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Thanks @Tannith . I wasn’t taking it personally, and understand anyone being anxious. It must be a dreadful choice for you to feel you have to remain indoors. I do find trying to read too many research papers would only add to my anxiety. The scientists are still learning about this new virus, and so any conclusions they reach can only be based on current, limited knowledge. As I doubt there will be a vaccine or treatment any time soon, the choice to remain indoors for as long as that takes seemed to me to be no choice at all. I am fortunate in that I actually enjoy the companionship of my significant other who, although has no underlying health conditions, has decided to protect me by being as isolated as I have been this last few months. Apart from him taking a single, lonely exercise session once a day. We are still not going to shops, or anywhere else where we would mixwith other people. We are not seeing anyone in our garden, either, and that means we cannot see our beloved grown up offspring. That is hard. Yet the small freedom of being able to walk outside for an hour or so each day has already given back some strength, physically and emotionally to carry on. Not being able to exercise and have a change of scenery was, to me, sapping my will to live. I could sense I was going to wither away, unseen in my home. That can’t be ok.Sorry Pipp, I didn't mean that as a criticism of you personally at all. For "go out as you did before"read "go out as one did before". I meant it as a general caveat. Today I have found this Lancet article on line, published yesterday. I find it quite frightening.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/...ampaign=tlcoronavirus20&utm_content=130807822"that even a combination of moderate interventions—such as school closures, shielding of older people, and self-isolation of symptomatic individuals—would be unlikely to prevent an epidemic that would far exceed available intensive care unit capacity in the UK. Intermittent periods of more intensive lockdown-type measures are predicted to be effective for preventing the health-care system from being overwhelmed"
I do hope you can find some peace of mind, and be content in your choice, rather than fearing the unknown.
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