Social Distancing 2020
 

Just curious, how is everyone making it in these unusual times? Any home projects or stories with Yorkies or not?

I'll start. I have been enjoying my two dogs playing together (puppy and rescue pup together) and doing some new recipes.

Hope to hear your stories!

My son Danny has a 100+ lb. American Bulldog, still growing, and they still take their daily roaming walks in nearby wooded areas and parks.

I'm walking and exercising everyday, often throughout the house if the weather is rainy as it has been lately, and of course, most everything is done thru delivery these days so have about broken my back getting some of those items out of their huge boxes and down the hall to storage! And then getting those shipping boxes the size of a car through the house, thru the utility porch and out to the yard and then over into the alley the night before pickup. Then ordering groceries is a several-day wait for delivery but safer than going in. They leave it on the porch and you get to lug the bags in through the house to the kitchen, empty them and put everything away. Fresh produce often has to be repackaged, etc. for the frig. Lots of work just keeping up with it all.

Watching lots of old movies and reading books! Thank God for the world of books we have at our fingertips. Oh, and washing my hands after I touch anything that came in from outside! Went to doctor's for a check-up after my December fall and only 2 patients - me and one other besides sketeton staff. Said next month likely thru telemedicine. Wore a mask I put on according to WHO guidelines and tossed it the minute I got home. Came in and immediately removed all my clothing and clogs into the washing machine and showered right after. Nobody gets inside so far!

Pharmacy is drive-thru or delivery so no contact there except the sacks, paper junk that attends Rx.'s and the bottles(which I sanitize with hand-sanitizer) and sit alone untouched for days afterward and then transfer pills to older bottle and toss the new one. WWWWWWashing, washing, washing hands and then moisturizing to keep them from chapping. Gone through half bar of soap in 1 1/2 weeks and 1/4 jar of hand cream.

Everybody stay safe. This too will pass and so far, mortality rate is low, morbidity mild and most recover rather soon, hopefully with some immunity.

Would you look at this? I always keep a large supply of TP in storage but NOTHING anything remotely like THIS!!!

https://boingboing.net/2020/03/21/ar...t-paper-b.html

This is no change to my normal days in the winter time since, I’m retired.
Been shortages of t.p in the stores probably other things as well. Since we
Were asked to stay inside in Illinois, I don’t have a real grasp how other people are reacting to this in Illinois.

I am taking this all serious. I saved the state web page with the counties that show where the virus has been reported.

I have nothing good to say about this

And they will sell it to you triple the amount it cost them. In time of crises instead of trying to help ppl, here you have the low life trying to make money off the needy, shame on them. Karma will show its face to ppl like this.

I don’t know where I saw it but a store had a low price for the first item and quadrupled it for the second item.

Can you believe it? Unless they are buying for the whole block they live on(which I sorta doubt) or unless they have a huge family with constant diarrhea, how in the world can they ever use that much TP! Must be hoping to resell it to those who went to stores only to find empty shelves!

The way they were shy of being recorded at first kinda tells you they didn't feel that good about what they'd done. This article no doubt will have a few folks looking into this amount of TP hoarding, at least on the face of it.

Wow! Hope that item wasn't restricted to purchasing more than one of that item!

I get the fact some people have to buy items for elderly family members and possibly neighbors

Looks like they had way more than that truck bed could safely haul w/out lots of it toppling out unless they tarp it down hard and well. What store sold all of that to them? As of last midnight, in Dallas County, you can only buy 12 rolls or less per purchase unless the package holds more and then you can buy that one package.

I'd really like to know the story behind all of this. No doubt we will soon! :(

Disasters bring out the worst and the best in people.
We got a Red Cross blood drive still going on Tuesday.
I’m going to go donate blood. People still have operations
And emergencies going on in life

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: My hero!

You inspired me. Donated money to our food bank as I can't give blood due to low count and history of hepatitis B. But we can all donate something!

I am sure all stores will increase their food and paper products.Take advantage of people's needs.

That we do

As crazy as the stores have been I have not seen any price gouging locally. They are still running their weekly sale items. People in the store have been polite...Customers have been calm and friendly. This could have been a lot worse

Let’s hope it doesn’t get worse

I have not been out to any supermarkets YET. But will have to go soon, I am dreading it because I don't know how ppl attitudes are, and i am not one to take any c$$p from anyone, things could get nasty real fast. Ppl have a tendency to take advantage of senior ppl, I am one senior you cannot intimate, and I don't back down. I will not leave my house with the expectation, but will be ready if it happens. We have a lot of tourist in my town that have no respect for residents.

Sounds like you are being very safe and productive! I hope to start reading again soon. But first we are going camping for a few days. I can't think of a better way to keep social distancing.

I went to Kroger this morning. They have seniors only from 7-8 a.m. Everyone was very courteous and keeping distances. I only saw one person that didn't appear to be over 60. I hope it will be fine for you too.

One supermarket in my area that I have read has seniors only 6AM to 7AM. I will shoot for that.

Hey, I wanna go camping, I will bring Marshmallows and Eclairs lol ;):)

(BTY...ex camper here)

Haha. Ya'll go camping, I'm staying home just in case. :D And due to the camping game parameters, I'm severely limited in what I can bring along so not so fun for poor, poor, little me. :( I'll watch from the window! :cupcake3::bananna::2popkorn:

I didn’t retire to have to get up early grrr
I saw that at my gas station I go to.

Just a thought, the early hours 5 am to 9 should be for people going to work. 9 to 11 for seniors in my opinion would be better.

The reason I say this is, people often have to pick up something before work. Gas, cigarettes, donuts something for their school kids etc.

By 9AM there will be shoppers in the store, they cannot kick them out. I would love 9 to 11. My supermarket "was" open 24/7, due to this virus they close at midnight to do extra cleaning because of the virus, they open at 6AM seniors only until 7AM then anyone can come in.

Any more stories of Americans "building toilet paper forts"? Saw that phrase used in an article and even in these uncertain times, made me smile.

It’s all fun and games until you run out at home

Too funny!