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

[igorsMistress]

I found some recipes for making homemade dish soap on YouTube, seems pretty easy. If you can't find any. I started making my own foaming hand soap because I was going broke buying it from Bath and Body Works!

I have some liquid castile that use in homemade cleaners if I run out. I try to keep multiple options available.

 

[featherhead007]

I am not a fan of pasta, so so about rice and potatoes. I do the same, canned veg and beans just in case but they definitely aren't my first choice!

I grew up with either snow or earthquakes. When the stuff started hitting the fan I grabbed a few cans of veg and some rice and pasta because the grandkids live here. Other than that it was just the normal stuff we needed. Lunch meat for hubs, crackers, milk. I'm not a doomsday prepper, but I keep a full pantry and freezer and have multiple options for cooking in case there's no electricity.

Send any unwanted pasta to me. My chickens love spagetti

 

[sourland]

My husband FINALLY apologized to me for all the times he teased me about having a chest freezer full of meat. It's the way I grew up, so to me, it's normal. My parents, Just the TWO of them have 2 refrigerators and a freezer full of food. I call my mom a food hoarder!!

Grew up 'country poor' here. Short on material things, but never short on food. Never a bad idea to be prepared/stockpiled for 'bad things'. Stuff happens. "Waste not, want not."

First two positive cases in our small community. No surprise, NJ seems to be following the pattern of the disease in NY. Hope that all are doing well today. Live smart.

 

[FortCluck]

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Should add Warehouse Workers. Many are busting butt to get the products to customers and the stores.

 

[Shadrach]

I've read a lot about flattening the curve. It seems that some do not really understand how this works.
Flattening the curve is trying to spread the burden on the health service by trickle feeding the sick through the system rather than dumping the lot on the system in a short period of time.
The burden is an unknown quantity, a variable, while a health services capacity is fixed to a greater, or lesser extent.
Should the burden, the unknown quantity, exceed the capacity at any point the strategy fails.
It gets more complicated.
There is a regular burden; the normal sicknesses that a health system has to deal with under normal conditions. This doesn't seem to be factored into the current strategy. There isn't much extra capacity in most health systems so in times of high demand the system is bound to fail.

The time for a total lockdown is long past. The curve flattening isn't working because the system doesn't have the capacity.
China seemed to understand this from the outset. Most of the European countries haven't nor has the USA or UK.

 

[Rooapalooza]

Grew up 'country poor' here. Short on material things, but never short on food. Never a bad idea to be prepared/stockpiled for 'bad things'. Stuff happens. "Waste not, want not."

Ditto. Growing up we had no clean water (the tap often came out green/brown and was rumored to cause birth defects, given the extremely high rate of a rare disorder in our area). We almost always lived at least an hour from a real grocery store. Now my parents are comfortably-middle class wealthy old folks but still have two fridges and two freezers and their own water purifier.

 

[FortCluck]

I've read a lot about flattening the curve. It seems that some do not really understand how this works.
Flattening the curve is trying to spread the burden on the health service by trickle feeding the sick through the system rather than dumping the lot on the system in a short period of time.
The burden is an unknown quantity, a variable, while a health services capacity is fixed to a greater, or lesser extent.
Should the burden, the unknown quantity, exceed the capacity at any point the strategy fails.
It gets more complicated.
There is a regular burden; the normal sicknesses that a health system has to deal with under normal conditions. This doesn't seem to be factored into the current strategy. There isn't much extra capacity in most health systems so in times of high demand the system is bound to fail.

The time for a total lockdown is long past. The curve flattening isn't working because the system doesn't have the capacity.
China seemed to understand this from the outset. Most of the European countries haven't nor has the USA or UK.

If we were going to do the lockdown, I believe we should have done it when we saw China having an issue because everybody knew this was going to spread...

I actually have been in lockdown for over 2 months because I was sick and my doctor told me that this was going to come over to the United States. There was no way that they could have prevented it considering all the plane flights and everything that come into the United States daily.

I haven't asked my doctor the status of the hospital that I go to because I am sure he is elbows deep in the ICU.

 

[FortCluck]

Grew up 'country poor' here. Short on material things, but never short on food. Never a bad idea to be prepared/stockpiled for 'bad things'. Stuff happens. "Waste not, want not."

First two positive cases in our small community. No surprise, NJ seems to be following the pattern of the disease in NY. Hope that all are doing well today. Live smart.

When I was younger we actually lived in a trailer on family land and we didn't have much. My mom went through school and became a nurse that's when our life changed.

My household and my parents household are completely different. They seem to be wasteful with food and we aren't. They actually always send leftovers and vegetables they are throwing away to my chickens... They aren't even bad vegetables.

 

[Rooapalooza]

I found some recipes for making homemade dish soap on YouTube, seems pretty easy. If you can't find any. I started making my own foaming hand soap because I was going broke buying it from Bath and Body Works!

You know it's the container, not the soap, right? Just save your foamy containers and refill them with whatever soap you want... I use diluted Dr Bronners mixed with a little lavender oil. It foams just fine.

 

[Rooapalooza]

The only cleaning product I found was the fluffy Swiffers for the floor. I know it's bad but they are so great for a quick cleanup and being allergic to dust, they make it a lot easier for me. The only soap was bar soap, so I got one box (2 bars). I don't think they did any restocking before they let us in to the store. And when I went into the produce department they were just bringing out a cart of produce. I won't say fresh, because I've found old, ready to expire stuff there in the past. However, apparently no one is buying chicken. There were some awesome prices for whole chickens. I picked one up. That will go into the freezer. If I can, I will try my regular grocery store tomorrow morning. That is a chain that has their own warehouses and distributors. They are always restocking and their customer service is outstanding. I didn't go there this morning because they don't sell the garbage bags for my town. I am getting a low on laundry detergent and dryer sheets. I buy that like once every 6 months. Well, hopefully tomorrow.

Wait why is that bad? Are Swiffers bad?