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

[Cynthia12]

The folks that want to talk alternative..tries. . why not go start a thread on that very subject? Leave our community alone. We go with what the epidemiologists say. You can easily start another thread on your thoughts about other treatments. Go for it! .

 

[Cynthia12]

So, they are saying it's so much worse out there, that if you can, to double mask! And, where grocery shopping was ok once in a while, now, try not to if you don't really have to. Guess I'll be ordering online and picking up outside. . Our son..just..got...a .. job...at..the supermarket. .

 

[RebeccaRN]

So, they are saying it's so much worse out there, that if you can, to double mask! And, where grocery shopping was ok once in a while, now, try not to if you don't really have to. Guess I'll be ordering online and picking up outside. . Our son..just..got...a .. job...at..the supermarket. .

Where in the country do you live? We dont even have a mask mandate in our city.

 

[RebeccaRN]

I guess how bad the pandemic has affected your daily life really depends on where you live. We don't have a mask mandate at all here and are no worse off than the places who do. I live in the country with my dog and 7 chickens and really only go out to go to work so things havnt really changed much for me.

 

[Winter Creek Coop]

I guess how bad the pandemic has affected your daily life really depends on where you live. We don't have a mask mandate at all here and are no worse off than the places who do. I live in the country with my dog and 7 chickens and really only go out to go to work so things havnt really changed much for me.

In the rural areas its starting to feel more normal. As spring comes and everyone’s natural Vit D supplIes come up I hope it will dissapate even more.

 

[RebeccaRN]

In the rural areas its starting to feel more normal. As spring comes and everyone’s natural Vit D supplIes come up I hope it will dissapate even more.

I did subscribe to Walmart + so I get my groceries delivered to my door when I need to. I do it for convenience rather than fear tho

 

[IamRainey]

So, they are saying it's so much worse out there, that if you can, to double mask! And, where grocery shopping was ok once in a while, now, try not to if you don't really have to. Guess I'll be ordering online and picking up outside. . Our son..just..got...a .. job...at..the supermarket. .

I was listening to similar reports and while I was driving to Trader Joe's I wondered why they don't go back to limiting the number of customers in the stores. Low and behold, as I pulled into the parking lot I saw a line waiting for admittance.

As for grocery store workers, they're the folks making it possible for the rest of us to maintain workable lives. And they do it for very modest wages! But the good news is that the workers in my area of LA -- which, of course, is one of the hardest hit places on the planet -- are doing pretty well.

The stores protect them with large acrylic shields and customers need to stay well away from them. Credit cards are scanned at the arm's length of clerk AND customer. And, until recently, they would only use single-use bags. (I had them load back into the cart and bagged for myself in my reusable bag at the car.) The bottom line is that they've had infections. My Trader Joe's closed down once to do a deep cleaning after someone got infected. And my Costco had a swath of 40 infections following the Christmas shopping season. But, for the most part, I see the same clerks week after week and their spirits as well as their health remains good.

The stores try to protect customers too by sanitizing carts. And TJ's provides shade for the lines outside and passes out water and cookies when the weather is hot and waits are longer.

Covid is a PITA but for those of us who still have income -- some don't, remember! -- it's not something we can't deal with if we're patient and adaptable.

 

[Winter Creek Coop]

I am looking forward to some in person chicken shows. Also several of our archery comps fot cancelled last year. I am looking forward to archery shoots.

 

[RebeccaRN]

I am looking forward to some in person chicken shows. Also several of our archery comps fot cancelled last year. I am looking forward to archery shoots.

How many chickens do you have? I just started last year and have 7, 6 girls and 1 boy all about to be a year old soon

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Where I live the groceries are violating customer limits. It's not a problem with the very big Stores but smaller ones are regularly violating it. It's thought that it's because it's regularly dipping well below freezing here so the stores dont wanna let people stand outside and risk getting sued for frostbite and ADA issues.

G has a work from home job now... Amusingly in the biomedical technology industry. But D still works at a grocery. New COVID case alerts still come in every couple of days - the same rate that G got sick during. It worries me.

All the rural areas around us thought that they were safe... Right until they weren't. I watched all summer as case counts climbed and climbed while people would laugh at me for masking. Now they all have uncontrolled spread. Where I live case counts actually have gone DOWN in the countrysides because winter keeps everyone at home (except for holiday case spikes). People were careless and cases climbed all summer. I have NO faith that they won't keep climbing next summer.