The famous Istkilal Street typically sees anywhere from 1-3 million people walk down it daily. As I walked the entire 1.5km (1 mile) street on April 10th during the Coronavirus pandemic, I estimate I passed only a few hundred people, at most, almost all of whom were wearing face masks and keeping their distance from other passersby. Normally the street is so busy that you can barely walk a few meters without bumping into another human being, but on this day I was able to saunter down the almost-deserted street.
I didn’t want to believe that it could happen. I’ll tell you how did it affect my life right now. I live in Poland, at this moment (03/15 morning) there are 111 infected people and 3 of them died, the first confirmed case was about 11 days ago.
Since that time for a week(!) no one reacted. Until last Wednesday everything was normal, leaving out people excessively panicking and trying to buy all the food in the supermarkets… Coming back to the story, starting on Wednesday almost all kindergartens, schools and universities were closing. And since that time I’m stuck at home.
On Thursday driving schools were suspended so I didn’t have to worry about my driving lessons.
On Friday the government decided about closing some shopping malls, restaurants, pubs, casinos etc. The groceries are still open so there is no need to panic, the food will be available also the restaurants offer ordering takeouts. Post-office, banks, laundry rooms etc. are still working.
From today the borders of our country will be closed for foreigners for 10 days. Maybe it is not the kindest thing but it somehow forces staying at place, it is really-really important not to travel now.
Some of the things I mentioned should be introduced earlier. But I hope the statistics won’t get very worse shortly.
There is really no need to panic. We should stick to the recommendations, home isolation is a really good idea if you don’t have to go anywhere - please stay at home. Here is a list of things you can do staying at home:
