Do we have a thread on the effects of corona virus on gardening?

[Logunner]

I am often horrified by the casual disregard so many people have for our elderly. They are talked down to, they are dismissed, they are overlooked, they have no voice.

These aren't just mindless burdens on society waiting for their deaths. These are people who have lived rich and remarkable lives. Who have raised families and fought wars. Who have gone before us and given us so much. Who are an army of grandparents helping to raise the next generation. Who are contributing actively to the economy through spending and by allowing workers access to free childcare. Who bring wisdom and reflection. Who are spoken repositories for our history.

These are people about to be swept up in a tragedy.

I'm not sure if your comments say a lot about the kind of person that you are, or if you are actually (as someone high risk) just really, truly terrified and trying to bluster your way through. If it's the latter, you don't need to bluster here. If it's the former, well... I'm sorry for whatever made you that way.

I’m a parent and grandparent, also a child of an elderly parent, nephew to many elderly relatives, but first and foremost a REALIST.

No bluster here just the sure realisation that such episodes have occurred on many occasions, and will in the future, I refuse to live in fear of the certainty of death.

I’m the kind of person that puts his relatives before himself ( including those younger than me ), I’m the one that was shopping for them this morning, I’ll be the one calling round dropping of supplies for as long as I’m healthy enough to do so. I won’t be hiding nor will I be asking why me...

Would you rather the population be ‘levelled’ by conflict? As has been the case in the not too distant past.

[Starch]

I have a 98 year old mother and a 90 year old father in law so they rely on us to get their shopping, so no option to self isolate. Aldi and the co-op were both well stocked this week and we have not had any reported cases nearby so keeping everything crossed. We do have a big birthday party and a wedding in the near future so not sure how things will proceed with them.

[Vegi potager]

Well today was my last trip out for a while...( MPC and manure for the garden! Priorities people, forget the loo roll ) and I am expecting some deliveries of a few plants that I have decided not to try from seed.

I will still be going to work, but as I am NHS I am going to get C19 at some point so I am trying not to spread it any further. Hence social isolation.

I won't be seeing my parents for a bit either. They are in lock-down from today having been on the last plane back to the UK from Malaga yesterday. So Dad is in the garden today and not down the bowls club. I also give him my excess seeds and stuff I don't grow. He usually gives them away at said club (he is very popular with the allotment crowd) but I think I will see an extension to his veg bed instead.

I am not planning on letting work get in the way of getting into the garden, it is one of the only things that helps keep me sane in life! I have just spent 2 hours pottering despite being called back into work from midnight until 5 am, this is following a 12 hour shift. Some **** then rang me at 9 with a stupid question that they already had the answer for. Which I why I was then awake to go into the garden!!!

I obviously need some more time in the garden <Sigh.> Excuse me while I go and play in some dirt...

[Snoop Puss]

Going to be plenty of kids around with time on their hands VC, and they seem to be at very low risk from the virus - so taking that together with the fact that chimney sweeps no longer need as many little 'uns as they did in Victorian times, when you were just an egg. I'd say a "yellow sticker children's army" of super shoppers is what's needed :-)

OK, so no yellow stickers in our local shops. But, what you're talking about is precisely what's happening here in our village. Youngsters are doing shopping, collecting meds and generally making sure elderly folk are OK.

Plus, people are going out on their balconies at 10 pm and clapping as a way to say thanks to all the healthcare works, lorry drivers, cleaners and the like helping the rest of us to stay safe and supplied. Nice way to build a sense of community and fellow-feeling too.

[veggiechicken]

There's a FB Neighbourhood watch group in my area and "youngsters" are adopting their streets and dropping leaflets through doors, offering to do shopping, help or to be a friendly voice for a chat.
Haven't had my leaflet yet but I expect there'll be one!

[smallblueplanet]

... I’m the one that was shopping for them this morning, I’ll be the one calling round dropping of supplies for as long as I’m healthy enough to do so. I won’t be hiding nor will I be asking why me...

You might also be the one spreading the virus. People can contract the virus and be infectious to others before their symptoms show. You appear to assume that everyone else here is being cowed by the virus!

[Logunner]

You might also be the one spreading the virus. People can contract the virus and be infectious to others before their symptoms show. You appear to assume that everyone else here is being cowed by the virus!

I assume nothing... We could all be infected.

Despite being in the ‘at risk’ group I still have others to care for, and a life to live.

The plot will survive even if we don’t, I’ll continue to work on the plot until they nail the lid. I’ll do it my way, you do it yours.

[.commander]

Why I don't think the governments strategy will work.

[smallblueplanet]

I assume nothing... We could all be infected.

I’ll do it my way, you do it yours.

I'll assume quite a bit from that.

[Greenleaves]

Lets end it here folks, whatever our views the future is not ours to see.