I'm good.

My USMC son advises that there are a lot of hospitalized marines on base, containment around the hospital, and the commissary and mpx shelves are bare. Everyone in his shop is coughing and sick. One marine who just transferred in has a corona-positive person in the home, and seems to not care a whit during work hours. Everyone is getting sick. My son isn't too worked up, because he knows he's going to get it.

Given our level of exposure in the field, I'm fairly certain it's only time until I get it. With an underlying lung condition, that may get interesting. Not looking forward to getting quarantined in some third world rathole, and left behind. Been there.

I'm fine. All my social contacts are now cancelled for at least 2 weeks, some longer. I still go out to get food, etc. (I do a lot of drive-through pickup, anyway.) Have no symptoms. On the computer a lot (no difference). In my lounge chair, covered with cats (no difference).

I'm worried about what this is doing to our country and its economy, and how that will affect the coming elections.

I do have a planned tour of Alaska in contract for August--not sure how that will turn out.

flashguy

You can color me pissed off as well.

The wife and I are both retired. We go out if we have to but pretty much just stay here on the farm. That would be normal. The big chain restaurants are just about all closed now except for take-out but the local restaurants are still open as are the businesses. That makes things not too bad at all.

I am very concerned about the state of this country. We voluntarily let a virus bring us to our knees and are doing dramatic damage to our economy. It will take years to recover. We just signed a contract to buy a house a week ago. I fear we are buying at the top of the market that may soon collapse. At least we will have a place to live.

Financially we can still afford the house but our retirement accounts are getting hammered and I feel like its too late to go to cash, have to let them ride for a few years and hope they can recover.

Its a lot of stress for us, and we are in arguably much better shape than most of the people in this country. Our adult daughter is pretty much out of work now so we will probably hire her to help with our move and pray that this will resolve in the next few months and she can get back to work so she doesn't have to move back in with us.

Ugh. Can't believe how crazy and weak we have become as a nation.

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Ugh. Can't believe how crazy and weak we have become as a nation.

This is not the same country that went face to face with the Soviet Union. When we were just minutes away from a total Nuclear War.

Admittedly a little stressed early in week.
Losing some sleep.

Part was responsibility for work deployment of a crapton of radiologists.

Part was general concern for chaos and impact on others. Well, and a crater in my assets.

Sleep better once assuring my own stoopid ass this was temporary, my docs and I will do whatever the hell we have to to take care of patients, and my losses were immaterial to the dead folks.

Financial impacts are significant but as group we will take care of patients. I have the luxury of working for a group of doctors who understand what they have committed to.

Let's Roll.

Kind of scratching my head a lot. People are so panicked over this. But hardly batted an eye over H1N1. And it was far more damaging than this. Seems this one has been so over-hyped to the point of being downright ludicrous. Add that to the fact we're spending so much time telling adults they need to wash their hands and I feel we're somewhere along the line in the intro to Idiocracy. And yesterday I walked into another guy's office at work and he has a Brawndo poster on his wall.

I'm doing great because I still go to work everyday and have turned off the news.

I work at an oceanfront hotel and it seems as if a lot of people who have been told to work from home are viewing this as an extended vacation. The beach was as crowded as I've ever seen it at this time of the year. The beachfront kids park was packed with kids crawling all over the equipment while the parents socialized.

I had a group check in who thought since school was closed it was a perfect time to visit friends they don't get to see often.

I do feel bad for a bunch of sailors who are here for school (which was cancelled) and they are stuck here for a while with travel restrictions in place.

I pissed. I'm trying to get over being pissed and to where I can embrace the suck. I'm not just pissed for myself, I'm pissed for all the folks that are losing their jobs. I'm also pissed at statements some on this forum have made shaming those folks losing their jobs for not saving enough for a situation like this. I'd like to tell the guy on the forum with underlying conditions that thinks the rest of us shouldn't be able to go about our daily business what I really think of his attitude, but that wouldn't help or change anything.

I embraced the suck 15 years ago after Hurricane Charley, but I didn't have a wife, 3 kids, elderly parents, and a dog then.

We're doing fine.

I'm astonished at how many other people are freaking out and acting as though this were actually a zombie apocalypse. I hate the media for how absolutely terrified they have some people with this.

Emotionally OK - more annoyed than anything else - like many other members here.

But - working on my math skills today. 1LB dry rice = 11 servings / 4 family members = 2.75 meals x 30LBS = 82.5 meals.

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We're doing fine.

I'm astonished at how many other people are freaking out and acting as though this were actually a zombie apocalypse. I hate the media for how absolutely terrified they have some people with this.

Yesterday, I was at the local hardware and found an Estwing 26" handle camping axe laying on the bargain bins. I picked it up and thought it would come in handy when I ran out of ammo. Then I put it back down and thought it's not the zombie apocalypse.

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Estwing 26" handle camping axe laying on the bargain bins

That's a $60 axe. What did they want for it?

$45. Home Depot has it for $40, so I don't believe it was on clearance.

Frustrated. More frightened cattle are killed in the panicked stampede than are ever killed by the lightning bolt that set it off.

A businesses man in a town just 20 minutes north of me layed off 200 people from his chain of 4 small eating establishments. That's 85 more people than we have cases of the virus in this entire state which we are now up to a scary ZERO fatality rate! That's just one guy laying off 200.

Yesterday Governor Walz appears on tv telling us SIP is most likely forthcoming but not yet. Unless of course all you frightened cattle can just keep yourselves in your basement 6 feet away from each other and don't assemble in more than groups of ten at a time. We can't have you people comparing notes in too large of a group at one time. That could lead to people asking questions and the spread of common sense to take hold. So we have taken the precautions of closing down places of assembly to prevent the spread of just that!

All the while he has all the talking heads from around the state seated at a table elbow to elbow and people standing shoulder to shoulder behind them along with all the media, security and all the other special people gathered in one room telling the cattle where to go and how to act.

They don't act like they are too frightened to me. They don't have shaky voices, no sweat beads rolling off their foreheads, no trembling fingers holding their notes. As a matter of fact they look quite calm like they know something we don't.

Our florist here in tiny town has a daughter that works at the largest Hospital in Iowa ,

She helps treat People that are "at risk" for mental illness and the mentally challenged.

The "experts " say that people are killing themselves over the covid, The suicidal are considering it the "last straw" ,

The mentally ill can't put it in to any kind of perspective so they look for a way to avoid the pain , suffering and the treatment.

My wife is holding it together, but being a pediatrician during this is taking its toll. A 9 year old swim team teammate of my daughter’s tested positive, and her father is in the ICU fighting for his life currently

Wife is convinced that she has seen several cases but testing is inadequate right now

My oldest son is stressed because this spring/summer was the most important period of months in his quest for a division 1 basketball scholarship. All of his recruiting visits were canceled, obviously, and his AAU season is completely on hold as well. He doesn’t know if he will ever get the opportunities he was supposed to have right now again

My 8 year old has just enough understanding to know that there is a danger from something like the flu, and has stopped asking me if her mom is going to die and just asks now if mom will make it home from work.

My job is to support those three.

My 8th grader is a typical middle schooler and is barely aware of its night or day

Mentally/emotionally yesterday was rough.
I Had 40 employees yesterday and now I have 9 come Monday morning. I had to a layoff as business just dried up for the most part.
One employee has a 4 month old baby and was pleading to come in and sweep floors. He said it's going to tough since his wife doesn't work.
Another 21 year old employee was in tears because he's not sure if he can make it on unemployment.
Ohio waived the 2 week waiting period for unemployment benefits and they start immediately now. Ohio also emailed most businesses with a special code number that people use to file.
Personally? I'm good. I have limited myself from really going anywhere unless necessary, my business being an exception. I am following the governor's advice and taking the temperature of all my employees followed with certain questions.
I have enough food and should anything happen, I have enough food at my business to last for years. I make food so...
I do worry about food riots to a point but it's not an overwhelming thought.
I have a decent amount of ammunition should anything happen so that's a good thing.
One day at a time right now.

We're good. Our Governor ordered all non-essential business closed. We cut back about 90%, but not going to complete close. Those that can are working from home. So far, everyone is still getting paid.
I'm using the time to get things done around the house and trying not to drive my wife crazy. Neither one of us is very good at sitting around...

Talked to friends and family for two hours today by phone, All had bad news of some sort or another, that did not help me in the least. I gotta find some kinda up side,....... somewhere.