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OT: What changes are you and family making to your lifestyle due to coranavirus?

With the gym closed, it's back to P90X for me. I hate it, but I lost 38 pounds the last time I did it.

As far as the entertainment side goes, there is a new concert video available on Amazon Prime that may appeal to progressive music fans. Search for Big Big Trains Refelectors and you can enjoy 2+ hours of excellent musicianship in the older Genesis neo-prog vein. Very English oriented.
 
storrsroars said:
How many gin and tonics represent an effective dose?
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Actual therapeutic dosage has not yet been established by testing on human subjects. To speed results of human studies, it may be necessary to utilize double strength placebos.

But, if one, 16 ounce glass is good (add sweetener, to taste), then two must be better. If taken to excess (where vomiting has been induced) then it is likely that many of the anticipated positive effects may not be fully realized.

YMMV
 
NC_Uconn_Fan said:
If they close golf courses here, I would then be in panic mode. I play 3 times per week, mostly alone. Thursday and Friday I got my light carry bag and walked, no cart. 75 degrees and sunny, good for the soul.
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That would be pretty crazy. It's easy to social distance in golf and you don't have to pull the flag stick anymore. You could always sneak on the closed courses. You only live once am I right?
 
prankster said:
Chloroquine is effective, apparently. It reduces the effects of Covid 19, and reduces the duration of the disease to 6 days.

It is also being shown to be a preventative, guarding against becoming.infected.

These are "quinine pills". Widely used since the 1940s as anti malarial.

They are prescription only. However, the active ingrediant, quinine, is readily available at grocery stores and liquor stores.

The astingent taste of the quinine is easily mitigated with the addition of a properly prepared sugar serivative. Rum works well, here. Adding some naturally derived vitamine C, such as readily available in limes, can turn this into sort of an Emergen C for Corona virus.

You're welcome!
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The South Koreans combined that pill with zinc and were able to pretty much stop the spread in its tracks.

 
Florida just shut down bars and nightclubs beginning at 5pm today for 30 days. Restaurant limitations as well
 
HCCForever said:
Florida just shut down bars and nightclubs beginning at 5pm today for 30 days. Restaurant limitations as well
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There're a couple of local breweries that open at 4. If they choose to open at all today, I'll cram in whatever business I can give them.
 
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I was thinking about it this morning. What are some things that will change in our world because of this?

1) Cruises. I've never been a fan but they appear to be floating tin petri dishes and I have to think that industry is in for a rough stretch ahead.

2) Movies Theaters. A lot of companies have already begun to bypass new movies into theaters and are making them available to stream online. That has to provide a huge blow to theaters going forward.

3) Prepping. After a couple months of quarantine, you have to imagine most people will have some sort of supply stash in their basements and the stigma of doing so goes away.

4) Physical contact with other people and objects. Handshakes. Opening doors. Grocery cart handles. Staircase railings. Hand sanitizer. I feel like it's going to take some time to be as relaxed about all of that like we were a month ago.
 
My 7 year old nephew who lives in Wilton woke up yesterday with a high fever and a wicked dry cough.

My sister says she has no reason not to suspect it's COVID-19, so she's basically on board with her entire family (husband, three kids between 3-9) to self-quarantine for 3-4 weeks with the assumption that they will all get it/already have it.

I'm a teacher who lives in Norwalk and I've had a dry cough/tight lungs for about 7 days now. Lungs are still a bit tight, but better today than last few days. Overall, I rarely get sick and when I do, it's more of the nagging/annoying kind that doesn't result in a fever or a need to miss work.

With so many cases nearby, any chance I'm fighting a very mild case of COVID-19? Just to be safe, I haven't left my neighborhood since Saturday and I've only gone outside for chores, some lawn work and daily walks around my quiet, spread out residential area.

Paranoid or prudent?
 
Hey Adrien! said:
My 7 year old nephew who lives in Wilton woke up yesterday with a high fever and a wicked dry cough.

My sister says she has no reason not to suspect it's COVID-19, so she's basically on board with her entire family (husband, three kids between 3-9) to self-quarantine for 3-4 weeks with the assumption that they will all get it/already have it.

I'm a teacher who lives in Norwalk and I've had a dry cough/tight lungs for about 7 days now. Lungs are still a bit tight, but better today than last few days. Overall, I rarely get sick and when I do, it's more of the nagging/annoying kind that doesn't result in a fever or a need to miss work.

With so many cases nearby, any chance I'm fighting a very mild case of COVID-19? Just to be safe, I haven't left my neighborhood since Saturday and I've only gone outside for chores, some lawn work and daily walks around my quiet, spread out residential area.

Paranoid or prudent?
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Not paranoid ... any symptoms at all, be as safe as possible and get tested, then do whatever you can to stay away from anyone else.

Good luck, be safe!
 
Hey Adrien! said:
My 7 year old nephew who lives in Wilton woke up yesterday with a high fever and a wicked dry cough.

My sister says she has no reason not to suspect it's COVID-19, so she's basically on board with her entire family (husband, three kids between 3-9) to self-quarantine for 3-4 weeks with the assumption that they will all get it/already have it.

I'm a teacher who lives in Norwalk and I've had a dry cough/tight lungs for about 7 days now. Lungs are still a bit tight, but better today than last few days. Overall, I rarely get sick and when I do, it's more of the nagging/annoying kind that doesn't result in a fever or a need to miss work.

With so many cases nearby, any chance I'm fighting a very mild case of COVID-19? Just to be safe, I haven't left my neighborhood since Saturday and I've only gone outside for chores, some lawn work and daily walks around my quiet, spread out residential area.

Paranoid or prudent?
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If there's even a 1% chance you think you have it stay home. Better safe than sorry
 
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Hey Adrien! said:
My 7 year old nephew who lives in Wilton woke up yesterday with a high fever and a wicked dry cough.

My sister says she has no reason not to suspect it's COVID-19, so she's basically on board with her entire family (husband, three kids between 3-9) to self-quarantine for 3-4 weeks with the assumption that they will all get it/already have it.

I'm a teacher who lives in Norwalk and I've had a dry cough/tight lungs for about 7 days now. Lungs are still a bit tight, but better today than last few days. Overall, I rarely get sick and when I do, it's more of the nagging/annoying kind that doesn't result in a fever or a need to miss work.

With so many cases nearby, any chance I'm fighting a very mild case of COVID-19? Just to be safe, I haven't left my neighborhood since Saturday and I've only gone outside for chores, some lawn work and daily walks around my quiet, spread out residential area.

Paranoid or prudent?
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Not a doctor but it sounds like you have the corona.
 
Deepster said:
I was thinking about it this morning. What are some things that will change in our world because of this?

1) Cruises. I've never been a fan but they appear to be floating tin petri dishes and I have to think that industry is in for a rough stretch ahead.

2) Movies Theaters. A lot of companies have already begun to bypass new movies into theaters and are making them available to stream online. That has to provide a huge blow to theaters going forward.

3) Prepping. After a couple months of quarantine, you have to imagine most people will have some sort of supply stash in their basements and the stigma of doing so goes away.

4) Physical contact with other people and objects. Handshakes. Opening doors. Grocery cart handles. Staircase railings. Hand sanitizer. I feel like it's going to take some time to be as relaxed about all of that like we were a month ago.
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I’m sure there’s more than a few maniac who think this is a PR scheme by Comcast and Ubereats to persuade people to stay home and rent movies.
 
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So far, aside from the obvious impacts, staying home etc.

1. Daughter had SATs cancelled with no notice she showed up and place was locked (with many others). No new tests scheduled. She had been preparing heavily. Now doesn't know when she can take them or what schools we should focus on (assuming we can visit any of them anytime soon). Seems minor but it is extremely stressful for these HS juniors.

2. Good friends have dental practice. They were just told no patients for 3 weeks. That financial hit means they must cancel a two family vacation to Ireland we had planned. So we just cancelled it too. Who knows if we can even travel.

3. Wife's parents are at assisted living. We can't visit them anymore at all. Nor can anyone. They don't let them out of the room at all and drop food off outside their door. So their social interaction is down to zero. Father in law has Alzheimers and it progresses much more rapidly when he isn't out talking to people.

I fear we can expect a huge increase in people who are clinically depressed. A big jump in suicide numbers and domestic violence. And if they don't relax the restrictions soon, violent societal unrest.
 
HuskyHawk said:
So far, aside from the obvious impacts, staying home etc.

1. Daughter had SATs cancelled with no notice she showed up and place was locked (with many others). No new tests scheduled. She had been preparing heavily. Now doesn't know when she can take them or what schools we should focus on (assuming we can visit any of them anytime soon). Seems minor but it is extremely stressful for these HS juniors.

2. Good friends have dental practice. They were just told no patients for 3 weeks. That financial hit means they must cancel a two family vacation to Ireland we had planned. So we just cancelled it too. Who knows if we can even travel.

3. Wife's parents are at assisted living. We can't visit them anymore at all. Nor can anyone. They don't let them out of the room at all and drop food off outside their door. So their social interaction is down to zero. Father in law has Alzheimers and it progresses much more rapidly when he isn't out talking to people.

I fear we can expect a huge increase in people who are clinically depressed. A big jump in suicide numbers and domestic violence. And if they don't relax the restrictions soon, violent societal unrest.
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a family friend who is a dentist isnt accepting teeth cleanings but only doing cavities and that sort of stuff.
 
HuskyHawk said:
So far, aside from the obvious impacts, staying home etc.

1. Daughter had SATs cancelled with no notice she showed up and place was locked (with many others). No new tests scheduled. She had been preparing heavily. Now doesn't know when she can take them or what schools we should focus on (assuming we can visit any of them anytime soon). Seems minor but it is extremely stressful for these HS juniors.

2. Good friends have dental practice. They were just told no patients for 3 weeks. That financial hit means they must cancel a two family vacation to Ireland we had planned. So we just cancelled it too. Who knows if we can even travel.

3. Wife's parents are at assisted living. We can't visit them anymore at all. Nor can anyone. They don't let them out of the room at all and drop food off outside their door. So their social interaction is down to zero. Father in law has Alzheimers and it progresses much more rapidly when he isn't out talking to people.

I fear we can expect a huge increase in people who are clinically depressed. A big jump in suicide numbers and domestic violence. And if they don't relax the restrictions soon, violent societal unrest.
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You won't be going on any college visits anytime soon.

People still don't seem to grasp what's going on here. My buddy told me CT. had 10,000 people apply for unemployment yesterday. During the 2008 recession it was 5,000 a week.

We are so late on this and still not doing the necessary things. The way I see it, we have a choice to make. We continue with half measures and have to be comfortable with dealing with this for like a year, having our health system overrun and have like 500,000 to 1-2 million (mostly old people die) or we shut everything down right now like other countries have already done.

Certain parts of America will be shutting everything down within 48 hours I think.
 
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I feel bad 3 weeks off means no vacation I’m off for 3 weeks probably have to close my business. Different hardships I guess
 
So my wife is a pediatric nurse due back from maternity leave April 19th. With the 12 week old daughter at home we’re strongly considering her not going back rather than risk infecting herself/our daughter and or being mandated at the hospital cutting our daughter off from her mother/food source. These are decisions that health professionals have to be making right now. Absolutely terrifying times.

We’re lucky enough to have enough savings where she could take a few months to find a new job. Our biggest concession would be staying in our starter home an extra couple years
 
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What to do?

Talk of schools shutting down rest of school year which is bad enough but as bad and uncomfortable as that is it can be done and things can go back to normal. Rumors all bars, restaurants, and many other businesses will shut down for 8-9 weeks. These businesses and their employees can't survive if this happens. There's no way the gov't will make them whole, that will be it for them.
 
metsfan2323 said:
I get airlines closing because of the close proximity issue, but why interstates? That seems completely absurd.
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What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
 
polycom said:
Where is the old guy from the 55+ retirement community who said they didn't cancel anything and nothing matters? How are things going? I think we should get a week to week update on the conditions there as this is just all overblown by the media and you have the real info.
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@huskeynut made that boast. Post #62 in this thread. I cringed reading it. Unlike the fools that choose to ride out a hurricane endangering themselves and people who have to rescue them, these fools endanger all of society.
 
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