Coronavirus prep

Diatonic12

The situation is fluid. There's so much nitwittery from day to day with internet hoax cures. I'm sure you've heard the new one....just gargle with salt water 3 X day = nitwittery. I'm waiting for VA hospital updates. None, yet.
Situation, fluid. We don't know what will happen this fall or winter or when it will show back up again.

The yay-hoo on the radio keeps telling everyone it won't be long before things are back to normal. The high school prom and graduation and track meets will surely happen at the end of the month. They are living in an imaginary lalaland. Grade F.

mph323

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241785841.html

Responsible humor - Dave Barry 😄

mph323

RetiredAndLovingIt wrote: »

Re the toilet paper..one time I read that someone couldn’t believe how much tp & coffee they went thru after retiring. Would be the same with everyone home.

TMI

My husband has IBS and works full time. Regarding TP, well, let's just say when he's home there's a considerable difference in usage 😄

moonangel12

What a weird world... I am only going out once every couple of weeks so there are significant changes to my normal public spaces each time (well, I haven’t really been anywhere other than the grocery store). Went to the PO to mail my uncle some masks and they had a thick sheet of plastic up with a small hole for access and a sign that only 3 are allowed in the lobby at a time. Aldi has made huge changes to their system and have workers out front sanitizing every cart as it comes back (no quarter needed right now!). I didn’t take bags in, choosing to sort and bag at the car (spritzing everything down as I went). Only 40 people in the store at a time so when I realized I forgot bread for the family I had to wait in line to get back in the store. A single line for the registers (which I accidentally cut in the first trip in because I came in on the opposite side and didn’t see it). No unloading grocieries on the belt until it is fully clear from the customer ahead of you.

ETA: no TP still, meat was slim but there... frozen veggies were sparse... trying to remember what else wasn’t typical.

Oh! And more people wearing masks out and about, but still the minority. The workers both at the PO and grocery store were bare faced, but I know somewhere locally as of last week was discouraging workers from wearing gloves or masks “so not to panic the customers” (don’t know where it was, where a friend’s daughter works and she was talking about it on our 6’ apart walk).

Unicorn_Bacon

31 new cases today, I wish the news here was a bit more... informative.. people are testing positive in places that make it appear that it's no longer travel related here and yet there is no mention on if it is or isn't.

Makes it frustrating because once its confirmed to be spreading through non travel and becoming communicable.. I'm going to have to start trying to convince my stubborn family.members to stop going to the grocery store every week... especially my 82 year old grandmother

corinasue1143

I have been looking for this, so thought I’d share, in case others are looking, too.

BarbaraHelen2013

UK Prime Minister now in Intensive Care 😱

That’s pretty damn scary.

Fuzzipeg

Actually its the Russians saying that. The British population are being told he is in hospital for tests and is still running the country from his hospital bed. This is as of 6-00 oclock News. (18-00 hrs UK Time)

BarbaraHelen2013

Fuzzipeg wrote: »

Actually its the Russians saying that. The British population are being told he is in hospital for tests and is still running the country from his hospital bed. This is as of 6-00 oclock News. (18-00 hrs UK Time)

That may be true for the time stamp you mention but it’s on the BBC News right now in the U.K. 🙄

rheddmobile

corinasue1143 wrote: »

I have been looking for this, so thought I’d share, in case others are looking, too.

I wonder about their methodology, since “quilting fabric” isn’t a monolithic thing. There are cheap quilting fabrics with low thread count and premium quilting fabrics with higher count and tighter weave and a lot in between. And all of them seem to be considerably less tight-woven than a high count cotton pillowcase, which potentially could have exactly the same weave.

I’m thinking there’s about to be a run on furnace filters and vacuum bags if there hasn’t been already.

mph323

Well shoot, we have 24 confirmed cases now in my city (pop ~60,000).

rheddmobile

Fuzzipeg wrote: »

Actually its the Russians saying that. The British population are being told he is in hospital for tests and is still running the country from his hospital bed. This is as of 6-00 oclock News. (18-00 hrs UK Time)

New press release from Downing Street says he is in ICU and Dominic Raab will step in “if necessary.”

Fuzzipeg

Just turned to News 24. Yes he has been transferred ti ICU. Yes, it has been plan all day that there is a successor in place so the government is not going to fall apart. if we believe what we are told. We now should have a functioning oppositon leader in the House when they all get back.

Unicorn_Bacon

just_Tomek wrote: »

Wear a mask, dont wear a mask. We suggest you wear a mask, but not surgical mask, just throw some cloth over your face. But you dont have to wear any mask at all. If you do wear a mask, it will NOT protect you from others. But we still "suggest" you wear a mask, but really, you dont have to.

WTF Canadian politicians!!!!!!

Yup... lol..

mph323

just_Tomek wrote: »

Wear a mask, dont wear a mask. We suggest you wear a mask, but not surgical mask, just throw some cloth over your face. But you dont have to wear any mask at all. If you do wear a mask, it will NOT protect you from others. But we still "suggest" you wear a mask, but really, you dont have to.

WTF Canadian politicians!!!!!!

I agree the advice changes every day or two and depends on who is giving it (and not just in Canada). The purpose of the general public wearing masks of any kind though isn't to protect oneself from becoming infected, but to give some level of protection to others in case you are infected and asymptomatic.

singingflutelady

just_Tomek wrote: »

Wear a mask, dont wear a mask. We suggest you wear a mask, but not surgical mask, just throw some cloth over your face. But you dont have to wear any mask at all. If you do wear a mask, it will NOT protect you from others. But we still "suggest" you wear a mask, but really, you dont have to.

WTF Canadian politicians!!!!!!

I don't care what they say
I'm immunocompromised so I'm wearing a mask when I have to go out.

kimny72

I've actually read in a couple different places (which of course now I can't remember where, doh!) that a paper towel inserted between layers of a homemade cloth mask is a rather effective "filter". I have no idea whether that's actually true or not, but figured someone here might know.

Diatonic12

I think a coffee filter with a cloth mask would work, too. My sister wore her downhill ski goggles with face warmer to the store.

kimny72

So this is... frustrating.
Up to this point, all the "official" numbers for Virginia have been coming from the Virginia Dept of Health. At last count, they announced that 497 people in total had been hospitalized due to covid-19 so far in VA.

Now the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association has gotten their reporting up and running. And in their first release today, they announced 538 current hospitalizations due to covid-19, which is already 41 more than the health dept's total. But they also noted 656 patients hospitalized who are suspected to have covid-19 awaiting test results! WTH guys.

lemurcat2

BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »

Fuzzipeg wrote: »

Actually its the Russians saying that. The British population are being told he is in hospital for tests and is still running the country from his hospital bed. This is as of 6-00 oclock News. (18-00 hrs UK Time)

That may be true for the time stamp you mention but it’s on the BBC News right now in the U.K. 🙄

I saw it in the Guardian app too, right around the time you originally posted.