Do you ever feel this will never be over?

Graymar I feel scared that small and medium businesses won’t reopen. And that people will be scared to eat out in restaurants/go for a drink in a bar. More loss of earnings. People will be scared and hold onto their cash = less spending. Money is being phased out more as contactless payments are being made. It’s control.

Will some people even have jobs to go back to?

Jane10 I think FEAR will keep more people at home than is necessary. I worry that our freedoms will be eroded because of it.

Maybe I’m overthinking this today but I don’t think us oldies will be doing anything much until there is a vaccine. Social distancing will continue for months for us lot.

I worry about the economic fallout.

Craygrandma2 Thanks for the heads-up on the Joe Wicks sessions for older adults. Although I’m ‘Only’ 60. I have a badly damaged facet joint due to arthritis, arthritis in my feet and a dodgy knee. I find regular work-outs too fast and with too many twists for me. His work out is perfect, introducing movements to repeat at our own pace and pausing between movements, so each one can be begun from a stable position- perfect!

I have nothing to complain about other than anxiety caused by my world being constantly rattled by what is happening to us all.

But, dear God, the sadness on here today. I would so love to meet up in a safe place and just talk and hug and cry with everyone here who is going through so much pain. There's common sense and kindness and hope on here too. I hope that all of you who've suffered such loss recently will want to get in touch with each other, to share your sadness and give each other comfort. More than anything now, I think we need that human contact and a chance to let our feelings out and our tears flow.

Love to you all who are suffering. There but for the grace......go all of us.

It will be all right in the end - if it’s not all right it’s not the end.............the only way I deal with this

I start my day with an online work out and watch a 15 daily talk called Lockdown on premrawat.com. It is on Day 21 at the moment but you can catch up with the whole series. Very inspirational and sets you up for the day!

Like all things, there’s a beginning, a middle and an end. We all have so much to look forward to when this is all over. Freedom for one. I have, as i’m sure many others have too, learnt how much I have to be thankful for and how I will hopefully never take it for granted again. There’s a lot of good in the world and a smile costs nothing-even from 6feet away!??

I am getting used to the restrictions and think these will continue for weeks to come.
One of our children is about to begin her 7th week of lockdown in Milan in a flat with husband two babies. They have kept well, observed all the rules and work and play as a team. We have two hospital doctors in the family; both have had the virus and now returned to the front line, one in ICU. Our middle daughter is recovering from the virus . But the most worrying thing we now have to face is that our doctor daughter has been diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer and may not be able to have the mastectomy recommended for a possible 6-9 months. That is what worries us, not the fact that we are locked in, communicate totally via WhatsApp, Facetime or Zoom and have other restrictions.

Despite all this, we feel that lockdown has to continued for as long as necessary in order to reduce the risk of a resurgence.

It will end and some form of normality will return. There have been times In my life when I have thought, I will never get over this. I will never be able to relax or be happy again. But it passes. An acceptance comes and we go on. I think it’s frightening because it’s happening to us all at the same time. I think we all have individual wobbles at time and perhaps don’t share them because they are for personal reasons. This time others are worried too. Take heart in the phrase this too will pass..because it will. Take care all

Urmstongran how will they curtail my freedom?

Thats kind Laibaik ,and a proper bit of help for anybody.

My tip is make a list of 3 or 4 things to do each day , cross them off, rinse and repeat.

Urm Sorry to hear you don't feel you will be able to pick up the threads? What do you think may change?

Well Jane10 aren’t Google and Apple salivating to roll out the digital tracking...

It’s a bit Big Brother.

Just like SueDonin I am very afraid that some idiot will release us too soon, under pressure from The Public (read the Damn Meedja) and then we will be right back to square one. We really do have to sit this out and as someone said “we can”t sit in our houses until Christmas” - well for my money if the alternative is half the population wiped out I bloody well can sit it out all year long if I have to

I feel the same. I am ordinarily a homebody and there is never an end of things to do in the house and yard but I am not feeling very alright at all. My husband is older than I am, and it feels like internment for two. He has family in New York, and watches the news incessantly. So far, one person in his family has gotten Covid, but is young and appears to have made it through ok. Also, I can't stand to see that idiot Trump's face every time I pass through the living room on the T.V. news. The political insanity is depressing me as much as the pandemic. Let's not even talk about the healthcare crisis, that was a crisis before the pandemic. I miss seeing my adult children, and love them with all my heart but it is plain to see that during the Covid nightmare, I am the only one calling and texting them; they have barely bothered to respond to any of my attempts to see how they are doing and definitely haven't made any effort to call me and their Stepdad to see how we are. It feels like a terribly lonely, mixed up insane world right now in every area of my life. But I am situated so well compared to most, I feel guilty complaining about anything at all. I am gardening and bought some quail to raise, which are very cute! I am reading good books, eating well, chatting with the neighbors over the fence and trying to do the right things but I still feel a sense of deep despair about things being better any time soon. Thanks for letting me rant a bit, I enjoy everyone's posts and wish you all a Happy Easter Sunday. Despite everything, it is still a beautiful spring day here!

What freedom do you worry about losing?

Coronavirus will go eventually but a lot of our freedoms will go with it.

No...I am stronger than that and so are you. It will be over. It will pass. The great majority of us will be fine, but there will be a minority for whom this will be tragic and life changing. There is a temporary morgue being set up a couple of hundred yards down the road which is pretty chilling. I am doing all the things I am meant to do .. not going out, getting shopping online, staying away from people. I've got various underlying conditions which makes me at risk. Not everyone is following the guidelines, and selfishly put other people at risk. I wonder why. No-one is so special that their needs outweigh everyone elses. I miss company, my kids, going out for lunch and going to our nearest beach to walk (15 miles). Since I was a teenager I have had serious periods of anxiety, depression, insomnia. One day, about 10 years ago, I realised that it always passes, and that was better than any medication. I am also a dedicated positive thinker, because if I wasn't I'm not sure where I'd be. This pandemic is scary, but most of us will get through it without ever having coronavirus. Most people who get it will survive. I only watch the daily update: I feel sorrow for those that have lost their lives, and feel gratitude for those who are working on the front line to look after everyone. I can't help but say, get a grip, stay strong, don't give into media pressure to feel helpless and despairing. We will mostly be OK and this will pass.

Jane10
I keep questioning myself as to why I feel ok. I just put it down to being the eternal optomist.
I suppose I believe in the 'Today is all we have' quotes.

Nona, so sorry for your loss, my husband died four weeks ago after a short illness and quite frankly I move about in a daze most of the time. I am self isolating, and am thankful I have wonderful friends and family who are very supportive. I don't look too far ahead, one day at a time.

Thank you Jane10
I was feeling particularly tense this morning for some reason but planting some seeds has helped. However, it is too hot in the greenhouse so I've come indoors again.

For some reason which I can't explain I'm feeling OK about the current situation. Maybe I've just got used to it? I don't know. I'm naturally an idle sort of person so whiling away the hours doing nothing much is fine by me. I have a feeling, again an inexplicable one, that this is maybe as bad as it will get and better days are ahead. I hope so.
Sending positive vibes to those that need them.

FloweroftheWest when I was researching family history I asked a cousin why she thought so many children had died in one branch of the family at about that time and she said that there had been terrible outbreaks of typhoid and cholera in that area.

Flowerofthewest, This text is actually a modern-day poem written during the COVID-19 coronavirus disease pandemic by author Catherine M. O’Meara. www.snopes.com/fact-check/kathleen-omara-1919-poem/

GagaJo
Thanks for the Pooh and Piglet conversation.

That is kind Laibak

I must listen to his blog again.

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