The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

Rowan9

Sounds sensible Mar. I was thinking of you as I’m knitting a jumper for DGS with wool from John Lewis. Know you love the stash in there.

MingVase

God knows when next I'll be in there....

pineapple

MingVase said:

Not going through all this and then getting the virus the minute I go to the shop or the hairdressers.

But they are still holding that masks are about protecting other people from the wearer and not the wearer from other people.

daz378

Thanks im fine....i do wear a scarf  when i go out....stocking up a bit on toothpaste and mouthwash....do not want toothache   while the dentist is hard to access.....stay safe

GaleSF63

pineapple said:

MingVase said:

Not going through all this and then getting the virus the minute I go to the shop or the hairdressers.

But they are still holding that masks are about protecting other people from the wearer and not the wearer from other people.

However if someone else sees MingVase wearing a mask it might encourage them to do so, and someone might see them, and so on. ie the more people that go on wearing them for whatever reason, the more it may encourage to keep wearing one. Maybe they aren't helping themselves directly but overall it's a good thing. 
Sorry, I found that a bit difficult to put clearly. 

jk0

Hmm. Frankly the people I see wearing face coverings seem to be of the attitude that it's to protect them from me. One woman draws hers closer over her face when she sees me.

It reminds me of being at school, when kids used to pretend they could catch something from me. (I had bad zits.)

r.a.i.n.b.o.w

snowbird20 said:

herlig said:

markin said:

US woman who caught coronavirus despite self-isolating for three weeks believes it was passed to her when she collected a bag of groceries...

Rachel Brummert was shielding herself at home in Charlotte, North Carolina, as she suffers from an autoimmune disorder that makes her...

Which is why thorough handwashing and cleaning is essential for people shielding and dealing with incoming. 

IIRC, this woman lives with a husband who WAS going out into the world and most likely brought the virus in to her.  But that's not a sensational headline, is it?

Indeed!

I watched a BBC interview about 3-ish weeks ago, where a 20-odd year old woman was saying that she had been self-isolating but despite that, she had caught coronavirus (I forget if it was confirmed or just she had symptoms)... when the news reader (Reeta Chakrabarti) asked further questions (so you don't know where you caught it? You didn't go out? You didn't have visitors? etc) the interviewee continued to sound SO VERY BAFFLED about it, and explained she had ONLY visited the doctor surgery to collect a prescription, and the pharmacy to fill the prescription, and her family were bringing homecooked meals and other stuff to her doorstep every day....!!!

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MrsLurcherwalker said:

Am I odd in feeling more anxious now that people are beginning to stop being quite so compliant over social distancing than they were at the beginning? it seems that people think that because the peak of infections has flattened the worse is over and that they can resume life as normal and that terrifies me because the consequences of that would be catastrophic.  It's only the beginning of the beginning of this pandemic, it's not even to the foothills of the mountains we're still only just off the plains into the slopes and we've a very, very long way to go before complacency and carelessness can even be mentioned!

Nope! I think there's a lot of us feeling this! What's really grinding my gears is seemingly sensible friends asking ME (like *I* am the gov advisor..?!) "what's the point if no one else is following it?" ... huh?!?

I think the problem now is a combination of the media and whoever constantly going on about WHEN will the lockdown end, WHAT is the exit strategy, WHY won't the gov tell us what the exit strategy is, the ecomony will crash/fail if we don't hurry up and get back to normal... while the government and media have stopped feeding us the awful truth! At the beginning we all got scared of dying or our loved ones dying, now *we* (them out there) are all scared of not having a normal life, after just over one month of "lockdown" (which isn't really lockdown), the daily briefings are now useless, Matt Hancock appears to be taking the flack for Boris when it's Boris' job to be standing there when he's fit to be working...

SO. My point is that it feels like everyone - including the gov, the news, and the public - is now bored. Their mind is wandering. I don't mean "bored" from being stuck indoors, or not at school/work, or not being able to go somewhere else. I mean BORED of the whole thing. Reported deaths are coming down, reported hospital admissions are coming down, people aren't losing friends and family in the numbers that were bandied about before. The news and gov aren't giving scary strong messages now. And people are starting to feel like there's no point to the restrictions.

The public are losing confidence with the gov. I really don't know how the gov can reign it all back in without locking down tighter, which we all know won't happen.

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Si_Clist said:

MrsLurcherwalker said:

Am I odd in feeling more anxious now that people are beginning to stop being quite so compliant over social distancing than they were at the beginning?

In a word, no.  I very much fear that there's a large proportion of the hoi polloi who just don't or won't get it.  Having said that, though, I can't help thinking how much better off we'd all be if the media concentrated less on speculating when the lockdown's going to be eased and more on spelling out exactly what we're up against. 

I already knew that it takes anything from 6 weeks to 3 months for an otherwise-fit adult under 65 to get over ordinary pneumonia, but I hadn't realised until this morning that if this lurgy knobbles your lungs, you're likely to be living with the after-effects for the rest of your time on the planet.  That is to say, you won't really recover ...

I have just read this after I posted my belated reply to MrsLurcher's post, basically agreeing with you!

A lil COVID anecdote regarding your second paragraph... 3 adults in one flat, my neighbours. 1 in their 70s, 2 in their 40s (children of the former). All caught COVID. All were seriously ill. The older of the two "youngsters" had to call an ambulance for their mother and younger sibling, who were both were taken to hospital. The mother died. The sibling has been left - after 4 weeks in a coma with a trachiotomy and ventilator - needing kidney dialysis for life. There's no guarantee she will be able to walk again.

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jamanda said:

Our next door neighbours are having regular visits from their daughter and grandchild.

As are many of my neighbours and people I know. And others go off "visiting nan for her birthday" etc.