Something About Nothing............ #14

[schumigirl]

Panic buying has reached us now.......

One store had no cucumbers??? Toilet rolls, liquid soap and pasta shelves were almost empty.......absolutely crazy.

Tinned veg and pasta are being limited per customer......last I’d want if I was in quarantine is tinned veg!!!

Glad we have plenty of wine and potato chips in.......ice cream too......we’ll be fine.

Interesting few weeks ahead with one thing and another.......

Good luck with the cats mac......sounds like a workout just finding them.......

Off to watch some movies and eat ice cream!! Even though it’s bloomin cold here today and blowing a hoolie.......

 

[cam757]

It's a sunny 60 degrees today but lots of rain forecasted.

I am home today. I have a routine procedure tomorrow that requires fasting and prep. Booooo. I can already tell it is affecting my mood.

Seems like lots of events are being cancelled or rescheduled. My nephew goes to NC State and they too have extended their spring break another week and afterwards will go to mainly online classes. Local public schools are still open. My DS is not happy

..I have been busy trying to get last minute things done before my surgery on Thursday. Wednesday I have to prep for it so will not be doing much.

Good luck with your surgery today. Not fun to go through, that is for sure. Sounds like you have a good plan with you family though so that should make it easier for you.

@schumigirl Oh no. Sounds like you have the essentials though, chips, wine and ice cream
Cucumbers....that's weird. Maybe they know something we should know. Lol!

@macraven good luck with your cat. Although, dental surgery will probably not improve his mood.

I don't know if I want to be here when dh gets home today. His convention in Vegas has been cancelled. He is going to be so unhappy. He looks forward to this convention every year.

That stinks but at least you were able to drown your sorrows with a good meal.

 

[schumigirl]

It's a sunny 60 degrees today but lots of rain forecasted.

I am home today. I have a routine procedure tomorrow that requires fasting and prep. Booooo. I can already tell it is affecting my mood.

Seems like lots of events are being cancelled or rescheduled. My nephew goes to NC State and they too have extended their spring break another week and afterwards will go to mainly online classes. Local public schools are still open. My DS is not happy



Good luck with your surgery today. Not fun to go through, that is for sure. Sounds like you have a good plan with you family though so that should make it easier for you.

@schumigirl Oh no. Sounds like you have the essentials though, chips, wine and ice cream
Cucumbers....that's weird. Maybe they know something we should know. Lol!

@macraven good luck with your cat. Although, dental surgery will probably not improve his mood.



That stinks but at least you were able to drown your sorrows with a good meal.

Good luck tomorrow cam.....sounds like a procedure many of us have gone through.......the fasting is the worst part. My guys went for fish and chips and brought them home when I was fasting......the air was blue I can tell you when the aroma wafted upstairs where I was enjoying another glass of water!!!

Yes, we have plenty of goodies at home........we won’t starve that’s for sure! We went to the farm store and they had plenty of cucumbers and got a whole load of veg there.

 

[Lynne G]

Can never understand the need to hoard stuff. Most will have enough, if told to stay in place. And cucumbers, Schumi? How odd. Guess all want to make pickles?

Cam, yep rain by its end tomorrow afternoon, will be up to an inch or so. That's a bunch of rain. Hope your routine procedure has perfect results. Yeah, hate to fast for that medical reason.

 

[Pumpkin1172]

Doing a quick stop in!!!! I have been busy with work and the college courses. We are heading to the visit the dd and see that adorable granddaughter!!! I'm beyond excited for our quick visit. It's the dd's birthday...so I offered that if she pumped enough Grammie would get up in the middle of the night so she could have a a couple glasses of wine and a full night of sleep for her birthday present!

Seems the virus is definitely starting to spread. I'm wondering when they will start to close schools or anything here. I know there are some cases in our province...Last count I think was 19. Two different centers and all were travel related. Things are getting cancelled ( which is good and needs to be done ) The toilet paper hording is here as well...and in our small city 4 hrs away from one of the centers...the sheeple are still hording it OH well. We will see what happens. I'm not worried about contracting it, but more of exposing someone who has health issues and making them sick. I guess we will see how this all plays out.

@bobbie68 I'm wishing you a very speedy recovery.

Well...I hope to stop in over the weekend. I worked by tooshie of, and worked ahead as much as I could so that I wouldn't have to spend my whole weekend doing homework instead of enjoying the granddaughter. So I should be able to stop in again over the weekend. We won't be heading out for much while we are there, as there are a few cases in that area, and it actually doubled yesterday...so the crest is starting to happen so we don''t want to expose our selves and make the few people that we know who are immunocompromised sick with it.

I hope everyone else, has a great day!!!!!

 

[Charade67]

I just read that Disneyland is closing.
Also that Hollywood and Broadway are shutting a lot of things down.

We are still planning to go to Busch Gardens on Saturday unless they decide to close between now and then.

Still nothing from B's school.

 

[mckennarose]

My dd got notice of classes going to "alternative methods", meaning online. Details not ironed out yet, including no end date.
She's in college, commutes and lives at home so no dorm to pack up.
NHL is another sport to shut down. All games postponed.

 

[schumigirl]

My dd got notice of classes going to "alternative methods", meaning online. Details not ironed out yet, including no end date.
She's in college, commutes and lives at home so no dorm to pack up.
NHL is another sport to shut down. All games postponed.

Yep, F1 GP this weekend in Australia has been postponed as predicted. Hope your daughter isn’t inconvenienced too much with this.

Been following these closures all evening. I’m surprised folks are surprised. Friends are in NYC right now and had planned to see Wicked, they’re waiting to find out if they will get refunds as usually you don’t, but in this case they absolutely should.

 

[cam757]

I can't decide if the powers that be are overreacting or not. They started cancelling the public schools in the northern part of the state so I'm sure it will happen here as well. Our hospital fundraising group had to cancel the BINGO fundraiser we had scheduled for tomorrow night and they are considering making us cancel our spring bazaar in 2 weeks. Uggh! 15 people infected in our state out of 8 million. I guess time will tell...

Good luck tomorrow cam.....sounds like a procedure many of us have gone through.......the fasting is the worst part. My guys went for fish and chips and brought them home when I was fasting......the air was blue I can tell you when the aroma wafted upstairs where I was enjoying another glass of water!!!

Thanks!! Yep, it is my first. I have a family history so the doctor wanted me to have it done earlier than normal.

Lol!!! That is pretty bad. Although fish and chips sounds pretty good right now. I am enjoying my gatorade cocktail. Time for another glass.

 

[mckennarose]

I’m surprised folks are surprised.

I know, right? All people have to do is look at what's happening in other countries/areas to see how this goes.

There's one thing to say your not giving in to fear, panic buying, not super worried about catching it, or at least expect to have a mild case. But the bigger point that you can't ignore is what happens in communities, hospitals, the economy, supplies, etc. You can't deny these things can and will happen. (I don't mean YOU, you... I mean YOU as general people!)

Pharmacies have enough medicine for flu season and a small percentage of the population having a cold at one given time... they're not equipped to handle 80% of the city's population being sick at the same time. Or doctors having 80% of their patients sick at the same time, Or 80% of the population wanting hand sanitizer (which, it's the end of flu season so they didn't keep much in stock), Or what quarantine actually means if you've been exposed.... your whole household gets quarantined.

I'm watching a lot of younger people suddenly complain about how difficult quarantine will be, that they are afraid they'll lose money, that they have to work to make ends meet. Well it's the same for everyone in this position right now. It's like the only thing they focused on was that it mainly hits older people or chronically ill people harder, so they'll be ok. Now the reality is starting set in on how bad this could be.

Someone my dh was in a meeting with just came back from LA on Monday and has "not been feeling too well" for days. Today he finally went to HR and is getting medical attention. Our reality is that if he's suspected or positive for it, dh will have to quarantine, which means we will also, for two weeks. No work-no paycheck. This is where the food, medicine and supply preparations are supposed to help us if we can't leave. To say I'm more than a little nervous (and angry) is an understatement. Hopefully we'll hear something tomorrow.

15 people infected in our state out of 8 million. I guess time will tell...

Sorry Cam, I can't remember which state you're in.... but I've been keeping an eye on our state health dept. coronavirus page, which shows us how many are tested, how many negative, how many pending, how many positive. We have 22 now (6 days after the first case reported) and the number of "pending" keeps going up. I'm guessing other states have a page like this too? I know Florida does because I'm watching it also. They have their first case in Seminole county, which is right by Orlando.

One of my daughters travels in the state and today she was in an office where one of the workers has gotten sick within the past few days. They sent the worker to one hospital and they didn't have tests. She's going to try another hospital. Point being, there's still not enough tests and so cases are going undetected. They have to be factoring that in. ???

 

[DisneyLifePapioNe]

I just received an email that our schools will be closed effective tomorrow. Next week was spring break anyway but now they said nothing tomorrow either and will be updates next week if will return after normal spring break return.

 

[Charade67]

People are posting empty toilet paper aisle pictures on our local news station’s Facebook page. It’s crazy.

 

[Lynne G]

Well, 4 more said in our county. So county commissioner said all public and private schools closed for 2 weeks, pending decision later, as well as all sport places, cinemas, zoo to be closed same amount of time, and asked that businesses close. Also banned crowds inside and outside everywhere in the county. And my county is quite large. Scary times indeed.

Hope McK, your DH is okay, and not sick from his colleague. Praying he just has a cold, and did not infect others on that trip.

You know while I have had emails from food places we eat at saying how increased their
cleaning, Ihave no desire to eat out for the foreseeable time.

And a funny, for Charade. I tend to buy toilet tissue in a large pack at the Costco when we are low. A few weeks ago, I had bought it, but then realized I forgot we had not finished the prior pack. So that is one commodity I do not need to look for in my shopping.

Quiet night. Cleared absolutely everything out of my car, and put the back seats down. Older one cleared his car out, went to collect some of little one’s dorm stuff today. Unpacked his car, so both of us will drive down and collect the remainder of her stuff and little one too. She’s had enough, and offered to take three large suitcases from her roommate that we will store for her, as she is flying home, and realized had too much stuff to fly with. Hence, I decided, two cars needed. If it was just older one and me, one car would have been fine. But after seeing older one’s larger car have its seats down, and his car was packed to the gills, I am thinking depending on the size of roommate’s cases, we need more than one car for a just in case. Little one was first moved in with my DH’s truck bed filled with her stuff, and more was taken over weekends and break. Plus stuff delivered to her. Hence, two cars. Yep. She was not amused when I told her she can take the train home, as we may not have room for her.


Well, I am chilling, not quiet ready for a nap, but hey not much interesting on the screen.

Have a lovely night homies. Be happy, finally a Friday it will be when waking up tomorrow morning.

 

[mckennarose]

People are posting empty toilet paper aisle pictures on our local news station’s Facebook page. It’s crazy.

Same here.
This is Walmart toilet paper and water aisles.

Lynne, I just saw the governor’s message on closing things in your county. Are you ok?

 

[mckennarose]

Well, 4 more said in our county. So county commissioner said all public and private schools closed for 2 weeks, pending decision later, as well as all sport places, cinemas, zoo to be closed same amount of time, and asked that businesses close. Also banned crowds inside and outside everywhere in the county. And my county is quite large. Scary times indeed.

I was typing as you posted. I saw they want retain locations closed too, like malls. Looks like the only things open will be grocery stores and pharmacies?

 

[mckennarose]

Hope McK, your DH is okay, and not sick from his colleague. Praying he just has a cold, and did not infect others on that trip.

Thanks, me too. You stay safe!

Our neighbor is on the fire department and they just had a meeting and were given some type of hazmat or bio suit, with respirator, to respond to possible coronavirus calls.

I need a glass of wine.....

 

[Charade67]

DC is starting to shut down. The Smithsonian just posted that they will be closing all museums and the zoo on March 14. Looks like our trip may not take place.

 

[Lynne G]

I am good, thanks McK. I work in the city, and so far, expected to come in. I am fine with that, as the floor I work in, our offices keep all separate, and we rarely get visitors. Plus, many of us are starting to step up the cleaning of our own office, and shared areas, as well as we noticed the cleaning staff has increased their visits. But with this virus, it will be a day by day assessment as to make all telework.

Charade, sorry to hear Park visit not happening. I would not be surprised if they are closing soon.

 

[mckennarose]

DC is starting to shut down. The Smithsonian just posted that they will be closing all museums and the zoo on March 14. Looks like our trip may not take place.

Aww, I'm sorry.

 

[Charade67]

Just heard that Disney World is closing too.