COVID-19 Coronavirus

Yes and that just confirms we must still be careful - there are people who are infected with coronavirus and have no symptoms (silent spreaders) so treat everyone as if they’re infectious and keep safe
 
I work nights in Tesco and the number of customers ignoring social distance is quite phenomenal. I always try and go down another aisle if I see too many. Or stand and wait. But social distancing in aisle is nigh on impossible.
 
Siikibam said:
I work nights in Tesco and the number of customers ignoring social distance is quite phenomenal. I always try and go down another aisle if I see too many. Or stand and wait. But social distancing in aisle is nigh on impossible.
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Oh gosh it must be really difficult ! THANK YOU for all that you do at work - YOU have really helped keep us all going ! I know the general public can be difficult ...... but remember WE appreciate you ! Take care 🥰
 
Roselina said:
Oh gosh it must be really difficult ! THANK YOU for all that you do at work - YOU have really helped keep us all going ! I know the general public can be difficult ...... but remember WE appreciate you ! Take care 🥰
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Haha don’t know about that but thank you nonetheless ☺️
 
Well I appreciate shop workers, without you most of us would have starved by now. The behaviour of many members of the public is astounding. I met at least 4 idiots yesterday who really shouldn't be allowed out. No matter how rubbish my day is I try to smile and be pleasant to the person on the till and the shelf stackers, a real band of troupers.
 
Lady Kelly said:
Well Leicester's just taken a step backwards. All non essential shops closed again
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Read this mate. Hope you are okay, a local lockdown will hopefully get it under control again, pity they didn’t do it when the data suggested earlier.
going to be lots of this as we unlock sadly.
 
Lady Kelly said:
Well Leicester's just taken a step backwards. All non essential shops closed again
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Protests coinciding with all the shops opening probably haven't helped much for the city centres infection rate. I've seen so many posts on Facebook of people that live within the Leicester Red Zone say they will just go to the pub in the next town at the weekend. Some people are so infuriating!
 
EJMA82 said:
Protests coinciding with all the shops opening probably haven't helped much for the city centres infection rate. I've seen so many posts on Facebook of people that live within the Leicester Red Zone say they will just go to the pub in the next town at the weekend. Some people are so infuriating!
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That's terrible. I've not seen any of that thankfully. My sister in law was supposed to come and meet her niece this weekend. She's 3 months old now and hasn't met some of her close family due to this lockdown and it's selfish people like that that are ruining it for the rest of us :( it's really starting to affect my mental health now and I'm desperate to get out and about more but I will not risk mine and my family's health
 
Lady Kelly said:
That's terrible. I've not seen any of that thankfully. My sister in law was supposed to come and meet her niece this weekend. She's 3 months old now and hasn't met some of her close family due to this lockdown and it's selfish people like that that are ruining it for the rest of us :( it's really starting to affect my mental health now and I'm desperate to get out and about more but I will not risk mine and my family's health
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Sorry that other people’s selfishness (I’d use another word but don’t want to cause offence - it’s not a swear word) is making things difficult for you.

Those selfish people could be the ones who don’t socially distance properly or follow guidance, and yet will be the ones to Complain when lockdown is done again 🤨😒
 
Did anyone go out over the weekend? I've seen mixed reports from my facebook. Locally pub windows got smashed early Saturday morning & in the next village someone got beat up, ended up in hospital and is now on crutches! Personally I don't know anyone who went out, I think lots of people are waiting a few weeks to see how it goes & let others get it out of their system first!

Here I'm at work today. Managed the bus ok, think I am getting used to wearing my face covering/mask.
Had an argument with Mum over the weekend though. My brother seems to think we are going through to see them at some point this week. It's not that I don't want to see them as obviously not seen my nephew since March but mum chose not to leave the house for weeks on end because of fear of getting the virus. I was only going out for shopping once weekly. Now we're all back at work, Mum has started going in shops - usually the butchers as one in one out there. I just feel like it could be too much to sit in their house when I know they are not as clean as us. They don't wipe all shopping down or put clothes in the wash. My brother is the type to go to the shop three times a day just because he needs 'fresh air'. Is this my anxiety playing up?!
 
Could you maybe sit outside when you go to see them? Otherwise I’m not sure. It also depends on what your mum thinks.
 
@Sar
I can't remember the last time I went in a pub or out for a meal, it must be at least 2 years! I don't miss it at all and personally I think anyone who went into a drinking crowd on Saturday were mad.

I agree, if you go to see your brother it would be a good idea to meet outside if he's been a bit lax with social distancing etc. It's really up to your Mum she must be eager to see them. After being cooped up indoors for so long she will be desperate to get back to some sort of normal.
 
I missed visiting different restaurants so when they were opened, I stopped by a few restaurants to order To-Go and brought them back home to eat.
I don't dine at the restaurants anymore and I wondered how the wait people are surviving these days.
 
@Siikibam @piggieminder
It's Mum that has cooked up this plan to go to theirs to start with, which threw me the most! I get she wants some form of normality as I've really enjoyed being back at work because of the routine & normality it gives me but I don't get why this now. She nearly had an argument with a neighbour she saw last week as said neighbour hadn't left the house for weeks due to shielding - but has had her entire family in her house every week through lockdown. Neighbour was saying how hard its been stuck at home but has still seen her family & we've seen no one... you get the idea! I've already been told if we don't go its my fault.

To top it off my friend is planning a barbecue in her garden for her birthday next week. Our other friend has offered to pick me up on her way there as she is only going for an hour to say hello to everyone & a quick catch up. I'm tempted to say yes & that I'm going as I really need to see them all, I can just imagine the argument it will cause here.

Feel like I'm trying to balance doing the 'right thing' in following rules/guidance as people not doing this has been a real bugbear of mine and looking after my own mental wellbeing....and seem to be struggling with this.
 
You really are in a difficult situation and with the rules changing by the day it's difficult to know what you can and can't do now and what you will be able to do next week. It's a tough one and I don't know what I would do in your shoes.
 
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My laptop is being picked up on Friday now but I don't know what time so could ruin the 'plans'. My bro and his girlfriend have suggested they come here instead. I'm tempted to say yes purely because I know I can clean round everywhere when they have gone & I can control the situation a little.

I'm struggling the most with how I can be in a bubble with children at work & possible speak with up to 8 different parents a day but can't hug my nephew (yet children I'm not related to I can?) Or see my friends. I think I'm having a bad week.
 
After being furloughed for the past 110 days, its back to work for me tomorrow! Looking forward to going back to some form of normality. Even though it's not going to be 'normal' as I knew it, the routine of going to work is very much welcome. There's some anxiety as well of course, especially since the other staff have been back for the past 2 weeks so will have already settled into the new way of doing things. It shouldn't take me long to get back into the swing of it though. Will probably be harder for my Mum having to look after my chatterbox daughter 😂
 
CrestedPiggies said:
After being furloughed for the past 110 days, its back to work for me tomorrow! Looking forward to going back to some form of normality. Even though it's not going to be 'normal' as I knew it, the routine of going to work is very much welcome. There's some anxiety as well of course, especially since the other staff have been back for the past 2 weeks so will have already settled into the new way of doing things. It shouldn't take me long to get back into the swing of it though. Will probably be harder for my Mum having to look after my chatterbox daughter 😂
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Hope it all goes well for you and any new procedures due to Covid aren't too irksome! What is it that you do?
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
Hope it all goes well for you and any new procedures due to Covid aren't too irksome! What is it that you do?
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Thanks :) It's just retail work (in a relatively small shop) so shop floor changes are easy enough - hand sanitiser at the door, one way system and sneeze screens are now standard. As long as the customers adhere to the rules then all should be fine! The 'behind the scenes' changes will take more getting used to but nothing too major thankfully.
 
I've noticed over lockdown, and a lot lately, my heart rate seems to be racing very fast, I feel out of breath. It seems to kick off when something like the 2 weekly shopping trip is coming up. I feel like my heart is going to give out. Anxiety maybe?

I can feel pulsating in my eyes and throat area. It's horrible, it kicked off last night when I was going to sleep, I woke up fine. And then when my mind booted up and I was about to go shopping, it all started again
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
I've noticed over lockdown, and a lot lately, my heart rate seems to be racing very fast, I feel out of breath. It seems to kick off when something like the 2 weekly shopping trip is coming up. I feel like my heart is going to give out. Anxiety maybe?

I can feel pulsating in my eyes and throat area. It's horrible, it kicked off last night when I was going to sleep, I woke up fine. And then when my mind booted up and I was about to go shopping, it all started again
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I read that a quick nap is healthy for your heart.
During lockdown, I found myself dozing off during the afternoon probably because I had nothing else to do. So, I began reading and found that a quick nap is really good for your heart.
 
Seven7 said:
I read that a quick nap is healthy for your heart.
During lockdown, I found myself dozing off during the afternoon probably because I had nothing else to do. So, I began reading and found that a quick nap is really good for your heart.
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I have had lack of sleep lately and hardly hydrated. I think I need to sort myself out. I've got very healthy pets and I'm not so healthy myself lol
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
I've noticed over lockdown, and a lot lately, my heart rate seems to be racing very fast, I feel out of breath. It seems to kick off when something like the 2 weekly shopping trip is coming up. I feel like my heart is going to give out. Anxiety maybe?

I can feel pulsating in my eyes and throat area. It's horrible, it kicked off last night when I was going to sleep, I woke up fine. And then when my mind booted up and I was about to go shopping, it all started again
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Does sound like anxiety. I get the same symptoms when I start worrying etc.
 
As Gem said, that seems very much like anxiety, it can be such a disturbing, and misleading condition that I once managed to convince myself I had a lump in my throat and ended up in A&E, it was my birthday - it really just turned out that I'd been under so much stress that my muscles were really tense, felt a total fool after that, but as with any mental health problem, it's beyond your control, you exist in a different reality.
 
Yes suffer with it myself, frustrating it’s so out of your control :doh:But then I’ve got epilepsy and depression too, my brain loves causing me trouble! 🙄
 
I ended up at the hospital last year with chest pains and pains in my left arm, GP thought it was my heart. Turned out it was stress. Up until the last few days and the mask muddle (as the metro calls it!) I've been less stressed during lockdown, I have the perfect excuse not to do the things that worry me.
 
piggieminder said:
I ended up at the hospital last year with chest pains and pains in my left arm, GP thought it was my heart. Turned out it was stress. Up until the last few days and the mask muddle (as the metro calls it!) I've been less stressed during lockdown, I have the perfect excuse not to do the things that worry me.
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:) Had the same issue a long time ago now, turned out it was something called Dexter's Twinge or something like that. I rarely ever see the GP, but when I do it's usually for something that's anxiety related. I do think people suffer with anxiety more these day's, I think a lot of us really aren't built for the world as it's developed today, everything's so high pressure and demanding. I'd say that compared with depression, which is a bid of an abiding thing with me, and I like to think of it as my 'Black Dog', like Churchill, the depression is relatively easy to deal with, but the anxiety is just the worst.
 
I'm sorry to hear you suffer with anxiety and depression @Falken. I agree with you about modern life, it seems to be geared up to cause people anxiety and depression. I sometimes wonder if the people who don't suffer this way are paying attention to what's going on around them.
I have several health conditions that mean I have to be checked out regularly or they won't let me have the pills that stop me having more health problems. I'm a bit of a nightmare for the GPs I think as I avoid them as much as possible, they send me letters saying I need to attend the surgery for tests.
 
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