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

[ChocolateMouse]

 

[IamRainey]

I've been upset about this since January, and it's been grim to see the 'too little, too late' response to this epidemic continuing.
The statistics have been frightening, and obvious, and I'm in the 'more at risk' group.

Did you see the story about Bill Gate's TED talk about ebola being a warning to the Western Hemisphere to prepare for pandemic? He, basically, laid out in 2015 exactly how Covid-19 has unfolded. https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_the_next_outbreak_we_re_not_ready?language=dz

 

[rosemarythyme]

What a great day, chipped a back tooth badly on a nasty corndog and can't go to the dentist since all are closed! Wont see ya unless it's an emergency, which I don't think this qualifies.

Yeah I have a cracked tooth that probably needs a crown sooner rather than later, but I don't think it really qualifies as an emergency, so I haven't left a message with the dentist's office.

 

[IamRainey]

Three of us here in that boat BF is 73 I am 63 had pneumonia 5 times the adult Son is here was born with small lungs never been able to catch up

Sounds sobering! I'm glad you're still all OK.

I've heard that WA (or was it the Seattle area) appears to be rounding the curve.

Stay inside! Be safe!

 

[ChocolateMouse]

True, sick people have to eat too.
I know I get peeved when I hear people in the wintertime in stores hacking up a lung and spreading all the typical germs. Some people are just so used to going out when sick they may not even think about it much. I dunno. I usually scrape the bottom of the cupboard...aaaaalll the way in the back corner before venturing out when really sick.

As for me, or rather my alternative now....I'm trying to order all the dry stuff I can to avoid grocery stores. Now to be fair, with our food allergies and inability to have gluten I'm already used to having to order flours and other needed items, but until I have to get items that can't be ordered, or cold items, I'm staying out of the stores.
Yes, I have enough tp because I got my regular amount just before the paper craze hit.
Eventually that will run out but even so, I'll try ordering before I go to the store.

I will often too, but I live in a house on a quarter acre with a farm and my mom was a conspiracy theorist, prepper, and hoarder. Breaking totally away from those preparedness habits is impossible and not wise. Not everyone has my privileges.
Several years ago I was living in a one bedroom apartment without even enough room for a full weeks food without starting to store it in the living room. I remember running to the grocery store while G had mono so bad it sent him to the ER twice. The first time he went they didn't even have a diagnosis for him - whatever it was could have been serious or contagious (unlikely at the time) but I had to go get food anyhow.
If G gets sick again we can probably get amazon prime deliveries from whole foods cause of his job. If we didn't have his discounts it would be off to the lower cost groceries with everyone else. Especially since eating healthy is important to recovery. Not everyone gets to live like us.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Did you see the story about Bill Gate's TED talk about ebola being a warning to the Western Hemisphere to prepare for pandemic? He, basically, laid out in 2015 exactly how Covid-19 has unfolded. https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_the_next_outbreak_we_re_not_ready?language=dz

Good Ted talk, and very sobering.
Too bad the people who could affect change and gotten us prepared haven't been listening.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

........ Not everyone gets to live like us.

True, It's been a long time since I lived in a one bedroom apartment. Rusty brained here.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Ugh. ;_; There's a concert I wanted to go see on May 31st.

I don't think I am gonna get to. It hasn't officially been cancelled yet but it probably will get cancelled. It's RIGHT on the cusp of the current end date for economy shut down.

I don't go to many concerts, but I really wanted to go to this one. I'm bummed out by it. Booooooo!

 

[pennyJo1960]

We live in a very small town spent most of today in the largest town from us Centralia
stopped for grower food kids come to the car you pay them they bring it out

 

[rosemarythyme]

I don't go to many concerts, but I really wanted to go to this one. I'm bummed out by it. Booooooo!

Yeah that sucks but... safest to pass on it. What was the show?

I'd been eyeballing concert calendars too before all this happened. Don't like having to get tickets like 9 months in advance, because you never know what might happen or what might change.