Corona virus, what's different for you.

No worries, Jenee. I gotta have lorazepam just for a cleaning, and versed for anything else. I fucking HATE people messing with my teeth or my eyes.

OMG, don’t go anywhere near my eyes! I’d consider contacts, but I can’t get near my eyes, either.

Nope, the glasses are just fine!
when I need the drops for dry eyes, I end up wasting 1/4 of the bottle each time by punking myself out and missing my eyeball.

Grownups aren't scared of direct deposit.

Everyone I work with is surprised that two newly hired employees are going to be gone for at least a week. I can’t help but notice that they’re a couple and that it takes about a week to get your coronavirus test results ...

My cousin's daughter and her husband tested positive. 10 days in quarantine and they still aren't showing symptoms. Hopefully, their three young daughters won't have to take the painful test.

Work is down to just a few weeks' worth of gloves, with no certainty we'll be able to get more in time to avoid having to suspend operations.

We aren't the most essential industry ever, but we do kinda need gloves . . .

I don't know if someone knows something I don't, but there has been another run on the grocery stores locally. The shelves weren't even this bare back in March.

I messaged his daughter a couple of days ago and she said he's doing much better now, but that the virus had really kicked his ass for a while.

I don't know if he was a virus-denier (his politics indicate that he might've been) but I bet he isn't one now.

It's been a tough choice, but we have decided that even though he has no underlying health issues, Mini-Elwood will not be going to "regular" school at least for this first semester. His mother and I are working with our respective employers to reduce our hours, and thus reduce our pay and standard of living during this.

He's simply to young too be left at home alone, much less being left alone to do his school work. So, that means something has to give.

A friend of mine is the primary caregiver of her 7-year-old niece, and I've told her anything I can do to help her keep her niece home, I'll be happy to do. Nobody should be having to send their kids to school right now.

I've told my 88-year-old mother that I'm not going home for Christmas because the risks of the virus are just too high. Even if the virus doesn't get her, old age might, so I may never see her again, but I'd rather not take any chances.

^Same here with Mom. She just turned 90, has severe COPD, can barely walk with a walker due to arthritic feet, and is practically folded in half by three back injures. Not that I can even find a direct flight from NJ to SC at the moment, but she told me to stay home. If she gets a further respiratory disease, she's done. There's a real chance I'll never see her alive again.

My former job is hiring for the position I was working. Fuckers didn’t even bother to call me to see if I wanted to come back. I worked there three years and didn’t call out once. Fuck em’.

Typical. My company was considered "essential" but with the fear of Covid business was nothing like it usually was. I would have made far more money going on unemployment, which is sad.

Hope you find something else.

I already found something making more money, but no health insurance. Still, fuck em’ for not even trying to contact me after the chef saying how much he “loves” me and how much of a good worker I am and how if I needed anything, let him know. Prick. I’d tell him to go fuck himself if I didn’t need him for a reference.

You're not still drawing unemployment, so they don't care. If you were still on unemployment they would have called you because bringing you back would have lowered their unemployment insurance rates (not that those are particularly high to begin with, but that's another story). Of course, if they'd have offered you your old job back at reduced pay and you refused to come back, then you'd have lost your unemployment payments.

They’re now willing to pay the rate I was trying to get just before this all started. Fuck em’.

But that's probably not what they would have offered you to come back. You'd have gotten less. Possibly even less than you were making before.

Probably.

Good news, even though J's roommate was positive for Covid19, J was quarantined from work for 10 days and his test came back negative. K also had himself tested, he came back negative as well.

My 16 year old is experiencing symptoms starting this morning. My older son can’t go back to work this afternoon. We’re trying to find places to get tested now.

Just got back from testing. They said we'd have results in 3 to 7 days. But, other people have said they've had their results within 24 hours. I didn't ask where they got their tests, but went to a drive up tent set up at the high school.

On Sunday, they closed one of the stores I go to for remodeling. It re-opened on Thursday, even though the store wasn't finished (still things to be put up, the shelves are empty in some aisles, etc.) and I went in to get a couple of things, noticed a few changes, but since the store was empty, I couldn't really get a "feel" for how things were.

Today, I went back in the store and noticed a couple of things. The first was that I saw a customer from behind and thought, "Hey, she's got a nice figure" then she turned around and I thought, "Whoa! No mask! Not interested anymore!" The next thing that I realized, and you couldn't really tell this when 90% of the shelves were empty, is that the aisles are now closer together! Brilliant idea, ain't it? Remodeling a store in the middle of a pandemic and changing the characteristics of the store so that it's more likely to spread the virus!

As a store owner your shelfspace becomes your potential profit. You want to maximize it so you can present the most product. Your remodeling can last a decade, but COVID is probably going to have a cure in a year. Limiting ten years worth of profit over a year where people can just stay further apart from each other if they are afraid is a different issue for the owner who is spending right now.

I have not seen any stores around here start removing their shelving to add space for people to walk. They just put a little sticker on the floor indicating a direction to walk which no one obeys anyway.

My girlfriend said one of her friends tested positive and had to be put on ventilator. His oxygen level's 89

One of my photographers tested positive last week. His wife had tested positive a couple of weeks ago, so it was somewhat expected that he eventually would too.

I don't know if he's asymptomatic or not, just that he's got it and will continue working remotely until he's cleared. He hasn't been in contact with anyone from the office for several weeks. I personally haven't seen him since late May.

Well ..., the 16 year old tested positive. My older son and I both tested negative, but, will probably be positive by the end of the quarentine....

This was over on the east side of Atlanta, if you know the area, this was in the Tucker/Stone Mountain area.

Was walking up to a store. There was a younger guy out in front, looked to be in his early to mid twenties. He started coughing, then sort of fell and leaned against the wall against the sidewalk. Then he started hacking up phlegm, by then he was on his hands and knees. He then started puking, a bit after that he was pretty much face down in his puke.

From the time he started coughing until he was face down in puke, took about 30 maybe 40 seconds.

And no, I didn't approach him or try to help him. I'm not exposing myself to that directly. And if he is Covid-19 positive, and that bad he shouldn't be out shopping.

I did let the management and asset protection people know, in case he decided to come in. They did pull him up on their video cameras. By the time I left, maybe 8-10 minutes later, he had been picked up by someone in a car.

Good news: he's back shooting in the field again today. I'm assuming that means he tested negative and was allowed to get back to working again.