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

[SueT]

I ordered feed online from TSC, picked up at store an hour later. I didn't have to go in. I called from the parking lot, and they rolled it out, and loaded it for me. I signed the invoice outside. I was impressed.
Their website has this message from the CEO
A message to our Neighbors from President and CEO, Hal Lawton
All of us at Tractor Supply are here for you.
March 19, 2020
Dear Neighbor,
With the rapid changes across the nation due to the coronavirus (COVID‐19), I wanted to update you on the proactive steps we are taking at Tractor Supply to serve you, your family and your animals' needs today and in the longer term.

We know you view Tractor Supply as critical to feeding and caring for your animals and pets, just as the grocery store is to your family's needs. We feel a tremendous responsibility to you, and knowing this, we are taking the following steps:

We are adding Team Member hours in our stores to ensure we can provide legendary customer service.
We are adjusting our store hours to ensure our Team Members are available to help you. We continue to be humbled and proud of our Team Members across the country and thank you for the kindness and care you are showing them. Effective Sunday, March 22, our revised hours are:
Monday — Saturday: 8 a.m. ‐ 6 p.m.
Sunday: 9 a.m. ‐ 6 p.m. (Sunday hours vary by store – check online for your store's Sunday hours)
We are increasing our inventory supply for essential products such as livestock feed, equine feed, pet food, water and propane.
We are extending two weeks of paid leave to our Team Members if they are experiencing any concerning symptoms in order to ensure their health and well‐being as well as yours.
To make shopping easier for you and to ensure your products will be waiting for you when you arrive, our website, TractorSupply.com is enabled with Buy Online Pickup In Store. Once you order, we will have the product waiting for you in an hour, and we can hold it for you for up to 2 days.
We are committed today, tomorrow and in the future to continue to be your most dependable retailer of choice so that you can continue living life on your terms. Thank you for your loyalty and support.

I hope you and your family remain safe and well.
Hal Lawton, President and CEO

 

[FortCluck]

Covid 19 hasn't stopped our chicken hatching. This is how we are passing the time. I've been non-stop hatching since I left the hospital 2 months ago.

If I'm stuck in lockdown for 4 months (including the 2 I've already done), you better believe I'm going to occupy our time somehow.

I knew I'd be in lockdown months before anyone else. Covid in China started exactly at the time I was hospitalized. I was even tested for it. I knew I didn't have it because I never travel and no one I knew traveled lately.

Want to name her something to do with this lockdown if it's a Pullet. It has feathered legs it's Cochin Giant Cross

 

[Peep_Show]

Quarantina

 

[IamRainey]

What are some of the wrong statements our leader is making?

He's been downplaying it since the beginning. Every time he holds one of his ranting and rambling updates Fauci has to go on other media to correct the misstatements and flat out bad advice.

HIs latest and worst yet is the go-to-church on Easter thing and we'll-dump-restrictions-and-reopen-the-economy-in-2-weeks bit. Just look at Louisiana and Mardi Gras to see what's wrong with the latter and the former is purely a concession to his evangelical backers who want to ensure full collection plates on one of the 2 big paydays.

And I don't care anymore. Have me banned from BYC if you want to. NOT paying attention to what's going on and who's in the way of a strong reliable scientific response is going to cost lives.

 

[igorsMistress]

Good plan! (not!) Isn't AZ still full of vulnerable old folks & retirees?

Aren't old folks and retirees everywhere?

 

[FortCluck]

Quarantina

This is great

 

[SnapdragonQ]

It is. I am just really glad we carry full coverage insurance. It won't be enough to replace the truck but should help.

I cannot begin to imagine the hardship on top of everything else.
I'd like to let go a string of curse words towards the thief who stole the truck but I fear I'd get myself banned.

I'm so sorry this happened to you guys.

 

[igorsMistress]

He's been downplaying it since the beginning. Every time he holds one of his ranting and rambling updates Fauci has to go on other media to correct the misstatements and flat out bad advice.

HIs latest and worst yet is the go-to-church on Easter thing and we'll-dump-restrictions-and-reopen-the-economy-in-2-weeks bit. Just look at Louisiana and Mardi Gras to see what's wrong with the latter and the former is purely a concession to his evangelical backers who want to ensure full collection plates on one of the 2 big paydays.

And I don't care anymore. Have me banned from BYC if you want to. NOT paying attention to what's going on and who's in the way of a strong reliable scientific response is going to cost lives.

Can you make this a private conversation between the 2 of you please? Let's leave politics out of this thread.

 

[FortCluck]

He's been downplaying it since the beginning. Every time he holds one of his ranting and rambling updates Fauci has to go on other media to correct the misstatements and flat out bad advice.

HIs latest and worst yet is the go-to-church on Easter thing and we'll-dump-restrictions-and-reopen-the-economy-in-2-weeks bit. Just look at Louisiana and Mardi Gras to see what's wrong with the latter and the former is purely a concession to his evangelical backers who want to ensure full collection plates on one of the 2 big paydays.

And I don't care anymore. Have me banned from BYC if you want to. NOT paying attention to what's going on and who's in the way of a strong reliable scientific response is going to cost lives.

Let me just say one thing about our leader and representatives not causing a big uproar about this in the beginning...

If our leader or representatives would have fully come out and said how bad this is and not downplay it, our country would have completely crumbled. You think people were panicking when the CDC started coming out about it, imagine if our leader did that right off the bat... People would have gone completely insane and destroyed stores. When people aren't slowly weaned into stuff, they panic. Our country needed to be slowly weaned into what was going on because we as Americans cannot handle tragedies or disasters. We panic, its what humans do.

I know people don't like him and some people like him or what not, but We need to stop dealing with what happened in the past and deal with what is going on today...

What happened 3 weeks ago has already passed by and there's no point in digging it up even more, we need to look at today and what we are going to do tomorrow...

 

[igorsMistress]

Sooooo while this pandemic brings out the best in some....the he worst remains as well.

My husband drives a company truck for work which means his personal vehicle is parked at the shop overnight while he is on call.
He arrived at the office this morning to find his truck has been stolen.

Human race. <<sarcasm just so you know.

Hard times can bring out the best in people, or the worst it seems. I'm glad you guys have insurance but still, people are jerks.