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

[CapricornFarm]

The warm water one was verified by my pharmacist. He said to keep sipping warm water throughout the day. Apparently, the virus does NOT do well with heat and the digestive system kills it. So, I now drink hot lemon water instead of tea all day. There's a side benefit, too. It keeps me out of the soda, juice and Kool-Aid!

How about liquor? I bet that kills bugs.

 

[rosemarythyme]

The warm water one was verified by my pharmacist. He said to keep sipping warm water throughout the day. Apparently, the virus does NOT do well with heat and the digestive system kills it. So, I now drink hot lemon water instead of tea all day. There's a side benefit, too. It keeps me out of the soda, juice and Kool-Aid!

Since it doesn't transmit via digestive system (it's a respiratory virus after all, and thus far no cases of it being transmitted via food) not sure what lemon or other acidic foods/drinks are supposed to do to it? Did your pharmacist explain the logic behind that, like is it supposed to change the Ph in your blood or something?

(Though if it keeps you off of soda that's not a bad thing either!)

 

[dirkandlorie]

Animal control wanted to talk to vet and pages of info. less invasive than the private shelters that have a lot of dogs...Here is a couple.

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ETA this is the township pound

My goodness! Glad chickens are easier to get! I would never adopt any animals at all if I had to give out so much personal information to get one. That's crazy! I'm lucky that all hurt or lost animals find their way to my house, so have never visited an animal shelter. ( I have found horses, dogs cats, even an Amazon parrot in my front yard. I'm sure there's an animal sign somewhere around here that says sucker this way ^)
Lorie

 

[rosemarythyme]

I'm lucky that all hurt or lost animals find their way to my house, so have never visited an animal shelter. ( I have found horses, dogs cats, even an Amazon parrot in my front yard. I'm sure there's an animal sign somewhere around here that says sucker this way ^)

You found a horse in your front yard? I need to borrow your "animal sucker" sign!

 

[blackandtan]

My goodness! Glad chickens are easier to get! I would never adopt any animals at all if I had to give out so much personal information to get one. That's crazy! I'm lucky that all hurt or lost animals find their way to my house, so have never visited an animal shelter. ( I have found horses, dogs cats, even an Amazon parrot in my front yard. I'm sure there's an animal sign somewhere around here that says sucker this way ^)
Lorie

Oh yah when I adopted my last one it was my first time at this local shelter, they asked for pages of info, three references, they want to call your vet and also do a home visit.
But they didn’t do any of that, I was approved immediately, like an hour after I pressed send, and my feeling was that all the info was sort of a test to weed out people who either aren’t serious or who haven’t really thought through what keeping a dog requires.
Now if only you had to do that before having a kid, I think the world could be a different place.

 

[dirkandlorie]

You found a horse in your front yard? I need to borrow your "animal sucker" sign!

Yes, a gorgeous blonde colored (sorry don't know horse breeds) gentle horse, happily munching on my roses. Loved being petted, and followed me back up the road so I could find it's home. Helped that I grabbed a bag of carrots out of the fridge to lure it away from my roses, would follow me anywhere I think.

 

[rosemarythyme]

my feeling was that all the info was sort of a test to weed out people who either aren’t serious or who haven’t really thought through what keeping a dog requires.

Probably depends on the place. I had a rescue I sent in an application for (one of the long ones with references, home visit required, etc), they reviewed it, we set an appointment to meet a specific dog... and then they contacted me back to say the dog was adopted. Welp, they lied... the dog remained available for weeks after, but no explanation as to why our appointment was canceled or what the issue was. Obviously I decided that was a group that I did not want to be adopting from!

 

[sdm111]

Around here it's like that. They like getting pretty personal for just adopting an animal. They want you to adopt but dang

 

[MROO]

My mom is trying to be safe but she works at Wal-Mart so she's pretty nervious about that.
Every Saturday she stops by to see my little one (5 years old) she's so scared that she will bring it to us without knowing it that she stays outside the gate in our driveway and we stay inside about 10' apart.
It is breaking her heart not to give kisses and hugs to him when she leaves. They blow kisses and wave goodbye and sometimes sign I love you. Then she drives the 40 minutes home in tears.
Man that sucks to know and maybe explains some of my passion against those that don't get the big deal about this virus.

This is SO hard on grandparents. My best friend became a grandmother for the first time. She's a mail carrier, so she can't go anywhere near the baby. She'll never get these first few months back. It about breaks my heart all over again!

 

[MROO]

No dont do that.
We like adopting old cats. Nobody adopts old cats

Our last rescue was an extremely timid (translated ... terrified) queen that the shelter put at about 7 years old. I put her at no less than 10. When she passed, four years later, the vet told us she was AT LEAST 18! We didn't have Harley very long, but she was the sweetest, most loving kitty I've ever known. She was my son's kitty soul-mate and left a massive hole in his heart when she passed, last year. I'm so glad we gave her a soft place to land for her senior years!

RIP Sweet Harleykins!