Surviving under stress? fear? It's less about my own safety

What a time to be alive. An active pandemic, tons of hysteria, restrictions and national isolation from the truth of the situation.
COVID-19, the planet-scale threat, is something that can be seen as a world-ending virus, or really..something that can be destroyed.
Here in my small country, we don't even have any death cases, and most of the people who were infected here, are in light condition.
over half of them are actually handling things well, despite being a bit sick.

Of course I'm not here to create envy or jealousy. It's quite the opposite: Despite our country's state is on the lower tier of danger, MANY people are in panic here.
Things have gone too far when tonight, our prime minister announced another wave of restrictions, one of which is "10 people and above cannot gather in the same spot".
And sure, this is for people's safety and all, but this is straight out extreme!
The most embarrassing thing about it is that there are A LOT MORE cases of illness and death every year in this country, and the prime ministry haven't gone that far to stop it.

And yet, we gotta get used to the new lifestyle. Fortunately for me, besides the possibility of not going to saxophone lessons for a while, I'm pretty much continuing my daily lifestyle....well, with a face mask included. That doesn't stop me from worrying though, because..well, my dad is old. He also has diabetes.
Because we live in an apartment, if any of the 3 of us(my dad, my mom, and I) get infected, we have no choice but to share it.

If there's something that I don't want right now, is for any of my parents to get killed by a virus. My birthday is in around a week, and i'd prefer not to share that period with the death of any of my loved ones.
So because of that, I don't wanna just go outside for my usual activities from the fear of getting infected. I also don't want my parents to go outside recklessly.
And despite that there aren't any death cases here, i still have my fears.
My dad coughs regularly, way before the whole outbreak have started, so whenever he starts coughing recently, i get a bit paranoid.
After all, it's a possible symptom.

So who knows what happens next... well, DOOM Eternal comes out on friday, and i'm on maximum hype for it. If things get a lot worse here, i'm afraid that playtime would have to wait....
My birthday, to be honest, isn't that important to me this year. My health comes first.
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I believe in your case war frame definitely kills more than any desease. You people are smart and u shall believe and act as ur gov commands.
And believe me I live in Italy, my local gov is a true definition of a ''better than nothing''.
My friend.
 
I'm constantly living under stress. COVID-19 really feels minor to me for that reason. I'll just keep practicing good hygiene and so will you, and this whole thing will blow over before we know it. I hope.
 
Have you considered the possibility that those restrictions of which you seem so resentful are the reason why more people in your community are not dead?
 

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