BYC Café

[Shadrach]

Our local community council have just dropped by a letter indicating local services to support us at this time. A number of local shops, a bakery and restaurants are offering doorstep delivery services of goods or meals, and volunteers will be manning a couple of phonelines 24/7 to help those living alone if they're self-isolating, e.g. organising the collection of prescription meds, help with navigating websites, changing gas bottles, offering reassurance or just someone to call to have a chat. Crises like this bring out the best in people, as well as the worst.

It's been pretty good here by and large. People are frightened but most as far as the media reports and from what I've seen are behaving well.
There is plenty of food about, fresh bread in the bakeries.
I have some serious concerns for the US, mainly thanks to Trump, there has been done too little done too late. As the testing expands, so to will the number of infected. For China, it was comparatively easy being a state run system. The state shut areas down very fast, enforced a curfew and build hospitals and gathered doctors and scientists together whether they wanted to do it or not. This is unlikely to happen in the US and the response will be piecemeal.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Well said Shad he would be happy to only test those with Money funny thing he has never shown his tax returns

 

[Meg-in-MT]

Healthcare, pharmacies, grocery, the supply chain for these and home delivery. The government will issue a more detailed list of the critical business definition.

I can do about half my work from home if IT sets my laptop up for full remote access. I'll get a lot more done there.

Well, at least you may have the option to. I suppose that is comforting. We're a well drilling/service company, so I figured ours would be considered critical, but I just don't know. Although, we've only got 9 cases confirmed in the state so far. Not that it couldn't be much higher than that, like in the link that Perris posted.

My husband called me this morning to tell me that a gal that works for one of our friends has been sick for two weeks. She cleans the personal office of one of the healthcare guys on the "front line" here. She tested negative for influenza and they apparently called her in a panic to get her tested for covid. She finds out this afternoon if she has it. But two weeks? That'd be a lot of surfaces touched and people who could've contracted it.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Trickles no matter what we all need to wash hands often have enough projects here to
keep us occupied still going to wash often if one of us get sick post but do not come in

 

[ronott1]

Well, at least you may have the option to. I suppose that is comforting. We're a well drilling/service company, so I figured ours would be considered critical, but I just don't know. Although, we've only got 9 cases confirmed in the state so far. Not that it couldn't be much higher than that, like in the link that Perris posted.

My husband called me this morning to tell me that a gal that works for one of our friends has been sick for two weeks. She cleans the personal office of one of the healthcare guys on the "front line" here. She tested negative for influenza and they apparently called her in a panic to get her tested for covid. She finds out this afternoon if she has it. But two weeks? That'd be a lot of surfaces touched and people who could've contracted it.

I hope she does not have Covid19!

Campus will likely be closed from tomorrow, March 19th until Tuesday April 7th. We are waiting for official word on the process and if I am considered essential since I provide IT for the unit. Of course if the Unit is closed then there will be no one to support

 

[Shadrach]

I have a handbag.............................when you've all finished pissing yourselves with laughter............ I've had this handbag for close on forty years now. It is a waterproof (well it was once) army gas mask bag.
In my handbag are a few essential items such as a Catalan to English dictionary, a book on verbs and how to decline them, spectacles for reading (not that I understand much of what I read because it's in Spanish often) and a fold up light canvas shopping bag.
I've added some new items. I think you would call this Hydrogen Peroxide.
I don't know what my world is coming to; Hydrogen Peroxide was for blonds in my day.
Anyway, the survival strategy is; if anyone gets close and speaks to me I shove the rag soaked with the liquid in their mouth and run!

 

[DobieLover]

NYS now has 2,390 confirmed cases and 20 deaths. The vast majority of it downstate.
We have one confirmed case in the county in which I work and one in the county in which I live.

 

[Meg-in-MT]

Someone that my uncle works with just self reported that he was with somebody who tested positive. Lordy.

 

[ronott1]

Someone that my uncle works with just self reported that he was with somebody who tested positive. Lordy.

The Covid19 Virus is out there in the community! Wash your hands!

 

[Meg-in-MT]

The Covid19 Virus is out there in the community! Wash your hands!

I'm being a serial hand washer right now. Not that I normally don't, but every time I have to interact with someone. I try not to hesitate when someone hands me a credit card... It's involuntary