Wednesday, 15 April 2020
Lockdown!
The sun still shines. It has been shining for a week now and would have seen our beaches and parks full. Instead we all stay at home and try to enjoy it. I am very fortunate. My large garden is a joy to walk around. Most trees are covered in blossom.. both pink and white. One solitary magnolia is in full and glorious flower. Fruit trees covered in blossom hold the promise of fruit to arrive in the Autumn. I hope I’m still alive to see it..I’m not feeling poorly, I have enough to eat I’m just aware that once you are past eighty you can take nothing for granted. So I don’t. I have a food delivery coming at the end of the week and a very kind person is bringing me some fish today. So I am a bit better than fine...I am very fortunate...I have contemplated visiting the old people’s home in the next village but I know that anything I could do would involve communion and that would be a mistake....the small wafer representing the body of Christ could actually carry any bug I might take with me. This is a horrible period of time when any act of generosity could rebound on us unintentionally. Some cars are going past now...St Mawes is trying to carry on. The sun shines...it’s still a beautiful world out there...lockdown or not!
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Good idea not to try to visit the care home. Most have banned all visitors in the interest of shielding their vulnerable residents. I managed to get in just before the lockdown was enforced into see two residents for home communion in a local place. I had to go through a doubel handwashing on entry, fill out a form declaring that I had no symptoms of the virus and than meet someone on the other side of the secure entry door to escort me to the two different rooms to ensure that I carried out the next set of hand washings. In the event, on the secure side no one was there to meet me and I went unimpeded to both individuals and completed two Communions, with double hand washing both times. When I left, as I signed out, I attempted to hand over the paper I had completed, but reception was unmanned. So I took it with me and is still resides in the bag I use for Home Communions in my car.
I was than into lockdown and when I inquired whether more HC were being done, I was told that all of the local care establishments have banned visits from everyone, including family or friends, except in the direst emergency. In other words, danger of imminent death.
All precautions are necessary, but painful for residents who have no external communications or internet access and for their families, who might lose someone, hear of them being buried, without any involvement at all, not even attending the funeral.
It might seem draconian, but is in the interest of the greater good - isn't it?
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