Corona Virus Concerns

Another downside of "distancing"is that when we are out doing the essential dog walks it is now a wave from the other side of the fields instead of a quick "chat",which means not being out as long ,unless the walk is extended , I wonder if the dogs are also getting bored with not being able to socialise as much,

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Maybe it's better if our dogs don't socialise to much, after all in the USA it's reported tigers in a zoo have contracted Covid 19 from their keepers. Wonder how they found this out, were the tigers coughing a lot?

Cross posting with AD

Here's the Visit Cornwall Easter video. I think they could have made the 'stay away' message stronger instead of being so nice about it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh29Ib_XkJA

 

We live in a village 7 miles north of Perth. We have a Spar + PO,  a village store, a pharmacy, a butcher,  a medical centre, 1 pub and 1 hotel. So we are very well catered for locally.

To do our main shopping though, its drive into Perth where we have the usual main supermarkets. In the last 3 weeks since we came back from Lanzarote we haven't seen any big queues or panic buying, although our first venture out there was the evidence of it by the amount of empty shelves. 

Having gone out once a week since out return we have since seen the changes in the shops. Most of them now have good stocks of fresh items. It is still some of the dried foods that are slow to come back on the shelves. Pasta, toilet rolls, tissues and even hand sanitiser are now available, however rice I could not find other than the microwave stuff. 

The shops all seem to have a sanitising station outside, and a member of staff making sure there are not to many folk in the store at one time, this varies store to store depending on the size. Our nearest Aldi now has lines all round the store at 2m intervals and most folk seem to be taking notice. 

I have not tried on line shopping in fact I'm not even registered, we are not over 70 and have no health issues so choose to leave the online shopping to those who need it.

Going out for us is not an issue. We do of course take precautions, once back to the car don't touch it until we have sanitised out hands, then once home wipe down the goods before putting them away, then wash hands with antibacterial soap. 

We do shopping for 3 other households when we are out getting our goods. 

We are a 'drive through village' that is we have many villages beyond us that are accessed through ours, so still seeing vehicles going through.

More noticeable is the amount of tractors out and about, we can hear them most of the day out in the fields, the farmers are working very hard and thankfully they have had a very good dry window to get their ploughing done. 

Still chilly up here none of your lovely warm sunshine, though yesterday for about 2 hours it was just about warm enough to sit out  today its very windy again and with a cold bite to it. We still have snow on the hills so if its coming from that direction you can feel the difference. 

Great to hear how other areas of the UK are fairing through this crisis. I occasionally moan about having a fairly big garden but not just now I can't imagine what it must be like for those in high rise flats that are having to stay indoors for 12 weeks. 

We're over 9 miles from our nearest large town but we have some facilities near us, a small shop, a pub doing takeaways and we have a good organic farm and shop a couple of miles away. What we've lost on access to food etc we've gained on being able to walk straight from home onto footpaths. We've noticed an increase in footpath walkers and one of the downsides is a lot more dogs off leads. Personally I think it's better if dogs can be kept on leads as much as possible to avoid contact between them. ADs post points to an "unknown" about the virus and other species. Some dogs need a big run out like greyhounds but most are ok with a good on lead walk just now.

Normally this weekend, depending on the way the wind blows we'd hear the roar of traffic on the A303, people escaping from London to the SW. It has been quiet. The skies are clear of planes so lovely blue skies, less polluted air generally.

I have been able to get on line food orders after a bumpy start and I have to get food via my order for two elderly and very vulnerable neighbours. I think I've spent more time on this than I originally expected to do! But we're ok.

Evidence so far from other countries has shown that certain animals (dogs and cats mostly) can catch a form of the virus from humans ,but it is not spreadable from them

Well that's some good news as humans, but would not like our little Megan catching it from other dogs.

Meg, our Cockapoo is definitely getting bored and I'm sure she knows something is amiss.  May well be to do with the fact that we are normally away in the van every month and now we're not. Whatever it is, she's not herself and seems to mope about the house, sulking!

I have been taking her on the field immediately behind our house and whilst she enjoys a good romp, she doesn't see her usual 'friends' on the beach, so this morning, I took her down there (only 5 mins away), and although, as usual, the dogs just ignore each other and get on with the serious job of sniffing, she seemed to be a lot happier to be in their company.

Perhaps dogs can go stir crazy as well!

Wonder how they found this out, were the tigers coughing a lot?

Apparently they were coughing and off their food according to reports