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

[Beer can]

Fed Ex and UPS pretty good here. I usually go out and chit chat with them if I'm home. Short conversation most in a big hurry. Most the time they just leave packages on back step good weather or inside our unlocked back room iffy and bad weather. Our mailbox is a hundred yards down our driveway.

 

[FortCluck]

Well and the gore and the mess! Having to work the floor would make them all vegans! No disrespect intended!

Yeah probably I'm sure I'd be vegan (if I wasn't already) if I had to work in a place like that. I mean they aren't the cleanest places ever. We don't see behind closed doors and I'm sure most of us wouldn't want to. I've seen the meat chickens leaving farms and makes me sick to my stomach every time. They're so filthy.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Yeah probably I'm sure I'd be vegan (if I wasn't already) if I had to work in a place like that. I mean they aren't the cleanest places ever. We don't see behind closed doors and I'm sure most of us wouldn't want to. I've seen the meat chickens leaving farms and makes me sick to my stomach every time. They're so filthy.

As a kid in 4-H it was required to go on the slaughter facility "field day." (cattle)
It was awful! But I learned a lot and I never forgot it. I'm also aware of how typical meat chickens are treated too. Both on the farm and during slaughter.

This is why at my old farm I took my birds to the Mennonites. Of course my birds were always the cleanest ones there and in the biggest and most comfy crates...(large dog kennels) but I knew they would be treated fairly and that was very important to me.

 

[MROO]

Surfaces like tyvek, boxes, bubble wrap envelopes...those can hold the virus up tp 3 days. Times that by several hundred in and out of the FedEx truck or UPS truck, then times the fact that the virus can live on a plain paper letter for up to 24 hours....and add that regular mail carries can deliver what....thousands in a day?
Then add that said carrier or delivery person could also be asymptomatic and not know they are a carrier...all those packages and envelopes they are touching.

Or, maybe only one particular bubble wrap pack, from say an Amazon seller is covered in the virus. Think then about the carrier who is delivering that package to the house shortly before yours. The carrier who can't wash their hands while driving, or really even use hand sanitizer well while driving...
But he/she coughs or sneezes because it's allergy season and without thinking about it wipes their face and just gave the virus to themselves.

Oh, and add that out here in the country, older people will chat with the delivery person. Or need help up their stairs with a heavy package, Or even will need them to shove a 100lb box in the front door for them.
(I'm a longarm quilter...remember? My machine and frame came via FedEx, the entire system is 350lbs....Five ginormous boxes! The machine alone, in her box, is 92lbs. The other boxes ranged from 60 to 95 lbs)

I get that if you are going somewhere in a car and aren't going in/out of anywhere, then yeah, you don't need a mask just to drive. But delivery people are all about touching things. Things that other people have touched and will touch.
Caution is the responsible thing to do.
I'm cautious about receiving the package/mail. But they need to also be cautious...especially for those people on the receiving end who aren't very cautious.



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My best friend is a postal carrier in a busy, smallish town. She's also diabetic. She ALWAYS wears a mask and gloves, these days - and showers as soon as she gets home. She has a brand new baby grandson - less than a week old - who she hasn't been able to hold, yet. She's doing everything in her power to stay clean and healthy so that maybe, just maybe, she can hug and kiss him before he starts walking!

 

[Folly's place]

It's important to know where food actually comes from!
In school, and after, we visited small slaughter plants, and it is part of this. Also fishing, and cleaning fish, or hunting. And knowing what goes into raising grains and veggies, and egg production. Most people in the USA think that food grows at the grocery store!
Mary

 

[21hens-incharge]

I found the cutest mini ice cream cones at the store a looong time ago. Well on my shopping trip a box fell into my cart!
I can now answer the burning question of "What happens when you give a bloodhound a tiny vanilla ice cream cone?"

She took it behind the kitchen table and ate it in peace. The other dogs ate theirs where given. Happy doggies tonight.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Surfaces like tyvek, boxes, bubble wrap envelopes...those can hold the virus up tp 3 days. Times that by several hundred in and out of the FedEx truck or UPS truck, then times the fact that the virus can live on a plain paper letter for up to 24 hours....and add that regular mail carries can deliver what....thousands in a day?
Then add that said carrier or delivery person could also be asymptomatic and not know they are a carrier...all those packages and envelopes they are touching.

Or, maybe only one particular bubble wrap pack, from say an Amazon seller is covered in the virus. Think then about the carrier who is delivering that package to the house shortly before yours. The carrier who can't wash their hands while driving, or really even use hand sanitizer well while driving...
But he/she coughs or sneezes because it's allergy season and without thinking about it wipes their face and just gave the virus to themselves.

Oh, and add that out here in the country, older people will chat with the delivery person. Or need help up their stairs with a heavy package, Or even will need them to shove a 100lb box in the front door for them.
(I'm a longarm quilter...remember? My machine and frame came via FedEx, the entire system is 350lbs....Five ginormous boxes! The machine alone, in her box, is 92lbs. The other boxes ranged from 60 to 95 lbs)

I get that if you are going somewhere in a car and aren't going in/out of anywhere, then yeah, you don't need a mask just to drive. But delivery people are all about touching things. Things that other people have touched and will touch.
Caution is the responsible thing to do.
I'm cautious about receiving the package/mail. But they need to also be cautious...especially for those people on the receiving end who aren't very cautious.



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Gotcha. I just wasn't thinking.

 

[MROO]

Yeah probably I'm sure I'd be vegan (if I wasn't already) if I had to work in a place like that. I mean they aren't the cleanest places ever. We don't see behind closed doors and I'm sure most of us wouldn't want to. I've seen the meat chickens leaving farms and makes me sick to my stomach every time. They're so filthy.

Heck, I never took a fast food job in high school simply because I didn't want to hate french fries for the rest of my life. I would NEVER risk steaks and burgers by working for a meat packer!

 

[Folly's place]

I have to say that dissecting the crawfish and clam in high school biology class, long ago, made lobster and oysters look very unappetizing! Not to mention snails...
Mary

 

[BigBlueHen53]

It's regional.
At my last place (a few states away) Fedex was awful!! Once they just threw a TV over a yard fence to an enclosed yard area..... when the side of they house they had to pull up to and put the truck in park was next to an un-fenced walkway with a nice covered porch. No dogs...no reason not to walk 10 extra steps...nope, they tossed and it got broken.
So many packages damaged there and very careless delivery people, but UPS was great.

Here it is the complete opposite. Fedex is great.
UPS has smashed, broken and damaged way many more things. Expensive things too. Like an 80 lb longarm quilting machine. Those are not easy to fix either...it had to be replaced and the manufacturer had to eat thousands of dollars because while it was plain as day what was in the box...it was smashed and had been dropped. The interior packaging material was broken badly. I've had several different UPS delivery drivers here and all have been careless or downright rude.

Anyway.... so yeah...I've found that it's regional. And things are changing too. When I first moved here, most of my regular packages (I buy a lot of the same things from the same places) were delivered by UPS. Now, about 85% of those regular purchases have switched over to FedEx.

Maybe it's the individual drivers? We've had nothing but wonderful service from both FedEx and UPS, very professional.