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Dad's Holland, Mi. assisted living home had visitor restrictions but the old folks could roam around. They ended up with a case of flu and have locked the patients to their room. He enjoys the activities and socialization and hates being stuck in his room. For several months now I had been planning on going up the middle of April while my sister was taking an Italian vacation. Her vacation is cancelled, I don't know what I'm going to do, I can't see driving 10 hrs to wave through a window, plus I'm scared I could bring something in. I'm not worried, I don't have to be, my wife has enough worry for both of us.

Not that it would be as good as an "in person" visit, but I was wondering if such places might make "video conferencing" available to them, it could help them not feel quite as isolated.

I just got this link in an email related to free ways to keep in touch when needing to practice "social distancing" -

7 free video chat apps to use while you're social distancing

https://www.cnet.com/news/7-free-video-chat-apps-to-use-while-youre-social-distancing/
 
You could have asked. I would have edited the image away.
If not you could have done it that way yourselve.

You can not censor regular news articles. That's something not done.

And if i remember well, that image was in another seperate reaction, so not connected to the news article. I ain't complaining about the image deletion.
Btw, if you didn't know. The image was humor. Everybody knows deficating is something natural and sometimes ends in an 'accident'. It is something totally natural. It was simple humor.
Toiletpaper (also often spoken about here, and memmes placed) is also about deficating. Delete those to then?

If you follow "family friendly" totally strickt then you can immidiaty lock down this total topic for it's subject. As dying sick, weak and elder (grandpa's and grandma's) isn't either family friendly.

Simply delete everything you personally don't like isn't decent. That also isn't 'family friendly'.
You should have asked. That would be decent. I said what i had to say, so for me it's finished.

Beest, I know you feel slighted by your post being deleted, but the truth is the forum is private property. The moderators can delete anything and everything they want whether it makes sense to you or anyone else. Arguing with them will not change their mind and could end badly for you. Let it go.
 
Anyone else see this coming?
 

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My state of RI has 23 cases, but only one required hospitalization and zero deaths reported. With a population of over one million here, that means one person in 45,000 or so has a confirmed case.

Because of this "pandemic" of 23 people, they have shut down most of the state. No school, no day care, no events over 25 people, no dining in at restaurants and so on. Plus, the powers that be are practically telling us to sit at home for a few weeks. Really? Even if I had the cash available, there aren't enough groceries in the stores for me to buy and be able to hole up for more than a few days. Sorry, not gonna happen.
 
Tim; Surely you understand why. This virus is an unknown. It's completely new to the entire world. There is no vaccine for it, and the learning curve is steep. It's highly infectious, and easily spread.
Are you saying you don't give a hoot?
Does $25 worth of second-rate groceries equal your life, or the life of your parent(s)?

Roger
 
It's not that I don't care, but the numbers are WAY in my favor of not getting it. Not sure what you mean by "second rate" groceries, so I'll ignore that comment. But I have to eat and my girlfriend has to eat. We also have 4 cats to care for every day. Even if I had the ambition and money to buy enough groceries to be able to sit at home for two weeks, they're aren't enough groceries in the stores right now to stock up for that long.

Life goes on and I will not sit and stare at the wall for two weeks (or more) hoping to avoid this "pandemic". If it's my time to go, it's my time to go. As FDR once stated, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
 
At work we can no longer have more than one person in a vehicle. I have to figure out how to get myself plus 6 to our work site everyday. Haha what a joke. They also want us 6 ft apart at all times. Doubt that is going to stop anything.


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It's not that I don't care, but the numbers are WAY in my favor of not getting it. Not sure what you mean by "second rate" groceries, so I'll ignore that comment. But I have to eat and my girlfriend has to eat. We also have 4 cats to care for every day. Even if I had the ambition and money to buy enough groceries to be able to sit at home for two weeks, they're aren't enough groceries in the stores right now to stock up for that long.

Life goes on and I will not sit and stare at the wall for two weeks (or more) hoping to avoid this "pandemic". If it's my time to go, it's my time to go. As FDR once stated, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

You have 4 cats! You're doing better than some folks..
 

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At work we can no longer have more than one person in a vehicle. I have to figure out how to get myself plus 6 to our work site everyday. Haha what a joke. They also want us 6 ft apart at all times. Doubt that is going to stop anything.


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I hope they are planning on disinfecting the vehicle each time before a different person uses it.

I saw this article which makes it seem like people might need extra protection if they are working close to others on a job -

Study: Coronavirus can persist in air for hours and on surfaces for days

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/study-coronavirus-can-persist-in-air-for-hours-and-on-surfaces-for-days/ar-BB11jSTc
 
It's not that I don't care, but the numbers are WAY in my favor of not getting it. Not sure what you mean by "second rate" groceries, so I'll ignore that comment. But I have to eat and my girlfriend has to eat. We also have 4 cats to care for every day. Even if I had the ambition and money to buy enough groceries to be able to sit at home for two weeks, they're aren't enough groceries in the stores right now to stock up for that long.

Life goes on and I will not sit and stare at the wall for two weeks (or more) hoping to avoid this "pandemic". If it's my time to go, it's my time to go. As FDR once stated, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

do note that the numbers are flawed and testing is just getting underway. The long incubation period that seems to still transmit the virus also provides a great lag in reported cases. And that's just that only reported cases, most cases go unreported as younger people seem less affected. Its not about you taking a trip to the grave, rather its the 70 year old that has been having some minor health issues, or someone with an immune deficiency disease. Yes we will never stop it but we do need to slow it down or it could end up like the Spanish flu or something like that. best case scenario is this is all for nothing, and I would be ok with that.

Now if you wanna argue from the standpoint of let it go because immunization and population control, that at least has something to argue.
 
Whole towns are starting to isolate themselves down here, local authorities set up checkpoints and if you do not have a house there you are turned back. Tourism is a HUGE part of the economy and a lot of folks are going to be really hurting financially because of all this...
 
Whole towns are starting to isolate themselves down here, local authorities set up checkpoints and if you do not have a house there you are turned back. Tourism is a HUGE part of the economy and a lot of folks are going to be really hurting financially because of all this...

Thanks for the update buddy!

I have been wondering how the Yucatan and the Mexican Riviera area are handling things.
 
Whole towns are starting to isolate themselves down here, local authorities set up checkpoints and if you do not have a house there you are turned back. Tourism is a HUGE part of the economy and a lot of folks are going to be really hurting financially because of all this...
So what do the homeless do if they are turned back from their normal place they lay their head and they do not own a house?
Have they closed any hotels down yet?
Just wondering what people are doing.

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It's not that I don't care, but the numbers are WAY in my favor of not getting it.

OK, your choice. Just let me put it this way. Like pregnancy, it only takes one time. Then you can spread it to your significant other, to you Mom or Dad, or worse, your elderly Grandma or Grandad, before you show any symptoms. It's not about YOU getting it. Your call.

Roger
 
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