I enjoy you talking about your son, he sounds like quite the kiddo. It brings back memories.
Thanks Brother. Best days of my life, with this Little Wolf.
Sister works for an airline, she is on unpaid leave for a month. She does not game and finished binge watching all the shows she wanted.
She is ready to go crazy! :D
Jesus, thank God for gaming at a time like this. My little guy is getting good at PS4, so that provides us with some added entertainment for him, for sure. And a reprieve for me to geek out too.
Thanks for asking Blind Owl.
My pleasure Brother.
My Wife and I have been informed that we are essential so no shelter in place for us.
Stay safe. To everyone out there keeping things functioning, stay safe. You are appreciated.
My partner is a registered nurse at one of the biggest hospitals in the region. She's part of the Covid19 education team and has been updating hospital staff about the latest developments and safety protocols. Although she's in an administrative/education role, she will probably get rotated to the front lines if the situation worsens. If it gets really bad, the chances of her getting infected are very high. As we're living together, I'll probably get it too but that's a risk I'm willing to make. I'm on the wrong side of 30 but I'm relatively healthy, don't smoke, and don't really have any underlying health issues. In the meantime there's not much I can do but provide companionship and healthy meals when she gets home.
I've been tracking your story, and can relate. My wife is at KGH in Kingston, and she's scared. They know, about the shortages, the lack of PPE, about whats coming because people won't smarten up. Kudos to you for supporting her. I hold my wife daily after she gets home. The exhaustion, the fear, the stress . . .they need an outlet for that. That's where we come in.
Thanks for your concern. My very Best Wishes to you and your family.
---- Please give my Best Wishes to @CrudeSasquatch and his family.
Shall do my friend. Thank you.
If I can manage to get my home delivery of food restored I will be fine. (Been getting food delivered for 2 years)
I pray that those amenities (necessities?) keep functioning for you Cosmic. Stay safe old boy.
So glad you're back home with the family @Blind Owl , being deployed at this time would be really hard.
Thank you. I can't imagine being over seas still, with this shit hitting home. My God.
We're ok here - Australia is going a little crazy locking down before the number of cases becomes overwhelming; understandable really.
100% understandable. Kudos for your country doing what needs to be done.
Nurse in a primary care physician/ Nurse Practitioner office. We are running out of test kits to test for flu/Covid-19, no clue when more are coming, so all staff are on 50% hours, as we are suspending normal well visits, and only seeing acute patients.
Stay safe. You are the front line. All the respect in the world for you and what you're doing at this time.
My gym is closed, can't work out, the outside air is too cold for me to run without coughing so hard I can't breathe, and I gained 3lbs. Splurged a bit, and burned some savings to buy 2 treadmills so we can run inside.
Otherwise, the wife and I are holding up ok.
Treadmill is brilliant. Exercise is definitely a good stress reducer. Smart getting yourself setup. I have home weights and rural highways to run. Tomorrow I'm going to beast my wifey so she can burn off some aggression that's built up from this last set she just finished at the hospital. She needs the outlet.
But on a serious note - having been in school and unable to isolate myself from hundreds of kids and teachers for an extra week, I've now got a dry chesty cough. Hey ho. So self isolating for 7 days min. On the up side, have star citizen, call of duty, a load of blu rays I have not watched and a fantastic hifi system so I should be OK!!!
I pray you don't much more than you are already feeling. Keep us posted, and hopefully we can help if you require anything.
Stay safe everyone, and please stay home - this virus spreads and kills by not staying home!!
Amen to this. Most of all, amen to this. STAY HOME!
As far as the illness is concerned it only hit home that it might be really serious this weekend with the shutdown of pubs and restaurants. I live in the countryside and people are carrying on as normal. My work (delivering specialist vehicles) takes me all over the country including London and people are acting differently in the big cities. The traffic has been very light all week, Monday Morning and Friday evening had no rush hour.
Yeah, it's quite eerie. I drove my dad to the airport in Toronto yesterday, and the highways there, while not clear, were definitely the emptiest I've ever seen.
My wife and I both work in healthcare. She has been pulled to staff her large hospital system's CV command center and is working crazy hours. I've been off with the kids for spring break this last week, but back to work on Monday for me. Kids start online classes Monday since their schools are closed for at least another 3 weeks.
Good for her, and you. Take care of each other, things are going to be crazy for a while.
Just a quick PSA: most of us could weather CV at home without any medical intervention. Self-limiting social contact is to help slow/stop the spread to our vulnerable family and friends and make sure there are enough hospital beds to take care of those truly in need. Stay home if you can. Support your local small businesses by ordering from them as much as possible--they are really struggling right now.
Amen to this. Buy local, limit your trips, and stay the fuck away from other people, even friends and family.
I'm doing alright. My wife tracked the progress back when it was in China and she thought it might spread farther, so she did supply stocking up before the crowds hit the stores. Just did a secondary trip yesterday and we're pretty much set.
Smart lady. You're a lucky man.
She's immune compromised so it'd be really bad if either of us got it. But as a truck driver I gotta keep on rollin. So going to work every day like normal has kept me fine mentally from getting bored. Although it's stressing me out a lot about possibly catching it. Luckily I don't interact with too many people.
Keep her safe brother, by staying safe yourself.
Financially we're on the fence. We were trying to pay down some credit cards and work on our credit score to get a loan to make things much easier for ourselves. But with this happening and so many out of work, I don't think banks will be approving too many loans. So we'll just have to see if we can manage on our own.
This is going to hammer a lot of people in the wallet. I pray that you, and everyone, manages the path through this without losing too much.
It's definitely a surreal time we're living in it's definitely hard to tell how things are going to go.
Luckily wife and baby to be are doing just fine, though She is getting a little stir crazy.
Also we finally got our treadmill we ordered before this all had started, so thanks to our past selves for giving us a little something to do.
Though now I'm starting to feel like i'm living in a moon base!
Surreal is one way of saying it. It's freaking crazy eh? Glad your baby and wifey are doing ok though. Smart move getting that treatmill.
