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COVID 19 where you are?
Totally unconnected with LEGO.
Seeing as we are an international market place, I’m just curious how things are everywhere else?
Anyone?
I’ll start... so we are located in a small rural community and really not much changed, the lockdown only impacted (badly) local restaurants everything else was open. In the beginning I was one of two or three wearing masks, now it seems most folks are now masked... I got tested as a precaution due to a cold earlier in the year. Negative. Which is good!
Now there is talk of another lockdown 😟
Did y’all’s government (outside USA) throw cash at y’all too? “Economic recovery payment” they called it... trillions of new debt that our kids and their kids will bear the burden of
Seeing as we are an international market place, I’m just curious how things are everywhere else?
Anyone?
I’ll start... so we are located in a small rural community and really not much changed, the lockdown only impacted (badly) local restaurants everything else was open. In the beginning I was one of two or three wearing masks, now it seems most folks are now masked... I got tested as a precaution due to a cold earlier in the year. Negative. Which is good!
Now there is talk of another lockdown 😟
Did y’all’s government (outside USA) throw cash at y’all too? “Economic recovery payment” they called it... trillions of new debt that our kids and their kids will bear the burden of
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A place city called Leicester here has just had to go into lockdown again as cases have been ramping up there, not good for them. I guess this will be the way for the time being. Pubs here are also due to open on Saturday, I really hope people don't go mad and get drunk and stupid, I fear that is what will happen though.
Overall we are getting on with things the best we can like all other nations of the world. Tough times, the world has been through tough times before and pulls though, sadely with lots of casualties. I just hope that the human race learns a lot from this, there is definately the oportunity to do so. We will see.
Hand sanitizer and other anti bacterial products made sense.
Then toilet and kitchen paper???
Then it was eggs all gone, then meat.
After about a month it was canned and dried goods, yeast and powder milk.
Now as you say it’s random things, no bicycles or freezers anywhere.
Thing about masks is if they aren’t N95 or better, pretty much pointless and most everyone’s wearing scarfs, bandannas and surgical masks!
... life goes on😷
I haven't seen anything like that happen in 30 years. And case counts are rising almost nationwide, sadly, some the worst they have yet - the only saving grace seems to be more at-risk folks are wisely staying home, so the tragic death count is rising more slowly right now (thank goodness!). It's still increasing thousands a day though.
Too many people continue to not take this seriously, absolutely nothing has changed since Jan-March. Nada.
In my respectful opinion, if **everyone** had practiced common sense and wore a mask when (in our case) the CDC and NIH started recommending them for the general population (far too late, I know - but I get it, they wanted to save the panic buys for emergency services, which are still understocked in too many facilities) - and practiced good handwashing regularly - the US would likely be fully or near-fully open by now with significantly decreased risk and case counts. And deaths.
Kinda sucks being #1 in the world in this situation. :-(
It is strange to see the dichotomy of work being so (fantastically, I'm very very happy they are doing this frankly) strict, yet you see a bunch of maskless young people at bars or beaches who seem to think they are immortal (or not considering asymptomatic transmission to another person - who passes it to another - who then unwittingly and unknowingly passes it to a beloved family member or even a child.
I just don't get it. I really don't.
Many asian countries readily adapted to mask-wearing, as that's really common practice during flu and cold season anywhere due to such crowded conditions in the larger cities, at least I think (e.g., Tokyo). Are other countries struggling to adapt to mask wearing as much as my country in general (US) is?
Rant over, back to building my Classic Space base MOC...
I'm actually very high risk (all those auto-immune diseases of mine, sigh), so I haven't left the house since late January, and my husband only goes out for the critical things (e.g., groceries occasionally), though we're pretty stocked up.
Same as you, staying home basically until there's a vaccine. Too many of our fellow citizens (at least here in a big city, San Diego) simply aren't demonstrating the ability to think beyond the very minor inconvenience of a mask. My heart goes out to those who truly cannot even where a mask (i.e., the minority that have sincere breathing issues with them, etc.) - they're super-trapped at home.
I remain very grateful and recognize how fortunate we are to have USPS pickup, next day deliveries from major services, etc., where we are. Plus the ability to telecommute - though to be honest, we both telecommuted full-time years pre-COVID, but I'm super happy the rest of my team gets to now, too.
One of ours said recently, “Staying home with young kids is my ‘Super Power’.”
Another did the weekly run to the grocery and found a 2-for-1 sale on red wine half boxes- Gets to the register and the cashier says, “There’s a limit of one.”
Couple of months ago we finally found a 4-pack of toilet paper. It was a severely off-brand of non-pilling 1-Ply. Didn’t know how much it cut down on dust in a bathroom...Now can’t find it again.🙁
I get irritated by people bending the rules or downright breaking them as each one of them is helping to push back my hospital appointments.
One good thing thats come of my time off from my normal job is that I finally managed to sort and catologue lots of used lego and I reopened my store a few weeks ago with over 100,000 parts.
Really interested in first hand experiences as I do not trust ANY news source to be completely objective.
One of our daughters is high risk, accordingly we went into lockdown mode mid March. Masks, hand sanitizer and changed cloths before entering the house, nothing came in the house before being treated with Everclear even down to wiping or spraying down each potato.
I think my wife realized living with a prepper minded person wasn’t so bad after all
Personally I really slacked off after getting tested, I think it’s time to go back to what we were doing, both girls at scouts camp right now, I know they are taking full precautions there.
Actually it’s kinda funny. They are in an all girl troop in the Boy Scouts- no boys allowed!
@paul'sbricks, I completely understand how much it sucks having to slip things back medically - I've had to push back two invasive test procedures twice now, and just had to push them back again as the risk isn't worth the data gain right this moment (though our state hasn't gone back to essential surgeries only, I see that coming soon if things don't start declining pretty quick). But at least with me, we already know what's wrong, just checking to see how much damage there is at this point (we do them every few years) - for you, I can't imagine having to just wait without knowing! That completely sucks.
STAY STRONG!!! You'll be in my thoughts, Paul, as will your daughter, Graham.
I don't work so I'm at home a lot anyway but I didn't realise how much 'popping-out' I actually do. And how much I'd miss it. Hubby is an engineer in a central London hotel and has had to keep going into work all the way through. The kids have been off school for 15 weeks now. Our eldest is Year 11, so as soon as they confirmed there would be no exams this year he finished school, that was March 19th, the day before the schools closed for lockdown. Our youngest is Year 10, they've been prioritised for going back to school because they have exams next year so he's been going into school 1 day a week for the past three weeks. What schools can offer at the moment is different for each school, depending on their layout, size of classrooms etc, so far they've had to keep to the 2 metre distancing.
We haven't been out much really, a few walks around the local streets for the exercise. I have to drive to the Post Office, until very recently there's been very little local traffic, more people walking than driving, but there was definitely more cars around this week. We live near to a major road into London, that hasn't had the levels of rush-hour traffic that it normally would but at other times you wouldn't notice any difference.
We've had the beach thing here, we had hot weather at the same time restrictions were originally eased allowing people to go further afield. It's not the bit on the beach that would worry me, I think groups on a beach would tend have a distance around them anyway, and I think the media played it up, used photos that made it look worse than it was. But people don't stay on their own bit on the beach, there's an awful lot of moving around that goes on, even just getting there and leaving again. I've seen people not bother with social distancing walking down a nearly empty street so I'd bet a lot of money that there was an awful lot of non-distancing(?) going on. In fact, I'd say if you were serious about about distancing you wouldn't have gone in the first place, or would at least have seen what it was like when you got there and gone straight home again. I don't understand the need to take that risk to go to the beach. Or to the shops actually, massive queues to get into Primark? Having said that we did sit in the queue for McDonalds drive-thru for an hour when they first re-opened, best day out we'd had in a while. So maybe each to their own.
People are still being asked to work from home if they can. But pubs, restaurants and hairdressers can open from today, we'll see how that goes. Except in Leicester, they're still in lockdown.
Sorry rant over.
We don't know what to think or do, have suspended trips out, have plenty of masks for whatever, but it seems to be false news. Pictures we and others have seen may possibly be stock photos of somewhere else. Anyway, if it is true that we are "Hot" right now we are taking all precautions. We always want to be "part of the solution, not part of the problem".
I've been reading about El Centro not too far from me (40k people), and their chief firefighter was saying things are pretty bad, probably the hardest hit part of our state right now.
To answer, Major city, Major hospital- crickets chirping by what is seen and heard...
Recently we asked our son about news stories concerning having COVID twice. He said, We have done that research and it is not possible- one of the two tests were false positive and attributable to something else.
We told him that maybe he and other preeminent microbiologists need to be more ‘sensational’- his reply, “Yeah, we’re never going to be sensational enough for news”
...That is a sad fact. Scientists have to share what people don't always want to hear, or data is "too dry", or facts aren't always provocative enough to generate clicks or sell ad revenue.
I truly wish we treated our STEM experts around the world like the rock stars that they are! Heck, I'd have died at 19 if it wasn't for medical advancements, and again at 40. So all love and and gratitude to folks like your son, you, and the rest of the hard-working bio/chem, epidemiology, and virology community from the researchers to the phlebotomists!!!