While he’s entitled to his opinion, I think - esp considering where you were and your mom - he was way out of line. It wouldn’t even matter if it were the new virus. There are plenty of things that can go around that ill people are more prone to. My mom had cancer and that’s listed as the cause of her death this past summer. What “really” caused the actual end was an infection. Her cancer made her more susceptible to something the rest of us could probably easily fend off. (sigh)
Well, I haven’t done anything different in my life due to coronavirus. Maybe I’m the odd one.
I am home a lot anyway, as I work at home, and so am not around a lot of the public on a daily basis. I go food shopping once every ten days and don’t feel a need to stock up in any major way.
The one thing I would consider buying is hand sanitizer for times when I am out and about and can’t readily wash my hands. For instance, last night I went to the movies in NYC and rode the NYC subway and tomorrow I am going to a Broadway show and again will be riding the subway. But when I was at the market, they were out of sanitizer and I have looked online and it is hard to get.
I don’t get the water thing or the toilet paper hoarding.
It sounds like you’re a book store. You might want to - in a very nice, nonaccusatory way - point out how library books get sneezed on, coughed on and dragged everywhere by hundreds of people. And that’s not even counting the people who are licking their fingers to turn the pages or taking them into the bathroom to read. Ick.
Get people thinking about all the disgusting things people do and how many people touch library books and they’ll rethink how desireable library books are.
Oddly, I have the first cold I’ve had in many years. And I’m not working with little kids this year! I have no idea where I might have caught this. I’m hoping today is the worst day!
We did regular grocery shopping this week. Nothing different than usual. We have a winter CSA…locally grown vegetables that we get all winter. I’m not concerned about those. Our farm also sells eggs, bread, some meats, pasta sauces. They have a good supply…and I don’t think we will starve!
We have a well…and a generator if needed. Water isn’t a concern.
Our stores have plenty of bleach and wipes, but good luck finding anything like Purell! That’s all gone. So…soap it is!
I’m hoping this virus slows down, and gets controlled in terms of spread. Soon.
I took 4 kids to Chuck E. Cheese’s today. Two of them are going to Disneyworld on Wed.
We like to live dangerously.
I personally am not in favor of this huge funeral and have explained my concerns to my loved ones, repeatedly. I am trying to preserve extended family harmony to the best of my ability as well as my health and my mom’s. My extended family includes many MDs and I really don’t get to veto everyone.
On the plus side, the church has large doors everywhere and I believe they will all be open, to help increase ventilation.
I may spend much of the 2.5 hour visitation time in the nearby parish hall where people can go for refreshments. I also do have a few small bottles of hand sanitizers from prior health fairs. Can only hope sick folks stay away. People in mom’s CCRC have been hugging mom multiple times/day since she returned there anyway.
By all reports from everywhere this isn’t a problem for kids, so enjoy! You might just want to be wary if you take them to visit ailing grandparents afterward.
(This is the same advice our French students are getting if they end up still going to France in a few weeks. Enjoy - and be wary afterward, esp among the older and/or ailing folks.)
Might just drive them to using ebooks. 
Me, neither. I got some wipes and lozenges. And I wash hands diligently. Otherwise normal shopping.
I read this afternoon, one of the recent case was 12 year old girl. I wouldn’t count on it.
The one silver lining is spending a lot of time preparing delicious soups with D. Normally, we spend more time out and about, including dining out. Cooking together has been fun and relaxing, plus delicious.
A severe case? From all I’ve seen so far kids can get it, but it’s mild if it shows up at all. If anything changes from that, I’d like to know.
DH keeps saying we should buy more canned goods. I can’t stand anything beyond canned beans, canned tomatoes, and an occasionaly I’m feeling lazy spaghetti or curry sauce. But we will probably get a few things tomorrow, and restock the frozen veg which he eats for lunch and could be used in an emergency.
Our library cookbook club decided yesterday that we would meet today. (We are not far from the epicenter of the NY cluster.) Basically we all agreed that the quarantine rules make no sense. For example, in one family that some one knew the kids are quarantined, but their nanny is not, because she did not attend services or the bat mitvah or the funeral.
Really all I’m doing is washing my hands a lot more, and noticing how much people can’t avoid touching their faces!
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Not all kids are healthy, they have diabetes, they are obese, they have CF, they have asthma, they have cancer. et etc. Details matter.
Oh gosh, folks–let’s not demonize libraries! That hurts my soul! (And I’m going to keep living dangerously by borrowing books 
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No need to demonize but the virus lives on paper for 9 days. You could spray pages with alcohol.
We don’t know for a fact that Covid-19 live on paper for 9 days. And please don’t spray library books with alcohol or anything else.
The labor class that most Americans are in is probably more worried about job loss than stock market drops in terms of feeling poorer due to economic risk.
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Distilled-Water is instructions on making distilled water if you need it but are unable to buy it (though at the bottom, it is noted that it is more expensive (presumably in energy cost) to make it than to buy it).
@twoinanddone. What’s worse Chuckie Cheese or the Virus ??.
@Iglooo That is one thing I am more careful of in my paper shuffling job, washing and sanitizing my hands immediately after being handed forms.
The thing that gave me pause today was trying on a pair of sunglasses. As I admired them in the mirror I thought, “What the heck am I doing?” Needless to say I did not buy them and sanitized my hands immediately following. What a party pooper this Corona Virus is.