Next days...

This time not typewritten, since I'm after 12 hr shift, there is late and my kids have hard time to go sleep.

I'm a driver and thanks to that I can look further than most folks around :)

Today I drove through few cities, and one with big number of sick people (~20)

In all those cities you can see that people are behave according to the rules. There is a lot calmer on the streets, there is no groups wandering.

Sometimes I've seen queues with people standing in separation outside the shops. My wife stood today in 4 queues like that... half hour outside pharmacy (cheapest around), 15 mins outside post office, few minutes outside bakery and another almost half hour outside Kaufland supermarket (the security guy counted people entering the shop!) There usually is a limit of people that could enter the shop at one time, the pharmacy that I visited had 3 people allowed inside, big market 50 (maximum allowed by government at one place)

At my gas station there is small counter OUTSIDE the main doors with pay terminal, pen and through small opening in doors seller provides other goods (It's v.small station). I've seen this patent in some other locations.

Lot of service providers are simply closed, especially those small.

You can order some food by takeaway or home delivery - but restaurants and fast-foods are closed for guests.

After the first days of panic, there is full stock on the shelves :)

There is a lot of mess around borders. The queues at Germany-Pol border are up to 40 km, and people wanting to enter the country often wait for around 19 hrs. There is a problem with water/food and fuel there since all roads are closed around that queue. And at the border every go trough control post.
People from nearby towns and truck drivers (they usually have food and water for few days with them) are providing help for all stuck in that jam. Authorities are not yet up for the task...


WOT is mobilized (Polish National Guard - Territorial Forces) to help guarding the borders, to help with logistic at hospitals, also to provide help for veterans.
Probably there will be more work for them soon...

People are doing lot of good to help med staff - restaurants are providing free meals, or people are organizing food for them and/or their families.

At the places that are open all staff are trying to work in safe environment. Mostly it's gloves, sometimes a barriers from glass/plexi at the height of face build around counters, masks etc.

People behave calm, are understanding the need to all this precautions.


There is sometimes uneasy looks when somebody coughs, or looks sick. But there still is a season of flu and other winter sickness here.