22 March 2020 : Covid-19 Beach Parties

So Mother's Day is upon us......this is so bizarre. I got lovely homemade cards from my children......some flowers, I didn't touch them. I got some hand gloves that moisturise (my hands are now bleeding I am washing them so much). Look like I have been in a punch up as my knuckles are all split. I got some hand cream and a face mask....I opened them with a big smile thinking someone might have sneezed on them.....I washed my hands straight after opening......

Hubby still wants to go to the beach, I am going to have another meltdown. I try explaining about community spread. He is not getting it. National Trust have closed all their parks because there are too many people to enable safe social distancing. Anyway I talked about how busy the beaches were going to be, he suggested we go, if it is busy we come straight back. I ask if we can stay within our own community go to the woods or something. "Do you know how far droplets can travel in the wind" - the seed was planted. Took him about an hour, the news was saying the beaches were rammed by lunchtime. How stupid are these imbeciles, they may feel they are invincible but they may not be...the virus is mutating (am I in a really bad movie...two strains now.....it is coming for the invincibles....."we should do our civic duty", he said (praise be!) we stayed at home...didn't even go to the woods. The dogs got a quick walk over the local field, no one was around.

Boris has decided to give you imbeciles one more chance before imposing lockdown, do it now Boris, they will still be imbeciles tomorrow. 281 deaths in the UK from Coronavirus....281 lives lost....what is it going to be like in two weeks when more and more are sick and there is not enough beds. Our wonderful NHS staff (every single person who works in the hospitals) are going to be overwhelmed and there is nothing they will be able to do for the majority of patients. Italy had the worst day ever.....we are two weeks behind and they have a better system than us...

I have managed to keep my anxiety at a manageable level. I am not coughing much, my chest is lighter (the vodka helped). My wonderful funny friend's words just keep repeating in my head. Affirmations aplenty. I have been distracting myself getting rid of all the old gadgets in the house, passing them on (at a distance) to others in the village who could use them for the kids....I am still bleaching every surface in the house but now wearing gloves as my poor hands are so sore. Its so hard with so many in the house, they touch everything, one of my daughters put a ilst of things she thanked me for in my mother's day card and it included "Thank you for keeping us safe and disinfecting everything" My other daugther said something about "social distancing" - we will keep these cards and they can show them to their children and tell them about 2020......

Going to try to sleep now, stay safe everyone! Keep your distance, flatten the curve, sing happy birthday or my new one, Bohemian Rhapsody......