Coronavirus prep
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This street usually has very high traffic, even traffic jams at times. Seeing it like this is kinda eery.
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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.4
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I had to get my boys out yesterday...they haven't been out of the neighborhood in a month and were starting to lose it. We went up to the mountains to do some hiking. They usually complain about going hiking, but they were just excited to go anywhere. It was a total of about 3 hours in the car for a couple hours worth of hiking, but totally worth it.
I'm cleaning up the camping trailer this weekend and de-winterizing...going to find a nice long weekend in May to go out and do some dispersed camping. Camping may be all we get this year in terms of "vacation" and getting away.10 -
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.6 -
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cwolfman13 wrote: »I had to get my boys out yesterday...they haven't been out of the neighborhood in a month and were starting to lose it. We went up to the mountains to do some hiking. They usually complain about going hiking, but they were just excited to go anywhere. It was a total of about 3 hours in the car for a couple hours worth of hiking, but totally worth it.
I'm cleaning up the camping trailer this weekend and de-winterizing...going to find a nice long weekend in May to go out and do some dispersed camping. Camping may be all we get this year in terms of "vacation" and getting away.
Camping has always been our get away of choice for vacations at our state parks. They currently are closed for camping until May 4th, and could be extended, depending on the next few weeks😢1 -
missysippy930 wrote: »cwolfman13 wrote: »I had to get my boys out yesterday...they haven't been out of the neighborhood in a month and were starting to lose it. We went up to the mountains to do some hiking. They usually complain about going hiking, but they were just excited to go anywhere. It was a total of about 3 hours in the car for a couple hours worth of hiking, but totally worth it.
I'm cleaning up the camping trailer this weekend and de-winterizing...going to find a nice long weekend in May to go out and do some dispersed camping. Camping may be all we get this year in terms of "vacation" and getting away.
Camping has always been our get away of choice for vacations at our state parks. They currently are closed for camping until May 4th, and could be extended, depending on the next few weeks😢
All of our state parks are closed as are NFS campgrounds, but you can still do dispersed camping and I don't see that changing. Basically just going up to the mountains and finding a fire road or forest road and roll until you find a nice spot to set up. I actually prefer this most of the time anyway as your rarely come across other people, and when you do, they're camped out a half mile from you.1 -
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.23 -
I just walked over to a local cafe to get a coffee and some pastries for today and for Easter. On the walk home, I passed a couple men eating out of trash cans. So heartbreaking, but especially now when so many of the churches are closed and not feeding them their regular lunch. I know they have shelter options if they want them, but it still hurts to see the choice they've made. And as dangerous as eating half consumed burgers from a trash can normally is, I was just horrified at the thought of the virus germs they might be ingesting.
I need to go back and get more pastries this afternoon.4 -
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.
@verocpaz thanks for your update from Ecuador that confirms what I have been reading about how COVID-19 is impacting your country very badly. The only time lines I have read from those in the healthcare industry of this pandemic to pass is 6-18 months. We know lock down orders are just being rolled forward a few weeks or months at a time to help reduce panic. I do hope things start looking up in Ecuador and the rest of the world.5 -
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Thank u very much. I guess we are safe as long as we stay inside. Hopefully this ends soon.3
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Thank u very much. I guess we are safe as long as we stay inside. Hopefully this ends soon.
Not 100%. There is a woman in NC who got it after staying inside for 3 weeks. She caught it from someone who delivered food (or some kind of essential delivery). But every time you wash your hands and every trip you avoid to the store, etc. makes your chances of getting sick a little bit less. Every little bit that is possible helps. I'm sure this woman would not have been any better off if she had stopped eating, so some risks have to be taken anyway. It's just about trying to minimize risk knowing that it will never be quite zero.4 -
Went to do our big Costco run today...finally found TP after a month. We were getting a bit nervous as we were down to our last few rolls and they were cheap single ply stuff my wife found a month ago when this all started.9
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I drove over to HomeDepot this morning thinking I might try to get seeds, but there was a line -- not too long and going reasonably rapidly, but still -- so I decided I would live without them, as that indicated it was more crowded inside than I really wanted to deal with. Driving back I noticed that there are again tons of people out, because it's nice. From what I saw it was mostly family groups together, not congregating in larger groups, and in one of the parks (I passed 3 of the biggest ones in my general area), I saw a police car driving through slowly, keeping an eye on things. Tennis courts were full, but again seemed to be separate family groups, and they are spaced far enough apart.
My neighbors' kids (2 boys) are outside in their backyard all the time playing with this new basketball hoop they got a few weeks ago, but of course being the city plenty of people with kids don't necessarily have a yard, so that's tough. I'm going to go outside and work on my garden some more in a bit, it's a good way to enjoy the weather without feeling like I have to dodge people.
I was on a Zoom call (not work related) a couple of days ago and one of the participants had, as her false background, this photo of huge stacks of TP. Someone made a tongue-in-cheek comment about buying TP from her before she explained (it was obvious when you looked at it for a while, but at first it looked very real). She said her daughter put it on as a joke and she couldn't figure out how to get rid of it.6 -
Piece on what runners are doing during coronavirus with races cancelled and popular trails closed: https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/ct-coronavirus-chicago-running-20200411-zznd5xjxpfah3czhgeqgkeupyi-story.html
I never run on the most popular (and closed) trails anymore anyway, but had been planning to do spring races (and summer ones, which will also likely be cancelled). In my last place, the lakefront trail was exactly 1 mile from my house (more like 2 now), along the route I usually took, and it's marked, so was a great way to train, but parts of it are not shaded (not a big deal this time of year, but can be in the summer), and it is always crowded during decent weather and got boring, so a couple of years ago I started planning longer runs as a tour of neighborhoods or an opportunity to try out new trails, and even my shorter runs were usually through neighborhoods (you can gauge distance easily by blocks here too, although I'd have my Runkeeper too). I'd often choose direction by which light was green when I had to cross busier streets, and one reason I discovered my current neighborhood is because it was part of one of my running loops. Anyway, my training has not been good over the past few weeks although I've done short runs every other day, so I need to think through ways to get back into it. I'm trying out a virtual training session on Monday to get more interesting ideas about what to do with my inadequate set of not very heavy dumbbells. I know there's lots of bodyweight stuff that is great but I've always like barbells and dumbbells so much more.2 -
Today in Rome helicopters flying overhead to make sure people are not having group barbecues up on the terraces and roofs of buildings. They'll be flying tomorrow too. There are roadblocks everywhere. The fines are stiff for people who want to get out of the city and go to the beaches or mountains. To make things worse the weather is gorgeous.15
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corinasue1143 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
My son-in-law said “don’t tell anyone I said this, but isn’t this lockdown just life? Nothing in my life has changed much except taking the kids to school and picking them up.” They are 14 & 15.
I thought about it. This is pretty much my life, except for the gym. I do miss runs to 7-11, and I am still putting off an oil change.
Yes SAME!!! I thought I was crazy, but I haven't really changed much. I guess I prefer to do things myself or just with my bf. I am very happy being on my own and doing my own things. I never get bored or stir crazy for parties/events/people lol.7 -
snowflake954 wrote: »Today in Rome helicopters flying overhead to make sure people are not having group barbecues up on the terraces and roofs of buildings. They'll be flying tomorrow too. There are roadblocks everywhere. The fines are stiff for people who want to get out of the city and go to the beaches or mountains. To make things worse the weather is gorgeous.
I'm curious, why? If a family is quarantined together, does it really make a difference for them to have a barbecue on the terrace? It's been raining a lot lately, but I can see people doing all kinds of activities in their yards or on the terrace once it clears up.4 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »snowflake954 wrote: »Today in Rome helicopters flying overhead to make sure people are not having group barbecues up on the terraces and roofs of buildings. They'll be flying tomorrow too. There are roadblocks everywhere. The fines are stiff for people who want to get out of the city and go to the beaches or mountains. To make things worse the weather is gorgeous.
I'm curious, why? If a family is quarantined together, does it really make a difference for them to have a barbecue on the terrace? It's been raining a lot lately, but I can see people doing all kinds of activities in their yards or on the terrace once it clears up.
She mentioned group barbecues, so maybe they are just looking for larger groups.5
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