Hi, How are you Ala? This is such a stressful time, How are you coping up? Coronavirus has just entered our country & now there are more than 400 cases. Our country has one of the highest population & also poverty, we're so scared. I don't know when all of this will end. WHEN WILL 2020 END.
Hello Dear Anon and that’s terrible news, I am so sorry that happened also to you. We are now in state of +600 cases and 8th deaths, all country is under pandemic status, so me - and many of us - stays in home by various reasons (sick leave, work at home, taking care of children who don’t attend to school in these days ect.), almost everything is closed and streets are empty like in some post apo. I am mostly worried about situation in my country, it’s ruled by imbeciles, we are in dramatic state not because of coronavirus, but how it shows, that many things in this country just-doesn’t-work. This will be the main cause of our tragedy, not virus in itself.
2020 will end like other years, but it will be 2021 which always can be worse. I don’t want to be the pessimistic one, but we don’t have guarantee that corona will be “out” from us. Also in some places, not democratic enough, not rich enough, not stabile enough this will be a huge problem for many years, I think. And I won’t even start a talk about crisis and recession which will begin short after corona’s final dance of victory.
For now I am safe and don’t have the symptoms. When I am out I am cautious and watch to not get virus into my home. I am even thinking to make humoristic comic with coronavirus at the background, bc I need to laugh. Maybe some people will find it inapposite but I don’t care. We all deserve to release our stress, and I’ve always thought that solution is in looking at some stuff from more irreverent side.
So be strong and take care of yourself!
Here I will repeat again to everyone what “taking care of yourself in plague time” is mostly about:
1. Don’t go outside if it’s not necessary
a. avoid public transport if it’s possible
b. don’t touch anything or have gloves on you
c. wear mask if you think it will help, but don’t wear one for whole day, it give you the opposite effect
d. DON’T TOUCH YOUR FACE AREA WITH YOUR HANDS. EVEN IF IT ITCHY A LOT
e. after returning home try to not touch anything before washing hands and WASH YOUR HANDS WITH SOAP AND WARM WATER
f. it’s good to sanitize door-handle, keys and stuff which you use outside with alcohol based sanitizer. If you can’t buy any, bc some funny idiots bought all from shelves only for themselves - search for rectified spirit if it could be in your country and make it from 96% to 70% alcohol soultion, which has the best for antibacterial use (used in hospitals). Also sometimes vodka is higher in % of alcohol and you can also use it as sanitizer, just remember that closer to 70% means better. Normal 40% vodka won’t work.
(if someone was interested how make from spirit 70% alcohol sanitizer - write in another ask)
3. Keep safe your old family memembers by not visiting them, bc you can be already infected or care a virus on yourself, or watch over to make them stay at home for all costs (do shoppings and outside chores for them).