When a snap lockdown is imposed, there tends to be a frenzied burst of activity and then lives quickly grind to a halt.
Here's how life looked for some of the millions of Queenslanders navigating the three-day lockdown announced earlier this week.
Marriage and life celebrant Adam Johnson guides people through some of the most memorable experiences in their lives — but with only 10 people allowed at a funeral, he worries about support for those in mourning.
"I'm doing a funeral service for a mother of three kids aged between 28 and 36 — they don't have a father," Mr Johnson said.
"When I finish this service, when we walk out there's no parents, there's no help, there's no guidance, there's no picking them up, no patting them on the back.
Locked out of hospital
When Jane Kelly's husband Warren was admitted to a Sunshine Coast hospital on Monday for a triple bypass, she thought she'd be there to comfort him after the surgery.
"The doctor on Monday, when we spoke to him before the surgery, he said it'd be important to have me there … when he's back in his own room, just to have somebody there with him all the time."
Ms Kelly applied for an exemption to visit her husband but it was refused.
Days after the surgery, Ms Kelly said her husband's condition was improving and she hoped he would be moved out of intensive care to his own room on Friday.
But she was unsure if she would be able to see him even if the lockdown is lifted on Friday night.
"I'm just hoping that that [lack of family] doesn't hinder his recovery," she said.
'Anxiety and fear'
Disability support worker Rebecca Kildey said it was difficult to explain to some clients the need for masks or why they could leave their houses.
"That can cause anxiety and fear and can lead to violent behaviour, just out of fear, I suppose."
She said the explanations for the changes did not always make sense to the participants, who thrived on routine and predictability.
"[Masks are] not something comfortable and if they don't understand why they need to wear the mask, it can it can trigger anxiety, it can trigger a panic attack, which can lead to less than desirable behaviour," she said.
"Also, myself having to wear a mask in their homes, they don't necessarily understand that either and that can cause a bit of uncomfortableness because they're questioning, 'Oh, you know, why are you wearing a mask?
Are gyms essential?
Gym owner Marty Skele said some gym training should be deemed an essential activity, given the impact of lockdown and COVID-19 restrictions on people's mental health.
Mr Skele said he would like to see small group training facilities permitted where operators could regulate social distancing, sanitisation and mask-wearing to enable people to continue exercising.
This time around, Mr Skele took a different approach to supporting members during lockdown when they could not access the gym.
"We hired out some equipment to a few members," he said.
"Last time we lost a lot of members because people just didn't want to train at home online — it just wasn't the same.
"We'll just keep our members training, hopefully at home."
'The way it is'
Gympie, north of the Sunshine Coast, was not put in lockdown this week but the COVID-19 crisis gripping south-east Queensland has managed to shut down one of the region's most popular tourist attractions anyway.
Mary Valley Rattler board member Gary Davison said the not-for-profit service had been forced to cancel its Wednesday and Thursday services at an estimated cost of about $30,000.
“That's the way it is,” he said.
“It's a COVID pandemic and obviously the safety of our passengers comes first.”
