To ask you to listen to this LBC interview with an intensive care consultant...

[FlyingPandas]

...if you haven't already heard it. It's got to be the most terrifying but thought provoking thing I've heard, and from a doctor quite literally on the front line in the NHS right now.

So for anyone starting threads along the lines of

'should I keep my dc apart from the neighbours' dc when they usually play together and they really need to keep in touch with their friends?'
'I desperately need to get my hair cut, AIBU?'
'I want to treat elderly DM to lunch for Mother's Day'
'is it okay to go to the park?'
'I'm a SAHP but partner is a key worker and I'm going to really struggle to keep DC at home so shall I send them to school?'
etc etc etc.

Please, just listen to it.

It's not an easy listen, by any means, but it makes it all hit home.

So please listen, and then stop posting daft questions and just Stay. At. Home.

Thank you.

Apologies btw if this has already been shared/posted. I did check before starting the thread but couldn't see anything.

So moving. I've shared with family especially the MIL who wont stay in!

Thank you. I was already thinking it was serious but somehow disconnected.

I’ve messaged my manager and told him I think we should be forced to wfh now. We had a kind of wishy-washy arrangement but that drove home how important staying home is.

I hope this drives home how serious this is. I have never been so ashamed to be British than I have been for the past week.

I woke up this morning with a cough. I was a little worried but thought I’d see how I got on. After an hour of coughing here and there I thought it would be better to alert my sleeping husband and ask him to care for our daughter so I can sit in our bedroom and see how it unfolds.

I have been coughing very rarely all day but it is a dry cough and not a normal thing for me to have. We have decided that I will stay in the bedroom for who knows how long. Even though I have no temperature or aches and pains or shortness of breath I am doing what is necessary to protect my family (my husband having asthma). It is killing me after one day to not be able to hold my daughter who I can hear calling for me but it is what needs to be done.

The most frustrating thing is that the only times I have left my house in the last 3 weeks is to get food, which have been practically wasted journeys every time.

I don’t think I have anything but it is not a risk I am willing to take.

The government need to realise now that my generation (I merely miss the ‘millennial’ tagline) are a selfish cohort of human beings and to function correctly they need telling what to do. Put them inside and make them stay there. For the good of so many people who are catching this virus unnecessarily.

Thank you for this. I've shared it on Nextdoor to reach as many locals as I possibly can.