Corona virus, what's different for you.

Yeah, but you're all still breathing each other's air. I know the virus isn't airborne (unless it's in a plane! HA! ), but that's still a closed environment to be trapped in.

Talked to Mom yesterday. My sister does her shopping and gets her meds for her. They've taken to staying 6 feet apart, and my sister sanitizes everything she touches. Like I said, Mom's the poster child for a victim of this shit, being a shut-in 89-year-old with severe COPD. And now I'm worried about my sister getting it and being unable to take care of Mom. I don't WTF we'd do about that!

That is debatable. In a strict sense, it is true: the virus is not airborne, in the sense of being able to survive when it is not protected by a fluid or, better yet, by a cell.

Nevertheless, the micro-droplets of saliva that people make when they talk, and even more when they cough, are quite enough to carry the virus. Normally, simple breathing won't do it, but there is a reason for which the health experts recommend staying six feet apart. And even at that, don't let anyone cough (or worse yet, sneeze) in your direction.

Interestingly enough, the virus is not communicated, apparently (from what I'm reading; I have not done and am not about to do any tests along these lines) by blood contact. It has to be breathed in, in most cases.

You can't get it by eating food that has the virus in it, either. The digestive system will destroy the virus. But that doesn't mean no precautions are necessary concerning food. Odors are nothing other than microscopic amounts of a substance that are airborne. So if your steak has been contaminated by the virus, you can chew it up and swallow it down without risk, and still be contaminated from smelling it!

For now, there is only one known and sure protection from covid-19: keep away from anyone who has it, and any traces they might have left behind (such as on surfaces they touched -- if you touch them soon enough afterward, then get your hands near your nose, you can get it that way). And just in case, sanitize your hands regularly, with soap and disinfectant, especially after having been out in public.

Now that you are talking sensibly, which is nice, I can continue.

The reason it may not be transmissible by blood is that the blood would also include antibodies which might jump start the immune system of the recipient and confront the virus. One of the things that I have been hearing is some immunity can be transferred by plasma. That may be a method to help combat some cases of the disease.

Thank you for posting some decent data rather than your previous ravings.

I’m working from home all this week now (tomorrow onward that is) because I woke up with a stuffy nose today.

No cough, no fever.

Better safe than sorry.

that's the joke. And the Mike Tyson joke was Mike speaks with a lisp.

You know it's bad when the old fella schools you on humor.

2 glen danzigs = 3 oldfellas?

because if that went over his head...

I learned about a new food product....cranberry beans! I went to Food Lion (I've already made several trips in my car today so I went to the nearest grocery store) and they had everything on my list except for pinto beans. They had navy beans and "cranberry beans" on the shelf. I used to eat whole boiled cranberries because they grew them in Wisconsin and cranberry plants/cranberries don't grow from beans. I left the Food Lion sans beans and I'll try Publix on my way home from work tomorrow. Anyway I googled cranberry beans:

https://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-cranberry-beans.htm#didyouknowout

noticed this for a while:

Walk outside. It's quiet. At least here in the sunny south birds are singing. Families are out for walks. People are starting to relearn that life isn't a constant trip to the store. Lovers are screaming in the distance.

We're going to have an epidemic of babies in about 9 months. Too bad it will coincide with an uptick in corona infections.

In some alternate universe, those babies might be immune.

And all the babies will be named either Charmin or Scott.

Something I definitely notice, living under the approach pattern to both Newark and Teterboro airports, is a definite reduction in air traffic! An occasional private plane, and an occasional jumbo go over. Occasionally.

Oculus had a load of deals on "go outdoors from the indoors" apps like VR Fishing and Wander. The fishing app is nice and tranquil with some good locations to just chill.

Wander basically lets you use Google Street View in VR. I might visit Dayton's house! Street view can be a bit out of date though - viewed my estate and there was some fucker parked on my driveway!! Then looked down the street and saw my old car from 2009-2010 was parked outside the house I USED to rent before buying my current lodgings in Jan 2011...

Watching half the people in my neighborhood walking around wearing masks. First of all, where did you manage to find them when there are shortages? Secondly, masks are for people who are either sick or caring for a sick person, in which case stay the fuck at home! If you're healthy and using a mask as some sort of fashion statement, you're overheating your nasal passages and increasing your likelihood of infection.

Idiots...

Masks prevent you from spewing droplets of saliva or mucous, so if you're carrying the virus but are not symptomatic, it's a reasonable precaution.

I see lots of people wearing masks in the Halal markets where I shop. A much greater percentage than anywhere else in town that I go.

Unless you're actively spitting on people, I'd imagine six feet of distance would be sufficient.

Speaking of actively spitting, a security cam in Lancaster, CA caught an Amazon deliveryman spitting on a customer's parcel.

OTOH, people don't give you shit if you're out walking a dog, so this is the best time to get one!

My dog's been getting longer walks that usual since I have nothing else to do. He's also been getting more table scraps that usual since I'm here to actually cook so he'll probably be fatter than me when this is all over

Somehow, my stepfather managed to get some N95 masks through his job as a bus driver and my mom was trying to send me some. Yanno, through the mail in a cardboard box that soaks up the virus like a sponge

And this on a FB post where I was SPECIFICALLY asking ppl with spare masks to donate them to their local hospitals that actually need them

Last week, I bought my dog enough food to last for about 3 months. It was canned food, cost me about $20 plus tax. I bought 16 of the small cans, and 8 of the large cans. I mix half of a small can with the same amount of dry food, it's all he needs for one day. The dry I got for free from taking him to get his vaccinations. I get him 4Health which is a pretty good brand.

Need to be aware of the packaging that anything comes in. Should be disposed of before it ever enters a home if at all possible.

I believe plastic is worse than cardboard, no?

You can spray Lysol on most plastics

thanks for sharing that! Now all the hoarders will go after Lysol.

After CA passed a law requiring reusable bags, guess what? Many stores are now refusing to use them, so you get the store's paper or plastic. Which, of course, you as the consumer have to pay for. (It's only 10 cents per bag, but the friggin' manufacturers are high-fiving themselves, and we'll have more floating trash on the streets and beaches and oceans when this is over.)

At the Dollar General by my house, I found 10-12 bottles of Windex Disinfectant spray, everything else was gone. Joke's on the hoarders though, the active disinfectant in it is at top for the amount of time needed to kill the virus (around 30 seconds). I wound up buying all the ones they had and distributed them to people I work with. Pretty funny that people passed that one over and bought ones that take longer to kill the virus.