Over 70S To Stay Home, Troops To Protect Supermarkets ...

[ladybirder]

private hospital beds .... and more in latest moves by Boris.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8112177/Coronavirus-deaths-UK-double-overnight-21.html

[ichkeria]

Someone’s leaked worst case scenario measures (it was in the Times as well) - which presumably were drawn up a while ago.
Reminiscent of the Brexit contingency stories from a few months.

[Bobbisox1]

Errrr, hush your mouf Miss Mamya
/// Bobbie is 75 ////
I’m 73 , haha
I will find it extremely hard staying in,I’m a social butterfly :0)

[Bobbisox1]

Oops apologies to Mamya , this septuagenarian thought you said I was 75 ( must go to SpecSavers) haha

[10ClarionSt]

This thread is as bad as the panic buying. People will be asked to stay at home, not forced to. If it moves on to that, I can hardly see enforcement for some but not for others.

[rowanwitch]

I am under seventy but have other health issues, I will reduce my social activity a bit but more worried about how my 86 year old mother will cope. Sis can shop for her at the moment but she has severe asthma and will have to go into isolation too if things get worse. Neither have the ability to shop on line. Brother in law will have to cope with me ordering stuff online for them.
I am more worried about mums mental health she is already lonely,and depressed won't seek help. She also has early dementia. Without the walk to the local shop in the morning and the chance to talk to neighbours she bumps into she will do badly.

[Khandro]

I think I sense the hand of Dominic Cummings behind this; he says to Boris, "Tell 'em to stay at home for 4 months - which they won't & can't - then when they fall ill & one or two of them pop off, you can say, 'well, you didn't follow my advice' "

[Bobbisox1]

Now that’s very reassuring Khandro, lol

[Apc2604]

Up to FOUR MONTHS ! Matt Hancock now on Andrew Marr to apparently confirm this.

[Bobbisox1]

My daughters just rang me with this advice
“ Mam,if you try extra hard on Tuesday when you go to the pub with your mates, you could pass for 69”
Haha

[aelmpvw]

lol, can't have a pint if your seventeen or seventy

[vulcan42]

How has it gone from " to stay safe wash your hands" to all elderly people will not be allowed to leave their houses for four months? How will they enforce this quite draconian measure? Will they adopt the war time measure of people going round shouting" put that light out" and have wardens shouting " put that pensioner back in their house"?
So many questions, so few answers. :o)

[naomi24]

^ :o) Very good.

[Prudie]

Not sure why people are surprised about these draconian measures - the govt would only have to read AB for the last month, seems half of members have been doom-mongering and moaning that we haven't done enough, particularly Boris, left it too late etc etc . I'd guess it's the public clamouring that has caused these measures - all for a cough and a headache that may kill the vulnerable, as does flu, pneumonia and a host of other things that aren't reported on ad nauseum.

[jazzyjen]

So all the lovely lollipop patrol people will be at home whilst the school children are left vulnerable. (That’s if the schools are open).
Pensioners will be unable to get treatment at hospitals and dentists. Unable to go for a haircut or post a letter. Charity shops will be left without their voluntary staff.
Grandparents will be not able to see their families or chat to neighbours.

I cannot see that plan working!

[diddlydo]

There's absolutely no chance of this 71 year old staying locked up at home for 3-4 months! Of course this is Boris trying to plug the gaps in the NHS because of the way the Tories have let it run down for years after Labour had got it back to half-decent.

[aelmpvw]

i'm 69 and my doris is 76, spose that means i'll have to go to the pub on my own ...

[diddlydo]

Before anyone attacks me for attacking the Tories, the BMA has just issued a statement (on the BBC live feed) to exactly that effect.

[Khandro]

I pass this on to fellow, particularly older, ABers, Sqad being out of action:

My son whose wife is a biologist, emailed to say we should get vaccinated against pneumonia with a vaccine called: Pneumovax 23 Fer M Kan FER N1 0.5 ml because he says,
it looks like pneumonia is the leading cause of fatalities among people who get CoVid-19.

Not sure whether he was fussing, I contacted a doctor friend in France to ask if he thought it was sensible idea & he has just replied;

'Yes, it does make some sense. Pneumovax is recommended in some countries for everyone over 65 and people with comorbidities (other diseases). It is important to be aware that it protects only against pneumococcal infections, and there are other microorganisms that can overwhelm the immune system in people with viral infections who secondarily develop pneumonia.'

[NickorWan]

Reading the rules for the state of emergency here in Spain, it says that hairdressers can remain open. The reasoning given is that many old people rely on hairdressers to wash their hair! We are all in lock down, but old folk are being encouraged to go to the hairdressers – bonkers.

[Theland]

DD - I agree.
A dastardly plan to reduce the worlds population by the Illuminati?

My wife gone shopping with daughter, and my grandson just called.
He's been playing in the park, he's 6, and hopefully not carrying bugs and virus's :-(