Coronavirus Covid-19 Is it Affecting You and How?

[Beekissed]

Well....in light of that news flash, folks will be dumping their stash of TP any day now, so now's a good time to get in on the market while it's low.

 

[Coolbreeze89]

My sister is in Conroe and the stores are out of everything. The stores are a zoo of upset angry people. In 2005, when hurricane Rita was aimed at Houston and people evacuated, we lived in Livingston, 75-ish miles north of Houston. A normal 1-2 hour trip took 28 hours, people ran out of gas as they got to our and every other small town around Houston. We opened our schools and churches to shelter people. Things got out of control at the Junior High and people destroyed it, even smearing feces on the walls. It took 2 weeks to repair the damage and sanitize the school before it could open up to students. It was a real eye opener for me. I vowed to get out and away from fleeing people in a blind panic and we did. Most people were grateful to have shelter, but some were horrible examples of humanity.

Normal, rational people under normal circumstances can go to pieces when things are no longer their version of normal.

So, so true! I worked in Katy during Rita: cars just sat on I-10 for hours... I remember how terrible it was after Katrina, too: so many people were nothing but appreciative, but there were also many people who just completely ceased to behave with any rationality.

Clearly, I agree with you: I’m THRILLED to now live in a town of 400.....miles from that density of insanity.

 

[Ridgetop]

BEEKISSED:
Laughed SO hard I started coughing! Covid?

SIMPLETERRIER: I wonder how many of the people currently freaking out have actually had a mild case of Corona. The symptoms are like a mild flu or cold for healthy people. DH and I are wondering now if we actually caught it on our cruise. When we came back DH had a fever 2 days later, we both had mild coughs, and what I thought was an incipient mild cold. I had a few hours of chills but no fever. But DS2 and future DIL both ran 103.5 fevers for a day or 2 and had bad coughs about 4 days later. Based on the incubation time though, we must have all gotten it around the same time, maybe before we left. I saw on the news that there have been no confirmed cases of the virus in healthy children under the age of 10. However, children with health issues and undergoing chemo are at high risk due to their lowered immune systems.

DS! and I almost convinced 9 year old grandson that the Covid virus could infect a computer and transmit to him through his keyboard when playing games! Unfortunately, his dad is a computer guy with a PhD in computers. GS2 start explaining exactly what a computer virus is and how it works. The joke was on us!

 

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[Jesusfreak101]

That tree would make a mess every time it rained or was windy. Lol no toilet paper seeds for my garden lol

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Toilet paper seeds @Beekissed

 

[thistlebloom]

I saw on the CDC map the other day that the only two states that had no reported cases were WV and ID. (no longer the case)
My neighbor told me that a comment on the local FB group said of course there were no reported cases in ID. We don't go to the doctor!

 

[Beekissed]

I saw on the CDC map the other day that the only two states that had no reported cases were WV and ID. (no longer the case)
My neighbor told me that a comment on the local FB group said of course there were no reported cases in ID. We don't go to the doctor!

Same here....but we beat you out, Thistle....ID now has a reported case. Last state standing and the memes about it are hilarious! No worries, they'll have to include us, just to show it's nationwide, even if it's not.

 

[secuono]

No bothers for me.
Husband works, so he's got some annoyances & obsessed with sanitizers.

We buy tp & paper rolls(husband is obsessed with them) online a few packs at a time. So we have enough to last a bit of time.

It was interesting to see cleared sections in a store. I haven't experienced that myself before, as I don't panic shop, no black friday idiocy, not in a natural disaster area & am generally an introvert.
Milk was mostly gone, same with frozen foods, many meats, sugar(wtf??) & fancy icecream mixed section mostly empty.
Breads, TP & sanitizer/bleaches were gone.
Nose tissues and napkins were all there, weird, lol. It's the nose, not the butt, that will be leaking!! Lol
No one was coughing, didn't see any crazy hoarding shoppers. But only 2 registers open and a bunch of customers. Not a ton, but a few more than usual for the time.

I did stop by a walgreens and a 60-70yr old lady was coughing and touching stuff...Was so hard not to show the disgust in my face...I hate it when clearly ill people touch things without actually wanting to buy it...

 

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I am loving watching all of the people freak out over everything. Although because I work at a grocery store I am tired of being asked if we have toilet paper