Hello - I've posted occasionally on the threads but followed you all losely when I can (Work for a major supermarket's .com ops and for some reason we've been really busy since March so I don't always have the mental fortitude to participate, I feel like shaking hoarders and stockpilers - we have another wave of that happening now, as people prepare for the third lockdown that everyone seems to think will happen)
Anyway I thought you'd like an update from the support trenches as it were - not on the frontline of healthcare but one of those who's stalwartly working out of home and being affected by every well considered timely announcement from the splendid government currently firmly in charge of this ongoing drama that's being re-hashed by the covid crisis.
So far we've been inundated by waves of staff absence because of people self-isolating, we've had a minority seriously ill with the disease, and a third of the staff actually having contracted it. We've had customers tell us that they don't care that the delivery men can't deliver to their kitchen, because of covid, that we should still provide that service. I've been amazed at how polite and lovely the genuinely vunerable have been and at how abusive scared people can be. There has been a fortitude displayed by staff and we've managed to come out the other side of Christmas, still smiling and with our paper asile (looroll to you) stocked and replenished, so far
I've had a lovely break whilst collegues, as we speak are picking the next lot of orders going out tomorrow for delivery. I'll be there Tuesday onwards and it will be rinse and repeat territory.
I'm in awe of all the people still working, teaching, caring, and quietly getting on with it whilst the dementors try and hog the headlines.
Cheere m'dears - please keep the thread running for those of us who read and don't contribute much - we would if we had the energy.