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

[BDutch]

My DS + GF cancelled coming over this last weekend. Was afraid the risk was too high living a life as students and need to move around with public transport when its too far to cycle.

Our DD + BF live nearby. They have a car wich is a lot safer to travel and we see them every week. But since the BF works in a nursing home they keep 5’ away and we put the ventilation (with heat recovery) on a higher level. If one of the patients is tested positive they won’t come at all.

Sometimes we see other friends and family, and working relations , washing hands before serving coffee and keeping 5’ distance.

We ordered our groceries last weekend, bc the nearby store is too crowded and most people didn’t wear masks. Delivery takes 5 days now because there are more people now doing this . Yesterday we had a delivery from a household store. And on Monday a wine delivery. We see more delivery men then real visitors nowadays.

All together it feels quit lonely. And having to live inside the house (autumn 🌧 ) this second wave really makes it less pleasant as the 1st wave. At least we all have smartphones to keep in contact.

 

[IamRainey]

Speaking of holiday plans, how do you manage other "social" events?

My garden club of about 30 elderly ladies made plans to meet in person keeping 6' distances but that was a couple months ago when it looked like the tide was turning favorably. That plan was scrapped before it was ever implemented (I think Sept was our target date). We've continued to meet via Zoom*.

A friend is currently working on a plan for us to have an in-person Christmas party but she's really challenged to come up with a venue that seems safe (we're all over 60) or even available. Outside in December seems iffy, at best even in SoCal. And at the holidays it's far more likely that everyone will have more contact with more people -- and that ain't reassuring. Whether it will or will not happen is still anybody's guess.

My bookclub is smaller. We're 7 ladies (and sometimes my husband) of various ages. We've successfully met once outside and distanced. Snacks were all individually wrapped so there wasn't sharing. Mostly we teleconference. Our next meeting later this month is scheduled to be outside in person. Haven't heard if that's changed yet. If it's on someone's deck I'll go. I know these ladies well and trust their good sense to keep themselves and others safe.

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* More people in my area are switching to BlueJean video conferencing because it's an American company (Verizon, I think). My business managers, in particular, won't use Zoom because of security concerns.

 

[Molpet]

Bacon scented masks
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/hormel-made-a-face-mask-that-smells-like-bacon

 

[IamRainey]

But wouldn't that make you constantly want to snack? I suspect people are gaining enough weight with all the sheltering at home and comfort and anxiety eating.

 

[Molpet]

But wouldn't that make you constantly want to snack? I suspect people are gaining enough weight with all the sheltering at home and comfort and anxiety eating.

Good point

 

[Folly's place]

My pets would eat those masks, guaranteed!!!
Mary

 

[Molpet]

My pets would eat those masks, guaranteed!!!
Mary

True
Also Silly people don't dispose of them properly. Lots of wildlife eating them would not be good either.
I leave mine in the vehicle. Not sure I want a bacon scented ride.

I assume they aren't washable either

 

[IamRainey]

My pets would eat those masks, guaranteed!!!
Mary

We had a lab that ate anything he could get to: a 40-pound bag of kibble (ever seen a dog gain 40 pounds in an afternoon? he looked like a tall flounder), an entire kitty litter pan filled with dried milled corn husk litter (that one was an expensive vet bill!), a 17-ounce 72% cacao chocolate bar (that one too!), 4 pounds of rising bread dough (that one almost got him killed but it wasn't the bread dough it was ME). And once my son left part of a sandwich from lunch zipped up in his super heavy duty Kipling backpack with all the reflective stitching after school. No zipper was going to keep Odie out. He just ate a 9" hole through the corner of the nylon.

 

[Folly's place]

Glad Odie survived all that!
We've had adventures here too, with both our idiot dogs, and cats, who seem bent on suicide by gluttony sometimes!
Mary

 

[IamRainey]

There are dogs who are just interested in filling their bellies regardless of what's available to do the job.

I had a friend who had a Standard Poodle who was like that. They had socks go missing all the time only to end up in the grass when the dog squatted. One time he ate a bikini bottom and because of the size and shape and stretchy property of the material it stayed embedded in his stomach.

They had no idea what had happened. Only that he was doing poorly and not defecating at all. It took surgery, which turned out to be just in the nick of time, to discover and remove the missing bikini bottom.