Thanks everyone for your lovely messages. Interestingly our daughter works in a pharmacy and lives at home. She stopped working 3 weeks ago due to her Dad's cancer diagnosis, whilst working she was using PPE. We appear to all have caught Covid despite being very, very careful. I do think it's very infectious but like all germs affects some and not others,just as worrying is that you can carry it and pass it on with no knowledge at all.
We are now limiting customer numbers and have a barrier up but it’s not much use when selling to customers handing over change etc. Gloves and masks soon cease to be effective and I admit I am surprised that none of the staff have caught the virus if it’s as contagious as we are led to believe. Perhaps we have all just been extremely lucky.
Our SMs won't take cash. It all has to be paid for by debit card. However, I had to go to the pharmacy for a prescription yesterday and their card reader had died so I had to pay cash. She was wearing disposable gloves and a mask and had a perspex screen at the counter. I assume the gloves and masks get changed frequently.
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)."
Some people are immune to it, but i don't want to take any chances. Around here the pharmacy has taken precautions and put up barriers the customers have to wait outside and be called in 2 at a time.
As long as a person isn't coughing or sneezing it's not that bad.
It's not that they're immune, it's that they don't have symptoms. They're still able to pass it on, that's the worrying thing. People who have 'recovered' from a mild illness may still have the virus and may be contagious for a number of weeks.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
As long as a person isn't coughing or sneezing it's not that bad.
People who have hayfever sneeze. Good to know that people will be treating me like a leper if I sneeze in the street, even though sneezing isn't one of the most prominent symptoms. Don't you just love society.
Sorry but that's how it spreads, it's the mucus that comes out of anyone's mouth when they cough or sneeze that's why they say 2 mtrs away from one another.
We cannot refuse to take cash, gloves are useless unless changed after every single transaction. I accept that some people have no symptoms but are carriers but the fact that nobody has been ill is surprising.
Well I'm going back to work gardening today.elderly couple with health conditions.ive told them they have to stay inside.and no cup of tea!its going to be very hard.i shall miss giving a hug and a kiss.and occasional chats about stuff.it wont be the same.but I want to help them.i just hope they can stay inside.and I hope they are the first to get the vaccine.
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It's not that they're immune, it's that they don't have symptoms. They're still able to pass it on, that's the worrying thing. People who have 'recovered' from a mild illness may still have the virus and may be contagious for a number of weeks.