We’ve been tracking coronavirus for months, but no one thought it would get as bad as in China. No one wants to screw up and lose a bunch of money for their firm. The City trader You can’t trade millions while your child is screaming for hot milkĪ trader’s life is stressful enough: your work is high frequency, intense and filled with risk. I’ve been doing this for 12 years and don’t have any dependants – other than sometimes helping my parents out with bits of cash – so I’m not financially worried. People running out of money is a big concern, but we’ll always have the regular cokeheads who buy most days. I’ve told my workers to be strict with what they sell and who to, but they aren’t changing their behaviour much, other than offering to post through letterboxes and accept bank transfers from trusted customers. People are panicking – the amounts of cannabis they’re buying is ridiculous – so we are just dealing to regulars now. I’m maintaining the same prices I’ve always charged but I’m concerned that, when stock begins to run low, people higher up the chain will charge more or cut the cocaine and decrease its quality. We expect no more cocaine shipments from abroad for the next six weeks, so prices have shot up. We have two main concerns now: sourcing drugs and getting enough money. I have around 20 guys on the street, with approximately 200 regular customers.
I sell cannabis and cocaine to suppliers in the north of England. The drug dealer Some people are panic-buying cocaine S de R The illustrator’s take: Igor Bastidas What I’d suggest to people who can’t, particularly those feeling very anxious, is to set up phone calls with one or two trusted people to share feelings and listen. For those whose financial circumstances are hugely impacted, I have substantially reduced my fees – I don’t want anybody to stop having therapy because they can’t afford it. I am more acutely aware of the discrepancy between those who can and can’t afford therapy. There will also be some creativity and resourcefulness emerging. People are having to think very carefully about their own autonomy: who am I? What do I do here? Who will be there for me? Who can I be there for? Of course, the conflicts patients brought to therapy beforehand will remain or intensify with isolation or illness. New themes are emerging around the possibility of loss, particularly not being able to see family for some time, and there’s a huge sense of anxiety, which most of the population is probably feeling. Silences carry a different weight and patients are saying more than they might if we were actually in the room – I suspect I am, too. Over the phone it’s more difficult, but I can hear something in the tone of voice. Normally, as soon as I open the door, I get a sense of how the patient is feeling that day. This way of working is a huge change from being face-to-face or on the couch in a consulting room – a lot of visual and bodily communication is lost. I am self-isolating because of my age – I’m over 70 – and last week began to offer patients telephone or Skype sessions, with email access in between.
The psychoanalytic psychotherapist Therapy can go deeper on the phone We’ll be talking a lot about how things have changed since I left: can you move around, are your plans cancelled? I think I’ll be asking more questions about their lives than they are asking about mine in space. The other difference will be when I call my wife and family from the space station. Nor the US support team and operational group. The biggest change for me is that my friends and family won’t be at the launch. It would be something significant to deal with. We have lots of medicine, but there is no vaccine.
It would be unprecedented to have a virus like this on board. To my knowledge, there has never been any sickness on the space station. The difference now is that other people are doing the same. The quarantine has been largely the same as usual: as a crew, we still keep our distance, and I am relatively isolated in my living quarters. We are all trying to navigate the uncertainty. My two crewmates and I will spend six months on the ISS, coming home around October. The Nasa astronaut Chris Cassidy, the next spaceman to launch, won’t get a sendoffĪt Star City, a small community outside Moscow city centre, we are in the final weeks of quarantine, leading up to launch to the International Space Station on 9 April, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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