This pandemic is really starting to bother me

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It’s a risk that’s often necessary to take. Let’s be grateful that there are health care providers out there willing to take it. In your personal case, seeking counseling would be a great option for dealing with your family.

Also, you don’t have to be physically present with the sick in order to help them. In my area, there’s a collection effort for supplies desperately needed for senior citizens, namely stuff like toilet paper and disinfectants that are disappearing from supermarket shelves. Poke around online and see if there are any similar efforts where you live.
 
I don’t think Angel is really upset by the pandemic but by the reinforcement it seems to be giving her family, which results in her being blamed for everyone’s illnesses.
 
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This is strange because I am a born worrier and worry about so many things but this virus isn’t bothering me in the slightest. Maybe I have had overload?
 
it’s not the virus itself that bothers me, more like how to balance our duty to care for others and also to not risk spreading disease, it’s not always easy, though like another poswter said, I guess a certain amount of risk is always involved and necessary, we can’t possibly eliminate viruses entirely
 
I wonder whether we will miss going to mass or get used to not going?

Have you seen anyone panic buying bizarre items?
 
I always feel spiritualy weaker when I haven’t been to mass or received communion

yes, there is a lot of panic buying
 
Makes me wonder if I went into a shop and bought hundreds of deodorants would people see me and start panic buying the stuff? (Not that I could be bothered or afford to do it).
 
Stupid question? If you have coronavirus and you are in a room with someone with coronavirus are you both “safe” or can one make the other worse?
 
I’m trying to think this through and the answer in my only semi educated opinion is…
No. Once symptoms appear that is the sign that your immune response has kicked in and trying to rid your body of the replicating virus…which is probably at that point much higher than the amount your getting re exposed to.

However! If patient one’s virus mutates then patient two is vulnerable to the mutated virus plus the first one he already has.
Also, if either patient is immune compromised in any way, he has a harder time fighting off any virus…his own and the added amount from his cohort.

It’s often common to house patients together by disease when beds are in short supply due to most patients not really being able to infect each other since they already are infected.
 
Sometimes my glasses slide off my face, I’m kind of having to pull them up with a pen. And I still wash my hands afterwards.
 
Also, No one talks about the mentally retarded population with special needs, in which most have major underlying health problems. They are worse than the elderly and children. At least the elderly and children have enough common sense to cover their mouth when they cough or sneeze. People with intellectual disabilities living in large group homes do not. They are constantly sick and will cough right in your face. Never want to shower, be hygienic and most can’t wipe their butt themselves. I work in this field and it’s bad. When one of these people get sick you better believe they all do, including staff. I understand all the talk about the elderly population but it’s not just the elderly!!!
 
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I know exactly what you mean
I’m a caretaker to someone with a slight to medium intellectual disability. This person doesn’t follow basic hygiene like washing hands at all even before eating unless I run the water, get out the soap and plead for it to be done. It’s exhausting after a while.
 
it’s hard for sure, sometimes there is only so much that can be done
 
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my family generally have phobia of germs, the way everyone is acting now about the coronavirus, yeah, that’s my normal life on a regular basis, except for me now, it’s even worse, my family always oversanitizes, avoids contact with most people, don’t really like me having friends, not to wear any outside clothes at home
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That’s how we all should be during this time. .

Thus far the deaths in e.g. the USA don’t even come close to matching deaths due to Flu & Pneumonia

Less than 100 for CV-19 . and circa 25,000 for Flu & Pneumonia … for 2020
 
Be thankful that we live in the age of telecommunications. You can visit the sick by means of telephone or video conference without risking spreading diseases.
 
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