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My parents are both senior citizens and very much in denial, even though they both have pre-existing conditions, they refuse to stay at home per the CDC's guidance. My dad thinks its a hoax to attack President Trump, and he doesn't listen to Dr. Tony Fauci.
I tried talking some sense to them, but they simply won't listen.
A couple of you have said that but never say where they're going. Groceries, that's sort of legitimate as is the drug store to pick up meds.
The Senior Center? Most states have closed them as well as gyms.
So, where is it that they're going and have you offered (if you're close by) to run those errands.
A couple of you have said that but never say where they're going. Groceries, that's sort of legitimate as is the drug store to pick up meds.
The Senior Center? Most states have closed them as well as gyms.
So, where is it that they're going and have you offered (if you're close by) to run those errands.
They are going to big-box stores and restaurants. Completely irresponsible and dangerous behavior. My S.O. has a police scanner and we hear every day of reports of coronavirus in Orlando. Sometimes whole families are coming down with it at once.
I am disabled and I live in an apartment with my domestic partner. We don't own a car and are self-quarantining. We cannot help them.
In this day and age you can order everything off the internet. It's much safer than travelling around and being near people who may well be infected.
The Villages, giving the Virus and warning the finger two weeks ago, is now starting to close down and get hit hard. There are MANY people getting testing and all functions have shut down. An Army Field Hospital is being built nearby - for a reason! There are 150,000+ seniors in the area and no hospital of any note. They don't believe in the virus. Or they didn't until 4 days ago.
Now it's starting to go bad.....mental health pros are seeing panic attacks and I suspect many such things as well as heart attacks will occur from fear and realization of what they may be in for.
I feel badly for the 30% or so of Villages residents who were trying to instill reason into the heads of the other 70%. But they wouldn't listen. They said everyone has to die from something and they were not going to change.
I fear we won't see those same "heroics" in the days ahead when care has to be rationed to these people. The odds of getting enough ventilators and health care workers out there in the boonies is about zero. Maybe a bunch of them will take off in their cars and drive to orlando and fly elsewhere to infect others.
This situation alone should be fair warning to those over-65 and others who downplay this.
Read them yourself and give us your take - especially in light of what is happening now in these same areas. Resources that should have been available for others will have to be spent there....due to "entitlement".
My parents are both senior citizens and very much in denial, even though they both have pre-existing conditions, they refuse to stay at home per the CDC's guidance. My dad thinks its a hoax to attack President Trump, and he doesn't listen to Dr. Tony Fauci.
I tried talking some sense to them, but they simply won't listen.
Well I’m a senior citizen and I have horses to take care of and I wont listen either. Im not letting my animals starve to death due to some govt moron!
They are going to big-box stores and restaurants. Completely irresponsible and dangerous behavior. My S.O. has a police scanner and we hear every day of reports of coronavirus in Orlando. Sometimes whole families are coming down with it at once.
I am disabled and I live in an apartment with my domestic partner. We don't own a car and are self-quarantining. We cannot help them.
In this day and age you can order everything off the internet. It's much safer than travelling around and being near people who may well be infected.
We all need to remember those restaurants and other businesses that just had to remain open or 'partially open' early on!
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