Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

[Slab]

Folks across the road from us are having a small rear extension built at the moment. Chatting to our neighbour she said that the builders were maintaining distancing as best they can. I watched some concrete blocks and bricks being delivered this morning. The four guys doing the building stood in a little huddle watching for the 15min duration of the drop-off...hmmm. I guess they could all be living in the same house...

We've got some work getting done on the outside of our house from Monday - will take 3-4 weeks. Builder has said that the team will be able to maintain distancing...we'll keep separate from them in any case - though I must ask that they bring their own portaloo...

I hope it goes smoothly
Just for the sake of asking. Would you be prepared to tell your builders to down tools and go home if you spot them breaking social distancing after you'd reminded them a couple of times?

I'm not looking to judge, just curiosity

 

[Wolf]

Lockdown motivation of absolutely zero this week with regards to working from home. I'm used to working with lots of people face to face every day, I have no issue with isolation or being ay home but working with no input from others or physical activity to work is literally sapping my motivation to work at all.

 

[GB72]

Lockdown motivation of absolutely zero this week with regards to working from home. I'm used to working with lots of people face to face every day, I have no issue with isolation or being ay home but working with no input from others or physical activity to work is literally sapping my motivation to work at all.

I am very much similar. I am all about the routine. Suit on, sat in my office outs my mind in work mode. Having trouble switching to that at home, too easily distracted............ooooh xbox

 

[Slab]

Lockdown motivation of absolutely zero this week with regards to working from home. I'm used to working with lots of people face to face every day, I have no issue with isolation or being ay home but working with no input from others or physical activity to work is literally sapping my motivation to work at all.

Cant believe you just said that... DROP AND GIVE ME 20!


(seriously, no more replies until you do it )

 

[SocketRocket]

After listening to some pretty harsh comments & arguing over reopening or completely shutting down for another two weeks, someone in their right mind wrote this.

Don’t know who wrote it, but it’s spot on.

Perspective:

WE ARE NOT IN THE SAME BOAT ...
I heard that we are all in the same boat, but it's not like that. We are in the same storm, but not in the same boat. Your ship could be shipwrecked and mine might not be. Or vice versa.

For some, quarantine is optimal. A moment of reflection, of re-connection, easy in flip flops, with a cocktail or coffee. For others, this is a desperate financial & family crisis.

For some that live alone they're facing endless loneliness. While for others it is peace, rest & time with their mother, father, sons & daughters.

With the weekly increase in unemployment some are bringing in more money to their households than they were working. Others are working more hours for less money due to pay cuts or loss in sales.

For some not getting on with Family domestic abuse is rife...we never know whwt goes on behind closed doors.

Some were concerned about getting a certain candy for Easter while others were concerned if there would be enough bread, milk and eggs for the weekend.

Some want to go back to work because they don't qualify for unemployment and are running out of money. Others want to kill those who break the quarantine.

Some are home spending 2-3 hours/day helping their child with online schooling while others are spending 2-3 hours/day to educate their children on top of a 10-12 hour workday.

Some have experienced the near death of the virus, some have already lost someone from it and some are not sure if their loved ones are going to make it. Others don't believe this is a big deal.

Some have faith in God and expect miracles during this 2020. Others say the worst is yet to come.

So, friends, we are not in the same boat. We are going through a time when our perceptions and needs are completely different.

Each of us will emerge, in our own way, from this storm. It is very important to see beyond what is seen at first glance. Not just looking, actually seeing.

We are all on different ships during this storm experiencing a very different journey.

Realise that and be kind.

 

[Wolf]

I am very much similar. I am all about the routine. Suit on, sat in my office outs my mind in work mode. Having trouble switching to that at home, too easily distracted............ooooh xbox

Exactly this for me its about routine, usual routine for my old job was up get to gym for 630am train, coffee and then work. In my new role would be a fairly similar routine but working at MOD site. However being told my workload is just enough to get me through a week (realistically I'm dragging out 2 days work over 5days) and fact as long as I do the hours it doesn't matter what time I start or finish I literally have no drive to get up and crack on) plus the distractions like you say.... Ooh look xbox, netflix or literally everything that isn't work ??‍

Cant believe you just said that... DROP AND GIVE ME 20!


(seriously, no more replies until you do it )

Ironically Slab that's one area I'm not lacking motivation if anything with boredom I'm training more and is as much a distraction as everything else. I do a circuit in mornings in the garage , and a run or cycle post work. I've even contemplated doing something every hour on the hour to say 40 press Ups, sit ups, pull ups and alternating which hour I do them to stop work boredom.

I have motivation for everything except work, because working from home to me anyway just isn't work and what I do...

 

[Deleted member 21784]

Anyone else as cynical as me to think that this is the end of Saturday deliveries, full stop ?

That's what their union has suggested is going on

I believe it's to protect jobs .. but if their going to continue doing parcels I don't see why we need post on a Saturday anyways..

Would we miss Saturday post? Maybe 15 years ago but with more than more being done via email..

 

[SocketRocket]

Lockdown motivation of absolutely zero this week with regards to working from home. I'm used to working with lots of people face to face every day, I have no issue with isolation or being ay home but working with no input from others or physical activity to work is literally sapping my motivation to work at all.

Theres a theory called 'Parkinsons Law' that applies to this, it suggests that work expands to fill the time available for its completion. I think it explains why retired people say they have never been so busy.

 

[Wolf]

Theres a theory called 'Parkinsons Law' that applies to this, it suggests that work expands to fill the time available for its completion. I think it explains why retired people say they have never been so busy.

That's exactly the reason I don't have the motivation to do it then. If I worked a normal length day for the amount of work I can physically do from home for my role, I'd be done in under 2 days, with 3 more to fill. So to make that stretch across a full 7.5hr working day 5 days a week, seems utterly pointless and not worth it. Yet I have to be online on work systems for that time to be paid so as a result its at least its more like 3 hrs a day working, 4.5hrs sat here bored and wasted time.

 

[IanM]

Yep, the "perspective" words above are spot on.

My mum took ill with an infection (UTI) last night, paramedics said not to take her in to hospital, but get "care-package" in for some overnight supervision. The local Care Services folk havent rung back in 6 hours, but hope to have got some private folk out to assess situation today. My sister has been sat there since 5am without a break, I am over 2 hours away and although trying to organise care on the phone, am being not much help at all. But my stress levels are on high, goodness knows where my sister's are.

 

[funkycoldmedina]

Dad's in a care home so we have been on tenterhooks for a few weeks since they announced they have Covid-19 in the home. They've been undertaking barrier nursing for those with symptoms and got 5 residents tested which 3 came back as positive early April. Since then they haven't been able to access any testing and my dad started with a temperature 4 days ago. Their initial thought was UTI but the temp hasn't come down with antibiotics and now he's started with a cough. Worrying times to say the least.

 

[i*windows]

after reading some of the posts, I think I have it pretty easy, been working from home for 9 week, kids remote schooling, wife making masks and remote teaching. staying out of peoples way and out of harms way

 

[Robster59]

The wife of a friend of ours and works at a local care home got diagnosed with Covid-19, and it's in the home. She is in total isolation for at least 7 days and he can't go anywhere for at least 14 days. Worrying for them and all the old people in the home. It's the same home we use when we send our Father-in-Law in for respite so thankfully he wasn't in at the time.
Both my partner and my father-in-law are high risk so we aren't going anywhere but at least I am still working (very busy), on full pay and can ensure they're both kept safe.
My 96 year old Mum is housebound 200 miles away, my brother keeps an eye on her and she has carers coming around every day. They all take precautions but the risk is still there.
And yet I see people happily going around ignoring the guidelines and don't understand the situation we are in. Or they think that they're invulnerable and never consider that they could be a carrier.
Yes, I would love to play golf but we have to look at the reality of things.

 

[Swinglowandslow]

After listening to some pretty harsh comments & arguing over reopening or completely shutting down for another two weeks, someone in their right mind wrote this.

Don’t know who wrote it, but it’s spot on.

Perspective:

WE ARE NOT IN THE SAME BOAT ...
I heard that we are all in the same boat, but it's not like that. We are in the same storm, but not in the same boat. Your ship could be shipwrecked and mine might not be. Or vice versa.

For some, quarantine is optimal. A moment of reflection, of re-connection, easy in flip flops, with a cocktail or coffee. For others, this is a desperate financial & family crisis.

For some that live alone they're facing endless loneliness. While for others it is peace, rest & time with their mother, father, sons & daughters.

With the weekly increase in unemployment some are bringing in more money to their households than they were working. Others are working more hours for less money due to pay cuts or loss in sales.

For some not getting on with Family domestic abuse is rife...we never know whwt goes on behind closed doors.

Some were concerned about getting a certain candy for Easter while others were concerned if there would be enough bread, milk and eggs for the weekend.

Some want to go back to work because they don't qualify for unemployment and are running out of money. Others want to kill those who break the quarantine.

Some are home spending 2-3 hours/day helping their child with online schooling while others are spending 2-3 hours/day to educate their children on top of a 10-12 hour workday.

Some have experienced the near death of the virus, some have already lost someone from it and some are not sure if their loved ones are going to make it. Others don't believe this is a big deal.

Some have faith in God and expect miracles during this 2020. Others say the worst is yet to come.

So, friends, we are not in the same boat. We are going through a time when our perceptions and needs are completely different.

Each of us will emerge, in our own way, from this storm. It is very important to see beyond what is seen at first glance. Not just looking, actually seeing.

We are all on different ships during this storm experiencing a very different journey.

Realise that and be kind.

This is one of the best takes on this whole virus lockdown I have seen.
Whoever wrote this - well said.

 

[GB72]

I read these posts about how this is affecting people and I feel massively guilty in the way my mind is at the moment. I am still working (part home, part office), I live in a village with access to walks and the countryside and, most significantly at the moment, is that cases of covid are pretty much unheard of where I am, where my family are and where I work as all are based in small, rural villages or market towns. I am struggling with the lockdown at the moment simply because, thank God, covid has not come close to my home, my work or to anyone I know and that makes it difficult. I am an educated bloke, I appreciate the bigger picture, I look in horror at the deaths and the hardship, but the frustrations of following rules based on something that has no close impact is playing with my head at the moment. I feel incredibly selfish and self centered for feeling this way and that, in itself, gets me down. Don't get me wrong, I follow the rules to the letter, I even mask up in the supermarket but it is really getting to me now but it shouldn't, I should be glad for the minimum impact on me, my family and my close friends.

This post is a bit ranty, very self indulgent and probably worthy of the wrath of those who have been struck by this even in a minor way but the thread is about how corona virus is affecting us and this is where i am at the moment.

 

[Imurg]

I read these posts about how this is affecting people and I feel massively guilty in the way my mind is at the moment. I am still working (part home, part office), I live in a village with access to walks and the countryside and, most significantly at the moment, is that cases of covid are pretty much unheard of where I am, where my family are and where I work as all are based in small, rural villages or market towns. I am struggling with the lockdown at the moment simply because, thank God, covid has not come close to my home, my work or to anyone I know and that makes it difficult. I am an educated bloke, I appreciate the bigger picture, I look in horror at the deaths and the hardship, but the frustrations of following rules based on something that has no close impact is playing with my head at the moment. I feel incredibly selfish and self centered for feeling this way and that, in itself, gets me down. Don't get me wrong, I follow the rules to the letter, I even mask up in the supermarket but it is really getting to me now but it shouldn't, I should be glad for the minimum impact on me, my family and my close friends.

This post is a bit ranty, very self indulgent and probably worthy of the wrath of those who have been struck by this even in a minor way but the thread is about how corona virus is affecting us and this is where i am at the moment.

I think a lot of people feel exactly the same.
Bad as they are, it's easy to start treating the numbers as, simply, numbers.
If you haven't been touched by loss then it is hard to comprehend it all.
I'm pretty much feeling the same way.
And it gets harder every day and harder still as we hope some respite from lockdown is on the horizon.
Good post Greg

 

[Wolf]

I read these posts about how this is affecting people and I feel massively guilty in the way my mind is at the moment. I am still working (part home, part office), I live in a village with access to walks and the countryside and, most significantly at the moment, is that cases of covid are pretty much unheard of where I am, where my family are and where I work as all are based in small, rural villages or market towns. I am struggling with the lockdown at the moment simply because, thank God, covid has not come close to my home, my work or to anyone I know and that makes it difficult. I am an educated bloke, I appreciate the bigger picture, I look in horror at the deaths and the hardship, but the frustrations of following rules based on something that has no close impact is playing with my head at the moment. I feel incredibly selfish and self centered for feeling this way and that, in itself, gets me down. Don't get me wrong, I follow the rules to the letter, I even mask up in the supermarket but it is really getting to me now but it shouldn't, I should be glad for the minimum impact on me, my family and my close friends.

This post is a bit ranty, very self indulgent and probably worthy of the wrath of those who have been struck by this even in a minor way but the thread is about how corona virus is affecting us and this is where i am at the moment.

I think you've nailed a lot of what many of us are feeling. Like you am lucky to live rural so I have no immediate dangers and can go off on a run for miles if i go out the back way and come across nothing but fields. But I have zero work motivation, haven't seen my kids in person since lockdown began because their mum is high risk and they have a new baby brother so it's not fair to ferry them back and forth just incase of infection. Yes I see them on video most days but it's just not the same. This week its really started to get to me and I just want to go to work properly and get out and aee my kids, visit my mum & dad.

But I've not been hit by tragedy so I also feel selfish for feeling that way.

 

[SocketRocket]

I think a lot of people feel exactly the same.
Bad as they are, it's easy to start treating the numbers as, simply, numbers.
If you haven't been touched by loss then it is hard to comprehend it all.
I'm pretty much feeling the same way.
And it gets harder every day and harder still as we hope some respite from lockdown is on the horizon.
Good post Greg

When considering the number of UK deaths it crossed my mind that I live in a medium sized town and the number of deaths are around the same as our local population. Puts it in context.

 

[Fish]

Anybody risked B&Q yet? I could do with getting some peashingle but not sure I want the hassle/risk...

Lots of key worker drivers are black balling them, plus a few other large similar companies who refuse to let us use their toilet facilities when we deliver into them!

Some of us have been on the road for hours, getting goods to them so they can still trade, then they treat us like this, these companies need naming & shaming nationally whilst the public is supporting key workers, let’s expose those companies & service stations that have shut their facilities to commercial drivers, or are the public shallow and will still go, because they’re cheap!!

 

[Slime]

Lots of key worker drivers are black balling them, plus a few other large similar companies who refuse to let us use their toilet facilities when we deliver into them!

Some of us have been on the road for hours, getting goods to them so they can still trade, then they treat us like this, these companies need naming & shaming nationally whilst the public is supporting key workers, let’s expose those companies & service stations that have shut their facilities to commercial drivers, or are the public shallow and will still go, because they’re cheap!!

I totally agree, that's utterly unacceptable. I'm assuming all public toilets are currently closed.
Which companies can you name and shame?
How about this .......................... if you have a delivery, ask to use their facilities before unloading.
If they say no, just drive to your next delivery without unloading. Would that work?