I'm feeling physically sick at this. When did we create a world so self-absorbed and narcissistic? There is fighting in supermarkets locally to me. Protectionist, isolating, unilateral suspicion. The world has gone backwards.
There are lots of online groups organising to deliver shopping etc to the elderly who are staying at home ... Facebook and Nextdoor.com have details Also I understand that lots of corner shops and Co-op stores are arranging to deliver to older folk who are at home.
Certainly rural shops I know are puling out all the stops to make sure no one goes without. Some rural pubs are acting as liaison points. If all your friends are your age and older, now's your chance to make some new younger friends ... via Facebook and Nextdoor
Also I've heard that major chains have said that if older people who cannot order online just phone their local supermarket they will arrange to take an order for delivery.
If you can't get any help contact your Social Services office, Age Concern and/or Parish or District Councillor. It's what they're there for.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@pansyface I totally agree and feel very sorry for people without good friends and neighbours or family close by. We are telling people we cannot take on any more deliveries of prescriptions at the moment and asking people to send someone to collect if they feel unwell but lots of customers don’t have anyone to send! I think some arrangement will have to be made to increase deliveries but not sure how that will be achieved. Taking medication into the homes of people who may have the virus isn’t a job anybody wants to do! I honestly don’t know what the answer is.
We have finally persuaded Aunty Mo 89 and heart condition, and Mum 87 with asthma, to not socialise and have shopping bought in by one of us. I am shopping once a week then staying in. If I go down with it, then my sister takes over. We can only do our best. My friend who works at the hospital has just left me , and taken some of my supplies of Dettol wet wipes and fairy liquid. She was down to an inch in the bottle and couldn't get any. I stock up with cleaning stuff every January when it is always on special offer in the supermarket. If she goes ill,(front line worker, highly likely) we have arranged that she will phone me, I will get what I can and leave it in her porch, ring the bell, then back away.
Curiously , another friend of hers caught it last week off of a minister(Confirmed case) It only lasted two days , then he was fine. His symptoms were similar to what I had a fortnight ago. Maybe we have had it and not realised it? Maybe a mild version has been circulating in Nottingham for a while. We have a huge chinese student population at the Uni, and I said a month ago that it would be a miracle if one of them didn't bring it back from their xmas holidays back in China. However like if you get Flu A, it doesn't make you resistant to Flu B, so we could still be susceptible to a mutated stronger version like they have in Italy. I think it inevitable that most of the population will eventually catch it, but the longer we can delay that, the more likely there will be a treatment will be available, and the flatter the curve, the more likely the hospitals will cope.
Like Punkdoc, I think, if you are over 70 or in a susceptible group, stay at home.
Actually I see that Matt Hancock is suggesting that the over 70's isolate themselves for four months it just won't happen, that is unless they start dropping like flies.
I have been asked to self isolate by my doctor via telephone consultation - my surgery has stopped face to face appointments already. I have been diagnosed with a severe chest infection - all the symptoms of C without the fever. Now on my second lot of abs and steroids as my breathing is so bad. Two things worrying me slightly - if I feel so bad with this, how much worse would I be if I contract coronavirus? At both doctor consultations, the word hospital has been mentioned as regards current problem. Second worrying thing is that I normally get shopping delivered 2-3 times a month. Reading that more people are getting home deliveries, I decided to book my order in a few days earlier - normally I put in in for delivery 2 days later. I went to book an order for this week to find all delivery slots taken and only free ones were for the week after. If this is what it is like at the start of the virus, it is going to be virtually impossible to live on online shopping as the available delivery slots will be weeks apart.
I have no family and all my friends are in the same age bracket or older. One of them has already gone down with this 'local' virus that I have.
It is difficult not to feel worried about how we will cope in the future.
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
In most cases medication is handed over at the door although it needs to be signed for, also some people have to pay, which prolongs contact. Some people have to ask the delivery driver to come inside and they provide key codes etc to facilitate that. Drivers are in short supply anyway and as my pharmacy don’t charge for delivery our driver is working at full capacity already. It’s a difficult situation.
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Certainly rural shops I know are puling out all the stops to make sure no one goes without. Some rural pubs are acting as liaison points. If all your friends are your age and older, now's your chance to make some new younger friends ... via Facebook and Nextdoor
Also I've heard that major chains have said that if older people who cannot order online just phone their local supermarket they will arrange to take an order for delivery.
If you can't get any help contact your Social Services office, Age Concern and/or Parish or District Councillor. It's what they're there for.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Two things worrying me slightly - if I feel so bad with this, how much worse would I be if I contract coronavirus? At both doctor consultations, the word hospital has been mentioned as regards current problem.
Second worrying thing is that I normally get shopping delivered 2-3 times a month. Reading that more people are getting home deliveries, I decided to book my order in a few days earlier - normally I put in in for delivery 2 days later. I went to book an order for this week to find all delivery slots taken and only free ones were for the week after. If this is what it is like at the start of the virus, it is going to be virtually impossible to live on online shopping as the available delivery slots will be weeks apart.
I have no family and all my friends are in the same age bracket or older. One of them has already gone down with this 'local' virus that I have.
It is difficult not to feel worried about how we will cope in the future.