My kid just cancelled their Fall semester housing, will only do online. Yours?

[surfcity]

D is now considering staying home and doing online for first semester senior year. She has a single in a good house and the other 15 girls say they will be careful but she knows that is probably not going to happen. She also thinks that everything will go virtual sometime in October anyway and she doesn’t like the stress of having to leave with 2 hours notice.

They are also requiring weekly COVID tests which will take an hour or so each week (per school commmunications) and she is not looking forward to having that done every week, although the reassurance of a negative test would be nice.

She is setting up a school area in the basement in case she decides to stay home. I feel terrible for her but obviously other people are going thru much worse things. I don’t like the info I am reading on the Inside Medicine thread about cardiac and ;lung damage in young healthy people

[jagrren]

@1NJParent

Instacart or other services are available in most places. There are many food delivery services students utilize. Your student also likely has friends who would be willing to drop off food if needed. Amazon pantry still delivers.

Availability of services like Instacart may be limited in a major outbreak. Back in March and April here in NJ, food delivery services were very limited, even nearly impossible to arrange. Choices were also highly limited. I’m not sure one can count on these services in another major outbreak, especially in areas populated by college students.

I had the same experience. I could not get an instacart delivery for my father in NJ until May. Until then, I drove a four hour round trip to drop food off for him. And I don’t know if it was like this in other areas, but I was shocked to go into the grocery store and see no meat, no cheese, no rice, no bread. It was scary to see how quickly the food supply got messed up.

[jagrren]

@SJ2727

One should also not think if it’s not a death it’s ok. A relative of mine gave up 3 months of his life in hospital and rehab to Covid.

A mom in my town was in the hospital for months and then rehab. She is home now but recovery is very slow.

[PetraMC]

I had the same experience. I could not get an instacart delivery for my father in NJ until May. Until then, I drove a four hour round trip to drop food off for him. And I don’t know if it was like this in other areas, but I was shocked to go into the grocery store and see no meat, no cheese, no rice, no bread. It was scary to see how quickly the food supply got messed up.

That was absolutely happening elsewhere. I had to get very creative about getting groceries delivered, including getting bulk deliveries from whatever was available from a restaurant supply caterer (as in, 48 NY Strips at a time and a literal bucket of brussels sprouts) and I called around to find local farmers who were organizing a food co-op on the fly. And I was actually pretty prepared with canned goods ahead of time.

I don’t think that will happen again but it’s probable that some localities will have issues with delivery services.

[LakeWashington]

All it will take is a bit of bad news about COVID-19 or the flu to initiate panic buying again this fall. We Americans learn very slowly. Plus, some grocery chains, including Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market are still limiting sale of some items.

[garland]

@PetraMC

I had the same experience. I could not get an instacart delivery for my father in NJ until May. Until then, I drove a four hour round trip to drop food off for him. And I don’t know if it was like this in other areas, but I was shocked to go into the grocery store and see no meat, no cheese, no rice, no bread. It was scary to see how quickly the food supply got messed up.

That was absolutely happening elsewhere. I had to get very creative about getting groceries delivered, including getting bulk deliveries from whatever was available from a restaurant supply caterer (as in, 48 NY Strips at a time and a literal bucket of brussels sprouts) and I called around to find local farmers who were organizing a food co-op on the fly. And I was actually pretty prepared with canned goods ahead of time.

I don’t think that will happen again but it’s probable that some localities will have issues with delivery services.

We are still using the five pounds of garlic we got from the restaurant supplier, lol. I will always be thankful we found that resource, and I am ready to back to them immediately if grocery store pickups become impossible to get like they did in the spring. Plus I will admit, I am stocking up on extra essentials every time I shop, just in case.