Living With The Virus

[icyfroth]

Ok. So we're all staying home, wearing masks when we go out, sanitising surfaces, madly washing hands.

How else are you coping?

Had to go to the post office this arvo as I had a cpl of sales on Ebay, having to send parcels. Bloody lined up for half a block because they were only allowing 8 customers in at any given time. 

Staff are all behing perspex screens. Sheesh!

How's everyone else getting along?

[go-tazz]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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So how's the dog coping

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Nothing much has changed for the dog except we are home more then before so it's coping fine.

[bright.ton42]

Stunning day here in coastal NSW .  New here and how I love the weather, and the town, what a gem.  .  Took the dogs to the dog beach only 5 mins from home and watched a couple of surfers braving the thundering waves and wished for the 100th time that I was fit enough to surf.  This beach is magnificent but not for swimmers with its rips, so fairly quiet.  Just happy soppy dogs running wild and we owners chatting at a distance about doggy things and soaking up the views and the sun.

Later a quiick trip to the Plaza where most of the lovely little boutiques are sadly closed.  . Went to Woollies where they are stringent about social distancing,then the large pharmacy where you are greeted at the entrance by a staff member who asks you all sorts of questions about your health then  sprays your hands with sanitizer.  I refrained from grabbing it off her as there's none inside.

Came home, washed hands  in soapy water and  sanitized surfaces and a quick wipe of groceries with vinegar.  It's routine now.  

Considered washing the floor then got a very long phone call so put it off.   Doesn't take much.

[lionrose.7]

Still in total lock down here in NZ, looks like it will go longer then the 4 weeks.

I am still sane (only just) LOL

Was sad today because it is my Grandsons Birthday and I cant see him 😞

There is always light at the end of a tunnel, so I keep telling myself

[zanadoo_56]

I'm housebound due to mobility issues so life is much the same BUT food and grocery deliveries have become a bit of a headache.

I had to coax the grocery delivery guy to at least open the doors and put the groceries just inside the house.  With my walker in the way and only steps outside the door (not a landing or verandah) I can't use the steps and have great difficulty reaching for things left there.  He did so grudgingly.  As usual the bags had been filled to capacity and I couldn't lift them! 

Standing in one spot while trying to separate and pack everything into extra bags I could (just) manage to carry, left me with painful knees and legs....and backache.  I did pace myself but I am definitely feeling the effects and have had to up my arthritis medicine as a result.

About a week ago I ordered a delivered meal and the guy crept up to the house and left my dinner on the front door step.....which meant I couldn't open the security screen door without sending the bag flying.  (The screen door issue is how I managed to convince the grocery guy to exercise some common sense and open the doors.  Leaving stuff on the steps is not much use when I can't open to the screen door to retrieve them). 

Anyway I stood at the doorway contemplating my takeaway dinner then I got my old walking stick and with careful aim, stabbed the bag till I could feel the concrete underneath then with MUCH difficulty managed to move some of the bag underneath the open screen door, twist it around until I could see the bag handles then loop the walking stick under the handles and gingerly get the bag around the slightly open door and into the house.  Hurrah!  My knees were on fire and the dinner was lukewarm but I finally managed it.

Deliveries to the door, such a simple thing and so difficult to manage the result for some.  Sigh.

[icyfroth]

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@zanadoo_56 wrote:

I'm housebound due to mobility issues so life is much the same BUT food and grocery deliveries have become a bit of a headache.

I had to coax the grocery delivery guy to at least open the doors and put the groceries just inside the house.  With my walker in the way and only steps outside the door (not a landing or verandah) I can't use the steps and have great difficulty reaching for things left there.  He did so grudgingly.  As usual the bags had been filled to capacity and I couldn't lift them! 

Standing in one spot while trying to separate and pack everything into extra bags I could (just) manage to carry, left me with painful knees and legs....and backache.  I did pace myself but I am definitely feeling the effects and have had to up my arthritis medicine as a result.

About a week ago I ordered a delivered meal and the guy crept up to the house and left my dinner on the front door step.....which meant I couldn't open the security screen door without sending the bag flying.  (The screen door issue is how I managed to convince the grocery guy to exercise some common sense and open the doors.  Leaving stuff on the steps is not much use when I can't open to the screen door to retrieve them). 

Anyway I stood at the doorway contemplating my takeaway dinner then I got my old walking stick and with careful aim, stabbed the bag till I could feel the concrete underneath then with MUCH difficulty managed to move some of the bag underneath the open screen door, twist it around until I could see the bag handles then loop the walking stick under the handles and gingerly get the bag around the slightly open door and into the house.  Hurrah!  My knees were on fire and the dinner was lukewarm but I finally managed it.

Deliveries to the door, such a simple thing and so difficult to manage the result for some.  Sigh.

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Gosh, what an ordeal! 

[chameleon54]

All good here. The sheep still need to be looked after ( food production / essential service etc. ) so out most days to the farm. There's no-one else out there so I,m isolated any way. About to head off on a 250 km. drive to the remote farm today. We received a couple of monsoonal summer storms out there, so some nice feed but its drying off again now. I take a trailer load of lambs with me each time I go and the dogs enjoy the ride on the ute.

The local PO. and supermarkets all have strict distancing measures but that's OK. We work with what we have got. Because I,m still out and about, I carry sanitiser in the ute and clean the hands each time I touch something others use, like fuel bowsers etc and I often pack my lunch, rather than going into the bakery. I have had to make some major changes to my finances as export markets are interupted, but all sorted for now.

Ebay sales are still ticking along nicely although international postal systems are in chaos. I have removed international post from my main selling account.

Other than that life is pretty normal in a strange sort of way.

I have to laugh when people say its our version of war..........I,m sure those who had their homes bombed, losing a couple of family members and with young sons on the front line would probably trade places with us. The comparison is bizarre and it makes you wonder how we would cope if we really had something to worry about.

[springyzone]

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@icyfroth wrote:

Ok. So we're all staying home, wearing masks when we go out, sanitising surfaces, madly washing hands.

How else are you coping?

Had to go to the post office this arvo as I had a cpl of sales on Ebay, having to send parcels. Bloody lined up for half a block because they were only allowing 8 customers in at any given time. 

Staff are all behing perspex screens. Sheesh!

How's everyone else getting along?

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Well,I must have missed the express I am afraid, which is ridiculous as I have read quite a bit of epidemic fiction and knew the panic food buying would be coming before it did. But I never stocked up on masks or sanitiser (or toilet paper) and quite frankly, I don't know where people are getting their masks from.

In any case, I go to the shops without one and just use soap when I get home.

Everything is calm at our little local shopping centre. People keep their distance, everyone is polite. I sometimes go up at 7am and unlike about a month back when that time slot was a madhouse, it is much quieter. Still steady though. I have noticed the butcher & chicken shop now open at 7am. I guess that is to get the passing trade.
I go for an hour's walk every day along a walkway behind my home.  Working on a photobook online, doing some genealogy research.

I am finding things slightly stressful at the moment but not so much the virus worries. Looking after a sister in law at the moment who is suffering a few mental health issues.

[the_great_she_elephant]

Our lovely next door neighbour went to Woolies for us yesterday and, halleluiah, she managed to get evrything on my list - even 2 packs of frozen veggies that I thought would be hard to find. She has insisted that any time we need shopping done or want takeaway picked up we are to call her and she'll do it for us. We feel very blessed to have her as a neighbour.

[icyfroth]

I wanted to make a chicken and vegetable soup last night when I realised I had no celery. 

So I went up to Woolies to get some. The usual security gaurds at the door telling you where you can enter and where to exit. Sheesh.

Anyway, things didn't bode well when I came to the greens shelf, nut much there, no lettuce no spinach, no leeks etc.

Walked along and found 1 sad and droopy lonely little celery bunch on the shelf. Naturally, I snapped it up.

Got to the express checkout, the place was choc-a-bloc.

Put it through..$7.90!!!!!

For a sad and withered little bunch of celery!

The soup turned out ok.

[chameleon54]

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@springyzone wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

Ok. So we're all staying home, wearing masks when we go out, sanitising surfaces, madly washing hands.

How else are you coping?

Had to go to the post office this arvo as I had a cpl of sales on Ebay, having to send parcels. Bloody lined up for half a block because they were only allowing 8 customers in at any given time. 

Staff are all behing perspex screens. Sheesh!

How's everyone else getting along?

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Well,I must have missed the express I am afraid, which is ridiculous as I have read quite a bit of epidemic fiction and knew the panic food buying would be coming before it did. But I never stocked up on masks or sanitiser (or toilet paper) and quite frankly, I don't know where people are getting their masks from.

In any case, I go to the shops without one and just use soap when I get home.

Everything is calm at our little local shopping centre. People keep their distance, everyone is polite. I sometimes go up at 7am and unlike about a month back when that time slot was a madhouse, it is much quieter. Still steady though. I have noticed the butcher & chicken shop now open at 7am. I guess that is to get the passing trade.
I go for an hour's walk every day along a walkway behind my home.  Working on a photobook online, doing some genealogy research.

I am finding things slightly stressful at the moment but not so much the virus worries. Looking after a sister in law at the moment who is suffering a few mental health issues.

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Unfortunately the confinement resulting from the virus is particularly hard on those with pre existing mental health conditions and all face to face professional support has been axed. This will undoubtedly result in a spike in hidden deaths. Collateral damage as a result of social isolation due to the virus.