Well they've closed my dad's nursing home to anyone but staff. We have 3 people in the

[applegrove]

cummunity with coronavirus but they are going to try and elongate that curve of the new cases in canada by begining in extreme social distancing earlier in canada. I have to say i am relieved. But i had a cold and have not been able to visit him for a week. My brother is home from Japan and because he was self quaranteeing for the two weeks after the flight he never got to see my dad. So this will be well worth it if it means no outbreak in the nursing home. I think i have some turquoise paint and will get a sheet and paint "we love you dad" on it and put it where he can see it outside his 5th floor window. Can't think of anything else to do. Of course we will call him when there is someone in the room to pick up the phone. But i really don't want to tax the staff any more than possible. Delivering things there will just require someone make a trip down stairs to pick it up. We had a party for his 90th all planned with cake, tulips and champaign in a week. Anyhow i feel lucky he is as safe as can be. Now let's not go out and flatten that curve.

[The_jackalope]

1. My father is in a similar situation.

95 years old, in a retirement lodge on the shore of Georgian Bay, Ontario that has just been locked down. Im worried I may not see him again.

The sense of helpless dread is almost paralyzing.

[applegrove]

2. Yes. But they are safer for having been locked down early. Plus

they have cancelled all hairdressers and dentists and other activities so the staff can just concentrate on keeping the patients comfortable and out of harm's way. I have other people in my family i am worried about who are younger but have co-mobidities so i am more worried about the younger generation. Dad has had a very happy 4 years having fun with the staff. They all love to tease him. I feel more relief on his case. Less on the rest of us. Then again i look at the world with varying assumptions so i will be horrified tomorrow probably.

[The_jackalope]

3. True that

Luckily my father has a biologist's realism about the nature of life, so he rolls with the punches pretty well.

I've been preparing myself psychologically for the collapse of civilization for the last 15 years. I always figured it would happen because of climate change, but I knew that major depopulation events are virtually always diseases. So I'm not terribly surprised that it's here. I just thought I would have more time to get my affairs in order. I'm not a prepper, so I'm going into this pretty much empty-handed.

I wish your father all the best.

[applegrove]

4. I wish your dad too.

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[LastDemocratInSC]

5. My younger sister's hospice facility is still open to us.

But multiple precautions are in place. Masks if coughing for any reason, etc.

[TEB]

6. Sending hugs friend