So excited about work to do

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Since the whole of Austria will be in lockdown from Monday on, my sister has a big, big problem. There´s a burst water pipe in her flate, no major damage yet save that the concierge found a wet patch of wall in the hallway. From Monday on the craftsmen will be there to remedy the situation, but at the same time her husband has an important meeting with a neurologist, and she wants to accompany him. Sister will come to clear the kitchen cabinets with our help this weekend then be off back home. Supervision of the craftsmen will be done by hubby and me. I really hope it´s mostly hubby who does that job, because I want to start baking for Advent and Christmas, and wiseheart knows what this means- a lot of stress and some burnt cookies maybe. Hubby has done three rounds of ingredients shopping already. Ask him to bring a load of powdered sugar- be sure you will get one package. Same with all other ingredients. Either hubby´s hearing is worse than suspected or this man loves doing shopping the hard tour. I wonder what will happen if Germany also gets back to lockdown.Sister thinks it will be one week after Austria. Those idiots always do the same, and it never works!
Sister also was so excited when she heard of the booster vaccination done in our country, until I told her that what she had heard was nothing but hot air. They only say that we shall go and get our boosters after four months. But fact is, that you only can registrate in case you get an invitation for it. My friend still has no invitation, and she is 70 and vaccination is more than six months past. If only all our politicians would get imprisoned in a huge hall, and we´d have a new caloric power station, run by the hot air that comes with their promises!
Christmas decoration inside the house is mostly in place, though I do not know why I am even decorating, when no one is allowed to visit. Number one and family are very strict when it comes to such rules, number three is not strict but lives far away, number two might show up now and then, at least when it´s Cassian time again. Number four appreciates a house without decoration, which he won´t get now, and number five would have loved to spread Christmassy kitsch all over the house, alas, she´s still off. But she sent me a photo with her and her travelling group- and Santa, of course, because the international students are just doing a trip around Lapland. Not that there´s so much to see during late autumn, I think it´s a boring snowy landscape mostly, with Santas in between. During summer months you at least have the fun of running off mosquitos. And I always had wondered once why so many people were wandering around with nets attached to their hats- until I opened the car door to do a short walk into the wilds to find a convenient place to pee. Ouch! You had to be very quick to get back into the car with your behind intact! Now that next week might be spent in sister´s flat I will have to finish embroidery this weekend. A stack of presents and some stars, and then I will be done. Phew! I thought this project would never get finished!

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[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

How annoying. So do you think your case numbers are really all that high?

We currently have 375 confirmed cases in a population of around 85,000 and everything is open and life carries on as it used to, with the only proviso being 'Best to wear a mask anywhere crowded'.

I would feel I wanted to decorate, too, but wonder who for.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

For yourself, I'd say. I'm going to hang up my Advent calendar on December 1, even though we don't put anything into the little Christmas Elves' backpacks and no-one but Mum and I will see them. And I'll hang all my popsicle items onto the artificial monstrosity that is our Christmas tree, just because.

Over here, under the rock where I live, masks have become mandatory in closed spaces again (including and before all else buses and trams); not that the sane ones wouldn't have worn them for weeks already. No further restrictions have been announced just yet, but that can change. At least the vaccinating is going on swiftly — better than nothing, right?

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Situation must be bad, because too many people die. Though they never tell us about age and pre-existing illnesses. It's about 500 people in intensive care, and that makes hospital system fall apart. Currently we have 139000 active cases in a population of 8,9 million people, and it's going up quickly. Today it was almost 16000 new infections. Main problem is that they did most of the vaccination in spring, and even though they must have known from Israel that the effect was down after four months they did nothing to make people take a booster. Then there's the high number of those who oppose vaccination...

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Thumbs up for swift vaccinating! See, not everything is bad that your- cough- strange premier does for his people!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh, yes — that is a lot higher than ours — our population is around 1% of yours and so if your infection rate was the same as ours you would only have a bit over 37,500 active cases. We have 6 people in hospital, none of them in intensive care.

We are currently in the process of giving boosters — S2C and I get ours on Tuesday next week. Most of our current cases are in children at secondary school — 11-18 year olds, who only began getting their first shots in late September.