Coronavirus prep
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Got hair cutting equipment including the same plastic wrap the salons use.I been cutting ours for a long time only went to professionals as a blue moon treat. So not an issue men in my life buzz their hair off until their peach fuzz is soft. Mine I just cut it as I go .
We just got told our city will be in lockdown another month for sure. So will see what happens in a month. Been stuck inside 1 month 3days so far .5 -
Here cause folks won’t stop herding into the parks y playgrounds being buddy buddy the mayor just warned he going to close them too if folks don’t knock it off. How many of these folks are doing this then handing us bagged food to medical advice or which I suspect next to hubby as he buys groceries for us leaving him no room to breathe is unknown.
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Italy here. Just got up and watching the News--they're preparing us for the idea that Lockdown will last at least another 2 weeks. Then showed an ambulance transporting a COV19 patient in a plastic tent carrier. Both ETMs were totally covered with their hazemat suits. The one closest to the patient kept touching the plastic carrier to reassure. When the patient was out the ETM just collapsed--wearily. The other moved up to her asking "Are you all right?" I got tears in my eyes.25
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Update from the Emerald Isle.
We we went on more restricted lockdown midnight Friday PM/Saturday AM (not great for me as had to condense a 3 day plan for moving OH's stuff in, into 2 1/2 hours as it was only announced Friday evening around 8pm, and I didn't find out about it until 9pm.) for 2 weeks.- Non-essential retail and all leisure facilities are now closed
- Only those on a list of essential workers are permitted to go to work and must carry work ID or letter from employer.
- We're allowed to exercise within 2km of our home whilst maintaining social distancing.
- Limited numbers permitted into retail outlets, most outlets have plexiglass in place around the tills and paint/tape marking out 2m queuing.
- Restaurants still allowed to operate as takeaway/delivery services only.
- Schools closed until after Easter.
I have not been to the local supermarket since the lockdown started, reports from friends & flatmate differ, our closest supermarket seems to be ok, no panic-buying and relatively quiet. City Centre stores seem to be a bit crazier. I'm ordering most of my stuff through a local butcher who does meat from their own farms and has partnered with a vegetable farm and from neighbourhood food, which is a website that brings local food producers together, so you can place order for things like bread, cheese, ready meals, etc that you might normally get from a farmers market and pick it up from a venue. So I will only be going to the supermarket for the basics as and when I need them.
We're up to just over 2000 cases here I think, not much reporting done about recovered cases unfortunately and test kits are in short supply at the moment from what I gather. It's taking around 10 days for folk to get results.5 -
I cried this morning. For the first time I opened Facebook and found out a friend of mines dad died of covid-19 yesterday and another friends grandma. I went to write condolence cards and realized I don't have enough condolence cards for how many I will need to write.
Governor Hogan is having another press conference at 1045 today. I expect further restrictions41 -
I’m so sorry *hugs*I cried this morning. For the first time I opened Facebook and found out a friend of mines dad died of covid-19 yesterday and another friends grandma. I went to write condolence cards and realized I don't have enough condolence cards for how many I will need to write.
Governor Hogan is having another press conference at 1045 today. I expect further restrictions
Hubby and I were talking, and it was a grave realization at how much our reality can change, so unexpectedly. No one is guaranteed tomorrow, but this makes that realization so much more real... how quickly things have changed.
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amtyrell, find a piece of paper and send a nice hand-written note; that'll be appreciated just as much as (if not more than) a card, especially if you knew either relative and are able to relate a memory of them.12
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I expect other cities are doing something similar (at least I hope they are) but major props to the city of Milwaukee, WI for making sure citizens are able to vote even with the pandemic. Kudos to them. https://jsonline.com/picture-gallery/news/2020/03/28/drive-up-voting-milwaukee-draws-steady-stream-cars/2933272001/
Good thing! We extended mail-in voting (the time to request the ballot) but since it was in the middle of this being recognized as a big crisis (3/17 was our primary), it was still a huge mess. Lots of people (disproportionately older) said they just preferred to vote in person too, which I get (although would have re-thought given the situation) -- I normally don't early vote in a primary but did that time because I had a sense by the end of the prior week that it was going to be a mess. Early voting was easy and fast, at least. (We had a bunch of primaries that day besides the presidential so I don't appreciate those claiming it would have been NBD to postpone.)0 -
Thus far I've been the only 1 whom initiates social distancing, when encountering someone else upon a sidewalk.5
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Encouraging news from China, direct from someone in my husband’s company (they have a plant there): No new cases in the area, life is getting back to “normal,” and schools are starting back up!11
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I just looked at the numbers and am again so grateful we moved from Long Island to VA a few yrs ago. There are 25 covid-19 deaths in all of VA, there are 40 deaths just in the county we lived in in NY ☹️.
I get the impression the next couple of weeks are key in the US, like this is when we find out whether the current level of social distancing is getting the job done.
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Here is an interesting article regarding the conversation of what is considered "essential" here in the U.S.
http://thehustle.co/03302020-coronavirus-esential-businesses1 -
I don't believe that we've seen the worst of it yet, due to those refusing to socially distance themselves. Only once everything recreational's shuttered & all open shops implement distance rules, then after approximately 2 weeks'll reach peak.6
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DecadeDuchess wrote: »Thus far I've been the only 1 whom initiates social distancing, when encountering someone else upon a sidewalk.
It's been mostly mutual around here.5 -
DecadeDuchess wrote: »I don't believe that we've seen the worst of it yet, due to those refusing to socially distance themselves. Only once everything recreational's shuttered & all open shops implement distance rules, then after approximately 2 weeks'll reach peak.
Of course we haven't seen the worst of it, regardless of social distancing, as we are on the upswing of the curve.10 -
DecadeDuchess wrote: »I don't believe that we've seen the worst of it yet, due to those refusing to socially distance themselves. Only once everything recreational's shuttered & all open shops implement distance rules, then after approximately 2 weeks'll reach peak.
Of course we haven't seen the worst of it, regardless of social distancing, as we are on the upswing of the curve.
Yes, even if people started doing everything perfectly last week, we still would be in the upswing right now.12 -
moonangel12 wrote: »Encouraging news from China, direct from someone in my husband’s company (they have a plant there): No new cases in the area, life is getting back to “normal,” and schools are starting back up!
The toll in China was tremendous. They showed the boxes with funeral urns--millions, and the crematoriums are still going. The reported numbers are nowhere near correct. People returning to the hard hit provinces after 2 months cannot leave. They are still in lockdown. Things are slowly getting better, but it will be by degrees, and we will have to do the same.11 -
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I don't know what is more upsetting, the news about the morbidity and mortality of the infection or the stupidity of the 'disagrees' posted in this forum.12
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I don't know what is more upsetting, the news about the morbidity and mortality of the infection or the stupidity of the 'disagrees' posted in this forum.
I’ve been following this since the start of the post. For the most part, the the disagrees have been few. Like most topics posted here, those with nothing better to do, like the disagree button. They would disagree with the statement, “grass is green”, simply to stir others up.🤷🏻♀️
This has been a great post! Informational, interesting, therapeutic, and serving the needs of the MFP community. It helps to know worldwide, we are all in this together, forming a necessary bond, uniting us all for the common good.
Many thanks to all!❤️
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