Coronavirus prep

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  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    hmmm. a post I put up an hour ago never appeared here. My luck, it'll show up tomorrow and be repeated 6 times.....

    pi day, but I didn't have any pie ;(

    I was in McDonald's today and was just wondering if they would go to drive thru only. I would be behind that - they could focus on the kitchen and prep areas and not have to worry about constantly trying to keep the lobby clean, and they would be limiting the number of people the crew would be exposed to. That particular McDonald's actually did that last summer during their remodel, as did the local Arby's, so the precedent and procedures are there for it.

    I think that's a great idea.

    I wonder if they would allow pedestrians in the drive-through? Because otherwise *someone's* gonna get their panties in a twist about it being discriminatory to the car-less.
  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,871 Member
    hmmm. a post I put up an hour ago never appeared here. My luck, it'll show up tomorrow and be repeated 6 times.....

    pi day, but I didn't have any pie ;(

    I was in McDonald's today and was just wondering if they would go to drive thru only. I would be behind that - they could focus on the kitchen and prep areas and not have to worry about constantly trying to keep the lobby clean, and they would be limiting the number of people the crew would be exposed to. That particular McDonald's actually did that last summer during their remodel, as did the local Arby's, so the precedent and procedures are there for it.

    I think that's a great idea.

    I wonder if they would allow pedestrians in the drive-through? Because otherwise *someone's* gonna get their panties in a twist about it being discriminatory to the car-less.
    Good point. Maybe carry out only? Pedestrians in the drive-thru seems like a recipe for disaster.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,416 Member
    I can't help but wonder about the single people with no family or close friends to check on them, in self isolation who get sick.. laying in bed progressively getting worse.. may die there with nobody to know :(

    Sorry, sad thought I know

    As one of those people, I'm OK with that thought (for myself, anyway). I would call for an ambulance if I started having difficulty breathing. I telecommute, and a telecommuting colleague I email scores of times every day who lives nearby has promised to come over if I stop responding and pull me out when the corpse-barrow rolls by. ("But I'm not dead yet!").

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    We were talking about apocalypse movies and books...in the U.S. Monty Python In Search of the Holy Grail is on Netflix - I'm watching that today!!
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    acpgee wrote: »
    If people are being confronted with empty supermarket shelves, I notice that in London at least, hoarding behaviour hasn't hit the asian grocer's yet. I've been to two this week and they were both well stocked.

    Around here the "mass market" grocery stores were hit first and hard. The smaller "mom and pop" and ethnic ones were not hit very hard at all.
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,885 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    acpgee wrote: »
    If people are being confronted with empty supermarket shelves, I notice that in London at least, hoarding behaviour hasn't hit the asian grocer's yet. I've been to two this week and they were both well stocked.

    Around here the "mass market" grocery stores were hit first and hard. The smaller "mom and pop" and ethnic ones were not hit very hard at all.

    Same here, from what I've seen. My neighborhood meat market (which has a full range of foods) was normal on Friday.
  • pjwrt
    pjwrt Posts: 166 Member
    NicbPNW wrote: »
    I'm in Washington state, pretty close to the confirmed cases and yes, I'm a tad worried. Not in a panic, but being cautious. I have little kids and have asthma myself so I don't want any of us catching ANYTHING that could land us in the hospital.

    I'm wondering why is everyone stockpiling toilet paper?!?! That is selling out as quick as water around here!

    I read that it is a herd-type panic thing. Like chickens flocking together and running thing.

  • snowflake954
    snowflake954 Posts: 8,399 Member
    Athijade wrote: »
    Nony_Mouse wrote: »

    We are actually sick ;) (but I know what you mean). I'm not sure if we're at higher risk of more severe viral symptoms or not, but I imagine the potential for a prolonged worsening of ME symptoms, even with a non-severe case, is high. I've only recently gotten back to a level of 'wellness' that, if I don't recover any further, I'm okay with, I bloody well refuse to be set back. So I totally get you on the wanting to be able to continue to eat well thing. I guess squeeze as much frozen vege into that wee freezer as you can?

    I'm glad I don't have to deal with the level of crazy panic other countries are seeing :\

    I was able to get my hands on some frozen veggies so right now I have 2.5 bags of broccoli, .5 bag of diced peas and carrots, 1 bag of cauliflower, 1 bag of broccoli and cauliflower mix, 1 bag of sliced carrots, and 1 bag of a broccoli/cauliflower/carrot mix. Each bag can last me a few meals. I have some frozen fruit, but not much and it will mostly get used up in oatmeal this week for breakfast. I also froze a loaf of bread and some sauteed mushrooms so they wouldn't go bad. I have a chicken to roast tonight that will feed me all week for dinners. I have plenty of food and will be okay even if I do get sick, plus I have family and friends who I know will help out any way they can.

    My anxiety just makes it hard to handle a change to my schedule (as does my OCD). I am doing the best I can right now and thankfully was able to get an early refill of my meds. I do worry about getting this virus and then having a flare up of my CFS. There is no way I can miss THAT much work.

    I know this is hard for a lot of people. Just take things a day at a time and you'll be fine. It just takes some organizing and you're doing what you can. Do you have a mask? They will be impossible to find and if you absolutely need to go out you should have one. Here in Italy it's impossible to find them and the Chinese experts that arrived the other day say that they see too many people without. You've done your best--you can do no more.
  • amtyrell
    amtyrell Posts: 1,447 Member
    Here in Maryland the governor just closed down all casinos and racetracks and off track betting

    Oh and because this site is owned by under armour i know they also closed down their headquarters starting friday and have moved to work from home .
  • happysquatter
    happysquatter Posts: 91 Member
    On Friday, they shut down all schools, colleges, universities, libraries, swimming pools, daycares and other public facilities up here.

    It is, I think a very prudent response which sadly should be done in more communities. However, I still see IRL people who don’t quite comprehend the scale of what the math suggests this can become and are using this as an excuse to ‘hang out more’ FFS

    As Mike said earlier, for you, our Southern neighbours, it is a good thing there were leaders within the various affected states who acted because nothing adequate was being done prior to that. Quite the opposite.

    I can’t even recommend the CDC website to people for data since there are far better alternatives. That’s just sad 😞

    For those interested, you can download data sets from the European equivalent cdc. Then there’s also worldometer which takes the same data it seems and makes it more visually palatable

  • lx1x
    lx1x Posts: 38,330 Member
    amtyrell wrote: »
    Here in Maryland the governor just closed down all casinos and racetracks and off track betting

    Oh and because this site is owned by under armour i know they also closed down their headquarters starting friday and have moved to work from home .

    PG county government/buildings is closed tomorrow. Will be interesting going to work tomorrow.. probably a ghost town..
  • yuske05
    yuske05 Posts: 16 Member
    The bigger problem is the effect this is having on our farming industry. We're buying this stuff up regardless of the reason which can cause lands to be overused and eventually useless. If/when that happens, we'll just have to chop up more forests, right?
  • lightenup2016
    lightenup2016 Posts: 1,055 Member
    edited March 2020
    Athijade wrote: »
    Nony_Mouse wrote: »

    We are actually sick ;) (but I know what you mean). I'm not sure if we're at higher risk of more severe viral symptoms or not, but I imagine the potential for a prolonged worsening of ME symptoms, even with a non-severe case, is high. I've only recently gotten back to a level of 'wellness' that, if I don't recover any further, I'm okay with, I bloody well refuse to be set back. So I totally get you on the wanting to be able to continue to eat well thing. I guess squeeze as much frozen vege into that wee freezer as you can?

    I'm glad I don't have to deal with the level of crazy panic other countries are seeing :\

    I was able to get my hands on some frozen veggies so right now I have 2.5 bags of broccoli, .5 bag of diced peas and carrots, 1 bag of cauliflower, 1 bag of broccoli and cauliflower mix, 1 bag of sliced carrots, and 1 bag of a broccoli/cauliflower/carrot mix. Each bag can last me a few meals. I have some frozen fruit, but not much and it will mostly get used up in oatmeal this week for breakfast. I also froze a loaf of bread and some sauteed mushrooms so they wouldn't go bad. I have a chicken to roast tonight that will feed me all week for dinners. I have plenty of food and will be okay even if I do get sick, plus I have family and friends who I know will help out any way they can.

    My anxiety just makes it hard to handle a change to my schedule (as does my OCD). I am doing the best I can right now and thankfully was able to get an early refill of my meds. I do worry about getting this virus and then having a flare up of my CFS. There is no way I can miss THAT much work.

    I know this is hard for a lot of people. Just take things a day at a time and you'll be fine. It just takes some organizing and you're doing what you can. Do you have a mask? They will be impossible to find and if you absolutely need to go out you should have one. Here in Italy it's impossible to find them and the Chinese experts that arrived the other day say that they see too many people without. You've done your best--you can do no more.

    snowflake954–Thank you for your updates from Italy. My husband is Italian (living in USA) and has family there near Lago di Garda, among other places. I have a question for you—I feel like the US is closing everything down pretty early on (which I agree with!), with 60 or so deaths in the whole country at this point. Do you think we’re doing better than Italy did in the beginning? Did Italy wait until the cases and deaths were already pretty high per capita before shutting things down? Or do you feel like they did try to catch the spread early on? Thank you for any insight.