The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

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Dry the Rain m'dear you've done over and above considering the back history with your parents, you are a better person than most because if I'd had that treatment meted out to me I'd have deleted the message without reading it when I realised the source.  I had to put my mother out of my life when I was in my 30s for various stupid and dangerous reasons and I never let her back in, it was not just the risk to me but to my children.  I still feel the guilt BUT I know it was the only decision that I could have made.  We were very fortunate in that we were  sent abroad by the company HWK worked for for three years and when we came back we moved a considerable distance away to a new job and left all behind us.  It's been a much less fraught life because of it.
Look after yourself in all this, you are only responsible for you not them, they must, like the rest of us do what is required of them to stay alive and get through this dreadful time that is upon us for themselves or face the unthinkable consequences if they choose not to.

unrecordings

DigForVictory said:

Un, you now cut a dash clad in something like this?
sombrero, shades, biker jacket & flamethrower?!

Well not biker jacket (they don't fit me anymore thanks to the oedema & steroids) but ex RAF stuff is good as it tends to have lots of pockets and be fireproof

baggins11

Dry the rain & Mrs L I don't think you ever get over things like that (I certainly haven't) you just have to be kind to yourself.  I have similar conflict and have tried cutting them loose (lasted 10 months), tried not caring and tried doing too much and then feeling self loathing for being walked all over. 

In the end you just have to do what is best for you.  You owe them nothing but equally you don't want regrets and guilt when the time comes and they pass away so you just need to do the right thing for you and your piece of mind.  It sounds like you struck the right balance.  You can't be responsible for other adults especially when you owe them nothing.  It is because you are a good person and not like them that you are asking yourself these questions.  The answer is the one that is right for you.

Si_Clist

How are the supermarkets "policing" these wrinkly hours?  What's the score for those of us who are in their 70s but don't look a day over 69?

BTW, I've just added the word "COVIDIOT" to my vocabulary, it being defined by the very wonderful Urban Dictionary as "Someone who ignores the warnings regarding public health or safety. A person who hoards goods,denying them from their neighbours."

DigForVictory

Brilliant! Have they anything slightly more pointed to yell at folk in clusters that conveys "carry on but at an increased distance"  or is that being left to the police (ye gods)?

Jazee

Everyone on my dog walk this morning was keeping their distance but still cheerful.

needmoney

jk0 said:

Interesting article on Zerohedge this morning: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/coronavirus-crackdown-beware-new-normal

That is very iteresting and very frightening and very possible.

pineapple

unrecordings said:

Take it a step further and advise them to register for online shopping at Sainsburys. The elderly & vulnerable scheme should be announced/launched today. and they'll need to be registered before they can identity as eligible for priority delivery slots. 

Chance would be a fine thing. Been trying all morning. There is only a tel no to register - can't do it online - and guess what, the lines are red hot. Either you get an engaged signal or a BT announcement saying the lines are busy.

unrecordings

DigForVictory said:

Brilliant! Have they anything slightly more pointed to yell at folk in clusters that conveys "carry on but at an increased distance"  or is that being left to the police (ye gods)?

Yes, but I got a ban lst time I used it. There's a very good punk band from Sheffield by the same name. I used to live next door but one to Keef, his Missus & mum

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This just got up far to close and personal.  Had a call from Ruby dogs mum to say her neighbour, a lady in her 80s , was taken ill  yesterday with a loose tum and a cough and developed breathing difficulties through the afternoon and rang Rubys mum who managed to contact 999 after trying for 111 for ages and they came and took the older lady away in an ambulance late in the evening.  They live in the road behind us and it's mostly older retirees who are in and out of each others houses like nobodys business.  The gardens back on to our back garden so we'll be using the downstairs front entrance from now on and not going into the garden at all for at least a fortnight.  Apparently her son visited from London a fortnight ago with a cough and joked with mum that he thought it might be coronavirus haha!  they cannot raise the son on his phone and no one knows his address. it doesn't sound promising.

HWK tried to go to the allotment this morning and found the car park rammed full and everyone on their plots so he drove past and came home again.  People STILL aren't listening or acting in their own and our interests, I wish there WAS a complete shut down in place to give this thing a 'firebreak' from its rapid passage through the nation.