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How worried are you about the Corona virus now?
66Mustang
Member Posts: 3,683 Disability Gamechanger
New poll, one week on from the original one. There have been a lot of new developments and updates in the news. Let’s see what the results look like now.
How worried are you about the Corona virus now? 26 votes
Not at all worried
7%
2 votes
A little worried
19%
5 votes
Quite worried
15%
4 votes
Very worried
57%
15 votes
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Stay safe everyone, keep well and take care xx
Also, I just went to Tesco and the shelves are very empty of food and drink. I have not seen anything like it in my lifetime. There is no bread, little meat, very little fresh fruit and vegetables, no frozen food, no canned food and worst of all there was very little beer. We also filled the car with petrol and some of the pumps were out of order but I don’t know whether that was due to people panic buying or if they were just empty or broken for another reason.
Im only not very worried because i am not really a worrier. The impact has hit our family now. My daughter final year at primary now misses the full final term and all her transition events, including the residential camp.
My son in his final high school year now has to have his grades estimated and doesnt know if he can progress to uni (he is very worried)
My eldest son who lives many miles away and is self supporting likely to lose all 3 of his jobs (low skilled retail work)
My eldest daughter self employed should be ok .
Me self employed now has no income til august when the schools go back.
And last, but not least, the reason i joined this forum my autistic son has had all his activities stopped and has already had a massive decline in personal hygiene, eating, uncommunicative. And we are only day 3.
My husband is working from home and has a regular salary so my own lack of employment just now wont hit us as hard as some.
But every member of our family impacted. And grandma in self isolation on her own.
Maybe i am very worried after all. Not about catching the virus. No one in our house is in a vulnerable group. It's financial implications, school implications, mental well being implications. All of that.
Only grandma is in the vulnerable group.
I am very worried about it now though. So much has changed in the last 7 days, I was 'quite' worried last Friday. As well as the virus spreading very quickly it has caused utter carnage in every other aspect of life now as everyone else has said.
I don't deal with change well and everything is changing constantly at the moment. It's made me realise that there are so many more things I do at specific times on specific days and so many more rituals (some OCD, some not!) than I ever realised myself. It just seemed normal until now where I'm being forced to change those things and really struggling with it. There are only very few food items I can eat and I've struggled to find those this week and tried to make unsuccessful substitutes instead. I've been out today and spent the last of the months money (now have 65p left lol) making sure I've got those frozen and long life items that I couldn't get on Monday and fortunately I did manage to find things, albeit across 3 shops. I had to go after 7am to Sainburys as they're having an 'elderly hour' first thing in the mornings. And then either side of 9-10am to 2 different Tesco stores as that's when their elderly hour is. By 11am, I'd had 3 showers!! Not that that helps anyway, it can be airborne for 2 metres and 72 hours and obviously there's no practical way to keep 2 metres away from everyone in a supermarket, even early morning. TMI I know but my bowels are also ruined after the last week! On the plus side, I shouldn't need to go into a supermarket or any other shop at all for at least 2 weeks now. But obviously this won't all be sorted within 2 weeks, so the next shop is already worrying me! Plus, shopping is a weekly aim, I haven't got another aim to replace it with.
I'm also very worried about taking it to my Nan's house and infecting her as a carrier. Although she's elderly and disabled, she doesn't have any breathing or immunity issues (in fact, she never even catches colds!) but I'm still very aware that she could get it. I usually visit once a week but honestly don't know whether to next week or not. She stills want me to visit when I asked...her main concern was that she had a birthday card that needed posting though lol.
Despite my agoraphobia, I can't stand staying indoors all day every day and try to go for a walk regularly, but I'm even scared to do that now. I tried staying in all day yesterday and didn't cope well with it, just can't find enough distractions and too much screen use triggered the fatigue issues much earlier than normal. Obviously pavements aren't 2 metres wide and even if I walk around a park there are always 'pinch points' at the entrances etc. I've thought about driving to the beach as a wide open space but I've only got a small amount of diesel left and, as above, no money to buy more until at least next month so that's really only possible once a week. On the subject of cars, of course every car show and music festival has been cancelled for this year...lost any motivation now!
I also live in flat with communal areas and communal bins. Fortunately there's no one living next door at the moment as that really would've caused me massive I would have had to tape up the edges of my own front door! But of course people like the postman use the communal door handles, and everyone uses the bin store, I don't even know if it's safe to open a window considering our windows are fairly close together.
On top of all the pre-Corona anxiety (obviously my other health/financial/social issues are all still present!), and the current situational anxiety, I've now been given a potential moving date of 3 weeks time, and a PIP tribunal date the week after that.
I know a lot of that seems very selfish and about me but I am also very concerned about the wider economy etc - I just don't have the capacity to worry about all of the external stuff on top of the internal issues!
I won’t try to share any obvious tips or opinions as having had contamination OCD myself I know you will have considered them all already and will have your own way of having to “deal” with things that no one else really fully understands.
I can relate to the seemingly paradoxical problem with going outside, I also find it really hard to go out but if I stay in all day it makes me feel really unwell so I have to go out at least once a day. Again I don’t want to state the obvious but this is something that sometimes works for me - have you thought about going out late at night?
Yes - I did actually notice there were a few boxes of Corona beer left! Haha.
If it stopped spreading right this very second (hurrah!) there are still 255,943 cases globally of people currently suffering with COVID-19.
The current death rate has jumped to 10% (it will go down again as measures improve, it will)
But if absolutely nothing at all changed right this second and these current cases continued at this rate that would mean 25,594 deaths.
It will get better but people need to keep doing their part.
Self-isolate if you can. Social distancing for everyone. Please wash your hands. Do not gather in groups of more than ten, ideally do not gather in groups at all.
More and more positive reports are coming out of China every day but that's after 3 months of very strict control.
Support your NHS, mind yourselves. Stay safe, stay well.
Good luck everyone!
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
I'm sorry to hear that. It must be very difficult to be away from your other children, while you are in the hospital.
There are things that worry me far more, 'get things done' Johnson for one, who every time opens his mouth leaves more questions than answers.
However my biggest worry is the general public. We have a delivery later today, Saturday, if it comes and if everything is on it we should be okay for at least a week, two if we are careful. Seriously you cannot get a slot on the online shopping sites, and nothing until the 17th April and that is because it does not go beyond that date. A friend of ours has been frantic because she is due to have a baby and cannot get hold of baby food. And some woman on Loose Women today mentioned a friend with a room stacked with groceries etc WTF???? We have a local store that was looted, an elderly man who had his shopping snatched out of his hands as he stepped out of the store door.
Going back to my least favourite blond ape, we were supposed to have contingency plans if things went sour after Brexit, guess not if they have been totally ineffective in dealing with this non shortage supplies due to ***** who are thinking of themselves so selfishly and so what if a few hundred people die or suffer because they cannot get hold of food supplies, its their fault. not mine. No, I'm not saying that, it just seems to be the view of some.
Yay, so we got Brexit and now we can bring the 'Great' back into 'Great Britain'. Perhaps we should have a history lesson to remind everyone Britain was great because it exploited other cultures and its people, while doing the same to its own citizens. At the moment not so impressed with the greatness on show by many.
Sorry for the rant folks, Been off the meds for a week and not getting the exercise of going to work as I have been able to work from home, so on top of everything else in a lot of pain. Please take care of yourselves and be safe. I'm off to bed to try and get some sleep. Hopefully will be feeling much better tomorrow, if the sun comes out I will probably sit on the balcony and read a book.
As an individual I stood alone.
As a member of a group I did things.
As part of a community I helped to create change!
let’s hope this nightmare ends very soon and we can all get back to some normality.
Trouble is I now seem to have three wives constantly nagging at me.
Interestingly I have read a lot of predictions of a baby boom late this year to middle of next year, but very little about divorces and separations.
As an individual I stood alone.
As a member of a group I did things.
As part of a community I helped to create change!
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Think my worry level is up to 'very worried' not about catching the virus itself, it is all the knock on effects on livelihoods, jobs etc.
However, in times of crisis, the best of people as well as the worst comes out and this is a lovely story which will hopefully take hold uk wide
https://news.stv.tv/feature/ticks-and-crosses-villages-novel-way-of-tackling-covid-19
Ah that`s a shame Rifl, would your mum cope with a skype message from you?
Maybe the home staff would try it for you.
xxx
What is going on the heads of these people. For goodness' sake, get in your house and stay in it. Help the National effort here and get on board with the restrictions.
Unless everyone gets on board and stays indoors, more severe enforcement is bound to come. And the lockdown will go on for longer and longer . . .
Stay indoors!!!!!
Stay safe everyone x
My autistic lad could teach us all a thing or two about social distancing working. Despite his shockingly bad diet, he never ever gets coughs or colds and it can only be because he practises social distancing at all times anyway.
Really, do any of you want to be struggling to breathe with a high fever? Not being able to breathe is truly terrifying!
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As an individual I stood alone.
As a member of a group I did things.
As part of a community I helped to create change!