Amazon has tried to deliver my order of seeds, but the postie just dropped a card off. To my surprise in these lock-down days, it said I could pick it up as normal, so yesterday I popped up to my nearest proper town only to find the sorting office was in fact operating with new hours and was not open at all on Wednesdays. I took one look at the huge queue outside of Sainsbury's and decided that was definitely not feasible. I had visions of fainting with the wait, but to my surprise and delight the street market was on and they were selling fresh vegetables. And down the road in Broxbourne, my nearest but much smaller Sainsbury's had no queue. But having already slogged through the heat to get there, I had no more energy to get home, and had to wait for about half an hour before a bus came. Normally they come every 10 to 15 minutes so another sign of change. But given that it was a lovely day, it was quite nice just to sit and wait. Whilst up at the market I had seen a friendly neighbour, so for a moment, life felt almost normal except that normally I am not that keen on the bustle of market stalls. How things change.
But on the work front things seemed much bleaker. The topic was good and bad things at work, and the first student was an Italian doctor, who just declared they were terrible and she was followed by a Brazilian soldier who is training his recruits at a distance in readiness to deal with social unrest because of the virus. In a normal year the pollution kills an excess 30 or 50 thousand of us in the UK Terrible thought but what if less people are dying despite the now almost 10 thousand dead in the UK through the virus because there is so much less traffic about? And what if the closure of so much business and lockdown results in more deaths, than the virus as murder, suicide, depression kicks in. It is not an easy balance. Meanwhile in Wuhan people are out of lock-down, but if the wet markets, continue does this mean more risk or was the source of the virus elsewhere? I know China has actively helped some communities, lets hope that help comes to the people who are massively at risk in camps in places like Syria and Bangladesh. I am on a community ring round What's App group with my relatives in Kenya - every day a new prayer greets the day and I get regular enquiries after my health, which is very kind of them, but over the years the population of Kenya has been much more vulnerable the effects of disease (think of the deaths by malaria for example each year) and if the virus gets a grip there the implications will be much worse than they are here. However, judging by the harrowing and heartbreaking comments of patients or bereaved people and my Italian student things are bad enough here.
To my surprise I have had some advice re how to manage the virus from a well known expert on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I had contacted her to see if there were moves to try and get the Government to trial treating Coronavirus patients with massive doses of Vitamin C and to my delight she replied with some useful advice. She is an advocate for the use of Vitamin C, but also talks about things like iodine and coconut oil. She has sent 6 chapters for me to read, so I need to absorb the information to know more. I have read her book on the Paleo diet, but really really really struggle with it. The more I am told not to eat starch the more I buy! I think I am not alone in being my own worse enemy, so cannot tell if her treatments work as I have not fully tried them. But if what she says is true it could make a huge different the way this virus and other conditions are handled. Would not it be ghastly if people are dying unnecessarily and the treatment could be something fairly simple as a massive amount of Vitamin C!.
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| Smaller than normal but market still open! |
But on the work front things seemed much bleaker. The topic was good and bad things at work, and the first student was an Italian doctor, who just declared they were terrible and she was followed by a Brazilian soldier who is training his recruits at a distance in readiness to deal with social unrest because of the virus. In a normal year the pollution kills an excess 30 or 50 thousand of us in the UK Terrible thought but what if less people are dying despite the now almost 10 thousand dead in the UK through the virus because there is so much less traffic about? And what if the closure of so much business and lockdown results in more deaths, than the virus as murder, suicide, depression kicks in. It is not an easy balance. Meanwhile in Wuhan people are out of lock-down, but if the wet markets, continue does this mean more risk or was the source of the virus elsewhere? I know China has actively helped some communities, lets hope that help comes to the people who are massively at risk in camps in places like Syria and Bangladesh. I am on a community ring round What's App group with my relatives in Kenya - every day a new prayer greets the day and I get regular enquiries after my health, which is very kind of them, but over the years the population of Kenya has been much more vulnerable the effects of disease (think of the deaths by malaria for example each year) and if the virus gets a grip there the implications will be much worse than they are here. However, judging by the harrowing and heartbreaking comments of patients or bereaved people and my Italian student things are bad enough here.
To my surprise I have had some advice re how to manage the virus from a well known expert on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I had contacted her to see if there were moves to try and get the Government to trial treating Coronavirus patients with massive doses of Vitamin C and to my delight she replied with some useful advice. She is an advocate for the use of Vitamin C, but also talks about things like iodine and coconut oil. She has sent 6 chapters for me to read, so I need to absorb the information to know more. I have read her book on the Paleo diet, but really really really struggle with it. The more I am told not to eat starch the more I buy! I think I am not alone in being my own worse enemy, so cannot tell if her treatments work as I have not fully tried them. But if what she says is true it could make a huge different the way this virus and other conditions are handled. Would not it be ghastly if people are dying unnecessarily and the treatment could be something fairly simple as a massive amount of Vitamin C!.
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