How Has the Coronavirus Affected You?
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midlomel1971 wrote: »All I know that in addition to TP, people in my town are apparently hoarding bananas. I’ve been to 4 stores looking for them and they are wiped out and it’s annoying. People need to calm down.
I'm in NC, and my store had only one bunch left.1 -
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I work in a major hospital ER and we have dealt with it already. A lot of the statistics and articles about death rates and young and healthy people dying are false. I have to work . No option to stay home.7
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JRsLateInLifeMom wrote: »Bananas 🍌- Some folks freeze them use them in protein shakes to bannana nut breads. Guess that’s what they want to live off if for the next year. Hubby said someone had a cart 🛒 full lol 😂 of Baking mix to nuts probably got bananas 🍌 next.
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Not too much affected. My state and city are leading the panic, but I go to school online and work from home anyways! No kids, and my husband's work is super secluded also. I'm just irritated that all the stores here are out of chicken wings! Yesterday, though, the travel ban for military families means I am stuck in this state 😔 I wasn't planning on traveling, of course, but to have it official is playing mind games. I think my graduation ceremony will be cancelled, so that's a big bummer. But otherwise, work and school proceeds like normal!2
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midlomel1971 wrote: »All I know that in addition to TP, people in my town are apparently hoarding bananas. I’ve been to 4 stores looking for them and they are wiped out and it’s annoying. People need to calm down.
We have lots and lots of bananas. All green. I had no idea it might be from Corona.
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midlomel1971 wrote: »All I know that in addition to TP, people in my town are apparently hoarding bananas. I’ve been to 4 stores looking for them and they are wiped out and it’s annoying. People need to calm down.
Diapers are a hot commodity here. I've seen people with cartloads of cases of diapers piled so high they can't see over them.
I had to go buy my dad's Ensure supply yesterday and, oddly enough, there was more of it on the shelf than normal.2 -
Things are escalating a bit now. My son is in a competitive sport and the league has cancelled all the competitions until the end of April.
Honestly, I don't understand how people are NOT concerned.
The numbers at the beginning of an epidemic are just that: the beginning.
The only way to tell where things might go is looking at things like how contagious the disease is, how is spreads, what it does, etc... And then look at how it's affecting other countries.
It is so bad that an entire country is in lock down [EDIT: two countries, now]. And one of their - Italy's - healthcare system was rated 2nd in the world, by WHO (well, out of 191, anyway). They are not some poverty stricken country that was using chickens, strings, and prayers for their main form of healthcare. They are an industrialized nation, with modern medicine and modern hospitals, and this sucker has stomped them flat.
In addition, South Korea is considered to have done so well in containing the virus because they figured out how it was brought into the country and tested and contained that crap HARD.
Italy couldn't find the original patient bringing it in, and so they had to scramble to try and find cases, and it spread unchecked for a while. Just two weeks ago, they were about at the level the USA is today. Italians were saying the same things many Americans are saying now: it's not likely to be a big deal. The gov't is exaggerating. We don't need to take any major precautions.
And in the USA, we already know that the virus is spreading unchecked, because we have community spread, with no chance of locking it down, in multiple states. We have a somewhat crap healthcare system, when it comes to protecting a society as opposed to one person (37th, in that same WHO rating - dead last for industrialized nations). So in my country, we have a similar situation as Italy had, but with a much worse health care system to care for it. And a population that is over 5 times the population of Italy.
I find it difficult to NOT be concerned with this going on. I find it hard not to feel that the USA is going to be a big exporter of this virus to OTHER countries, within a couple of weeks (we already have some patients turning up who caught it in other states).
Oh, and one other aspect of this that's concerning - it's a new virus. We still don't know how it works. And something that came up just today shows it may be even MORE alarming that first thought. In China, they've been reporting people who had the virus, recovered, and then a couple weeks later, seem to be reinfected again and start getting sick again. Japan just had their first case of the same thing. Speculation is that for some people, the virus might go dormant and then something triggers and it is again active and you have symptoms again (and might be contagious, as well?).
They don't know though, because again, it's new.
I am not panicking, honestly. That does no one any good at all. But I'm taking this very, very seriously at this point. And I'm taking precautions because I have so many vulnerable, high risk people in my family.
EDIT: the article on the new information about the virus, for those interested: https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/484942-japan-confirms-first-case-of-person-reinfected7 -
It ate a big hole in my retirement funds. Coronavirus apparently also consumes toilet paper based on the supplies at the grocery store. I also found out I was an expert at social distancing - been doing it for years, who knew? I also used to cough to cover the sound of a fart. I now fart to cover the sound of a cough.7
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Schools have officially been shut down for the week as well as church activities on a campus I volunteer at. Supplies continue to be unavailable, despite the stores trying to keep things in stock.
So more or less being told I'm staying at home with my son for the next week. Kinda expected it, honestly. Time to catch up on reading again. :P0 -
i been packing camping/doomsday/bugout bags all afternoon and sorting out all my pills and medicines and stuff for each and then my new neighbors moved in next door and i was debating on spying on them to see how much TP they brought in... y'know, just in case.7
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Schools are cancelled, sport events are cancelled, had to cancel my daughters birthday party.
I typically work from home so now I’ll have to share the bandwidth 🤣0 -
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A friend had trouble finding baby formula but eventually was able to get four cans.
I couldn’t find flour. Eggs were wiped out but I wasn’t going to buy any anyway. And of course the t.p. aisle.
The local college has gone to online classes which will likely affect my co-parent’s job security. and my children’s school is closed indefinitely which means I might have to quit my job to be home with them.
I am actually worried about running out of toilet paper amongst other things.
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It locked down my gym and stopped my gains and body transformation I was doing so well it's like the universe is against me...the world doesn't want me to be fit.2
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I thought it would scare everyone away from retail but its kinda working in our favour in one way. Sold an E-Bike to a lady because she refuses to go on public transport now. I have to do two weeks work experience with paramedics starting next week so that could get interesting. The news out of Italy is pretty dramatic, who knows what really is going on in China..police state run media...6
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amorfati601070 wrote: »I thought it would scare everyone away from retail but its kinda working in our favour in one way. Sold an E-Bike to a lady because she refuses to go on public transport now. I have to do two weeks work experience with paramedics starting next week so that could get interesting. The news out of Italy is pretty dramatic, who knows what really is going on in China..police state run media...
I understand this decision. I am considering attempting to walk the 2 mile round trip to do an errand next week, even though I'm only comfortable with walking a mile now because of my disability worsening.6 -
DecadeDuchess wrote: »amorfati601070 wrote: »I thought it would scare everyone away from retail but its kinda working in our favour in one way. Sold an E-Bike to a lady because she refuses to go on public transport now. I have to do two weeks work experience with paramedics starting next week so that could get interesting. The news out of Italy is pretty dramatic, who knows what really is going on in China..police state run media...
I understand this decision. I am considering attempting to walk the 2 mile round trip to do an errand next week, even though I'm only comfortable with walking a mile now because of my disability worsening.
You should visit your LBS and take an E-Bike for a spin. You can still get a work out in. Anything with a Bosch motor is absolute killer. Put it in turbo mode and its giving you like 300% assistance on what watts you're putting out. They're great fun, green and if you use it frequently it pretty much pays itself off in money saved on those relics we call "cars"...3 -
I live in Belgium. Schools, bars, restaurants closed till April 3rd at least. Recreational activities and events canceled. Pharmacies and food stores are still open, all other shops are only open on weekdays. Working from home is encouraged by the government, but some companies have gone further than that, telling their entire staff to work from home for three weeks.
Ridiculous hoarding in supermarkets when this semi-lockdown was announced.
Personally, I have some suspicious symptoms. So I'm wondering if I should isolate myself. Not much use in contacting a doctor, since testing capacity is limited and I don't fit the criteria to be tested. At work, people who have (had) flu-like symptoms are encouraged to work from home, but it would make some of my current tasks quite hard to manage.
I haven't been sick all winter, not even a common cold, so this timing is very inconvenient and suspicious.4 -
amorfati601070 wrote: »DecadeDuchess wrote: »amorfati601070 wrote: »I thought it would scare everyone away from retail but its kinda working in our favour in one way. Sold an E-Bike to a lady because she refuses to go on public transport now. I have to do two weeks work experience with paramedics starting next week so that could get interesting. The news out of Italy is pretty dramatic, who knows what really is going on in China..police state run media...
I understand this decision. I am considering attempting to walk the 2 mile round trip to do an errand next week, even though I'm only comfortable with walking a mile now because of my disability worsening.
You should visit your LBS and take an E-Bike for a spin. You can still get a work out in. Anything with a Bosch motor is absolute killer. Put it in turbo mode and its giving you like 300% assistance on what watts you're putting out. They're great fun, green and if you use it frequently it pretty much pays itself off in money saved on those relics we call "cars"...
If it was within my budget, I definitely'd.2 -
I've got it.
Not too bad, just fever, exhaustion & a little shortness of breath.
Self isolating at the moment, so hoping there is TP available when I'm out of the zone & need to shop😁
It sounds crazy out there, kinda glad I'm avoiding it. Lol12 -
March 15th: Sent out a message to scouting families about some decisions made regarding den meetings and usage of the facilities which I am sure will elicit some groans from people, but it's for general safety at this point.
Tortillas, TP and sanitizer are still in short supply. Don't know if my husband will survive COVID-19 without tortillas. He might have to learn to (shock) make his own finally.
School has been cancelled and many grocery stores have drastically cut their hours, so they are no longer 24 hour locations.
Might venture out later to see if I can acquire tortillas and a bag of cat food (just in case).4
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