Connect
← Return to COVID-19 and MAC: What are you doing differently to protect yourself?
Discussion
COVID-19 and MAC: What are you doing differently to protect yourself?
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Sep 11, 2020 | Replies (264)Comment receiving replies
@heathert Yes Heather, we here in Australia ("across the ditch:, as we say) have almost stopped virus cases too!
We haven't done it as well as New Zealand, but have done it pretty well -- with lots of testing, early border lockdowns -- even between states, and strict social distancing, many businesses and all public events shutdown since early to mid March.
Unfortunately, lots of jobs have been lost here of course, but health and safety really is a priority -- but there's no economic activity anyway if people are too scared by a dangerous and untreatable virus to go out and buy things!
@windwalker Me too, I wish you could come here to protect you better Terri, but Australian borders are closed also, just like in New Zealand.
I guess we all know that we're in this for the long haul -- until there is a vaccine or a good treatment.
I really wish it will all be over soon and we're all safe, but there are risks it could come back when we relax restrictions and open up again.....Look what's happened with Singapore -- it did so well in earlier, then eased up on restrictions,and is having trouble again now.
Let's hope and pray for a vaccine or a good treatment really soon. Everyone in the world needs that.
Love and prayers, Annie
Replies to "@heathert Yes Heather, we here in Australia ("across the ditch:, as we say) have almost stopped..."
Connect
@anniepie I’m happy to hear things are getting better in Australia. My daughter is living in Sydney, (moved from Canberra April 1). When I speak to her it seems it never got nearly as bad as it did here in NY. We’ve been “inside” and closed down since around March 15, and are instructed to stay this way until at least May 15. We still have upwards of 350 people who die each day. At the time NY closed, she said everything in Canberra was still open and business as usual. Only the borders were closed. It was about a week after that the the gyms and shops closed in Canberra. She worked in a salon and her husband works in a gym. They moved to Sydney where they were supposed to both be starting new jobs first week of April, but, that didn’t happen because the shops and gyms closed in Sydney then. It makes me wonder if the people in NZ and Australia have better immunity to this virus or perhaps since the weather was warm, it didn’t spread as rapidly. I thought I also heard Sweden or Switzerland had very few to no cases at all. I wish the scientists would look into these phenomena. Maybe then we can find a way to stop it.
Prayers for all.
(My photo is from when I visited her Feb 2019)