What was your COVID news for the day?

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SIL went to senior time at the grocery store, getting there near opening time. She said with all the old folks shuffling along having no clue how to maintain their distance it took forever. Then when she made it to the checkout everybody else was there at the same time. Lesson learned was to go early but not too early.
 
We have a senior center that regularly picks up senior citizens who can’t drive and buses them to the local Trader Joe’s to buy groceries. This has been going on for years. When we see the bus pull up we immediately turn around and head back home. It’s overwhelming. They look at it as their social event for the day and they just hang out in the store and chit chat. It’s impossible to get around them. And now with the six foot distancing requirements, it’s just not worth bothering with.

Let them have their senior hour. They need to get out, and then they when they are done they need to get out of our way.
 
School closures in Ohio have been extended through May 1st. The governor has been getting reports of too many people congregating in the parks. He strongly hinted that he's looking into making some new orders this week. In some good news, Battelle Labs got FDA approval for their new technology that can sterilize up to 80,000 masks per machine, after a huge hiccup in the process. Ohio's prison inmates are being put to work making PPE.

In other good news, I scored a 6 roll package of toilet paper at Walmart around 10:30 AM. First I've seen on any store shelf in about 3 weeks. :D

DH's employer had a "reduction in force" at 2 of their manufacturing plants, 1 in KY, the other in Mexico. The OEM truck market is dramatically shutting down, even though the aftermarket remains strong for the moment. Daily updates go out to all employees. The tone sounds like it's shifting from who should be working from home vs. on site to who may be working...period.
 
MrsHaloFIRE said:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-ship-USNS-Comfort-docks-New-York-harbor.html

I cant say Im in disbelief, but I am a bit shocked at the CROWDS gathering in NYC to watch the Comfort hospital ship arrive. Be your own hero a go home, folks!
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That's the problem with a pandemic. With the 9/11 attack, people all saw the terrible destruction unfolding before their eyes, and they were scared. Yet, the attack claimed only 3,000 lives directly, not including latent deaths due to health problems.

On the other hand, the virus is invisible. Victims lay in hospitals by the tens of thousand. However, people do not see it. The suffering patients do not make noise. When they die, they die quietly, and the bodies are carried away silently for disposal. There's no explosion, no structure tumbling down, no people running for their life. It looks quite OK. Life as usual.

The average person is really not that smart. They need some visual and aural effects for them to understand the severity of the problem.
 
On our local news channel, they reported that there's no reason to be afraid of getting take out food. I couldn't find the item on the channel, but did find it from another source:

Is takeout safe to eat during the coronavirus outbreak? Experts explain.

Dr. Benjamin Chapman, a food safety specialist at North Carolina State University, says there's no evidence coronavirus is transmitted by food or food packaging even if it somehow makes its way into your meal.

"My message around takeout is go ahead and do it. It's a really safe alternative," Chapman said.

The heat from cooking is more likely to kill off the coronavirus, said Dr. Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University. She says there has not been evidence to show the virus is transmitted by eating food.

She also says the risk of contracting COVID-19 through a hot or a even cold meal is extremely low.

"Coronaviruses in general are not stable at high temperatures, so it is highly likely that cooking food will inactivate the virus," Rasmussen said. "Cold foods we don't know how long the virus remains infectious on cold foods, however for things like produce that you would presumably wash prior to eating that should rinse off any virus."

Rasmussen adds if the virus is ingested, our stomach would actually get rid of the virus

"When you eat any kind of food, whether it be hot or cold, that food is going to go straight down into your stomach where there is a high acidity, low P-H environment that also will inactivate the virus," she said.
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Disclaimer: I am biased, as DD has gone from 40 hours per week to just 10, as have many of her co-workers and others in the restaurant industry. It's remarkable really. Their parking lot was regularly packed right before we got our first confirmed cases. I don't hope to influence anyone who is dogmatic in their opinion that restaurant food is too risky. This is just food for thought (pun intended) for anyone on the fence about it. :) I'm not engaging in a debate about this. Continue to avoid all restaurant food, if you feel you must do that.
 
Drove into the wilds of West Virginia to play golf. Our group walked the course, but we noticed them washing down carts after they were returned and before putting them to service, A lot of folks out, social distance in place, slow at times, but not too bad. The round took just over 4 hours. Heard the MD Stay-At-Home order on the drive to the course, so this will be the last golf for me for a while.
 
Looks like people are taking the shelter in place seriously or just avoiding airplanes. TSA checkpoint travel number down over 90% compared to last year.

https://www.tsa.gov/coronavirus/passenger-throughput

Date.........Total Traveler Throughput............Total Traveler Throughput
.............................................................(1 Year Ago - Same Weekday)

3/29/2020_____180,002_______________________2,510,294
3/28/2020_____184,027_______________________2,172,920
3/27/2020_____199,644_______________________2,538,384
 
Viking cancelled our Rhine River Cruise scheduled for June 24th. Should get a full refund in about 30 days per the travel agent. We hope to rebook for 2021.
 
FIREd_2015 said:
Looks like people are taking the shelter in place seriously or just avoiding airplanes. TSA checkpoint travel number down over 90% compared to last year.

https://www.tsa.gov/coronavirus/passenger-throughput

Date.........Total Traveler Throughput............Total Traveler Throughput
.............................................................(1 Year Ago - Same Weekday)

3/29/2020_____180,002_______________________2,510,294
3/28/2020_____184,027_______________________2,172,920
3/27/2020_____199,644_______________________2,538,384
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Wow. That's going to leave a mark!
 
Mine sucks. My family member, an RN in NYC has tested positive for COVID today. She's feeling better and fever has broken, however, they are obviously taking it day by day. Two family members have medical conditions. I had overnighted a box of N95 masks to her last week as her hospital was not supplying any.
 
The governor of AZ has declared a statewide "Stay-at-home" order, to be effective later today. Many mayors have pushed for this order.

It appears to be similar to what happened elsewhere. Restaurants can provide takeout meals. There's a long list of businesses deemed essential. Police will not stop people on the street. It's nowhere as tightly enforced as in Europe, and there's not enough police for that anyway.
 
Some of our friends are not getting takeout. I am the only one that cooks and we are used to eating out twice a week. We are getting takeout and picking it up ourselves. I roll down the window on the passenger side and they drop it in. I bring the right amount of cash which includes bigger than 20% tip. That way no money or cards going back and forth.
 
jollystomper said:
Drove into the wilds of West Virginia to play golf.... so this will be the last golf for me for a while.
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Yup, the governor of WV announced that the state will be requiring that all out-of-state visitors self-quarantine themselves for 14 days and they will be "monitored" by the State Police. They didn't say what, exactly, would happen to those who don't stay quarantined. Evidently that's best left to the imagination, which doesn't involve any troublesome Constitutional issues.

So if you come back apparently the police are going to send you to your room....:) Or something.
 
Just got a call from the water garden outfit that put in our pond. We were scheduled for our annual maintenance (cleaning, checking the liner, etc.) tomorrow. But they apparently fall in the non-essential work category and will be fined if they are caught doing the work. So I need to go out later and do some DIY cleaning as the filter is full of the spring oak leaf drop. No fun. But first I need to take DH to a (non viral) medical appointment. I'll walk the dog while he's inside - will give us a little change of scenery from our usual neighborhood walk.
 
It seems as if Fed Ex has quit delivering in my area. I have been expecting a delivery since last Friday, tracking shows that the item made it to my local Fed Ex delivery center last Friday. For 3 mornings in a row I received an email from Fed Ex saying the delivery is coming that day and then about 1 pm I get a second email from Fed Ex saying that the delivery could not be completed. Is Fed Ex just that over worked or are they going on strike or something?
 
I received a delivery today and the delivery company told me ahead of time what would happen. They put the package outside the door, rang the doorbell and when I answered he asked me from 3 yds away to confirm my name then took a photograph instead of a signature.
 
Stubhub (ticket reseller) has made some fairy major changes in the way payments to sellers and refunds to buyers are going to be handled going forward. I occasionally buy and sell tickets through Stubhub. Today I received an email that states that because of all the cancellations buyers will no longer receive a refund when there is a cancellation, the buyer will just get credit to be used for a future purchase. In the past sellers got paid as soon as the tickets were delivered to the buyer, now because of all the cancellations sellers will only get paid after the event is actually held. Fairly major changes that will make using Stubhub much less attractive.
 
Alan said:
I received a delivery today and the delivery company told me ahead of time what would happen. They put the package outside the door, rang the doorbell and when I answered he asked me from 3 yds away to confirm my name then took a photograph instead of a signature.
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About an hour ago we had a delivery from the pharmacy....he phoned from the driveway, said he was putting the package on the porch, and not to open the door until he'd gone.

A few days ago the same pharmacy wanted a clipboard signature.

Times/conditions change very quickly.
 
I’m not sure if the stomach would get rid of all of the virus, otherwise, why is diarrhea and loose stools a not uncommon symptom? Also, why can viral titers be detected in stool (though not commonly, nor in high quantities)? Presumably the virus is tracking from the upper airway/ nasopharynx, passes through the stomach and survives, and continues on its way causing problems.

We are though ordering takeout regularly (to support mom-n-pops). Hot foods, very heated foods.
 
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