Coronavirus prep

JustSomeEm wrote: »

janejellyroll wrote: »

mph323 wrote: »

Our city is closing down regiional park parking lots today through Sunday. The parks are still open to walk-ins and bikes, but there have been too many people and not enough physical distancing even without the expected holiday crowd. The notice started off "Nature's Not Going Anywhere!" 😊

I was worried about how sheltering in place with my husband 24/7 would affect our relationship. He is furloughed from his full time job in retail and of course we both have habits and tics that annoy the heck out of each other. But it turns out we've become more tolerant and kind over the last three weeks, and I'm grateful for that.

This has been a bright spot for me as well. My husband and I can both be somewhat . . . challenging to live with sometimes and I was worried about what it would be like for us once I began working from home. We've both become more considerate and flexible. Compared to some of the stuff I've seen on reddit about issues couples have been having in isolation, I'm living in a Disney movie.

*Note to self: Check out Reddit to pass the time...

There are so many petty spouse/sibling fights going on right now. It's really making me feel lucky that the worst thing happening in this house is that I'm terrible at loading the dishwasher and my husband sometimes misses sweeping up some hair after giving himself a trim.

T1DCarnivoreRunner wrote: »

amusedmonkey wrote: »

People are starting to feel it here. A substantial subset of workers are daily workers who earn per job/project/day of work and are not salaried, so no works means no money. Salaried workers are fine because they're being paid even if they aren't working from home and companies are not allowed to arbitrarily lay off employees.

They're planning to gradually open some sectors, starting with factories. For now, they're only allowing foreign workers who live in factory compounds to work at 40% capacity. Things have been going well so far, but I hope it won't get worse when more sectors start operating and more actively social people start working. Many people don't care to keep a safe distance.

This may be different from country to country. Here in the U.S., we salaried employees can still be laid off temporarily and not paid. Where I work, there are many in that category next week. We make parts for cars, and since auto manufacturers (our customers) are shut down, so are we. The plant I used to work at (same company, different division) makes auto parts also, but a different type of product. Unlike my current plant, their parts are also used in equipment of all kinds. They had a sudden business increase because one of their parts is used to make a ventilator.

Fortunately I am still WFH next week (all of us salary employees had a temporary pay cut, though), but much of the administrative staff even is laid off for the next week.

The country is currently operating under defense law, so all the usual laws and rules are subject to temporary change if needed and new ones can be created on the fly. Companies tried to lay off employees to avoid paying, so they came up with a new rule that nullified all suspension or termination of employment and mandated choosing between paying salaries or registering as frozen if a company can't pay salaries (which means they will not be able to operate in any capacity while frozen).

JustSomeEM- We has to put in place a fesh start rule. We realize we’re getting on each other nerves saying what we don’t mean we look at each other say Restart Button. Lol our code word for pretend the last hours didn’t happen. It works for us we have a similar personality tho. We turn on Netflix a silly movie eat in the living room just chill out say nice things to each other. When we first started was hard not to dwell but now We forget what we’re arguing about like a light switch got flipped when our code word is spoken. Daughter loves the code word thing she only gets 1-2week shore leave so no time to argue. Think it’s easier cause we raised so many kids separately y together that we’re too old to want to argue anymore lol. Told him we can save it up y argue again in the nursing home some day lol 😆.Hubby says it will be about You are my last pudding! No I did not I don’t like your pudding it’s not chocolate! Lol

just_Tomek wrote: »

Ok am I the only one who is perfectly happy being home alone? Maybe because I have been single for a long time and very very independent that the self isolation is like nothing to me? I know for a fact if I had someone else in here, by now, we would have been separated anyways lol

I’m perfectly happy being alone most of the time, but my problem with quarantine is that I am NEVER alone. I have 4 decidedly non introverted boys, who can all at times be pretty loud. Between fun playing, fighting, 2 practicing piano and one clarinet, it can be so so many layers of noise going on in here that my head wants to explode. My favorite music is silence. Add that husband’s hours are cut, so he’s home 3 full days plus leaves later/gets home earlier, so add another practicing piano and asking me questions. I’ve taken to running a few days a week to get some quiet. I hate running.

I used to count on 1-2 hrs a day of alone time lifting at the gym. And my youngest, loudest, and most likely to fight with others went to preschool 3x a week so we could homeschool in quiet. Big boys had 1 day/wk of enrichment classes, and a morning for music/choir. And we had/have 2 in competitive soccer and 2 in rec baseball, so even though we were at games or practices at least once a day, they were all occupied and playing, so I could zone out a bit or walk around the field. They do play outside a lot, now that the weather is warming up, so that will be a sanity saver.

I do miss my weekly small group meeting and the weekly playgroup I host. I know the kids miss that too—we looked forward to seeing our best friends on the regular.

However, even with all the noise, I feel very lucky that we’re coping pretty easily. We homeschool, so there’s no real interruption to that, and they’re used to playing together, and we rarely watch tv or use electronics, so they can entertain themselves. The main thing that’s up here is audiobook listening and board game playing. And maybe wine consumption.

gradchica27 wrote: »

just_Tomek wrote: »

Ok am I the only one who is perfectly happy being home alone? Maybe because I have been single for a long time and very very independent that the self isolation is like nothing to me? I know for a fact if I had someone else in here, by now, we would have been separated anyways lol

I’m perfectly happy being alone most of the time, but my problem with quarantine is that I am NEVER alone.

This. A zillion times, this. Luckily, my kids are both older teens (one is an adult, the other is [was?] in high school). When I need alone time, I hang out in my office with the door shut. Not quite the same as the solo commute I used to have, or going for a nice long run or bike ride, but it works for now when I can't get out. The sudden need to be home together has been quite an adjustment.

MikePfirrman wrote: »

To deal with family tension in a fun, light way (my son just went back to San Diego), the four of us -- my wife and two adult children and myself -- were having weekly Survivor votes. Who would get voted off the island if we could get rid of them! My son's dog is Floyd. The one day my daughter and I stuffed the voting box with a vote for Evan, my son, made in dog paws, like Floyd had cast it. We even had tiki torches set up to extinguish the torch!

I have an Evan too... And I love this idea! Tonight we've decided we're all going to put up tents in our back yard and camp out. Ok, *I* decided I was camping out, and the men in my house all jumped on board. But I'm really looking forward to "something different". I think the sudden shift to a very monotonous routine is getting to me.

lemurcat2 wrote: »

There's a music video posted in the meme thread with photos of empty (normally busy) areas of Chicago and NYC and (perhaps, I don't recall?) elsewhere that's really striking.

It looks like one of those apocalypse movies.

Edit: some good news. They may close off the south (no confirmed cases there) and gradually return to normal there.

corinasue1143 wrote: »

DancingMoosie wrote: »

We just got some extra dry beans, rice, and gallon jugs of water. We aren't really afraid of the virus, but more of the panicked shoppers that might clear the shelves, lol.

I’m glad I bought rice and beans and lots of water last week. I had no idea I was supposed to.
I was out of rice, beans were on sale, and someone suggested electrolyte water or Gatorade for my leg cramps. I hate Gatorade, so I bought a couple of bottles of every other kind of electrolyte drinks, as well as water.
I guess that means I’m good to go?

I'm in Ecuador in the city of Guayaquil. At first when I saw people overstocking food in the supermarket I thought they were crazy but couple of days laters we were all in quarantine and with mobility restrictions. We can go out maybe once a week to buy groceries and when you get to the supermarket it takes about 3 hours or 4 until you get in the supermarket. So it was not such a bad idea to overstock from the beginning 🤦. How is it here in Guayaquil? Terrible people are dying of all ages, they have to wait several days to get the body of your dead relatives in hospitals. And if they die at home it take several days till they authorities pick them up. Is really catastrophic and the worst nightmare. Soy if you can buy food for several weeks or a month so you don't have to go out just do it.