The Nice People No. 17

Pyxis

PasturesNew said:

GDB2222 said:

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/coronavirus-new-study-finds-incubation-period-of-up-to-24-days

 

I am thinking about what preparations we can reasonably make. Particularly, low cost options, like laying in stocks of items we use anyway and which have a long shelf life. 

With those odds, you need your own island and you need to have gone there a month ago, expecting to come back in 2022. 
The way it's stacked it looks like: everybody will get it, some will die... lessons will be learned. 
I don't think one can avoid it if it turns out to be as widespread as your post indicates.  With those odds everybody will get it, some won't know, some will know and will live, some will die. 
My small attempts to avoid it seem daft... but it's early days and the thing is: nobody knows really .... what it is, how it moves, how long it lasts, how many are carriers. 

Edited to partially delete......

I’ve decided to go out as little as possible, and to have as little contact with people as possible. 

Mind you, given the weather forecasts at the moment, I probably wouldn't have Gone out anyway! 

ivyleaf

I wonder how Lydia is too; when we all moved over here I had to clear a load of previously deleted pms and one was from her. I hope she's all right. Thinking of you Lydia, in case you're reading but not able to post x

Pyxis

PasturesNew said:

I joked above about "avoid Waitrose", just spotted all the newly arrived Waitrose goods in the kitchen here... from The Wanderer's home delivery.  Makes you think, eh.  
Going out for a kettle in 10 minutes... just made a coffee, washed hands of course...

Actually, Waitrose is probably a good place to go......... a lot of the time it’s really peaceful!
Far from the madding crowd!
One reason why I like it! 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

Pyxis

PasturesNew said:

Got a kettle, some anti bac wipes, bleach..... 
Then I went to an out of date food warehouse I knew was around the area.  Didn't expect to buy anything there, but waddled out laden with drinks, some posh pot noodles, bags of banana popcorn/puffs or something, 24 bags of crisps (Walkers sriracha) which I'd not seen before. 
Got home and couldn't bring in my stuff as The Wanderer's returned and is present, but a kettle is in the car for when I can bring it in unseen. 
Used a wipe after I'd been to the warehouse, wiped hands, car handle, steering wheel, gear stick

Couldn’t you put the kettle in a bag and bring it in in that?

PasturesNew

Pyxis said:

Couldn’t you put the kettle in a bag and bring it in in that?

Well, yes and I will ....  I didn't have one handy at the time. 

ivyleaf

You really really need to find somewhere else to live until you find the right home to buy, PN 

PasturesNew

ivyleaf said:

You really really need to   

I can put up with it, and grit my teeth, I just need to be able to vent  

ivyleaf

yeah, i know you paid in advance...i just worry about you (I'm sure all the NP do!)

PasturesNew

ivyleaf said:

yeah, i know you paid in advance...i just worry about you (I'm sure all the NP do!)

I'm a big girl   I know there will be an end to it.  Many others are cash strapped, stuck, in worse situations, unable to make choices.  
I just need to vent as I'm "alone", with nobody else/nowhere else to vent  
 

PasturesNew

One good thing that's come from all this is it's close to some venues for the local special people voluntary group.  I finally went to a drop in they run.  Been 3x now, that's going to be a regular, it's every 2 weeks.  I also went out one evening to a get together of special people.  And, this afternoon, there's another social/volunteer group I'll check out.  It's been an eye opener meeting people "just like me" for the first time ever.  I can be as odd as I like and ... it's all perfectly normal   Such a relief to be able to go out and relax/not come away feeling "I c0cked that up, they all hate me, I'll never return"... 

I think, for the first time ever, I actually "look forward to" going.  I've spent my life dreading going anywhere as it's usually ended in disappointment/sadness as I didn't fit in.  Now I fit