Anybody feeling scared?

gillyknits
How will you pay your neighbours if indeed you take up their offer to do your shopping? Cash? Will you go to the bank or an ATM to get cash? That would make a mockery of staying in.

No, I am not scared just doing what I can to prevent infection. No underlying health issues.

I'm most worried for my husband and daughter who both suffer from asthma. My mother in law lives close by and at 87 is already very dependent on us without the added problems that isolation could cause.
I work in a supermarket and obviously cannot stop going to work. I assume even if the whole country was closed down like Italy I would still be expected to work as long as I was well so I am trying to live as I normally would. I go dancing and belong to a choir and intend to carry on with those and use the local shops while I am still able. This threat is likely to be around for several months at least. I do worry about the economic impact this is going to have. Many businesses are already struggling to survive, the coronavirus can only make the situation worse.

I am feeling afraid and powerless. My beloved granddaughter has cancer and travels into London for chemo. The threat of this virus on top of all she has so bravely gone through already seems so cruel and unfair. I don't know when I will see her again and I can do nothing to help.

My youngest daughter lives with me and she is asthmatic; I am in general good health but my immune system is compromised (due to medication).

Other countries were taking stringent measures to avoid the spread of the virus while our Government's best advice was to wash our hands and sing happy birthday. As it semed pointless to expect sensible advice from the Government I declared my house an isolation area on Tuesday.

I have been pretty much confined to home recovering from a "normal" virus since the beginning of January, so don't miss going out as much as I might otherwise. The hour or so we spent with antibacterial spray wiping down our weekly shopping delivery provided a bit of light relief. Day six and not bored yet!

The proposed ban on the over 70’s is ridiculous.
That puts most of the House of Lords, many MP’s, and prominent people in the medical and judicial system out of action.
How are they going to legislate for that.
I am not 70 yet, but am fit and not on any medication.
I am afraid I wouldn’t be at all happy to be told to stay indoors.

reading most of these posts now, I can get scared for everyone.

me? over 70, good health, but been self isolated due to tummy bug for 8 days, I need to get out, don`t have the energy back yet to do walkies, don`t think I should drive today,, need to recover strength a bit more

I am scared for me.. because I need to get out.. trying hard to resist panic attacks.. there must be people far worse than me, of course there are..

praying for us all

Yes Im scared. I came out of Hospital last October and have had to isolate and be extra careful since then, so I am used to it. I am on medication which suppresses my immune system so spend alot of time disinfecting my home and being very aware if I do go out as are my family and friends. I would like to add that every time I have been in the Oncology/Haematology unit everyone has been treated the same whether old or young and the fight has been consistent. But yes it is a very worrying time and I do find that I get moments of extreme anxiety.

Not scared, just worried. Mr Barmey is as well, he still goes out training for his fell runs but never meets anyone, who else would be so mad as to run up and down hills? We are are both still cycling but once again never really meet anyone and we now now take a packed lunch and a flask instead of eating out. We have cancelled our holiday as Malta is in lock down. I shop wearing gloves and a mask and seem to be the only one doing it. Also stopped visiting friends and relatives which is a shame.

On the question isolation for the over 70's, just how will this be policed. Mr B looks about 59 or 60 and I look a bit younger than 72, Will the police jump out in front of me when I am whizzing along on my bike and say go home.

I am worried for my daughter, will her carers still come in, what about shopping etc. Ij have upped her supermarket delivery to twice a week. I think I would be less worried if we had someone with leadership and who you believed.

I am getting to the stage of thinking 'oh just let me get it and get it over with, I will then be immune and can go out'! I don't think secondary infection rates are going to be at all high.

Talking after church this morning, over a coffee (that bizarrely had to be served by the clergy rather than volunteers!) generations that lived through the war or decade after it are a naturally rebellious lot, and won't be imprisoned in their homes. They are sensible, and will avoid going too close to anyone else, but you won't stop them going out, walking their dogs, or helping others.

I am not feeling scared and although everything is pointing to this virus I just carry on as normal. All the necessities I have and taking note to constantly do hand washing and hygiene in the home is all that can be done. I have tried to seriously talk to my adult children living in their own homes but they are not taking this virus seriously so be as they will let them carry on. My son comes in to see me and immediately he comes in I make him thoroughly wash his hands and have the box of tissues close by for any sneezes, what he does when he leaves my house is down to him .
I feel surreal whenever I go to the big supermarkets and am met with several aisles bare of items that most people are panic buying I said two weeks ago the supermarket should fully ban people from taking lots of items and leaving nothing for others that's just selfish. I have maybe got four more toilet rolls than I need but if a neighbour knocked on my door and could not get themselves any I would help them out and give them some of mine.
All stay safe and keep well whatever happens this will all pass lets hope as many possible come out the other side of it.

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I have underlying health problems but most of my family are higher risk than me.
I'm really scared of being the last one standing - I'd rather go with them than lose all my loved ones.

Yes, scared because our NHS doesn't have enough resources. Less than half as many ventilators as Italy and today's news that production companies have been asked to drop everything else and start producing ventilators has finally alerted the government to the fact that ten years of austerity has actually depleted the NHS. Without an enormous influx of ventilators, we in our later years will simply not be treated just as those over 60 in Italy haven't been treated because there have been insufficient ventilators to do that. Many nursing and medical staff have gone back to their European countries because of Brexit - interesting isn't it that all the predictions made over the last decade about running down the NHS are now coming home to roost and we who stand to bear the consequences are powerless to do anything.
Yes, I am very scared. Here in south London my local GP surgery has been closed for a week, there's an intercom and only certain people can enter, no walk-in clinic, only telephone communication and sometimes waiting periods of up to two hours before an answer - this is very Third Worldish - pretty disgusted with the last decade of government - it is quite likely as the PM has said, to see us losing our loved ones before their time and I'm afraid I could be one of those.

I don't feel scared and to be honest haven't really thought about what would happen if we caught it. I do feel anxious though at the panic buying and scaremongering that is going on in the media. I just want to continue as normal. Today at the petrol station they advised putting gloves on to fill up with petrol!

I’m scared, would like to be gung ho as some are. Have had health issues and my daughter was adamant I didn’t go on my weekend trip to Scarborough by train and staying in hotel. My best friend who I was travelling with not happy...
Problem is I don’t know how far to take it, being over 70.
Supermarket, yes, I suppose, what about my weekly help?
What do you think?

I would like to know how keeping the over seventys in their homes for three months is going to work, one of our sons lives with us, he goes to work, what happens if he gets the virus he will bring it home to us. At the end of the isolation period we are all let out into the community the virus will still be around apparently for the forseeable future then we may get it and the contamination starts all over again. This government live in cloud cuckoo land.

I am 73 and have damaged lungs. Today we drove to the sea and walked for 50 minutes and then drove home. We did not touch anything. This exercise is good for me but will they try to stop me from doing that?

Not as scared as I felt in '63 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, I recall going to school on the critical day and we were discussing if we would be going home.

Don't think I am scared but definitely concerned, especially about the practicalities - what exactly does self-isolate involve - Does it really mean not going out of the house at all? can you go out for a walk with the dog? I live on my own and although my kids suggest I go and stay with them for the duration it is not what I want as feel if I stay here at least I will have all my own bits and pieces. 4 months is such a long time, at first I thought it would only be a month or so which is manageable but 4 months?????

no,I'm not scared, out of this will rise something else,hopefully better.It may make people realise that we need a state that cares for people,not privatisation,greed adfinitum. shouldn't the super rich be now spending their money to help others ? Will it make us more caring towards our neighbours?
Time will tell......

I'm confused and bewildered because there is so much that does not add up or make sense. A report by an Italian doctor who was on an advisory board to the Chinese has said the virus itself is quite weak in that heat kills it, it dies at temperatures over 27°c, it can only survive 5 to 10 mins on skin, 12 hours max on metal and 6 hours on fabric. Ordinary washing with soap gets rid of it and washing with normal detergents kill it also. Also for the majority it presents as a mildish illness. So what's with all the travel bans and closures and cancellations? Ok it is highly infectious but if it is so easily killed as research suggests and sees off mainly us old crocks with health issues eg. a minority of the populations, why all these steep draconian precautions like something out of a sci-fi film?

It does seem really over the top sometines especially when you consider the H1N1 swine flu pandemic in 2009/10 where nothing like this mass shutdown of normality took place. H1N1 was also a new virus which popped up suddenly and there was no natural immunity to it either but there was nothing like the hysteria that is going on today with Covid-19.

Another report from an esteemed scientist has said getting out daily in fresh air is important in helping to keep it at bay rather than stuck indoors and if you are in sunny climates then being out in the sun also helps to protect you because the virus cannot tolerate heat yet government's around Europe are forcing people to stay indoors.

I have a slight worry about what would happen if DH or myself contract it as we both have a few health problems but we are up to date on our pneumonia jabs so that may help and we are taking simple precautions with regards to increased hand washing and using antibac.

My main worry though is for the future. All the lost jobs and businesses and the plunging economies that will befall a lot of places. I have a feeling that the aftermath of this virus will kill and damage more people and countries than the virus itself. I also worry if this reaction will now be the default one whenever a new bug appears. What a great way to shut a world down and bring about economic disaster if you were so inclined. These are indeed scary times and not just about falling ill.

Where is the thread about isolating over 70s for four months? Hasit been sabotaged by B-r-s?

Liz46, It sounds like you had a lovely time down near the sea and you are right the exercise would have done you good also the fresh air.
I have a few years until I am 70 but my brother is 71 and has no partner. Every week he catches the train to the coast/sea and comes home in the evening. During the week he goes travelling around locally and he is still spritely and fit.
I know for a fact he is not going to stay in his flat for four months and I wonder how they would make him do that, he loves to get out and about he has got more energy than I have.

Not at all. I am fit & healthy usually so should be OK. Worrying is pointless-what will be will be.

I am worried not for myself but for my daughter she is only 25 and she catches everything she doesnt go out because of anxiety when we had swine flu she got it twice and quite afew friends and family are over 70 with underlying illness i have been on the phone to them today to ask them to self isolate like we are keep safe everyone