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Twoapenny:
R rate is back up to 1 in our area. We have gone from being one of the lowest in the country to being one of the highest for new infections and I'm assuming that is because of all the people from out of the area who've been visiting the beaches after our twatting Prime Minister relaxed the lockdown. I can't get my head around it - surely another four weeks would be preferable to this virus hanging around forever more? It dies off if there aren't enough people to pass it around, as I understand it, so surely another four weeks - given that the numbers were dropping - would have knocked it on the head?
I feel so frustrated that there's a huge focus on people getting back to normal, but no focus at all on all the at risk people who won't be able to get back to normal all the time it's still out there.
Hopalong:
I hear you, ((((Tupp)))).
It is very frustrating.
I think the only way people can win over all this by doing whatever thing helps us accept that we can't help what other people do or don't do, and as difficult and unfair as it is, making peace with what we can control and what we can't, spares us suffering.
Maybe that's where the hope and serenity are...radical acceptance. We just can't fight what we can't control. To me, it doesn't mean going passive or giving up or not advocating or whatever we individually can contribute to correct what we find wrong or ill-informed. It doesn't mean not objecting. It just means not sacrificing our mental health in the process--because the causes of these frustrations will be with us, each and all, for a looooong time. I wish it weren't so but these are part of human behavior (denial and short-sightedness) and reality is my ally.
Big smooshy hugs,
Hops
Twoapenny:
--- Quote from: Hopalong on June 05, 2020, 12:22:43 PM ---I hear you, ((((Tupp)))).
It is very frustrating.
I think the only way people can win over all this by doing whatever thing helps us accept that we can't help what other people do or don't do, and as difficult and unfair as it is, making peace with what we can control and what we can't, spares us suffering.
Maybe that's where the hope and serenity are...radical acceptance. We just can't fight what we can't control. To me, it doesn't mean going passive or giving up or not advocating or whatever we individually can contribute to correct what we find wrong or ill-informed. It doesn't mean not objecting. It just means not sacrificing our mental health in the process--because the causes of these frustrations will be with us, each and all, for a looooong time. I wish it weren't so but these are part of human behavior (denial and short-sightedness) and reality is my ally.
Big smooshy hugs,
Hops
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I agree Hopsie, I feel the most rebellious thing you can do right now is stay at home, keep yourself as fit and healthy as possible and not become one of their herd immunity statistics! We're happy inside, very grateful for deliveries, limiting news/social media/outside awfulness and just trying to get on with things. We both feel healthier from all the rest, it's just keeping that balance between resting and vegetating :) Lol xx
Twoapenny:
Well there are slightly mixed messages coming through here. The death rate is down, which can only be a good thing. Scotland and Northern Ireland have both reported no deaths and only a small number of people with the virus in hospital. Twitter doctors and medical people are tweeting that hospital admissions are up and that things are quite bad, but I don't know anyone now who is affected or knows someone who is affected whereas a few weeks ago almost everyone I knew had story to tell. They started relaxing the lockdown about four weeks ago - people were going back to work, using public transport, there were VE Day parties, people were going to beaches and so on. There doesn't seem to be huge second wave yet. We have had multiple protests over the last few days but if the crowds of people on the beaches didn't spark another wave of infections then I'm hoping that the protests won't, either. So I'm feeling cautiously optomistic. We'll have to wait and see what happens but if the worst of it is behind us I will feel very relieved. I don't particularly miss anything - the only thing I'm not doing now that I did before was sitting on buses half the day to drop son off and pick him up again. But it would be nice not to feel fearful of going for a walk or popping to the shop. Anyway, we will see xx
Hopalong:
We (city/county combined) had 49 new cases yesterday, whereas a few days ago it was under 10.
I will remain very cautious until there are no new cases for several months, not weeks or days. And I do believe a major second wave is likely beginning in fall. I sometimes check daily cases (I'm in the area of a hotspot--our county was just mentioned on national news as one, though the city is so far less so), I ain't relaxing vigilance for a long time. I'll continue to depend on deliveries and stay out of stores. I miss community, especially happy crowds downtown on a summer evening, etc. Not enough to risk it but I miss it. For me the brightest moments now are safely distancing with one friend at a time on the patio. Or rarely, up to four including myself spaced out 8 feet. It's work to arrange but such a relief to just talk and celebrate looking at each other's faces. Winter's isolation will be tough. But like this, that too will pass.
I periodically read another shattering story about what having the virus is like even for people far younger than I, and what the long-term aftermath can be even if you survive it. Puts some tin in my spine.
WHO sez:
The incubation period for COVID-19, which is the time between exposure to the virus (becoming infected) and symptom onset, is on average 5-6 days, however can be up to 14 days. During this period, also known as the “pre-symptomatic” period, some infected persons can be contagious. Therefore, transmission from a pre-symptomatic case can occur before symptom onset.
Air hugs,
Hops
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