I have been pretty lax about coronavirus for a good few weeks now, as with most people, I assumed as a healthy young woman, Covid-19 wouldn't really affect me at all.

I watched, bemused, as people started stockpiling loo rolls and paracetamol. I felt detached from the problems facing China and then Italy and then Spain.

I guess, in true British fashion, I didn't essentially care about the problems until they were lapping at my door.

On Monday, we were told we should work from home if we can, we should cut all unnecessary social contact and stop going out to eat and drink in restaurants and pubs.

On Tuesday I woke up and couldn't shake the feeling that something was off... I have been unsettled ever since.

Maybe it is the fact that the roads are empty at rush hour, or that people seem to be avoiding one another. The fact that the supermarket shelves are bare and we are being told not to come into the office unless it is strictly necessary.

I just feel...scared. Terrified? Panicked?

All the things they tell you not to feel?

I fret quite a lot anyway, I am an anxious worrier and a meticulous planner.

Writing this now from my laptop on my dining room table feels wrong.

It is uncomfortable. I think it is the not knowing. The waiting. The fact that I know that nobody knows how to deal with this yet.

Not really. We are all just taking stabs in the dark.

And, I know, some of you will be reading this thinking what on earth is she moaning about.

A roof over her head, a job to do, (even if it is from home) no ageing family to care for and at least a couple of rolls of toilet paper.

But, like many of us, I underestimated just how disruptive this will be. These latest restrictions are the first of many more to come, and no matter how much I would like to believe it, this is not going to go away any time soon.

We are looking at months and months of being semi or completely isolated. It is enough to drive even the sanest of people over the edge.

And I never claimed to be the sanest of people... All I can hope for now is that once this is over, we come back together again, stronger and kinder.