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My life will be unchanged. I can't isolate myself because I live on my own and therefore have no alternative but to get out and about simply to get through normal daily life and to visit my mother twice a week to see if she's ok. I have to use public transport to get around, so good luck trying to isolate myself, eh! As long as the gym remains open I'll be using that three times a week, too.

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I'm glad there's still some kind hearted people left in the world, but if govt tells all elderly and vulnerable to self isolate you wouldn't be able to go next door to help without risking passing something on?

I wonder how people who usually have a carer come in to help will cope if their carers can't get there to help them get out of bed or get something to eat?

I'm thankful I can still at least manage to drag myself out of bed even if its just to get in the wheelchair to get to the loo and back to bed when I need to go!

I've crawled along the floor before now to get to the back door to let the dog out, then crawled back to bed. (Thankfully I live in a bungalow with a patio door in the bedroom straight into the garden!) I know many others aren't fortunate enough to live in a specially designed property. I don't think I'd manage to be so independant if I wasn't

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My daughter was talking about this today. She said if it comes to the point when we will have to stay indoors due to our age risk with this virus, she will do all our shopping for us. She says if we run out of food, she has plenty at her house if there is anything we desperately need. It's very reassuring for her to say that but I hate putting on other people having to do things for me. I know she has our interests at heart and I wouldn't hurt her feelings so I would succumb to her wishes.

What would we do indoors? Apart from the general house chores, we have several jigsaws, scrabble game, DVD's, Indoor Quoits, so I'm sure we could fill our time.

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Care workers, doctors and nurses, etc., are just as vulnerable as everyone else, of course. If all the "sky is falling" predictions come true, the care and health sectors will collapse under the strain. Heaven help isolated and vulnerable people if that happens. IF.

I think the media is just scaring people to sell newspapers and fill never-ending news programmes with speculation and badly-understood "facts" every time they find an "expert" nobody has ever heard of. There have been various pandemics over the years such as 1918 - 20 "Spanish Flu", 1957-58 "Asian flu", 1968-69 "Hong Kong flu", 1977–1978 "Russian Flu", 1997 "Bird flu", 2009 "Swine flu" and now this new one. Only Spanish Flu killed millions because modern medicines and health care were obviously unknown and because of population movements and troop movements during WWI and the resulting food shortages, poor living conditions and terrible sanitation.

I'm not saying we should take COVID-19 lightly, but lets get a grip on reality here and stop gibbering in panic at every pronouncement in the media. From what I've seen a lot of the people who have died have very often been reported as having "underlying conditions" as well. If ever there was a need for "Keep calm and carry on posters" it's right about now.

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I'd spend more time on my computer. Read more. Watch more TV. I'd natter on the telephone..

For exercise I've got a room full of exercise equipment that I call my gym - so I'd use it more. Oh and get out in the garden - lots to do out there...

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I can always find plenty to do when I feel well. I have a garden fence to paint, curtains to wash, spring cleaning and lots of cooking . And there is always reading and websites.

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Mups I’d welcome your help .
I don’t have helpful neighbours unfortunately .
If it was the other way round I’d be knocking on their doors to ask if they needed anything .

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That's such a shame Zuleika, everyone should pull together at times like this and give help those who need it.

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Swine flu was a pandemic, and world wide around 700 million–1.4 billion people contracted the illness , so why is this so much worse ? I really don't remember hiding away in 2009, or even thinking about it much.
We went about our business , into work, shopping, no masks, no hand gels, just basic cleanliness .
I am beginning to feel a bit paranoid now, but is that due to the magnitude of the coverage, and another example of how we can be brainwashed so easily and forced to change our pattern of behaviour if the same thing is repeated over and over ?

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Yes, and there is always youtube. Just fill in the search bar and you can find thousands of videos on any subject imaginable.