Coronavirus: What Are You Doing During This Unchartered Time? Non Political

I don't know what the shops are like. I will only go on Monday. Fortunately we are within walking distance from 5 supermarkets and 3 pharmacies.
Many small companies and people working for themselves are going to suffer badly because of the lock down.

 

What's happening in the US?
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
The US has the most cases in the world.

 

NYC is pretty much warzone triage, and it's not so slowly spreading out to Long Island. New Orleans should have canceled Mardi Gras, highest death rate per capita. And, just think about all those revelers returning home. Anyone recall the credits in of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"? Not as severe, but you get the point.

Unfortunately despite all warnings and studies, they went unheeded and we are woefully unprepared to handle this outbreak. Good people are dying. Too many...

 

The interactive map i linked in post #28 is updated constantly and accurate. You can pan over a large area on the map and then zoom down to local area. It shows my area of Panama City Florida (Bay County) with 4 active cases. That's 1 more than what had been on local news for the past couple days, so we have gained 1 active case tonight. Fairly accurate.

Meanwhile our govn'r is stopping all short-term rentals and checking vehicle traffic entering the state for unwanted carriers! Even people who own 2nd homes here are being asked to self-isolate for 14 days on arrival.

Times are hard and getting harder....

 

I'm in Canada and the virus has hit the country as well... My heart goes out to the people in the US whom were hit real hard with this killer virus. I'm one of the essential services people that must work regardless. I am 62 yrs old and to be honest, I am scared shitless !! I pray that everyone on this planet keep your distance with others to offset the spread of the virus and of course wash your hands and disinfect everything. Stay safe everyone !

 

What's wrong in this picture?


https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/...-child-at-news-photo/1208288101?adppopup=true

 

My 12 year old grandson keeps asking to come over and for the first time in his life he has heard us say no. He says he is fine so where is the problem? As I have explained more than once he can have the virus without knowing it and pass it on to us. My husband is a liver transplantee so has no immune system and is at a high risk of dying from the virus.
I think he has finally got the message but the problem with kids is boredom. They have so much to amuse them, in my youth we had the radio, books, cards and board games. I am only glad I am not a parent in today’s world, my poor daughter in law!




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That is an issue we're having to tackle with our 2 year old as well. It's challenging to say the least, but he does really love video-calling his grandparents and aunts and uncles.
In between that I was still working from home, but due to the corona crisis I've been let go, so that's done too. Kind of surreal. I went from being promised a permanent position to hearing they had to let me go, within a week. I get it, but it still sucks.

So now my days are spent looking after a 2 year old. We usually go outside for a bit to the local playground but only if there's no one there. We also drive around the countryside each day, and we play a lot of games, read books, colour and clay and watch Peppa Pig, Mightly Little Bheem and Kikker (local cartoon about a frog). He's currently napping. That's the best part of the day to be honest. It really takes a lot of energy such a little one and I'm still recovering from nearly dying last year from a severe sepsis, so his nappy time is usually my nappy time.

The wife works as an MD PhD, so she's at work. New hospital policy just came through that pregnant MD/RN are not allowed near the corona wards and corona ICUs, so that's good. She's now redeployed to the ER and Oncology (cancer patients are kept at the other end of the hospital and completely isolated from anything to do with corona, even their food comes out of a different kitchen these days). They've already cancelled every non-critical appointment until the end of May and it's likely they'll cancel the whole of June as well. This is going to be a long one, but luckily our measures seem to have been somewhat effective. I don't want to know what would have happened had we not been into "smart lockdown" as relatively quickly as we did.

One thing that is a bit of a challenge is shopping. Not due to empty shelves any more, but due to having to keep your distance and grocery shops now employing door policy of a maximum of 10 to 20 customers in the shop at a time. As a result, people have been ordering online so those slots are all filled up now. The only option we have is a pick up point that's a 45 minute drive, but we do have to eat.

 

My daughter has been taken in hospital with it - started with kidney pain,and was rushed in at 3 in the morning-tested positive- be careful

 

Thanks Tim - we have all got to be so vigilante, my daughter has been in Hospital for 7 days now, so, it's a crucial period- the next day , or two will be particularly worrying- praying hard....
My wife and I have been self isolating as per advice....
We need your expertise in Malware fighting somehow to be applied to this... (if only...)
So difficult as her husband, and two sons are really going through it- not being able to see, or ,visit -same with us- it is really worrying. Obviously the son in law could not even go in the ambulance with her.
Police are now driving around, and foot patrolling to try to enforce the idiots that think lock-down does not need them, and these idiots can be fined (I would like to see something worse done to them, as they could be liable to keep spreading it.

 

I hope everything goes well and she has a speedy recovery, It must be quite a worry with all the media hype......it is hard to know the real facts when some news service says one thing and another says something different which one is correct
Sending best wishes
Cheers
joffa

 

Hey all, I randomly thought about this place and thought I pop in and say hi.

Currently my office is closed and we will be allowed to reopen again once lock down is lifted. Where I live, we only have 14 confirmed cases out of almost 600K people who live here, so we are doing pretty good.

Hope everyone is doing well.

 

I have been ridiculously busy (until now.. ). I got my drivers license (which was both terrifying and exciting ) , I was taking courses online (and got my certification but I don't know if I'll ever get to use it ), I have changed jobs and I moved. Oh and I took up running and my sister and I do different marathons (although to be honest, we don't run in the marathons lol ).

 

Me? I'm paralyzed on the left side and the wrong side of 60, so I'm doing everything but pulling the covers over my head! Fortunately my new to me computer has proved to me my WiFi is not as slow as I thought it was. The old slow machine is finding useful service in my living room while I try new things trying to figure out peer to peer networking Win 10 style, so its not all doom and gloom for us geeks. Stay safe, folks! Know of any interesting games for a broke, one armed chick?

 

South Africa's 21-day lockdown seems to be working. We have 1280 cases and 2 deaths.
I live in Port Elizabeth (950,000 people), the largest city in the Eastern Cape Province (6.7 million people). The province has 12 registered cases.

 

Good for your Country- shows lockdown slows it, at least-I hope you all stay clear of it

Thank you, joffa---Keeping everything crossed - almost 9 days, and looks possibly a slight improvement , but hard to get any actual Doctor , or,Nurse to tell us much-They are so overloaded- but I heard that our local hospital has found a way to get tests back in minutes, instead of hours
Thanks Laura- Praying hard......

 

A severe stroke left me paralyzed and mute so I definitely can relate. Sorry that you are in the same canoe. Maybe we can find employment as doorsteps or second base.

 

Opportune time to be doing all those neglected projects around the house and in the garage (like actually cleaning it ). Spring is here, popped the spark tester on the bike after no start (orange spark is bad) and ordered a couple coils. Dropping the engine out of the PT for timing belt/water pump etc. soon. And yes, it gets hoisted down onto a dolly. Jeep is 90% done. And, still finding time to stop by.

Stay safe everyone, and check out this :geek-a-licious

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human...ch-removes-harmful-cytokines-covid19-patients

 

My daughter has been allowed home , and self isolate, as she has improved sufficiently,and her kidney pain has been controlled, but apparently she has urosepsis in the kidneys, so still very ill. Hopefully this means that her immune system, and treatment have been working.

 

Some good news today..........thanks for the update and still sending best wishes as she is not out of the woods yet.......
Keep safe and here's hoping for your daughter's continued improvement
Cheers
joffa

 

Good to hear! Hope she continues to get better

 

Thanks everyone- Time will tell- looks good at present, although very ill. The urospsis of the kidneys, can be dangerous on its own

 

It's working.
We can still go out to supermarkets, pharmacies and banks.
I am going out tomorrow.

We have 5 deaths in South Africa.

 

Banks?
We do our work online.

Its hard to get groceries and pills in the virtual world though.

 

We picked up a file cabinet for the warehouse the other day, and paid the guy cash. He was worried (in NY) about transmission. We picked the cabinet out of the basement, and he asked me to leave the money on the wall/rail next to the basement steps.

I told him "It's stinkin' like I've been drinkin'", and he looks at me funny and says "You sterilized the cash?" (denatured ethanol).

"YES SIR"

Money is the DIRTIEST stuff on Earth.

 

Hi DavidGP
Nice to hear from you, I wondered how you were doing ,and how much contact you might have had with it - Good to hear you are O.K.
Thank you for your concern regarding my daughter -fingers crossed, she is still improving daily- Apparently she had morphine injections for the pains in her kidneys , antibiotics, and whatever else for the Coronavirus -and we honestly had little sleep and mental relief until she was allowed home (in isolation) -terrifying.
We have a friend with Lupas,so we do understand the possibilities you say about Lupas, and Malaria treatment possibilities.
I had been reading on-line about different possibilities in treatment (especially whenthe daughter was in hospital)- and I cannot remember which bit of news(I tend to look allover the worldfor some things) but I vaguely remember hydroxychloroquine among the possibilities they were trying Great efforts,mate.
Keep safe.

 

Good to hear most everyone is doing OK.

Got the bike together (idle no rev means pull carbs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), and BEST SOCIAL DISTANCING EVER.

Thankfully all is quiet in my circle. Thankfully we live in the boonies, so if it finds us, it'll be late.

 

Walked to the shop today. Couldn't buy cigarettes. Apparently it's not a necessity. But the Coke I bought is...
Likewise the chips, chocolates and wine gums I bought during the week.

 

Here's a prof. welder for you!

 

Reminds me of this
https://www.askideas.com/media/48/Funny-Safety-Meme-How-Stupid-Can-They-Be-Neither-Of-Them-Are-Wearing-Goggles-Picture.jpg

 

lol; infection rates are dropping rapidly, hope is on the horizon for us all.

We must have faith.

Stay safe all, obey the gov rules, and god bless!

 

Don't mean to sound like the prophet of doom but new cases and deaths are still high in Spain, Iran, Belgium and the Netherlands.

 

PA (12.8 million people) has 12,980 cases and 162 deaths.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/countryus/

By comparasion, the Eastern Cape (6.7 million people) in SA has 31 cases and 0 deaths.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_South_Africa