Checking In
 

If you're reading here, drop a note here. Want to know folks are OK if they're OK. Speaking of which, Dondilion, give us a shout man!

My own report: sheltering in place with my S.O. and her mother, aged 87. Income, such as it is, unaffected. Oh I had a job I was scheduled to start, but I told them 3 weeks ago I would be a no-show unless they came up with a work-from-home option, or at least an office with a door. Didn't happen.

None of us want any bugs in here, and we're being quite careful.

I am here. Here being Central Florida. Several years ago I made the decision to spend most of the year in Florida instead of New York. One of my daughters who is a nurse in Florida pushed me to come to Florida and wants to make it permanent.

Now I am worried about her. Every time I speak to her she transmits her fear which is heightened as she is a front line worker.

I have a brother who has just barely recovered from the virus. He lives in England.

None of my family is in New York. I have relatives there who often describe to me how dark a time it is.

I am just hoping for better days for everyone.
Try to be safe.

Thanks Don!

Thanks Don. The missus and I are holed up here at home in So Cal. Her part-time cashier job at Home Despot is on hold until the 'all clear' is sounded. We're being as safe as we can in light of my COPD and various other 'ailments'.

Stay safe everyone. I hope to see you all on the other side of this horrific plague.

Things are quiet here in Piney Flats.

Everybody stay safe.

Wife and I have been in lock down for almost four weeks. Venturing out only to pick up supplies. Started doing the Kroger pickup thing. Order on line and then go get. Working out pretty well. The few other things needed, or meds printer paper and ink (wife is still her local union secretary after all) were bought and delivered via internet also.

Youngest son is able to work from home and finally after Ky's gov forced it, happened. The other son's job is considered by management as essential. He is an electrician where they make pallet wrapping equipment? Really! Is in home isolation due to a coworker in his section awaiting test results. With my two Grandsons and Daughter in law!
Personally know thinking right now, of at least seven sick from the virus at this time. They are doing OK at the moment. Last week a coworker of my wife's died from the C19 virus. Healthy 66 year old man. Just retired!

Coming to the realization due to the snail pace of reactions and implementation of a total nationwide lock down. This will be a long term situation going on for months. Until it is under managed control in every corner of the country for a month or more.

Made up my bandana masks yesterday and got out some rubber gloves for our added safety when leaving home.

Stay safe and healthy two words to live by everyone!:)

I'm still going to work, they classified me as essential/critical, because I produce a needed ingredient in the food supply chain.

This is in the Kansas City area. Several of my co-workers have been quarantined for possible exposure to the virus.

So far, my home county doesn't have any reported cases.

Thanks for asking.

We have 899 known cases in Oregon with 22 deaths. Hasn't hit us hard in the central part of the state yet. The County I work in (which includes Bend) has 36 cases with no deaths. The county I live in has no reported cases and the county to the north has reported 1 case.

According to my boss and the state of Oregon I am considered essential. We build clean rooms and environmental climate control and air filtration systems for hospitals, labs, and server rooms.

Good to hear from everyone! Love the cartoon Oerets!

When Alfred E. Neuman worries, it's time to take it serious.

All is well at my place in mid-Michigan. I have been working from home since March 13. Keeping busy with little projects such building a plastic model (`65 Plymouth Satellite), doing maintenance on my little 12' boat and trailer and installing a fish finder that I bought last fall, cooking, yardwork, ranting on teh internet :D, etc.

Glad to hear that you all are doing well.

So far I do not know anyone personally that has been stricken with the virus but I have acquaintances that have been on the front line and given grave caution to stay clean.

I've been hunkering down in the distant, semi-rural DC exurbs for the past 3 weeks. I've been out to grocery and liquor shop about once a week since. Been working out in the basement and taking hikes in the woods. Our little rural corner of relative quiet was dealt a huge blow when a nearby nursing home blew up nearly overnight with 77 cases and 10 deaths (and counting). FWIW, my wife had volunteered there for years but stopped a couple of years back when her parents started to need more help themselves.

Hell of a hoax, isn't it?

Time passes more slowly now. It's been 10 days since I started this topic, but feels like a month. Have to go out to a doctor today; got a knee that is demanding a cortisone shot. All well here basically.

Been dealing with back pain since the 1st myself. Wishing to avoid going in and being around them.

Hope you get to feeling better quickly and stay safe.

We received our Trump $$$ this morning.

Think I'll buy a bottle of Pappy's to celebrate 'Deadbeat' Donnie's downfall with mine. It's either that or send it on to Turtle McConnell's challenger in Kentucky.
;)

We won’t be getting any, but I highly recommend using it to buy stamps, to help keep the USPS afloat. F’ing Repubes have wanted to kill it off for years and hand it over to the private sector (their donors), not to mention killing vote-by-mail, which would help to run them out of office.

Glad to see people here are managing.

My family is fortunate. We all have jobs where we can work from home (one in Colorado, the other here in Overland Park). My wife, an RN, has been out of direct patient care for a couple of years now, and can operate her call center job from home. I have always worked from home a bit. Business is taking a minor hit with hearings cancelled, but we are looking at remote hearings in the next few months. My office-mates have been having Zoom happy hours on Fridays. That saves me some money, because I usually provided the whiskey for the in-person version.

There has also been time for lots of walks with my wife, plenty of reading and music, with a little bit of BBC on Amazon thrown in. My home church has been absorbed into a mega-church, which has the resources to hold video services. Those provide some inspiration - and motivation to help out in these times.

Y'all take care and be safe.

Regards,

D-Ray

Might want to watch this on PBS starting tomorrow....


https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/f...irus-pandemic/

Hey, d-ray, good to hear.

Thanks, Oerets.

Hoping that method is long term effective.

The idea is to keep up with the exercises this time, to hopefully put off further treatment.

Four months later and the death count has soared to over 160,000 under T'Rump's tender ministrations. Unreal.

So far, the wife and I are still dodging the bullets. We no long walk out our front door unmasked. She's back at Home Despot working a cash register. I wish we didn't need the income but there it is. We are in a vastly better place than most as we are both on SS and Medicare but even this hermit is chafing at the bit.

Please be safe and courteous to the fellow humans you encounter. Just wear a mask and don't be an asshole. It isn't that hard, really.

Cheers, Bob

BTW, did the exercises, strengthened the knee, and apparently that let the ligament heal some. It's a ton better. Not perfect, but a ton better.

Good news. Got a slug o' steroids at L4/L5 the other day. I should take up walking again. Well, around the block to begin with.

Watching 'Sea Biscuit' again. Whatever don't kill ya makes you stronger in all the broken places, eh?

So far I have been virus free...knock on wood. I have been warned that at my age I should not be out and about. However I have been to the local green grocer a few times and I went to doctor and Lab Corp office for my yearly check up.

At the Lab Corp office a lady coughed and set off some abnormal reactions.

I am still nervous about my daughter who is a RN in a hospital in Central Florida. She says the Covid cases are up and there is an increase in the number of younger people affected.

I hope the best for you guys' knees.
Be safe!

Both of us have been pretty much playing it safe at home. Only venturing out for doctor appointments or supplies. A ride in the country listening to tunes on a pretty day. Probably filled my truck's tank twice since March.
The cases in the metro Louisville area have been staying up there. Kids and teachers getting sick now schools are back in secession.
We have take out a few times. Very few. Pick our groceries order at Kroger. Most stores will pull the order and you just call when there and they bring it out.
What get me it the people who think just because they have not been touched by the virus feel must be immune.

The increase of younger people in the mix is probably a fair amount if why mortality is down some.

Glad the deaths seem to be lower then expected.
When or if the total amount of capital being spent on medical care needed were to be known.
That for me should make even the naysayers stand up for prevention measures.
Just what is the cost for weeks on a vent in icu?
Months of recovery?
Sure most recover just fine on their own.
The ones that do not cost $$$!:eek:
Just where is that $$$ coming from and who is is paying???