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Albania has banned walking outside after 6pm? Apart from just making people stay inside more, I don't really get it. But uhh sure. Everything is fine.
","as:inReplyTo":{"@id":"https://www.albaniandailynews.com/index.php?idm=40429&mod=2"},"as:published":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime","@value":"2020-03-16T18:24:00+01:00"},"as:tag":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/covid19"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/albania"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/coronavirus"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/travel"}]},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2020/03/coronavirus","@type":"as:Note","as:content":"I'm in Albania, in the south. All reported coronavirus cases here are currently in the north.
\r\n\r\nAfter the first two cases a week ago, schools were closed. By the end of last week, tourist attractions, bars and restaurants everywhere were closed. This weekend, no public transport, no non-essential shops, and from tomorrow no non-essential travel of any kind nationally. Only ambulances and freight will be moving, basically. Most of the land border crossings are closed. These are far stronger measures for far fewer cases than the UK has.
\r\n\r\nSo far the streets are quiet, but that's normal in a holiday town at this time of year. I've seen a few people wearing masks and gloves, and all grocery store workers are wearing them. But there's no panic buying, at least in Sarande, and even hand sanitizer is on offer at the supermarket checkouts.
\r\n\r\nTo fly back to the UK I'd need to get to Corfu or Tirana, and while there seem to still be EasyJet and RyanAir flights (but not until the end of the month), currently the ferries and buses are cancelled so I dunno how I'd get to an airport anyway (okay, I do, I'd have to get written permission from the police to be on the roads - as a foreigner with a plane ticket, it's possible - then find someone with a car willing to drive me to Tirana).
\r\n\r\nI'm going to get some more groceries later, just in case something flips overnight, but I definitely feel like I'm better off here than trying to get back to the UK any time soon. Plus the weather is really good and I have a nice sea view from my balcony. I'll be staying home mostly, or maybe going down to sit on the empty beach, and hoping the internet and power stays on.
","as:published":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime","@value":"2020-03-15T13:31:00+01:00"},"as:tag":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/covid19"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/coronavirus"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/travel"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/albania"}]},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2020/03/crochet","@type":"as:Note","as:content":"Having trouble to stay focused even when I'm not working. Doing some crochet while I'm taking a TV break occupies my hands so I'm not constantly tabbing over to twitter or the news.
\r\n\r\nIt's totally normal for me to not go out for days at a time, and have no meatspace contact with people. I usually have good control over the compulsion to constantly rotate through all online communication channels, but the last few days this has gone out of the window. Some wisdom from coworkers about this yesterday; perhaps it's because the world is changing so fast in the background. It's hard to just carry on in default mode right now because when you check back in on the world it's more vastly different the longer you leave it. Will adjust to this eventually, I guess.
","as:published":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime","@value":"2020-03-19T17:03:00+01:00"},"as:tag":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/covid19"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/coronavirus"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/life"}]},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2020/03/curfew","@type":"as:Note","as:content":"The problem with the new curfew (outside hours 5am to 1pm), besides the obvious, is that most days it takes me hours to psyche up to go outside to get groceries or whatever. No way I'm gonna be able to do this by lunchtime.
","as:published":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime","@value":"2020-03-23T10:02:10+01:00"},"as:tag":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/albania"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/coronavirus"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/covid19"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/life"}]},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2020/03/overcast","@type":"as:Note","as:content":"It's overcast today, very still, and eerily quiet. No cars, no people, barely the sound of waves breaking. A couple of lively nests of swallows live in the building across from me, and sometimes I hear a cockeral crow or a dog bark.
Last week the curfew changed to going outside between 6 and 10am and 4 and 6pm only. On Friday evening, another update was issued, cancelling most of the weekend: From 1pm Saturday to 5am Monday, nobody is to go outside at all. Nobody seems to know what Monday will bring.
","as:published":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime","@value":"2020-03-22T09:56:00+01:00"},"as:tag":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/covid19"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/coronavirus"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/life"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/travel"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/albania"}]},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2020/03/week-in-review-3","@type":"as:Article","as:content":"I wish I was one of those people who gets more productive during a crisis. Like, distract myself by burying my head in work. But I'm not. So you know. Sorry coworkers.
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