It's already depressing me

I do have lots of things planned which are having to be cancelled and am a little downhearted- depressed is too strong a word at the moment!

However I’m trying to do one lovely thing each day to have something to look forward to and today it’s changing the bed - I love a fresh bed and am so looking forward to slipping between the sheets tonight!

I enjoy cooking and am planning some lovely meals/treats over the next few days and will just generally ‘tidy’ up my life/garden/home/paperwork so that when this is all over we can resume jollifications!

DH is already depressed at the prospect. He’s not one to chat on the phone. I don’t see him (or us) surviving four months unscathed!

In my working life I worked in a solicitors office and it was well accepted that busiest times for matrimonial work were just after Christmas and just after the summer holidays. The factor being couples spending longer time together than usual..

Add in that it's not possible to get away from each other it can be a recipe for disaster.

I envisage some unhappy households.

If people are very concerned about loneliness, perhaps some kind of online 'chat' room might be helpful. I know nothing about them at all except that they exist, but a quick search brought this link up:
www.silversurfers.com/best-of-the-web/technology-best-of-the-web/best-senior-chat-rooms-sites-for-over-50s-60s/

Thanks for starting this topic as it totally echoes my feelings, so glad I'm not alone. The mental toll hasn't even been mentioned and I agree it may be great. I have a DH but if we are together 24/7 for god knows how long it could be divorce at the end. He's 70 and I'm not but I probably wouldn't venture out.

I think the mental illness price of the shut down could be more than the cost of the virus itself. I think there may be suicides and possibly murders, certainly a long tail of depression and other mental problems.

Thankfully I have enough research projects, reading,needlework, decorating and gardening to do for boredom to be a problem, but I do really feel for those immured in flats.

Madwoman11, I am in total sympathy and agreement with you. I am far more frightened of the effect of four month (?) of this sort of isolation, than I am of actually catching this illness. Isolation has always been used as a dreadful punishment, even torture - yet we oldies are being told to do this.
Do not even have any spring cleaning to do.....only having moved into my flat a few months back, everywhere is clean and tidy to a fault. Carpet has been vacuumed almost to death!!! Lots recorded on tv, but cannot spend all day, every day watching that.
Have been so looking forward to better weather, and being to get out and about even more - now that appears not going to happen. Yes, I am also already bored.