How locked down is lockdown in your area -
yes yes no questions allowed but seriously, how confined are you in your area?Tuesday I had to do an emergency trip as a passenger with my dog and it required applying for authorisation for 2 people in a car. The authorisation had to be printed off for presentation on request. I then sat in the back seat on the far side with the dog in gloves and mask. Me and driver, I mean. Not the dog.
Just wondered how that compared to what most people would have to go through to get a sick dog to a vet - if anything. The fine if we hadn't got the authorisation would have been around 1000 euros and potentially being turned back.
Would really help if any comments included country or even province / state. It could be interesting.
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The restrictions enforced in Perth, Western Australia, aren't total lockdown conditions, but not far from it - we're allowed to exercise, go to the shop etc....but the local community are voicing their support for these requirements by engaging in sign making reminding people to stay home, as well as providing examples of how to remedy the frustration lockdown can have.
Driving back fro the off license/bottle shop/grog store this evening I passed maybe twelve or fifteen families on one street who were on the roadside verge seated at their kitchen tables eating dinner with glasses of wine shouting at their neighbours to communicate. They were all having a ball.
Older people are asked to stay in their homes to protect themselves, but the police wouldn't stop them if they went shopping or to collect prescriptions etc.
But if they don't want to go out at all, the postmen (women), police or any amount of people who've joined new volunteer groups will collect them instead.
The rest of us are officially allowed a 2km area for taking exercise, but again, if you practice social distancing, they won't create a fuss if you go outside that.
Only essential workers are supposed to go to work, there is an official list. If you are on the list, you will have an official letter if you are stopped.
There will (hopefully) be more of a crackdown this weekend to stop people travelling to holiday homes. We all agree with that. Except presumably the people who will try to go to them.
Generally it is relaxed, but people are obeying it voluntarily anyway as they know it's for the common good.
When I go to get groceries I'm zig-zagging crossing over the road repeatedly to maintain safe distance, but the last time I went out a runner came right up behind me and passed with only about 6" to spare.
I can't hear people coming up behind me so I can't take evasive action myself. Even before the virus my response to someone suddenly appearing at my shoulder was to leap out of my skin and shriek in surprise. People must think me terrified of catching something.
I can see that your restrictions in Spain are unpleasant and unnerving on many levels, but the predictions are that French, German and Spanish hospitals aren't going to get overrun like ours and your death toll will be lower than ours.
We're going to get clobbered, many people dying simply through lack of medical care.
The US has been slower than us to take measures to inhibit the spread.
Thus, if a cop sees a D reg car (Dublin) whizzing towards Cork, they can be pretty sure they are not locals
They had to change them because people from País Vasco kept getting their cars attacked and vandalised by idiots when they parked them in cities like Madrid
Yes I think I could have travelled back and forth on my own with the dog for ongoing treatment if I'd had a letter from the vet. Sadly, it was a one way trip.
There was one bit of dark humour here when taxis, which were always counted as essential, were after ten days given permission to carry a passenger.
There's a good enough selection of e-books from there though, for anyone who can access them.
surfaces etc. would all have to be sanitised between each person. Not very sustainable.
One rule applies to all but depending depending, it varys .... JMO
but fines don't nor does spitting/coughing in a coppers face... jail time, simple as, end of.
Hope your dog is all good again
Ps, do you know " which I'm sure you do" animals/pets can pick up the virus also
Essential businesses, health care facilities, gas stations, grocery stores, convenience stores and emergency services will be open.
It's enforceable by local law enforcement and one link said there are no record of arrests. Unless someone is doing something really unusual, like a crowded church sermon... well, I'm not sure how this order will be complied with.
Just answering an idiot.
In a nice way of course
I have no problem with that.
People simply are not having people over to dinner or meeting in social settings.
It seems to be working too. Practically all new cases are intra-household or in group residential homes like nursing homes,etc.
The people I see are walking their dogs, or exercising.
It's a cramped village, mostly houses with one main road going down the mountain to the fairly small supermarket.
It's surrounded by mountains which I'd quite happily explore, but it's always a bit risky going alone. The last thing you want to do is get into difficulties and have to call out mountain rescue using up precious resources.
I think I see people because there aren't many places to go.
I also think people are relaxed enough to follow the restrictions without completely confining themselves because it's a fairly isolated village. There's no train station and it's not a thoroughfare. We could almost socialise as a whole village because we're socially distanced from the rest of humanity anyway.
If things change, if someone does get ill, I suspect news will go round wildfire and everyone will get a lot more cautious.
By correct measures the process to hospital will be slower so they can cope meaning more people will live.
Many here breaking the rules so police out in force this weekend and so it should be. If these kind of restrictions happened in normal times i would be the first to shout wave banners tie my self to railings but this is very serious
I will be very cautious even after my 3 months is up until a vaci. nation is found, i know if i caught this virus i would be a gonner,
My immune system when it fights anything it then goes on overdrive and in this case more dangerous as they have nothing to help anyone.
So stay safe keep your distance and yes if your caught outside unnecessary you will get a fine.
As for Galway doing well, thankfully so far not too bad...
Our three islands off the west coast (the Aran ils) todate no cases found.
I'm not one that connects with pets, nonetheless I'm sorry about your dog
I've no doubt you will miss her.
(I deleted my own former pompous comment, there was absolutely no call for it
I'd personally rather they closed off towns, certainly villages, without restricting access within them but yup if one person then did suddenly start coughing that's scary.
It's not exactly idyllic here, either, but the mountains are beautiful, if small.
I go hill walking quite quite a few areas, but rarely see local people off the beaten track, if at all.
Red, I know you're doing the voluntary 12 week exile, bet you never realized HOW much you'd value your she-shed when you bought it! A change of scene is as good as a holiday
I do think there'll be a surge in the 14 days following Easter but on the bright side we'll come out the other end of this virus with most of the cautious sensible intact and fewer always-know-better numpties