Do you think you will change after this Corona thing has been defeated?

[achris]

I started doing a spreadsheet to fact check the rate of infection. The doctors said 1 could infect 1-3 others per day. So day 2 is 2-6, day 4 is 4-18, day 4 is 8-72. Meanwhile the 1st case is doing 1-3 and it multiplies again. When I got to day 10, I got disgusted and deleted the whole thing cuz it got downright scary.

Granted this is worst case and not every person will be infected, but it showed how 1 person was traced to 50 in New York.

Watch this....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6nLfCbAzgo&list=LLOeJQzS9ZA-LXAUe4x4e5XA&index=32&t=0s

Anyone who doesn't understand 'flattening the curve', this demonstrates it brilliantly. The math is a bit heavy, but worth watching through.

Chris......

 

[southkogs]

MTboatguy - condolences to your family. That would be hard to go through.

 

[GA_Boater]

MT- Yes, you and your wife will suffer the loss twice. It's bad enough when you get the call, but not being able to go just makes it so much worse. We can hope closure isn't too far in the future. Both of you take care.

 

[Old Ironmaker]

. My wife usually grocery shop 1 time a week, we go at 6 am on Saturday morning now after the store had been closed and sanitized and less people. .

Please do us all a favour and go shopping every 2 weeks. I find it interesting that those that go into work everyday are those not doing their best to self isolate. That includes my wife but she tries her best. Tomorrow will be my 2nd day out since the 3rd of March. We are eating things out of the freezer I didn't know we had. When it is all gone I will restock it, once hopefully only once. Cut way back on fresh fruits and vegetables. Who touched them before I brought it home?

Our deepest condolences MTboatguy. We lost my Mom and Dad within 7 months of each other last year. I just can not imagine not being their with our Family and friends. My wife's Mom passed away on Vancouver Island years ago. There wasn't a service there per Mom's wishes. We had a memorial service for the Family and friends here in Ontario a few months latter. She still has not gotten closure.

My wife is off work for a few days. The 1st day off in 2 weeks because of people off sick. We tried to have a Covid 19 free day, no internet, no TV. Impossible as they even interrupted Judge Judy.

Please Iron, this only gets things going, GA_Boater

 

[Tassie 1]

The test result was negative,
MUCHO relief around the town and at the supermarket checkout,

It was a big discussion point in there as well coz that's the only place ( and the chemist ) where folks can still congregate and have a yak...6 ft apart of course lol

Ya gotta sit in ya car at the docs and wait to be waved at,

Thanks for the light relief and concern

Cheers

 

[achris]

The test result was negative...

:rockon::rockon::rockon::rockon:

 

[DeepCMark58A]

Please do us all a favour and go shopping every 2 weeks. I find it interesting that those that go into work everyday are those not doing their best to self isolate. That includes my wife but she tries her best. Tomorrow will be my 2nd day out since the 3rd of March. We are eating things out of the freezer I didn't know we had. When it is all gone I will restock it, once hopefully only once. Cut way back on fresh fruits and vegetables. Who touched them before I brought it home?

Rather myopic perspective. Every precaution is taken including the time we shop and minimizing exposure to other people as well. I have to go to work during all this mess the show must go on.

 

[BWR1953]

The test result was negative...

:eagerness::eagerness::eagerness::eagerness::eagerness::eagerness:

 

[GA_Boater]

Tassie - That's the best news in days!

 

[GA_Boater]

This how you don't go stir-crazy. use your imagination.

 

[bassman284]

:facepalm: Sounds like you'd never survive working offshore. You get to live in 2 very small cabins. One is the 'control room', a 20' container that you see the inside of for 12 hours a day, oh and with at least 2 other people, and all the electrical and electronic gear, which occupies at least half the container. And, apart from meals, the other is your 'cabin', which has an upper and a lower bunk, a SMALL shower/bathroom, a wardrobe for hanging your clothes, a small couch and a desk for a laptop computer. Those cabins are usually about 4m x 3m... That's my world, when I was working, 6 weeks at a time. If I can live with that, I'm damn sure you can put up with a house on 6 or so hundred metres, and you do get to go and walk, and shopping. Stop moaning!

Chris.....

Sorry Chris. I thought I was being kind of humorous there. I guess not.

 

[achris]

Sorry Chris. I thought I was being kind of humorous there. I guess not.

Yeah, I may have overreacted and not seen the humour. All good.

 

[Tassie 1]

G'day again,
just on the amount of penalty fines,

Here in Tasmania the fine for NOT following the medical advice re self isolating after a positive test OR after being in close contact with a person is $ 16800 aud and 6 months gaol.

They aren't mucking about with the penalties

 

[harringtondav]

It's a sad fact that criminal penalties don't deter many people. Our US prison population attests to that. Most people are law abiding and follow the rules. But the law breakers tend to hurt the law abiders.

 

[Tim Frank]

Only an Aussie would think that we in North America are sufficiently ignorant of things outside our hemisphere as NOT to know that WA is an abbreviation for Western Australia and so, require an explanation...and yet for some inexplicable reason then assume that most of us would have any clue what a bludger might be.

(you could at least have thrown in a hint that it has nothing to do with Quidditch.... )

Apparently at least one Australian was offended by this, thinking it was a direct criticism. Sufficiently so that they sent a PM.
I would have responded in that format except that there does not seem to be any way to get that function to work.

It was intended to be as tongue-in-cheek as is possible in these circumstances, and absolutely no offense was intended.
Canadians and Australians have shared many things over the years, except obviously a sense of humour.

I apologise without reservation.

 

[harringtondav]

Cruel joke, and I bit.

This came up as a legitimate FB post. I went into a cold sweat knowing my stash was dwindling.
I haven't been hoarding Busch Light and Beam...until now.
...thinking I'll make a beer run....as soon as I get the hook, line and sinker dislodged.

https://channel22news.com/no-beer-or-alcohol-sales-in-iowa/

 

[GA_Boater]

Cruel joke, and I bit.

This came up as a legitimate FB post. I went into a cold sweat knowing my stash was dwindling.
I haven't been hoarding Busch Light and Beam...until now.
...thinking I'll make a beer run....as soon as I get the hook, line and sinker dislodged.

https://channel22news.com/no-beer-or-alcohol-sales-in-iowa/

What day is today? I hoped when I awakened this morning that I would find the past few months were nothing but a cruel April Fools joke.

 

[DeepCMark58A]

As a bow hunter scent control is very important. I use an ozone generator to treat my clothing and gear. I took the machine and hooked it up to a timing circuit. 20 minutes before I get home the machine fires up I walk thru the door linger for a moment in the mud room then wash my hands.

 

[MTboatguy]

Crap, the hits just keep rolling on, after the last two weeks, I want to throw in the towel some days, have not been exposed to Covid, but I did end up with another case of pneumonia in my left lung! So I really need to be careful if I leave the house for supplies. If I were exposed, I would probably expire pretty quick!

Last time it flared up was right after my Dad passed away 5 years ago, so the passing of close family members and my left lung don't seem to mix very well.

:faint2:

 

[aspeck]

Take care of yourself, MT, you are kinda nice to have around here. After all, who would we pick on about getting stuck ...