Coping with Coronavirus

Bike on a trainer, Ring Fit and Beat Saber.

Gonna start running again now it's getting lighter in the evenings.

I walk every day. Nothing really changed for me. I guess I see more people out and about but not enough to cause distance problems.

DSGamer wrote:
UpToIsomorphism wrote:

Slightly cross posted from the Weight Loss/Weight Management thread. How are you keeping healthy and active in social distancing age?

I’ve been doing Ring Fit Adventure every morning . It’s really fun. Also my wife and I walk every afternoon after work.

Similar. My wife and I are walking the baby every night after dinner. The half hour I usually spend driving home re-purposed now that we're on WFH.

Today I had already planned PTO, so Animal Crossing has been amazing for our mental health.

This makes me cry in a good way

My friends and I have started using the wonderful NetFlix Group web browser extensions. Let’s you sync up remote movie viewing sessions.

I have some uplifting news. This is not at all a brag or anything, so please don’t take it that way. Just a story of solidarity.

My little brother is uninsured. I wasn’t really thinking about that when this all started, but it hit me like a lightning bolt last night.

Today I signed him up with my direct primary care clinic that I go to. He’s also working on finding out if his insurance will let him go on immediately, even though they’re outside open enrollment. My wife and I will pay for it. As long as we’re in this crisis, maybe longer. I need to know my little brother can call a doctor if he doesn’t feel well.

Jesus H. Christ am I thankful for video games right now. Like, I work in news, so for nine hours a day, it's just the constant coronavirus drumbeat, so a brief reprieve is SO GOOD.

So like a lot of folk, it's not catching the virus that has the most emotional impact on me but the economic side. My mate picked up on this, and basically told me tonight she would have had my back if I needed any help. On the day that my work asked us to volunteer to take unpaid leave and then still expect big cuts in hours for the rest us.

So it was very well timed of her , even though I shouldn't need it.

My mom keeps saying she's bored and wants me to come visit.

She's over 70 and has lungs so bad every time she is near one of her grandchildren with a cold, she ends up with pneumonia for 2 months.

I don't think she's getting it.

Today's the day I was supposed to be on my trip to Bangkok and Vietnam. Obviously, the trip stayed cancelled but kind of ironic that everyone was freaking out about how dangerous it would be because of the corona and how they don't have the first world infrastructure to deal with it and now one month later they have it under control and it's the West that seemed to drop the ball despite the big head start we were given.

Brother got laid off yesterday as he's in training for factory safety and none of that's going on right now.

I work for a company that builds machinery used by the food industry (cartoning) which right now I'm assuming means we will not be closing at any point but who knows.

Concave wrote:

I work for a company that builds machinery used by the food industry (cartoning) which right now I'm assuming means we will not be closing at any point but who knows.

Most likely not. My company is similar and has already stated if/when our state goes into lockdown, we will be expected to keep functioning as necessary to support production.
However, they are also saying that anyone not critical to production should be out of the building. So I'm full work from home.

lunchbox12682 wrote:
Concave wrote:

I work for a company that builds machinery used by the food industry (cartoning) which right now I'm assuming means we will not be closing at any point but who knows.

Most likely not. My company is similar and has already stated if/when our state goes into lockdown, we will be expected to keep functioning as necessary to support production.
However, they are also saying that anyone not critical to production should be out of the building. So I'm full work from home.

Yeah I imagine they will do that with our support functions (payroll etc) but I'm pretty production-related (do design but I'm constantly on the shop floor sorting things out).

For the people that are huggers how are you copping? Squeezing the stuffing out of your teddy bear? Not letting your doggy go?

I would consider myself a hugger but I don't want to go near anyone but at the same time I want to give out free hugs.

I've been updating the opening post with content from this thread. Let me know if there's something else you think I should be doing with it.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

For the people that are huggers how are you copping? Squeezing the stuffing out of your teddy bear? Not letting your doggy go?

I would consider myself a hugger but I don't want to go near anyone but at the same time I want to give out free hugs.

I'm lucky enough to be with my wife and kids so I get my normal hug amount. But yeah it's weird to so heavily be avoid physicality with others when I do see them.

Mr GT Chris wrote:

I've been updating the opening post with content from this thread. Let me know if there's something else you think I should be doing with it.

Awesome. Thanks for doing that.

lunchbox12682 wrote:
Baron Of Hell wrote:

For the people that are huggers how are you copping? Squeezing the stuffing out of your teddy bear? Not letting your doggy go?

I would consider myself a hugger but I don't want to go near anyone but at the same time I want to give out free hugs.

I'm lucky enough to be with my wife and kids so I get my normal hug amount. But yeah it's weird to so heavily be avoid physicality with others when I do see them.

Yeah just lots of family hugs.

We had 2 friends over for dinner Monday for some human contact and the girls hugged once for some good news, but the rest of us were resisting hello or goodbye stuff.

Remember to make sure your soap is actually soap.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v74jdy/relatable-woman-realizes-shes-been-washing-her-hands-with-a-block-of-cheese

She said that the cheese had been left out on the counter and had dried out, so it was an easy (?) mistake to make. She also pointed out that it wasn't even her own dried-out dairy product. "I am housesitting and high as hell," she wrote.

I received this message from a friend who is a district nurse in my local area. It’s a means of transmission I hadn’t considered.

..”Assistant Director of Nursing at QE ( Birmingham) has said they’ve had a message today that virus seems to be spreading quickly via petrol pumps so they advise to wear gloves when filling up or use paper towel and bin straight away. Can you please pass this around anyone you know. Could make huge difference”

I saw that same message credited to some doctor in the Phillipines... Send to a friend of mine by *actual* doctors in the Phillipines, sigh...

So it is or is not a real issue??
I mean, I had assumed pumping gas was as much as anything else. It would be interesting to see a rise in full service stations.

lunchbox12682 wrote:

So it is or is not a real issue??

I presume it's the same as any other thing that lots of people touch: might well hold viruses, but I see no reason it would be worse than (e.g.) handrails, door handles, etc.

Yeah, be careful touching any surface basically. I try to push open doors with my elbows for example.

MikeSands wrote:
lunchbox12682 wrote:

So it is or is not a real issue??

I presume it's the same as any other thing that lots of people touch: might well hold viruses, but I see no reason it would be worse than (e.g.) handrails, door handles, etc.

I suspect it's an issue of how many hands touch it. Think of the Costco gas station - there's literally hundreds of hands touching each pump on a daily basis.

Jonman wrote:
MikeSands wrote:
lunchbox12682 wrote:

So it is or is not a real issue??

I presume it's the same as any other thing that lots of people touch: might well hold viruses, but I see no reason it would be worse than (e.g.) handrails, door handles, etc.

I suspect it's an issue of how many hands touch it. Think of the Costco gas station - there's literally hundreds of hands touching each pump on a daily basis.

Yeah, I'm commuting to work two days a week and am suddenly quite thankful New Jersey is not a self-serve state.

So I got home today, changed into a completely new set of clothes, washed my hands for the umpteenth time, then bleached the sink before wiping down my computer and I gotta say, this sh*t sucks, dude.

Like, I don't know what it is about today, maybe it was just the enormity of it, maybe it was the realization that I likely have an "underlying issue" they've been warning about, maybe it was just realizing this is the new normal for god knows how long. Today just really got me down, for some reason.

Yo! Wrong thread.

Robear wrote:

I saw that same message credited to some doctor in the Phillipines... Send to a friend of mine by *actual* doctors in the Phillipines, sigh...

I guess medical staff pass messages like this on and then the recipient presumes the person sending it got the information through official channels.

I've been wanting to get back into video production as a hobby for a while now. As soon as it looked like church services would have to transition to online video, I gave into temptation and bought a new camera and a bunch of new gear. It's felt good to have something I can do to help other folks in my community get through this. And it's felt good to get back into being creative this way.

I got 2 more months of my prescription today so I'm good for almost 3 months. Would get more if I could. Also had my glasses adjusted because it's hard to not touch your face when your glasses keep slipping!

Closing in here in the Hudson Valley. The densely populated villages have infections and it's only going to grow exponentially and really quick.

Day care is closed for my son over covid19 Covfef20 fears. Only a matter of time. Thankfully not yet.