Novel Coronavirus impacts

The governor just addressed the state this afternoon.  He said something about locking down all elder care facilities for visits in the state with the exception for end-of-life.  Not sure what he means or if my Dad is close enough to what ever definition they have for the term.  I'm going to wait at least a day so the admin where he lives can digest what they think it means before I ask to visit.  I'll also message the Hospice company and ask them too.
I do not want to jeopardize anyone else at the facility, but with precautions, I would think I should be able to visit him. 

Also hear the governor says everyone 65 and older needs to self isolate, not leave home.  Not sure if that's a mandate or suggestion.  My brother has a daughter in the military.  She called home to tell my brother that all active military are restricted to local area only.  No traveling outside the local area.  I wonder what THAT'S about?

https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/2112575/dod-officials-explain-new-coronavirus-domestic-travel-restrictions/

Thanks to those who PM'd me.  Great fellowship with NCKA! 

How my wife and I are responding to this pandemic:

Linda and I have decided to close our restaurants to
dine-in customers, and limit our business to curbside pickup and delivery only. We are aiming for zero staff-customer contact. We do this to protect our community as well as our staff. We will be operating at a loss, but we shouldn’t need to lay off employees for the time being. We are the first restaurant to take this action in our town and we understand that we may be label as alarmists.

Additionally, we have offered our tenants rent relief for the next three months.

We have also informed my parents that they will not be able to see their grandson in person for a while. I will also be doing their grocery shopping for them and a few other community members who are over 65. We do this for them. We do this out of love for our community and our families.

We are all In this together, and we have the power to reduce the mortality of this pandemic if we act now.

     I hope your temporary business model thrives in this new economy...takes courage...power to you!
     As long as people keep calling for kids haircuts I'll be cleaning like a boss.  Removed all the toys, reminding people to reschedule if they sense a lick of sick, and I purchased a UVC lamp that runs at 254nm that will run on a timer for 1 hour each night for an experiment in sterilization without creating ozone.  Hope on a microscopic level the bugs get evicted...

 
Also hear the governor says everyone 65 and older needs to self isolate, not leave home.  Not sure if that's a mandate or suggestion.  My brother has a daughter in the military.  She called home to tell my brother that all active military are restricted to local area only.  No traveling outside the local area.  I wonder what THAT'S about?

https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/2112575/dod-officials-explain-new-coronavirus-domestic-travel-restrictions/

Thanks to those who PM'd me.  Great fellowship with NCKA!

My Dad was looking forward to camping berryessa even if it meant social distancing. I think i will have to reconsider. He is 79.

My niece and her husband ( both military ) were getting ready to move and they were both confined to their local area before they were able to move. They lost their deposit and months rent. Hope she is able to find some type of reimbursement for her loss. They are a young family with a child and a new addition on the way.

Alex

I’m in Yuma AZ for the winter. Bought a house here about 18 months ago.  It’s just me, the wife, three dogs and about 150,000 other snowbirds.  At 67, I’m on the young side of this desert getaway. It’s only a matter of time before this area starts seeing the virus and it’s frightening. 

I’ve always been a pretty healthy dude. Most of my hospital time has been putting my body back together after I break it. But this stuff is really scary and based on the age of folks here - our limited medical infrastructure in Yuma - WILL absolutely be overwhelmed. 

We’re also seeing people hoarding in the stores. You can’t get sanitizer, toilet paper, and apparently as of today: bananas. 

I came here for winter kayak bass fishing, hiking, and desert off-roading. But as a pandemic destination... it’s not that great. 

Maybe that’s the next thread we need to start: what’s the perfect location to ride out a pandemic? 
 

PS I wish all the best to each and everyone of you. We’re all on a journey none of us have ever taken before.  We will all have stories to tell on the other side of this thing... and we’ll all need to lend a hand to someone (or need a little help ourselves) to get though it.

Good luck everyone.  I’ll see you on Berryessa in May and Tomales when the tides are right.


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Also hear the governor says everyone 65 and older needs to self isolate, not leave home.  Not sure if that's a mandate or suggestion.  My brother has a daughter in the military.  She called home to tell my brother that all active military are restricted to local area only.  No traveling outside the local area.  I wonder what THAT'S about?

https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/2112575/dod-officials-explain-new-coronavirus-domestic-travel-restrictions/

Thanks to those who PM'd me.  Great fellowship with NCKA!

My Dad was looking forward to camping berryessa even if it meant social distancing. I think i will have to reconsider. He is 79.

My niece and her husband ( both military ) were getting ready to move and they were both confined to their local area before they were able to move. They lost their deposit and months rent. Hope she is able to find some type of reimbursement for her loss. They are a young family with a child and a new addition on the way.

Alex

Drove by Steele Canyon this afternoon visiting friends in the Highlands. There wasnt a single vehicle or person there. Place was a ghost town and aside from the person parked at the entrance booth, I would have assumed that it was closed. I've never seen it that way.

I'm a preschool teacher and as of today I am layed off for a month, maybe more.
Hunkering down.

Is there anyone here that is in the medical field?  I just am having a hard time understanding why the massive shut downs

If this virus is so infectious, why are the numbers of infected so low?  Does anyone here know anyone personally that has this?

I get that these steps are being put in place to flatten the curve so our hospitals are not overwhelmed with patients.  I am not one to buy into conspiracy theories and I do not believe that this is "fake" or under control by any stretch, but this has me wondering what is the truth.

I do know a family in the Redding area that in December had a mysterious virus that the Doctors could not explain that matched the symptoms of coronavirus perfectly (it was ruled out at the time of being any of the known strains of the flu). 

The doctor that treated them also got infected.  Per the family, the Doctor is testing to see if the residual (antibodies) to the coronavirus are evident.  If so, that would mean that the virus was in the US prior to the announced outbreak in China...

Is there anyone here that is in the medical field?  I just am having a hard time understanding why the massive shut downs

If this virus is so infectious, why are the numbers of infected so low?  Does anyone here know anyone personally that has this?

I get that these steps are being put in place to flatten the curve so our hospitals are not overwhelmed with patients.  I am not one to buy into conspiracy theories and I do not believe that this is "fake" or under control by any stretch, but this has me wondering what is the truth.

I use the CDC website  https://www.cdc.gov/

Since we can't test everyone, we really aren't sure what the infection numbers are yet.

I'm gonna do my part and wear snorkel gear in public so my breathing is directed upward and others will feel safe around me...

I'm gonna do my part and wear snorkel gear in public so my breathing is directed upward and others will feel safe around me...

No harmonica in public then ? 

I'll blow that thing by request only, at a decent distance, and share my harmonica only with a few, if all the stores ran out of harmonicas by now and they need to have a musical medication for uplifting their spirit...I could imagine a lot of blues being born right around now...

What about gazoos?

Not to toot my horn, cuz I don’t have one, but I am a pretty good Whistler I get real low on the giddy up mow mow part  so is we good with whistlin?

Not to toot my horn, cuz I don’t have one, but I am a pretty good Whistler I get real low on the giddy up mow mow part  so is we good with whistlin?

There’s a great whistling documentary called “Pucker Up” and it covers 6 professional whistlers in a competition circuit.  I whistle all the time and the stats on personal whistling bringing personal comfort and encouragement are high.  Keep it up and we can blow that tune any day you’re ready, I better learn some songs first on the harmonica before we storm the empty bars, but build that tune and they will come...