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Being on the Jersey coast we are used to seeing the food and gas runs when predictions of Hurricanes and Nor'Easters. I used to know a guy who worked at the local waste facility and he once talked about how many loaves of bread were being put in the landfill a week or so after a hurricane came through. But I've never seen this amount of shelf space at Wegman's. Today was impressive.
Getting a test or the want of it is just putting unnecessary strain on everyone. So if you test negative, you are going to hunker down to not get it. If you test positive you are going to hunker down to not affect others. And as I said before, if whatever the symptoms are from whatever the cause, if they are bad enough you need medical advice and maybe care.
The positive aspect of testing is we can see the spread and need for isolation.
It is what it is......
I've been doing intermittent fasting, up to 24 hours. Maybe a good time to graduate to 3 days to week-long fasting. The wife, however, ain't in the mood for fasting ......
Well we threw caution to the wind and went OUT for breakfast!!! I did, however, wear latex gloves... (seriously I did). We only have a couple of restaurants in our small town - one of them we really like and they are struggling. My wife and I joked about donning tyvek suits and go in dressed like that... Told one of the owners and she said she wished we had done it, and they would have taken pictures and put it on their Facebook page. They're offering curbside delivery even, and have had to cut back hours, which affects the hourly staff. This is going on everywhere I'm sure.
We went to Aldi first thing this morning, place was out of a bunch of stuff but we did get most of our staples, this was a normal shopping trip for us. The lines were long and some were hoarding stuff, I don't see the point.
In February we purchased a planned side of beef, this is an annual purchase, we don't need meat. We have 3 doz chickens, don't need eggs. Fruits and vegetables in stock at stores. TP, have enough. We have well water, check. Life is close to normal, college student is home, heck, he may eat the side of beef.
Well, looks like sister in London has it now, she's self-isolated at home, probably the safest place to be if it doesn't get worse.
Panic-buying in Germany too now, but the shops still seem to be coping with overnight deliveries bringing cans, pasta, flour and rice.
Sorry, I missed your post. I hope she is doing well.
Tonight at the local Safeway store to pick up some food for the cats.
The bread aisle was even more vacant. Sorry no photo there as people
were wandering around like lost puppies.
Had to run into town t his morning for lab work, decided to get a case of beer while I was there (I hate having to drive into town to get just one thing). It's kinda funny to me that people are cleaning the shelves of bread, toilet paper, eggs, etc, but the liquor store owner told me that it was simply business as usual for him, he said that people weren't stocking up on anything from his store. He even said that there was a bigger run on his stock before the Super Bowl than he's seeing now.
Don't know how anyone else looks at it, but if I'm going to hunker down and self isolate, Imma gonna have me a good stash of beer on hand before I start.
Business as usual here in SE Alabama, wife an I went grocery shopping Sat, it was busy but we even got toilet paper. Just one package just because we were low . Tinkered around in the garage all weekend. Went to Lowe’s yesterday, it was pretty busy and Tractor Supply’s parking lot was full. Schools are closed here (even on post), but other than that, I think the plan here is to just pretend it isn’t happening and step over the sick people in the street when the time comes. I’m not too worried about myself but my wife has MS and her meds beat down her immunity. I work around Active Duty Military folks (U.S. and others) and worry about bringing something home to her.
On a a lighter note, 12.50x35x20 tires fit on my ‘06 truck with just the slightest bit of rub at the back of the front tires just as the steering wheel bumps the lock when the wheels are turned sharply.
I was curious on the tp thing myself. I went to Windixie yesterday myself(n.fla) tp was there and hand sanitizer. I do have my aunt with lung issues. We don't let her out and are very cautious when we're around her.
on the alcohol, I have a stocked bar out back, so I good with that. Still bought a 12 pack bud just to be safe..
y'all take care of yourselves.
Sorry, I missed your post. I hope she is doing well.
Thanks, she coming along slowly.
It was my turn last night, sick as a dog, I have a feeling a sandwich had bad mayonnaise in it. No temperature, sore throat etc so I don't reckon it's the virus.
My wife and I were at the ER on Monday (ongoing issues with blood clots). It was so busy I spent most of my time on a bed in a hallway, and the way my luck goes, I was parked directly across the hall from a room where they wheeled-in a guy talking about pneumonia and put an "airborne droplet warning" sign on the door. Of course I was feverish all day yesterday with a temp of 100.2. I was starting to worry when my wife did some reading and found that low fever, headache, and chills are all symptoms of blood clots. So I'm now in a position where I may have the virus and just think its blood clot-related, or vise versa.
I don't know about you guys, but I am sick of all the hype. I am really starting to buy into the theory that the news coverage, WHO, and CDC responses have been designed to wreck the economy, mostly for the purpose of destroying Trump's presidency. It was reported today that WHO's mortality rate numbers comparing Covid-19 and the flu are totally manipulated to make the virus look significantly more dangerous, when in fact, the numbers suggest the opposite when done by an apples to apples comparison.
Man, do I know that situation. Before our local hospital expanded it ER into a modern ER, I had to take my mother in with a fever and intestinal pain going wild at midnight on a Saturday. She and I had/have diverticulitis and my grandmother died from it. We were crammed into an area where you only had room to stand. Being Saturday night and the hospital covers the Asbury Park area, many in the ER had a police officer escort. Either in fights or drums and sick from drinking. We were there for hours and I threatened to pull my mom out when one of the close individuals (with handcuffs) puked on the floor. No the environment of dignity for a 99yo women. There was even a guy there who did not have insurance, came with luggage who claimed issues with his intestines, did not have a current address, and put on light blinders when told it would take quite some time before seeing a doctor. Free room and board for the night.
That night will never be forgotten, about the state of healthcare we can be in, and a statement about society. Every time I see a story about the homelessness on the west coast I relive that nights experience thinking what the local ERs must be going through. At least I was there because if she was from an assisted living or nursing home sent to the ER, she would have been alone.
By 4am the pain had past, like it has for me, and by 6am she was out of there. I’ll never forget that, as I said.
WHO and the UN are about useless to me, a bunch of buffoons, who if we listened to would have the entire world as a third would country.
in any situation, the lack of maturity of the politicians and the press cause panic. That can be during a snow storm, hurricane, or this disease. You can bitch we should have had more ventilators, or you can bitch we wasted so much on flu vaccine that was never used, or that effective.
You deal with what is front of you and adjust. It will change, better or worst, and you adjust again. Or you run down the street with your hair on fire.
We weren’t running out of toilet paper production or food. Until we panicked. And there is going to be a lot of wasted food, and a reduction of paper purchased once the deficit fills. Everyone could have just done normal shopping every week, or bought two weeks supply and not gone as often, reducing human contact by 50%, which is what we are doing.
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Told one of the owners and she said she wished we had done it, and they would have taken pictures and put it on their Facebook page. They're offering curbside delivery even, and have had to cut back hours, which affects the hourly staff. This is going on everywhere I'm sure.
. Tinkered around in the garage all weekend. Went to Lowe’s yesterday, it was pretty busy and Tractor Supply’s parking lot was full. Schools are closed here (even on post), but other than that, I think the plan here is to just pretend it isn’t happening and step over the sick people in the street when the time comes. I’m not too worried about myself but my wife has MS and her meds beat down her immunity. I work around Active Duty Military folks (U.S. and others) and worry about bringing something home to her.
