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

We have a 21-day lockdown. Travel is out. It's a major blow to the economy, but it's working.
We will survive.

 

We must stay home and self isolate is what we are being told here in Oz.
All non-essential travel is banned.

Thats scary stuff plodr.......i know your in the critical age bracket.

Please stay safe, we need you here with us, may i suggest you self isolate online with Majorgeeks.com

 

I was a 40 a day smoker for 30 years. It was impossible to just stop. Then I fell ill with an unknown infection but life threatening. Four days later my temperature fell and suddenly I was out of danger. It hit me that I hadn't had a fag for four days and didn't crave one either. It turned out to be my big chance and I have never had a cigarette since - more than 30 years. You have other conditions Eldon and can do without the added risks of smoking. Maybe this is your chance?

 

I'm working on a considered essential construction project Monday thru Friday. I haven't gone much of anywhere on weekends for so long I can't remember. I pick what few stores I use by the ones that always have 1 or 2 cars only on the lot. I do carry masks for when needed. Not much changed.

But I have a sub-contractor here that has normally 18-19 people spread out on various jobs. Since our stay-at-home order last week about 10 of their workers have decided they feel safer at home instead of on their jobs.

They have a choice. What bewilders me is the ungodly amount of people, of healthy, working age people have no choice. 6 million unemployed? It has already been known for ages that a large percentage of these workers were living paycheck-to-paycheck! What in the world are they doing now??!!

One food bank in this area went from 65 patrons a week to 170 last week. There's probably a quarter million minimum families that were struggling 2 weeks ago! Where are they now?

I can't imagine the feeling!

 

The ugly side of SA's lockdown...

After 12 days more than 17,000 people have been arrested for drinking at taverns (they aren't allowed to open) or in public spaces.
8 people have died in clashes with the police.

 

Truly, denatured ethanol is a beautiful thing. Not as caustic as bleach (Cl -2).

Fill up a spray bottle with C2H5OH and some water and douse everything. Wipe with soft cloth, lol...

 

Even liberty can be taken too far. Too much of any good thing.

BUT, what if you opened a tavern/pub only to those who were recovered or asymptomatic? But, then you'd need papers... :eek

 

Asymptomatic carriers can still spread the virus.
And drinkers with nothing else to do but drink for 3 weeks will result in more problems.

 

What am i doing trying to avoid major places like shopping centers during the day.

Little tip if you need to go shopping go at night.When there are less crazy people there.This way you are in and out no waiting in line.

I am not even working currently due to this bull $hit.Which i don't want to deal with work at this point right now.I like to work but when this crap hit the US i new it was going to be a $hit storm.I mean people are going crazy heck the other day i went to buy some peroxide for my ears which i have to clean out every so often other wise my sinus goes crazy.Any who i went to buy some and the store was out of that even.I mean how often do stores run out of peroxide lul.So i had to buy some at Dollar General lol 3% peroxide never saw 3% be for.

I live around in Pennsylvania and there are lot's of cases in Pittsburgh currently low numbers in my area.

I just saw how lows and home depot employees are going crazy right now.

One employee was complaining to the news lol how are they going to help.You want to talk to your HR not the new's the new's would get you most likely canned.

But any way just ranting on how people are going crazy with this whole issue.And it's not just me how about small business owners.

 

well you have to realize how crazy people are getting.

We have people going to stores and over spending.I mean in the first 4 weeks people where just mad crazy.Every time some disaster happens people just buy what ever.

Edit: FYI sure fine i get it getting some things done while you are off.But like i said people are over spending and buying stuff that they really don't need.

 

Touche!

 

Well, we are still on lock down, with sensible guide lines - trouble is some people think they know better. Because some places, like London are so crowded, until the lockdown the tubes were crammed despite the warnings, so it is no wonder the fatality rate is so high.
Easter weekend from tomorrow, and some idiots got their caravans out to drive out somewhere, and police are now stopping and turning them back,down the motorways and making the return home. I think arrests might be in line soon, as the police have been given powers to heavily fine them with discretion.
You have probably heard our Prime Minister is in Hospital, but possibly through the worst as he is out of intensive care, today. Some people knock our Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, but we feel he is doing his best, and was working all the time until put in intensive care, despite being quite ill.
Many of our Parks are now selectively closed, as so many idiots laying out sunning themselves, and thinking that the sun is out- we have to go out-idiots.
Like everywhere, it needs to be contained, and whatever any country tries to do,they need time to get control of it and develop vaccines.
I hope everyone keeps lucky, and safe.

 

Listening a lot to John Lennon's Imagine (bringing almost tears in me) while hubby and me staying at home 24x7 in our apartment. (ordered by our lung specialist as we both have COPD, and our city who says keep your distance and advises to stay at home as much as possible). I have also gastroparesis since Dec 2005! and living on Ensure vanilla since then - (daughter says that she doesn't know how I do it!!) Luckily we have a married daughter and grandson who live abt 40 km. from us and do all the shopping for us, once every 2 weeks. Pharmacy delivers. Thank G.!

 

SA's lockdown has been extended by two weeks.
For some unknown reason we can't buy certain items. This is going to be a contributing factor to the economic woes we are facing.

 

Dumb Cane- big leaves.............
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Lots of alternatives...
https://www.askaprepper.com/homemade-substitutes-toilet-paper/

 

TimW- ELDONS LINK-...

• More Leaves: Yes, this is the obvious option for apparent reasons. There are leaves everywhere out there. They are big, soft, and in abundant supply. Leaves you can use include:
• Maple
• Mullein
• Large-leaved aster (aka. lumberjack toilet paper)
• Cottonwood
• Hazelnut
• Thimbleberry
• Fuzzy lamb’s ear
• Grape

 

You know how fast food restaurants give you 847 napkins in the drive-thru?

Drive-thru's are still open, even under shelter at home orders in most states. Just don't flush them.

 

Jeez Tim.......I'd be real hesitant too........and only if I was desperate
Over here Great Value TP is another word for rough sandpaper and unless you need to grind off some barnacles then maybe go find some soft tissues

 

Hmmmm...........maybe a couple of coats of antifouling paint will prevent future barnacle growth........here is a helpful link https://www.whitworths.com.au/maintenance-hardware/painting/antifouling
although some people use ultrasonic transducers to prevent fouling but personally I think this might be a bit buzzy and it might sound like a buzzing wasp's nest.....but just in case here is another helpful link https://www.jaycar.com.au/kit-ultrasonic-antifouling-for-boats/p/KC5498

Crikey!!! I am chock full of help today.........or chock full of something lol

 

I'm the Schrodinger's Cat of "essential" employees my the municipal government job as a Help Desk Director: I am technically allowed to work from home; yet this is physically impossible since I spend most of my day locating and prepping replacement PCs and tablets to replace ones that have crashed for the 600+ other department employees working from home.

The Full-timers under me are all working from home. For now, the temp/contract workers still must come to the office and practice social distancing. Without them present, I'd have to start drafting a few full-timers to come in to help handle the work that cannot be done remotely.

I'm keeping the main office door locked tight as a drum. If a user has to come to the building to pick up a replacement PC, I require they meet the tech in the main lobby at an exact time I set. It's like a "dead drop" in a spy movie: The tech sets the replacement PC on a chair and walks at least ten feet away. The user picks it up and sets the dead one in the same place. Wearing gloves, the tech walks over to get the dead one as the user leaves and sanitizes the sh*t out of it with Clorox wipes before bringing it back in the office.

My biggest pet peeves (the ones where I have to remember HR could pull up whatever response I email to a user and thefore not say what I'm really thinking) are two catagories of users: The ones that ignored the advance warnings about NOT letting your kids play with your work-issued take home PC (one shattered screen and another with makeup smeared all over a keyboard last week, both done by kids), and the at-home workers who have the balls to think they have a God-Given Right to ask us to dash out to Best Buy and get them a 27" monitor ("It'll be easier to see than the small screen on my PC") at the government's expense. Three users dared to ask something like this last week.

I feel a bit less stressed now that I took a minute to rant.

 

curry is good i guess

 

Forgot to say what I'm doing...

The entertainment industry as a whole shut down in the middle of a week-long Broadway run so my last day of theatre work was March 14. I got laid off from my part-time retail job on March 18, and then the store closed for the duration on the 28th. And then my part-time office job had to close when our stay home order began on March 24, but they still pay me 8 hours a week to monitor email and check voicemail from home. Mostly, I'm at the house going through my stuff and getting rid of stuff I can't justify taking with me when I move. I was supposed to move out of Mom's house so we could get it ready to sell at the first of the month, but I got a reprieve with the pandemic. It'll happen pretty soon, though... and it's anybody's guess when I'll have an income again other than unemployment. Supposedly I qualify for the extra $600/week, but so far I've not seen it.

 

Its like going back in time to the 70's.......

We are cooking at home every night, good wholesome roast dinners, the wife washes the dishes whilst I dry them as we spend those moments actually talking about our day together and what the plans are for tomorrow.
I have time for gardening, growing vegies, mowing the lawn and waving to neighbors through the window just like the Waltons did.
Spending time with the teens who are actually pitching in and helping.
Watching movies and playing board games together (in between cell phone checks)

I reckon its bliss!

 

Gee I hardly remember the Waltons........was that the show with John Boy in it?
Hmmmm.....definitely in the past and a long time ago ......or maybe I am starting to get "oldtimers disease" lolol

 

Thats him, "Goodnight John-boy" hehe!

Oldtimers disease?.....yes, I call it CRAFT disease (cant remember a f*#cking thing).

Please, in no-way do I intend to make "lite" of this horrible disease, and I feel for those in its peril, but........
I dont have to travel to work anymore (all done online remotely) and battle with wankers in traffic, find a park, put up with bitching office staff etc etc.
Now I wake up and have to travel down the stairs into the study.
I am spending more quality time with the family than I probably ever have, because we are all in this together and I have a duty of care in trying to protect them.

Having said this, sometimes I do miss the old days when we were allowed out, shake hands and hug each other.
When we could have a funeral and grieve for our loved ones with the whole clan around us, without the Police breaking down the doors and counting attendance numbers with little or no respect for our pain.

Welcome to the new world son!

 

The best thing to do is not watch TV its corona 24/7... after seeing this one

After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News on HBO

I am sticking to Netflix & Chill 24/7

 

Missed your chance to sidestep that in a two birds/one stone kinda way :-

 

Same here. All the stores that are allowed to be open (supermarkets and hardware stores basically) have a hard limit on the number of people allowed to be inside. Supermarkets regulate this by mandating the use of a shopping cart and then only having X amount of shopping carts available. If they're all in use, you have to wait in line outside. After use the cart goes into a different line to be disinfected.

I have been adhering to the order to stay at home/indoors/no visitors. Only time we go outside is with the little one to give him some exercise. As I said previously, given the symptoms, it was assumed I had covid19, so I was more strict about isolation until I was at least a couple of days free of all the symptoms. Until yesterday evening I was symptom free, but yesterday evening I suddenly got a fever spike (40*C), coughing, headache, nauseous, difficult breathing (and due to having had severe pneumosepsis last year, quite a lot of pain from my lungs). So, not a great day today. My wife's employer (academic hospital) is going to test me, the little one and her tomorrow. If the little one's results are negative, he will relocate to my parents for however long this will last, because my wife now also has to work in the weekends and I simply can't take care of the little guy while I'm this ill. For reference, typing this took me 10 minutes due to lack of concentration and general brain fogginess.

 

Ouch ! Hope the test negative for you -

 

A week ago at our local supermarket...

 

I would just like to point out that not everyone in Michigan is in support of the truly special individuals who swarmed the Capitol building yesterday you probably saw on the news. The rest of us feel exactly as you do about them.

 

April 17th, thought I'd jump in. I'm most grateful for having the internet or I'd probably gone nuts by now. I wasn't sane before the virus hit. I live in small-town America and we have been lucky here, no deaths, 2 hospitalized, and same 2 recovered. I've followed the guidelines we have here, stay at home, wash hands, don't touch face. When I have to go out for groceries, I do, but wear a mask, and definitely don't touch my face (the mask reminds me and my glasses). Wiping everything I bring home is not too bad because I live alone, retired lady at 67.

I still take my walks, and ride my bike to get out into the air. Only a population of about 6000, and most are retired or in the local high-security prison. And, I play online a lot, either games or reading different things, especially about nutrition, and health articles. I like to read to find solutions for computer difficulties, so here I am, reading on Major Geeks again today.

I do hope everyone is hangin in there til the virus is under control, it seems to be getting there. I don't think the world is ever going to be the same, but hopefully, the changes will be good ones, I really don't have much more to say other than thank goodness for the internet. It's the only social life I have right now, other than a friend that I talk to pretty much, every day on the phone.