Coronovirus Roll call

Day 8 of isolation.

It turns out I have a few n95 masks.  I must now make a difficult decision.  To look silly in stores wearing a mask or to risk a life threatening illness...

To look silly is a fate worse than death.

I'm just staying inside, no one can laugh at me then

I had over 150 rolls at home so I gave a 24 pack to my friend who was bordering on being out

By gave I mean sold to him at cost. Hey that shit cost me $6!

You are a tyrant!

Quote from: Shifter on March 24, 2020, 05:46:17 PM

I had over 150 rolls at home so I gave a 24 pack to my friend who was bordering on being out

By gave I mean sold to him at cost. Hey that shit cost me $6!

You are a tyrant!

The new world is not for nice guys. Nice guys finish last. You want to get ahead you need to be a selfish bastard.

My wife and I both have to work during this.  Getting to work is easier...no traffic.

Mike

Where I'm at, most people have bought what they need, so the stores are actually restocking and their traffic has slowed down.

There were lines at the grocery stores here yesterday. I did not go to the grocery store, but people posted pictures online. I'm hoping the panic buying is sweeping through and then will settle by next week. I stocked up on most things a couple weeks ago, so I can stay put for awhile.

Okay, I don't want to cause a panic here but civilisation has got about two weeks before it implodes, I just found my significant other looking stunned in the conservatory, she'd just got confirmation that her hairdresser had closed for the duration (all non essential shops closed), she spends almost as much money per month on highlights, lowlights and whatever else they do in there as we do on food, it's more like voodoo than hairstyling. I haven't seen a discernable change in her hair in two years, I mean she looks great but all the time, I have to leave myself coded hints to say how great she looks on hair day otherwise I get the silent treatment.
Me, I leave it until someone (usually her) refuses to be seen in public with me, and I go see the Irishman, people then take an hour or two to recognise me.
Without her fix, and she is not alone in this obsession, I have took to bombarding the women at work with twice weekly exclamations of “ Your hair looks nice” just to safeguard myself from ostracisation, I feel it will all start to unravel.   

Okay, I don't want to cause a panic here but civilisation has got about two weeks before it implodes, I just found my significant other looking stunned in the conservatory, she'd just got confirmation that her hairdresser had closed for the duration (all non essential shops closed), she spends almost as much money per month on highlights, lowlights and whatever else they do in there as we do on food, it's more like voodoo than hairstyling. I haven't seen a discernable change in her hair in two years, I mean she looks great but all the time, I have to leave myself coded hints to say how great she looks on hair day otherwise I get the silent treatment.
Me, I leave it until someone (usually her) refuses to be seen in public with me, and I go see the Irishman, people then take an hour or two to recognise me.
Without her fix, and she is not alone in this obsession, I have took to bombarding the women at work with twice weekly exclamations of “ Your hair looks nice” just to safeguard myself from ostracisation, I feel it will all start to unravel.   

You are lucky to be with a lipstick lesbian. At least she is not wearing a white tee shirt and a cigar  hanging out of her mouth.

Okay, I don't want to cause a panic here but civilisation has got about two weeks before it implodes, I just found my significant other looking stunned in the conservatory, she'd just got confirmation that her hairdresser had closed for the duration (all non essential shops closed), she spends almost as much money per month on highlights, lowlights and whatever else they do in there as we do on food, it's more like voodoo than hairstyling. I haven't seen a discernable change in her hair in two years, I mean she looks great but all the time, I have to leave myself coded hints to say how great she looks on hair day otherwise I get the silent treatment.
Me, I leave it until someone (usually her) refuses to be seen in public with me, and I go see the Irishman, people then take an hour or two to recognise me.
Without her fix, and she is not alone in this obsession, I have took to bombarding the women at work with twice weekly exclamations of “ Your hair looks nice” just to safeguard myself from ostracisation, I feel it will all start to unravel.   

It is a matter of grave concern.  I have a cousin in town where we get all of our haircuts from.  She's very good.  Waxing and the whole shebang.  I believe I can forward messaging to and from your SO to walk her through her complicated hair care routines.  Sort of like talking through someone disarming a bomb or landing an aircraft.

That is beyond kind Crout's, I'm welling up here.

It maybe not enough though, she has many aptitudes but cutting hair isn't one, she volunteered to do mine once, got a fit of the giggles and I ended up looking like I'd dunked my head in a bath full of pirahnas.

Coronovirus Roll call: "All present and correct, Suh!"

I don't know if hairdressers are shut here yet but I'm not going because getting your hair cut isn't really compatible with social distancing but I had been planning on taking the youngest for his first hair cut and now I can't and its an unruly mop. I'm going to have to cut his fringe myself, its getting in his eyes and adorable as he is in hair clips, they don't last long on his head.

Well it's getting closer to home now. One of Mrs. boydster's former co-workers just had a close family member die from the coronavirus. And a week ago, or maybe a few days more than that, our oldest was helping them with their gardening. Which was stupid of him, but he's 21 and therefore invincible in his own mind, so he is biologically obligated to do very stupid things for at least the next handful of years.

My dad has been taken to the hospital

My dad has been taken to the hospital

Give him faripiravin.

My dad has been taken to the hospital

Best wishes.

My dad has been taken to the hospital

Do they think it's the virus?

My dad has been taken to the hospital

I hope he gets better. Sorry Gayer.

My dad has been taken to the hospital

That's not good but about 20% of those infected end up in hospital and most of those recover but still it must be a worrying time.
All the best.

Sorry, Gayer 

My dad has been taken to the hospital

Geez I am so sorry gayer. Everything will work out well though

I have shuttered the doors on all but one business, and that one, though allowed to be open will be dead to the world after middle of next week.

Blowing tons of money on payroll every week, as I have kept everyone's pay the same during their time off. I don't want to be one of those people that throw your employees under the bus the first minute times get tough.

However, if things stay closed longer than a month and the economy stays dead, I may have to lay people off at that point which sucks tremendously.


Also losing my mind as we had someone test positive in the highrise I live in and the one a block over Tuesday. This is the time of year for my seasonal allergies, so I am losing it not knowing if this is just usual allergies or the beginning of the virus I am dealing with.

Not the best of times that is for sure

I have shuttered the doors on all but one business, and that one, though allowed to be open will be dead to the world after middle of next week.

Blowing tons of money on payroll every week, as I have kept everyone's pay the same during their time off. I don't want to be one of those people that throw your employees under the bus the first minute times get tough.

However, if things stay closed longer than a month and the economy stays dead, I may have to lay people off at that point which sucks tremendously.


Also losing my mind as we had someone test positive in the highrise I live in and the one a block over Tuesday. This is the time of year for my seasonal allergies, so I am losing it not knowing if this is just usual allergies or the beginning of the virus I am dealing with.

Not the best of times that is for sure

Take care man!

Don't touch anything with your fingers. Do what I do in elevators and press the buttons with a pen or failing that, your knuckle. People are gross

I have shuttered the doors on all but one business, and that one, though allowed to be open will be dead to the world after middle of next week.

Blowing tons of money on payroll every week, as I have kept everyone's pay the same during their time off. I don't want to be one of those people that throw your employees under the bus the first minute times get tough.

However, if things stay closed longer than a month and the economy stays dead, I may have to lay people off at that point which sucks tremendously.


Also losing my mind as we had someone test positive in the highrise I live in and the one a block over Tuesday. This is the time of year for my seasonal allergies, so I am losing it not knowing if this is just usual allergies or the beginning of the virus I am dealing with.

Not the best of times that is for sure

They can't work from home?

Quote from: Colonel Gaydafi on March 26, 2020, 10:34:29 AM

My dad has been taken to the hospital

Do they think it's the virus?

They think it might be, he's been tested and we're waiting for the results but right now they're treating him for severe pneumonia, on oxygen and antibiotics. He got worse overnight though despite the oxygen so it's worrying.

Quote from: Crouton on March 26, 2020, 03:07:25 PM

Quote from: Colonel Gaydafi on March 26, 2020, 10:34:29 AM

My dad has been taken to the hospital

Do they think it's the virus?

They think it might be, he's been tested and we're waiting for the results but right now they're treating him for severe pneumonia, on oxygen and antibiotics. He got worse overnight though despite the oxygen so it's worrying.

Jesus. I'm sorry to hear that. It must be nerve-racking.

My dad had pneumonia about a week before Corona virus went big in China. He's like a thousand years old. I was worried then. If it was now...

I have shuttered the doors on all but one business, and that one, though allowed to be open will be dead to the world after middle of next week.

Blowing tons of money on payroll every week, as I have kept everyone's pay the same during their time off. I don't want to be one of those people that throw your employees under the bus the first minute times get tough.

However, if things stay closed longer than a month and the economy stays dead, I may have to lay people off at that point which sucks tremendously.


Also losing my mind as we had someone test positive in the highrise I live in and the one a block over Tuesday. This is the time of year for my seasonal allergies, so I am losing it not knowing if this is just usual allergies or the beginning of the virus I am dealing with.

Not the best of times that is for sure

Babybullshit, is this you???

From the other side.

Covid 19 Isolation day 4:

What you notice; Well, after having the wettest winter on record, this week has been glorious, blue skies all week.
Where I live is on the great circle route from Heathrow, Gatwick and other London centric airport to the US, we are also on the incoming flight path for East Midlands and flights to and from Scandinavia to Birmingham, so we get a fair amount of contrails. Not this week, two planes all week so crystal clear cerulean skies, as if nature was saying, “See what it could be like, do I have to make you stop?”.

I got to go out today, the dogs were out of food so I'm allowed to get some in, a trip to the animal feed centre to get three weeks worth of meat, ironic as I don't eat it. Got 20Kg of bird seed, but the little fuckers won't practice social distancing so I have to keep running out and scattering them.

Of course it's no holiday, work may have dried up but all the jobs I ever put off can be done now, so I've been rubbing down the wood tops in the kitchen and oiling them, typing is now agony, the tips of my fingers are raw.

The only other time we're allowed freedom is to walk the dogs, I never realised there were so many,  I swear people are hiring them out to those who don't have them, so I go out at twilight, watched the space station go over the other night and for those who watch the skies, then it's a new moon rising towards Venus, in a clear sky.




Shit phone pic.
 

Might be a shit phone pic but its still beautiful