I am so anxious about coronavirus I want to stop my daughter moving out
DEAR DEIDRE: I COPED with lockdown when everyone seemed to be playing it safe, but now that everything is opening up again it feels like everyone is relaxing and putting us back at risk.
My 20-year-old daughter is moving in with her mates in a flatshare but I’m scared of the virus and told her she would be breaking the rules.
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She’s a lovely, considerate girl and we’ve not fallen out.
I know it’s crowded at home with her two younger brothers, who make such a mess.
And I get that she needs her own space.
She says her mates have all followed the guidelines and promised me they haven’t got symptoms.
She’s going to move there, whatever I say.
My brother is driving my mum to an old friend’s funeral.
Mum is 73 and I said it was too risky but he told me I worry too much.
I’m so angry with him.
I am still desperately anxious about Covid.
In fact, I seem to be getting more anxious each day.
I don’t understand people.
Why take risks with a virus as deadly as this?
DEIDRE SAYS: Everyone cannot stay locked away for ever.
If your daughter and her friends are all young, fit and well, they are more at risk from crossing the road than of dying from Covid-19, though she should really self-isolate for seven days when she joins the new household.
Your mum is clearly deciding her own priorities but ask your brother to clean the inside of the car thoroughly beforehand, that your mum sits in the back with the windows open and touch as little as possible outside her own home.
And she must keep washing her hands.
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