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Diabetes and social distancing

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P0lly@nna

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Hello
I was wondering what people are doing with regard to working at home . I am a 59 year old type 2 diabetic who takes 1000 g of metformin a day . Sugars stable around 48-50. Relatively fit - go for an hours walk daily but couldn’t run or jog lol!
I am a head teacher and feel very vulnerable going into school everyday albeit for very limited numbers of children..
I haven’t received the letter - would people still work from home in my situation?
 
Hello P0lly@nna, no idea as I am 'retired' thank goodness so I don't have to deal with this conundrum. I have it easy! If you haven't any underlying ailments you should be okay? Somebody on here will know... 🙂
 
There's no more chance of us dying from this than any other deadly disease we might contract. Only thing is though we may successfully avoid contracting a lot of deadly things, this lot we can't cos it's invisible and cosmopolitan. If it is possible to work from home then that is what we are ALL instructed to do, full stop.
 
P0lly@nna said:
Hello
I was wondering what people are doing with regard to working at home . I am a 59 year old type 2 diabetic who takes 1000 g of metformin a day . Sugars stable around 48-50. Relatively fit - go for an hours walk daily but couldn’t run or jog lol!
I am a head teacher and feel very vulnerable going into school everyday albeit for very limited numbers of children..
I haven’t received the letter - would people still work from home in my situation?
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Welcome to the forum @P0lly@nna

As a person with well managed diabetes, my understanding is that you are at no additional risk of either contracting, or of developing a serious case of Coronavirus - the additional risk for us as PWS is just that if we did happen to be unlucky enough to develop a severe case, that diabetes would be an unwelcome complexity to add into the mix - especially if the hospitals were under strain at the time.

So I would stick to the advice, and keep as socially distant at work as you can, but the current guidance seems to suggest you can carry on working.
 
Thank you for your replies - I have found the advice confusing in that it changed from all vulnerable people to stay at home to extremely vulnerable people must stay home... for work purposes at least
 
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