Prepping for a Pandemic... 15

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A lot of us have been here before. We Prepped for Brexit. Some of us are Heathcare workers. We prepare for the worst every day. It's difficult to predict what will happen in our lives. In our lifetime. Will we get Cancer? Will a huge meteorite wipe the world out?

One thing is for sure, this new virus is either affecting us, or is going to affect us all very soon. You are all already onboard. I hope you are prepared and much as you can be. And in the meantime this thread is here to support us all.

This week will bring many new challenges. We are almost certain to have some sort of lockdown. Like other parts of Europe. We aren't special. We aren't different. We are all
fragile souls. But I hope we live to tell the tale.

God Speed.

As far as I understand it, everyone needs to self isolate for 14 days if anyone has a fever in the family. I absolutely would pull my kids from school under these circumstances.

Apparently more precise advise will go on the website

*advice

tryingtoprep thanks. I've got some gloves and won't use the toilet while I'm there. There are supposedly only 2 cases in my area, but don't really trust the figures!

That's it folks

I'm ill with suspected covid and DH is refusing to self isolate as a family!!

That's it then, the day I prepped for is here. DDs temp still high, so 14 days isolation for all of us. Luckily I had a top up fresh Tesco delivery this morning. And DD ate a little bit of pasta for tea so we have started on supplies already!

I think we are too late in the curve if we decide to practice social distancing only after today. Also today’s briefing just means everyone stay at home to avoid gathering but if you are stupid to venture out and catch it we aren’t responsible kind of - isn’t it?? What’s the prob in shutting off schools I don’t understand- it’s going to be a mistake that No “apologies, we were wrong” can fix

I was watching the conference with slightly dodgy WiFi, I know they will set out the 'rules' in a document soon but in the meantime did anyone else pick up that Chris Whitty said only adults with underlying health conditions should self-isolate? My 4 yo has congenital heart disease, I want to know on what basis they dont think she needs isolating? How certain can they be?

Yes, I picked up that he specified adults

Death toll 53

The situation in Italy March 15 2020, 18.00

POSITIVE 23073
DECEASED 2158
NOW TESTING NEGATIVE 2749

Cases to date: 27980

Among the current positives:

home isolation 10197
hospitalised not ICU 11025
in ICU 1851
total hospitalised 12876

Increase in numbers

POSITIVE 2470
DECEASED 349
NOW TESTING NEGATIVE 414

Cases to date: 3233

Among the current positives:

home isolation 929
hospitalised not ICU 1362
in ICU 179

Percentage increase

POSITIVE 12
DECEASED 19.3
NOW TESTING NEGATIVE 17.7

Cases to date:

Among the current positives:

home isolation 10
hospitalised not ICU 14.1
in ICU 10.7

Oops, data for 16th not 15th

Well that's me self isolating for two weeks then... the house seems suddenly very small.

I'm still here, still waiting for the Work from home email. I'll do that immediately I get the email.

I've also got a freezer that needs defrosting, I could actually do with doing them both, so that might be a job for Wednesday.

What the hell do you do if your family refuse to self isolate ? I'm furious with DH he is insisting to continue working even though will be paid at full rate for 14 days! I have suspected CV.

What the hell do you do if your family refuse to self isolate ? I'm furious with DH he is insisting to continue working even though will be paid at full rate for 14 days! I have suspected CV.

I’m not joking when I say this but I would end my marriage over that.

What the hell do you do if your family refuse to self isolate ? I'm furious with DH he is insisting to continue working even though will be paid at full rate for 14 days! I have suspected CV.

What does he do. is it a work from home situation?

@TiddleTaddleTat That’s a tricky situation to be in. I think you and your Dh both need to self isolate right away. Atleast for the sake of the elderly, vulnerable and high risk population out there.

I am self isolating and have been since symptoms started , of course. It's that my DH is refusing to comply with the new 14 day rule and also telling DD she can still go to school

No he can't work from home.

I would be happy if my dh gets a job before the chaos sets in. He has been out of contract for three months now (because of Brexit and ir35) I don’t know how we are going to manage anything without any income for the next few months - we are already living over our savings (my handmade business is down the drains already and I have asked my 3 little friendly staffs who are more like family to stay at their home and work with their new creations for which they’ve agreed- they are paid per hour if I get orders) how are you all sorting your finances?

How to mentally prepare our dc’s for social distancing and being at home without seeing their friends for longer? Does anyone know? Is there any government advice on that?

What happens if someone else gets symptoms in the 14 days?

For Arguements sake, lets say on day 13 one of the kids gets a persistent cough? Does the clock start again?

presumably that restarts the clock