Are you hunkering down?

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Nancy and Bud

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My daughter works in a hospital and has been in contact with us about precautions we need to take. Both in mid-70's, I have adult onset asthma.

Yesterday our kids in town went grocery shopping for us. I cancelled my PT appointments at the hospital (don't want to go in there unless I'm really sick) and a follow up appointment with my urologist (annual after prostate cancer)

ILLINOIS schools closed. Bars and restaurants closed except for takeout.

Unprecedented times in the US. My mindset is it is better to be safe than sorry.

We have food for over 2 weeks and will see what is taking place then.

Our two granddaughters are coming home today from study abroad programs in Ireland. They will self quarantine two weeks before we see them.

We have two graduations in Colorado in May, one HS, one college. Hope by then air travel will be safely accessible by then.

How are things in your neck of the woods?
 
Just watching NY governor Cuomo's press conference. Essentially everything in NY shuts down tonight: restaurants, bars, theaters, museums, etc.

Here in SW Florida it is almost business as usual. Restaurants and bars are teeming. There is a big St Patrick's Day event tomorrow at a local restaurant/shopping pier. Maybe the gene pool will be self purged of these idiots.

David
 
Up until a few days ago, I thought we were remaining relatively calm around Savannah. Fully stocked shelves and nobody really putting too much thought in to the virus is seemed like. Meanwhile I saw the rest of the country panicking. Apparently it just took longer for the hysteria to get to us.

Over the weekend everyone went into panic buying mode and completely wiped out our grocery stores. The weirdest items are gone too, like milk and fresh meat. Things that will spoil. I understand non-perishable foods, but they're buying up everything.

This is the weirdest times I can remember. On the plus side, traffic is very light and when I go to the gym I have the entire place to myself.
 
We are hunkered down. Beth can work remotely, so we are at our weekend home for who knows how long. It took me a week to convince her. Food won't be a problem for a couple of weeks and even then there are oysters, clams, fish. It would be different to fish not for recreation but for subsistence (and feel fortunate to have that experience).

Beth gets the news on her phone and doesn't tell much of it to me. She says I don't want to know. I'm cleaning out the garage. There is a project that can keep me busy every day for a month.

Two other neighbors, older than I, have been in isolation for over 10 days. Another neighbor had all her grand kids down since they are out of school. I guess she doesn't understand why they are out of school?
 
Unfortunately, there is lots of bad advice even from those who should know better.

Even todays recommendation to "avoid gatherings of 50 or more" vs larger groups
earlier makes no sense if you understand concept "asymptomatic people can
carry and transmit COVID-19". Young people, knowing perhaps they have a less
severe prognosis (w/o concomitant risk factors) than us old fogies, can still spread
it and seem to have an indifferent attitude that will only increase the spreading of
this serious and deadly disease. I shudder to think what I may have done, faced
with this, if I now were in my twenties...

Hence, wife and I have been "hunkered" down for about 10 days now after reading
the tea leaves and contemplating our navels slightly before that.

Since there currently is no immunization or medical drug therapy (only supportive
care) available worldwide, the key to stemming the rapid increase and spread is
being called "social distancing" although I would call it "physical distancing". This
means keeping everyone in public OVER 6 feet away. Social contacts by
phone, internet, etc are important to keep in touch w/loved ones.

I wish everyone well. Please act responsibly.

Aye.
 
Load up the boat and head into Desolation or the Broughtons for a few weeks. If you run out of toilet paper, take a swim.

Martin.
 
We have a home in California which we will not return to till this is over. Our home here in Boulder City near LV is seeing huge consequences of the virus. The economy is taking a giant hit, the casinos are closing one after another and of course school districts are closed. I suggest that if you could not lock your door and stay home without any need to go out for 60 days, that you have not been prepared. May this all blow over? When the stock market loses 1/3, that is 33% of its value, I think it is more than just a bad cold and you be fine time of year. We finished our stocking up today. I am 72 and do not plan on going out for 15 days or longer. As in not at all. If you buy what you will eat, then you always donate later if this blows over. Also, being from the West, I am a big believer in having a way to dissuade those who might think they can enter without knocking. At our house, we call what happens next the "asphalt challenge with a dose of room temperature resting". I lived in LA during the Watt's riots. I saw how lawlessness came about in less than 8 hours. Wish I had a nice 40+ trawler/troller with a nice offshore mooring in the remote PNW, lots of supplies, 1500 gallons of diesel, and about 100 good books to read. May the Lord watch over all of you.
Bob Jarrard
PS: I am still a bit off after hearing about Les passing. Take care of yourselves, we a weird little "family" but there is deep caring here for each other. BJ
 
We are only panicking because politicians are using an otherwise non event to scare people and put undue pressure on others for their own ends. only 40 deaths in washington state, 30 from one building of old sick people. out of population of 7.53 million in the state???? wtf chuck???

This whole thing is just ridiculous. Yes it sucks if it you. but if you have take precautions because of your health please do so. But to close schools just so all the kids can go into day care or makeshift day care is a joke. All my friends teens are having sleep over and parties so parents can cover for one another. So what good id that do? My 30 year old son going thru chemo with two kids in the house is at risk so he kept his kids home, what that has to do with the rest of the school population is beyond me. Now we are closing restaurants and other businesses leading to short term unemployment for millions because 40 very sick people in one building got even sicker and died even earlier?? Have we lost our minds?

If you are at risk , old, sick, compromised immunity?? then stay home. The rest is just a power play and a way to get federal funds for everything under the sun. Its national stick out your hand day for government.

See you all at friday harbor
 
My company which is associated with the airline industry is cutting way back on pretty much everything. By the time this is over there is going to be a big shakeout in a lot of industries and places, but it's not going to be because of mass casualties.
 
To you, the nay sayers, (who think "COVID-19 is all a hoax"):

If we are wrong, it affects only us.
If you are wrong, it affects all of us.
Human Beings: One species on one planet.

Younger kids and older Millennials (DOB 1981-1996)
as a group, tho complaining now about recommended
life style restrictions (the bad news), will enjoy less
morbidity/mortality and certainly increased employment
opportunities, in time (the good news), IF they hunker down
now with the rest of us.  If not, they will help do the rest
of us in earlier than otherwise.  

Aye.
PS: If you believe in meteorologists to help enjoy boating,
why not epidemiologists and virologists to help enjoy life?

PS2: Enjoy UTube but don't bet your life on it.
 
Italy is a few weeks ahead of us.
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True. Read this and you will discover why:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/16/opin...oronavirus-survivability-sepkowitz/index.html

According to a UN report in 2015, 28.6% of the Italian population was 60 years old or older (second in the world after Japan at 33%). This compares to South Korea, where 18.5% of the population is at least 60 years of age, ranking 53rd globally.

The impact of this disparity is quickly shown in the analysis of coronavirus deaths in each county. In Italy, 90% of the more than 1,000 deaths occur in those 70 or older.
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These are known risks. But the "regular" flu also kills the same demographic, also via respiratory failure, which is the same with COVID 19. In fact, the "regular" flu kills far more people, per year. Yet this one virus has the world cowering?

Personally, I think two things are at work:
The MSM is pushing this, making it worse and creating panic. Why? They have an obvious agenda.

Social media (aka brain-dead morons who believe whatever they read on Facebook) are over-reacting. "It has to be true. I read it on Facebook!!!!"

From then on it becomes the unstoppable snowball...growing bigger and bigger with every rotation.

As to "hunkering down" some of us don't have the luxury of doing that... The Admiral is an RN. The only reason she is not working non-stop is she is recovering from an on the job injury to her elbow that required surgery and the shoulder in the same arm that has a non-surgical injury. I'm working my reg 40 hours plus and we have yet to see how bad this will effect manpower and the rank/file. It's possible that we will go to mandatory 12 hour shifts, 7 days a week with zero days off until God knows when. We shall see.
 
localboy":zr2u14c6 said:
Italy is a few weeks ahead of us.
Click to expand...

True. Read this and you will discover why:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/16/opin...oronavirus-survivability-sepkowitz/index.html

According to a UN report in 2015, 28.6% of the Italian population was 60 years old or older (second in the world after Japan at 33%). This compares to South Korea, where 18.5% of the population is at least 60 years of age, ranking 53rd globally.

The impact of this disparity is quickly shown in the analysis of coronavirus deaths in each county. In Italy, 90% of the more than 1,000 deaths occur in those 70 or older.
Click to expand...

These are known risks. But the "regular" flu also kills the same demographic, also via respiratory failure, which is the same with COVID 19. In fact, the "regular" flu kills far more people, per year. Yet this one virus has the world cowering?

Personally, I think two things are at work:
The MSM is pushing this, making it worse and creating panic. Why? They have an obvious agenda.

Social media (aka brain-dead morons who believe whatever they read on Facebook) are over-reacting. "It has to be true. I read it on Facebook!!!!"

From then on it becomes the unstoppable snowball...growing bigger and bigger with every rotation.
Click to expand...

The difference between the regular flu and the COVID19 is the rate of morbidity/mortality.

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-ne...the-flu-but-they-have-one-big-thing-in-common

If the same number of people got COVID19 as the flu, a lot more people would die.
 
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