What I am sad about is with the ALZ, Mother has no idea why we aren’t coming, and it would do no good to tell her since she can’t retain for even a minute
Wow. You should read more and give out less advice. People over 70 are being widely advised to self isolate.
Yeah - someone previously pointed that out, so I guess that would apply to receiving visitors as well as going out.
However, I can imagine a situation in which someone might be housebound, and wishes to accept the risk of having a careful visitor. The housebound person would pose minimal to no risk, and if they wanted to assume the risk of possibly dying, I’d respect that. Yeah - that risk might result in societal costs, health care, etc…
My mom is in an assisted living place. No more visitors, but she has a fantastic window looking out on a pond. We are going over and visit through the glass.
Ethically, it’s not super cool to risk taking up hospital space because you’re feeling lonely when there’s a pandemic on…
I for the first time video chatted with my dad, he really liked that. Other then that for the fire service we have been instructed when there people at risk to limit exposure of us to them, and also in some situations we will need full SCBA (air packs) to have contact with them. We could use the M-95 mask or whatever it’s called if we are trained, fitted and have them, which we have none of that 3 and neither do any fire departments in my area.
The whole big deal bout this disease is that it kills older people at a much higher rate than the flu. It is is actually much less worrisome for young people. So the reason I was clearly annoyed was because you were suggesting the very last thing we should be blase about at this point.