| John2290 said: Yeah that actually makes a great deal of sense and thankfully they are skewed and not a reality and at least the petrol is cheap, the younguns will be drinking it in some stupid viral challange no doubt. And dude, if you can in anyway manage it financially for the time being at least til the first inital wave is done try for a fornights worth of shopping. Freeze bread, turn the fridge setting down to just the point before freezing to keep the milk going as long as possible. Rely on freezing meat a bit more and thaw out the night before in the second week. I've been coming up with some solutions like this to keep the person I'm caring for from getting it at the peak and limiting exposure as much as possible. I can't exactly stop life in it's tracks nor can I stop people in and out but I can cut the chances down significantly o my end and hopefully not have it happen at the worst time, It'll be safer when things relax in the late summer to go back to taking less safe odds as there'll be ventalators available. I've finally got my elderly Dad to see sense and stop his routine, he comes for dinner here and I supply him with what he needs but I fear for his mental health as his neighbours won't let him in, some who are extremely fucked if they get this (next door nighbour has only one lung and it's crapping out) and he relied so very much on cafes and his local dancing and the like for socializing. A year of this and the loneliness could be the worst thing and yet there is no way around that because if he leaves his home to cohabit here he looses his social welfare since his pension gave out not long ago and it's looking like the government will be putting strict ristrictions of over 70's to stay at home and they will provide a meals on wheels type deal. Man, navigating this shit without being responsible for uneeded harm is getting just a tad stressful. I am amazed how the Irish people went from frantic panic to the effortless social distancing in such a short time though, glad to be in this country right now, people are smarter than they are given credit. |
I already stocked up 3 weeks ago spread out over 2 weeks. I don't think there will be a bread shortage, but we have plenty cereal, oat meal and other stuff to compensate or even make our own bread. Frozen bread, too space inefficient :)
My father in law is stubborn as well, corona is going to kill me, well then stop continuing your normal routine and don't risk killing your at high risk daughter in the process. The problem is, my parents in law don't get along all that well lol. One is stir crazy, the other always grumpy. Another risk is the son of my brother in law who is very hard to handle and is mostly staying with my parents in law during this crisis. Our kids are there as well currently to help out keeping the other one calm. He goes into right panic mode, impossible to handle on his own. His parents are divorced, so more contact points whenever he goes back and forth. The new girlfriend of my brother in law, who he moved in with, has 2 teenage girls who go on as usual and have boyfriends themselves. That's all things that start occupying the back of your mind. My brother in law works for the red cross, doing meals on wheels, he needs to be careful as well.
As for my own father and sister, they are back in the Netherlands. Even if something would happen to them I couldn't even go there :/
Oh well, step one, get on top of testing and earlier detection. Measures started early here so hopefully the spread will also peak early here.
