Coronavirus Covid-19 Is it Affecting You and How?

[promiseacres]

Well EVERYTHING is getting cancelled... even our small 4H's bowling party tomorrow. At this time our church hasn't made any statements. I'm sure they will. Local schools have cancelled for 2,3 weeks starting Monday. I really don't know... guess we'll get extra supplies.. DH and I will be ok, he has 3/4 weeks of PTO and we'll just work on the farm house should he get told to stay home. And we should have time to work horses, ect. There's plenty to do.
I JUST DON'T KNOW!!! there are 4 people in Indiana with it...and it's a pandemic? Seems a bit blown out of proportion.

 

[Beekissed]

You are correct. Look at the number of deaths by flu this year compared to the total deaths by this Corona beer virus.

 

[Baymule]

Oh Bee! That’s just screaming funny!

 

[Baymule]

We went shopping today. The Feed store was good, we got what we needed. Tractor Supply had plenty of dog food, darn! I forgot the pine shavings for the dirty birdies-that would be the Cornish Cross chicks. Phooey. We unloaded, ate lunch and went on safari to Walmart. It was a Zoo. Bare shelves like before a Cat 4 hurricane strikes. Reminded me of home....sniff..sniff.... People were polite, confused-it was easy to tell the non prepped. And no TP, paper towels, but we scored the last three pack of Puffs Kleenex. LOL LOL Everyone seemed to be in good spirits.

Then we went to another grocery store that had bacon and cabbage on sale, plus some other items I wanted. I finally found 100 watt incandescent light bulbs!!!! The heat lamp on the Cornish Cross chicks is too hot, so I needed plain, old fashioned 100 watt light bulbs.

The President has declared a National Emergency. Y’all hunker down. This feels like a bodacious hurricane coming at us.

 

[Baymule]

I just got a text from a friend. She was in a grocery store In Katy, a town close to Houston.

Literally just watched a woman get tazed by police over toilet paper lmao

 

[Ridgetop]

Hopefully, things will calm down as people stop expecting those infected to become zombies and try to eat their brains! Yes it is an epidemic. A pandemic as defined by Webster's simply means of or pertaining to all people, pandemic sounds scarier than epidemic. To me that just means that everyone can catch it, NOT that everyone is going to die of it. To hear the hysterical news reports you would think this was the Black Death and we would have to start burning piles of dead bodies in the streets!

Stay home, stay away from crowds, don't panic. People with severe lung problems, cancer, and other debilitating illnesses that puts them at high risk for all illnesses need to use extreme caution. Others, particularly children and young adults through middle age that are healthy may already have had a mild case that was not diagnosed as Covid but rather as a mild cold. With those mild symptoms they won't have gone to the doctor, and won't have been tested either. My husband called our doctor when we returned from our cruise February 12 and was told that Covid symptoms were heavy coughing and high fever, and that we did not need testing. We had mild cold type symptoms. Now we are hearing about people testing positive with Covid that had no symptoms or mild cold like symptoms. ???? By the way we were on a similar cruise route as the Grand Princess (although not the same ship) that was quarantined off San Francisco!

Shout "Fire" and people run. We need to be careful and prepared, but when you panic you no longer use good sense. People who panic in an emergency are the ones that get hurt and cause injuries to those around them as well.

We will cut the dog's dinner portions by a little just in case, and we can hold up on flushing the ewes until we see how supplies go. Not too many livestock people around here, but then again, not too many hay and feed outlets either.

Oh yes, and I have found a bunch of livestock equipment catalogues that will work as well as the Sears' Roebuck catalogue in a pinch.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

@Ridgetop , I just love a sensible person ....

 

[Bunnylady]

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Our governor declared a state of emergency a few days ago, partly because it makes trying to play this game a crime.

 

[Ridgetop]

Thanks, B & B!

 

[Simpleterrier]

I was just talking to my wife and our whole area had fevers and coughs two weeks ago. So I'm wondering if we all had it already. Guy at work just said two stores are sold out of ammo