Corona Virus #6

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Saturday (definitely Saturday, I triple checked) and this version #6 is still going! Well done Chaps.

:thumbsup:

If you insist we can get it done...but what's the dif?...we don't want morale to suffer...

 

[D2Cat]

Folks at MyPillow are making face mask now.

MyPillow shifting 75% of production to make face masks for hospitals | FOX 29 News Philadelphia

 

[Jstpssng]

Folks at MyPillow are making face mask now.

MyPillow shifting 75% of production to make face masks for hospitals | FOX 29 News Philadelphia

Delayed reaction, but it shows what the nation can do if we set our minds to it.

 

[D2Cat]

Pretty tough to fabricate a product if you can't get the material needed.

 

[s219]

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The past 2 weeks we have, for the most part shut down from working. Probably be another 3 weeks at a minimum before we go back. My wife decided to fill her time making masks to donate to our local hospital. She has been doing it 10 hrs a day for 3 days. Made 250 of them..... This is how I know she is a better person than I am....

Bless her heart!

 

[Molalla1]

Yep. Weæ±*e also cooking mostly at home but I致e done a couple of big takeout orders this past week. Chinese, Thai and Indian food do well as leftovers so I make a big order and get 3-4 meals out of one trip.

Good idea IT.

 

[Molalla1]

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The past 2 weeks we have, for the most part shut down from working. Probably be another 3 weeks at a minimum before we go back. My wife decided to fill her time making masks to donate to our local hospital. She has been doing it 10 hrs a day for 3 days. Made 250 of them..... This is how I know she is a better person than I am....

Now that Tom is just wonderful! Hug the wife. . . :thumbsup:

 

[Jaylegger]

Has anyone asked 3M what they're doing??

 

[k0ua]

Has anyone asked 3M what they're doing??

Ford, GE and 3M are working together to get ventilators ramped up in the Ford plant (s)

Also apparently face shields and masks too.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

I really don't get the point of constantly posting doom and gloom stories. I was all negative about this for a long time, but then realized there is nothing I can do to change the outcome other than to maintain social distancing like I have been. I stay isolated on our property with my boys whilel my wife goes to work as a pharmacist each day (very high exposure).Yeah, this sucks, but it's out of our hands what the government does, the virus does, and what our fellow man does. Stop spending your time worrying so much is what I would suggest.

Great post that mirrors my experience and change of mind. I had some secondary exposure from members from the local church that was the first known vector of the corona virus in our town/county. The odds where very low but my concern was passing it to my wife who like your wife is part of the healthcare system. A few days later the news broke that a friend of the church visitor who works as floor nurse at the hospital tested positive then I became concerned even more about the corona virus.

Then it dawned on me many in our area now have some level of risk daily. It still concerns me every day when I drive her to the hospital that another shoe may drop any day.

Live goes on. Back in Feb we got stocked up so we would not starve for a couple months or run out of TP. I have gone through my supplements and restocked especially on the ones thought be be antiviral.

UPS arrived with more when I was typing the above and I am just now finishing this post. Our daughter's truck was the closest to the house so I dumped all of the boxes of supplements in the back of her truck setting in full sun and set all of the items out on the black bed liner for a while and put the boxes into the trash cart.

While I can see this being a 6-18 month event with a few hundred thousands of death I can also see the trees are leaving out and it 85F yesterday and still 77F at this hour. Events like this has been happening well before history has started recording them and the earth is still spinning and the end of mankind as not happened yet.

Yes I am concerned about the virus which I can do little about as I the dangerous weather forecast for this weekend in the central USA.

Life is full of speed bumps so maybe we need to slow down a bit.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

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The past 2 weeks we have, for the most part shut down from working. Probably be another 3 weeks at a minimum before we go back. My wife decided to fill her time making masks to donate to our local hospital. She has been doing it 10 hrs a day for 3 days. Made 250 of them..... This is how I know she is a better person than I am....

Awesome!! Thank her!!!!

 

[MossRoad]

I thought a little while ago it was headed for lock down

I wonder if the moderators have realized that locking it down is just silly....we will have version 7, 8, 9 etc.

The only reason they get locked is while in the process of pruning, a couple guys get into it and post faster than it can get pruned. So we lock it down and start pruning. By the time the pruning is done, someone has already started the next one. So at that point, it's pointless to re-open the thread. Make sense?

 

[MossRoad]

Plus, despite the appearance that we're always here, we sleep and work and all that other human stuff, too.

 

[California]

despite the appearance that we're always here, we sleep and work and all that other human stuff, too.

Your efforts are appreciated. Carry on!

 

[dragoneggs]

My Corona!

The Knack - My Sharona (1979) - YouTube

Oops sorry... close.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

A Heart Attack? No, It Was the Coronavirus – DNyuz

"The study, led by Dr. Zhibing Lu at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, found that 20 percent of patients hospitalized with Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, had some evidence of heart damage."

Clearly having COVID-19 is more than just a bad cold.

 

[dragoneggs]

Sorry... this quarantine is getting to me. And we gotta ways to go!

 

[shooterdon]

The only reason they get locked is while in the process of pruning, a couple guys get into it and post faster than it can get pruned. So we lock it down and start pruning. By the time the pruning is done, someone has already started the next one. So at that point, it's pointless to re-open the thread. Make sense?

Makes perfect sense.

You and the other mods demonstrate much more patience than I could muster. It must be like herding cats.

One of the guys I know trains dogs. Seem some dogs cannot be trained...making them useless. Those dogs do not last long.

BTW, thanks to all the mods for your efforts. Most of us are suffering cabin fever and have a lot on our minds....you guys are too. Easy to get snippy when stressing out.

 

[Cat_Driver]

Today I took (4) naps - you heard me right FOUR NAPS.
I realized my entire life I was obsessed and driven to get something done, accomplish somethings, each day. I don't know what drove me, maybe it was guilt as a man as head of the family to always perform by doing something. Maybe I didn't want my wife to think I'm lazy or letter her down. Maybe it goes back farther by being productive for my parents? Who knows.

What this Coronavirus has done was forcing me to "shelter in place". At first, I fought it, by still doing things around the house, but that soon stopped as there was nothing else to do.

Now what? Take a nap, wake up eat play with the dog take a nap, repeat again and again.

So why was I napping so much today, because there is no guilt? I am forced to do nothing and I an accommodating the Governor by sheltering in place.

My answer for everything is "I can't the Governor says I need to stay home"

I gotta tell you all something - IT FELT WONDERFUL. Stress and guilt-free. Heck, I didn't even worry about toilet paper today.

Guess what my goal is for tomorrow, yep more of the same.

 

[goeduck]

I am still working, but from home 5 days a week. Busier than ever since my work is essential to the essential businesses. Even if I was not, I would have too many things to do to take a break.