RE: How's everyone coping with the Coronavirus situation? - Reggaesteem Discussion post.
Great post, great initiative, great video - made me laugh and squirm at the same time! So far, here in a provincial city in England, the big supermarkets seem to have empty shelves, but the little convenience store that I usually use is managing to keep its shelves stocked.
The Sunday news programmes are talking about giving police powers to arrest people with corona virus who are not self-isolating (apart from the obvious, how would they know)? I think this is going to be really problematic, not least because our police forces are already stretched to the limit. Ideal environment for serious crime to flourish. Our police are also trained to take a particular approach (quite reasonable given the range of incidents they are expected to respond to), but not always the most helpful approach.
There is also talk, but as yet, no definite plan, for over 70s to self-isolate for four months. That is a serious problem with regard to people's mental health and well-being and swapping one public health issue for another ... plus what happens when they all come back into the general population again?
For me, as a higher risk person, I'm starting to plan how I am going to manage my work over the next four months, given that I may be self-isolating for my own protection and, at the same time, co-ordinating a pan-London proposal for £12 million of services to address sexual and domestic violence.
We've had some early consultations within the current providers, and started to consider how we can reduce costs by doing things differently. One of the things that I was going to propose as part of the new service is introducing (and training everyone to use) tele-conferencing for some of our meetings so that women are not traipsing right across London so often. This four month curfew might be a good time to test some ideas and see how they work.
Meanwhile, I've not had a problem with toilet paper supplies and I have considered what I am going to do if none is available. I have a plan :) On another matter entirely, I have an ant infestation in the kitchen and they seem to be completely unentranced by the ant bait stations choc full of poisonous goodness for them to take back to the nest.
I'm for a trending feed that is engaging and diverse, as long as posts are not spamming and scamming, bring value and attract engagement (the number one priority I would think), I'm happy to see it there.
Self-isolating for four months sounds horrible - I really do worry that the "cure" to protect everyone from this virus is going to be far worse than the disease itself. Shuting down cities, and bringing the economy to a grinding halt while everyone is isolated from "in-person" human connections seems overly drastic.
I work in a supermarket here in Australia, in a smallish regional town, and we are progressivly running out of more and more product lines. Now we are cutting services (my department is online and click and collect) - the entire click and collect service has been suspended nationwide. We are shortening trading hours and every day looks like christmas eve with people everywhere, filling up trolleys with what they can.
All this is despite not having a single case of Covid19 in our region.
I really hope you get to see your proposal through to implementation. It sounds like very important work and a much needed (sadly) service. Best wishes for its success.
Good luck with the Ants - whenever we get ants invading here it usually means rain is coming soon. I guess in England it rains all the time so that doesn't really help as an warning to take your umbrella (lol).
Anyway, thanks for sharing how things are in your part of the world, lets hope this epidemic fades into a distant memory soon enough.
JK.