It’s a complete mindfuck eh?  Just over a week ago we are all debating what our line up against Morton should be.  That all seems such a long time ago now and we’ve all been reminded only thing that really matters in life is having good health.

No idea what will happen to my job.  Like most folk, all up in the air.

My sister works in the NHS and I have an elderly mother, so have a huge worry about them both.

Keep safe everyone.

Billy_Hainey wrote:

Pretty shit TBH.

I'm in the vulnerable group because I've got a chronic health condition. My Gp has told me not to go out, avoid other people completely, including my own family, and not to have family visits - for a period of 12 weeks.

I told the Doctor that I looked after my young  Granddaughter 2 days a week to help my young lass work, and the Doctor told me that I cant do that any more. Doctor said this is happening to thousands of families all over the country and I had to tell my daughter. You can imagine how that went down. Tears all round I can tell you.

We're not even ill (yet), and this has ripped my family apart.

 
All the best Billy

Sad reading all this and I totally empathise with everyone's fears and anxieties for their loved one's and themselves.

My partner is an NHS nurse and has auto-immune conditions. So I am very, very worried about her. I have advised her to contact her Union and see if she will be able to take 12 weeks off like Billy has been advised too. This is a very hard decision to make because it is a vocation to her and not just a job and she feels like she would be letting her work mates down, but she is in the vulnerable category. Been a lot of tears from her trying to weigh up this decision.

My own work are being quite uncaring and I worry myself about catching the virus and passing it on to her. But I have been told to keep coming in even though from Monday onwards there is going to be essentially no work to do. I work in the public sector btw, so it's not as though I work for a profit making company. But I feel like they basically have a gun to my head whereby I need to keep coming in or i'm out of a job.

My Son also suffers from bad anxiety at times and is starting high school in August. He is worried about this and was due to go through a 'transition period' in the coming months to get him prepared for the leap, but that now has been taken from him and I am worried about how he will get on now without the visits and days he could have spent in his new school in preparation. He will get through it, of course, but it is a concern for me and his Mum. He had his 'last day' of primary school yesterday and the feeling at the school gates as the kids got clapped out for possibly the last time was very emotional. A lot of tears cried (kids, parents and teachers). Even I had a lump in my throat due to the fact the rug has been pulled from under their feet.

Like The Shed said I am going to go for a long walk tomorrow and try and clear my mind because all of this risk and the financial complications that will ensue in the coming months has been getting me really down. Normally when I feel like this my 'escape' is Dundee United and football in general. But we all don't have that at the moment.

Tough times for us all Gents.

Stay safe everyone (particularly you Bill) and we will all come out this together with hopefully a new lease of life.

No m8.

Shes a Key Worker in Child Social Care and they're run ragged ATM. She cant work from home coz they cant do any of their essential work, so that's not feasible. My son-in-law is working at home ATM, but he's also a Key worker involved in the Telecoms and 999 service, so he canna be looking after a 1 year old, he's snowed under TBH.

There are things in place for Childcare at Schools during school hours for kids of Key Workers, but it's only available to kids aged 2 and above (ie nursery kids, primary school kids, and secondary kids), so even tho my daughter would be eligible for it,  the bairn doesna coz she's only 1 year old. You basically require 1 to 1 care for a bairn under 2.

Billy, hope you get sorted out. 

We've got the problem of a close relative who has alcohol related dementia, and goes into seizures if he doesn't consume a certain amount of booze every day. Cannae visit every day with his 3lts of white cider, and if it's delivered in bulk he'd drink much more. Doesn't look after himself (obviously), wouldn't wash or get changed without being instructed. We hadn't really thought about the logistics until yesterday.

It's a real dilemma.

Do you think NHS and other essential workers, many of whom will be shitting going in to work in difficult environments, should be given a tax break/holiday during this crisis?