Any over 60s planning to avoid public transport/ places where people might be sick?

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I work with some in this category
my dm is going to carry on regardless

62 with asthma

Not yet. I (still) am working so it's not really possible. If things change badly then maybe.

My Mum is saying it won't stop her from going out unless we're in a lockdown scenario. Her main reasons are, she needs to get into town on the bus for food (fair enough, I can't do all her shopping for her and she needs to survive) and the social side (I suppose another fair case, as we often hear elderly people get lonely and the stimulation of others is good for them).

Have got her on board to get stocked up, but it's going to be a mini prep from her point of view and I've given her three things she can't get in town. Have stressed, I'm more than happy to get whatever she needs if I can get it now, and let her have it in a couple of weeks when I see her. She's given me £20, so it's not going to be a major stockpile!

Not unless I have symptoms or come into contact with someone who may be a risk. I have a job and I'm a commuter. I'm perfectly fit and healthy so I see no reason to do otherwise.

62 and still working part time, my retirement age is 66 like everyone else my age so no. Many my age work in supermarkets and other crowded places, also it was spoken about getting medical staff out of retirement to help, I guess some are also my age.

I don't know anyone in their sixties who isn't working, most of them full time! This is very irritating and unrealistic advice. Most of them also have high blood pressure or other 'conditions' - I'm just hoping that the constant reiteration of how much risk that puts them under is overexaggerated based on Chinese figures. My mum is 91 and determined to go out into the world every day or she says she'll go mad, so not much chance limiting her movements either.

This is official advice? I'm 62, and no! I'm driving to Yorkshire tomorrow and will be stopping for my usual Dirty Fast Food nosh at a service station on the way.

OMG was about to scoff but just googled High Blood Pressure: "in England the proportion of the population with hypertension increases from 5% of men and 1% of women aged 16 to 24 years, to 58% in men and women aged 65 to 74 years". But surely hypertension isn't a contributory factor for COVID-19 mortality? I know age is, and smoking, and gender.

Hypertension is a risk factor, yes. But hopefully if it is well-controlled that reduces the risk.

I haven't got hypertension but DH (59) has, apart from the fact I have lost some teeth I am fit and well

It's WHO advice. Probably aimed at France where everyone's tucked up in retirement by 60 ! The WHO advice specifically mentions hypertension and my feeble attempts to google suggest it is still significant even if controlled. But then - half the population has it!

Lots of people in their 60s still work full time. They are not all just doing the odd trip into town.

How long would this be for?

Are we really saying that everyone over 60 should stay at home for the rest of theor lives?

@tegucigalpa13
Yes!

But another message is life goes on.

There is a massive disconnect there!

The message I am getting is as an older person really you are on your own as no government bar China or Singapore are going to take draconian action.

My mum is 72 and laughed when she heard this advice.
She doesn’t drive so has to take the public bus as she lives in the back of beyond. Went today as usual to the supermarket and commented on how quiet both the bus and the supermarket were.
I work in a bigger supermarket in another town and it was like Christmas today 🤦🏼‍♀️ People definitely thinking about stocking up and getting bits in now I think.

Italy is recommending that the over 60s stay home or at least keep away from crowds.

What happens there today might become the advice here in a little while.

But of course people of working age self isolating when indicated (regardless of inconvenience or hardship it costs them ) is he thing that is going to do most to contain the spread

My mum is 71 and recently widowed. Getting out on the bus and train to see people is her lifeline. So no, she isn't, but she is washing her hands and has hand gel (though she always did this, claims it prevented her and one other girl in her class getting the flu during an epidemic in the sixties!). Her local Waitrose was as busier ever on Sunday.

I am 65. I was debating today whether I should start eating loads ofcake and drinking quantities of wine again, both of which were severely reduced when I was diagnosed with high blood pressure. After all, what's the point of depriving myself if I'm going to pop my clogs?
But seriously, my h and I have not booked any holidays (the whole years vacations would have been normally been planned by now), but apart from that we are carrying on as usual. However, we live in a quiet rural spot and are both retired so it is quite easy to keep ourselves to ourselves. I shop early in the morning when it's quiet anyway, and we have no public transport. I intend to spend the summer beautifying my garden because it looks as though that's where we will be spending a lot of our leasure time.

Funny you should say that logearedbat because I did predict a boom in spending on gardens and garden rooms as aviation became more expensive and / or less socially acceptable.

Enjoy your garden!

Purplewithred which ones of the 70+ genders are affected more?

My mum is 80 with HTN and is avoiding the shops. I've done her shopping online and she'll collect it from me. There's no one to look after her if she falls ill apart from me and as I have asthma and am a single parent then me getting ill would be horrendous for the dc.

I'm hoping the update tomorrow from the government will make things clearer. At the moment she's avoiding unnecessary risks like going to her exercise classes, the gym, hospital.

Not just those in Italy.

inews.co.uk/news/health/world-health-organisation-chief-warning-elderly-crowded-places-2005411

I had lunch with a friend in her 80's today, she said no virus is keeping her home - she has no underlying health conditions though, healthier than me half her age!

Lots of over 60s are still working due to state pension age being moved up

One of my colleagues, a manager, has been working from home since the first case in the UK, he has 1 lung, he is 67 and worried about the risk to his health. He has asked me to organise all meetings to be available to him via conference call. I asked him when he is intending to return as we are using his desk for another person at the moment and he said when the risk of catching the virus is over. So some over 60s have taken heed even before the advice to restrict social contact was advised. People at work scoffed at him but I think he must have had some genuine insight into how this may span out.

Im in my 30's, have chronic health conditions, was on transport this weekend. And today feel like poop, temperature, sore throat, cough ... Fun times !!!

I’m 66 with no health conditions. I’m carrying on as usual. I’m completely unconvinced by all the hysteria.