It’s possible that my employer will be asking or ordering people to work at home starting next week. I thought I wouldn’t mind such a directive; I already work at home more than half time. But having to do so does feel different.
My regular market is putting purchasing limits on certain items. H stopped at another market last night to get a few things and had no trouble getting the things we needed and I assuming there weren’t any crowds either, or he would have said something, But it was also midnight.
My school district will be closed Monday for planning purposes.
My town library is now closed.
One of Cuomo’s daughters is in quarantine as she has been exposed to someone who is positive.
Watching the news conference and heartened seeing the Dow tick up substantially.
LOL. I expect a spike in TPing when this virus begins to die out.
As an alum, I received the following from the President of UT Austin:
Wow.
Maybe we should buy toilet paper manufacturers stock. Who would that be? And maybe 3M or medical supplies companies?
Dh’s company just told everyone to work from home (US and Canada) until further notice. And I got to tell the 12 yr old he’s not allowed to play w/ his friends. 
That was a fun conversation.
Proctor & Gamble makes Charmin IIRC.
This made me chuckle. On my BJs shopping outing yesterday, I got three things of flavored creamer. I don’t want to be stuck here without my good morning coffee!
Dow closes at 23,186. I am as worried about financial catastrophe personal and national as well as medical catastrophe.
Meanwhile, my brother is having a serious meltdown and pity party because the funeral planning isn’t going the way he envisioned. He wants to do the eulogy but everyone feels he will be a hysterical blubbering mess but we have all told him he’s free to go ahead and speak if he wants to.
He has visions of all of us somehow “sanitizing” a huge church (built to seat 500 people) that has multiple double-doors which open to the outside on 3 sides of the church. He has gotten people (his friends) to fly in from a Japan and other places for this event.
He is reluctantly realizing it will have to be a smaller private service after a public viewing, tho he wanted a HUGE public everything. Most of my folks‘ friends are 80s-90s like them and many may have health conditions, so high risk. we are quietly recommending folks NOT attend. Crazy times! Services and burial tomorrow, tho same brother tried to postpone indefinitely (without a word to any of us)!
From my health insurance provider:
Quartz will cover the cost of the test to diagnose COVID-19 at 100%. There will be no copay, coinsurance, or deductible. You do not need our okay ahead of time for testing.
Quartz will cover e-visits or video services at 100%. If these services are part of a member’s plan offering, Quartz will cover video visits, virtual visits, and e-visits in our provider networks. There will be no copay, coinsurance, or deductible. Members will have access to health care without going to a clinic. This will reduce the spread of the virus.
Effective soon, members will have earlier access to prescription drugs*:
Non-maintenance prescriptions: Until further notice, only 25% of the supply must be gone before a refill is covered. Members can refill prescriptions 22 days before they should be needed based on the last date of the claim.
Maintenance prescriptions: Until further notice, for members using the 90-day supply/fill, only 66% of the supply must be gone before a refill is covered. Members can refill prescriptions 30 days before they should be needed based on the date of the last claim.
You can check the packages that you have at home, or in the store if there are still any left.
Our largest state hospital pulled two large tents out of storage and have set them up next to ER to triage folks coming in with symptoms of flu and COVID-19.
@Knowsstuff haha yes! H is also wondering why Crate and Barrel sent him an email. I reminded him that we got a wedding gift from there…
H and I normally go to Costco on Friday evenings…I don’t even want to know what it will be like
Area hospitals where I live are coordinating with each other.
“Capital Region hospitals held a press conference at Albany Medical Center Friday to announce they are working together to coordinate their response to COVID-19. They have protocols to identify potential cases and to isolate them. They have also erected makeshift tents, repurposed space and established drive-through lanes where people can come to be tested for novel coronavirus. They’re warning people not to just show up to the sites, though. The hospitals will only take swabs from people who’ve gotten a doctor’s order for a test.”
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Coronavirus-live-updates-Schenectady-schools-15128515.php
Sorry to hear you are having so much difficulty with your brother. There always seems to be one person in everyone’s family like that.
Well.
No family members can get past the front desk unless the person’s in Hospice. Another person couldn’t see her 95 year old mother but they brought her out. The daughter said she doesn’t understand why she can’t see her… Frustrating
I went grocery shopping this morning. Apparently, the end of the world is near. Not a loaf of bread on the shelves, meats/chicken almost sold out, hardly any milk, only a few bags of frozen vegetables. I wasn’t expecting that.
Our governor closed schools effective today through April 5th. As worried as I am about how the stock market plunge will affect me monetarily, I am really glad I quit my job as a college administrator last fall. It was a very small school, and I would have had way too much responsibility for handling this situation. Happy to NOT be in charge of this mess!