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<blockquote data-quote="MissLulu" data-source="post: 756267" data-attributes="member: 24721"><p>Here in Australia, there's been a mixed reaction - panic buying (particularly of toilet paper!) for weeks vs people saying "meh, the flu is worse." In the last 24 hours people seem to have started to take things way more seriously and there's really discussion of mass school closures, banning of mass events like football games, (the Grand Prix has been called off) and other isolation measures. We have had travel bans in place for some weeks - banning travellers from China, South Korea, Iran and Italy, but I think those bans are being widened today. Many workplaces have told their workers to work from home and others have banned all travel (both international and domestic) for the time being. My husband's company is one of these.</p><p></p><p>I have tried to be level-headed. We haven't been stockpiling as such but over the past month have just added a few extra things to our weekly shop. I don't want to be hoarding goods at a ridiculous level, because I know there are some in the community who are unable to afford to bulk buy and I want to leave some supplies available for those people. Some people have been incredibly (and unnecessarily) greedy, which saddens me.</p><p></p><p>On a personal level, I'm quite sad because I'm an author and I have a new book coming out next month. I think my book tour will have to be cancelled and I'm worried that sales will be down because I fear we'll be in lock down by then. I realise there are many people in a much worse position than me, but writing is my career and if this book has weak sales it will be harder to get a new contract. Still, I'm trying not to dwell on that and be grateful for the fact that I am relatively healthy and live in a country with good health care. I have a home to shelter in and a good stock of supplies should they be needed. I'm not elderly and not in a high risk group (although my husband is diabetic and two of my kids are asthmatic, including Difficult Child). I'm mildly worried about my husband, so we are trying to stay home as much as possible and take sensible precautions like regular hand washing. Difficult Child will not be taking any precautions, I suppose. He is moving out of our home next weekend, and I hope he will be sensible about his health,(making sure he has an adequate supply of medications for instance) but I'm not optimistic! I'm letting that go. It's outside of my control.</p><p></p><p>I'm very worried about the vulnerable in our society. Our government announced an economic stimulus package yesterday, which is a good start but does nothing for casual workers or those on very low incomes. I hope that will change if things get worse here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MissLulu, post: 756267, member: 24721"] Here in Australia, there's been a mixed reaction - panic buying (particularly of toilet paper!) for weeks vs people saying "meh, the flu is worse." In the last 24 hours people seem to have started to take things way more seriously and there's really discussion of mass school closures, banning of mass events like football games, (the Grand Prix has been called off) and other isolation measures. We have had travel bans in place for some weeks - banning travellers from China, South Korea, Iran and Italy, but I think those bans are being widened today. Many workplaces have told their workers to work from home and others have banned all travel (both international and domestic) for the time being. My husband's company is one of these. I have tried to be level-headed. We haven't been stockpiling as such but over the past month have just added a few extra things to our weekly shop. I don't want to be hoarding goods at a ridiculous level, because I know there are some in the community who are unable to afford to bulk buy and I want to leave some supplies available for those people. Some people have been incredibly (and unnecessarily) greedy, which saddens me. On a personal level, I'm quite sad because I'm an author and I have a new book coming out next month. I think my book tour will have to be cancelled and I'm worried that sales will be down because I fear we'll be in lock down by then. I realise there are many people in a much worse position than me, but writing is my career and if this book has weak sales it will be harder to get a new contract. Still, I'm trying not to dwell on that and be grateful for the fact that I am relatively healthy and live in a country with good health care. I have a home to shelter in and a good stock of supplies should they be needed. I'm not elderly and not in a high risk group (although my husband is diabetic and two of my kids are asthmatic, including Difficult Child). I'm mildly worried about my husband, so we are trying to stay home as much as possible and take sensible precautions like regular hand washing. Difficult Child will not be taking any precautions, I suppose. He is moving out of our home next weekend, and I hope he will be sensible about his health,(making sure he has an adequate supply of medications for instance) but I'm not optimistic! I'm letting that go. It's outside of my control. I'm very worried about the vulnerable in our society. Our government announced an economic stimulus package yesterday, which is a good start but does nothing for casual workers or those on very low incomes. I hope that will change if things get worse here. [/QUOTE]
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