I’ve read that if you get a sore throat you should lie down and let a zinc lozenges dissolve in the back of your throat. The zinc lining your throat apparently makes it difficult for the virus to grow there.
This whole thing reminds me of this great movie https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
If you look at the year it was supposed to be in its 2022… Kinda scary… Read the plot… ??
Just out of curiosity, I looked at my Hannaford’s Pick-up option where you can schedule a window of time to pick up an online order of groceries. There are no slots available until Monday afternoon.
One medical school (with which I am familiar) is going online for 1st year but the hospital rotations in the latter years are continuing.
Just as an FYI to anyone else on here who knows pregnant people: I just talked to my MFM and Robutussin-DM IS safe for the fetus as long as whatever you’re taking doesn’t have alcohol.
I stopped at two grocery stores (suburban Madison, Wisconsin) a little while ago, to see if either had a very specific type of canned chicken (my reaction generally: ugh!) that a coworker is trying to get. Neither store had the chicken, but both were well stocked generally, except for TP and tissues. Customers and staff seemed to be in good spirits. I thanked a couple of the people who were putting out more products.
Well, the schools, after today, will be closed for two weeks, as will be the library and the ice rink. I didn’t hoard food, but I wish I had bought a little more than I did, now that DD will be home for lunch each day.
The closings feel like an overreaction, as we don’t have any cases nearby just yet, but I realize that scientifically and humanely, it is absolutely the right thing to do.
Target shelves were pretty thinned out, and the store was packed. Our more expensive, upscale grocery store still had just about everything except for hand sanitizer, but I bet they’ll be thinned out too before tomorrow. No one is wearing gloves or masks yet, though. If I was working in a grocery or big box store, I would be.
DD came home from school so down yesterday. Some of the ECs most important to her would all have had major events in the next five-to-seven weeks, and I am expecting all of them to be cancelled. If we’re lucky, some might only be postponed, but All of her volunteering through the end of the month is cancelled. She is not one to sit still, I’m afraid.
My 20 something daughter has been pressing her boss at a small bodywork type studio, to close. I don’t know if they are closing but my daughter just texted that she will finish today and then not work. Phew. Not only am I almost 70 w/health conditions but I am caring for a 93 year old and entering the facility with special permission, so I don’t want to endanger 68 people.
My daughter and I are drawing a line down the middle of the apartment if she continues to socialize or whatever. I can use the bathroom upstairs since the landlores are in FL. So this way we can talk and keep company but not share germs.
My granola bars were on sale anyway. I can now live on them for quite a long time at half price!!
Stores yesterday were indeed apocalyptic. Unbelievable. This is going to last longer than a snowstorm.
My father has season tickets to his local philharmonic and they cancelled this weekend’s concert. Luckily, he can either get a full refund, donate his ticket (which will help pay the orchestra members), or use his ticket towards a show next season or the last concert of the season (which as of yet is still on). Several sporting events have been cancelled in our area as well as the local St. Patrick’s Day fun run and street fair. I’ve gotten emails from several stores that I shop at and they’re talking about the steps they’re taken to sanitize and protect their customers and employees from illness. Our local art museum is still open, but they did cancel their “Senior Museum Day,” since the elderly are such a vulnerable segment of the population. They are still doing their second Thursday events but food won’t be served.
Thanks @taverngirl and @austinmshauri. I ate one ( in my diet eating window) and gave one to DH who came home early. I also have these Zicam instant dissolve things that I’ll save for if I get sick.
We tried to go early vote but it doesn’t start til tomorrow. So we are at the gym. Surprised at the # of people here
Our local parks and rec department has cancelled all their classes and upcoming activities. I do yoga at the community center and they’ve cancelled that. Luckily I can get a refund or use the credit towards classes in the future. My coworker’s daughter does gymnastics and her classes are cancelled until the end of the month. I know other people whose kid’s sports games, dance classes and other after-school activities are being cancelled or postponed.
It’s been very hard to find toilet paper, soap, and hand sanitizer at our local supermarkets and Target. My neighbor was saying yesterday that he went to Walmart and the toilet paper aisle was pretty much cleaned out. He also said the cleaning supply aisle was quite empty as well. I was shopping at Trader Joe’s and the checker said they can barely keep their hand sanitizer on the shelves. They even had a sign out telling people not to take more then they really need. H said several shelves were quite empty at Walgreens when he went to pick up his perscription and he said a lady in front of him at the pharmacy paid for about seven purell bottles when she got her perscriotion.
Haven’t been to our Whole Foods recently, but I’d imagine desperate people are probably willing to shell out for their hand sanitizer and paper goods.
I went to the grocery store early this morning. And the meat market.
Grocery store was busy! Extremely busy. And quiet, you could feel tension in the air. Out of toilet paper, Kleenex was in short supply. Low on milk. Tons of water though. They were stocking shelves.
Almost every lane open. I was at the store early in the week and it was dead so I was surprised by how busy it was.
The 2 guys in front of me in line were baked. Had a very full cart, taking a guys snowmobile trip to the UP. $530 worth of food for 3 days. They were a trip, hadn’t slept all night either. Lol. So life goes on. ?
I was the only one at the meat market but she was getting phone call after phone call.
So it looks like grocery stores will be the main risk of person-to-person contact where virus may be spread. Perhaps that is the rationale behind hoarding, so that fewer trips to the grocery stores and therefore fewer risk events will be needed. But the increased crowds at the grocery stores are the result of the panic to hoard now.
I was going to add a lot of my local stores have started imposing a limit on how much of certain things you can buy. You know, trying to prevent someone from buying 30 cartons of lysol wipes or 100 rolls of toilet paper. My D said that you can’t get lysol on Amazon…she tried to order some and it said that it will be available in April!
@Knowsstuff I’m getting the same thing! Heck, my H even got an email from Victoria’s Secret (haha!)…they probably have his email because we bought D some perfume from their as a birthday present and his name was on the credit card! But, I’m getting these emails left and right. I think if you’ve ever shopped at or ordered online from a store, they have your info and they’ll let you know!
My S is wondering how long it’s going to be until people start buying and selling toilet paper and clorox/lysol on the black market. Or you buy it from some guy selling it out of the trunk of his car behind Wal Mart…
Beanie Babies 2.0. TP is a commodity that can be produced en masse. Ditto Chlorox wipes. Other things can be used in their place. The black market sellers will crash and burn. 
At least TP has a useful purpose unlike Beanie Babies.
So glad I shopped on Monday, when the store was relatively sane. I drove by the same store today and the parking lot was packed. Probably just the sort of crowd that should be avoided.
I was going to my dental office, to have a crown glued on. They said folks were cancelling cleanings for the next month. Which means the dentist and the assistant will have little to do eventually, aside from emergencies, as work found during cleanings brings in the business for the dentist. As they are masked and gloved, probably one of the safer contacts you can make, if bored at home and in need of a cleaning.
A month to be at home sounds good to me right now. But as an RN, am in the trenches at work. So many folks have had various lung issues recently, and I was masking plenty, even without Covid-19.
Beanie Babies could act as TP substitute. Don’t flush though.
@natty1988… Ugh… Think you need to have a sit down with your husband… ??.
Well now to venture off into the front lines… Nursing home for the visit… ??