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

[BigBlueHen53]

That looks really interesting!! I was going to watch NCIS but forgot about it and now it’s half over thankfully I’m recording though so I’ll wait. Currently baking myself a cake

A cake! Stress is having the opposite effect on me, I can hardly force myself to eat. Breakfast was a slice of whole wheat raisin toast with a little peanut butter and half a sliced banana. Dinner was a wrap with a little lunch meat (which I hardly ever eat but the kids voted for), a slice of cheese, lettuce, tomato and avocado. I just don't feel like eating.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Well this is sad. A local 6 year old with other health issues tested positive and is sick.
Direct quote from mom (according to local news)-

“We were staying home, just getting the necessities that we needed. We didn’t think that it was that serious. So, when (he) started having those symptoms, I got really sick to my stomach and thought ‘I should have been taking this serious from day one,'” (mom) said.
(names removed by me)

61 one cases as of today in my not so big area and a death. Hospital workers are testing positive too.

 

[Kiki]

@Kiki
It was in a video put out by a doctor who was teaching people how to properly handle their groceries once home to reduce spread of possible virus on food containers, grocery items, and packaging.
He said that coronaviruses (plural) can live in a frozen environment for up to 2 years, so if you bought a frozen pizza or item that is wrapped in plastic, then packaged inside of a box, ditch the box, wipe the plastic wrapping, then stick it in the freezer.
And yes, many viruses have been proven to survive very well in below freezing temps.



Very glad to see the experts being allowed to talk more, and talk more freely, about what is coming. The unsettling part is that the WH projections (based in the IMHE models...more below) leave so much still up in the air.


The data came from the Dr Chris Murray models at IMHE-
https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections

Something important to know...these models are set on ALL the remaining states doing Stay at Home orders with a week. Dr Murray said this in an interview this afternoon, after the WH briefing in which Dr Birx used his models. He also said if those states don't do the stay at homes the numbers will rise.
(I heard and saw it straight from him directly)

Edit: typos

Thanks! I didn't even click on the link.

 

[dirkandlorie]

I live in the village 50 km from Moscow (it`s Rusia), but i don`t travel to the city more ofter as 1-2 times in a year. Usually i went there in the spring before to plant the potatoes, in first days of may or in last days of april. But now width this covid 19 the goverment tell to be at home and i think that i will cancel this trip and went to the Moscow only in the autumn, because in the summer i am too busy here.
Now i sit at my house, play computer games, read forums, read books, try to play music width my deceased grandmother's accordion, and feed my animals. I also canceled my walks to the grocery store, because I usually go there only for halva, sweets and corn sticks, this is not so important. I have my own meat, eggs, milk or canned, frozen vegetables and fruits, because I have goats, chickens, ducks, geese, a garden and a vegetable garden. In summer it will be even easier - fresh vegetables and fruits will appear.

glad you are so well set up to wait out the pandemic! Stay well!

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Thanks! I didn't even click on the link.

It was very informative and even covered how to handle drive through foods.

 

[Beer can]

Not getting any drive through foods. Don't do much of that anyway, definitely not now, don't know where their hands have been. We make and eat home.

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

if you’re drinking, you’re in no condition to be outside getting infected!

I will drink to that!

 

[Tonyroo]

When I go shopping for necessities once a week, I wear a mask in the stores and after I leave I clean my hands with alcohol, I also disinfect my mask with alcohol in a spray bottle each time. People in my area are going rogue in the stores which makes me nervous for them.

 

[Folly's place]

Ten days or so ago, when i went to the store, I was the only person there in a face mask. Today, a fair number of shoppers were wearing them. Better!
My son went to a smaller local store this afternoon, wearing a face mask, and came home very angry. He saw a man there wearing a towel over his head, coughing like mad!
DS walked into the house, dumped his clothes in the washer, and took a shower immediately.
It's bad enough that 'healthy' people can spread this without realizing it, but to show up sick at a store is outrageous!
Mary

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

Have y'all seen the projections on expected deaths

Yes, and the numbers he who shall not be named said at his daily news conference, 100 to 240K are optimistic,