Who’s self-isolating?
 

Since the COVD outbreak’s worsening by the day.

Mainly yes Cos me uni is closed but I work at a pub 2 days a week on the side and they’re still open so not fully!

Nah

And why’s that?

I mean I'm not trying to not self-isolate, I'm just carrying on as normal. :shrug:

Me.

no

i don't know where this notion that all the elderly still go out comes from unless elderly is considered over 40? (if that's the case, then we have some very immature people on this forum)

Elderly people rarely go out at the best of times, so they sure aint going out more now, maybe for a walk and some exercise, maybe to get shopping, but thats about it if you discount clubs etc

Anyway ... i'm self isolating yes

No but I would if I didn't have to work

I've got no choice to go out atm due to work. I have a week's annual leave as of this coming Monday which is going to be incredibly uneventful :laugh: maybe I will make the most of it and take the dog out for much longer walks.

But hey, at least I'll be saving money :hee:

Some old people will have no one to get food for them. In fact a lot of them, do you want them to just starve?

A lot of supermarkets have cancelled home deliveries.

I’m definitely reducing and avoiding various places/people.

I’m writing this from the Barber’s and they’re disinfecting everything between customers, wearing gloves etc. Good precautions! Need a trim incase we go into proper lockdown otherwise I’ll be like a werewolf in a few weeks! :joker:

If he lives alone he probably doesn't want to stock up on 4 pinters that are gonna be out of date before he gets through it.

We manage. Big bottles of milk dont go off that quick. He knows how much he uses. Get the right amount to last a week.
But no, he needs to do the shops every day.

But for elderly people it’s routine. If they’ve lived doing the same thing every day for the past however many years, it’s impossible to get them to change. My Nan, who’s in her mid 80’s, has been to the supermarket to get her weekly essentials every Thursday for the past 30 odd years. Same as how she has to collect her pension every Monday at 9am, or has to go to her daughters for Sunday dinner every week. She gets confused and disorientated if that changes without enough notice, and although we’ve managed to get her to self isolate she’s still calling every other day with something she needs or is missing.

So you can’t crucify someone for sticking to something that’s normal to them.

Well unless he's solely going the shop for milk every morning that's not really your judgement to make. :shrug:

"We manage" means nothing.

Yes but sort of as default :think:. Kids are off now, I work from home anyway, and everywhere is shut... so I only go out for food shopping and to walk the dog :shrug:. My wife is on annual leave for a couple of weeks anyway. We all took the dog to the beach last night, but we went half an hour before sunset... weather was lovely and there was no one else there. It was really nice, actually :umm2:.

Anybody can think they're healthy and have underlying issues they don't know about

I mean, he's still alive anyway?

Have you offered to shop for him?

We manage was about buying milk. Buy it once a week and it doesn't go off. He can do the same. Just for now.

In this exceptional time it is my judgement to make that for him to go out shopping every day is ridiculous.
He has a daughter living not that far off who repeatedly offers to bring shopping to him. Which he refuses.
He has to go out and get it himself. Just because.
Stubborn and set in his ways

Our issue is the opposite; we PLOUGH through milk and there isn't enough fridge space to buy enough to last even one week.

I'd stock up on UHT but it's sold out everywhere :shrug:.

Kind of?

I went to the supermarket yesterday because I had to really but I'm social distancing and not seeing family & friends.

I was laid off from work until it all blows over so I don't need to go out to work. I might take on temporary work as I'm not being paid, but it depends how serious the situation is... I might just stay at home.

His daughter who is much closer has. He says no.

If she was not able we would do it, even though we live other side of london.
Would happily bring his shopping to him once a week. But with her around and happy to help there is no need.

Yes, but not for me, because I live with my parents that I care for and they would be susceptible to not surviving if they contracted the virus, I went out for the first time yesterday to do shopping and I won’t be going back out again until we need more and nobody is allowed through the door unless it’s family and even that I’m regulating, it might just be the ‘oldies’ that are dying off so far, but that’s because there are selfish people in the world that are paying no attention because it won’t affect them and passing it on to people with people it will affect, things like this happening never fails to bring out the worst and best in people.

Home deliveries have no slots for weeks on end

I could be glib and say that I never had much of a social life anyway but I am fearful of going outside, yes. However, necessities arise and we (mum, brother and I) can't afford to stockpile for 2 weeks, let alone 2 or 3 months... so even the little walks down to the Co-Op, or a drive to ASDA, feel ominous.

Even the little gestures like the Co-op putting a bucket of anti-bac wipes next to all of the baskets for customers to wipe down the handles... don't really assuage anything. It does feel like an invisible, omnipresent threat.

But to go about your normal routine without any concern for the people you come across is just mildly sociopathic.

I work from home, and am not socialising, or going to the gym so only going out to walk the dog and to get food/petrol so I guess I am pretty much self isolating

Yes unless I have to go out , but I'm wondering what happens after these "15 Days" . The virus isn't going any time soon . What do we do after 15 days? . Just continue to self isolate for a year !? :skull: .

We dont know why many older people are out though, they could be picking up prescriptions, have a medical or dental appointment, need to go to the bank, need food all of which they are allowed to do even during lockdown. Yes some are out for no other reason than to get out, but that’s no reason to tar all with the same brush

Yes apart from walks where I don’t go near anyone for long

yes to some older people, having medication with them is very important

My dad is alone....all alone, rattling around in a house that was once filled with his family. He lost my mum, we have grown up and moved on, he helped me massively with my son (who incidentally he credits with dragging him out of the fog of depression of losing his wife), he now is allowed no physical contact with his grandson. Above ALL of that though he is a proud man. He worked all his life, played sports all his life, had a social life and now he is reduced to a prisoner in his home. Asking for help is something he has NEVER done before. He is being responsible, he is not going out, I am dropping food off in the porch - unable to give my dad a hug....I can see him declining already - its been 5 days. He tells me he is ok - he is going for a walk at 6am to maintain his fitness before he holes up for the day.

I am so sad for him and I miss him :sad:

But yeah - all oldies are bad

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The lack of empathy for the elderly really is disappointing to say the least.

Luckily my own parents are still relatively young, mid 60's and in good health. I worry about my father in law though as he's older and has a lot of under lying conditions going on too. We've been dropping in shopping and books to him but no going in his house or any sort of physical contact either. I'm just glad he's got his little dog for company :(

I generally agree with most in this thread but I work in HMV and on Monday before I went into isolation, most of my customers were older people. One said he was stocking up on films to keep him entertained but the mind boggles, its a non essential shop.

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100% this.

I mean, it's good to try and retain a sense of normality/routine but you need to be very careful in doing so.

I'm in Morrison's right now (work related*) and there's just a weird atmosphere around. You can tell everyone is on edge.


*I do not work at Morrisons

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I’ve just come down with a cough and fever so I’m pretty sure I’ve got it. Thankfully did two big shops last week, so I am self isolating for 7 days As I live alone (on day 2)

Hope you're ok, you're doing the right thing though :love: