The Cookes take on Covid-19

I’m going to hi-jack my blog for a while (how long, we don’t know?!) to record our Corona Virus experience.  Simply because it’s something unprecedented to the world, and the first major unprecedented event in James’ life.  (I would say the other one in my adult lifetime was 9/11).  I’m not 100% sure exactly how much he understands what’s going on, and similar to our Perthes journey, I’m hoping he might look back at some point and read some or all of this blog to see how it was for us at the time.

Day 1

It’s not day 1 of the Covid-19 outbreak of course, but it’s Day 1 of all of us being at home instead of school and the office.  School work needs to happen, our day jobs need to happen and we need to stay occupied and sane!

I keep reminding myself that we are not in a war-torn country, we’re heading into Spring, the sun is shining today, and I could think of far worse places to be ‘socially distancing’ ourselves or self-isolating than our home, with everything we need, a garden, and technology keeping us very connected.

It’s only the thought that it might be like this until September that makes me slightly anxious! I worry about how to keep momentum in ensuring James’ education doesn’t suffer too much, and the impact on his friendships.

So far, we have avoided being infected with Covid-19 We think! How can you be 100% sure? That’s the bit that makes me paranoid, what if we don’t show the symptoms or only mild symptoms. For now at least I don’t believe we have.  And obviously hope to avoid it by keeping ourselves to ourselves, with the exception of essential supplies. Or if someone else in the village needs helps, I have my name down in the village ‘Help Facebook group’ to help deliver supplies if needed.

So let’s see how it goes!