Coronavirus (Covid-19) Discussion
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I have suffered from anxiety and minor depression for my whole life, and have also been feeling pretty good right now. I think that although the causes outlined in the article seem valid, for me, I chalk it up to the complete removal of social responsibilities from my calendar. I took a leave of absence from work, because although the vet office I work at the front desk at is essential, I am high risk and choose not to work. So, I filed for unemployment. Who knows whether that will go through, but in the meantime, my days are almost completely unstructured, and I’m certainly not burdened by the usual workday stresses. Add to that no longer needing to dodge social gatherings or FOMO due to only wanting to do my own thing, and I feel great!
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@Graeme and @sabergirl we are in good company here then. I'm a social worker, and still working. What I've noticed with regard to my work is that senior managers are deferring to their staff's skills and specialisms more than ever, and that is quite validating.
I am also similar in that I like to set my own agenda and time frames. I've learned to say no over the years, and it's really liberating.
What we (people with similar challenges) have to consider is that life will return to some kind of normal. Prepare for that, and it won't reverse the good and become overwhelming.
The greatest lessons our species should learn from this is that a) we are not designed to function well in the overload that are over populated cities and towns, b) the environment can heal itself really quickly if we don't insist on continuing to fuck it up, c) countries should have good international relations, but produce more domestically so to be less dependent on international trade (less, not totally).
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My dad just emailed me. He lives in NYC with my mom. Crime has suddenly spiked, home invasions and burglaries are up. Businesses are boarding up windows to deter theft/vandalism. Police don’t respond to anything other than violent crime now. EMS is showing up later and later.
I foresaw this coming, my idiot dad didn’t listen. I told him to come down to Maryland, my house is a fortress and my two best friends are both former doctors.
My sister is a cardiologist. She’s pretty hardened, but triage is taking its toll on her. She’s also in NYC.
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Crime has suddenly spiked, home invasions and burglaries are up. Businesses are boarding up windows to deter theft/vandalism. Police don’t respond to anything other than violent crime now. EMS is showing up later and later.
Do you have a source on this? As of 4/2, NYPD is reporting crime is down 20% since 3/12. Similar reports from the week before.
I'm in NYC We're chill, everyone we know is chill. Haven't seen anything boarded up though there are lots of farmer's markets going in former bars.
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Just repeating what my dad said.
I actually wouldn't be surprised the numbers are padded to make everything seem calmer than they are.
In Maryland the news says that crime is down, but my friends in the PD say the opposite.
Underreporting crime is an old trick, it keeps property values up. This strategy has been going on for decades across the country.
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@DougNg my cousin and his wife are Very senior in the London Metropolitan Police. She is heading up a ne South London looting squad. It isn't being reported in the UK that London is having episodes of looting so I googled it. The only articles I found were in foreign media, just as with your NYC article in The Daily Mail (a populist right wing p as per who would likely blame any minority for this if they could).
It's strategic though, and the same reason that there isn't 100% lock down in the UK and USA, so that there isn't mass civil unrest and copycat looting like there was across the UK in 2010.
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I don't actually think there is much happening here or in the USA @DougNg. They appear to be small isolated incidents.
Is there a chance that your dad speaks to what you know when you are in contact? For example my mum and dad will ask me how work is, and then proceed to tell me what's been happening to all the old folk where they live, rather than what they've been doing (because I work for social services). It's a conversational lowest common denominator, one up from talking about the weather.
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I suspect the truth is somewhere in the middle. A few years ago we were seeing in our media that there was an issue with stabbings in London. Someone on my FB page (that lives in the UK) said that if there wasn't a problem and if there was, why didn't he hear about it by now. Fast forward to 2019…
Anyhow, I won't be on the forum much for the foreseeable future. I'm being sent (they like to use the term deployed) to assist in coordinating logistics for the Covid19 response.
Good luck to all of you
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200402144508.htm
This sounds promising.
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You've got to be fucking joking….
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You've got to be fucking joking….
@Giles it makes you despair. We just have to remember that those people are in a tiny minority, though unfortunately risk having the greatest affect on Government policy… Or justification for it.
It is sadly predictive that this bank holiday weekend will be a catalyst for tighter restrictions.
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Wow, went to B&Q's website and found this… Virtual queuing. Crazy.
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Same here, though it is impossible to get a slot…...
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My wife is the commissioner for adult social care in the Local Authority for which she works. She is currently partnering with a number of hotel chains to convert them to older people's residential care homes as there simply aren't enough beds available due to Covid 19. It is a mammoth task to ensure that residents and carers are safe and have all the resources they require.
She was advised today that the staff at a dementia care home have moved into the care home so that they don't have to travel to and from work and risk infecting the public with covid 19.3 residents have symptoms. The NHS have a policy of not testing in the community.
The NHS and other key workers have rightly been applauded by the public and the press. I'd like to acknowledge the sea of carers that are placing themselves at risk everyday to care for our most vulnerable people. Some have died carrying out their duties. The truly are going beyond the call of duty, living with the ones they care for, so selflessly. It made me cry, I'm not ashamed to say. Much love.
