Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[drumstick diva]

I'm pretty much a stay at home person especially in summer. Hot weather is NOT my friend.
I prefer it cold and have a wardrobe to match anything winter can spit out(except for slippery conditions) Reminds me I need to pick up 3 more bags of ice melter before winter. Like to keep 5 bags on hand before the season and everyone else stocks up. Of course price sky- rockets higher every year.

 

[drumstick diva]

Finally got out to Texas Roadhouse(with the gift card my son sent me) . Steak wasn't very good but the corn and rolls were good as usual. It's usually very noisy but this time it was a few families with very young kids. They were screeching(the kind that shatters glass) and running back and forth. Restaurant had every other booth closed to provide social distancing. Okay.

Seemed fine till I was drinking my coke and the level in the glass dropped low enough for me to see the glass was unwashed/filthy. Think I will stick to eating at Arby's - at least I know the food and surroundings are CLEAN!!! I will post a complaint re: Roadhouse once I get over the urge to up chuck. Plus they don't need to wash paper /plastic cups.

 

[MROO]

Being in an ICU is hard! Wearing a mask, and staying away from gatherings is inconvenient. Think of it as moving inconveniently far away for a time, as military families all do, as we did back then, and use the phone to visit instead.
Mary

I realize that. Honestly, I do. But the longer this goes on - and I'm not naive enough to think that we've passed the worst and it'll all get better from here - the harder it gets to stay away from our families. My extended family is very, very close. We always have been. A holiday is defined by hugs and food and who happens to drop in, today ... not the calendar. We've already lost one cousin during this mess - not to covid, but still, it was hard being unable to comfort her husband, my cousin and one of my dearest friends. Other family members have been in and out of the hospital with the virus. My immediate family is up to five friends and coworkers lost. We no longer even count those who have been sick. We're just grateful that they're on the road to recovery.
My Dad is extremely frail and my closest aunt is waning from breast cancer. Both are in their eighties. I have a cousin in Florida who is in total isolation because he is wheelchair bound with MS. Another is trapped in his home in Myrtle Beach because stupid tourists won't stay away from the beach, so his neighborhood is one of the worst hotspots in the country. He can't even go out to walk his dog!
Then there's the social unrest. Two of my cousins were among those trying to protect a beautiful old Columbus statue. It ended up in Baltimore's Inner Harbor ... IN the harbor. Luckily, no one was hurt except a lot of hearts. My nephew was stopped by police for having an unbroken taillight (aka - he was a young black man in a wealthy neighborhood. He LIVES there!) Now his sister is afraid to go anywhere and my sister is terrified for her children's safety.
I've lost my job.
I don't qualify for unemployment.
We won't starve, but I don't know how I'm going to keep my house, come Fall.
I know that many, many people are in the same boat, right now. And I know that my complaining about it sounds like a selfish personal pity-party, but at this particular moment, I'm having a really hard time with all of this, but it's late (after midnight.) I'm tired. I'm sad, so I think I'll put the dogs out one last time and turn in. Things should look much better in the morning. I'm counting on it.

 

[cheepteach]

I realize that. Honestly, I do. But the longer this goes on - and I'm not naive enough to think that we've passed the worst and it'll all get better from here - the harder it gets to stay away from our families. My extended family is very, very close. We always have been. A holiday is defined by hugs and food and who happens to drop in, today ... not the calendar. We've already lost one cousin during this mess - not to covid, but still, it was hard being unable to comfort her husband, my cousin and one of my dearest friends. Other family members have been in and out of the hospital with the virus. My immediate family is up to five friends and coworkers lost. We no longer even count those who have been sick. We're just grateful that they're on the road to recovery.
My Dad is extremely frail and my closest aunt is waning from breast cancer. Both are in their eighties. I have a cousin in Florida who is in total isolation because he is wheelchair bound with MS. Another is trapped in his home in Myrtle Beach because stupid tourists won't stay away from the beach, so his neighborhood is one of the worst hotspots in the country. He can't even go out to walk his dog!
Then there's the social unrest. Two of my cousins were among those trying to protect a beautiful old Columbus statue. It ended up in Baltimore's Inner Harbor ... IN the harbor. Luckily, no one was hurt except a lot of hearts. My nephew was stopped by police for having an unbroken taillight (aka - he was a young black man in a wealthy neighborhood. He LIVES there!) Now his sister is afraid to go anywhere and my sister is terrified for her children's safety.
I've lost my job.
I don't qualify for unemployment.
We won't starve, but I don't know how I'm going to keep my house, come Fall.
I know that many, many people are in the same boat, right now. And I know that my complaining about it sounds like a selfish personal pity-party, but at this particular moment, I'm having a really hard time with all of this, but it's late (after midnight.) I'm tired. I'm sad, so I think I'll put the dogs out one last time and turn in. Things should look much better in the morning. I'm counting on it.

sometimes you have to vent for yourself, and it doesn't mean you don't appreciate that others have it worse than you. It's all a mess and I hope for better days

 

[Folly's place]

I wasn't trying to minimize the stress we are all feeling, or the misery that is happening right now, and I'm sorry to have come over that way. I miss the hugs too!!!
It's both sadness and anger that I'm feeling, because this has been such a disaster, and for all the wrong reasons.
We all want to get through it, and realize that 'short term' now means into 2021, with a bumpy road for at least the remainder of 2020.
And venting is a good thing!
Mary

 

[Birdsong 82]

Reminding ANY and everyone because they lifted restrictions does it mean it's not still out there. My cousin mid- 20s social butterfly went right back at it when restrictions were lifted like it was gone. And she just tested positive yesterday. I'm glad they were things opening again and it's helping especially the small businesses survive but we all still need to use our common sense and watch out for ourselves and one another
It's inconvenient it makes things extra tough I know. I mean heck a different cousin of mine passed away two weeks ago and we can't even have a real service for him. But we've got to make sure we are keeping ourselves and one another safe.

 

[MROO]

I wasn't trying to minimize the stress we are all feeling, or the misery that is happening right now, and I'm sorry to have come over that way. I miss the hugs too!!!
It's both sadness and anger that I'm feeling, because this has been such a disaster, and for all the wrong reasons.
We all want to get through it, and realize that 'short term' now means into 2021, with a bumpy road for at least the remainder of 2020.
And venting is a good thing!
Mary

I understand. I was just in a bad place, physically and emotionally, last night. A bit of sleep helped immensely (maybe tonight's will be better ... or maybe I can resort to that wonderful childhood convention ... a NAP!)

I also managed to make it to church, this morning for the first time since March 8th. There were just a handful of people there, We were all outside, masked and distanced, but it was comforting. We have an amazing music director, who brought his talented family to play their assorted instruments. There was no singing allowed, but who needs more than a recording of our virtual choir (12 strong) when we have our own version of the Von Trappe Family right here.

I have to say that listening to a sermon on sowing seeds and hope ... and hearing some amazingly talented, truly blessed musicians ... while sitting in a comfortable camp chair ... under a 100-year-old tree ... in a three-hundred+ year old historic churchyard beside a three hundred year old church ... on the banks of a beautiful river ... on an absolutely gorgeous morning, was ... well ... humbling and very, very restorative.

God is good.
Life is ... okay ...
and we're going to get through this.

 

[MROO]

Reminding ANY and everyone because they lifted restrictions does it mean it's not still out there. My cousin mid- 20s social butterfly went right back at it when restrictions were lifted like it was gone. And she just tested positive yesterday. I'm glad they were things opening again and it's helping especially the small businesses survive but we all still need to use our common sense and watch out for ourselves and one another
It's inconvenient it makes things extra tough I know. I mean heck a different cousin of mine passed away two weeks ago and we can't even have a real service for him. But we've got to make sure we are keeping ourselves and one another safe.

I'm sorry about your cousins ... both of them. Let's hope your social butterfly learned her lesson. I've said it before and I'll say it again:
Lifting restrictions doesn't mean that the pandemic is over. It simply means that they have room for you now in the ICU!

 

[Birdsong 82]

I felt a lot over the years things have become very one man for himself . This is fate in life's way of teaching us how important it is that we all have to work together
I'm a big purveyor of doing for yourself to get through but also lending a helping hand but this shows that we all live on this earth and the only way to get through this one is for everyone to work together
Yes it has been tough for my family. A couple months ago my uncle died from a brain aneurysm. His son I finally gotten clean rehab and was doing so well. But I think losing his dad was too much for him to handle sober and he overdosed. And it wasn't even a year ago my grandfather passed. And now this. I'm hoping since she's a generally healthy young lady it won't affect her too hard but no one really knows

 

[Birdsong 82]

I wasn't trying to minimize the stress we are all feeling, or the misery that is happening right now, and I'm sorry to have come over that way. I miss the hugs too!!!
It's both sadness and anger that I'm feeling, because this has been such a disaster, and for all the wrong reasons.
We all want to get through it, and realize that 'short term' now means into 2021, with a bumpy road for at least the remainder of 2020.
And venting is a good thing!
Mary

I am 100% with the missing hugs. One of my coworkers has a wife who's bad of health so they've had him working from home and he pretty much hasn't left his house. He had to come by work and pick something up and he's always been more of a friend and a coworker. Saw him for the first time in months and wanting nothing more to just give him a hug. This all has to end at some point but sometimes it feels like it's never going to. I can feel lucky that my immediate family has been safe and that I am able to still work. There's a lot of people who have not been that fortunate