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Would you cope with quarantine?

280 replies

ludothedog · 25/02/2020 23:15

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.

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JaceLancs · 26/02/2020 00:32

I would be ok for food and drink supplies
Can work from home and got lots of hobbies and interests
I would struggle with not going out at all though
Would be very lonely

AutumnRose1 · 26/02/2020 00:36

I’d struggle because of the small flat

Lack of company wouldn’t worry me.

Judystilldreamsofhorses · 26/02/2020 00:38

I had flu over Christmas so didn’t leave the house in more than a week, but DP was able to bring stuff in. I was so pleased to get out at the end of it, but I am generally quite happy reading, TV, roaming the Internet, long baths etc.

I think the online shopping would only work if the majority of people were going about their business as normal?

theflushedzebra · 26/02/2020 00:43

We'd be fine as long as we had power.

We'd survive without power for a while.

Bit the dogs would need walking. can I walk them around the village?

I've just had a v interesting "discussion" with DH about whether quarantining citizens is a breach of human rights. He's gone to bed now though.

He thinks all measures are ok to prevent a pandemic. I think freedom of movement is a breach of HR and the govt would have to declare a state of state of emergency to do this. Which is no trifling thing. I don't know who's right - he went to bed when I asked him if he'd be ok with his own children being quarantined. I am scared about this pandemic though.

theflushedzebra · 26/02/2020 00:45

*I think restriction of freedom of movement is a breach of human rights.

notangelinajolie · 26/02/2020 00:45

I would be absolutely fine. I never go out anyway. I love my home bubble and it would make no difference to my life.
My DH and my DD's on the other hand would go stir crazy.
The timing of this imaginary quarantine is a little out though … I grow a lot of our own veg and could survive without supermarkets for several months …. if it were summer.

lboogy · 26/02/2020 00:47

Can you go to the park ? If it's big enough and you go early enough you shouldn't come into contact with other people. Or is the advice to just stay home?

HerRoyalNotness · 26/02/2020 00:51

We’d be ok. I’ve got loads of odd jobs I could catch up on and uni stuff. We have a golf course out the back we could use to exercise the kids if they got stir crazy. We were stuck in for a week in the last big hurricane and managed fine.

BestZebbie · 26/02/2020 00:56

If it was just quarantine as a precaution and no-one got sick, it would be brilliant. If the whole family were locked inside having potentially life-threatening flu simultaneously, it would be terrible on all fronts.

Elle7rose · 26/02/2020 01:00

Sad to say but contamination OCD means that I basically live in constant quarantine so I'd be fine!

CalmYoBadSelf · 26/02/2020 01:06

I think what would be hard would not be the quarantine itself but the mental uncertainty. We all think it would be wonderful to have more holiday but we have, on two occasions, had flights home cancelled and had to stay abroad. People have been very jealous but it is quite stressful not knowing when you will get home and thinking through all the eventualities and potential probems

WomanIsTaken · 26/02/2020 01:09

I was fantasizing about one of those windowless cabins aboard the Diamond Princess today; a perfect zen retreat.

BarbedBloom · 26/02/2020 01:15

As long as we could order food we would be fine. We are introverted homebodies

SpaceCadet4000 · 26/02/2020 01:44

I already wfh so no real change there, although I travel quite a bit so that would be disrupted but manageable. I'd manage 5 days but I think then I'd start really struggling. DH would be in his element though.

If it was just us quarantined and we could still online shop I'd probably buy a bunch of stuff to complete projects around the house. I would really struggle if it was a whole city type quarantine though.

WitchenKitch · 26/02/2020 01:50

We're all homebodies and we are lucky to have a very large back garden (which needs a lot of work) so we'd be fine, but this thread has inspired me to add a big bag of tennis balls to my "prep" - in case dog walking isn't possible!

SuperMumTum · 26/02/2020 05:42

My DCs would be climbing the walls by the end of day 1. If the weather was a bit nicer then we could use the garden a bit more but its rained for weeks so it's a swamp at the moment. If I were on my own it would be fantastic.

cobwebsoncornices · 26/02/2020 05:53

We've been meaning to redecorate for a couple of years now. I am tempted to go out & buy some paint, brushes etc now so I could at least feel as though I'd achieved something... presuming that I stay healthy

winniethekid · 26/02/2020 05:54

No problem. The only difference would be having to shop online.

JontyDoggle37 · 26/02/2020 05:59

I couldn’t be fully quarantined - I’ve got a horse who has to bed fed and looked after, he can’t be left to starve, so i would have to have some kind of dispensation to go out and do that

toomuchtooold · 26/02/2020 06:01

I liked that scenario they were talking about on the news last night, where if you are the only one in the house who needs to self isolate you get to go into a room yourself and like, your family have to bring you food but just leave it at the door. It would be the first time in my life I had a plausible excuse for doing what I have always wanted to i.e. just go and read books for a fortnight. But if it's with the kids as well, no thank you, that will be murder...

allthegoodusernameshavegone · 26/02/2020 06:05

Sainsburys delivery, Kindle, sorted

Depressedbywork · 26/02/2020 06:08

if struggle with loneliness. I already do at weekends. OTOH I wouldn’t feel pressure that everyone else is out with friends. I’d probably be ok as regards food.

Depending on dates I would run out of prescription medication, potentially fatal for me. Even if I had a full prescription I would be stressed in case the quarantine was extended, or drugs less available due to quarantine.

CupoTeap · 26/02/2020 06:10

It would be perfect for me, am currently in that place where two weeks off work would be perfect, tbh even better if I was carted off somewhere in my own for it.

bellinisurge · 26/02/2020 06:12

You can't shop online realistically because how would it get delivered to you - are Sainsburys delivery people supposed to approach you and get your signature.Hmm
I'm a general prepper so you d like to think I have the food aspect sorted. But even I appreciate that being stuck in our little house for two weeks would be hard, especially if one or more of us is ill. I have MS and dh has mild asthma. Dd is 12.
Yes, I'd cope. Yes it would be difficult especially if we are ill. And I'd like to think my general prepper mindset means I'm better prepared.
Take sensible steps to get a buffer of food in. Try to ensure you are eating healthily now to keep your immune system strong. Have things in like tea/coffee staples. Also have hygiene stuff like toothpaste and sanitary products. Sadly plastic bags to double bag any tissues etc when used.
If you are lucky it will be just kicking about, banging off the walls binge watching stuff for two weeks.