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

[cheepteach]

our daughter is due on Nov 7, but we are betting he will arrive on Halloween with the Blue Moon! otherwise, a family dinner of my granddaughter's twisted mind and watching the original Birds movie

 

[LadiesAndJane]

our daughter is due on Nov 7, but we are betting he will arrive on Halloween with the Blue Moon! otherwise, a family dinner of my granddaughter's twisted mind and watching the original Birds movie

Congratulations on the grand baby!

 

[cheepteach]

when she's ready to pop, only her husband can be with her if he passes the thermometer test(I am #2 if he can't go)He has to stay the whole time in the hospital--if he leaves, he can't go back in..CRAZY times!

 

[electrycmonk]

I haven't posted here for awhile...a long while. DH and I are in month8 of our self imposed isolation.

I have to admit, it hasn't been as bad as I thought it would be.

Groceries? Amazon Prime and Walmart.com for non perishables that are delivered to the house and left at the gate which is still locked. Boxes are open in the shop and left to 'air' out for 12 hours before put away. Perishables are purchased at HyVee isles on line and one of us picks them up. A masked employee loads them in the car for us. If you have a HyVee in your area I urge you to try this service. I thought I would not get used to not being able to pick my meat and dairy out for myself but quickly discovered that I do not miss shopping in person at all. No drippy nosed kiddos, no adults hacking out a lung. We purchase a month's supply of perishables and pick up chicken and dog food during the outing. I call the local MFA and they have my order on the dock for me or DH on our way through. They load it, I hand them a check, easy peasy.

We live rural. mostly everyone stays to themselves. Over the weekend we loaded boxes of apples and pie pumpkins from our orchard and garden and delivered them to our neighbors. We left them by mailboxes for them to pick up. One family left us a big box of home canned veggies. Kindness abounds.

Our doctor's appointments with the exception of DH's dermatology appointments are done over the telephone. If we HAVE to go anywhere, we are masked. Otherwise it's emergency care only.

Do I like living this way? I don't mind the concessions made for shopping. I do miss going to the local Salvation Army or Cornerstone in order to shop for jeans to wear around the farm and other treasures but Amazon has proven to be a very fertile growing ground as far as shopping is concerned.

Neither DH or I are bored. We have our 29 acre park/farm to play on. Projects abound to keep us busy and as the doctor told the little boy who swallowed the nickel. This too shall pass.

Our area right now is experiencing a surge and registered it's first covid death last week. It's not over yet but we have our second wind and I'm proud of the way we have adapted to the crisis.

My biggest hurdle has been dealing with members of our local HAM club who seem to throw sour grapes at me when I tell people to stay safe, mask up, stay at home if you can and maintain social distancing if you can't

People are either going to listen your you or not listen. Nothing you can do.

To everyone who has lost loved ones, my deepest condolences. I grieve with you. To those of you who have been sick. Please feel better. Prayers sent. To everyone else. Please stay healthy and safe.

A local fellow veteran is organizing an online ARRL session with online supervised testing.... Sometime soon....
I'll finally get that off the bucket list!

 

[gimmie birdies]

Masks are a good thing, hopefully our governor will be replaced because of them...hmhmhm... oh look a butterfly...

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Masks ARE good I agree, like seatbelts and bike helmets. I'm not sure why he'd be getting replaced since he put a mask ordinance in months ago. Our governor did too and I don't think he'll be getting replaced for that. Maybe you could explain it to me?

 

[microchick]

A local fellow veteran is organizing an online ARRL session with online supervised testing.... Sometime soon....
I'll finally get that off the bucket list!

Really? Interesting and kudos to your friend. Do you have any information as to the when? Are they planning an on air session? If so what frequency are they using? Might be interesting to see if we can make contact with them on the air.

 

[centrarchid]

I am impacted in several ways.

Personally, I have had to go to extremes to avoid catching it. My kids were switched over to online courses. We did these to protect my wife that had cancer. She passed away last weekend. She was in an ICU was that was becoming increasingly crowded by COVOD-19 and they medical staff clearly wanted to free up a room my wife occupied to treat those patients. The medical staff was / is investing a lot of resources into the COVID-19 patients and expressing concern they could not keep up with what is coming. When my wife passed, it quickly became apparent we would not be able to hold normal services because it would force many vulnerable relatives from all over the USA increasing their odds of exposure and moving the bug around. We also hit a wall where local venues have begun restricting size of social gatherings. We are looking to postpone services until next summer.

At work my work crew has been split into two units that overlap very little in time when they are on the job. We wear the damn masks and I personally run out those that are unable to comply. Several of my crew have pre-existing conditions or a spouse that does so they must be protected. I cannot just go out an snag someone off the unemployment line to replace the vulnerable folks of I loose them. I be a real butt munch if I thought I could. We have had problem with student workers that kept coming to work even when they were sick because they needed then paycheck. They infected others, thankfully with something that was not COVID-19.

Most of the farmers I have worked with have had an exceptionally good year that is attributed to the pandemic, although none produce commodity products and most market direct to the consumer. Several of those same farmers have lost people they know, or at least had a lot of health issues causing loss of man-hours.

The real fun for this pandemic is about to start in the rural area where I live. There are a lot of people here that will have to witness a lot of losses before they change their ways. Until then they a participating in the spread of something that otherwise would be fairly easy to subdue without undue damage to the economy. The problem is it is an all or none situation with many folks.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

@centrarchid That's some really terrible news and I grieve with you. Cancer is brutal and I've seen too much of it first hand. I'm so sorry.

And @electrycmonk for you also. People going through some tough times all over. :'( It feels very sad.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Mine were deleted as well. Sorry I never meant to offend. It just breaks my heart when people minimize the profound impact this pandemic has had on so many people. I guess we all need to embrace what we all have in common rather than what divides us. My heart goes out to everyone who has suffered loss during this pandemic.