The 'Positive Mental Health' Corona virus thread Part II

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I hope that RapidRainbow does not mind me starting Part II of the thread - if you do let me know & I'll ask for it to be deleted.

It would just be a shame to not carry on as this is such a positive place.

Part I is here:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3821799-The-Positive-Mental-Health-Corona-virus-thread?msgid=93901971

Also keep in mind that while yes a lot of people have stock piled for themselves, some shopping you see (and duplicates) will be for people shopping on other people’s behalf.

I also saw an article about a corner shop that were handing out anti bac etc for the elderly for free. That was a lovely story.

In the vein of this being positive, we should share as many examples as we can of the kindness we’ve come across.

My example of acts of kindness:

We have a “Timebank” in our village - where you offer your time to help other residents in exchange for claiming back time from someone else. So for example DH took an elderly lady shopping last week and “banked” 2 hours which he is going to claim against a local gardener/handyman to come over and do some work in our garden.

Anyway, the point of my comment is that DH has spoken to the organiser of the Timebank and they’re going to look at doing something CV specific to help out anyone who is self-isolating by doing shopping, etc for them.

We have people offering lifts or to get shopping for vulnerable members in our community too. It's heart warming.

This morning was lovely and sunny and I went on a short walk around the local Loch (well, it's called a Loch but it's really a glorified large pond). I saw a bullfinch puffing his chest out and tweeting in the trees, two ducks sitting on nests and met a cockapoo puppy called Buddy.

Also started using the Headspace app again. It really is very good. Can also recommend the Susan Calman "Mrs Brightside" podcast, it's her interviewing other comedians about their mental health and it's very funny, educational and full of ideas about self-care and getting through things.

Uber Eats and Uber have promised they will ensure NHS staff get to work and can get food delivered- very nice!
I went to town after work today, around 4pm, and saw a lot of people coughing into arms, using tissues etc etc- so the messages are getting through!

I have been trying to help elderly neighbours with varying degrees of success.

First I had a list of very eclectic things such as Medjool dates, Sea salt flakes and (very posh type of) loo roll from a lovely elderly lady next door. Not sure if quite right for a pandemic prep though but told her, we're here if needed.

Also told the old man in the basement if he needed anything we were there and he looked at me oddly but he know that anyway I guess.

Gave the in laws some antibac hand gel which they seemed very intrigued by and asked how to use it. They seem quite suspicious of it and not sure if they would use it though!

With my own parents elderly father has carers starting on Monday so ordered him some food in online so he has something for them to cook him.

Absolutely! DS has his friends here to play Dungeons and Dragons after school. All six of them washed their hands without prompting.

We WILL get through this.

Alsohuman yes I think most older people would feel like that too (isolation) they have been talking about that though and the negative impacts...hopefully they would say something other than staying at home, perhaps hopefully.

Happy birthday to your DS Backpain mine has his next weekend also. Hope you / he have a lovely day.

Orange “ Also told the old man in the basement if he needed anything we were there and he looked at me oddly but he know that anyway I guess.“

This makes it sound like you keep an old man in your basement 😂

I wonder if they are being trained at school with the hand washing and that is rubbing off at home Pineapple that would be a bonus

PP on this thread might like this one also

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3845465-Can-we-do-a-lighthearted-thread

We have arrived in the glamorous city of Birmingham, ready to collect our puppy nearby tomorrow. We are on the 4th floor of a £36 per night hotel, overlooking a rainy polluted vista, with our Tesco sandwiches for this evening's tea cooling outside on the windowsill (I'm looking out for pigeons).

I have tutored DH in using my standard sanitising wipes on the remote, light switches and door handles, and he is now pacing the room on the phone in his pants.

We love to live the high life.

Morty 😂 I’m trying to imagine where you might be

The School Newsletter states that anyone coughing next week will be sent home immediately. DD has asthma and is forever coughing at the mo, just like every winter, so I suspect she’ll be sent home by 10am on Monday

Funny. My mum’s friend is in hospital at the mo, on an elderly person’s ward, many of whom have dementia or Alzheimer’s. Mum caused great confusion followed by lots of laughs the other day when she was singing Happy Birthday, while washing her hands on the ward.

Millie Walsall, I was trying to be mysterious! 😂

I laughed at your mum singing happy birthday on the ward. My mum is in full time care in a specialist dementia home, she just insults the lovely carers all the time. "Ooh, aren't you fat and hairy." "You've got a piercing on both sides of your nose, eww how common."

Good one mum, button it.

Oh gawd, i think I do know where you are. Walsall is part of my work patch

Apparently, all the patients were shouting “WHOSE BIRTHDAY IS IT AGAIN?”
My grandma was like a loose cannon, she was obsessed by the size of bottoms (despite not being a svelte lady herself). She used to yell “LOOK AT THE SIZE OF HER BOTTOM”

I think we’ve stayed in that place more than once @Millie2013, at least you’ll have new puppy to make it worthwhile tomorrow.

Wrong @. Sorry!

I’ll happily take the new puppy 😍

I've certainly stayed in worse places Alsohuman.

Just done my usual idle scrolling through the other threads and gave myself a little frisson of fear, so I might hide them now!

If I read MN in isolation I think I'd go mad. I'm off to read the BBC, that is fairly sedate by comparison.

If anyone is feeling in need of a reassuring voice, try and track down the interview with this lady on ITV central news. She talked such sense

Haha, love that about the happy birthdays, and the old man in the basement.

Had a bit of a wobble reading latest emails from schools - all seemed very serious - but then I realised they’d literally just said they were cancelling some concerts and sports fixtures and getting online learning set up; all just sensible stuff and just means fewer dates for me to remember and things to ship children to and from!

An Italian friend (albeit living in Aus and not UK) has posted a link to an Italian site with stats. It's all in Italian but using what I understand and Google translate the jist is:

"Perhaps the first, cautious, good news.

All curves (hospitalized, total positive, deaths, deaths + TI) show a slowdown in growth and all are positioned on the logistic curve and no longer exponential. These would mean that the #lockdown begins to give the first results against the spread of the #coronavirus."

and

"The data, as always, need subsequent confirmation which will only arrive in the next few days.

However, for some days March 12 had been hypothesized as the day when the data would begin to diverge from exponential growth, perhaps these forecasts were correct. We will see it from tomorrow."

FORZA ITALIA! Great news all round.

It's on the "Coronavirus Dati e Analisi Scientifiche" facebook page for people who speak Italian.

Thank you, @Millie2013!

Think this must be the same segment you saw (says West Midlands though):

Any fans of the 1975 about? Matty just Tweeted “🎤I don’t like going outside so bring me everything here”.

Predictable, yes. Irresistible- yes 😂

HelloMist, yes, the ITV interview was lengthier (about 5 min)