Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?

[marinyork]

Struggling mentally. Asked for (and prescribed) an increase to my daily dose of anti-depressant

So sorry to hear this.

Nationally every area of the country is supposed to be setting up a 24 hour telephone line for people having mental health problems with the virus. This is seens as being some weeks away depending on where you live. No, it's not the NHS workers one, it's everyone.

I know this sucks, but you may be able to get a bit of support from this or something someone else is running.

 

[marinyork]

Additionally if anyone is having a talking therapy, video is coming on stream in the next few weeks for some (in theory). This has been infuriatingly slow because it appears from a lack of planning and immediately a lack of knowledge still about technology and how that interacts with safeguarding and confidentiality.

 

[DCLane]

I sat down for a few seconds and i wasn't trespassing,as the club usually allows folk to walk on the field. He was just trying to be the 'i'm so official'. As i came back from my walk/exercise about 2 hours later i saw two blokes doing some sort of yoga on the field.

This clamp-down has given the naturally officious a free license to abuse others, or apparently so. They have no official role, purpose or activity but like to think so.

Telling them to "get stuffed" in your own way's probably the best route. Arguing simply lowers you to their level.

 

[marinyork]

More tales from A&E/wards, which I didn't have as my dad had half an hour of charge on a phone - enough to get three short calls and the significance of yesterday becoming clear. My Dad said if you didn't have a charged phone, that was it, you might never hear from your family again.

In A&E my Dad was questioned about his movements for the last five weeks whilst he wore a mask. Full PPE. My mother's movements were asked about. My movements and particulars were asked about. Have any of the rest of us or anyone you can possibly think of had any colds/persistent cough? Apparently the answers to questions were relief. He was given a chest X-ray which came back very early which I didn't know specifically about and other tests were encouraging.

On one of the two wards almost the same thing was gone through again with advice for the 12 weekers club. Some of the 12 weekers club are um, not sticking to social shielding apparently (sounds like my chuffing neighbour across the road actually). The 12 weekers are also being given advice on shielding and that you can't rely on immunity in the go between, they have to be very careful. The advice is if your carer/supposedly healthy relative/helper goes down and is unavailable or incapacitated then get in touch immediately with the army of helpers. Don't start randomly going out meeting other households and doing small shops. On one ward my father was kept isolated in a room on his own until more results came back (they were basically initially checking for absolute certain he wasn't somewhere around day 6-10 of the disease). On the other ward it was 50% full and social distancing gaps with beds in an zig-zag formation.

My dad was told by the consultant there is 'substantial' evidence he's never had the virus due to his particular circumstances in his case and to not listen to anyone who says 'you've probably had it', that this is simply wrong. He was also told he 'likely' has 'no immunity whatsoever' and a reasoning of precisely why this was the case and what it would likely mean if he got the coronavirus and why the staff didn't want that to happen. He was also told that whilst they couldn't stop people getting the virus what he was doing was the right thing in contrast to some cases in the other special wing of the hospital.

 

[Gazjacko]

Due to an underlying respiratory condition I am ‘shielding ‘ I’ve ridden my bike south on the turbo and north on the turbo ( not enough room for E or W) , and frankly I’m getting a bit bored.
My concern is that I’ll only be let out once a vaccine is found so 12 weeks goes to 12 months!

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Unbelievably, my neighbours are having a party. About a dozen of them in the back garden playing with a PA and a karaoke.

 

[dodgy]

Unbelievably, my neighbours are having a party. About a dozen of them in the back garden playing with a PA and a karaoke.

Do you have a hose? Also, phone 101.

 

[Mugshot]

With the chance of a decent haircut looking pretty remote in the near future I've been considering a few style options, I thought perhaps a few of you would like some inspiration too, so here's some ideas I've been looking at;

 

[Rusty Nails]

With the chance of a decent haircut looking pretty remote in the near future I've been considering a few style options, I thought perhaps a few of you would like some inspiration too, so here's some ideas I've been looking at;

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I had a couple of almost those styles 50 years ago. 3rd row down far right was mine from around 1966 to 1972. I wish I could aspire to something like that now.

 

[Mugshot]

I had a couple of almost those styles 50 years ago. 3rd row down far right was mine from around 1966 to 1972. I wish I could aspire to something like that now.

I'm quite drawn to no. 2 or 4.

 

[perplexed]

With the chance of a decent haircut looking pretty remote in the near future I've been considering a few style options, I thought perhaps a few of you would like some inspiration too, so here's some ideas I've been looking at;

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Cripes, I wasn't far off bottom row, first on the left, about 1981.

Chance'd be a fine thing now.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Good here. Did a walk today to maintain bone health

 

[Julia9054]

Jonathan Ross‘s school photo?

 

[stephec]

Today, I am mostly seething.
I shouldn't say it because some of you might be really struggling financially if you've been furloughed but right now, I'd jump at the chance.
Busy day at work and while the company have made big efforts to get staff to socially distance....some, many, possibly most , just don't get it. I don't know if it's a cultural thing, a language thing, whatever...but they're just not getting it.
I'm working on a machine, tbf my stress levels are up a bit, it's been a hard day but as I work on it, there are 4 people all within 3ft of me, offering opinions, watching, yakking away so I asked..
'C'mon guys, give me some room, we're supposed to be socially distancing '
Someone sniggered and said something in another language, one coughed, perhaps genuinely but no-one moved back.
Instantly stopped work and went off to get their supervisor..
'Can we get them something to do, they're too close, I've asked them to move away'
And so it happened but half an hour later, two of them are back so as supervisor appeared again I said...
'I'm going home...now...if I don't get some space'
And so they got shooed off again.
They're not bad folks but they just don't get the seriousness of it.
Tomorrow, I'm going to ruffle some feathers, I'm that peed off. H&S in all probability.

That's my experience as well, I'm a service engineer mainly in food and pharma factories, although the pharma places are not too keen to let us in at the moment.

In food some are working that flat out that we aren't able to stop production for planned maintenance, and the ones who do let us in all have signs up, but as you say they're not always paid attention to.

A few times last week I had to put my tools down and walk away after requests were ignored, so this week I booked holidays as I've got plenty left still.

 

[Levo-Lon]

So KFC are opening 11 branches for delivery only.
CEO says all staff are social distancing...really, must be a huge kitchen then..

We cant in our large ish care home kitchen and I doubt it's even possible unless it's 2 workers only

I'd like to see CCTV of these KFC staff complying....then the CEO can talk us through it