Corona virus, what's different for you.

It's not the Soma duals that bother me.

I'm using slightly less I guess during my commutes because I'm not going slightly out of my way to hit the gym because it's closed. But I'm burning slightly more by going to stores further away that are better managed thus better stocked - so I guess it's a wash. But damn I love not stressing over being late for work, since there's no gridlock at the Fort Gordon gate now!

The downside to this: a lot of my customers aren't working, so without them bringing me broken equipment I might be ass out of a job or doing busy work with guys I barely know.

Just got the notice that the county's keeping the stay-at-home order in place until May 3rd. This is in line with a model projection that the maximum load on California's health resources will be around April 26th.

Shit.

hmmm.....sort of a spin on the country song "too much month at the end of the money" I suppose.

Now my wife suddenly got laid out with a bout of nausea. Came on her all of a sudden about 20 minutes ago, she's dizzy and can't even stand up. Doesn't want to go to the doctor.

She's a nursing mother of a seven month old who will not take a bottle.

She doesn't have a fever, cough, shortness of breath, or any other "normal" COVID-19 symptoms. Maybe she just had something bad for breakfast, but this is not normal.

I assume you've called your doctor. If not, do so STAT.

Our doctor left medical practice in December and we've not found a new one yet.

I'm about to call our insurance company's "ask a nurse" triage line.

FYI my wife is a nurse who left practice when the baby was born, and SHE doesn't think she needs to go to the doctor. Still, that's too subjective for my tastes.

There's a cliché that nurses make the worst patients. You may have to overrule her. Could be nothing, but it doesn't hurt to get info from an objective source.

Keep us informed!

Well the "Dial a Nurse" thing basically concluded that she just needed to rest and monitor her symptoms. She took a nap. Now she feels pretty much better. How odd that it came upon her so suddenly though. That was weird.

I still have a tight chest with a slightly worse shortness of breath over the last three weeks. But I've always had that to some little degree, since I'm old and out of shape. It just feels worse lately, probably because of anxiety, paranoia and hypochondria. Not a blessed other symptom. So until I get a fever, I'll just wait and see. Should probably keep busier, so I think about it less.

Dehydration or sugar dip? I've had bouts of wobbliness and feeling sick from both despite not being diabetic. If you've been dashing about and forgotten to drink enough or skipped a meal, it can suddenly sneak up on you.

Those are both certainly possible.

Especially since she's breastfeeding. Glad she's feeling better, but sneak her an extra bottle of water and maybe something sweet during the late morning/early afternoon.

Something that cheered me up. Out on my daily forage for paper towels (no luck, though other items are gradually being restocked, and there are signs all over the stores saying "No More Than Two to a Customer," which means the greedy bastards will get stopped at the register). Just hope they don't get aggressive.

But that's not what cheered me up. On the way, I saw a kid, maybe 12 or 13, dribbling a basketball in an empty driveway, with a camera phone propped against the fence. At first I thought he was making a video, but then I heard the voice coming from his phone. His coach was guiding him so he wouldn't lose his skills (the kid was good).

So I was out looking for chicken because it is hit and miss with the publix and we have 6 within 5 miles. There on the three lane road, in the middle of the three lane road, riding against traffic on the three land road while people swerved to avoid him was a man on a rascal wearing a facemask. So he does not want to catch the COVID, but does not have a problem with being smeared along the road?

In other news of floriduh our governor has finally decided to issue a statewide stay at home order. We are not supposed to go out except for necessary activities. He made sure to mention that religious services are considered necessary activities and excluded from the order.

Oh, and it appears floriduhans are trying to properly distance themselves 6 feet from each other while taking walks at dusk and the dawn so they don't use the sidewalks and spread themselves across the road while wandering about.

Oh, and the golf courses are closed and I have seen people on them with their arms out staring into the sun in the lord take me now pose.

I have a family full of nurses. They are horrible patients. My mom's stubbornness almost killed her because she wouldn't get a pain checked out. Ended up in the hospital with pancreatitis.

I can identify with that. Pancreatitis damn near killed me. I waited waaay too long to get help. I'm not a nurse, though...

what are the symptoms?

Knock yourself out.

I sadly think OF is immune to knockouts for the same reason Homer Simpson is.

This is my 11-year-old grand-niece doing her school work at home in SC.

I fueled up my car at the start of all this 3 weeks ago just in case, and I've barely made a dent in that.

@We Are Borg infected you, sorry. I told the admins to quarantine him, but they didn't listen.

We're cutting back on production because demand is down. They're going to try to employ production lines on a weekly basis so people can file for unemployment benefits on a weekly basis. Nobody being laid off, just furloughed. My job is safe as ever, I just may have a week at home from time to time.

In France, the sale of cigarettes is up about 30%. No, it's not because people are smoking more. It turns out that there was a huge black market on them, and the lockdown has pretty much dried up that business. There is a huge amount of tax on them here, to try to dissuade people from smoking and also to allow the state to recuperate some of the immense amounts of money that health-care costs because of smoking. But not all countries have that much tax on them. (I guess they cost about $10 a pack here, or a bit more; no idea how that compares to the States.) So people buy them elsewhere by the truckload and resell them on the black market. Now, you can't pull off those kinds of transactions as easily.

I wonder what that's doing to the availability of illegal drugs?

Well, the government just declared cannabis shops non essential (although the liquor stores still are), so the black market there is back in business. Our lockdown is still kind of ambiguous... groceries are still open, as are most convenience stores (generally the only legal retailers for tobacco, now that i think about it). Compliance is still mostly voluntary, but police have discretionary powers to fine people for not "distancing"... For now they seem to be laid back about it. Prices are pretty low for pot these days... like 25-40% cheaper than when I was in college, 25+ years ago.

I don't know how this has effected harder drug communities... My after hours/off grid bar is closed though, and there's a small but regular amount of trafficking there. The supervised injection sites are still up and running though...

This is going to present another hurdle for public health here-especially as the provincial government defunded a big part of the harm reductions budget that cities rely on last year-a lot of club drug users are going to be without by the end of the month with no resupply.

wouldn't it be funny if snorting cocaine killed the virus in the sinuses and was a way to fight the virus?

I am making no claim that is the case and snorting would probably spread the virus anyway.

We take a walk every afternoon so we don't turn into potatoes. The idea is to just cross the street if someone is walking the other way. Everybody is friendly and cooperative about it. Yesterday tho, the neighborhood was pretty crowded, with a shitload of people out for a Saturday walk. In one walk we had about three instances of people on BOTH sides of the road, so we had to walk up the middle. I think we had to cross about a dozen times during a 40 minutes walk. I'm thinking, we're going to survive the plague, but get killed by a car!