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Mar. 15th, 2020 09:38 pmI guess I have been thinking about Coronavirus restrictions for a while, since my company started so early with them. I feel like everyone was holding their breath on Thursday, expecting Boris Johnson to announce a lockdown, and then that...didn't happen. They explained their logic behind it. It sounded good. They had medical experts there guiding their policy. And yet there was this nagging feeling, which I realised was a memory of that scene in Jaws where the mayor says "we can't close the beaches - it's the middle of summer! We've got a lot of money riding on this." I thought maybe it was paranoia, my own anxiety, and my dislike for the Tories. But the more people are coming out saying that 'herd immunity only really works at the moment with vaccines', the government are apparently now trying to claim that 'herd immunity isn't part of the strategy', and people are saying that if the idea is to build herd immunity among the young and strong, you should still isolate the older and more vulnerable people now while that's happening, and the government isn't doing that - the stronger that feeling gets. I don't trust Boris Johnson at all. I'm aware a countrywide lockdown - and other lesser things - is an extreme measure, and can bring about it's own problems, but also other countries seem to be doing it and bringing their numbers down, and it just sort of feels like our government...isn't doing anything. Just sort of isn't doing anything.
I'm not really worried for myself, and also worrying that that assumption will somehow bite me in the arse, but I am worried for mum. And I'm worried about passing something on to her. Apparently that's very common, according to someone who studied the psychological effects of the lockdown during the SARS virus - it was a Buzzfeed article I can't find now. She's only just in her 70s, 71 in June, and she's really fit and healthy. Complains endlessly about syndromes like 'restless leg' or 'burning tongue', but no actual serious health problems that I know of, of the kind people are talking about. But still, you never know. And she's a nurse/healthcare assistant, so she'll be on the frontlines. And the chances of the worst happening get worse the more the healthcare system is pushed. But still. The chances are low. She and dad are already looking at having to cancel the cruise they had booked for May - they'll refund her, but not him, interestingly enough. The perils of being a toyboy. And according to the news she's going to have to self-isolate for weeks soon enough. But not yet.
It's doing my handwashing complex no favours, either. Lots of cracking and bleeding. Which apparently leaves you even more vulnerable to infection! So that's fun. I'm on holiday on Friday, for a week and a bit, so I won't be at work no matter what the country decides to do, but also it is my birthday, and I was planning on going on some trips, but now I guess not. I will save all my birthday money for the future, and party then. I also worked until the end of the day on Friday, which means I have a full monthly wage coming my way this Friday, so I have that at least even if they ask me to stay home without pay in the near future. More cash money. And luckily I have developed many indoor interests over the course of my life. I have a lot of video games I bought and never played, and shelves full of books I've never read. Can't really rely on current things continuing to be produced under the circumstances, I think, but I have stuff to fall back on if things get more strict. Our local doctor's surgery has closed its doors, as in literally locked them, and cancelled all non-urgent appointments, but I don't know what that means for getting prescriptions. And I don't know if my mental health appointments will also be cancelled in the same vein, but I guess I will find out tomorrow. I got a text message about the doctor's surgery on Friday evening as I was playing match-3 on my phone.
I'm not completely stressed out, but it's hard, and a lot of the responses to the virus from people in power are just sort of depressing right now.
Dear world: when I said I didn't want to go to work and wanted to stay home and do some things, I didn't really mean a global pandemic. But thank you for the consideration, I guess.
I'm not really worried for myself, and also worrying that that assumption will somehow bite me in the arse, but I am worried for mum. And I'm worried about passing something on to her. Apparently that's very common, according to someone who studied the psychological effects of the lockdown during the SARS virus - it was a Buzzfeed article I can't find now. She's only just in her 70s, 71 in June, and she's really fit and healthy. Complains endlessly about syndromes like 'restless leg' or 'burning tongue', but no actual serious health problems that I know of, of the kind people are talking about. But still, you never know. And she's a nurse/healthcare assistant, so she'll be on the frontlines. And the chances of the worst happening get worse the more the healthcare system is pushed. But still. The chances are low. She and dad are already looking at having to cancel the cruise they had booked for May - they'll refund her, but not him, interestingly enough. The perils of being a toyboy. And according to the news she's going to have to self-isolate for weeks soon enough. But not yet.
It's doing my handwashing complex no favours, either. Lots of cracking and bleeding. Which apparently leaves you even more vulnerable to infection! So that's fun. I'm on holiday on Friday, for a week and a bit, so I won't be at work no matter what the country decides to do, but also it is my birthday, and I was planning on going on some trips, but now I guess not. I will save all my birthday money for the future, and party then. I also worked until the end of the day on Friday, which means I have a full monthly wage coming my way this Friday, so I have that at least even if they ask me to stay home without pay in the near future. More cash money. And luckily I have developed many indoor interests over the course of my life. I have a lot of video games I bought and never played, and shelves full of books I've never read. Can't really rely on current things continuing to be produced under the circumstances, I think, but I have stuff to fall back on if things get more strict. Our local doctor's surgery has closed its doors, as in literally locked them, and cancelled all non-urgent appointments, but I don't know what that means for getting prescriptions. And I don't know if my mental health appointments will also be cancelled in the same vein, but I guess I will find out tomorrow. I got a text message about the doctor's surgery on Friday evening as I was playing match-3 on my phone.
I'm not completely stressed out, but it's hard, and a lot of the responses to the virus from people in power are just sort of depressing right now.
Dear world: when I said I didn't want to go to work and wanted to stay home and do some things, I didn't really mean a global pandemic. But thank you for the consideration, I guess.
