Worried about my mom, who is elderly with heart issues, and her wanting to continue as if everything is “normal”. Although, she has started to wear a mask and gloves when out and about. Mask fully decorated with cute stickers, at that.
Worried about my sister, whose husband is considered essential and is in/out of people’s houses every day. She doesn’t have medical insurance, thinks she’s “special” and won’t get it, and is overall terribly unhealthy.
Worried about my daughter, working in a grocery bakery every day. She’s 120 miles away and there’s absolutely nothing I could do if she becomes ill. Worried about her boyfriend and his family. His brothers and their families (including children) believe it’s all a hoax and continue having family get-togethers. A few of them work in hospitals. His mother was already financially struggling, now has lost her job. Her long time partner is one of the people the Feds are trying to deport to a county he hasn’t lived in since he was a child, so he’s trying to stay off the radar, unable to even work cash jobs. Plus, they’re Asian in a rural bumpkin town. I worry about violence against them.
Nailed it, that is the worst part, the not really knowing what to worry about most.
I’m 73 next month and have lived a good life. I try not to focus on what-ifs that haven’t happened yet, although my wife frets about things. I encourage her to just live one day at a time and to take care that neither of us land in the ER because of inattention. I’m more concerned that the idiot in the White House will win a second term, as I believe that would spell the end of America.
That I’ll catch it at work-- either at work itself or the Uber rides there and back(I can’t drive)-- and spread it to the other people in my house, who are 64, 65, and 73. Or to my 95 year old friend I do grocery shopping for, even though she’s careful to stand back and not let me in her apartment.
War.
I’m mainly concerned about the economic damage, political fallout, and American decline in the world, and maybe my parents catching it.
A couple of things:
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My parents are in their 70’s and my Dad has some medical issues that put him in a high-risk category, but due to statements of a certain public figure they were taking absolutely no precautions at all until just a few days ago.
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It’s going to suck to be Asian in the U.S. now. My wife is Chinese and her parents live with us. There have already been a few small incidents and I fear for their safety going forward.
Yeah, what is it good for?
- My kid(s) having to be hospitalized and not being able to be there with them.
- Both my husband and I being hospitalized at the same time, leaving my kids (teenagers) at home. What if one of them then became sick?
- I’m worried about my husband’s job if we’re in lockdown more than about 4-5 months.
That sucks mightily, and I’m so sorry for your situation and can sympathize in my own way, because over the last week or so (hey, what better time!) I’ve suddenly developed lower back pain. I don’t think it’s anything major but I’m sure that spending the entire day in a sedentary motionless hunchback-like pose between my office chair and the monitor is helpful! No way I’m going anywhere near a hospital, and I imagine my doctor has probably cancelled all office visits.
For what little it may be worth, if there’s any pain I’ve found that ibuprofen is excellent for that kind of pain management – better than Tylenol with codeine. Its use for me is contraindicated by some of the other medications I’m taking, but you know what? Fuck it.
Tomorrow I’m going and get me a giant bottle of ibuprofen at the drugstore and a giant bottle of rum and some wine at the liquor store (under the new rules liquor stores are closed today) and ride this out.
The thing that scares me the most is if COVID19 turns into a COVID20 that has is as contagious as COVID19 and as lethal as MERS or even SARS.
If you have access to a Costco, you can get TWO **giant *bottles of ibuprofen AND the liquor to boot!
*I keep one in the living room and one in the bedroom for easy access.
I worry about my family, my community, my nation, my planet. Greedily, I worry about MrsRico and I living in our rough mountains at the thin end of a long supply and service chain. How long will we last after local grocers close, plumbers and propane delivery drivers and fire crews are sick, and… ??
Worry is rent we pay on a room we’ll never inhabit. I try not to worry. Right.
So well put.
Several things worry me.
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[li]All the people who will die or even if they don’t die, who may have permanent health issues. We don’t even know what long term consequences there are for survivors. [/li][li]The economic damage this causes, and how far it will set the world back. Things the world maybe would’ve accomplished in 2030 may be put off 5-10 years.[/li][li]How small terrorist organizations and individuals who want to watch the world burn can see how much damage a pandemic can cause.[/li][/ul]
Of them I think 3 scares me the most. Nation states may fear using bioweapons because they know its inevitable that those weapons will eventually reach their own nations. But I could see terror groups engineering very virulent pandemics after this as their preferred method of terrorism. This whole thing makes 9/11 look like a minor blip when you look at how much fear and damage it has caused.
The type of course that Boris Johnson seems to have taken frightens me. From what I gather he was managing well at home for over a week and then he got worse all of a sudden. For some reason that seems particularly unfair. It’s like you think your over the worst and recovering and then bam, it comes roaring back :(.
I have two immediate family members with severely compromised health and a daughter with asthma. Any other concerns I might have pale in comparison.
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Even after thousands of deaths selfish a-holes are still hanging out in parks/beaches/golf courses, going to church, having parties and playdates and find daily excuses to go shopping, and it’s going to mean we’re going to be under stay-home orders for months while more people die and more people lose their jobs/homes/food security…
That it’s whole purpose is to bring in a global dictatorship and it’s working so good. Divide and conquer. I knew it was coming but didn’t expect it so soon 