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Originally Posted by BookCat
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Oh, I once had a white cat that did eat with his paw. I do miss him. He died when there was this other pandemic, H1N1 in 2010. I had catched it and was under quarantine at home, so I couldn't take him to the vet. He had to endure a whole day of agonie until one of my friends, who is at an extremely high-risk himself, was able to swing by after work and take him to be put down. It was a nightmare.
This time I am a lot at home. I have asthma, some autoimmune disease and get all the fancy stuff at once.
I still need to walk my borrowed dog two days a week and do my own grocery shopping. Deliverys are impossible to get, the next free time slot would be in 16 days and being a veggie I need to get my food every couple of days.
Here in Berlin, Germany, all the schools, kindergardens, restaurants, bars, gyms, baths, cinemas, libraries, shops but the food stores, drugstores and brothels
, yeah, that's right, them, are closed. People arent't allowed to visit their next of kin in the hospital or retirement home, only parents of small kids are allowed to visit.
We are still able to go on a walk, bike or care for our dogs and livestock.
Acutallly this isn't much of a change for me, bar the lack of toiletpaper, I am next to never at the movies, much too expensive for me. Same is true for restaurants etc.
The only thing that makes this curfew a new kind of torture are my neighbours. They have two extremly unruly and loud pre-teens, who love to shout at their parents, slam doors and throw temper tantrums for up to four hours without taking a breath. Oh, and they do have a stereo, a piano and a cello, too. And this is just their everyday behaviour. Multiply this by a factor of 24/7 and there you are: In my personal hell. So I am stuck in a constant shouting match between four people who don't give a damn that I can hear them loud and clear. I've taken to wearing earplugs all the time, which means even if I would like to watch tv from time to time, I can't.
I am not so sure this Corona thingy is the worst hazard to my health