Are you quarantined?

[Plutonius]

I hope that Coronavirus finally kills the hand shaking greeting which I always found disgusting.

or at least stop politicians from kissing people .
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There are numerous theories as to why coronaviruses disappear in summer months. One of the more interesting ones is kids who are home for the summer are less likely to spread diseases.

That certainly helps but viruses generally hate heat.

Covid-19 should go into remission this summer but I expect it back next cold / flu season (I doubt in this case that it's one and done).

 

[satcomer]

Are the unmarked helicopters circling the area black? Probably World Government. Not a good area for playing outside that day.

if you want to see those in real life go to lower Fairfax Highway or better yet Telegraph Road and see the at the Belvoir Airport to see Congress’s helicopters!
They are all umarked!

 

[seadragon]

That certainly helps but viruses generally hate heat.

Covid-19 should go into remission this summer but I expect it back next cold / flu season (I doubt in this case that it's one and done).

But when it’s summer in one hemisphere, it’s winter in the other.

 

[Plutonius]

But when it’s summer in one hemisphere, it’s winter in the other.

Yep, that's why we have found it impossible to completely eradicate very infectious viruses like the common cold or flu.

To me, it looks like the Covid-19 virus is around to stay.

Fortunately, we will develop some natural immunity from it after being infected.

 

[stillcrazyman]

I'm not in isolation. Just going to stay away from crowds and such. Like most days

As of yesterday, the Governor of Florida mandated that all public schools shall remain closed until the end of March. Many districts are on a Spring Break now, so one more week off isn't so bad. I was scheduled to be off next week. I get one more after that. Unless things change for the worse, I'll be back at work at the end of the month.

Shopping for supplies: the hoarding of things is hard to accept. No toilet paper in 5 different stores. Many other items not available.

 

[someoldguy]

I'm more or less isolated . Our county shut down schools for 2 weeks ; most towns have restricted access to municipal offices to online to by phone . Libraries are shut down , the Senior centers and Senior transportation has been suspended in my town. I'm pretty well stocked for food , and meds , any social activities I'm involved have been cancelled , so there's not much reason to go out . But I've got loads of stuff to keep me busy around the house/yard so I won't br bored .

 

[Huntn]

This is gonna sound Sorta strange, but my neighbor is a B.C. Podiatrist, he was down in Naples for some ‘In-house’ training and he mentioned that Apparently even some pet supply stores, customers are hoarding dog food/supplies. Now, I have no idea why that would be, (I’m not an animal owner), But strangely enough, it was something that was discussed down in Florida that’s apparently occurring due to C/19.

So why am I bringing that up to you? You’ve Mentioned multiple times that you’re from Florida in various threads, just thought it was interesting if that’s been the case for you or not.

The emergency hording mentality is contagious. Although logically there is no reason, once people walk in to a store and see shelves cleaned out, they will grab extra when they can so as not to be inconvenienced at sone point in the future.

What I find really annoying is with perishables, because that stuff must be eaten. What I found interesting is that the goods that will last on the shelf, like soup can still be found in the store. It’s the run on dairy and paper products that have annoyed me most.

 

[D.T.]

Yeah, we're kind of making an extra effort to stay away from crowds, or where there is a lot of public exposure (gym, restaurants). As I mentioned, we bailed on our flights/travel, same with Universal (that sorted itself out as they closed anyway!).

I've been hitting the grocery store during off hours, like early in the morning, we've got enough supplies to go 3-4 days without needing to leave the house to reduce exposure. We still walked over to the beach, went for a ride, still have our deck being built, etc., and I work at home, so things aren't that much different.

 

[loby]

But when it’s summer in one hemisphere, it’s winter in the other.

That is the mystery of this virus. We do not know yet if it is effected or slows down in the summer months. If you have watched the map of the virus spread, in Australia they have some breakouts, and they are in their summer. Any Auzzies's on the forum to confirm?

 

[GlenK]

My wife is staying inside since she is battling stage 4 lung cancer. I am taking all precautions when I go out to get us food and supplies. Latex gloves, sanitizers, and taking soap and water hand washes at every opportunity. Taking both our temperatures every few hours.
It's amazing how my nose starts itching the second I put on those gloves.

So far so good but it's going to be tough depending on how long it lasts. We were already taking precautions due to the flu. She can't get that either but we stepped up our game when this virus started picking up steam in Florida.

 

[TheSkywalker77]

This is gonna sound Sorta strange, but my neighbor is a B.C. Podiatrist, he was down in Naples for some ‘In-house’ training and he mentioned that Apparently even some pet supply stores, customers are hoarding dog food/supplies. Now, I have no idea why that would be, (I’m not an animal owner), But strangely enough, it was something that was discussed down in Florida that’s apparently occurring due to C/19.

So why am I bringing that up to you? You’ve Mentioned multiple times that you’re from Florida in various threads, just thought it was interesting if that’s been the case for you or not.

Hmmm, I haven’t been out to any pet stores recently. That’s definitely strange, but some people do care about their pets a lot and would do something that. I have a few bags of dog food stored away and my small dog doesn’t eat much so I’m expecting I’ll be fine when it comes to dog food. But that sure is unusual.

 

[revmacian]

I live in Seattle, not quarantined and not staying home. I don't panic easily, probably due to my medical training, and it's business as usual for me.

 

[mw360]

My wife is staying inside since she is battling stage 4 lung cancer. I am taking all precautions when I go out to get us food and supplies. Latex gloves, sanitizers, and taking soap and water hand washes at every opportunity. Taking both our temperatures every few hours.
It's amazing how my nose starts itching the second I put on those gloves.

So far so good but it's going to be tough depending on how long it lasts. We were already taking precautions due to the flu. She can't get that either but we stepped up our game when this virus started picking up steam in Florida.

Best wishes to you and yours. I have relatives already hanging on by a thread and there’s only so much they can do to protect themselves. We all have to do our bit.

 

[44267547]

I live in Seattle, not quarantined and not staying home. I don't panic easily, probably due to my medical training, and it's business as usual for me.

I can appreciate your rigidity, especially in Seattle where it’s ‘mission critical’ where you are. I think when we think of the word ‘Quarantine’, it can be a very scary even for those who reuse to admit it, because you’re essentially having to put yourself in a situation that you wouldn’t otherwise, because that’s not how we treat our daily livelihood given our freedom. Being this is something that we all have to live through, some of us have to have more of a brash attitude realizing that we can’t be afraid of everything outside our home. And there are structured professionals (i.e Law Enforcement/EMS/Fire/) who have to venture into this situation without choice, so I appreciate what you do and your candor.

 

[D.T.]

[...] some of us have to have more of a brash attitude realizing that we can’t be afraid of everything outside our home.

It's not about a "brash attitude" (which is an odd choice of language ...), it's about reckless behavior that can potentially cause proliferation of a virus that's lethal for some individuals. It doesn't make you some kind of thrill seeker, an explorer of extreme experiences, it's poor judgement - it has zero to do with being "afraid".

I've surfed 30 foot tropical storm swells, free climbed hundred feet high cliff faces, ridden some extraordinary hazardous mountain bike paths, that's somewhat __brash__ behavior, but those didn't endanger 10s/100s/1000s of other people.

 

[Bandaman]

Me and the family are self-isolating as a preventative measure. My family aren't going to have any health issues, but I don't want to be the reason some old person or someone with respiratory issues dies.

 

[bunnspecial]

My work has mandated "work from home" for the next 3 weeks, and I expect longer before all is said and done.

Unfortunately, the nature of my job is that a significant portion of my duties generally require me to physically be there. I'm going in to work tomorrow and will be shutting a bunch of things down(GC-MSs, etc). I had a big upgrade project for one of them planned for the coming weeks. I'm looking at a couple of solid days of work to get that done, but it's fortunately small enough to put in my car so I'm going to spend the next couple of weeks during work hours rebuilding a mass spectrometer in my garage .

 

[44267547]

My work has mandated "work from home" for the next 3 weeks, and I expect longer before all is said and done.

Unfortunately, the nature of my job is that a significant portion of my duties generally require me to physically be there. I'm going in to work tomorrow and will be shutting a bunch of things down(GC-MSs, etc). I had a big upgrade project for one of them planned for the coming weeks. I'm looking at a couple of solid days of work to get that done, but it's fortunately small enough to put in my car so I'm going to spend the next couple of weeks during work hours rebuilding a mass spectrometer in my garage .

I forgot you said you work at a university, all the universities/techs/local colleges in my area have migrated to online classes only. I can only imagine how overwhelmed the administration staff probably is with all the sudden changes in accordance to Government rulings, and not to mention, no one (Specifically in the education system) is even sure what to expect in the upcoming months as well. Good luck down in Kentucky.

 

[bunnspecial]

I forgot you said you work at a university, all the universities/techs/local colleges in my area have migrated to online classes only. I can only imagine how overwhelmed the administration staff probably is with all the sudden changes in accordance to Government rulings, and not to mention, no one (Specifically in the education system) is even sure what to expect in the upcoming months as well. Good luck down in Kentucky.

Thanks!

I feel like there's a fair bit of uncertainty around what exactly is supposed to happen in the next few weeks. Officially, the current situation(work from home, online instruction) is only in effect until April 6th when everyone is supposed to return, but at this point I consider that an optimistic date. I'm not teaching this semester, so at least I don't have to deal with that.

When my supervisor called me yesterday about being required to work from home, the reality of the situation is that I just don't have a lot to do with the university effectively shut down. A big part of my job is basically making sure that everything is ready for the teaching labs is good to go on a week to week basis. That part of my job evaporated last week, so I was planning a blissful few weeks of getting a lot of things done that normally get saved for the summer like doing more intensive instrument maintenance/upgrades, developing experiments, or otherwise just wrapping up a few other long term projects.

Non-essential research on campus is shutting down also, and what constitutes "essential" research is pretty cut and dry. Basically, if you have equipment that's not easily shut down(our NMRs, for example, are in that category where a shut-down is a $10K+ service call on each of the 4 of them, not to mention dumping about $2K worth of liquid helium when you do shut down, and the NMR manager will need to go in and top up liquid nitrogen weekly as well as liquid helium depending on how long this lasts) you can go in and do what you need to keep it going. Any research directly related to COVID-19 is allowed to continue, as are things like clinical trials where abrupt discontinuation would be dangerous for the participants. I asked my supervisor if he really thought that would happen in our department-he said it would contradict direct orders from the president, provost, dean, and department chair, but I'll still believe it when I see it.

Anyway, with research not happening in my department, there goes another part of my job. As I said, I can keep busy for a few weeks on stuff I can haul home, but that's about it.

I have a few other irons in the fire too. I just passed off the order for a new FT-IR last week(a nice little $25K purchase that I didn't even know the money existed for until mid-February). There's typically a 30-60 day lead time from order to fulfillment, and then after it arrives it sits until a service engineer comes onsite to unpack and do the initial set-up. If our closure continues, I'll need to either hope we can delay shipping until we are re-open, or hope that I can get clearance for to go in both for the delivery and the set-up. I also need to prep the site.

 

[Attonine]

Flew into Tripoli, Libya on 4th March Via Istanbul. Supposed to fly out to the field on 6th. Company got spooked and a group of us have been holed up in a hotel since arrival. Not really quarantine as we are free to come and go and hotel does have other guests.

Since arrival things have moved on. Libya will close all sea and air ports from tonight. It’s not clear whether military will allow foreigners to travel across the country. should get some info from company today as we are approaching 14 day period. Everyone is fit and healthy and the country is still reporting zero cases of the virus. Fingers crossed.

 

[compwiz1202]

While everybody keeps themselves inside it's great for me to get out and about. No people or traffic.

Agree. But the crazy thing my wife noticed at the few places we went was most people were older. They should definitely be the first ones self isolating.
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The last choice with the caveat we are being prudent and cautious, but not holed up in our house. We ate out on Friday Night, The runs on store products are annoying, 😷

Stores need to put some sort of better system in place already. All these shortages do is make people go to more crowded places. Maybe the need to follow the restaurant and do pickup and delivery only. That could help control hoarding better too.
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The emergency hording mentality is contagious. Although logically there is no reason, once people walk in to a store and see shelves cleaned out, they will grab extra when they can so as not to be inconvenienced at sone point in the future.

What I find really annoying is with perishables, because that stuff must be eaten. What I found interesting is that the goods that will last on the shelf, like soup can still be found in the store. It’s the run on dairy and paper products that have annoyed me most.

Exactly the same thoughts I have had. The first wave of ridiculous hoarders causes the second wave of people who only hoard because they see or hear about the shortage. And yea why are people freaking hoarding perishables?! Other thing I wonder is why is it taking so long for stores to try to do anything?? Start limiting and actually enforcing the limits!!!

 

[dogslobber]

Agree. But the crazy thing my wife noticed at the few places we went was most people were older. They should definitely be the first ones self isolating.

I asked one of the parents about this and he laughed. He said he's lived his life already so when come what may happens just happens. He couldn't give a damn about self-isolating. I kind of agree if I was that age then I wouldn't change my habits either.

 

[travisc555]

I just try to avoid busy areas.

My work has closed the campus to all non-essential employees this week and with my job I'm not able to work from home.

 

[satinsilverem2]

I'm holed up because our little one has a rough cough, and had a fever over a few nights. The school don't want him, and my work colleagues don't want me. Not sure we'll survive the cabin fever if this keeps up.

Its scary for sure as there are so many unknowns. my GF is feeling better today and she didn't run a fever at all yesterday. I think it was just a normal bug that she happened to catch before she left school last week. Im in the food service industry and they caught wind of her being sick and told me that I can't come back for a while. We are on day two and we are a little cabin feverish but we are managing.

 

[chown33]

... I'm looking at a couple of solid days of work to get that done, but it's fortunately small enough to put in my car so I'm going to spend the next couple of weeks during work hours rebuilding a mass spectrometer in my garage .

I'm completely serious when I say: That sounds like fun. Assuming you have the maintenance and repair manuals at hand.