Coronavirus Covid-19 Is it Affecting You and How?

[Bunnylady]

a volunteer in the CIA was purposely infected with Covid 19 and flew to Wuhan

I just saw a news story about a criminally irresponsible YouTuber having put a name and a face to this story, but the person he names says she has never, ever even tested positive for Coronavirus. Evidently, there is a vague similarity in that she has an association with the military (she's in the Army Reserves) and was actually in China in October, but that's where it ends.

 

[rachels.haven]

My parents in-law lost the lady they were guardian for yesterday as the virus went through her nursing home. They will be going to her funeral, but only 8 other people will be allowed. Hopefully they will stay well. They already visited her as she died. Not a striking example of biosecurity, but a few months ago it would be normal.

 

[Mini Horses]

Goodwill, habitat, DAV...stores all closed. No where to donate things.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Goodwill, habitat, DAV...stores all closed. No where to donate things.

No drop off box's ?

 

[Mini Horses]

Removed. Until --

 

[promiseacres]

How is it affecting me? I'm going crazy feeling like the kids and I are on house arrest and tired of no one knowing nothing about the virus at 6 weeks out when we were told 2 weeks would flatten the curve. Besides the fact that it's another virus, virus are everywhere and we need to be getting some immunity built.
On the other hand my husband ( a tractor mechanic) so still working is worried that if things open to quickly that everyone we know over 65 will die. His grandparents were put in a nursing home 10 days prior to the lockdown... found out that several nurses that work there have been recently tested positive. If they weren't safe with there major lockdown, no visitors, no one allowed to leave, I don't see how continuing a state wide lock down will help anyone at this point. So yep things are a bit tense around here. we do agree that a big garden is a good thing and looking at getting a pig to be raised for butchering. ( a friend will raise it, since we don't really have a set up at this time)

 

[Baymule]

There was an article on Yahoo this morning about killing pigs, meat chickens, cattle and layer hens because of no processing facilities. It was pretty grim. My laptop is on the glitch and had to turn it off. I was going to copy and paste it to this thread, but when I turned my laptop back on, I couldn’t find the article. I guess Yahoo considered it too graphic and disturbing for the public. The article finally said there will be meat shortages in the USA and Canada too. The CEO of Tyson said the food supply is broken. Yeah, we already know, woe to the average consumer.

 

[promiseacres]

A Tyson plant about 35 minutes from us closed a few days ago, they are being blamed for hundreds of cases. Honestly it wasn't that they were open or not taking precautions to get us meat. But their many of their workers are of a particular ethnic group that lives in family groups and haven't been abiding from the government mandates of small groups of only your household. I understand family is important but you really shouldn't be taking the entire family to walmart then over to your extended family for a get together on a weekly basis. But Tyson is at fault.... pigs are already be turned away from processors because they don't have the staff to get them butchered. Farmers are trying to get $ so they can just euthanize them...

 

[Baymule]

Texas is opening back up, cases are still climbing in east Texas. Already we see people without masks, acting like there isn’t a nasty virus out there. There is a Tyson chicken processing plant in Center, Texas about 1 1/2 hours from us that is opening back up next week.

 

[Bunnylady]

Hmmmm. I have one of those 4-foot-deep "inflatable" pools in the back yard; for years, it has had water hyacinths in it and it has been raising tree frogs by the skazillions. Do you reckon I could use it as a fish farm?

The "redneck pond," post-Florence.