Coronavirus in ROI/NI part 2

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Following on from the other thread

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/craicnet/3834552-Coronavirus-in-Ireland-N-Ireland?pg=40&order=

I was looking at the windows thinking they need to be cleaned!

I cleaned out and tidied up the completely jam packed summerhouse, tool shed and spare shed. They look amazing. (Smug) I’ve also cleaned out the attic. Unfortunately I now have a garage jam packed with stuff. Of to see if the skip companies are delivering.

It only took a pandemic to sort out my hoarding. (Hoarding sounds better than the fact that I’m naturally lazy. £

I'm still lazy, doing the bare minimum. Oh I have great plans going to bed but they never materialise.

Oh I have great plans going to bed but they never materialise

It’s not just me that procrastinates until bedtime, then makes plans for tomorrow, then?

You know that head scarf that Noni wears, any chance they will come back in to fashion?

Oh I have great plans going to bed but they never materialise

Oh, I was doing great the first couple of weeks tidying up and going through the clutter in the spare room sorting out what to keep and what to dump.

Then work called me back in, gave me a computer and set me up to WFH and the past 3 weeks have gone by in a blur of workity, work, work, work.

That pile of clutter is just mocking me now.

I've been wfh long hours with the 2 kids here since March.
I was able to take holidays this week and had great plans to de-clutter one room a day.
It's now my 6th day off and I've de-cluttered zero rooms

I'm not even working from home. The first two weeks I was brilliant but now I'm just meh about house work.

Once I do the bare minimum I think that's ok.. my baby takes up enough of my time. Once we are all fed that's the main priority for me ..
there's such a thing as too much housework !!
(That's my mantra and I'm sticking to it)

I felt a sinus headache start to come on yesterday. I dont have any sinus tablets here so am suffering now luckily dp will get some for me on his break from work this morning.
Anyway I came downstairs this morning and told ds(6) I'm sick. He called me over to the living room where he had a pillow and blanket on the couch for me and friends on the TV. He then made me breakfast and brought it over to me.
So there'll be no cleaning here again today!

Leo admitted yesterday that the virus couldn't have been here from late December/early January. He thinks there could have been a few isolated cases but I would assume there are many more than 'a few'.
As I mentioned before my colleague came back from China in January and had a really bad flu like virus that left him unwell for weeks, my family then fell really ill with a bad virus in early-mid Feb, we all had the same virus but different symptoms. In the space of 6 days, my family had 6 visits to the gp (there are 4 of us) but no covid-19 testing was available.
Subsequently once testing was available, there were confirmed cases from the office, one of whom I sit beside.

Yeah it was here just no testing for it, I had children sick with high temps and nothing else others with headaches and high temps.
Families saying they were sick with flu and it was like nothing they ever had before and they were sick for weeks. I didnt get it luckily.

My kids knew people in work, different offices, who were tested early March after the ski trips, with flu symptoms, all negative. One of my kids was really ill at Christmas, and mostly stayed in bed, so we hardly saw her. She works in healthcare, and does tend to pick up bugs but always has her flu jab; we do wonder if she had it, she was at a Christmas market in Poland and socialised a lot in December.

That's what we had @Iblinkedandiamold
Ds woke up one morning with a temp over 40 that we couldn't bring down, it stayed for days. I've never seen his temp over 38 before. He was complaining about a headache. He went to caredoc on the Saturday, again on the Sunday and then our own gp on the Thursday. He had a viral ear nose throat and sinus infection. He was so bad in the first few days that I was really hoping the caredoc would send him to hospital as I was so worried over not being able to bring his temp down. He hardly ate for a week and a half and was sleeping round the clock.
A few days in I woke one night with a really severe sore throat, I was going to go to caredoc there and then but couldn't as the kids were asleep and dp working away. I went to the gp the next day, again it was viral. I then came down with the worst flu I have ever experienced, I had no energy and had to sleep for days, had dizzy spells for a few weeks after and a really strange cough that lasted for 5 weeks.
Dp only got sinus headaches (but they were so bad he had to come home from work and also went to the gp), the baby had the least symptoms with just a rattly chest and flu like symptoms.

Another person here who had the worst flu type thing I've ever had. Was so weak could barely lift my head off my pillow, went to the doctors twice and ended up being sent to the hospital as well. Was sick for weeks but was told it was viral/chest infection/asthma flare up. I'm convinced that I had it, that was late Jan/early feb, went on for the bones of 4/5 weeks before the cough went, I missed 3 weeks of work.

We had a relationship in hospital over Christmas with a bad chest infection. She's early eighties. The hospital wouldn't have been looking for covid 19 because it didn't exist. But it might have been it, but why didn't it kill her? My Dd who had the Christmas lurgy had been to see her mid December. But so had my younger daughter, who had a killer hangover at one point!
Without testing every one for antibody we will never know!
Sean O'Rourke has just retired, I listened to him and Marian in work. Work!

Can I just point out that it was a relation in hospital. My autocorrect obviously thinks a doctor/nurse romance was on the cards.

On a different note, I am doing a course on mindfulness with Children. (Something i would've scoffed at years ago) i am getting so much out of it. I am loving it. Just spent 2 and half hours reading and forced myself to stop. I dont want to finish too early and have nothing to do. I am stuff of ideas for whenever i get back to work including finishing our day every day with some breathing and saying what we are grateful for. I'll write it down and stick it in their learning journals.
Hope I am this enthusiastic when school reopens.

@iblinked that sounds very good. More and more children are anxious nowadays than ever before so that would be a really good way to end the day. What age do you teach?

The leaving cert has officially been postponed and teachers can give predicted grades

Preschool so from 2.6 years to 4/5. I love it so much I bought a small flat tree stump home from my walk yesterday. I want to create a sensory natural environment indoors. We are in a school so we dont have access to our own bit of playground. I have a truck load of ideas floating around in my head.

My cleaner has just texted me wondering when she can come back to work. I’m not sure where cleaners fit in the five phases. Any ideas?

That's in the one where people can come to your house. So Phase 3 was it?

The lady who cleans for me won't want to come back to work as we have been paying her. We are being paid ourselves so felt it was only fair.
A family member is immuno compromised we didn't want to risk it and told her weeks ago not to come.

My cleaner does want to come back as she's bored. I'm paying her half wages (it was a compromise, she didn't want to be paid at all if she wasn't working). The house keeping reasonably clean and tidy without her. Nobody has had anything ironed since she was last here, but then we're mostly wearing pyjamas so haven't needed ironed clothes.

I have to say that I definitely wouldn't do that yet. 27 deaths yesterday. And now that the testing criteria has been widened, we can expect to see a jump in positives. That may give us a better idea of what it's like in the wider community, rather than with the restricted testing.

I work in a hospital and even with PPE you do end up less than 2m from people on occasion, even briefly. I know well that what's helping is that all my colleagues aren't seeing anyone when not at work so theres a certain bubble we're all in.

If one of my colleagues got their cleaner back then they've burst the bubble and let an unknown person inside.

I'm actually quite nervous for May 18th, I'm afraid everyone will just go and visit everyone all of a sudden.

Apparently the seafront in Dun Laoghaire is absolutely heaving today with a huge queue outside Teddies . Ds showed me photos of Killiney beach, no social distancing there.

I haven't been out since I went to the supermarket on Wednesday. I would love to have a coffee in the park, etc. My dc would give anything to hang out with their friends, but they are responsible and won't do it. It's really galling to see so many people flouting the rules.

When I look at the figures, 18 deaths today, 27 yesterday, in the 30s during the week, that's high as far as I'm concerned. I'm worried that once we get to the 18th the genie will be out of the bottle and we'll be back to the beginning again.