They keep comparing this to the war!

[Smokie2D]

In a way I can see why.

But it is worse in the fact that in the war you could still socialize, go to the boozer, cuddle a pretty stranger if you were lucky. You are in a home, now a prison, where you are to keep everyone at a distance. True your home may not be destroyed!

I have a relative 25 miles away that's been told to self isolate for two weeks. They live alone, no support locally. So I will door drop shopping etc. I will keep the distance etc though that will be hard.

I am not alone in facing this, its okay to say stay in your home, but who is supporting those on their own?

Be sensible, practical and take care everyone!

[Kingsley09]

In the war my mother had to see my father go off to the r.a.f never knowing if she would ever see him again my cousins home was flattened to the ground luckily she wasn’t in it but other people were killed by falling bricks and mortar children were sent off to live with people they didn’t know and some were treated badly so I agree this is terrible what we are going through but staying in of which at my age and with my health problems I am one cannot be as bad as that especially as we all have phones i pads that we can contact family and friends

[Smokie2D in reply to Kingsley09]

Its the lack of personal touch that does the damage. You are right there are far more ways to stay in touch by email, Skype etc.

I think from what I can gather its a bit like waiting for a V2 attack.