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

[IamRainey]

Wisdom is sadly short everywhere, but using fear as a motivator, well Yoda would have to disagree, he had some great speeches on that.

It's not fear. It's INFORMATION. And intelligent people respond to it appropriately and responsibly.

 

[Trevorusn]

That attitude IS the problem.

Yes. It WILL happen where you are. It's only a matter of time. The virus is in every state in the country and in tiny Guam out in the middle of the Pacific ocean.

Los Angeles had zero case 3 weeks ago. Then it got 1. Now our largest hospital is at capacity and its operations are breaking down. The staff are running out of the personal protective equipment that keeps them sterile as they go from patient to patient and sterile as they go between themselves and home to their families. Lower paid employees who clean and provide technical services are refusing to go into patient rooms.

My daughter, an ICU nurse, can't have her son at home with her because she's scared for her own health now and for his and her husband's.

Everyone who treats this virus and the LIKELIHOOD that they will become a carrier is like a gun to the head of those people who are working double and triple their caseloads and hours that bring them to exhaustion further risking their own immune systems.

Don't be a jackass! Take this and your reponsibility to others seriously and start doing it NOW!

No, you screaming in fear is the problem. And you being mad at others not being afraid is also the problem. Calling someone a jackass will not make anyone want to listen to you.

 

[Trevorusn]

It's not fear. It's INFORMATION. And intelligent people respond to it appropriately and responsibly.

Yes, like not panicking.

 

[IamRainey]

I've heard that the water in Venice is clear again, when it's usually brown. The air quality in a lot of places is better than it's been in years, if not decades. Maybe during this crisis we can rearrange our priorities a little bit and when we restart the world, restart it better than it was before? That's what my grandmother taught me. She used to say, "Always leave things a little better than how you found them."

The Renaissance, probably the most creative period in human history, followed the Bubonic Plague.

 

[FortCluck]

My ex's wife is down with "something nasty" that is "not flu," but the Covid 19 test has not come back, yet. She is, understandably, quarantined. Her shows no symptoms, so he "can't be sick." He has the constitution of a horse and NEVER shows symptoms. The idiot worked through salmonella. So ... he continues to work ... driving a freakin' commuter bus, for Heaven's sake! How can some people be so hard-headed - and dare I say - stoopid?!?

There are lots of people who have one symptom or a few and just because they don't have a fever they continue to pass their germs around.

People need to understand... Even if it's not Covid 19, you're still weakening people's immune systems by introducing your germs to them. That means these people will be at risk for getting Covid 19 because they won't be able to fight your germs and Covid 19.

 

[Beer can]

I, personally, have seen entirely too many “end of world” flicks

Those have always been my fav.
Did you ever watch the series 'The Last Ship'?, I watched the series on Hulu. Really good. Kinda what we are going through right now but 100% worse with a man made virus, bio-weapon. A US Navy ship pretty much saves the world. I think there was six seasons. Great story line and acting, lots of action. I'm thinking about watching it again lol.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Would you mind either linking the best thread or giving a brief summary? I've been worried about this as well. I'm considering hatching more quail since they are such great and fast meat/egg birds, but I feel like if it comes to really needing them for food I also won't have anything to feed them. Same with my chickens. A lot of people are asking for eggs. Before all this I was just about to sell a bunch of pullets, because of the cost of their feed. Now I'm not sure I should. Same question about feed though.

I would not call this one (below) the best thread, but it is recent and in light of what is happening. The rest I think I did a "DIY feed" or "cheap feed" and "feed per day" type of search, but I didn't bookmark them. However I'll poke around some and post more links in a while.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/if-feed-stores-closed-and-you-can’t-free-range.1352377/

There are also a lot of threads on making one's own feed too.

In the mean time, I posted on the linked one above, like I did here maybe ....I dunno.....20 pages back? This thread grows so fast!

So I searched how much feed per bird per day and found general estimates to be about 1/4lb to 1/3lb per day for a laying hen to produce an egg. Or about 3lbs a day for my birds, and feed wise I'm ok for about 60 days.
But in the light of the changing situation (and that we are a family at risk) l decided to start rationing more strictly by the weights suggested AND I'm stretching what I do have adding in things like:
-Garden scraps (I do this anyway)
-kitchen scraps (again, normal here)
-small amounts of hand picked forages. My outdoor run is muddy right now because of record rains and flooding here. When things dry a bit I'll make a chicken "pasture" just for the girls to free range to boost nutrition.
-I've also started adding some eggs back to their feed. I've done this before in times of just too many eggs and did not notice an appreciable drop in egg production, however it did stretch my feed by about a third even though that wasn't my goal at the time.

Right now I have a dozen girls all currently laying, and in the mornings I've started adding 6 to 8 fresh eggs (shells and all) to a portion of the daily amount of dry feed. Mashing well so I don't encourage egg eating, and waiting about 10 minutes for the pellets to swell and soak up the moisture, then feeding it and some plain dry pellets.
I've basically taken the average daily amount of 3 to 3 1/2 lbs of just feed and reduced that to about 2 1/2 to 2 3/4lb per day with the egg addition alone. Every little bit helps.
I'm tracking production and condition and will assess as the grass comes in more and I'm able to free range them more. Grass is really starting to come in patches but the mud and flooding has set back forages here as many places are still in standing water. Or mud.

Note: I'm not stingy. I have given thousands of eggs away to friends and neighbors over the years. Some are thankful, most are not. In my current location ignorance abounds and I've not been treated well for my egg offerings, so since I'm WELL stocked in eggs right now I can easily give them back to the the birds.

ETA: Sorry... SnapdragonQ and "brief" are not synonymous.

 

[FortCluck]

Those have always been my fav.
Did you ever watch the series 'The Last Ship'?, I watched the series on Hulu. Really good. Kinda what we are going through right now but 100% worse with a man made virus, bio-weapon. A US Navy ship pretty much saves the world. I think there was six seasons. Great story line and acting, lots of action. I'm thinking about watching it again lol.

My parents watched this one and we're upset when it stopped because they really enjoyed it.

 

[chickisoup]

That attitude IS the problem.

Yes. It WILL happen where you are. It's only a matter of time. The virus is in every state in the country and in tiny Guam out in the middle of the Pacific ocean.

Los Angeles had zero case 3 weeks ago. Then it got 1. Now our largest hospital is at capacity and its operations are breaking down. The staff are running out of the personal protective equipment that keeps them sterile as they go from patient to patient and sterile as they go between themselves and home to their families. Lower paid employees who clean and provide technical services are refusing to go into patient rooms.

My daughter, an ICU nurse, can't have her son at home with her because she's scared for her own health now and for his and her husband's.

Everyone who treats this virus and the LIKELIHOOD that they will become a carrier is like a gun to the head of those people who are working double and triple their caseloads and hours that bring them to exhaustion further risking their own immune systems.

Don't be a jackass! Take this and your reponsibility to others seriously and start doing it NOW!

Wisconsin, not exactly a high density population state, went from single digits to triple digits in less than one week even tho our gov. took what were criticized for being overly aggressive measures early. Definitely did slow the spread down, at least at first, but it's spreading now none the less. They just life flighted a patient to California from Aruba!

 

[Beer can]

New York is really being hit hard.

Mostly in the city, the state is very few. Wish they would stay down there but they are not...