Would you cope with quarantine?

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Just that really, if we were all told to stay home and self quarantine for two weeks, how would you and your family cope?

DD would be fine as long as she had her tablet
I would be fine for a few days but would start to get stir crazy after that
Would probably have enough food to last 2 weeks - might just be plain pasta and rice by the end, but we would survive.

Oh I think I'd love it, an excuse not to have to run around. No work and no feeling the need to be productive with my time off, I'd get all those little around the house jobs done, we've got a decent size garden with a swing, slide and climbing frame thing and DS is only one so he'd be fine with that

Could probably make supplies last two weeks, our milkman would come into his own!

Food wise we would be absolutely fine. A have a freezer stocked with home cooked meals, cupboards with plenty of pasta, rice, tinned foods, etc. Mentally though, I would really struggle. I think I would spend a lot of time in the garden

Day one and struggling mentally. Live alone and barely been able to make myself get out of bed even though would normally have gone into work no problem.

We rarely cook so restricting restaurant access is a bit unpleasant, but we will manage. I’m more concerned about continued access to prescription meds

As for boredom, not a big deal here. We are introverts and have jobs that are easy for telecommuting. Plenty of home based hobbies to keep us busy because we love that sort of thing.

lcare how are you now? Have a bath and chat to us on here. I think we're going to have to keep each other company over the next few weeks.

I've been at work today and DD at school. I'm mentally prepared for Friday being shut down. I'm a key worker but have no one to look after DD if the schools and after school club closes

I frequently don't go as far as my front porch for several weeks at a time, I think I could handle 6 months if we had the supplies. My kids will struggle a little, bit not too much as they still have xbox, computer and phones to chat to friends.

Ask me in again three weeks. I live in the Netherlands and DD and I are on Day 1.

I’m working from home and DD starts distance learning from tomorrow. We take evening walks for fresh air and exercise and I’ll make a supermarket run tomorrow.

I’m actually looking forward to completing all those housebound jobs that I’ve been to busy to do.

We would be screwed because Iv not stocked up on anything. Toddler would drive me mad and the older ones don’t stop bloody arguing

Can someone confirm who's right please,my sister believes because she lives alone she still only has to isolate for 7 days but because I have dc we would be 14 days,I took it to mean everyone now 14 days if symptomatic.

Your sister is right (according to Boris and co) @Bingeslayer

All depends on finance and health really. I'd be beyond depressed stuck in if wasnt bring paif and i couldnt keep up with rent and faced eviction. Id be scared if we were ill.
Otherwise, id be ok. We have a garden i want to crack on with so we are lucky there. I enjoy baking andcrwading. The kids have electronics. I have a bit of practice at being stuck in as my son didnt have a school place last year (autism) then got depressed and wouldn't leave the house.

I would be really happy if just 2 weeks, as I have lots of sewing projects to finish off and 2 dresses to make. I could let them take all my time, if I wasn't allowed to go out. I think longer than that and I would get very fidgety. Also fortunate to have a garden, albeit ruined by my dogs, but at least I could porter about in the fresh air.

I'm in Ireland, dd has a number of issues that puts her in the vulnerable category. Schools and creches have been closed since Friday, pubs and restaurants today. We haven't left the house since Thursday evening. Luckily we have a garden.

I am in absolute panic mode now. I know IABU and I need my head examined but bloody hell.

We'd be skint because as a supply teacher I don't get paid if I don't work and 4+ weeks off outside of the summer holidays would have a massive impact on us financially. Other than that, if we did have enough money, self quarantine for us would be easy. We have a garden and plenty of toys in the house. There are some woods nearby and I'm assuming we'll still be allowed to go for walks and stuff away from other people. We have some food in the cupboards so if we made plenty of stews, curries and chillies in the slow cooker we'd be able to go without needing to go to the supermarket too often.

Dreading it with a 3.5 year old and a 5 year old.

@AnnShirleysNewDress thank you.

I would be fine alone as total introvert but with 2 Dds will lose my mind and they would kill each other.
The cat would totally ignore any isolation rules

I'd manage ok, as I'm not an outdoorsy person anyway.
However, single parenthood can be lonely, and I think I'd feel that if home alone for weeks with my three.

I’d be fine, but the DC are very active and outdoorsy, so they would be spinning in circles a la Homer Simpson after about two days! Biggest challenge for me would therefore be managing to concentrate on work (I can work from home and so would obviously be expected to put in a full day’s graft every day) while simultaneously dealing with cabin-fever-crazed whirling dervishes.

I cannot cope. Honestly I get cabin fever if I haven't left the house all day. We'll probably go for a lot of drives (no chance of coming into contact with people so i assume will be fine?)

We would be fine from a survival point. From an emotional point we'd all be biting one another like feral dogs after a week.

At dinner just now with the kids (early 20s), we all agreed that getting the actual virus is a less scary prospect than just the four of us being confined to barracks for longer than a day or two.

Yes, apart from having to get food delivered it would be just like the school holidays where I don't see anybody socially apart from my DCs.

We'd be fine.