Do you all disinfect your shopping when it arrives? Or your postal deliveries?...
Yes, and our milk bottles when we take them in from the doorstep ... so does everyone I know. But not disinfectant ... sanitiser or bleach is what works best against viruses.
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My lecture comment wasn't aimed directly at you @steveTu. We all have our opinions. It's just that sometimes our opinions differ and who are we to say the OP is wrong.It may be wrong for us but who are we to judge!
But you go for a walk @Dovefromabove ,there's still a risk in that. I guess i'm playing devils advocate here but where does 'staying safe' begin and end? Did you not say your OH works in a garden centre (sorry if i'm wrong here)or had someone not wear a mask near him in one (if i remember rightly) What good is disinfecting shopping etc if you're still taking the risk of venturing outside?
Life is pretty s*** at the moment and there doesn't seem to be any end in sight.You can't blame someone for wanting a hug!
Edited to say, i have a parcel delivered to me yesterday,wrapped in plastic and still waiting to be opened!
This annoys me more than anything, a big propaganda exercise. And the last sentence ‘ if we don’t use them, we can call that a success’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55413831 Don’t even mention that they’re under staffed, there were nurses willing to come back but they make it so difficult with form filling and certificates, that they’ve given up.
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Haven't been for a walk in over a week @klink ... not since the figures in Norwich shot up .... and have only been in the garden to top up the birdfeeders, check the hedgehog feeding station, put the bins out etc and then with a mask on ... and when we did go out for a walk we only went when there was no one else about ... if someone else was coming towards us we would turn down a side path ... often we would go for a walk after dark when there really was no one else out and about ... and we live in a very quiet area near the marshes. And we always wear masks even when walking in the countryside.
OH works part time on a garden centre site ... when lockdown started again he chose to be furloughed again (on reduced wages) in order not to risk bringing the virus home to me. When he was working he would put his mask on when he left the house to cycle to work ... he wore masks all day (changing them and sanitising his hands regularly) and if a customer refused to wear a mask he went into the stock room. When he arrived home he would shower and change all his clothing and sanitise the door handles etc before coming into the main part of the house and loaded the washing machine with his work clothes himself. If there's anything else you think he could do to keep me safe let me know ...
I understand the difficulties of the lonely ... I am very lucky having OH here ... but his mother is in her 80s and living alone in a small village 80 miles away, and my best friend (for nearly 50 years) is in her 70s is also alone in quite an isolated situation 30 miles away, and feeling quite low ... we are keeping in touch by phone (not so easy with MIL as she has poor hearing, but we're managing) email and text. We're ensuring MIL is kept supplied with food and everything she needs and she is feeding the birds and watching them from her garden room. Normally she'd be bombing up and down the country driving to see her brothers in Cheshire, or out with her ukelele orchestra ... being on her own is not her usual lifestyle ... but as she says, the alternative is much worse.
I would love love love to have a hug from those special people, and to hug them back ... but I'm not going to ... not until it's safe ... safe not just for me and for them, but for the rest of the community.
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''OH works part time on a garden centre site ... when lockdown started
again he chose to be furloughed again (on reduced wages) in order not
to risk bringing the virus home to me. When he was working he would put
his mask on when he left the house to cycle to work ... he wore masks
all day (changing them and sanitising his hands regularly) and if a
customer refused to wear a mask he went into the stock room. When he
arrived home he would shower and change all his clothing and sanitise
the door handles etc before coming into the main part of the house and
loaded the washing machine with his work clothes himself. If there's
anything else you think he could do to keep me safe let me know ... ''
But a risk well within the rules and guidance laid down by a democratically elected government ... after last week of watching what can happen when people think they can over-ride democracy because 'they know best' I know what sort of behaviour I think is best for a community.
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And the post just arrived on the doormat ... I checked that there was nothing that needed to be dealt with urgently and then washed my hands whilst singing Happy Birthday with soap and water. The envelopes will wait in a pile on the floor to be dealt with in three days' time. That's how we do it nowadays.
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And if you didn't have your OH @Dovefromabove to share your life with, how would you be feeling about taking such preventative steps,alone, month after month,no end in sight.
You may be ready to risk a hug at some point, i know i would!
I’d flippin’ well try ... I know I would ... I’m not one to risk my well-being or others by giving in to emotion. I was brought up to be stoic if the occasion calls for it ... and I wouldn't be at all pleased if my children tried to undermine my willpower with misguided visits etc., and @WonkyWomble and anyone else on here who knows me will confirm that I’m sure. We are capable of so much more than we think, if only we believe we can.
By the way, my OH wants me to point out that when at work he wears a three layer mask and a full-face visor and doesn’t handle cash.
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And the last sentence ‘ if we don’t use them, we can call that a success’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55413831
Don’t even mention that they’re under staffed, there were nurses willing to come back but they make it so difficult with form filling and certificates, that they’ve given up.
OH works part time on a garden centre site ... when lockdown started again he chose to be furloughed again (on reduced wages) in order not to risk bringing the virus home to me. When he was working he would put his mask on when he left the house to cycle to work ... he wore masks all day (changing them and sanitising his hands regularly) and if a customer refused to wear a mask he went into the stock room. When he arrived home he would shower and change all his clothing and sanitise the door handles etc before coming into the main part of the house and loaded the washing machine with his work clothes himself. If there's anything else you think he could do to keep me safe let me know ...
I understand the difficulties of the lonely ... I am very lucky having OH here ... but his mother is in her 80s and living alone in a small village 80 miles away, and my best friend (for nearly 50 years) is in her 70s is also alone in quite an isolated situation 30 miles away, and feeling quite low ... we are keeping in touch by phone (not so easy with MIL as she has poor hearing, but we're managing) email and text. We're ensuring MIL is kept supplied with food and everything she needs and she is feeding the birds and watching them from her garden room. Normally she'd be bombing up and down the country driving to see her brothers in Cheshire, or out with her ukelele orchestra ... being on her own is not her usual lifestyle ... but as she says, the alternative is much worse.
I would love love love to have a hug from those special people, and to hug them back ... but I'm not going to ... not until it's safe ... safe not just for me and for them, but for the rest of the community.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.