COVID-19 Coronavirus

Well it all suddenly got a bit close to home... piggy daddy has been asked to provide home care for an elderly couple, the wife has been in hospital with covid-19 for a couple of days as a precaution as she is elderly and has other health conditions and is coming home tomorrow, the husband has obviously been exposed in the past week so may be infectious but so far has no symptoms...
And can you believe his work office asked if he'd do the care call just wearing a paper mask while they sourced some proper PPE?!?! Erm... no he bloody won't!
So the office lady is driving to Manchester to get a proper visor and smock and change of uniform for him... all the other care staff refused to do the care calls for this couple at all...
I dont know how the NHS angels do this everyday, getting up close and personal with people they know are infected, then knowing they are responsible for not passing it on to the next person or bringing it home with them...
Please send supportive vibes for piggy daddy! He is not remotely qualified for this in his minimum wage/3 days training job for bathing old people and cooking their tea and helping them in and out of bed...!
 
Sending piggy daddy loads of supportive vibes, what a big ask, I don't think I'd have agreed to take them on.
Care workers like piggy daddy are amazing people, my Mum has them several times a day and she can/is extremely difficult to cope with at times. I know I wouldn't have the patience to deal with her on a daily basis.
 
Merab's Slave said:
Holding Piggy Daddy in my heart.
He does it because has a big heart and is one of the most caring people I know
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:agr: I hope his shift with the elderly couple went smoothly. Sending truckloads of supportive vibes for that and all his other work with vulnerable/high risk folk. x
 
My grandad is in a temporary old folks home not far from where I live, being sort of accessed until the nurses think he's well enough to go home. This was just before lockdown happened. He has a failing heart, has had for a while now. And problems with gout in his legs, so keeps having falls, and he possibly has the start of dimentia, we don't know for sure yet. My mum phoned tonight (his daughter) because they've had to get the ambulance out to him, he's shivering, has low oxygen levels and a low temperature. Isn't looking good. I just got to hope for the best. I doubt its coronavirus with the low temp, I hope not
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
My grandad is in a temporary old folks home not far from where I live, being sort of accessed until the nurses think he's well enough to go home. This was just before lockdown happened. He has a failing heart, has had for a while now. And problems with gout in his legs, so keeps having falls, and he possibly has the start of dimentia, we don't know for sure yet. My mum phoned tonight (his daughter) because they've had to get the ambulance out to him, he's shivering, has low oxygen levels and a low temperature. Isn't looking good. I just got to hope for the best. I doubt its coronavirus with the low temp, I hope not
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Really hope he will be ok
 
Thank you everyone for your support for piggy daddy, he just set off to pick up his enhanced PPE and meet his new Covid-19 care clients! He'll be going to help them every morning and evening, after he does his other care calls- nobody has told him yet what care they need, could be anything from making cups of tea and doing shopping, to lifting them into the bath with a hoist, to changing incontinence pads and emptying catheter bags!
 
All still things that call for close proximity ☹️ All the best to him and tell him what a grand job he’s doing. Let’s hope it’s recognised by his employer!
 
Siikibam said:
All still things that call for close proximity ☹ All the best to him and tell him what a grand job he’s doing. Let’s hope it’s recognised by his employer!
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Well piggy daddy went there and its mainly to care for the elderly man as his wife who has Covid-19 is his main carer usually, he needs help going down stairs and his breakfast making and some sandwiches leaving for lunch and his downstairs commode toilet fitting up in the morning, then reverse the procedure in the evening- nothing too intense, but the poor old chap is very lost and sad with his wife being ill :( but he seemed happy to have some extra company, piggy daddy met the son too who was very grateful to know that someone with proper PPE will be able to look after his parents :)
 
PigglePuggle said:
Well piggy daddy went there and its mainly to care for the elderly man as his wife who has Covid-19 is his main carer usually, he needs help going down stairs and his breakfast making and some sandwiches leaving for lunch and his downstairs commode toilet fitting up in the morning, then reverse the procedure in the evening- nothing too intense, but the poor old chap is very lost and sad with his wife being ill :( but he seemed happy to have some extra company, piggy daddy met the son too who was very grateful to know that someone with proper PPE will be able to look after his parents :)
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Never underestimate the difference something like that can make. Piggy Daddy can say "well it's my job" but I guarantee the husband doesn't see it that way at all. I hope it all goes well.
 
That’s still pretty high. Was it in the high 700s last week?
 
I'm not sure how they count them. Could it be updated numbers from weekend too? I understand that whatever number is for each day, not everyone actually died that day because of how they report them?

I don't know if I'm making sense when I write that.
 
Sar said:
I'm not sure how they count them. Could it be updated numbers from weekend too? I understand that whatever number is for each day, not everyone actually died that day because of how they report them?

I don't know if I'm making sense when I write that.
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I read that th numbers come out lower over the weekend because some sort of delay, I was hoping it was because they were actually lower. Probably still could be. But doubt it. You might be right and that they've added today's to the weekends.

What I really want to know is the amount of infections. Not deaths though. Trying to find it
 
Yes I get you @Sar
@Lorcan I'm not sure if they’ve started including the care home deaths. But I think there may also be deaths at home. Are the figures not just for hospital deaths?
 
@Siikibam thanks, it made sense in my head.

I wish they would now collate all the deaths from each individual day. It may take time but that information would surely show a truer picture of deaths. I feel like that would help people too as I've seen so many people encouraged by the last couple of days of lower numbers & then today they've gone back up. Some people just won't understand it is down to reporting/ weekends/ bank holidays etc.
 
In my mind, when the deaths per day are less than 300 then I may start to have hope that it’s plateauing/decreasing. Until then even 500 is a lot.
 
I think there will be more waves of this to come. Just hoping it doesn't come back with a vengeance, like the spanish flu did on its 2nd time round. I'm not comparing I'm just hoping. 2020 is different to 1918 of course
 
As I understand it the virus is sort of progressing around the country.
Up here in the Merseyside region / Northwest we’re expecting the peak in infection over the next 2 weeks so an increase in deaths in another 2 - 3 weeks.

I hope that with all the numbers and statistics being thrown at us we never forget that each one represents a human life and every life is sacred and special
 
Watching daily briefing... is becoming a habit!
"Glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel but not there yet"
Let's hope so.... however small, I will take it!
 
Sar said:
Watching daily briefing... is becoming a habit!
"Glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel but not there yet"
Let's hope so.... however small, I will take it!
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I've stopped watching the briefings now. They just never directly answer anything. I wait for YouTube and then skip to the bits i want, when they answer them
 
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