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OT: My Kid's School Just Closed Due to Coronavirus

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  • GrateEggspectations
    GrateEggspectations Posts: 11,569
    HeavyG said:
    Botch said:
    I'm not seeking out hand sanitizer to combat the coronavirus, I'm seeking it out because of the TP shortage.   =)

    You would use your hand barehanded??? It's a lot easier to wash or dispose of a nitrile glove. Instead of TP stock up on these...

    Most public water fountains are about waist height. Just saying. 
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  • caliking
    caliking Posts: 19,780
    just just got word that school is closed next week. Caliqueen will go in to work for 4hrs daily, and work the remainder from home. 

    #1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February  2013 • #3 Mini May 2013
    A happy BGE family in Houston, TX.
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  • GrateEggspectations
    GrateEggspectations Posts: 11,569
    caliking said:
    just just got word that school is closed next week. Caliqueen will go in to work for 4hrs daily, and work the remainder from home. 
    Is Caliqueen’s reduced workweek seeking to reduce her risk of infection? If so, I am skeptical that shortening hours only slightly would achieve such a goal. 
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  • caliking
    caliking Posts: 19,780
    GrateEggspectations said:
    caliking said:
    just just got word that school is closed next week. Caliqueen will go in to work for 4hrs daily, and work the remainder from home. 
    Is Caliqueen’s reduced workweek seeking to reduce her risk of infection? If so, I am skeptical that shortening hours only slightly would achieve such a goal. 
    I fully agree. But there’s no arguing with a committee on a rampage. 
     

    #1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February  2013 • #3 Mini May 2013
    A happy BGE family in Houston, TX.
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  • GrateEggspectations
    GrateEggspectations Posts: 11,569
    caliking said:
    GrateEggspectations said:
    caliking said:
    just just got word that school is closed next week. Caliqueen will go in to work for 4hrs daily, and work the remainder from home. 
    Is Caliqueen’s reduced workweek seeking to reduce her risk of infection? If so, I am skeptical that shortening hours only slightly would achieve such a goal. 
    I fully agree. But there’s no arguing with a committee on a rampage. 
     
    Everyone needs to look like they’re doing something, after all... even if grossly ineffective.
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  • Lit
    Lit Posts: 9,053
    Just left Costco. I have never seen anything like that. It’s getting bad.
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  • dmchicago
    dmchicago Posts: 4,519
    Lit said:
    Just left Costco. I have never seen anything like that. It’s getting bad.
    Let the preppers have their moment. 

    The stores will restock.

    (fingers crossed)
    Philly - Kansas City - Houston - Cincinnati - Dallas - Houston - Memphis - Austin - Chicago - Austin

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    "If I wanted my balls washed, I'd go to the golf course!"
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  • HeavyG
    HeavyG Posts: 10,380

    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Diçk




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  • lkapigian
    lkapigian Posts: 11,549
    HeavyG said:
    Botch said:
    I'm not seeking out hand sanitizer to combat the coronavirus, I'm seeking it out because of the TP shortage.   =)

    You would use your hand barehanded??? It's a lot easier to wash or dispose of a nitrile glove. Instead of TP stock up on these...

    Went to buy gloves to stock up for an event, shelves that always had plenty of gloves were nearly empty
    Visalia, Ca @lkapigian
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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 23,179
    lkapigian said:
    HeavyG said:
    Botch said:
    I'm not seeking out hand sanitizer to combat the coronavirus, I'm seeking it out because of the TP shortage.   =)

    You would use your hand barehanded??? It's a lot easier to wash or dispose of a nitrile glove. Instead of TP stock up on these...

    Went to buy gloves to stock up for an event, shelves that always had plenty of gloves were nearly empty
    I just the gloves pictured above on amazon yesterday (for normal food stuff)
    Keepin' It Weird in The ATX FBTX
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  • lkapigian
    lkapigian Posts: 11,549
    I ask this question as I really don't know, and if it has already been answered I apologise 

    On the Test kits that are being used, were these suddenly developed or was this virus anticipated, what does it test for and how quick is it ? Is there false positives or that's not possible

    I am just curious , thank you in advance 
    Visalia, Ca @lkapigian
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  • thetrim
    thetrim Posts: 11,387
    My hot yoga classes just got cancelled until the end of March!!!  

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  • Lit
    Lit Posts: 9,053
    dmchicago said:
    Lit said:
    Just left Costco. I have never seen anything like that. It’s getting bad.
    Let the preppers have their moment. 

    The stores will restock.

    (fingers crossed)
    Don’t think this was peepers those people are done shopping. 
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  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
    My wife called from the grocery wanting to know if knew anything we should get. Proceed to get mad when I told her to buy beans. 

    "Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community [...] but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."
                                                                                  -Umberto Eco

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    Peachtree Corners, GA
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  • bicktrav
    bicktrav Posts: 640
    Lit said:
    Just left Costco. I have never seen anything like that. It’s getting bad.
    My wife went this morning and came back thoroughly rattled. 
    Southern California
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  • thetrim
    thetrim Posts: 11,387
    Hilary only Kilt four dudes in Benghazi.  They were almost all ex military, so that doesn’t even count. 
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  • Acn
    Acn Posts: 4,490

    LBGE

    Pikesville, MD

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  • Gulfcoastguy
    Gulfcoastguy Posts: 7,331
    I just bought an 8 pack of some sort of tp, off brand. I didn’t want to be a hoarder but I’m down to a roll and a half at home. Not a fan of public toilets right now either. 
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  • DoubleEgger
    DoubleEgger Posts: 19,164
    edited March 2020
    Be sure to have birth control methods available in case you get stuck at home for a while. #brownchickenbrowncow
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  • dbCooper
    dbCooper Posts: 2,678
    DoubleEgger said:
    Be sure to have birth control methods available in case you get stuck at home for a while. #brownchickenbrowncow
    There are some benefits to being with someone who is postmenopausal!
    LBGE, LBGE-PTR, 22" Weber, Coleman 413G
    Great Plains, USA
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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
    dbCooper said:
    DoubleEgger said:
    Be sure to have birth control methods available in case you get stuck at home for a while. #brownchickenbrowncow
    There are some benefits to being with someone who is postmenopausal!
    Seedless grapes checking in. 

    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

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  • Cornholio
    Cornholio Posts: 1,048
    I work on “Wall Street” (west coast) and am officially working from home for the next two months minimum. Social distancing is in effect, we have people in our regular office, our disaster recovery site several miles away and some lucky folks get to be part of the WFH crowd. 

    Lunches are going to be so much better with my egg fired up!  
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  • Legume
    Legume Posts: 15,936
    Cornholio said:
    I work on “Wall Street” (west coast) and am officially working from home for the next two months minimum. Social distancing is in effect, we have people in our regular office, our disaster recovery site several miles away and some lucky folks get to be part of the WFH crowd. 

    Lunches are going to be so much better with my egg fired up!  
    There’s going to be a run on lump with so many working from home.
    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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  • YukonRon
    YukonRon Posts: 17,261
    Just killed a deal for a Napa Cabernet, WS rated 91, for less than 7 dollars a bottle.

    Corona is killing biz in cal wines. 

    2017 will shelf for 20 years..find it buy it.
    "Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber

    XL and MM
    Louisville, Kentucky
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,357
    HeavyG said:
    Botch said:
    I'm not seeking out hand sanitizer to combat the coronavirus, I'm seeking it out because of the TP shortage.   =)

    You would use your hand barehanded??? It's a lot easier to wash or dispose of a nitrile glove. Instead of TP stock up on these...

    It was a joke.  Sigh.  

    “I'll have what she's having."  

        -Rob Reiner's mother!   

    Ogden, UT, USA

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  • Wolfpack
    Wolfpack Posts: 3,552
    Botch said:
    This from Robert Reich's website (the original WSJ article is behind a paywall):
     

    Today the Federal Reserve announced it would inject more than $1.5 trillion into Wall Street to mitigate the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak. Yes, you heard that right: 1,500,000,000,000 dollars sent to Wall Street in a split second.

    I am so sick and tired of the establishment telling us what we can’t afford. If we can find over a trillion dollars for Wall Street in a heartbeat, we can find the money to cancel student debt, provide universal healthcare for all, and enact a Green New Deal. America has socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.


    (emphasis mine)  
     
    And this, just ONE DAY after the senate refused to consider a bill for 14 days of paid emergency sick leave:  https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-gop-blocks-emergency-paid-sick-leave-legislation-from-moving-forward_n_5e691016c5b68d61645ebff9?fbclid=IwAR2WcgIYQDfJ1rHOyZto8IvurBeoAgYiBo9NyvxDtI5MdBr9-gKj7jgD2d8
     
    Pretty clear who the republicans are working for, huh.   
    I didn’t read the article and I’m far from an expert but, thinking we need to revisit our economics classes. 

    The fed pumping money into the economy by selling treasury bills is hardly equivalent to giving Wall Street fat cats a check or remotely equivalent to spending more money for social programs.

    The market collapse will have a far greater, and lasting, impact on the middle class than selling $1.5 trillion of t-bills. 

    We can save the discussion for the college loan crisis for another time. However, I will say if they don’t fix the issue (ie smarter lending criteria) then handing this generation of borrowers relief just kicks the can down the road. The next generation will get what we sow.  My dad always told me when you find yourself in a hole the first this is to stop digging. 



    Greensboro, NC
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,357
    lkapigian said:
    I ask this question as I really don't know, and if it has already been answered I apologise 

    On the Test kits that are being used, were these suddenly developed or was this virus anticipated, what does it test for and how quick is it ? Is there false positives or that's not possible

    I am just curious , thank you in advance 
    And to tag onto your question, how many folks can one "kit" test?  There's a common picture on the news of a box with four vials in it, and VP pence seemed pretty proud that "1,500 kits" were being distributed, a couple days ago....

    “I'll have what she's having."  

        -Rob Reiner's mother!   

    Ogden, UT, USA

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  • HeavyG
    HeavyG Posts: 10,380
    Botch said:
    HeavyG said:
    Botch said:
    I'm not seeking out hand sanitizer to combat the coronavirus, I'm seeking it out because of the TP shortage.   =)

    You would use your hand barehanded??? It's a lot easier to wash or dispose of a nitrile glove. Instead of TP stock up on these...

    It was a joke.  Sigh.  

    As was mine. Sigh.
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Diçk




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  • shtgunal3
    shtgunal3 Posts: 6,134
    Sigh....

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     LBGE,SBGE, and a Mini makes three......Sweet home Alabama........ Stay thirsty my friends .

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  • HeavyG
    HeavyG Posts: 10,380
    edited March 2020
    A good thread...



    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Diçk




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