The Awkward Silence

May 11th:
- Contactjobs are allowed again (Hairdressers, beauticians, pedicures, driving instructors).
Still try and keep 1,5m distance, customers have to be vetted for health, not in a risk group (elderly, morbidly obese, pre-existing condition) and only by appointment.
- Everyone is allowed to do sports again outside. Keep 1,5m distance. Contactsports are still forbidden. Shower at home, no competitions.
- Libraries open.
- Indoor pools open again, for minors only.
- Elementary schools open again, kids will go to school half the time. Special education is open entirely, as well as daycare.

Pfew. Long list :D

@avazula a 100 km is nice!

avazula

oh wow

schools reopen here, but not restaurants/pools/theaters, and so on.

Everyone gets back to work

But only lands that aren't very hurt by Covid will have quarantine lifted

I'm lucky to be in a green-rated area

I'll still fully WFH for another couple months though

Tinkeringbell

Yeah, I don't really know what to expect with regards to the work from home. I work for a large network operator and while I can do my job perfectly fine from home (I don't have to go out and replace cables :P) the entire company has been labelled 'essential' and so they could technically require office presence.

I hope they have enough common sense to not do so.

I should prepare for public transport though, I think. Make myself a mouth mask or two.

avazula

9:43 AM

I hope so too. Over here the gov told the companies to maintain WFH if possible. But I'll order some masks and shields for other hangouts

"hangouts" I mean, grocery shopping

Tinkeringbell

Grocery shopping here is actually nice! Limits on the amount of people in the supermarket + one way lanes really make it much more enjoyable. You can just go in, grab what you need, and out again, without having to dodge everyone :D

avazula

heh. Ppl don't really respect the rules in the shops over here

Tinkeringbell

They're getting better at it here. Yay for Dutch social policing :)

avazula

ayy :)

Tinkeringbell

It's really funny how guilty people will look when they thought the aisle was empty, so they go the wrong way... And then you turn your cart into the same aisle. XD

It's even better when you tell them that the thing is one-way, and don't move an inch so they have to apologize and turn around XD

avazula

9:54 AM

you're mean lol

Tinkeringbell

I know. But it's my safety too!

Don't forget I'm still morbidly obese so people going the wrong way in supermarkets are super dangerous to me. XD

avazula

Oh my bad I thought you were doing that to mess with them ^^

I know people take a lot of pleasure for making me apologize when I want something that's behind their cart and yet they don't move even after I said sorry

Tinkeringbell

@avazula Eh, that's a different kind of pleasure, because here it's the people breaking the rules having the pleasure instead of the ones living by it?

And yeah, I'm letting people know they break the rules and it's satisfactory, especially if like I said you see how guilty they look because they know what they're doing is wrong.

avazula

mmh :/

Tinkeringbell

But it's not like I'm purposefully messing with them, just sticking to the rules.

avazula

10:02 AM

sure

I just don't understand people who break the rules on purpose lol

Tinkeringbell

Me neither.

I guess the convenience of 'long empty aisle I need something from, on the other end of the aisle' and the assumption that the aisle will stay empty? I dunno...

Luckily most of the policing is done by staff, not other shoppers ;) And there's always staff to fall back on if things go south (mom had that happen)

Any plans for your first <100km trip? ;)

avazula

Well I have to move houses

So that's gonna be a 3km ride lmao

I won't go very far though, my farthest trips will be for buying stuff to renovate the house

I don't see the point of travelling if it's not to see my fam and relatives

Tinkeringbell

Moving is going to happen? Yay!

I'd love to see what you did to the place once you finish renovating :)

CaldeiraG

Tinkeringbell

That looks similar to the plans here :) Though I like how ours are structured by date instead of category :)

CaldeiraG

10:15 AM

students that are coming back to school can't leave the room apparently (breaks i suppose)

@Tinkeringbell there are by date

but the website choose to do it this way

Tinkeringbell

Yeah, I understand :)

1 hour later…

avazula

11:33 AM

@Tinkeringbell I don't have a final date yet but yeah I hope for it to be soon

It won't be fully renovated any time soon but yeah I will :)

3 hours later…

CaldeiraG

2:11 PM

5 hours after i sent an email to the store where i bought my package, it changed status to 'in progress' :P

hopefully it means tomorrow is the day

Magisch

2:28 PM

25% furlough was increased to 40%

fun

Tinkeringbell

2:54 PM

But less rants to listen to?

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3:15 PM

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