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

[twendt]

Yeah, I read that too, can't really remember where. If you haven't file for this year they will go by your 2018 yr.

I picked up my feed this morning and you'd never know anything different was going on in my area except for a little less traffic. Got there right at opening and had to go inside TSC to sign for my order. Typical amount of morning shoppers and not being careful in any way.
The manager and I are friends and we chatted for a few minutes... at a distance because I was the one keeping my distance.... he said he's scared like many are and that he'd been talking to other managers not too far away and pop up delivery businesses are picking up people's feed and supplies for them and then delivering and stacking the feed/supplies.

There were chicks in the store, I looked, but nothing I needed. Some sex links, RIR, meaties, and a few ducklings. The manager and an employee brought out my order and loaded it for me, which was very nice, and we were on our way.
As I passed some other stores there were plenty of cars in the parking lots and things looked very typical here. It was strange not seeing any school buses out so early though...that's something very different.

It's eerily QUIET........

 

[SnapdragonQ]

It's eerily QUIET........

Wouldn't know that in my neck of the woods....
All my neighbors are doing their normal weekend stuff, yapping with other neighbors, visiting families coming and going, traffic, though less, is still enough to seem more normal. I'm really glad I live more towards the middle of my 5 acres...none too happy with the folks around me not paying enough attention.

 

[FortCluck]

Wouldn't know that in my neck of the woods....
All my neighbors are doing their normal weekend stuff, yapping with other neighbors, visiting families coming and going, traffic, though less, is still enough to seem more normal. I'm really glad I live more towards the middle of my 5 acres...none too happy with the folks around me not paying enough attention.

A lot of people were doing yard work around here

 

[igorsMistress]

This is notting like a flu. Listen to the doctors and nurses who take care of the sick. They now.

I didn't say it's a flu. I said the flu has a higher mortality rate. Read what I wrote.

 

[twendt]

I live 10 minutes outside of Milwaukee, WI, not as cosmopolitan as most cities, but Urban. I am in a Suburban area outside a suburb. I have chickens without permission. No ordinance went through. Luckily, my neighbors are all "cool" with my violation. I decided long ago, only I know what's good for me and my family, this is MY property, I will decide what to do with it. EVEN the CITY of MIlwaukee can have 4 hens!!!. I have an acre of land, plenty of land for 7 hens. They free range in my enclosed garden. Afraid to let them out in the yard to be found out!!!!

 

[igorsMistress]

Some people will not listen to anyone. Willful ignorance is going to kill a lot of people.

Yes, willful ignorance is running quite rampant. So is paranoia and panic.

 

[twendt]

I think by the time it's

I didn't say it's a flu. I said the flu has a higher mortality rate. Read what I wrote.

We don't have immunity to this virus, we haven't been exposed before, that's why it's so virulent, and why people die. As soon as more of us get immunity, the better the outcome. that's years away. Better to be cautious at the moment.

 

[Beer can]

I didn't say it's a flu. I said the flu has a higher mortality rate. Read what I wrote.

What statistics are you going by? Because no one ever heard of covid-19 a few months ago...

 

[rosemarythyme]

A lot of people were doing yard work around here

Same, that's what a lot of folks in my area are doing to get a little outside time while still safely maintaining distance from others (we're mostly on half acre to several acre parcels). Even with the rain, I saw one lady working on her garden, another family playing with their dog in the yard, etc.

 

[FortCluck]

We don't have immunity to this virus, we haven't been exposed before, that's why it's so virulent, and why people die. As soon as more of us get immunity, the better the outcome. that's years away. Better to be cautious at the moment.

Yeah it's just like when all these flu strains start. When you have no immunity, it's not a good idea to not be cautious.

Walmart pickup is wiping down all their equipment after every customer. I was quite impressed with them today.