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[darqx]

How does a pandemic happen in the place where you live? Have you been quarantined?

Oof well i live in a remote Australian territory with a small population, so really all we’d need is like 1 or 2 cases of coronavirus and community spread would take out the rest of us as everyone pretty much works with/contacts everyone at some point. And if anyone gets really sick that would be pretty terrible as we have 1 hospital (that the govt won’t even let us give birth in, so i think that gives you an idea of how it might be able to deal with something ICU level) with only nurses and locum GPs and no specialists. That’s how the pandemic would play out here.

Here’s a visual rep:

LUCKILY FOR US, we currently have 0 cases of coronavirus \o/ To try and keep it that way our administrator put us in a state of emergency sometime last week and we basically went into “lockdown” even before the rest of Australia. “Lockdown” meaning that only returning residents and whoever our admin deems “essential staff” are allowed to come in. They have to go into mandatory 2 week (home) quarantine and the police and medical team come round for a daily(?) welfare check (though if you have an important job apparently you’re allowed to go to work, so i dont know how that pans out). We have a few people in self isolation right now so fingers crossed that none of them get sick!

We do have a bunch of other contingencies (like what to do if the school has to close, and a few public events got cancelled) and people are a lot more conscious about their hygiene practices and what’s going on in the outside world, but other than that it’s kinda business as usual here. And our shops still have toilet paper.

(Hope everyone else is doing ok in these trying times!! Remember shit looks fucked but if we do what we can to help the situation - whether it be adhering to physical distancing or not panic buying or safely helping out quarantined neighbours or whatever - we can definitely make it less fucked!)