COVID-19 Coronavirus

I'm heading to bed. I've had a lovely weekend, painting & gardening. I've even seen some sun! It's been nice to feel "safe" at home. Half of my work problem has been sorted, we all have less hours to prevent spread & are only in work when needed. This could change daily/weekly & still no guarantee I will have a job in a few weeks but hey ho. Health is more important.

I'm a little sad that we have many more weeks of me and mum avoiding each other at home.

Feel like I've beem rambling here lots recently, thank you for putting up with me! Take care all!
 
I'm feeling very anxious about the whole situation now 😢 like every little thing is sending me into panic mode, social distancing wherever possible but Sam still has to go to work, he works in a warehouse (clothing not food) but it's no pay if he chooses to be home and isn't sick which we can't afford 🙁
 
Sending you hugs. It must be so difficult when you have children. I have to keep pushing the thoughts down and not over think. I have several close to me in awful situations now, work and children, closed schools and no child care. I should be there for them and can't be.
 
piggieminder said:
Sending you hugs. It must be so difficult when you have children. I have to keep pushing the thoughts down and not over think. I have several close to me in awful situations now, work and children, closed schools and no child care. I should be there for them and can't be.
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Thanks for the hugs, hugs to you too, I'm just overly anxious about everything 😔
 
I'm very very concerned about all this. Its going to be a struggle for me and I'm not even in the worst position compared to some people. My problem is not getting enough food in me and feeling weak whilst trying to survive. ( stockpilers just won't stop) helping everyone around me, everyone around me is high risk. But that means if I get the virus I can't be indoors anywhere with any of them. Wife is high risk, so won't be able to live at home. Il have to camp out. My parents are high risk, inlaws are, sister in law is too.

I just prey that a complete lockdown doesn't happen, or if it does, it doesn't last very long
 
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Not a good day here today. Boots pharmacy are refusing to deliver my mothers critical medication, I'm classed as at risk, so I can't get it, my dad is 70 and in ill health, my husband is the only one of us earning at the moment, so we need him upright, had no choice but to ask the local support group for help. I feel awful doing it. I will never shop in boots again after this.
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Don't feel awful - this is about protecting lives; not just yours. If you need help, then you ask for help and take it - it has been set up exactly for this purpose! It's not like you have chosen to be in this position.
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
I'm very very concerned about all this. Its going to be a struggle for me and I'm not even in the worst position compared to some people. My problem is not getting enough food in me and feeling weak whilst trying to survive. ( stockpilers just won't stop) helping everyone around me, everyone around me is high risk. But that means if I get the virus I can't be indoors anywhere with any of them. Wife is high risk, so won't be able to live at home. Il have to camp out. My parents are high risk, inlaws are, sister in law is too.

I just prey that a complete lockdown doesn't happen, or if it does, it doesn't last very long
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To be honest right now I'm hoping for a lockdown sooner rather than later, I'm starting to think it's the only way people will listen 😔
 
Emx93 said:
I'm feeling very anxious about the whole situation now 😢 like every little thing is sending me into panic mode, social distancing wherever possible but Sam still has to go to work, he works in a warehouse (clothing not food) but it's no pay if he chooses to be home and isn't sick which we can't afford 🙁
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Stress levels and anxiety are currently going through the roof for all of us.
Please get help to get through this - not just for your own benefit but everybody's in your family. You can't be the rock when it is set on quicksand. Look after yourself first and foremost, so you can place your rock on a concrete platform. We are not meant to be heroes; we are there to survive and use whatever handles we can lay our hands on. ;)

Please try this place here to learn how to best deal with your panic and stress. The current situation is causing a lot of extra anxiety and stress, not least for mothers. There is help and advice out there.
Many of the techniques work for everybody; find the ones you respond to best as we are all unique. They have certainly come in handy for myself throughout life whenever I have hit a rocky bump. I did learn some of them in teachers training; but things have moved on a quite a bit since - still, in case you wonder where I am getting my patience from: Home
 
Not long off the phone with my parents - my dad said he hadn't heard from me in a few days and wanted to double check I was "still in the land of the living". Can't half tell he grew up in Belfast. Apparently both my grandmothers are doing well, as is everyone else. My mum was saying she knows someone who generally bought 10 bags of dog treats a week (I *think* there's multiple dogs involved, but I don't know) and apparently cutting it down to three bags has not gone down brilliantly lol. 10 bags of dog treats. Oh, to be a dog right now.
Gave them my landline number for if they needed to get in touch...2 years I'd managed to go without having reason to hand it over, damn it haha. But I'm on O2, and if the network keeps mucking around like it did last week it's probably for the best. Sky can always change it again afterwards :bal:
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
I'm very very concerned about all this. Its going to be a struggle for me and I'm not even in the worst position compared to some people. My problem is not getting enough food in me and feeling weak whilst trying to survive. ( stockpilers just won't stop) helping everyone around me, everyone around me is high risk. But that means if I get the virus I can't be indoors anywhere with any of them. Wife is high risk, so won't be able to live at home. Il have to camp out. My parents are high risk, inlaws are, sister in law is too.

I just prey that a complete lockdown doesn't happen, or if it does, it doesn't last very long
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You must be worried about your loved ones. Even for the people at risk and with underlying health problems, most people fight off the virus. Hope you and your family all keep well. The country has enough food so once people stop panic buying (or Boris makes them), we'll have plenty.
 
Wiebke said:
Stress levels and anxiety are currently going through the roof for all of us.
Please get help to get through this - not just for your own benefit but everybody's in your family. You can't be the rock when it is set on quicksand. Look after yourself first and foremost, so you can place your rock on a concrete platform. We are not meant to be heroes; we are there to survive and use whatever handles we can lay our hands on. ;)

Please try this place here to learn how to best deal with your panic and stress. The current situation is causing a lot of extra anxiety and stress, not least for mothers. There is help and advice out there.
Many of the techniques work for everybody; find the ones you respond to best as we are all unique. They have certainly come in handy for myself throughout life whenever I have hit a rocky bump. I did learn some of them in teachers training; but things have moved on a quite a bit since - still, in case you wonder where I am getting my patience from: Home
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Thankyou for this, I'll take a read of it all 😊 I think if I could get some sleep it would be a good start! Definitely racing thoughts blowing everything out of proportion! Facebook is definitely not helping today, I've been trying to stay away but some of my family and friends definitely needed to take this more seriously 🙁
 
Wiebke said:
Don't feel awful - this is about protecting lives; not just yours. If you need help, then you ask for help and take it - it has been set up exactly for this purpose! It's not like you have chosen to be in this position.
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Thank you to both of you. This weekend has been hard on everyone I think, it's such a world altering thing. Two months ago, I was happily pottering about in a garden centre, pushing mum around so she could see the plants, now I'm scrabbling every day to find enough food for the week for them and us and trying to make sure no one I'm in charge of dies on my watch. It's amazing how quickly your focus narrows down to the basics in life.

I can second Mind being helpful, I don't think there's a single person in this world right now not worrying themselves silly. We all can get through it together though, because humans can be amazing.

Wishing everyone a good night, time to get back to endlessly sourcing for previously unknown food delivery sources in the morning!
 
What a tragedy is happening in such an era right? We used to get scared from the news on tv about world war 3 to begin soon and suddenly this showed up our nowhere... thousands of people dying everyday worldwide and nobody can help it... people are not even getting to say their last goodbyes to there loved one and how it might be affecting think just makes me sad I just pray everyday to wake up and find there's no more coronavirus anymore it just vanishes suddenly like it came suddenly. My heart goes out for the people on this forum who or whose family member have been quarantined in the hospital❤
 
Ritika said:
What a tragedy is happening in such an era right? We used to get scared from the news on tv about world war 3 to begin soon and suddenly this showed up our nowhere... thousands of people dying everyday worldwide and nobody can help it... people are not even getting to say their last goodbyes to there loved one and how it might be affecting think just makes me sad I just pray everyday to wake up and find there's no more coronavirus anymore it just vanishes suddenly like it came suddenly. My heart goes out for the people on this forum who or whose family member have been quarantined in the hospital❤
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Warnings of a new unstoppable disease jumping across from animals have been regularly around for a long time but as they haven't generally reached Europe, they kind of have slipped under the radar. We are very good at blending things out that are right in our face and an immediate danger...
Ebola has been perceived as a localised African problem even though it is now obvious that it has started mutating and adapting to humans by becoming less deadly but more contagious. It is going to turn into something that is going to stay with us for a long time. :(

Other coronaviruses have made the jump before in recent decades (SARS and MERS) but because they were more deadly, they didn't transmit as easily and could be detained much more quickly. What distinguishes Covid-19 is its high transmission factor and the fact that it can be transmitted before the outbreak of symptoms as well as by people who have it so lightly they are not aware that they are carriers. It is by far NOT the most deadly of things that have jumped in recent times but the most infectious; what makes it so dangerous is that it is more infectious than flu and that it has a larger percentage of serious cases that need hospitalisation and can lead to death from serious secondary complications or combine with underlying illnesses. The number of people dying directly from the virus seems to be actually only a very small percentage of all fatalities. In that it is very similar to flu - you do not die from a flu virus directly but from secondary complications.

It is a sobering thought that pretty much all of our infectious human diseases have originated since we became farmers and started living in close contact with animals since the Neolithic; the first wave was always the most devastating.
Some, like the bubonic plague, have been far more deadly but when you read up on it, you will suddenly find that the stockpiling, the rush to safe 'out of the way' places (bringing the illness with you, of course) that currently see many older people move to their secondary homes by the sea or in the country or moving their camper vans into rural areas, and even total lockdowns are nothing new at all!

Since then, of course our population has exponentially multiplied and become a lot more connected, so the spread is a lot faster and more far-reaching. So is our contact with animals and the potential for species jumps.

What makes Covid-19 so dangerous is not so much the virus itself or an extremely high rate of fatalities but the challenge the high percentage of high need hospital support care that it poses for our health systems and the high risk that it can overwhelm them. :(

Medical advances have given us this deceptive idea of total safety - this has been a very rude wake-up call indeed! :(
 
I think it's important to remember that infectious disease is a part of life that we don't usually pay much attention to. In the west, as @Wiebke says, we're very sheltered from this usually, but for a lot of people this is a daily risk and I'm hoping that the world now realises how interconnected we all are and begins the fight to raise everyone's living standards enough to prevent a lot of these outbreaks ever happening at all. Global poverty is the culprit here, and I'm hoping everyone remembers that and actually does something about it when this mess is under control.

On a much lighter note, I found this earlier and it made me laugh, which is important now, so I thought I'd share it here too: Toilet Paper Calculator
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
I'm very very concerned about all this. Its going to be a struggle for me and I'm not even in the worst position compared to some people. My problem is not getting enough food in me and feeling weak whilst trying to survive. ( stockpilers just won't stop) helping everyone around me, everyone around me is high risk. But that means if I get the virus I can't be indoors anywhere with any of them. Wife is high risk, so won't be able to live at home. Il have to camp out. My parents are high risk, inlaws are, sister in law is too.

I just prey that a complete lockdown doesn't happen, or if it does, it doesn't last very long
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The supermarket situation is much better today. I just did almost a normal shop. And be sensible and do your best when you are out. I took a couple of cloths soaked in disinfectant with me to wipe down my trolley and the scanner and refused to hand my trolley over to a lady that wanted it because actually they were spraying them at the door too so i made her get a freshly sprayed one rather than take my used one.

Its stressful, we all have our different reason for being worried. Health wise, apart from my inlaws we are in the low risk category but I’m super worried about getting it and passing it to colleagues or my patients and being off sick at a time when I’m needed the most. But I’m also pretty resigned to the fact I probably will get it, with the best will in the world, walking in to a place full of it at least 3 times a week makes it feel inevitable.
 
Feel like I'm loitering today, waiting for something to happen.

Decided against doing anything in garden as if do it all now, what will occupy me for the next few weeks. Have loads of pictures to sort out/date label from my last three free print orders so think will do that. Going to have to do a to do list with small achievable "easy" things on & also more more complex "time consuming" activities.
 
We are in the thick of home educating here, not so simple with 2 toddlers and 8 pets thrown in the mix, animal care is now a big part of our education timetable, we have cleaned piggies, cleaned and dampened the tortoise enclosure to add humidity, bathed the tortoise (very important to do daily with young tortoises). We have done maths seeds and reading eggs, we started her topic of 'into garden' yesterday on her wood walk talking about deciduous and evergreen trees, we've watched a video on ever green trees today, will do some written work later where she'll do some maths, write a letter and draw a picture to send to a care home for english and we will paint more 'rainbows of hope' for the windows. I think in our own muddled way, we got this 💪 and the oldest is currently learning to use a steam mop 🤣😂💖
We are going to treat everyone to a knock and drop pizza hut later if they are still delivering, we are short on human food and I think we will need a treat for surviving the first day 🙈 I would love to bake with the kids but can't get baking ingredients anywhere and trapsing round shops defys The point so what our local shop doesn't have we are doing without! 🤦‍♀️
 
I also feel better that all my insulin and diabetes supply's are ready for oh to collect from the pharmacy 😊 oh only person leaving the house currently with the exception of dog walks which we are doing in remote locations at quiet times. Now just to wait for all of this to blow over and enjoy the craziness of my small people being home 24/7 🙈
 
I'm relieved my doctors had done the repeat prescription I ordered online for my heart and blood pressure pills and they were waiting at the pharmacy ready to collect this morning, plus the Asda next door to the pharmacy had TOILET ROLLS in stock! I felt very greedy when piggy daddy brought me an 18 roll pack of luxury Andrex (I'd been hoping for a 4-pack of Asda basics) but I do suffer from IBS that gets worse with stress so its definitely an issue for me... also he brought parsley for the piggies and extra wine for me as they have a 2-bottle purchase restriction in place and we drank the ones he bought on Saturday with my Mum and daughter yesterday!
 
My niece (11 years old nearly) spent a chunk of the weekend writing a home schooling time table. She encouraged her younger brother to be involved in setting what tasks they would do to cover everything they need and even packed her book bag. Here's hoping it continues. I do feel for her as they moved house a couple of years ago. She goes to secondary school next year but is in a different area so she's going to one with none of her school friends. She doesn't know a single person who will be there so it's a big deal for her to potentially miss the rest of this year
 
Probably silly question but if we go on lockdown,will I be able to go to the field at the top of my road to pick the grass there alone and if there is nobody about? (I am currently doing this everyday as I cant get enough veg from the shops for my bunnies and piggies)
 
So major developments at work, I am now classed as a "furlough worker" and have 12 weeks off work - I still have a job & contract to go back to after all this has calmed down.

I can keep mum safer as I can do the shopping once a week & I won't be mixing with children/parents at work so reduced chance of bringing anything home. It's a win for work too & helps protect them.

I think I need a nap after all the crying & then start my to do list!
 
Sar said:
So major developments at work, I am now classed as a "furlough worker" and have 12 weeks off work - I still have a job & contract to go back to after all this has calmed down.

I can keep mum safer as I can do the shopping once a week & I won't be mixing with children/parents at work so reduced chance of bringing anything home. It's a win for work too & helps protect them.

I think I need a nap after all the crying & then start my to do list!
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*hugs* xx
 
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We went food shopping today and the local Asda was fairly well stocked with plenty of veg for the piggies so at least they get to eat for another week.

My parents who are self isolating as they’re in their early 70’s have managed to get an Iceland delivery slot for tomorrow so I don’t have to worry about them for another week.

I also brought more hay for the piggies so they’re ok for sometime.

I just wish people would stop being morons and following government advise on social distancing. My neighbours have had a large gathering at home for the second day running :(
 
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