Government says contact your GP if you haven't had it by Sunday @Fairygirl but today was the first day in about ten days we've actually had any post here so I guess I have to give it a few extra days? Hope you and your family are alright x
Lockdown in Belgium now extended to April 19th. I'm expecting France to follow suit and probably go further. Fine for OH and me as we have each other and the cats, dogs and garden but Possum is on her own in a flat in Namur. Fine if she stays healthy but not good if she does get sick.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I'm not sure I believe all of these facts and figures especially China's, I know they welded the doors shut on apartment blocks in Wuhan but if the virus got out into the countryside which it most likely did considering it's thought that the authorities were sitting on the virus before they would admit to it, then there could be vastly more unreported deaths. Now think of Africa, if and when the virus takes hold there lord knows!
I wouldn't trust figures from either China or Russia or the USA.
However, what matters now is what the countries closer to home and closer to our own political and social culture are experiencing and how we can learn from and help each other and collaborate to defeat this plague.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Maybe now they will realise that masks and protective clothing for people at the sharp end is imperative. Radiographers expected to scan suspected cases with no protection are at risk. So are the receptionists that have been drafted from the private wing to become health care assistants with two days extra training. My friends daughter who is a dentist, works with a full face eye protection and mask and gloves and still caught it.
Very true. OH is a radiographer and only recently had a visor for scanning patients with confirmed C-19, but at his work they at least had plastic aprons, gloves and flu masks, when working with patients who had confirmed illness. As well as taking extra precautions such as hand washing, sanitising, wiping down phones and pens with alcowipes etc. They have had no radiographers become unwell yet, in his hospital. They mainly scan inpatients, at the moment, and all of those suspected have been tested. Outpatients have been cancelled if elective stuff that can wait. Dentists have it worse in some ways, as they are dealing with untested public directly off the street.
It is worrying Obelixx, isn't it, my daughter lives alone as well, has asthma and is currently battling with work related stress and depression - not good when you're locked down. I can't bear the thought of her catching the virus and being all alone.
Are dentist working? I rang mine last week and the receptionist moved my hygienist appointment from next week to October. I have an appointment with the dentist in July and was told that if the situation continues my appointment will be postponed for three months, and then another three months if necessary, and so on.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Dovefromabove I think depending on the surgery, dentists are open for emergency treatment only.....broken tooth, toothache etc. Some have closed completely to help at hospitals.
Our lockdown in France is now extended to April 15th.
It was pretty obvious from the start that the initial lockdown was of 2 weeks only in order to be "acceptable" by the population. The extension to 2 more weeks belongs to the same strategy. Given the current situation I have no doubt that the lockdown will be extended still further.
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However, what matters now is what the countries closer to home and closer to our own political and social culture are experiencing and how we can learn from and help each other and collaborate to defeat this plague.
OH is a radiographer and only recently had a visor for scanning patients with confirmed C-19, but at his work they at least had plastic aprons, gloves and flu masks, when working with patients who had confirmed illness. As well as taking extra precautions such as hand washing, sanitising, wiping down phones and pens with alcowipes etc.
They have had no radiographers become unwell yet, in his hospital. They mainly scan inpatients, at the moment, and all of those suspected have been tested. Outpatients have been cancelled if elective stuff that can wait. Dentists have it worse in some ways, as they are dealing with untested public directly off the street.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.