Coronavirus Concern Up

[hqueen13]

US mortality rate is 1.7% any death is tragic, but we are way under the doom and gloom predictions

...for now. The issue is going to come when the hospitals get overwhelmed and there is no way to treat the people who need treatment. I think we are a week or more away from that point here on the east coast (NY being ahead of us already), at which point we'll find out if the social distancing measures were put in place fast enough and strong enough.

 

[hqueen13]

I thought I was supposed to be LESS busy during quarantine not more busy?! We got the first garden box completed, and composted manure picked up yesterday (despite the mud), so that's good progress. My pay check hit, and I'm SO glad that this is happening now and not a month earlier, my pay check was FAT, and that helped a LOT with the giant surplus of groceries I've purchased lately. Now I just need to be thrifty and cook at home with all this stuff that we have. I also went ahead and set aside money for some of the bills that I'll have coming up in the event that I get furloughed.
The only good news is that SR's farm business is booming already. I've got to help him get online ordering set up this week so that he'll have an easier time managing things because right now it's chaos, and the orders are only going to come in faster and faster and spring gets going and people turn away from the grocery stores.

@Britesea - you are right, there won't be a person anywhere that isn't impacted by the virus, most in some negative ways. However, just like any sort of situation there will be those that will profit from it and those that will fall behind. It is the same when it snows, too. The businesses that can figure out how to adapt and keep moving will stand a better chance than those that only close their doors and do nothing creative to keep moving. The small farmers are likely to come out of this winning, too, which is good in my book, as long as they can get creative and figure out how to adapt fast enough. Thankfully this is coming early enough in the season that they should be able to manage to ramp up a bit. If this had hit mid summer, or worse, fall into the holiday season, it would have had even worse impacts (I can only imagine how bad people would have been about social distancing if it were at christmas!).

So we'll all just keep trucking along doing the best we can with what we have and getting creative to figure out the rest!

 

[tortoise]

I'm also more busy under a stay at home order. It's exhausting and I get angry about the media articles about everything I could or should be doing in all my supposed free time.

 

[CrealCritter]

FDA OKs emergency authorization of drugs touted by Trump to fight coronavirus

Pharmaceutical companies throughout the world are working around the clock to develop effective coronavirus treatments or a vaccine with no clear breakthroughs.

www.foxnews.com

 

[frustratedearthmother]

supposed free time.

What is this "free time" of which you speak?

 

[baymule]

My County hit 33 cases and every county touching our border has at least one case.

Went back to Lowes for 2 more rolls of weed cloth, kept my distance and touched nothing else. Husband stayed in the car. Used hand sanitizer on way to Walmart. Ran in there, there was 13 egg cartons, grabbed them. Got 2 bottles of 100 count Walmart brand Tylenol. Did hand sanitizer again. We both came in, washed hands, changed clothes and barely beat the rain. Pouring down, talk about good timing!

 

[tortoise]

What is this "free time" of which you speak?

LOL, right?! I just remembered today I need to prune 400 blueberry bushes. In what time? But who am I kidding, I'll stop cooking and washing dishes to get my garden in order. Forget homeschooling indoors, that's in the garden too.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I still haven't dusted my house from all the construction. Been doing gardening and getting places set up for does to kid. Always more work to do on the farm. Outside homeschooling! Love it!

 

[Lazy Gardener]

We have 2 cases in our town.

 

[Beekissed]

Went food shopping today and don't know what all the hoohaw has been about....milk and eggs aplenty in the stores(not that we buy any of those), TP too. A few things missing from shelves but overall plenty of all the staples~bought flour, pasta and such. There wasn't anything on my list I couldn't find or get. Sam's Club had the most to offer of everything, most shelves fully stocked, HUGE packages of premium TP with a limit of one....but it's 45 jumbo rolls of TP, so the limit isn't a hardship.

They even had my fave cheap dog food restocked at Rural King....ordered 20 PWR str. run chicks from them today. They say they aren't taking special orders but the lady said she would ask if she could tag it onto their standing weekly order. Hope I get them so I can shove them under my first broody of the year...she's been waiting for a week plus for eggs or chicks.

Beautiful day here and folks out shopping and such....saw a few with masks, some with gloves but overall folks just acting like normal.