Coronavirus in the UK

there is "at risk" and "most at risk"

although i am over 70..i'm not pregnant, so thats ok then.

I don't think it was ordered by law.
It was advice from the government and I think people in their 70's are abiding by the recommendation.
Some may go for a little walk.
My dad is in his 80's and he is not going out.

I sent him a hair trimmer today as the barbers are closed even if he did go out.
Some of the better hair trimmers on Amazon/eBay are either unavailable or the price has increased dramatically.

my mrs does my hair !

i stay in all day--only going out in the car to deliver and collect her from work

she gives me a polish. ( not that kind you dirty minded lot )

My 9 y.o. daughter does mine with a Wahl Hair Clipper.
I bought one a few years ago for £30 and managed to find one for my Dad today on eBay for £46.95 after having seen them for £70+

I couldn't justify paying £10 for a haircut every 5 or 6 weeks as my hair was diminishing month by month.
It is all a bit of fun and she hasn't cut me so far She would do it every week if she could and this will probably happen whilst I am home these days.

From Facebook:

A fellow driver.



This is my husband Mick He wants to *share* his story with everyone in the hope it will help.

He is a key worker and drives a truck all day long, all over the country. He is fit and strong and healthy and is never sick.

Last weekend his bones ached and he couldn’t get warm or shake off the chills. He started to cough a little. He started to feel a little better over the weekend and went to work as normal on Monday thinking it was a cold.
After work he complained of aching bones and his back was super sensitive and painful to the touch. He still had a cough , but didn’t think of it as persistent. He had an early night to try and shake it off.
By Tuesday night he still felt ‘rough’. He looked pale and was still coughing but didn’t seem to have a temperature and still thought it was just a bad cold. His chest was tight but he thought that was down to the coughing.

Wednesday morning at 5:45am I found him slumped over the sofa dressed for work. He couldn’t breath and he had a temperature. I gave him paracetamol and started to use my inhaler on him.

The ambulance crew assessed him, hooked him up to oxygen and took him to hospital where he rapidly deteriorated. He was diagnosed with Corona Virus. The X-rays showed the disease had gripped his lungs, his temperature was sky high, he couldn’t respond properly, his white blood count was low, and as predicted he tested positive for covid-19.

He fought for his life for five days and has never been so ill or felt so close to death. He was scared and on his own. The ward and the whole hospital was on lock down, contact and communication with the medical staff and doctors was limited and frightening as they struggled with him day and night.

For five days he was under the critical care team hooked up to oxygen and all sorts of drips and machines to support him because his body was trying to shut down.

On the third day the medical team prepared us for the worst but amazingly on the fourth day he started to show signs of improvement. By the fifth day he was able to breathe independently of the machines and was weaned off the drips. He was released from hospital with medication and remains very poorly, weak and exhausted. He is now at home recovering in isolation.

The nurses and doctors are amazing, they didn’t just look after him and save his life, they genuinely cared about him and with no one by his side treated him as if he was a member of their own family. The hospital staff lined the ward and applauded him out as he left, THEY saved his life and THEY applauded him! They told him how very lucky he is to be alive and we are all eternally grateful to them and our NHS.

Let’s not forget here Mick is also a key worker and put himself at risk for others as so many other carers, key workers and front line staff are doing right now. God bless you all.

I am also likely to have contracted the corona virus but have mild symptoms and am very fortunate. I am not a key worker and had been working from home. My 15 year old son isn’t showing symptoms but again could have it, and is a risk as a carrier. We are self isolating for 14 days.

Mick wants to share this photo of himself and his story. He wants everyone to know that this is real and very serious and to help people realise the impact not just on him but on the hospital, all its staff, and the whole family.

Please be bored, be restless, be resentful of being told what to do but please just do it - Stay home and stay safe. If you have to go out KEEP YOUR DISTANCE be it walking, shopping or even in the same house! Keep cleaning, keep your hands away from your mouth. Don’t take silly chances and don’t think for one minute it can’t reach you or your loved ones.

Please share this story for awareness.

All three of us in our house had very different outcomes and are lucky, we hope yours is a positive outcome too.

Stay safe ❤️ xx

Yes the hair thing could be a big problem. I had mine done the day before the barbers all shutdown. It’s got to last me. I can see 1970’s hairstyles coming back to the fore.

like a wanted poster

Except no moustache.

Hope his story ends well, that's a sad read

First they donate us the virus, now they donate us the protection a friend of mine has a clothing/footwear business, one of the chinese agents he bought shoes and hats from messaged him last week and told him she had sourced masks if he would like any