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

[ShrekDawg]

The thing is people have walked around touching unfamiliar things with the gloves and they want them OFF before they get in their cars. Understandable but it doesn't mean they can't carry a baggie with them. They remembered the gloves. They can remember a baggie. Then they can put the gloves in the baggie, take them home (NOT even into their house) and put them in the trash properly.

I have a bag of disinfectant sheets in my car as well so I can wipe my hands and the steering wheel.

The prob is some people just don't think of more than what meets their needs. I think that's the terrible flaw in our society and what we're suffering from in a hundred different ways. We're a nation of 8yos.

Yeah, that makes sense and I get it but they don’t even have to carry a baggie. This Walmart has trash cans literally right outside the doors, inside the doors, and all over the parking lot so no excuse for it!!!

Also, for me, what’s the point of wearing gloves just to take them off and touch the potentially contaminated stuff anyway when loading it? I wait till after I load it then take them off and admittedly I just threw mine in the back seat. but I got them later and at least it’s only my own car I contaminated.

 

[ShrekDawg]

You are supposed to have one pickle every hour, even in your sleep. I quote from the loss text of the bible, Lamb 30:20, "You shall eat the pickle every hour or I shall send another flood." God said that!

 

[IamRainey]

@rosemarythyme
Well, we live in the country so most of the people in a 20 mile radius goes to that one store or the others around it. There is at least always 50 people in the store at once in the day time, and the limity is causing problems. All the canned foods are gone, which forces people to shop quite frequently. And also the limit in how much you can get is also causing problems with families that have many people. It's just hard to get food that doesn't run out in a week.

Well, the good news from an area that's a couple weeks ahead of you is that it will settle down in 2-3 weeks.

If you can make do with what you've got people will get stocked up, stores will learn a strategy for dealing with the panic and then there will be a new kind of "normal" that's manageable even if it's inconvenient.

We were out taking a drive yesterday and I said to my husband if he would run by Trader Joe's I'd duck in to pick something up. When we got there there was a 60' line of masked people responsibly spaced waiting their turn to get in. We just went home. I'll get whatever it was when I plan a trip. And I'll be masked and appropriately spaced and waiting patiently to get in too.

 

[IamRainey]

You got to. So the critters will leave you sumpin'...

 

[IamRainey]

Also, for me, what’s the point of wearing gloves just to take them off and touch the potentially contaminated stuff anyway when loading it?

I just leave what I bought in the bag in the garage for 3-4 days.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I just leave what I bought in the bag in the garage for 3-4 days.

That’s a good idea! I didn’t do that with the stuff I bought yesterday.

What about putting it in the car though? Have to touch it to get in the car, no? And the bag could potentially be contaminated too?

Doesn’t really make sense to me to wear gloves when taking the item off the shelf but then touch it or the bag or whatever to put it in the car. If I’m making sense.

 

[IamRainey]

What about putting it in the car though? Have to touch it to get in the car, no? And the bag could potentially be contaminated too?

We're all probably exposing ourselves a hundred times every time we leave our homes. That's why we're supposed to be staying inside until we have to go out.

The way I look at it, is I'm limiting my exposure as much as I can. I'm thinking things through as much as I can. And then I'm going on about my life. There's No. Such. Thing. as a risk-free life.

 

[IamRainey]

Whew! I went out for several hours and now I'm finally caught up!

 

[ShrekDawg]

We're all probably exposing ourselves a hundred times every time we leave our homes. That's why we're supposed to be staying inside until we have to go out.

The way I look at it, is I'm limiting my exposure as much as I can. I'm thinking things through as much as I can. And then I'm going on about my life. There's No. Such. Thing. as a risk-free life.

Yeah that’s true and I totally agree!! Just don’t get the people in such a hurry to strip stuff on in the parking lot haha

I’m trying to stay home though mostly now.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Whew! I went out for several hours and now I'm finally caught up!

Where did you go?