How Has the Coronavirus Affected You?
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_Miss_chievous_ wrote: »GettinLean19 wrote: »Yesterday i posted my symptoms in this thread and got some disagrees. I’m still perplexed by that 😑
My kids and I now have all been coughing for 24 hours. Fever low but hovering around 100. Most pronounced symptom for me is chest heaviness but I honestly don’t know how much of that is just from anxiety. We can’t be tested as there is a shortage of test kits in my state and they are only testing people with known contact with the virus or who have traveled in the past 2 weeks. All that tells me is that the community spread numbers are severely underreported.
No clue if its *the* virus, but just the same.. we are housebound until symptoms resolve.
mail me chocolateStay safe out there
💔 oh no 😔 I really hope you all start feeling better. Not everyone here can get tested either, it's so scary and spreading so quickly too. Be safe.
I’m not worried about the virus for myself but my parents are older and they were here this past weekend.. and they went on monday to take groceries to my grandpa who is 92.. and so it goes.7 -
NotSo_SmoothCriminal wrote: »_Miss_chievous_ wrote: »NotSo_SmoothCriminal wrote: »_Miss_chievous_ wrote: »NotSo_SmoothCriminal wrote: »Abs_magee89 wrote: »
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 😎
Back off, dude. It's my virus she wants. All. Four. Inches of it
Gross
I know, I know.... only the mature, 6+ inch ones are appetizing 🤷🏻♂️
You are such a hypocrite on these forums. You go around posting sexual innuendos, Etc, and then go around telling people they are gross for posting their own b*******. I don't know how you don't get banned while other members get banned for it.
Oh wait. It's probably favoritism with a bunch of hypocrite moderators.
I love you too 🤗
Nah, save the kill em with kindness mantra. Just ditch the hypocrisy and you'll be golden
Maybe learn how to take a joke also 🤷🏻♂️
How do you know I wasn't joking? 🙄🤣 anyways... thanks for the tip! I'll take it all in consideration. 👍0 -
I have gone in for a couple of school staff meetings, and am working from home, updating grades from work I have remaining from when we were in school, last week. We are closed indefinitely. As a high school teacher, I have been instructed to prepare reinforcement learning opportunities for students electronically. All of our students are one-to-one on tech. Assignments cannot be graded, just checked as done or incomplete.
My church has no public gatherings, but we can go in for private devotions. We have many live stream opportunities to support our religious practice.
My Y has closed, so my workouts are at home, and outdoors, weather permitting. I may take advantage of the weight room at my school. Though closed to students, it is available to staff.
I broke a huge chunk off of a molar, on popcorn a couple of days ago, and cannot get to the dentist until April 1. Maybe.
We are empty nesters in pretty good health. Not suffering, so have it better than some. So far, we have not had trouble getting groceries, even though many shelves are nearly empty. It is hard for the stores to keep restocking.
All in all, I feel grateful for my present health and have the attitude that we just have to go with the flow, when so many variables are outside of our control.0 -
Working from home most of the time now. I do have to go in from time to time though...couple days per week. Restaurants and bars and such are limited to 1/2 capacity. That doesn't affect us all that much as we are kind of home bodies and don't eat out a whole lot. Cancelled my spring break trip to Colorado with my boys. My gym is closed and I'm fine with that...I was taking a self imposed moratorium from the gym from the time we had our first infections in the state last week as it is a large commercial gym and there can be hundreds of people in there. Going for walks in the mornings with my boys daily and usually an afternoon bike ride.0
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Well, as long as you don't go blaming others for your actions if you get banned. Cause, that's a thing around here too.5 -
School is closed...college is closed...gym is closed...church is closed...restaurants are closed...
Basically everybody I know is staying home...except me. I still get the delightful 75 minute commute each day for work.
But at least I can still rely upon a paycheck being uninterrupted. Now, if only the stores still had some toilet paper to spend all that money on...4 -
my apartment complex just announced they're no longer accepting packages in the office
the way it normally works is that the mailman uses the larger package mailboxes to leave bigger items- those are located right beside the regular mailboxes. but they're limited in number. so if they're already full, then the mailman brings it inside and leaves it in the office. then you can go by whenever during business hours and pick it up from the staff.
now they're not accepting them anymore, and keeping the doors closed and its appointment only to even talk to the employees.
im guessing the mailman will just start leaving you a note that you have a package to pick up at the local post office instead, assuming the large package boxes are full of course.
so, basically their idea is, in order to cut down on the spread of the virus, they're limiting interactions located where we live, and instead will start funneling people to the local post office, where more people will end up waiting in line for longer periods of time now.
somehow, just somehow, i don't think that's going to be very effective.2 -
GettinLean19 wrote: »Yesterday i posted my symptoms in this thread and got some disagrees. I’m still perplexed by that 😑
My kids and I now have all been coughing for 24 hours. Fever low but hovering around 100. Most pronounced symptom for me is chest heaviness but I honestly don’t know how much of that is just from anxiety. We can’t be tested as there is a shortage of test kits in my state and they are only testing people with known contact with the virus or who have traveled in the past 2 weeks. All that tells me is that the community spread numbers are severely underreported.
No clue if its *the* virus, but just the same.. we are housebound until symptoms resolve.
mail me chocolateStay safe out there
Ugh! My heart goes out to you girl....I love your wit and humor so much and although we don't really know each other this may sound wierd but I'm glad your kids have you and know even though you feel like *kitten*...which sucks so bad....I know you'll get through this because your strong....so sending positive vibes and if i had any chocolate (left 🤐) I would seriously send you some too chica! 🤗 all my best hun! 💗1 -
GettinLean19 wrote: »Yesterday i posted my symptoms in this thread and got some disagrees. I’m still perplexed by that 😑
My kids and I now have all been coughing for 24 hours. Fever low but hovering around 100. Most pronounced symptom for me is chest heaviness but I honestly don’t know how much of that is just from anxiety. We can’t be tested as there is a shortage of test kits in my state and they are only testing people with known contact with the virus or who have traveled in the past 2 weeks. All that tells me is that the community spread numbers are severely underreported.
No clue if its *the* virus, but just the same.. we are housebound until symptoms resolve.
mail me chocolateStay safe out there
Really hope you start feeling better soon. Take care of yourself.1 -
March 18: Found out that our county had its first confirmed case yesterday. The spread will be imminent from that given how rapidly most things spread in this area. Also found out that the first confirmed case hit my dad's county.. and he's in his 70s and has diabetes. He informed that it was already getting hard for him to find basic medical supplies for his diabetes routine, so I might end up having to send him supplies if this continues. Sad thing is, we all know it's not because there's not enough supply (there's plenty sitting in warehouses), but mostly because the stores can't keep up with demand and can't prevent people hoarding supplies.
Went back to the store today in search of wet cat food. The store on base has initiated a 100% ID check for patrons because some of our members were abusing the system and inviting their friends and neighbors to shop on post. So not only did they initiate an ID check, but now we are limited to buying only 3 of any one thing.. which means I could not buy cat food singularly and had to shell out more money for a package of 24. Oh well. Inconvenient, sure. Was hoping to score some chicken, but there remains to be none, either fresh or frozen. Hardly any meat, but plenty of fish. My fridge and freezer are mostly stocked so I didn't need any of that, but I was seriously hoping for some chicken. Again, oh well.
My son's school decided this afternoon to extend the home stay of the kids, so now there's no school for two weeks (putting them into April). Most of the scouting events I helped plan or were planning on attending have been rescheduled or moved now. Still keeping an eye out on how things progress.
My husband remains firmly in camp "y'all are overreacting" whereas I remain in camp "keep y'all's hands clean and stop being a selfish *kitten*".5 -
My hematologist this morning gave me a stern lecture about why I should be isolating more than I am. Quite honestly, I had not thought much about my being in a higher risk category. I was too busy trying to take care of everything else. Oops.
So, I will start working from home, doing grocery delivery or pick up, etc., etc. as much as possible. I do not need to be getting sick.4 -
Just got told a confirmed case of COVID-19 occurred on the base where I live involving a NEX employee.
Too close for comfort, yo.8 -
I'm so pissed that I have kids calling here to invite my daughter over. I really don't think some people understand what social distancing is. I also live in a small town and I've seen people that I know going out even after they got back from vacation. It's so frustrating how some people don't seem to care because they don't feel like they're at risk and it's just a 'cold' for them. Selfishness at it's finest.7
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_Miss_chievous_ wrote: »I'm so pissed that I have kids calling here to invite my daughter over. I really don't think some people understand what social distancing is. I also live in a small town and I've seen people that I know going out even after they got back from vacation. It's so frustrating how some people don't seem to care because they don't feel like they're at risk and it's just a 'cold' for them. Selfishness at it's finest.
Sorry that's happening, T. 😞2 -
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The Governor of NY made it mandatory that all businesses cut %50 of their daily workforce or have 50% work from home. Alot of people are now laid off. My company is splitting us I to 3 groups 8-430 , 430-1230am, 1230am-8am inorder to not to lay us off
How can a governor legally do that ?
There's a good chance that there will be more personal destruction (suicide, crime, spousal abuse) as a result of economic collapse than the virus itself.9 -
I heard that guy (gov cuomo) speak the other day and he sounded like an extra from the sopranos. Like one of those guys that got killed off in season 2.Motorsheen wrote: »The Governor of NY made it mandatory that all businesses cut %50 of their daily workforce or have 50% work from home. Alot of people are now laid off. My company is splitting us I to 3 groups 8-430 , 430-1230am, 1230am-8am inorder to not to lay us off
How can a governor legally do that ?
There's a good chance that there will be more personal destruction (suicide, crime, spousal abuse) as a result of economic collapse than the virus itself.
"I'm a Queens boy and we are tough blah blah"
Yeah guy , this is a virus, not a hit on the Genovese family1 -
Motorsheen wrote: »The Governor of NY made it mandatory that all businesses cut %50 of their daily workforce or have 50% work from home. Alot of people are now laid off. My company is splitting us I to 3 groups 8-430 , 430-1230am, 1230am-8am inorder to not to lay us off
How can a governor legally do that ?
There's a good chance that there will be more personal destruction (suicide, crime, spousal abuse) as a result of economic collapse than the virus itself.
well there's that saying about how "there are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy" so yeah i tend to agree
personally i think things will stay okay until after the next paycheck hits towards the end of the month, then queue more panic buying; and then the lack of paychecks are gonna start adding up for some folks.2 -
Motorsheen wrote: »The Governor of NY made it mandatory that all businesses cut %50 of their daily workforce or have 50% work from home. Alot of people are now laid off. My company is splitting us I to 3 groups 8-430 , 430-1230am, 1230am-8am inorder to not to lay us off
How can a governor legally do that ?
There's a good chance that there will be more personal destruction (suicide, crime, spousal abuse) as a result of economic collapse than the virus itself.
well there's that saying about how "there are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy" so yeah i tend to agree
personally i think things will stay okay until after the next paycheck hits towards the end of the month, then queue more panic buying; and then the lack of paychecks are gonna start adding up for some folks.
I haven’t verified this so don’t come for me. My accountant asked me yesterday “how many people do you think were unemployed during the Great Depression? I said “IDK maybe 50%”. Her answer was20%. I was surprised. That was eye opening to me.
Apparently I didn’t listen well in school but I didn’t know that number could cause the trouble it did. Which I guess makes sense but.....hadn’t thought about it in those numbers.
I believe that the height of the Great Depression was 1933 with a national unemployment rate of 24.9%.
Keep in mind the type of employment there was at that time and the lack of any kind of government safety net.
That depression made a life long impact on a lot of people.
My grandfather would tell me: "Take very good care of your possessions, they could be the last ones you ever have." Paranoid? maybe, but to be fair, I didn't have his life experiences (Thank God.).9 -
Motorsheen wrote: »The Governor of NY made it mandatory that all businesses cut %50 of their daily workforce or have 50% work from home. Alot of people are now laid off. My company is splitting us I to 3 groups 8-430 , 430-1230am, 1230am-8am inorder to not to lay us off
How can a governor legally do that ?
There's a good chance that there will be more personal destruction (suicide, crime, spousal abuse) as a result of economic collapse than the virus itself.
It's about health of the population. In certain situations, Gov't has overriding authority. Be thankful you don't live in the Bay Area of California.2 -
XxFunctionalStrengthxX wrote: »Motorsheen wrote: »The Governor of NY made it mandatory that all businesses cut %50 of their daily workforce or have 50% work from home. Alot of people are now laid off. My company is splitting us I to 3 groups 8-430 , 430-1230am, 1230am-8am inorder to not to lay us off
How can a governor legally do that ?
There's a good chance that there will be more personal destruction (suicide, crime, spousal abuse) as a result of economic collapse than the virus itself.
It's about health of the population. In certain situations, Gov't has overriding authority. Be thankful you don't live in the Bay Area of California.
Government might have an authority, but to what ends ?
As some point, there is going to be pushback, if not retaliation, by the masses.
The Bay Area of California? Yeah, not my jam.
Always remember, 'The larger the government / The smaller the citizen.'4 -
FeelinFooFoo wrote: »I was almost lynched by a check out lady cos I purchased 8 tins of baked beans. I have not been stocking up AT ALL but figured I'd like to be able to have some non perishables for a household of 3 people....
Let me explain. The supermarket is empty of food supplies. The baked beans were calling me. I calmly explained to her that the beans are being sold as 'buy 4 for £2.50' I simply bought X2 of the product on offer. She hastily explained while shaking, that as of tomorrow we will only be able to buy X2 of each product per person. She couldn't quite understand that the are being sold on offer of X4 for a set price. Looks like supermarkets will have to sort out their 'deals' so people dont feel as if they are 'panic buying' when I haven't been doing that at all. But when all the hoarders have reduced you and your family to beans, I feel I am within my rights to have SOMETHING to eat if I have to self isolate...actually feel like your committing a crime for buying food.
Good job I bought a bottle of rum for the 3 of us. Should have maybe bought 2....
hey i found who’s hoarding all the baked beans you guys
GET HER!!7 -
Motorsheen wrote: »XxFunctionalStrengthxX wrote: »Motorsheen wrote: »The Governor of NY made it mandatory that all businesses cut %50 of their daily workforce or have 50% work from home. Alot of people are now laid off. My company is splitting us I to 3 groups 8-430 , 430-1230am, 1230am-8am inorder to not to lay us off
How can a governor legally do that ?
There's a good chance that there will be more personal destruction (suicide, crime, spousal abuse) as a result of economic collapse than the virus itself.
It's about health of the population. In certain situations, Gov't has overriding authority. Be thankful you don't live in the Bay Area of California.
Government might have an authority, but to what ends ?
As some point, there is going to be pushback, if not retaliation, by the masses.
The Bay Area of California? Yeah, not my jam.
Always remember, 'The larger the government / The smaller the citizen.'
I'm concerned as well about how far the shutdown orders will go. But, by the same token, because of how stupid and ignorant people can be something needs to be done. Not heavy handed such as Bay Area did.
But, if a two week interruption can help reduce the spread of this thing, I think it's something we all should get behind.2 -
I'm a cashier so it kinda sucks right now with people's buying habits. Aside from the work implications... I stress eat. After hitting my calorie goal I still found myself eating an entire chocolate bar this evening and craving something else to munch on. I decided to eat half a container of mints to keep me occupied but low calorie😂
Also I uh might be a bit more prone to anxiety than I realised before now. I get social anxiety from dealing with lots of people or having to do group stuff but now going to a store when I don't have work shifts takes me like 15min just to psych myself up to deal with people. (Work is work on that front I plaster on that customer service smile and fake it anyway when I go in🤷♀️)3 -
GettinLean19 wrote: »Yesterday i posted my symptoms in this thread and got some disagrees. I’m still perplexed by that 😑
My kids and I now have all been coughing for 24 hours. Fever low but hovering around 100. Most pronounced symptom for me is chest heaviness but I honestly don’t know how much of that is just from anxiety. We can’t be tested as there is a shortage of test kits in my state and they are only testing people with known contact with the virus or who have traveled in the past 2 weeks. All that tells me is that the community spread numbers are severely underreported.
No clue if its *the* virus, but just the same.. we are housebound until symptoms resolve.
mail me chocolateStay safe out there
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We are in lockdown. I'm a teacher, and in theory, we had this week off. No way, we have been asked to organise online learning (on a new platform we don't know how to use) so that children don't "miss out" on school work. Everything has to be ready before Monday, so I'm working like crazy, trying to understand the platform and make it ready for the kids. Add to it the constant panicked messages from parents because the kids (14 and over) have "nothing to do".
On a more worrying side, a couple of my parents' neighbours had to be taken to hospital with a serious case of the virus, and my mum was chatting to one of them just last week (when they still had no symptoms). My parents are in the main age risk group, and my dad has other health problems, so I'm really worried about them.11
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