Idling

Most days I feel like I'm just idling along. Waiting for... something to happen. I feel like a car that starts every morning, but goes nowhere. Like one of those cartoon figures that runs on the spot.

It's getting frustrating that there is no change in the restrictions happening here, although a great majority of the population is now vaccinated. Like in many countries in Europe, where people who are vaccinated show their "vaccine pass" and basically get free reign anywhere, or in other places with an accelerated vaccination drive where they have even now dropped the use of face masks.

In Abu Dhabi we are still not allowed to socialize at home, still only allowed three people in a taxi, four people per table at restaurants; we all still need PCR-tests to enter official buildings, go to school or to work (vaccinated or not!), still have to wear a mask everywhere. The borders to Abu Dhabi are still closed and the entrance procedure hasn't changed since the first of February. No difference if you are vaccinated or not, the 10-day-with-a-tracker-quarantine rules still apply (unless you travel from a country on the "Green list").

I'm sure there is a reopening plan, it just doesn't seem to be shared officially. I wish it was, like in other places. I am failing badly at staying positive in this "one day at a time"-life without anything to hold on to.
I know it can't go on forever, but it sure has gone on long enough already.