Coronavirus - COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #24

[Bravo]

My like button is acting up again. So you all are liked from here on in.

 

[cody22]

My like button is acting up again. So you all are liked from here on in.

........................................moo

 

[MimosaMornings]

I have received emails in the past few days from Hilton and Marriott International with their covid-19 responses. I'm satisfied that they are taking this serious and are stepping up the cleaning and disinfecting of their hotels. I won't hesitate to stay in one of their hotels during the virus. If you are afraid of their pillows, maybe you could bring your own?

MOO

I was in a Hilton property a week ago and watched the cleaning staff. No way would I bring in a pillow and then take it home. They threw the pillows on the floor. Before they vacuumed.

I used to take a clean pillowcase when I traveled and put it on the hotel pillow since I have allergies and the familiar scent helped me to sleep. Not anymore!

 

[Shelby1]

I need all of us....the ones that have been here from day one to the ones that are new today...I have anxiety as do many. I will not go into it.

I need all of us to take a collective deeeeeeep breath. In through the nose....deeeeeep....out through the mouth......phewwwwwwww. ....repeat.........Innnnnnnn.......out................innnnnnn......out............

together. we will be ok.

 

[cody22]

I need all of us....the ones that have been here from day one to the ones that are new today...I have anxiety as do many. I will not go into it.

I need all of us to take a collective deeeeeeep breath. In through the nose....deeeeeep....out through the mouth......phewwwwwwww. ....repeat.........Innnnnnnn.......out................innnnnnn......out............

together. we will be ok.

I feel like I am now watching someone have a baby......moo

 

[JDG]

That’s actually a huge deal. Wow!

Yes, it most certainly is!

Just the other day she stated that she would 'keep calm and carry on' but her advisors have her outta there today.

Her Mother stayed for the bombs but she's skedaddled so it must be extremely risky for everyone.

 

[Trudie]

I always bring my own pillows and towels! I’m one that likes my comforter pulled up to my face. MY comforter, not one that 20 strangers used, lol.

I was in a Hilton property a week ago and watched the cleaning staff. No way would I bring in a pillow and then take it home. They threw the pillows on the floor. Before they vacuumed.

I used to take a clean pillowcase when I traveled and put it on the hotel pillow since I have allergies and the familiar scent helped me to sleep. Not anymore!

 

[Auntie Cipation]

NEW YORK

I’m signing an Executive Order that allows any New Yorker to vote absentee for the Queens Borough President special election on 3/24. It also extends the deadline to apply to vote absentee to 3/23. Previously, only people who are ill or out of county could vote absentee.
Andrew Cuomo on Twitter

STAY HOME, SAVE LIVES

So glad to see this! I hope this turns into a movement for all Americans to have the option to vote by mail. I was astounded to recently learn that it isn't currently the case. I hope this virus will become the impetus for this change.

Good heavens...I sometimes forget that people still have snow on the ground. We were in the high 80s today! As a side note, my kids (18 and 14) have never seen snow!

It's been snowing on and off all day here, and I'm in California.

This morning I got the go-ahead to close our library for two weeks. My boss said that as soon as I got it officially done through the right channels we could go home. I convinced my co-worker to stay with me and keep our normal hours today while we called all of our regular patrons to let them know. Every single patron I called, except my favorite 90-year old, came in immediately to carry out stacks of new books. I carried books to my oldest patron’s house. In five hours, most of our regulars loaded up with about 4 weeks of books, I think (they suspect we will be closed longer).

If we are closed longer, I would like to carry books to our regular patrons. I think it could be done. I would call. They set their returned books out. I exchange them for new books. I Clorox wipe covers and put on the shelves. Does this seem safe? I do not want to bring any harm to my elderly patrons but I worry about them not having access to books, especially large print.

Right. I probably need to quarantine the books for a period of time.

I agree with all the others about what a kind thing you are doing.

Yes, research the timespan CV can survive on paper (pages) and plastic (Brodart coatings and audiobook/dvd cases) and yes wipe the books down when you retrieve them, but then quarantine them for a week or two before putting them on the shelf. At least that's what makes sense to me.

I too am staff in a tiny library, and while my county doesn't have any cases yet, I'm sure it's just a matter of time. I wonder if my county library will direct my branch to close when that happens. If so I might take inspiration from you.

 

[Richmond]

I'm not happy at all about the March 1st plastic bag ban in NYC given the COVID-19 spread.

They enforced it immediately at the grocery stores on March 1st. I have always been fanatic about recycling, and understand the damage to the environment re plastic bags, but I don't want my filthy germ-invested sustainable bags in my laundry mixed w/ my clothing, nor do I want to run a separate load for them. And (Yuk!) I don't want to wash them by hand either!

Won't the ban on plastic bags at the supermarkets, box stores, etc spread transmission of the virus quicker than the use of plastic bags, or am I making much ado out of nothing?

Do they have no paper bags that can be recycled? We have a choice of plastic or paper at our markets here.

 

[MimosaMornings]

Community rallying around Cave Spring principal and wife now hospitalized with COVID-19 | Hometown Headlines

This is the community aquired case from Church.
Liberty Square Church in Cartersville Ga.
MOO
Or
"The Church at Liberty Square"
If you Google it.
There were over 1000 exposed during Church service March 1st.

Home

Thanks @gngr~snap
A lot of hugging and handshaking perhaps. Sounds like all it takes is for someone to breathe on you.
Wonder how it got there. Quite a ways out there from the big city,

 

[Gardener1850]

I should clean my house but I'm not going to. I will be knitting and if the snow ever goes away, walking the dogs.

Ooh, knitting. That's a good idea. I have all my late grandmother's knitting supplies (needles and yarn) but have not learned how to knit yet. I do know how to crochet. Maybe I will try to make some masks like this:

 

[Shelby1]

I feel like I am now watching someone have a baby......moo

LOL

I'm sorry.....I do have anxiety and thought that maybe some here do too. I've been super calm until today and ..well it's just been unsettling to sum it up.

Carry on and ignore my post I was just trying to help a bit

 

[cody22]

PommyMommy's here !...Let the party begin !!!....................moo

 

[gngr~snap]

Thanks @gngr~snap
A lot of hugging and handshaking perhaps. Sounds like all it takes is for someone to breathe on you.
Wonder how it got there. Quite a ways out there from the big city,

Someone had just returned from Italy, so the rumor mill says. Also that it spread via the choir.
Moo

 

[cody22]

LOL

I'm sorry.....I do have anxiety and thought that maybe some here do too. I've been super calm until today and ..well it's just been unsettling to sum it up.

Carry on and ignore my post I was just trying to help a bit

Nope.......You did good. That was a wonderful post.....moo

 

[Bravo]

Quiet around my City. Folks are only going out to pick up grocery and gas up. Gas is down to 99 cents a litre. Very low. Tomorrow late aft. to be in the 50's and sun so I will go to the park and walk the path. No cases here yet that we are aware of. Getting close. An hour and a bit is closest cases. The watching and waiting is tough for all. My 83 yr. old MIL is doing well and we do all her grocery etc. Told her to have large lists and we will get what we can. Want to cut down on trips. Thankfully we got her talked into online banking as that involved paying a bill the day it came in prior. Many trips to the bank at that time lol.

 

[Henry2326]

The statistics demonstrate that it isn't.

Really?? They all have parents and grandparents that they will go see next week when they go home because they are not going back to school....so they take it home to them...
And that is a tried and true statistic with this virus. There is significant statistics around familial infection.

 

[Deleted member 158085]

Thanks @gngr~snap
A lot of hugging and handshaking perhaps. Sounds like all it takes is for someone to breathe on you.
Wonder how it got there. Quite a ways out there from the big city,

I wonder if the sign of peace in Catholic mass will become something of the past that another generation won’t understand the meaning of anymore than they currently understand how to dial an old fashioned phone.

 

[Bravo]

No worries Shelby, cody22 likes to keep us laughing. Much needed.

 

[Chelly]

Yes, a dry cough

If you haven't talked with doctor, call your local DOH (dept of health)