (6182)
• United States
16 Apr 20
@marguicha I don't know in what way either yet, but change may not be such a bad thing
@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
15 Apr 20
I´m 74 and have a lot to give yet, even if it is only by phone.
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@simone10 (54180)
• Louisville, Kentucky
16 Apr 20
@marguicha I understand. I just pray that this is all over soon.
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@LindaOHio (222726)
• United States
15 Apr 20
I haven't been out of the house since March 19. My husband goes out and does the food shopping; but I worry about him going out. We are both in the high-risk groups. Stay safe and healthy!
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
15 Apr 20
My daughters brought me food and I still have a lot. There are ways to buy online.
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@stapllotik (1935)
• India
15 Apr 20
I am watching survival movies that give me motivation
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
15 Apr 20
I´ll check some of them. I just watched the story about the plane that went down at the Andes. It is called Alive.
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@dgobucks226 (37621)
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15 Apr 20
Yes this is very sad situation. I stay at home and have not even gone grocery shopping having it delivered instead. Even younger healthier people have fallen victim to the virus, so people with illnesses/elderly need to be very careful. I think we will be wearing masks for quite a while when this ever subsides?
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
15 Apr 20
We have to wear masks or we will be fined.
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@Butterfingers (66603)
• India
15 Apr 20
Yes we need to check news at least once and need to stay home
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
16 Apr 20
We are being forced to do so and my son the youngest is telling me that a load of them of 30 years of age and a bit over have come down with the virus quite bad.
I am supposed to be going to a wedding in England in November at this rate I cannot see it happening.
Its not just the elderly its of all ages they are getting it and have never been ill and they sometimes die of it its quite puzzling to say the least.
@Marilynda1225 (91155)
• United States
15 Apr 20
I'm staying in too and probably won't go anywhere too soon after the quarantine is lifted. I try not to worry to much about the day when my daughter goes back to work.
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