How Has the Coronavirus Affected You?
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March 17 - Second entry: Husband was able to acquire the mythical pack of "TP" from the local store. However, he said that the situation has become so utterly ridiculous that the base commander has severely curtailed how many of certain items one can by. As it stands, you can only buy one package of toilet paper, two packets of wipes (flushable or santized counter wipes), a bottle of disinfectant, one thing of milk or eggs of one type, one or two containers of formula, etc.
He apparently was appalled at the state of the store on base and imposed mandatory action. Many stores in the local area are following suit so no one has to go without essential items.5 -
DecadeDuchess wrote: »Nope, I'm still mad at all the people hoarding things and panicking more than I'm mad at the people who choose to go out in public.
I know that Everytime I go out in public that I am putting myself at risk. And that is the stance that everyone should take. Take precautions for yourself, be accountable for yourself. You are the only person who can take care of you (besides doctors). You don't know who has passed though. We are all going to get this one way or another, there is no way around this.
And before people go all "but youre young and healthy and haer nothing to worry about". You might be right about my own health, but wrong about my dad. He is going though intensive chemotherapy and his immune system is shot. But he's going to go out and see people if he wants. If he only has a limited time here on this Earth, he's making sure he gets the best of it and sees the things he can and visits the people he loves before he can't. But, what would help in this situation is if he could actually get the supplies he needs to do this! But he can't because people panicked and hoarded everything.
That doesn't mean that he has the right, to risk shortening anyone else's life.
Fun fact! As we live in America, it means he does!
No one but yourself is in charge of your life. And more people need to understand that3 -
DecadeDuchess wrote: »Nope, I'm still mad at all the people hoarding things and panicking more than I'm mad at the people who choose to go out in public.
I know that Everytime I go out in public that I am putting myself at risk. And that is the stance that everyone should take. Take precautions for yourself, be accountable for yourself. You are the only person who can take care of you (besides doctors). You don't know who has passed though. We are all going to get this one way or another, there is no way around this.
And before people go all "but youre young and healthy and haer nothing to worry about". You might be right about my own health, but wrong about my dad. He is going though intensive chemotherapy and his immune system is shot. But he's going to go out and see people if he wants. If he only has a limited time here on this Earth, he's making sure he gets the best of it and sees the things he can and visits the people he loves before he can't. But, what would help in this situation is if he could actually get the supplies he needs to do this! But he can't because people panicked and hoarded everything.
That doesn't mean that he has the right, to risk shortening anyone else's life.
Fun fact! As we live in America, it means he does!
No one but yourself is in charge of your life. And more people need to understand that
Then there wouldn't be mandatory quarantines.4 -
DecadeDuchess wrote: »DecadeDuchess wrote: »Nope, I'm still mad at all the people hoarding things and panicking more than I'm mad at the people who choose to go out in public.
I know that Everytime I go out in public that I am putting myself at risk. And that is the stance that everyone should take. Take precautions for yourself, be accountable for yourself. You are the only person who can take care of you (besides doctors). You don't know who has passed though. We are all going to get this one way or another, there is no way around this.
And before people go all "but youre young and healthy and haer nothing to worry about". You might be right about my own health, but wrong about my dad. He is going though intensive chemotherapy and his immune system is shot. But he's going to go out and see people if he wants. If he only has a limited time here on this Earth, he's making sure he gets the best of it and sees the things he can and visits the people he loves before he can't. But, what would help in this situation is if he could actually get the supplies he needs to do this! But he can't because people panicked and hoarded everything.
That doesn't mean that he has the right, to risk shortening anyone else's life.
Fun fact! As we live in America, it means he does!
No one but yourself is in charge of your life. And more people need to understand that
Then there wouldn't be mandatory quarantines.
We haven't had one yet. It's been suggestions. And your work can enforce it1 -
DecadeDuchess wrote: »Nope, I'm still mad at all the people hoarding things and panicking more than I'm mad at the people who choose to go out in public.
I know that Everytime I go out in public that I am putting myself at risk. And that is the stance that everyone should take. Take precautions for yourself, be accountable for yourself. You are the only person who can take care of you (besides doctors). You don't know who has passed though. We are all going to get this one way or another, there is no way around this.
And before people go all "but youre young and healthy and haer nothing to worry about". You might be right about my own health, but wrong about my dad. He is going though intensive chemotherapy and his immune system is shot. But he's going to go out and see people if he wants. If he only has a limited time here on this Earth, he's making sure he gets the best of it and sees the things he can and visits the people he loves before he can't. But, what would help in this situation is if he could actually get the supplies he needs to do this! But he can't because people panicked and hoarded everything.
That doesn't mean that he has the right, to risk shortening anyone else's life.
Fun fact! As we live in America, it means he does!
No one but yourself is in charge of your life. And more people need to understand that
This is true. Being painfully ignorant is not against the law.12 -
DecadeDuchess wrote: »DecadeDuchess wrote: »Nope, I'm still mad at all the people hoarding things and panicking more than I'm mad at the people who choose to go out in public.
I know that Everytime I go out in public that I am putting myself at risk. And that is the stance that everyone should take. Take precautions for yourself, be accountable for yourself. You are the only person who can take care of you (besides doctors). You don't know who has passed though. We are all going to get this one way or another, there is no way around this.
And before people go all "but youre young and healthy and haer nothing to worry about". You might be right about my own health, but wrong about my dad. He is going though intensive chemotherapy and his immune system is shot. But he's going to go out and see people if he wants. If he only has a limited time here on this Earth, he's making sure he gets the best of it and sees the things he can and visits the people he loves before he can't. But, what would help in this situation is if he could actually get the supplies he needs to do this! But he can't because people panicked and hoarded everything.
That doesn't mean that he has the right, to risk shortening anyone else's life.
Fun fact! As we live in America, it means he does!
No one but yourself is in charge of your life. And more people need to understand that
Then there wouldn't be mandatory quarantines.
We haven't had one yet. It's been suggestions. And your work can enforce it
Some people here're under mandatory quarantine &'ll face criminal charges, if they don't comply with it.1 -
_Miss_chievous_ wrote: »This whole thing is making us see the negative side of humanity. Fear and panic are causing typically “good” humans to act selfish and greedy by hoarding everything. We need to check ourselves and attempt to be rational.
As a retail worker I'm worried about a lot of people returning their mountains of toilet paper, food items they overbought (we'd have to defect that out), & other things people panic bought.2 -
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Found this thread tonight...and I’ve read all of the posts. Some of them made me sad, some of them had me lol-ing.
The hubs and I are homebodies by nature, so we are good to go in that respect. I’m in NC, and as of 5pm today, restaurants are take-out/drive through or delivery only. Schools were declared closed state wide over this past weekend.
I work at the local hospital and visitor restrictions have increased twice in the last week. Today I saw someone decked out in full PPE at the ED entrance and was told they are screening people coming in. All self serve options are gone from the cafeteria, and many of the tables have disappeared to encourage social distancing and closed to the public for dining last night. There is one case in my county and one on base, but evidently they aren’t counted as “in the county.”
The one thing that has affected me, personally, is that my husband tested positive today for flu and I can’t get Lysol spray or disinfecting wipes because, like toilet paper, it’s gone.
As someone else mentioned, living in a hurricane prone state has a lot of us stocked up, anyway.3 -
You’re an a-hole but this made me laugh, not gonna lie 😆ADifferentKindOfCriminal wrote: »Not at all, besides seeing people freak out over nothing. Think imma go out tonight, maybe to a bar, maybe dancing. Be angry at me for going out. Seeeeethe in your temple of toilet paper while I'm out having fun
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So...
my chest is heavy and I can’t draw a full breath without coughing.
Other symptoms:
-Slightly elevated temp, not technically a fever though
-mild sore throat
-sinus pain (but no congestion)
-sudden irresistible urge to travel the world
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GettinLean19 wrote: »So...
my chest is heavy and I can’t draw a full breath without coughing.
Other symptoms:
-Slightly elevated temp, not technically a fever though
-mild sore throat
-sinus pain (but no congestion)
-sudden irresistible urge to travel the world
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Ohhh no...get better2 -
oh, no thank you 🙄ADifferentKindOfCriminal wrote: »Abs_magee89 wrote: »
You’re an a-hole but this made me laugh, not gonna lie 😆ADifferentKindOfCriminal wrote: »Not at all, besides seeing people freak out over nothing. Think imma go out tonight, maybe to a bar, maybe dancing. Be angry at me for going out. Seeeeethe in your temple of toilet paper while I'm out having fun
Heeeey, bebe 😏. Lemme give you my virus 😎
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Just had to postpone my wedding due to the restrictions on group size...We have to eat a number of deposits. We aren't going to be selfish though, and feel like this will just add to our story.11
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Abs_magee89 wrote: »I’m
The infection protection official at my hospital said hand sanitizer is effective as long as it is 70 percent alcohol. If you look at a lot of the hand sanitizers at the grocery stores, they will have 60 percent.GettinLean19 wrote: »Chef_Barbell wrote: »The_Usual_Suspects wrote: »Took a little time off from work. I went to a live standup comedy show for the first time, followed by a club with a live band where I danced my *kitten* off. I've been going to bars, the gym, restaurants, casinos. I'm living and enjoying life. Haven't purchased a single roll of toilet paper or bottle of sanitizer. I am appalled at how ridiculous humanity can be, though.
I know right?? How dare people prepare for an emergency?!?! :gasp:
It's more about how people are "preparing" you don't need 500 rolls of TP, all the hand sanitizer (which does nothing btw) and all the disinfect wipes. Most people are healthy and will be able to get though this relatively easily. But you have the people who are actually at risk who can't get out and get the things they need because of people panicking and clearing the shelves. My dad is going though intensive chemotherapy. On a good day with out this virus we need disinfect wipes, now we cant get any because an over anxious Karen decided that she needs them all.
Wait. Hand sanitizer does nothing?
Washing hands with soap and water for 30 seconds (or singing two rounds of happy birthday) is what is recommend, hand sanitizer isn’t a real protector so we have been advised.
Oh Really? That’s reassuring. What also worries me a little bit, is that there is so many different recommendations, it’s frustrating. I think WHO says soap and water, our head dr and pandemic advisor told out team that it is the best protection but I still use sanitiser also constantly between things like removing gloves ect I do know I’ve washed my hands so many times today I swear ive taken the top layer of my skin off lol2 -
Nope, I'm still mad at all the people hoarding things and panicking more than I'm mad at the people who choose to go out in public.
I know that Everytime I go out in public that I am putting myself at risk. And that is the stance that everyone should take. Take precautions for yourself, be accountable for yourself. You are the only person who can take care of you (besides doctors). You don't know who has passed though. We are all going to get this one way or another, there is no way around this.
And before people go all "but youre young and healthy and haer nothing to worry about". You might be right about my own health, but wrong about my dad. He is going though intensive chemotherapy and his immune system is shot. But he's going to go out and see people if he wants. If he only has a limited time here on this Earth, he's making sure he gets the best of it and sees the things he can and visits the people he loves before he can't. But, what would help in this situation is if he could actually get the supplies he needs to do this! But he can't because people panicked and hoarded everything.
I’m sorry to hear yr dad and yr family are going through this. I would think that while having chemo, protection of the person receiving this is of the upmost importance to give the treatment a chance to be effective, so that eventually he CAN go out and visit people he loves and do the things he wants without putting his health at further risk and others at risk. I’m not sure of his condition, the severity or circumstance but I hope your dad puts his health at the forefront of his mind and is coping with the aweful side effects of chemo before putting himself at danger by having to suffer from another illness during treatment, even a mild cold, which could be potentially critical.1 -
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The bad
-My favorite cupcake store in time square is closed!!
-There's no food available anywhere
-I had to pay 3 times the price for toilet paper
-In order not to furlough or lay people off My job cut all Overtime and change shifts from 8-430pm to 430pm-1230am
-My 4 yr old nephew is battling Leukemia (he's doing great) but can't be around germs at all!!! Since my brother can't find masks or gloves I ended buying a bunch of stuff from eBay to keep him safe. $50 for medical masks that cost $5, $40 for rubbing alcohol that cost $2.50, $20 for gloves that cost $10, $40 for Lysol spray that cost $5
The Good
-The streets of NYC are empty
-The subway trains are empty
-NO annoying tourists taking pictures or ugly buildings
-homeless crackheads stopped asking for money
-NO annoying aholes dancing in train cars for money
Where did the ugly buildings go to?5 -
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My life is now a *kitten* meme. 🤣
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Our hoarding attitude? I haven't seen anyone here promoting hoarding.
Contrary to what you seem to believe, it is possible to not hoard and care enough about other people to practice social distancing and other measures, to limit the spread of this virus and keep infections to a level manageable for the health care system.
Edit: this was a response to a message that has been deleted now
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