How has corona virus affected your lives?

[Molpet]

Ageing parents locked into their facilities, no visitors, if they leave they may not return. My wife and I stocked up and are home for the duration. We have eggs and chickens for the long run. She has finally figured out how to end my chicken project.

Better start hatching
Show her their worth

 

[Chickenman1994]

So sorry to hear!

Suppose to go back in two weeks but who knows spending time with the family and adding on with the chickens so not bad so far.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

We had a dr appt for The Kid in a distant city today, 2 hr away, stopped in Walmart for a couple gallons of milk on the way home, and had to put one back. There's limits. We weren't hoarding. We are a family of four including 2 teens. Two gallons won't get us through the week! One gallon certainly won't! The Walmart is 30 miles away and we don't want to make several trips a week! Oh well.... guess this is the New Normal.

 

[Molpet]

We had a dr appt for The Kid in a distant city today, 2 hr away, stopped in Walmart for a couple gallons of milk on the way home, and had to put one back. There's limits. We weren't hoarding. We are a family of four including 2 teens. Two gallons won't get us through the week! One gallon certainly won't! The Walmart is 30 miles away and we don't want to make several trips a week! Oh well.... guess this is the New Normal.

put stuff in the car and Go back in to a different cashier

 

[Loopeend]

Urgh. I finally managed (lies someone saw what was happening) to get away from my abusve partner. What in this country means homeless. I was superscared for being homeless and going to an homelessshelter, finally found the courage and now it is closed. And now I can get a fine for being on the street and not staying at home... If I had a home I would be in that home?? I'm not walking around here because I don't think about others.. I just don't have a home... but thanks polive for the ticket. This helps.

 

[Loopeend]

long story short my country is dumb. The TV shows #cuddlingagainstcorona while at the same time screaming you have to stay away from each other.. urgh.

 

[Loopeend]

And famous people don't get enough attention due to corona, but also see an opening.. and probably tommorow comes a new "we are the world" song again

 

[Duckfarmer1]

So, it was mayyybe going to happen..bound to happen..but it DID happen... my tiny town, with one stoplight. 1,500 people...we have it here. Confirmed. My farm is now considerEd a small business so we got a letter from the mayor before it went in the newspaper. It was quite a shock. I’m still selling eggs...up at the garage..in a fridge..honor system. No contact. If people want milk or cheese, fudge, etc, they have to call and I put it in the fridge. No more company at the farm. Children love it here. It’s pretty sad...for everyone in our community. My son can’t even visit me, because he lives in the next town over, and we can’t risk it. I’m getting used to wearing the mask and gloves, because Chris won’t let me go anywhere, we’ll, now I can’t go anywhere..but, before..I went to store, and had to wear the mask and gloves... I made a little boy cry.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Infective diseases hit urban areas much more likely and much more severe than rural and suburban areas. If you have ever been in NYC - i had to work there for three months - you know that downtown-Manhattan is one of the filthiest place on earth! I can't remember how many times a rat, yes a big fat squeaking rat, ran over my feet when i was walking back from a restaurant to my hotel in the evening. People live there in stacked shoe-boxes with central air conditioning, that have been installed by their grand-parents and were never cleaned thereafter. No wonder the infection-rate and death toll are so high there.
If you look at a map of the US with the infection rates you can clearly identify the population centers: Eastern seaboard with NYC as epi-center, mid-west with Chicago and Detroit, gulf-coast with New Orleans hit hardest and the west-coast with the bay-area, L.A. and Seattle being hit hard. The center of the country is doing ok.
Not being able to go to the next town is (imho!) an exaggerated measure. If this global panic continues for just a few weeks, it will be the rural areas, with little farms like your's, providing food and essential resources for the country before the global economy recovers…
Even if a cheap and highly available cure was found tomorrow, our globalized economy has already been slowed down so significantly that we will feel it.
I'm for myself am happy that i have 20 egg-laying ducks and have already planted a lot of vegetables…

 

[ChemicalchiCkns]

That map makes it Easy to miss: For a uniform rate 5%, more populous Countys will have higher numbers. That does not make them morally or functionally "worse" or the rural places "better". (Other things might.)