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Meh:
Not surprising. Suspected all along duh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W64V7rXWxHY

Twoapenny:

--- Quote from: CB123 on July 06, 2020, 03:26:01 PM ---I know what you mean, Tupp. I have been dragging my butt for the last week. No reason for it except I'm just DONE with all this.

Placed my order Saturday and got everything I needed. Then this morning, my son had some specific things he wanted so we placed another! He's feeling it too, and hoping diet changes will be helpful. I'm sure we aren't as healthy as when we started all this because of much less outdoor time. I don't miss work but I do miss the greenhouse.

The situation here is becoming dire and I don't think I can avoid being anxious. More information makes me feel BETTER, without info I would still be housebound but I think it would start taking on an unreal quality. I am very aware of what is happening in Congress and in activist groups. It helps. From time to time, I check in on old friends and I am astounded at some of their opinions. I'm feeling some grief, but that feels inevitable.

As it is, I am having to be very conscious of time so I dont lose track of where I am--it is Monday. It is lunch time, etc. I have a couple of kids who are having issues with sleep because their inner clock is skewing. It seems to be bothering those of us who are not working from home, but are just waiting this out.

Keep safe everybody.

CB

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I'm glad you got everything you needed, CB.  That at least is a comfort.  I think I would be comforted by information if I knew it was factually accurate.  For me, the numbers aren't stacking up - for them to be consistently falling as more and more people go out and mingle doesn't make sense.  Ditto the death rate.  Two weeks ago we were still having around a thousand excess deaths a month (that is, a thousand more than you would expect for the time of year).  Last week we didn't have a single excess death, despite having hundreds of Covid related deaths.  That would mean that fewer people than usual had died overall, and it would have to be a lot lower than normal to accommodate all the Covid deaths without the number going up.  That didn't make sense to me and still doesn't.

I am finding the lack of focus of time means it's just vanishing, as you say.  I have tried a few times to do myself a time table or set myself some time goals and some days that seems to help, but others nothing seems to get my bum off the sofa.  I'm still liking not having to deal with people.  Some friends mentioned coming to visit in October and I panicked a bit.  I don't think it will be safe until they have a vaccine (at least not in this country and probably not in yours either).  So much is unknown.  Can you get out walking at all or is it too busy where you are to avoid people?

Yes, a lot of people have said their sleep is all over the place.  Very difficult to deal with.  Ironically my son's sleep is better than usual.  We are both so back to front.  I hope things settle in your area soon.  I do wish people hadn't been so arrogant about this at the outset.  I think we'd have had fewer problems. xx

Hopalong:
Dunno about other states, but this one is divided into "health districts." (Maybe that's common.) And...once you find the state website, you can select the health district you live in.

What mine has is super helpful--it's for this city and the surrounding counties. A daily update of New Cases is posted at 10am, and there's a large graph masthead that shows the angle of the curve. The data is broken down in every way you might be interested (age, gender, race, city or which county, all kinds of categories if you like to know more).

What I am most interested is the specific daily rate of new hospitalizations (death rate isn't super high but both are rising), because for me, that's the urgency. Avoiding getting covid-19, and avoiding the hospital no matter what.

That said, a close friend who desperately needed a hip replacement and had it scheduled for March, lived with serious unremitting pain until two days ago, when they finally operated. (Well, she's in recovery pain, but so relieved one hip is done now.) I was so sad for her. Lives alone and just had to cope when they had to cancel all elective procedures for a time. Unfortunately, they will soon be doing that again I'm sure, as our first-wave curve is still climbing. That's why the great mask arguments are so hard to witness...people who doesn't understand what's happening have made it all a huge tribal/political fight, instead of a human being challenge. And people who need such surgeries will live in pain because of it.

I don't mind if I'm staying home a couple years from now. Whatever it takes. I'm prepared! Life is different, we don't know exactly what the lasting social changes might be, but I am very confident some will be good. Might as well align myself with those positive visions, because the negatives will happen whether I'm fearful or not. And I'm stronger when I tap into hope.

hugs
Hops

Hopalong:
Great chart to ponder right now.

https://thecounselingteacher.com/2020/04/how-to-relieve-anxiety-during-times-of-uncertainty.html

hugs,
Hops

Twoapenny:
I'm glad you got your paperwork sorted, CB, even if it did mean hours on the phone.  Argh, I know that feeling, such a waste of time just waiting to get through.  But done eventually.  It does feel good to cross a job off the list.  And yes, reintroducing things slowly for both of us is going to be the thing - do a little bit, see how we both feel and respond, maybe not do it again!  Feels nice to have the choice.

Hops, your local information sounds great!  We're not getting any now - they've stopped publishing daily case numbers and the Office of National Statistics don't seem to be publishing information about the excess death rate now, either (or at least, not in a format that I can understand).  We're just being kept in the dark, with a budget package announced today to stimulate jobs and to entice people out to eat with meal vouchers.  Seriously?!  Who'd have thought the most radical thing any of us could do in 2020 would be to stay home and only eat your own food.  It's kind of bonkers.  They're acting like it's over and we can all just get back to normal now.  There are huge waiting lists for all sorts of operations and procedures (I feel for your friend having to wait so long for her hip op).  We are apparently unprepared for a second wave with a lack of PPE and food prices are expected to rise sharply when we leave the EU without a deal at the end of the year.  So that's good.  I am seriously wondering whether I should clear the shed out properly and start stacking tins out there.  Tins should be alright, I think, I guess I could stack things like tins and pasta in those clear plastic storage boxes to keep them dry and keep mouse wee off them.  I perhaps need to go and move stuff around a bit and see how much space I can free up.

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