@Gagajo, when I read your post, you were actually writing very much in first person, for instance; ‘I’ve had to watch my 5yr old son...’, ‘I watched him hallucinating and crying...’, ‘He lay in the hospital bed and asked me if he was going to die - as a mother...’, ‘As his mom...’, etc.
All stories as such are really distressing and harrowing to many, needless and are particularly hard to listen/read/hear when you are in the ‘high risk’ group. That includes myself, who now have to go through an entire twelve weeks of self isolation due to the fact that I have to have monthly infusions of an immune modulating(suppression) therapy. I already suffer from depression, as do many of my fellow counterparts. Quite how I’m going to cope, I just don’t know. I’m recording lots of television programmes that I wouldn’t normally watch? and written a list of jobs that I need to do(but I’m physically limited) and trying to remain positive. ‘Trying’, being the operative word. I’ve also compiled all of the lotions and potions that I’ve received as Christmas/Birthday’s, so I can pamper myself. However, twelve weeks feels, and undeniably is, a long time to be in isolation. I can’t access my Facebook account either since it was hacked in December. I’ve tried absolutely everything to overcome it, and I’m trying one last thing. I’ve had no one come to the door or anything posted through the door offering help of any kind.
However, I think that on the whole people are self isolating; it’s just the minority that are behaving recklessly. They are putting themselves at risk of contracting the virus, and more to the point, many others that they come up against, by their selfish behaviour. I also observed that many of those that were actually out, were also not complying with keeping the recommended two metre distance between themselves and complete strangers. I seriously wonder if some people don’t know what 2 metres actually looks like; maybe they were taught imperial measurements possibly??♀️?! Maybe they’re getting confused with ‘2 feet’, considerably shorter than ‘2 metres’...?! Having worked in adult education it wouldn’t (sadly) surprise me at all.
I had to go up to London for some immune modulating treatment in London last week. Whilst the hospital itself was like a ghost town, with the odd member of staff/public there.
What absolutely amazed me though was the sheer level of traffic?! The roads were really busy; so where were all these people going, when people were being recommended to work from home? Are that employers still expecting that many people to work?♀️?!? Yes, some would have been travelling to work in hospitals. But the rest? No...it couldn’t possibly be that that MANY?! Not people dressed like builders, or people driving very expensive car, etc.
I think that @M0nica’s post was rather insensitive and unnecessarily rude. I think that it could have been written far more sensitively. To call her a ‘holy jos’ was really unnecessary and rude, no two ways about it, IMHO. Her username is GagaJo, after all, nothing ‘holy’ but smacks of blasphemy. I do agree with you though that the OP’s first paragraph was very sweeping, and it came across as though she thinks that we’re all being renegades. Many of us aren’t at all, quite the opposite.
If we all stayed at home and complied with the government’s instructions, then this virus would soon die out. Unfortunately, it’s because of the thoughtless few that this virus is persisting.
God forbid, I truly hope that we don’t end up with a death toll like Italy’s.