What was your "this is serious" moment at the start of COVID-19 outbreak?

Goldengirl · 25-04-2022 7:52pm

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Yes. For us the start of a road down which we had never thought we would be travelling ..it turned out he was suffering from an autoimmune disease that is now being treated with immunosuppressive therapy, and Covid may or may not have been the trigger . Scary time for us ..especially him .

Chris_5339762 · 25-04-2022 8:47pm

I was in Australia on holiday as it started up. Had to cut the holiday short and come home. In the end, it was about €900 single from Cairns to Brisbane to Dubai to Dublin, so it wasn't too bad. But at the time, transfer airports were shutting down or not letting people in, or quarantining even transfer passengers. I was in straits until we boarded the Dublin bound flight in Dubai, which was full of Irish people getting out and flying home. Only then did I know we were "safe" and could actually get home.

I know of a couple who didn't leave Australia in time and were stuck there for a month until rescue flights became a thing.

maebee · 25-04-2022 9:01pm

The events in Bergamo were terrifying but what really frightened the life out of me was when Dr. Catherine Motherway, President of the Intensive care Society of Ireland, first appeared on RTE, saying "You do NOT want to meet me in hospital". She put the fear of God into me.

Princess Calla · 25-04-2022 9:50pm

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It's so tough seeing them so sick and being powerless to help them.

At least you have a diagnosis and treatment plan. Plus the older they get the stronger they get, which is a big help in dealing with these things.

Goldengirl · 25-04-2022 10:20pm

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Haha , very good ...she is one scary Motherway alright 😁

Goldengirl · 25-04-2022 10:22pm

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Ah he' s in college now 😊 ...but he'll always be my baby !

shesty · 26-04-2022 8:26am

The day the schools closed.

It was a Thursday.I don't work Fridays,so I finished out my working day, packed up notebooks and bits and said see ya whenever to colleagues.Leo had said 2 weeks but I wasn't totally convinced on that.I thought maybe a couple of months.Two years, I certainly did not expect that anyway.

Sitting in a local coffee shop in a shopping centre for my lunch that day, watching people going in amd out of Dunnes and panic shopping -there were no trolleys left and the place was mobbed.I can't say that made it "serious" for me but it certainly made me wonder wtf is the going on.

Mars Bar · 26-04-2022 6:16pm

When our phones became sirens at 6pm announcing curfew being in effect to allow for sterilising of the streets (yes, they did that **** here. As if people were out licking the roads...)

At this point you could only leave to go to the supermarket or emergencies.

01-05-2022 2:42am

6th March 2020. Got an email from my mother's nursing home to say that all visiting was cancelled immediately until further notice. I never saw my mother again. She died on 22nd April and we weren't allowed in to see her. 22 more residents in her nursing home died in a two week period in April. We had to wait an extra day to bury her because we couldn't get a priest due to the number of funerals going on.