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yeah, unfortunately due to work, many can't isolate themselves. Since I work in retail there are custiomers all day long and it's getting tough trying to keep a distance from each one without running the other way, LOL. My boss and I were chatting about it and he said he's pretty sure he's going to get infected at some point due to the workplace. I can't retire yet with a full pension, but he can. I would be gone if I were him.
funny today seeing people frantically running around trying to shop like the world was coming to an end and then to see some EMTs just casually shopping. I asked if they were worried and they said they are dealing with sick people daily, so all they came do is take precautions and follow their training.
If anyone wants some great art inspiration while they're laying low, these museums are offering online virtual tours!
https://www.travelandleisure.com/attractions/museums-galleries/museums-with-virtual-tours
OVER, not under !!!
Good Lord Michael if I was in your shoes I be carrying a huge can of Lysol around spray anything that coughs my way, if i had to work in retail I I would be paranoid as heck.
My completely sane seven-point plan:
1. Go to the supermarket to observe the lack of toilet paper. What does it say about doomsday types that, of all the things to fearfully hoard, they hoard toilet paper? Buy a lot of A1 steak sauce while you are there.
2. Avoid children and the elderly. There might be some public health reason for this. Most kids and old folks are kinda annoying to me, and I try to avoid them regardless of epidemic conditions, so "Mission Accomplished".
3. Plan ahead: Make a list of people who live nearby who can be eaten if you must resort to cannibalism, and in what order they would be eaten. People with kidney or liver ailments might not have the best flavor, but everybody tastes better with A1.
4. Sing the Tom Jones classic "It's Not Unusual" every time you wash your hands--all three verses.
5. If you touch the cap or pump handle of your container of hand sanitizer with your hand, you could be contaminating it by touching it with a hand that hasn't been sanitized yet. Practice handling that hand sanitizer bottle using teeth, toes, and elbows. I've practiced this for years, for just the eventuality we're seeing now.
6. No time is better spent than time spent on indulging in irrational theories about how an epidemic started. Biological weapon test? Freemasonic conspiracy to influence the 2020 U.S. presidential election? Why not both?
7. Internet forum posting. Can't stress that one enough. When all seems lost, internet forum posts (especially ones with no capital letters and only double and triple exclamation points for punctuation) will see us through!!!
I just went to the supermarket and bought my veggies and found nearly all the cat litter is gone.
Only a few overpriced not garden friendly stuffs left, I put it in my mulch when too soiled, fish out pooplettes with a scoop between changes.
My mind boggles
is it for when the toilet paper runs out?
catfood going fast too but less an issue as I can simply share my minced beef if needed.
I don't think preppers buy raw chicken necks either.
Not sure if you have access to it, but I use horse pellets for cat litter. Much cheaper and quite possibly might not have been picked clean. I ordered a case of canned food on Prime and it still is giving me next-day delivery. My dry food comes from the vet, so we ordered up on that a bit...hopefully that supply won't run out. That's my biggest fear...not feeding myself, but feeding my animals. I have a 20yo iguana and it's difficult to buy ahead for her because all she eats is fresh greens and fruits. I bought some frozen stuff to have on hand, but I've never tried to feed it to her so she could very well snub her nose at it.
We should be good for food for a couple weeks for ourselves, but next time around I think we'll try to avoid the store and see if Prime is still doing 2hr grocery delivery. My work partner went to the store yesterday and he said he was there for 4hrs and it was like a war zone. Sorry, I don't want to need a body guard just to go to the grocery store...that and I don't want to be near that many people right now. Thankfully, both my husband and I work from home for the same company and have done so for years. We can hermit ourselves away quite easily. (My employer actually just ordered all ~15,000 employees to work remotely and they shut down any and all business travel weeks ago.)
What I don't get is the people going crazy buying water. Why? I live in a town of 70,000...we have city water...and our own reservoir that feeds it.
I also found this
https://www.treehugger.com/culture/pet-topic-make-your-own-newspaper-cat-litter.html
and chicken feed too, I might find that easier to source
I have no car
certtainly there are feed shops as I used to go to one to buy lupins for growing my green manure
but I cannot get there now, I might see if they deliver.
Yeah, I don't even get the bottled water deal. I have never purchased any in my life. I use the tap with a brita filter and have for years. Now I can understand if you don't have access to it from the tap.
LOL, I would Ivy, if it wasn't all sold out. Funny, I am the only manager walking around with gloves and a mask. My boss says it makes the customers nervous, ..they should be, but not because of me.
I don't think I could bring myself to do that for six cats, lol.
We live in a very very small rural town in Australia - pop. is under 3000 I think. There is ONE supermarket here that serves the town plus the outlying even tinier communities, many being indigenous community towns. I was kinda shocked to go to supermarket about a week ago to discover the toilet paper shelves were EMPTY. For some reason, I didn't think the panic buying had taken hold here as we are quite isolated.
Boy, was I wrong!
The problem is, our ONE supermarket is kinda small and doesn't have huge warehouse space for stock - so it's not like they would have had a further four weeks of supply of loo paper out the back. I STILL don't understand the panic buying over toilet paper - at all. It's unbelievable scenes over here in Australia - people fighting in the aisles etc. Just....mind boggling.
Given that my husband and I are both on pensions and don't work, and that we've only been here about 6 months and don't know anyone - thus no visitors to the house or us visiting friends - we are kinda 'self isolating' without really doing it on purpose. BUT given that there is only one supermarket and one post office - there is no mail delivery to houses or business here, everyone has to go to post office to get their mail, whether over the counter or post office boxes - I started thinking that it would just take one local to come back from holiday, or even a shopping trip to Cairns (international airport, big population, LOTS of tourists) to then hit up the supermarket for their milk and bread, or to collect their mail on the way home, to have had contact while in a larger town, to kinda infect the whole town!
Now add to that, the heavy rains are here (Wet Season), and if the Little Annan river goes over (which is VERY easy to do as it's a very small narrow low crossing) that means no-one can get here - no people, and no deliveries. We'd be cut off. Fortunately the Little Annan goes down just as quick as it goes over, but a combination of low supplies everywhere on certain items and being cut off from deliveries, means stocks can be very very low. So even stocking up on certain essentials during Cyclone season is a headache up here - there are no stocks to stock up with!
These are places humanity's last hope.
Well, seriously, at least essential foods and medicines need to stock for these kind of places.
the last time this place was cut off for an extended period of time, they had deliveries coming up by barge (we are right near the sea)...although apparently, the first one through was full of beer and alcohol for the pub! *shakes head*
But physicians then knew that, for certain conditions, you could take the blood of the immune and use it to prevent disease or treat those who ...
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/doctors-push-treatment-coronavirus-blood-recovered-patients-n1158476
Interesting.
...not if you have cats.
I'm in one of the target groups - over 70, with COPD. I've never been limber enough for the appropriate prep - bend over and kiss it goodbye - but I've had a proper fatalistic attitude since I was 12 when one of my father's friends died as a result of a lightning strike at a golf course.
Question for McGyver re masks - which do you think would be best? Freddy Krueger, or Jason?
I've been a bit of a prepper, so if need be I can hunker down for six to eight weeks; the only excursions I'm planning at this point is a weekly trip to the grocery for fresh veg while they have them. Maybe by the time I get exposed there' will be test kits available and an under 24 turnaround for the results.
...indeed.
Chewy.com delivers and has good prices on pet foods and products.
I'm less concerned about resources running out than I am about people getting sick. When I went to Trader Joe's on Tuesday it was fully stocked, not one product was low, even toilet paper and very small spray bottles of hand sanitizer were fully stocked and it wasn't crowded at all, maybe 20-30 people in the whole store (on a Tuesday mid-morning.) CVS was very quiet too. There are probably at least 20 grocery stores and 15 pharmacies within less than 2 miles of me, so besides hand sanitizer being out everywhere (except the little ones at Trader Joe's,) I'm not too concerned. I think the hoarding elsewhere should go down by next week when people finally feel stocked up. The only shopping hoarding where I am is with hand sanitizer and all disenfectants & cleaners. But starting as early as about 3 weeks ago, the security guard at CVS was wearing a face mask and rubber gloves which I thought was pretty funny because he was the only one. Trader Joe's now eliminated the self serve free coffee but you can still get it by request from a server.
Wendy,
For cat litter during difficult conditions, we have been shown lots of options by our cats. Firstly sawdust in the workshop seems moderately popular. Then open bags of plaster. That one is rather nice, the wet bit hardens rapidly and can be picked out in one lump. However, the thing we were shown most of all by our cats, is a tray of dry/slightly damp soil is actually quite popular with them, and we have sometimes heard purring when they see that it's available. Normally we put down compressed wood pellets, which are a bit uncomfortable on their paws, makes them a bit grumpy and reluctant to use it. Which is my preference, as cats should use the garden, in my view. The only cat-unfriendly creature we've seen in the garden is a panther, but it's only appeared twice in 15 years.
potting mix crossed my mind as can be reused in my garden too
I am a South Aussie BTW for others suggesting places in America
and holy crap
I lost a cat to a Brown snake and have kept cats indoors ever since, even I am scared walking through the rougher parts of my garden
What about online stores? Do you have Amazon? You can buy cat litter and food on Amazon.
I will look further if desperate but lack of funds will limit me there, cheaper alternatives I can get by foot obviously better
I have lost another 8K off my Superannuation, in one day, ...I think I better start composing my resume
Coronavirus: China says disease 'curbed' in Wuhan and Hubei
......as the number of infections rapidly decreases, there are signs that life in China is slowly returning to normal.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51813876
Sometimes I imagine the outbreak of new diseases as an attempt of mother nature to get rid of this stupid animals that do their best to make the world a pita for all living creatures (meaning animals, plants and mushrooms and whatever else is there that kinda fits in that definition).
I just hope for everyone's sake the economy bounces back, the Great Depression was not a lot of fun ...
Hello from Portugal, where we have the least number of beds vs patients of any European country, even ones poorer than us! Fortunately, I live in a small mountain village, in a house perched high up on a hill, and my pantry is full. Just me, the Mrs, and our cats, until the peak dips before winter.
I really need a haircut though...
Life inside China's lockdown
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-51858226/coronavirus-life-inside-china-s-lockdown
;) I almost want to ask what you most remember about the Great Depression and how to survive it... but I'm afraid you might wallop me and feed me to the local bunyips. Good luck, remember the markets WILL bounce back but in the meantime, stay safe.