Clearly a joke mate, and taken it the spirit intended I am sure. But genuine question, why did you post such a thing? I mean I come from Hazel Grove raised in a terraced house and now live in a bog standard house (Barrat) on a housing estate. Anyway, whatever...@Chippy_boy like this:-)
I’m in the same boat mate my mums nearly 84 very good for her age but has serious asthma I’ve done everything I can do now apart from locking her away, it doesn’t seem fair that this has been forced upon us from somewhere thousands of miles away,Yeah, it’s hard to get my head round at times. As you know, my Dad has Alzheimer’s and as such always seemed the more vulnerable one, but this has turned the tables a bit. As with you, not sure what we’d do if Mum went first. Even typing this is bringing tears to my eyes. Christ.
it’s very scary for those who have health issues and are elderly. I had a chat with my mum today and asked if she wanted to completely self isolate with food dropped at the door etc. She said she would rather spend whatever time she has left seeing her family and if she goes then she will go with these memories. The fear of dying alone is too much for her to bear. She has COPD and wouldn’t survive this I don’t think. She made me sit with her today and listen to her instructions on where to find things if she becomes ill and dies. It’s a very hard conversation to have. We cracked open the whisky after and had a nice little chat. Sometimes it takes events like this to make you realise how important family is and how unimportant some other things are.
Clearly a joke mate, and taken it the spirit intended I am sure. But genuine question, why did you post such a thing? I mean I come from Hazel Grove raised in a terraced house and now live in a bog standard house (Barrat) on a housing estate. Anyway, whatever...
What a ridiculous statement. There's no copper-bottomed, proven blueprint. Do you seriously think government and scientific advisers are wilfully causing deaths?If that happens, given we were behind Italy, France, Germany, Spain etc in terms of how quickly this has spread, and we had a golden opportunity to learn from the mistakes and learnings of others, then it will be not only a tragedy, but also a travesty. And genuinely, unless things change dramatically, I think that's where we are headed. Due to our own stupidity, I think we may very well be hit by this more than any other major nation (proportionally). And I am getting ahead of myself but if that does come to pass, some very senior people need to go jail.
What a ridiculous statement. There's no copper-bottomed solution. Do you seriously think government and scientific advisers are wilfully causing deaths?
Poor chap and fair play to him. He seemingly has limited mental agility but his first thought is to advise people the best he can to stay safe. Bless you mate. There will be alot of ignorant people with vast amounts of cash and resources but little desire to protect humanity, they could all learn a thing from this chap.
More than possible ? Highly likely I'd say, it could easily be 2 noughts on the end of that and we'd never know, even if the chinese do. None of these official figures are anything like the extent in reality, look at the numbers for Turkey and Russia, no hiding of numbers there, right. Our own figures don't include anyone not tested so are hopelessly rubbish.It’s impossible to say. For example, in China where it’s more or less run its course (until they remove the lockdown) there are 3100 deaths and 3600 critical out of 81000. That would give a worst case of 8% fatal if all the critical ones died. They won’t of course but even if none die the rate would be 3.8%. The big unknown is how many had it and were never tested and recovered out of sight. To get it to 1%, there would have to be at least another 230,000 untested cases, which is more than possible.
https://www.itv.com/news/2020-03-14...ime-style-mobilisation-to-combat-coronavirus/
The most depressing and scary artivle i've read, ITV shouldn't have let Peston put it out, cos i have been in pieces of worry as it is, but now i've actually been crying. Some may laugh at me for that if you want... but my mum is 77, with COPD (ie lung problems) with inhalers, high blood pressure, unstable angina, spinal nerve problem, broken knee that cannot be fixed due to weak bone so permanantly on crutches, and had a bowel scan test looking for the C word a few weeks ago. And she lives on her own, as i'm stuck in a flat with my 3 year old son and my partner - me and my son are in all day but my partner is still being made to travel 12 miles to work every dy as so far they refuse to let him homework. I am scared for my mum, so so so scared, my dad died last year, i wanted to be spending good times with my mum, giving my son memories with her, letting us all be family, and now, now it's practically impossible as it is for me to even get round there to see her, and soon from teh sound of it i simply wont be able to. And to top it all, my sister is one of these who was saying "it's just like flu it's fine" and no doubt still going round the last week, even though my mum has been staying in.
So yes, i can't help it, i'm scared to death of losing my mum, my mum is my world, she wont cope living alone not going out and no one going in for months. And the bit about not treating anyone over 65?
I just need my mum.
Do what?Some of them really do.
Just about to subscribe boss, he seems a fun chap who does his best in life. Give me one of him to a thousand ignorant self centred buggers any day.My favorite Newfie. He's been doing weather reports for years mate.
It is fine to stumble, feel awkward, grope your way, get the words out wrong. In the end, all that matters is motive: the sincerity of your fumbled aim to tease out your loved one’s views.