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

[electrycmonk]

Where in Michigan? My grandparents were in Mesick when the only shopping option was a one-room country general store. We would walk there ... and throug hthe reserve to the Manistee. I still have family in Davidson. I remember Sleeping Bear when the gift shop was an old wooden ice-cream shack ... and Traverse City before anyone had even heard of a mall! Chubs off the pier at Frankfort ... and three feet of snow ... for EASTER!
Wow - what a trip down Memory Lane. You just made my morning without even trying! I desperately needed that, today. THANK YOU!

Where do I start... Oh yeah. Memory lane. You are most welcome. I like to pay it forward, as yesterday someone else in another thread tripped a memory and I had a similar flood of fond memories due entirely to a parallel posting event!

As for Michigander status.
Born in the town that missed being the state capitol by one vote. Initially grew up in 'Cereal city USA' with routine summer trips to saugatuck, and Holland beaches. We ALWAYS drove past the Life Savers plant too! Been to Mac island a few times several years before the Movie w/Christopher Reeves was made there. Have family all over the Southern part of the mitten. Then after the Navy returned to join a gigantic family reunion where we learned that there was like a 75% chance of being related to anyone in Michigan with the Lewis last name .... After a while ended up staying with Mom & her new hubby in the Gladwin/Tri-cities area of the thumb..... Mean while Grand Rapids(Kent), Kzoo, Sherwood, Marshall, Quincy, Cadillac, And several other small Berg's I know that tree branch cousins still live there..... We had plans postponed 2 times now to do a memorial for Baba (she passed @ 103y/o and now... Not sure what we will do for it this summer/fall???? At Battle Creek nat'l cemetery.

 

[electrycmonk]

We had a very heavy rain go through here just a couple of hours ago - a VERY heavy rain. It's all "Sunshine and Roses" outside at the moment, but scheduled to be rough a bit later (about 6-7 onward.) Coupled with @FortCluck 's comment about the storms, yours got me to thinking. If you look at the way weather patterns work on the east coast, we're all in a line. Storms hit VA/WVa right before they jump over the mountains and ht the top of the Chesapeake (me in MD) then move on to you in NJ. My brother spent years in Louisiana, an he noticed that St Louis, MO weather systems skirt him and end up in our neck of the woods about three days later. Between St Louis and the three of us here on BYC, we're our own weather prediction system. That's pretty cool!

(Coughs) addendum.....

Typically speaking what hits us (here in the DFW area of North Texas) will either bend to the razorbacks and slide up the north side of them for St. Louis and Memphis or hit that speedbump and rubble straight to 'HOT-Lanta' before following i-95 right over y'all on the coastline.

Every now and then the jet stream create a sorta "Autobahn" for storms to roll straight to Chi-town and Indy then pick up a significant "lake effect turbo boost" and then plow through Ohio, Penn & upstate NY before mopping up NE & finally Maine.

 

[SegiDream]

It’s going to be 95 here today and I have a feeling nasty storms are coming. Once it gets hot like this it becomes the perfect weather for tornadoes.

Yeah my DH has anxiety about tornadoes. April, May, Oct, Nov those are the tornado months for us. June is mostly just weak afternoon storms. We've had so many tornadoes over the past several years DH has gotten extremely good at predicting them and collected a few stories to tell. He's like Reg from the Great Outdoors movie. When you see him running for cover you better run too.

I remember seeing that on the news and feeling so bad for the loss, the damage, and especially that people had no place to go.

We don't have a storm shelter or basement not even an interior room cause all rooms have an outer wall. Truth be told we were in the middle of VA somewhere when it hit here. Just packed everyone in the car and drove before the storms hit. I can't remember if I said it in the other post but I was pretty upset when it hit. Crying and texting everyone I knew in that particular area to warn and check on them. Tired of seeing and dealing with the destruction they cause. I wish our area would get on the ball and do something to upgrade warnings, sirens, shelters, building codes cause all we have is the first one. "Public shelters" are usually churches that voluntarily open their doors and well sorry but churches don't always survive a tornado either.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

One round just went through here - second front predicted for later this afternoon.

Read an interesting article on line indicating that Covid 19 may actually be a vascular disease with respiratory portion being one of the symptoms. It appears that being on blood thinners may be a positive thing when dealing with this disease.

I had read that too. They are thinking it's somehow also a blood issue because of the clotting which is leading to so many of the strokes. I've heard more that a few credible DRs saying this is just not acting like other coronaviruses, and keeps on throwing them curve balls.
Of course add the recent multi-system reactions in young children, and it's just frightening.

 

[FortCluck]

I’m getting all nerdy. Got a library card from our county library and they use Overdrive. The books go right to my kindle!!! Now I can read my life away because I’m staying in lockdown until next year.

 

[SegiDream]

I had read that too. They are thinking it's somehow also a blood issue because of the clotting which is leading to so many of the strokes. I've heard more that a few credible DRs saying this is just not acting like other coronaviruses, and keeps on throwing them curve balls.
Of course add the recent multi-system reactions in young children, and it's just frightening.

Oh goodness (worry freaked now) and add to that possible permanent lung damage. Puts you at higher risk of pulmonary fibrosis which is a fatal condition, my grandmother passed away from that just 2 years ago we still have just barely a glimpse of how this thing operates and what all it can do...

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Yeah, I was already a semi-hermit anyway.....think I'll join Clucky and complete the transition over to full on hermit! Thank goodness for Overdrive from the library and that mail/UPS/FedEx are still going!

 

[SegiDream]

Yeah, I was already a semi-hermit anyway.....think I'll join Clucky and complete the transition over to full on hermit! Thank goodness for Overdrive from the library and that mail/UPS/FedEx are still going!

I really wish I could do that either I wait til work calls me back or I find somewhere else. Like hmm gee which covid outbreak kind of workplace do I want or can I find? Before shutdown they made zero changes for the health safety of anyone, in fact they went the opposite way. Moved us closer together into a smaller more confined shared airspace. I went from having no one within 10 feet of me to having 5 people in less than 5 feet around me. They closed us down from 3 bathrooms to 1 forcing 50 employees to share one bathroom, removed hand sanitizing stations, laid off the cleaning lady etc. Executive orders came out requiring employers to temp and symptom check their employees twice daily they never did that and sick people continued to show up for work. Scary place to have to return to

 

[rosemarythyme]

I know, why do I live where it gets hot and humid?? Because being out working in -20F and feet of snow wasn't my cup of tea either. Yeah, I'm finicky like that.

I'm too sensitive - I overheat easily and humidity causes me to break out in rashes, but I suffer from chilblains as well, so if it's below 55 or so I have to wear gloves, even if the rest of me is in shorts and a tank top (since I can overheat just because of the gloves). Hubby jokes that I'd be best suited to living in some sci-fi-esque bubble that's maintained at a constant 65F.

 

[FortCluck]

Yeah, I was already a semi-hermit anyway.....think I'll join Clucky and complete the transition over to full on hermit! Thank goodness for Overdrive from the library and that mail/UPS/FedEx are still going!

You got overdrive too!!!! I just got it today along with my official library card! I have kindle unlimited but whatever they don’t have, my library has.