Isn’t it dreadful hearing about the Coronavirus, it’s certainly putting the wind up of a lot of people. We watch the news on BBC, and as usual they’re making a meal of it, like they do every subject. It’s called going on and on!
No matter what they get their grip on, they go on and on for ages, like a dog with a bone. Brexit nearly drove us all mad, as they went on and on and on, and then some. I wonder why, no matter what the subject, it seems to completely take them over? I’m not trivialising the new outbreak don’t get me wrong, because I’m not. I’m just hoping that it doesn’t get a hold on our country, or any others for that matter.
Coronavirus around the world
The powers that be have said that the number of outbreaks has lessened in China (the source of it) and increased in other countries all over the world. Which isn’t doing much to cheer us all up!
I personally think that Italy are using their common sense in their efforts to stop coronavirus in its tracks. Closing roads off, forbidding this, that and the other in their attempts to stop the virus from getting a firm hold on their country. Well done them, because it seems to spread so quickly, don’t you think.
Schools have been closed here in Britain while they ‘fumigate’ them because of children who have been to Italy. I smiled to myself because I bet they wouldn’t hurt for a deep clean!
Panic when you need to
I just hope they don’t go overboard with the scare tactics. Like you, I’ve been watching its progress on TV. It doesn’t seem bad an illness if you are young or in good health – until you get to vulnerable or old-age people. Of course that’s me and hubby, and as I said to him. But there’s no point in panicking until there is something to panic for! I’m not sure he was altogether with me on that one, I’ll have to wait and see. But with all my complaints, the virus would say ‘there she is, go and get her’. Which is the story of my life!
It seems that when I was born, my mum must have had a witch doctor help to deliver me. He told my mum that I would have a poor immune system and would catch everything going and was he right! It’s like I’m the inner on dart board and keep getting the bullseye. No matter what bugs have been around throughout my life, I get them. And usually three times worse than anybody else.
In fact when we are out and see or meet people who have a cough, cold or whatever, Jane always steers me away from them. She says ‘move away mum or you’ll be in for it ’as they all know full well what happens if I catch things. Of course, that goes hand in hand with all the immune conditions that I have, but you just have to get on with it or go under, and that I am not doing. I would imagine if the virus gets near us, they’ll wrap me in cotton wool and pack me up in a box somewhere and put me into cold storage until it’s passed!
The one thing I hope we don’t see is panic buying. Some people do it at the mention of something that spreads quickly and race to every supermarket and empty the shelves ‘just in case’. Like they do when the shops are shut for all of one day at Christmas.
I believe it’s already happening in China, which I suppose is understandable, due to the amount of deaths they have had there. The last thing we want is to find empty shelves everywhere we go. The trouble is, that when some start panic buying, it’s like a big snowball going down a hill that gets bigger and bigger until it can’t move. Before you know it, the rest of us are pushed into doing the same or facing empty cupboards.
Coughs and sneezes spread diseases
I also learnt from the boss of Public Health England, that face masks aren’t as effective as people think they are as a preventative. It seems that when you’ve worn them for a certain length of time they’re no good to man or beast. By then they aren’t doing any good when it comes to preventing that horrible little thing from attacking you. I suppose that when it gets wet and soggy, the virus can get in. I’ll not be joining any ‘mask’ queues any time soon.
I’ll get a hanky out and look like a bandit instead. Or I could do what they always did when I was a child when you had a tooth out. My mum would take a hanky and a scarf with her to the dentists, which we had to put over our face and mouth to stop the cold air getting in on the way home and giving us more pain. You could always tell when someone had their tooth out because of the mummified wrapping round their mouth. Ooh those were the days weren’t they.
Stop the spread of Coronavirus and other bugs
You’ve probably seen on the television, that the best way to stop the spread of this and other bugs is to be, in a nutshell, clean.
Keep washing your hands, properly, throughout the day. Use tissues to blow your nose and then throw them away. Sneeze into the crook of your arm not your hand where you’ll pass the germs on.
At the end of the day, what will be will be. There’s no point worrying about something that hasn’t happened yet. What do you think?
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