COVID19 - How it's affecting you

The idea we may not be able to make a choice to help EVERYBODY because people have different needs it scary.

This is why my husband and I made the arrangements that we have made.  I am just one person out of seven billion.  I realize that I'm nobody's priority (except my husband's, of course, and he's been brilliant!).  My husband and I are fortunate because we are able to take steps to protect me.  We're doing what we can to get through this together.  We understand the global scope of the problem, and we know that there will be so many others in more desperate situations than we are in now.  But as long as we remain healthy, we can handle it... it will just take a lot of patience and enduring some minor hardship.

I just worry for thr world right now in general. Strangers and friends/family alike. I just feel like there is no "right" answer or way to fix this all quickly and easily and that's scary. The idea we may not be able to make a choice to help EVERYBODY because people have different needs it scary.

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Perfectly written.

What we can do is stay home.  Eat our way through our cupboards.  We are fortunate to have food on our shelves at home.  We might be eating some *very* interesting meals...  (thread idea!). But I truly don’t think we will starve (and I mean every last one of us on this site).

If we stay home, we won’t catch this thing.  We won’t spread it.  We will be doing our part.

What we can do is stay home.  Eat our way through our cupboards.  We are fortunate to have food on our shelves at home.  We might be eating some *very* interesting meals...  (thread idea!). .

Think it was PB that started a recipe thread already!



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I just saw on tv that a loss of taste and smell can be a sign of ostensibly otherwise asymptomatic Covid-19 infection.. just something else to look out for.

This is going to be so hard to tell as well because if you have a normal cold/stuffed nose, might be hard to tell initially!

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I agree that staying home is all we can do. And hope the powers that be manage this the best they can. Right now I don't see a lot of intelligence coming through and that scares me, like Sainsbury's and other grocery stores planning to have the first hour open for both the vulnerable and the NHS employees, mixing the most exposed and the least exposed is a recipe for death.


Due to the lack of testing there's no way to 100% say my friends have it, but they have all the signs. It hasn't progressed to pneumonia yet, and I'm hoping some of the immune modulating drugs we are on will actually help. (quercetin proved helpful for SARS, we are all on meds with similar functions because the mast cells in our bodies are over active in varying ways). I slept for the first time in days last night and my lung capacity went up by 30% so I am finally feeling a lot better. I was at 60% of my normal for at least a week when I started measuring it, and my normal is still not great!

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This is going to be so hard to tell as well because if you have a normal cold/stuffed nose, might be hard to tell initially!

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I think the point was a loss of taste and smell in the absence of other symptoms could be CV. If you have a cold, you will have other symptoms, stuffy nose, etc.

Just a thought here:

The grocery chains are now raking in money hand over fist, selling their goods as fast as they can stock them.

NHS and other essential workers are having trouble getting groceries due to the crush at the shops.

Why are Waitrose, Tesco, et.al., not making up healthy boxes of essential groceries, setting them aside, and then providing them to essential workers either at cost or free? If they couldn't spare a delivery truck to take it out to a few specific distribution sites, the workers could come to the shops and flash their credentials to get a weekly box, tailored to their family size.

Just a thought.

From Morrisons:

Many NHS workers have said that they are struggling to buy the products they need at the beginning or the end of their shift, as supermarkets have seen unprecedented demand.

So we’re responding by introducing an NHS hour at all our stores at the beginning of every day, Monday to Saturday, so NHS workers can shop for groceries for themselves and their families.

This will be from 7am to 8am and a Morrisons colleague will be on the door to let staff with an NHS badge in.

That's a good start. Let's hope they have from 7:00am to 8:00am free!

Tesco are doing a Sunday 9-10 am slot, open to general public at 10 am



Has anyone else seen this before? (Maybe posted on here, even and I missed it)- Wat h if you haven’t seen it. Crazy.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p059y0p1

Yeah, it was on last year (?) wasn't it?

My grandparents were newlyweds and grandma was pregnant when the 1918 flu hit. (Or almost newlyweds.) Every afternoon I end up thinking of her. She was a lovely woman, Irish immigrant, fourth-grade education, one of twelve kids living in two rooms, one pair of shoes worn for years that ruined her feet (only pair she had). Her husband died and left her with two very young children, back before there was a social safety net. I cannot imagine how she managed to live her life as fully and for as long as she did (she died at quite an advanced age).

But when I was thinking of her, I was wondering, what would she have done, today? Literally, today, given everything going on,  if she was sitting in my kitchen with me.

So I spent some time chatting with the Daughter. And I baked a pound cake, and we had tea and cake and talked about the future. Because my grandmother was right. If you spend all your time worrying about things you cannot control, and forget to dream about what could be, life will be a misery.

I still wish she was here with us. She knew everything.

It’s on again, funnily enough.....I recommend people watch it if you can. Wash your hands too   

Oh my gawd, I need to pay the TV license, like, yesterday!  I want to see that!  Thanks for letting me (all of us!) know about it, PB!

Well, as of the last few days, my third and final option to get home (the RAF flight) has had to be suspended. We usually use the Falklands airbridge between the UK and Cape Verde (which runs twice a week) and then an RAF cargo plane between Cape Verde and Ascension (which runs every 3 weeks or so).

The Falklands airbridge was all fine until Thursday, when Cape Verde said it could refuel there on the way down, but not on the way back... which meant the whole flight had to be cancelled, because they would not have been able to get back to the UK! They're working on a solution at the moment, because the flights to here and the Falklands aren't just for passengers, they are our resupply chain (food, drink etc.) and we need them to come in. But we're not sure what's going to happen yet - we're just waiting to hear more.

They're also implementing social distancing measures here now - they've installed 2 sinks and soap outside the dining hall, and as of tomorrow, lunch and dinner will be in 2 sittings, entering through one door and exiting out a different door, with the tables/seats spaced apart, disposable plates and cutlery, and we won't be able to serve ourselves anymore (not even to make toast). I think they're also going to prop the doors open so people don't touch them. They've also spaced out the machines/training stations in the gym and have limited the number of people allowed in the weights room.  The gym is small and not many people use it (I'm usually the only person in there when I go), so hopefully it will stay open.

The Falklands military personnel are getting their monthly internet allowance doubled from tomorrow too, but no word yet on whether we will get the same here.

Stay safe, Ksand.

Surely they'll send you guyz a supply ship?