Coronavirus prep
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spiriteagle99 wrote: »NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »
Howard County bars sales of nonessential items at essential businesses
https://www.kokomotribune.com/news/local_news/howard-county-bars-sales-of-nonessential-items-at-essential-businesses/article_6d0c2798-7074-11ea-9136-538d5d848958.html
Howard County has banned the sale of these items in local stores during its stay-at-home order:
Banned purchases
Jewelry.
Furniture.
Home and lawn decor.
Toys and games.
Carpets.
Rugs and flooring.
Non-emergency appliances.
Music.
Books and magazines.
Craft and art supplies.
Paint.
Entertainment electronics.
Staying entertained during a long quarantine seems to me to be pretty essential. Not everyone spends all day watching TV. Books, art supplies, music, etc. and even home repair or decorating seem to me to be a very valid way of enduring the long quarantine.
Of the things you mentioned, you can get books via the Kindle app without ever leaving home. You can also get tons of music to listen to via spotify or Itunes. Art supplies can be more problematic. I hardly watch TV now or prior to the coronavirus. I am also a muscian. So, multiple instruments are at hand and plenty of material and tutorials via YouTube to learn and existing material to practice and perfect.
Then of course there is a daily walk or run and body weight and resistance band workouts for the upper body and abs. Haven't gotten bored yet....3 -
spiriteagle99 wrote: »NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »
Howard County bars sales of nonessential items at essential businesses
https://www.kokomotribune.com/news/local_news/howard-county-bars-sales-of-nonessential-items-at-essential-businesses/article_6d0c2798-7074-11ea-9136-538d5d848958.html
Howard County has banned the sale of these items in local stores during its stay-at-home order:
Banned purchases
Jewelry.
Furniture.
Home and lawn decor.
Toys and games.
Carpets.
Rugs and flooring.
Non-emergency appliances.
Music.
Books and magazines.
Craft and art supplies.
Paint.
Entertainment electronics.
Staying entertained during a long quarantine seems to me to be pretty essential. Not everyone spends all day watching TV. Books, art supplies, music, etc. and even home repair or decorating seem to me to be a very valid way of enduring the long quarantine.
I'd assume books can be delivered. My local indie bookstore says: "We can now ship books directly from our distributor's warehouse to your front door. All you have to do is place your order through our website and select our regular USPS shipping option, then we'll take it from there! This will be the fastest way to get your books moving forward, and the best way to continue to support The Book Cellar.
Now more than ever, it is important to shop locally. As many of you have likely heard, Amazon confirmed that it’s significantly delaying US deliveries of all nonessential items during the coronavirus pandemic. According to product listings on its website, some of these shipments will be delayed by as much as a month. So don’t forget to look to your local shops and vendors! We’re here to help!"
A huge number of other local stores (like my local gardening store) have gone to online only.
I feel bad for all the local businesses, but I really do think it's best to have very limited in store options right now.
Shopping locally is more important than ever. I suspect that restaurants and breweries will be shut down completely in the next couple of weeks, which will be disastrous for many of them. I’m taking every advantage of online ordering and curbside pickup for as long as I can. I live in a very “neighborhood-y” neighborhood, so I know the owners and workers at a lot of our local shops. I’m lucky enough to have a job where I can work remotely, so I figure that as long as my neighbors are open, I’ll be supporting them.
Yeah, same here, in just about all respects (except I don't think restaurants will close completely, although Chef Barbell makes a valid point). Our neighborhood chamber of commerce has a nice list of who is open and how to buy from them.3 -
@Bry_Fitness70 You're right as rain. My state has received a grade F for social distancing. We're hearing from older folkaronies who live out in the country, they're wearing imaginary courage as a badge of honor. Fearless cliches are the mortal enemy of good common horse sense.
Falling back on worn out cliches is barking up the wrong tree. We can't afford to resort to that kind of lazy.5 -
spiriteagle99 wrote: »NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »
Howard County bars sales of nonessential items at essential businesses
https://www.kokomotribune.com/news/local_news/howard-county-bars-sales-of-nonessential-items-at-essential-businesses/article_6d0c2798-7074-11ea-9136-538d5d848958.html
Howard County has banned the sale of these items in local stores during its stay-at-home order:
Banned purchases
Jewelry.
Furniture.
Home and lawn decor.
Toys and games.
Carpets.
Rugs and flooring.
Non-emergency appliances.
Music.
Books and magazines.
Craft and art supplies.
Paint.
Entertainment electronics.
Staying entertained during a long quarantine seems to me to be pretty essential. Not everyone spends all day watching TV. Books, art supplies, music, etc. and even home repair or decorating seem to me to be a very valid way of enduring the long quarantine.
Of the things you mentioned, you can get books via the Kindle app without ever leaving home. You can also get tons of music to listen to via spotify or Itunes. Art supplies can be more problematic. I hardly watch TV now or prior to the coronavirus. I am also a muscian. So, multiple instruments are at hand and plenty of material and tutorials via YouTube to learn and existing material to practice and perfect.
Then of course there is a daily walk or run and body weight and resistance band workouts for the upper body and abs. Haven't gotten bored yet....
Here in the US, some of the specialized art and craft supply mail-order businesses (outside Amazon) still seem to be fulfilling online orders (wisely, or not), including true mom'n'pop businesses that are not endangering employees outside their households by continuing to ship while their onsite "warehouse" still has inventory. (The question of unnecessarily endangering or overloading shippers and their employees is a consideration, of course, but I suspect some of these small-scale suppliers will have been making sensible and sensitive efforts to reduce such risks, and may comment on such on their web sites or Facebook (or other social media) pages.)
If someone wants to resume an old hobby and get supplies, a reasonable strategy might be to seek out a good-sized social-network group specific to that hobby, and ask for recommendations of small-scale vendors that are still shipping, that have a good reputation for reliability, and that are known to be taking good precautions. Or, in many areas, there may be small stores willing to mail locally who don't usually do so. I'm a multi-crafter hobbyist, and it's surprising to me how many people (who do some of the same crafts I do) are unaware of local sources that are price-competitive, with an excellent selection, and who already were shippers even before the crisis. So many people are only aware of the big chains. (And I don't live in a major metro area, BTW.)
The right answer, IMO, is still to minimize creating madly increased shipping, of course. Much can be done, in the arts and crafts realm (for diverse types of crafts) with things many people have around the house, but won't have thought of using because they think they need fancy stuff. YouTube can be a great discovery point, among others.8 -
Staying entertained during a long quarantine seems to me to be pretty essential. Not everyone spends all day watching TV. Books, art supplies, music, etc. and even home repair or decorating seem to me to be a very valid way of enduring the long quarantine.
Of the things you mentioned, you can get books via the Kindle app without ever leaving home. You can also get tons of music to listen to via spotify or Itunes. Art supplies can be more problematic. I hardly watch TV now or prior to the coronavirus. I am also a muscian. So, multiple instruments are at hand and plenty of material and tutorials via YouTube to learn and existing material to practice and perfect.
Then of course there is a daily walk or run and body weight and resistance band workouts for the upper body and abs. Haven't gotten bored yet....[/quote]
I play the piano, but can't play by ear to save my life - I need the sheet music in front of me, so using YouTube doesn't work in this case. Not that I need more sheet music now, anyway
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Update from down south - San Antonio is up over 200 cases now. Only 10% of people tested have come back positive, so at least that seems to indicate that we're not waiting until people show severe symptoms to test them. I'm pretty impressed with our data collection and distribution: https://www.sanantonio.gov/Health/News/Alerts/CoronaVirus.
The zip code with the most cases also happens to be the "rich" part of town (finding a house for less than $500k is rare), which makes me wonder if the increased cases there are from people coming home from international trips, especially from Spring break a couple weeks ago.
I'm beginning to remember why I stopped working from home 5 years ago. I've only been working from home now for 2 weeks, but I'm finding the lack of getting out and about and talking face to face with people depressing. I haven't been grocery shopping for 2 weeks and really do need to go - I'm out of several food items that I regularly use - but I'm loathe to go to the grocery store. The couple times I went out to get a few items for my grandmother were hellish - going from store to store to store trying to find basic items like milk, butter, flour.
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spiriteagle99 wrote: »NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »
Howard County bars sales of nonessential items at essential businesses
https://www.kokomotribune.com/news/local_news/howard-county-bars-sales-of-nonessential-items-at-essential-businesses/article_6d0c2798-7074-11ea-9136-538d5d848958.html
Howard County has banned the sale of these items in local stores during its stay-at-home order:
Banned purchases
Jewelry.
Furniture.
Home and lawn decor.
Toys and games.
Carpets.
Rugs and flooring.
Non-emergency appliances.
Music.
Books and magazines.
Craft and art supplies.
Paint.
Entertainment electronics.
Staying entertained during a long quarantine seems to me to be pretty essential. Not everyone spends all day watching TV. Books, art supplies, music, etc. and even home repair or decorating seem to me to be a very valid way of enduring the long quarantine.
Of the things you mentioned, you can get books via the Kindle app without ever leaving home. You can also get tons of music to listen to via spotify or Itunes. Art supplies can be more problematic. I hardly watch TV now or prior to the coronavirus. I am also a muscian. So, multiple instruments are at hand and plenty of material and tutorials via YouTube to learn and existing material to practice and perfect.
Yeah, it's been ages since I bought music, and still longer since I bought hard copy CDs or records (I assume if I were a record person I'd have quite a collection). As it is, I was going to give away all my CDs before my move 2 years ago, but I wimped out and kept about 1/3 of them. I can get a huge amount of music through streaming options. I already have a crazy number of books, so if not for the desire to support local bookstores, this would be a good opportunity to just force myself to read what I have. To some extent I am doing that (I'm seeking out books I happened to have on viruses or relating to them, sigh, and I think moving on to Defoe's Diary of the Plague Year next), but I've bought a few things on Kindle (I read it on my phone) too. I think many local library systems work with Kindle too, not sure if this has affected them, but there are lots of cheap Kindle options. There's something like paperbackswap (which has CD and DVD options too) -- I suspect they are still operating now, as the post office is.
Personally, in addition to work and gardening, I'm also back to trying to learn German, which also is something I can work on online (although I have books too).
If people don't know, there are a ton of cultural institutions making things available too -- it's not just TV (and not even just TV and the many great movies available online). The Metropolitan Opera in NYC is doing nightly live streamings, an indie/art theatre here (Chicago) is selling tickets to watch movies they would have been showing live but for COVID-19 online, several local theaters are offering streaming versions of past plays, the Globe is streaming weekly Shakespeare plays and various others free, the Art Institute of Chicago is offering ways to visit virtually, the CSO has added tons of virtual content, so on. Basically, if there are cultural offerings you would have been interested in but the time/money/inconvenience made them difficult, some might be available at home now. There are many options I have not mentioned since my list is biased toward my interests and location.
But beyond that, art supplies and hobby stuff are almost surely available most places through delivery. (Re home repair, I know Home Depot is open here, with reduced hours, but also delivers. I saw someone on Twitter complaining about how crowded HD was a week or so ago, and asked "why, is everyone building an extra bathroom to house their 1800 rolls of TP?")
Can you imagine this all happening before the online era? It probably couldn't have, as we couldn't have worked at home as easily (for the many of us who could), and I like reading a great deal and did have books, as noted, but it would be so much harder, and businesses would have had fewer options by far.8 -
bmeadows380 wrote: »
Staying entertained during a long quarantine seems to me to be pretty essential. Not everyone spends all day watching TV. Books, art supplies, music, etc. and even home repair or decorating seem to me to be a very valid way of enduring the long quarantine.
Of the things you mentioned, you can get books via the Kindle app without ever leaving home. You can also get tons of music to listen to via spotify or Itunes. Art supplies can be more problematic. I hardly watch TV now or prior to the coronavirus. I am also a muscian. So, multiple instruments are at hand and plenty of material and tutorials via YouTube to learn and existing material to practice and perfect.
Then of course there is a daily walk or run and body weight and resistance band workouts for the upper body and abs. Haven't gotten bored yet....
I play the piano, but can't play by ear to save my life - I need the sheet music in front of me, so using YouTube doesn't work in this case. Not that I need more sheet music now, anyway
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True. But there are many sites that provide downloadable sheet music for a fairly low price. One that I use has a $9.99 U.S. subscription price for a year! Sounds like you have enough to keep you busy.
I play various styles from rock to bossa and a little classical and I've used these sites very successfully. Especially for Jazz scores. I am not musically fluent enough to play jazz but I sing jazz vocals and have often downloaded the sheet music and printed it for the musicians accompanying me.4 -
Chef_Barbell wrote: »cwolfman13 wrote: »spiriteagle99 wrote: »NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »
Howard County bars sales of nonessential items at essential businesses
https://www.kokomotribune.com/news/local_news/howard-county-bars-sales-of-nonessential-items-at-essential-businesses/article_6d0c2798-7074-11ea-9136-538d5d848958.html
Howard County has banned the sale of these items in local stores during its stay-at-home order:
Banned purchases
Jewelry.
Furniture.
Home and lawn decor.
Toys and games.
Carpets.
Rugs and flooring.
Non-emergency appliances.
Music.
Books and magazines.
Craft and art supplies.
Paint.
Entertainment electronics.
Staying entertained during a long quarantine seems to me to be pretty essential. Not everyone spends all day watching TV. Books, art supplies, music, etc. and even home repair or decorating seem to me to be a very valid way of enduring the long quarantine.
I'd assume books can be delivered. My local indie bookstore says: "We can now ship books directly from our distributor's warehouse to your front door. All you have to do is place your order through our website and select our regular USPS shipping option, then we'll take it from there! This will be the fastest way to get your books moving forward, and the best way to continue to support The Book Cellar.
Now more than ever, it is important to shop locally. As many of you have likely heard, Amazon confirmed that it’s significantly delaying US deliveries of all nonessential items during the coronavirus pandemic. According to product listings on its website, some of these shipments will be delayed by as much as a month. So don’t forget to look to your local shops and vendors! We’re here to help!"
A huge number of other local stores (like my local gardening store) have gone to online only.
I feel bad for all the local businesses, but I really do think it's best to have very limited in store options right now.
Shopping locally is more important than ever. I suspect that restaurants and breweries will be shut down completely in the next couple of weeks, which will be disastrous for many of them. I’m taking every advantage of online ordering and curbside pickup for as long as I can. I live in a very “neighborhood-y” neighborhood, so I know the owners and workers at a lot of our local shops. I’m lucky enough to have a job where I can work remotely, so I figure that as long as my neighbors are open, I’ll be supporting them.
I don't think restaurants will close own completely (I hope). Someone asked the governor here why she's allowing restaurants to be open for pickup and delivery and she said that closing them down completely would be a substantial disruption to the food supply chain, and basically if you think grocery stores are bare now, they'd be really bare.
I'm assuming from lack of funds they might close down. Here in NYC, take out and delivery doesn't even cover rent in some places.
It's going to be interesting as to how all of this actually rolls out to the national level considering states and state by state is so different. I live in New Mexico...out entire state population is 2M people...the entire state population is dwarfed by large cities like NY city, Chicago, LA, NO, etc. I can't even imagine all that. By land mass I live in a very large state...by population, it's tiny. Much of us are rural and just venture into the city proper for our groceries and supplies anyway. The Village of Corrales has five restaurants...Hannah and Nate's (ermmergerd their burritos), Village Pizza (which is awesome), Indigo Crow, the Village Bistro, and Las Ristras. Everyone here is doing there part at getting regular take out and carryout instead of dining in. #Corallesstrong8 -
spiriteagle99 wrote: »NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »
Howard County bars sales of nonessential items at essential businesses
https://www.kokomotribune.com/news/local_news/howard-county-bars-sales-of-nonessential-items-at-essential-businesses/article_6d0c2798-7074-11ea-9136-538d5d848958.html
Howard County has banned the sale of these items in local stores during its stay-at-home order:
Banned purchases
Jewelry.
Furniture.
Home and lawn decor.
Toys and games.
Carpets.
Rugs and flooring.
Non-emergency appliances.
Music.
Books and magazines.
Craft and art supplies.
Paint.
Entertainment electronics.
Staying entertained during a long quarantine seems to me to be pretty essential. Not everyone spends all day watching TV. Books, art supplies, music, etc. and even home repair or decorating seem to me to be a very valid way of enduring the long quarantine.
Of the things you mentioned, you can get books via the Kindle app without ever leaving home. You can also get tons of music to listen to via spotify or Itunes. Art supplies can be more problematic. I hardly watch TV now or prior to the coronavirus. I am also a muscian. So, multiple instruments are at hand and plenty of material and tutorials via YouTube to learn and existing material to practice and perfect.
Personally, in addition to work and gardening, I'm also back to trying to learn German, which also is something I can work on online (although I have books too).
Great point a about language learning! Since moving to Mexico almost 2 years ago (and for some time before in preparation), I've been working at becoming more fluent in Spanish. So, I have more time to get better at it right now.
Just as an aside, we have been able to learn much from being behind the curve here in Mexico. The overall numbers are very low, 1215 cases in the whole country and 29 deaths and it is progressing at a very slow rate so far. Social distancing and staying en casa has been happening for a couple of weeks and that seems to be holding the numbers down.
Here in the state of Oaxaca, where we live, there are only 14 cases with no new ones in a few days. Mexico City has 234 cases as of today and, while that seems like a more, it is a city of over 25,000,000. Time will tell how it develops but I think there may have been a benefit to being a little later in the curve and learning from what has happened in other places.
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The zip code with the most cases also happens to be the "rich" part of town (finding a house for less than $500k is rare), which makes me wonder if the increased cases there are from people coming home from international trips, especially from Spring break a couple weeks ago.
That was the upshot of the piece I linked earlier about the Chicago burbs. Chicago itself has the most cases (but suburban Cook has more deaths so far), but some of the communities on the North Shore (rich areas with impressive hospitals) have even more diagnosed cases per population than Chicago, and the question was whether it's that those areas are getting more tests for obvious reasons, so more mild cases are being diagnosed (I suspect this is the real reason) or if it might be more people who had been traveling internationally. Of course, with O'Hare, Chicago as a whole is affected by international travel, and the city certainly is very interconnected internationally. And one of the perks of the nice North Shore burbs here is they tend to have easy metra travel to the city so you don't have to drive (which could obviously mean more opportunity for transmission). Although that is not unique to them, it is probably a higher percentage than other suburbanites.I'm beginning to remember why I stopped working from home 5 years ago. I've only been working from home now for 2 weeks, but I'm finding the lack of getting out and about and talking face to face with people depressing. I haven't been grocery shopping for 2 weeks and really do need to go - I'm out of several food items that I regularly use - but I'm loathe to go to the grocery store. The couple times I went out to get a few items for my grandmother were hellish - going from store to store to store trying to find basic items like milk, butter, flour.
Yeah, I also hate working from home for similar reasons, although I'm dealing okay so far. I normally would have hated the idea of Zoom but I get the benefits now. I did go grocery shopping today (the first time in about 2 weeks), and the grocery seemed normal (I went to a small local grocery but reports are that my closest chain and the closest TJs are also pretty normal).4 -
Great point a about language learning! Since moving to Mexico almost 2 years ago (and for some time before in preparation), I've been working at becoming more fluent in Spanish. So, I have more time to get better at it right now.
I have wanted to learn Welsh for years, but I don't do well with just being given a bunch of phrases like so many online tutorials do; I need to learn the grammar at the same time, but can't find any online classes in the US like that. Duolingo has it, I think, but its learn a bunch of phrases. I want to know how to form my own proper sentences so that if I need to say something that isn't a stock phrase, I can! that and I want to learn to read it as well as speak it. And its not exactly something I can just teach myself because while Welsh might use the same alphabet letters, they don't get pronounced the same, and a lot of those "this letter in language A sounds like this word in English" doesn't compute - I'm born and bread in West Virginia and we don't pronounce hardly anything like the rest of the English speaking world......3 -
Duolingo has it. I don't know if it's good, but worth a try as it's no cost. I've thought about it -- Welsh, Swedish, and German are languages I've considered (I studied French and Russian in school and learned some Spanish and Italian before trips). Ultimately I've done Swedish and German on Duolingo (and now German at a local learning center online), and would love to do Welsh too.
The phrases are often hilarious -- I know how to say, in German, "I am not pregnant, I am a man," and "the duck ran around the pig," among other silly things, but I do think they are teaching concepts in a way.4 -
I have to say it is now becoming annoying with grandmothers and grandfathers wanting to see their kiddos nd they cant just social distance...sorry, but it is what it is.
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Duolingo has it. I don't know if it's good, but worth a try as it's no cost. I've thought about it -- Welsh, Swedish, and German are languages I've considered (I studied French and Russian in school and learned some Spanish and Italian before trips). Ultimately I've done Swedish and German on Duolingo (and now German at a local learning center online), and would love to do Welsh too.
The phrases are often hilarious -- I know how to say, in German, "I am not pregnant, I am a man," and "the duck ran around the pig," among other silly things, but I do think they are teaching concepts in a way.
I tried learning Spanish with Duolingo since Spanish is as ubiquitous as English here. I should pick it up again, now that I'm home more. I found with the first go that there are some useful community features with Duolingo where you can get insight from native and non-native fluent speakers for questions not answered by the standard lessons. I also really liked they have lessons that incorporate listening and speaking.3 -
Duolingo has it. I don't know if it's good, but worth a try as it's no cost. I've thought about it -- Welsh, Swedish, and German are languages I've considered (I studied French and Russian in school and learned some Spanish and Italian before trips). Ultimately I've done Swedish and German on Duolingo (and now German at a local learning center online), and would love to do Welsh too.
The phrases are often hilarious -- I know how to say, in German, "I am not pregnant, I am a man," and "the duck ran around the pig," among other silly things, but I do think they are teaching concepts in a way.
I tried learning Spanish with Duolingo since Spanish is as ubiquitous as English here. I should pick it up again, now that I'm home more. I found with the first go that there are some useful community features with Duolingo where you can get insight from native and non-native fluent speakers for questions not answered by the standard lessons. I also really liked they have lessons that incorporate listening and speaking.
My dad lives in Mexico part of the year (just returned on Sunday), and he's been using Duolingo and likes it.4 -
snowflake954 wrote: »cwolfman13 wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »
I assume that when you say it is not an airborne virus you mean that it is not aerosolized and sinks to surfaces very quickly, but without that explanation, I think saying it is not airborne can be misleading, ...
I would think people would know the difference. I'm not remotely a health care professional and I know the difference.
I have an MA in English, and I work adjacent to public safety. Before this pandemic, I was not aware of this distinction between airborne and aerosolized in the context of contagions.
M-W's definition of airborne is
1. done or being in the air : being off the ground: such as
a: carried through the air (as by an aircraft)
b: supported especially by aerodynamic forces or propelled through the air by force
(a plane becoming airborne)
c: transported or carried by the air
(airborne allergens)
Given that, I would simply have assumed aerosolized to be a synonym of airborne. Or, possibly, aerosolization is the process by which something becomes airborne.
I queried a few of my smart friends; they didn't know the difference either.
So I'm going to side with lynn_glenmont and say that this is confusing for many, if not most.
Thank you! I thought I was the only stupid one! I'm glad to know that the difference isn't obvious.
Even the experts don't agree, so none of us lay folk should feel stupid.
From the Atlantic today (April 1):Confusingly, in public-health circles, the word airborne has a technical meaning that’s not just “carried through the air.” When people are infected with respiratory viruses, they emit viral particles whenever they talk, breathe, cough, or sneeze. These particles are encased in globs of mucus, saliva, and water. Bigger globs fall faster than they evaporate, so they splash down nearby—these are traditionally called “droplets.” Smaller globs evaporate faster than they fall, leaving dried-out viruses that linger in the air and drift farther afield—these are called “aerosols.” When researchers say a virus is “airborne,” like measles or chickenpox, they mean that it moves as aerosols. When the World Health Organization asserts that the new coronavirus is “NOT airborne,” it’s claiming that the virus instead spreads primarily through the close-splashing droplets, which either land directly on people’s faces or are carried to their faces by unwashed, contaminated hands.
Such messaging is “really irresponsible,” argues Don Milton, an expert in aerosol transmission at the University of Maryland. The scientific community doesn’t even agree about whether aerosol transmission matters for the flu, so “to say that after three months we know for sure that this [new] virus is not airborne is … expletive deleted,” he says. Milton and other experts who study how viruses move through the air say that the traditional distinction between big, short-range droplets and small, long-range aerosols is based on outdated science. Lydia Bourouiba of MIT, for instance, has shown that exhalations, sneezes, and coughs unleash swirling, fast-moving clouds of both droplets and aerosols, which travel many meters farther than older studies predicted. Both kinds of glob also matter over shorter distances: Someone standing next to a person with COVID-19 is more likely to be splashed by droplets and to inhale aerosols.
ETA link to full story
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/coronavirus-pandemic-airborne-go-outside-masks/609235/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=politics-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20200401&silverid-ref=MzEwMTkxNDc1NDIwS0
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I've followed this group since it's inception and it's such a great resource for all of us to compare what we know, what we think, and how to safeguard our families and loved ones.
I’m so grateful for Governor Newsome and our public health department for taking early mitigation steps and being honest with us about what we’re doing and what we can expect. I’m sure most of you have heard that CA is one of the states handling the CoronaVirus pretty well, all things considered, because we took steps early and are a state that could have been fairly devastated by lack of preparation.
I watch the stats in my county every day and also watch the governor’s briefings. In Riverside County, a population of about 2,425,000, we have to date 429 cases, 79 in Western Riverside where I live, and 13 deaths total in the county. The number of positives have doubled in 4.5 days which is a pretty lowish number compared to other parts of the country. Unfortunately, we’re still struggling here in CA with testing and results from testing. We have tests, but are short on swabs, and the results are lagging by as much as a week.
In CA overall, we’re approaching 10,000 confirmed cases and a little over 200 deaths.
What I’ve noticed from all the modeling is that when the hospitals are overrun and overwhelmed with serious/potentially deadly cases and lack of supplies, the number of deaths increase exponentially.
Our modeling here in the county shows us that by 4/12 we will reach our capacity of ICU beds, by 4/22 we will max out the number of hospital beds, and by 4/26 we will run out of ventilators. Hopefully, we’ve bought enough time here to change this curve by procuring more supplies, beds, and staff. If not, 1000+ folks here in my county will probably die by May 6.
I'm going to be 70 on Sunday and hubby will be 72 later this month, so we're essentially staying home, I haven't left the house in over 2 weeks except for a car drive last weekend to see the ocean. We stayed in the car and had a picnic........LOL
He shops for groceries once every 7 to 10 days and goes to the post office a few times a week (after it closes) to check for mail. We have a small home based business and quite a few customers who are probably closed owe us money. We may retire earlier than planned since things seem to point us in that direction. In order to do that we would have to sell our rental house (our retirement) in CA. We have a great tenant who is an essential worker so we don't want to do that to him of course.
Overall though, we feel lucky. I would love to see my kids and grandkids in SF and CO but we're FaceTiming and have group games and Happy Hour on Zoom.
Stay Safe World!
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Duolingo has it. I don't know if it's good, but worth a try as it's no cost. I've thought about it -- Welsh, Swedish, and German are languages I've considered (I studied French and Russian in school and learned some Spanish and Italian before trips). Ultimately I've done Swedish and German on Duolingo (and now German at a local learning center online), and would love to do Welsh too.
The phrases are often hilarious -- I know how to say, in German, "I am not pregnant, I am a man," and "the duck ran around the pig," among other silly things, but I do think they are teaching concepts in a way.
I might give it another try; I had looked at Duolingo but wasn't having much luck before. I tried a CD teach yourself course once. Just listening like that took me over a month to be able to repeat the phrases. They lost me on the second lesson.
Spanish is one language I've pretty much given up on, because no matter how hard I try, or how many variations of trying to learn how, I cannot trill my r's. I don't think the romance languages period are that easy to pronounce for me. Easier to learn the grammar, sure, but I have a time with some of the sounds. I can do a passible German ch and a somewhat passible Welsh ll, but forget tapped r's and trilled r's. Which is kind of funny because my best french can trill her r's all day long and speaks wonderful Spanish, but she can't do the gutteral sounds like "ch" at all, which frustrated her to no end when she was trying to learn Hebrew.
A classmate of mine from high school lost her husband the day before yesterday in a bad car accident. That's hard enough, but because of the virus and the lock down, they are only going to be able to do graveside rites (neither of hte funeral homes in this area are set up for live streaming). Its sad because they had 2 kids both under the age of 6. The pastor's wife is starting a round to have folks who normally would have been at the funeral to at least send sympathy cards. She would usually also put together a meal and have folks bring food for the family, but with the stay at home orders, I'm not sure if she'll be able to do that.9 -
@Ruatine yep!!! You nailed it! Same in Austin. Highest rates are in the 78646 (mine) and closer to downtown, the wealthiest area. It’s spring breakers and families. A huge group of UT students went to Cabo and have since come back , tested positive and are back in their homes either at college or with families, spreading it.7
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