When we were evacuated from Tenerife, I wondered what sort of a country I had come back to as it didn’t seem like the one I’d left...just two weeks earlier.
It was still winter. Still cold and grey. People were stocking up on essentials and bog roll like we were about to enter a nuclear war.
Frankly, I was terrified. My mental health That I had managed to keep on an even keel since coming off Valium in 1977 and despite many awful things that had happened along the way , was seriously under threat .
Every day I woke with a sense of gloom and foreboding often began with tears. I couldn’t bear to watch the news, still couldn’t.
Me and dh, who wondered who this new creature he was living with was, made a decision That we were going to live our lives throughout this.
After surviving the sheer lunacy of Tenerife airport, sat cheek by jowl With At leat 3000 Other confused tourists of all nationalities where social distancing was a pipe dream and masks were non existent, not to mention the even closer quarters of being sat in a plane for 6 hours, yes an hour of that going nowhere on the tarmac, we were at far more risk of being ill or catching the disease There than driving to an empty beach, park , country park or whatever at home.
So that’s what we did.
We have done our own risk assessment. We haven’t been ill and neither have our families whom we have seen throughout. The only difference is we haven’t hugged.
Guess what..no one has been ill. Not even one sniffly little cold.
When I realised what the anti dementor thread was about, it was a relief to find like minded adults Who guess what, we’re doing their own risk assessments and like us..wanted to have a bit of joy in their lives. Not just see this scenario as a period of sheer misery.
We have supported one another. I hope by our little forays into the big wide world it might have helped someone to step outside their front door and realise the big bad wolf wasn’t waiting to get them.
My mental health is now as good as it was before this.
I still despair at what the future holds and hope we learn to live with these diseases..just like we did before.
I don’t want to see us live in a strange world where every stranger is a germ ridden infector.
I think what was done to the welsh and Scottish people has been criminal. I thinkNS and MD should be tried for crimes against humanity. I really do.
I think children have been chucked under a bus.
I think a lot of elderly and vulnerable people have been very inadequately supported
I think the lack of PPE in health settings has been abominable.
I’m shocked at the snitching and curtain twitching that has been going on on some threads. Adult children terrified to see their elderly, ill, lonely parents..For fear of being reported ...what sort of a society have we become.
People dying alone...or without a loved one near...my god..there’s going to be serious fallout over this one . I spent 10 years as a bereavement counsellor with Cruse..the queues are going to round the block when they reopen.
Just horrid! Horrid! Horrid.
Some people need to take a long, hard look at themselves at how they’ve abused their friends and neighbours and yes strangers on social media.
I believe It’s time to come together and move forward and build bridges.
We’ve been lied too, hoodwinked and massively abused by those in power on a scale that just takes your breath away.
We should not let them divide us like this.
We are more powerful than we think.