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Post by joetrinsey on Mar 24, 2020 9:49:50 GMT -5
Sadly there is huge precedent for crises like this to coincide with an increase in othering. I hope you don't experience it.
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Post by mln59 on Mar 24, 2020 11:10:11 GMT -5
austin, Texas and travis county likely to be told to shelter-in-place tomorrow. i plan on rioting in the skreets austin under a stay-at-home order until april 13th
that's 20 full days y'all
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Post by preschooler on Mar 24, 2020 12:02:55 GMT -5
I have been eating less, some days much less than usual. I am a touch OCD. Not in the "must keep everything clean sense" (ha ha ha! not at all!) but more in the "able to get locked in to something and lose all sense of time, space, and higher dimensions of the universe" sense. So, for instance, I can sit down at a jigsaw puzzle and, once I start, just *have* to keep finding more pieces that fit. Or, when I start playing a video game, just keep playing it for hours and hours until I realize it's been about 20 hours since I last ate anything. It is this reason why I have been actually eating less. (Both less often and just overall less much.) Our parish priest was in quarantine because he gave last rites to a patient early in the initial outbreak in Kirkland. (Both Life care and Evergreen are in our Parish) Last Sunday was the first Sunday Mass stream since his return. In his sermon he talks about puzzles and puzzling. I did not know that if you get down low the outline of the shapes jump out at you.
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Post by Wolfgang on Mar 24, 2020 17:48:44 GMT -5
I've learned that in the streets and other wide open spaces, people give you a wide berth, more than 6 feet of clearance, and some even going so far as crossing the street to avoid you. However, in indoor spaces, people don't seem to follow social distancing at all. In grocery store aisles, even though there's space to give each other room to walk by, people won't give you that space. (I try to give them space but they just walk right down the middle of the aisle.)
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Post by mikegarrison on Mar 24, 2020 18:00:49 GMT -5
I've learned that in the streets and other wide open spaces, people give you a wide berth, more than 6 feet of clearance, and some even going so far as crossing the street to avoid you. However, in indoor spaces, people don't seem to follow social distancing at all. In grocery store aisles, even though there's space to give each other room to walk by, people won't give you that space. (I try to give them space but they just walk right down the middle of the aisle.) I definitely had someone jump away from me when she thought I was getting too close to her enlarged personal bubble in the grocery story checkout line on Sunday.
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Post by somethinbruin on Mar 24, 2020 18:59:27 GMT -5
These are crazy times. The only thing I haven't been able to find is eggs. I've been to several major food stores, but no luck. We were at UCSB yesterday extracting our student and life was pretty normal there. Neither of my main groceries stores had eggs a few days ago, either. We found some purely by accident in, of all places, a gas station. Their refrigerated section was still well stocked.
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Post by mikegarrison on Mar 24, 2020 19:14:12 GMT -5
These are crazy times. The only thing I haven't been able to find is eggs. I've been to several major food stores, but no luck. We were at UCSB yesterday extracting our student and life was pretty normal there. Neither of my main groceries stores had eggs a few days ago, either. We found some purely by accident in, of all places, a gas station. Their refrigerated section was still well stocked. Plenty of eggs at my store. Even duck eggs, which have been harder to find over the winter because they are seasonal.
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Post by hammer on Mar 24, 2020 19:42:40 GMT -5
Neither of my main groceries stores had eggs a few days ago, either. We found some purely by accident in, of all places, a gas station. Their refrigerated section was still well stocked. Plenty of eggs at my store. Even duck eggs, which have been harder to find over the winter because they are seasonal. We went into lockdown here in Santa Clara County on Monday, March 16. For the next several days eggs were very hard to find. Last Friday I found some at a Safeway, limit one dozen per customer. Now several days later you can find them at most stores, but the limits are still in place.
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Post by Wolfgang on Mar 24, 2020 20:11:31 GMT -5
Plenty of eggs at my store. Even duck eggs, which have been harder to find over the winter because they are seasonal. We went into lockdown here in Santa Clara County on Monday, March 16. For the next several days eggs were very hard to find. Last Friday I found some at a Safeway, limit one dozen per customer. Now several days later you can find them at most stores, but the limits are still in place. I have had no problems with eggs: Costco, 99 Ranch (Chinese chain), Trader Joe's. I think I got to Costco just as the panic buying started so I was able to buy 2 packs (24 eggs/pack). I got milk from Costco and Smart & Final. Veggies and fruit from Sprouts, 99 Ranch, Trader Joe's, Safeway, Smart & Final, and Indian grocery stores (which have been surprisingly light and normal). Bought a bunch of dried fruit from Sprouts, Indian grocery stores, and Trader Joe's. So far, I've been behaving normally. Not panic buying. Just went to the grocery store at the regularly scheduled day/time. Didn't buy more than usual. Same ol' same ol'.
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Post by mikegarrison on Mar 24, 2020 20:18:58 GMT -5
So far, I've been behaving normally. Not panic buying. Just went to the grocery store at the regularly scheduled day/time. Didn't buy more than usual. Same ol' same ol'. Me too. Except I did buy a little more than normal because normally I tend to eat lunch away from home (and sometimes dinner). I've eaten precisely two restaurant meals in the past three weeks now (takeaway), so that means a little more shopping for home cooking. I used to make one big shopping run every month, because the co-op I shop at had a once-a-month 10% discount. But they ended that Jan 1 this year, so I had shifted into a mode of more, smaller trips to the store, usually on my way home from work. Thus, compared to this time last year, I'm actually doing less "stocking up".
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Post by azvb on Mar 24, 2020 23:06:47 GMT -5
I’m having no problem with people getting too close.
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Post by Phaedrus on Mar 25, 2020 13:45:37 GMT -5
I've learned that in the streets and other wide open spaces, people give you a wide berth, more than 6 feet of clearance, and some even going so far as crossing the street to avoid you. However, in indoor spaces, people don't seem to follow social distancing at all. In grocery store aisles, even though there's space to give each other room to walk by, people won't give you that space. (I try to give them space but they just walk right down the middle of the aisle.) I noticed that too. I give people a wide swath when I walk around in my neighborhood, and they do the same with e, but...lookout when we are in the grocery stores.
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Post by joetrinsey on Mar 25, 2020 14:01:57 GMT -5
I've learned that in the streets and other wide open spaces, people give you a wide berth, more than 6 feet of clearance, and some even going so far as crossing the street to avoid you. However, in indoor spaces, people don't seem to follow social distancing at all. In grocery store aisles, even though there's space to give each other room to walk by, people won't give you that space. (I try to give them space but they just walk right down the middle of the aisle.) I noticed that too. I give people a wide swath when I walk around in my neighborhood, and they do the same with e, but...lookout when we are in the grocery stores.
My wife and I go on a few walks a day with our young daughter. It's our newest video game. I try to anticipate the trajectory of other walkers and alter our course as subtly as possible. Bonus points if it can be done while never having to wait to cross the road.
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Post by BearClause on Mar 25, 2020 14:22:37 GMT -5
I've learned that in the streets and other wide open spaces, people give you a wide berth, more than 6 feet of clearance, and some even going so far as crossing the street to avoid you. However, in indoor spaces, people don't seem to follow social distancing at all. In grocery store aisles, even though there's space to give each other room to walk by, people won't give you that space. (I try to give them space but they just walk right down the middle of the aisle.) I noticed that too. I give people a wide swath when I walk around in my neighborhood, and they do the same with e, but...lookout when we are in the grocery stores. It's rather tough. However, at a local Trader Joe's, they've drawn lines six feet apart using sidewalk chalk for those waiting to get in, although a few of them seemed incorrectly spaced. I don't know if that necessarily meets the recommendation of spacing 6 feet apart, but it does something.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2020 14:46:40 GMT -5
Minnesota starts Shelter-in-Place on Friday, through April 10. Bars and restaurants will remain closed (except for takeout) through May 1. Distance learning from March 30 through May 4 (schools already closed).
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