As I tend to work weekends mostly, there are less people around but more visitors and activities. But once this Covid-19 started, we have started to get more phone calls and no visitors.
Once there were more and more newspapers articles regarding this pandemic situation, and we tend to get over 10 newspapers delivery every Saturday, and once i had to ask my colleague to delivery the newspapers for me as i has many things to get done and would not be able to delivery it all before 10am. She agreed, but once she read the front page of one of the papers, her breathing became faster and faster until the point that she dropped the papers. I immediately stopped everything that I was doing and helped her to sit on my chair. I tried to calm her down by telling her to control her breathing while i was dialling one of the nurses that we had in the building to come down and help. Once the nurse came down she started to do all of her checks on my colleague (BP, o2 levels). I was very worried, but once my colleague calmed down, I asked her what had set her off. She told me that she did not realised how bad the Covid-19 situation was until she read the newspaper, she also told me that she avoids watching the news because she does not really wanted to think about this, but once i handed her the newspapers she did not realise and she read the amount of people infected and the deaths and that had set her panic attack. I felt horrible, but she assured me that it was not my fault and that she was grateful that i was there with her not only to calm her down, but also for not leaving her. The nurse was also very glad that I managed to act quickly and with a clear head in a situation like this.
