Hows everyone fending during the outbreaks?

[sunshine ducky]

every school in the area and my university has switched to online. And water bottles, hand sanitizer, and resources in general are very scarce. My city is near lock-down mode...I even cleaned out my duck coop today so things are extra sanitary around here...stay safe everyone!

 

[TwoCrows]

For me, schools cancelled, church is cancelled, everything is cancelled. There’s no supplies anywhere, and everyone is panicking. There’s six confirmed cases here in New Mexico, and I’m right in between the outbreaks. How is everyone else doing during this pandemic?

I was shocked this morning, down here in Ruidoso NM, there is not a roll of toilet paper to be found! Did you see the Governor on TV today? She is talking with the Casinos as they may close them down. Events at The Pit are being canceled, Gathering Of Nations for one. Other big events. No confirmed Corona down here yet.

 

[PrincessKiara]

Like all other pandemics, this too shall pass.
Think Ebola, Bubonic Plague, Antonine Plague, the 1800s cholera pandemic, HIV/AIDS, SARS, MERS etc..
The death toll likely won't be as high as those but still high.
I'm of the age range that is threatened but not immunocompromised so I'm not worried about myself.

Actually, epidemiologists are speculating that this disease is unlikely to pass, but that it will likely join the common cold and the flu as a seasonal disease once this all flattens out.

Fewer than 500 people died from H5N1, and not many people died from SARS, MERS, Ebola etc, because the viruses were too deadly to be much of a danger to many people. I know it sounds ironic, but hear me out: they didn't spread as far because they killed their host quickly before they could be spread, or made them sick enough to be easily identifiable. Whereas with this SARS-COV-2 virus, it's at that "sweet spot" (for it) where it's deadly but not deadly enough...you have asymptomatic carriers spreading it, and people feeling a little under the weather but still able to go to work etc. That's why it's already spread so far and so fast.

This is no joke, stay safe people. My mom's neighbor has family in Italy and the situation is bad there. Doctors are triaging, giving no treatment to those over 60 years of age or with preexisting conditions, simply because they don't have enough resources to treat everyone. They're working sick themselves, wearing diapers and eating and drinking as little as possible to avoid having to remove their protective gear and replace their masks because there just isn't enough to go around. Luckily not every case requires hospitalization, but if you can stay home as much as possible and help flatten the curve, you'll do your part in preventing the local health care system from becoming as swamped.

Remember, Italy isn't a third world country...their medical system and equipment are just as advanced as ours...

 

[springvalley123]

There's no sanitizer, very little peanut butter, and no toilet paper, even though they've been stocking it every 15 minutes and limiting to two (packages) per customer. I bought layer pellets, hot dogs, nuts, but they were out of some frozen convenience foods I usually buy. Will check out the local dollar store for TP. I have alcohol so I could make my own sanitizer. The official site shows 6 cases in my state, mainly by person to person, not travel related.

 

[chickenhugger69712]

I for one am sick and tired of the media whipping the public into a panic.
Regular flu is much more deadly....wash your hands and keep people at arms length.

This is so much more than the regular flu! Do you see how many people are dying? The media isn't even telling the full of it. No offense intended.

 

[KiwiandPeachthePigeons]

Having said all that why these people are hoarding TP I have NO idea. Get enough to keep a months supply in your house. Leave the rest.

Soap is WAY more important.

The hoarding is stupid, because since it’s running out so fast, it forces other people to hoard also to avoid running out and being caught without supplies.

 

[Chickassan]

My household is fine.
Things are slowly closing churches, schools, restaurants but we don't go those places so no effect so far.
I keep extra everything for hard times, always have so did my mom and gran.
If things still run low im a heck of an improvisational specialist.
Not many if any visitors, water is plentiful.
The only downside I see is my hubs may have to stay home from work which means I will slowly go insane.
Really, it happens 2 weeks at Christmas and im nearly certifiable in a week.
I'll probably just knit, nobody bothers me when iv'e got giant needles.

 

[mviera101]

I'm a teacher in South Florida, schools cancelled next week(teachers must report) and the following week is Spring Break. All schools will be disinfected that week. Will re-evaluate after Spring Break but if closing remain we will move to online teaching . Glad for the closings however, hopefully will slow the spread. Planning on staying in more family and chicken time!

 

[Abriana]

Schools in my area closed but no my co-op, since they are hard core (we end very early because of that), and we only have four weeks left, but my Mom and several others emailed to say that their kids are not coming anymore. We are no longer going to church, our bible study was cancelled, and our other events will most likely either be cancelled or we will stop going to them very, very soon. I think we have enough TP, and we have plenty of food (if worst comes to worst, Dad bought a bunch of food that keeps for like 30 years, we teased him about it then but now we are glad! The wait list to order products from the company is like 2 months long now).

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Schools in my area closed but no my co-op, since they are hard core (we end very early because of that), and we only have four weeks left, but my Mom and several others emailed to say that their kids are not coming anymore. We are no longer going to church, our bible study was cancelled, and our other events will most likely either be cancelled or we will stop going to them very, very soon. I think we have enough TP, and we have plenty of food (if worst comes to worst, Dad bought a bunch of food that keeps for like 30 years, we teased him about it then but now we are glad! The wait list to order products from the company is like 2 months long now).

Where is Midgard?
We usually have 8-12 rolls of TP on hand so we should be OK.
We also have lots of food and roosters to butcher.