LOL...I just got back from my grocery store...everything normal and no

empty shelves or hoarding going on, that I could see. I'm in the Midwest..I

guess it hasn't reached us yet?

maddiemo! ROFL! So true!

Just got back from Drug Mart to get a few groceries for a sick friend. I decided to maybe pick up a bottle of hand sanitizer for myself. The whole rack where the Purell hand.san. sits was empty.

Our stores have started rationing some items, water limited to 4 per person, and antibacterial items limited as well. I don't understand why there is such a run on antibacterial stuff, any soap will help you rinse bad stuff off your hands as long as you wash thoroughly and long enough. Doesn't have to be antibacterial.

It’s.crazy here and we have not had even one reported case of Coronavirus. Checkers at the stores and some customers are wearing rubber gloves. There is no hand sanitizer or alcohol to be found anywhere. Shoppers are limited to two bottles of Lysol. I think that two hour special about the coronav on 20/20 last night has put everyone on edge.

Drug Mart!? We haven't been there in ages. I'll have to visit the one at Polaris just for old times' sake. :)

As I walked out of the grocery yesterday evening, I heard one worker say to the other, out of sanitizer. I had no sanitizer, masks, toilet paper, or rubbing alcohol in my cart. Not even Lysol or bleach.

On the other hand, I was at a restaurant across the street from the hospital, and the server wanted to shake hands????????? with us. What? At any point (that's not the place you want to try that. You make be taking it from patients and family and passing it along), but during a time entrie cities are shutting down? Umm, ok. And today, I noticed two offenses in Home Depot. Not only do they not have wipes for their carts, they want you to use a hand-held scanner to ring up your own order, also no way to clean it. No. Just no. What? Why? What are they thinking?

Our local grocery store had IPA and bleach. I didn't notice if it had hand sanitizer. I really dislike using that stuff. I like opening up hand wipes, letting the liquid evaporate and add IPA for use when I am not near soap and water. I only picked up a bottle of 91 % IPA because I needed some to do my nails. The doomsday people are going nuts and hurting the medical personnel and their patients that really need the supplies.

The problem with acronyms?

I can't even guess what you're talking about. IPA is beer in my world. What do you mean, function?

:)

IPA = isopropyl rubbing alcohol. Sorry.

When you have people being dismissive of the real threat, making fun of people who take the threat seriously then those people have two options, decide to ignore the whole thing or go duck brained. Seriously this is not a fraud and is a serious medical threat. If you or someone you know is compromised then this disease can kill you or them.

the people who die of flu every year are not going to decrease just because of this additional threat. The ability of the medical community to deal with people who react badly and have life threatening reactions will be diminishing their previous ability to deal with people with cases of flu. More of them will die. So lets make fun.

At the Kirkland Life Care Center, 14 people have died, and tests for 11 others were still pending. The center has 180 workers, and 70 of them are showing symptoms and confined to their homes.

There was an article about the center on our local news. One woman said she'd gotten a call from the center letting her know that her mother had passed away. Then the next day she received a call from another person at the center letting her know her mother was fine and not showing any symptoms. A guy then spoke about not being able to enter the center to see his mother so he walked around the building and looked into her window. There was another patient standing in his mother's room not wearing a mask. Some quarantine.

A spokesman for the center said "We have seen some results that have frankly concerned us with how quickly they decline, noting the change occurs over a matter of hours."

Debby, there is such a thing as water intoxication. Lets hope you don't get too many people asking.

Patricia_e, the thing is, panicky people are rushing around not listening to factual, official information and instead listening to kooks telling them to stock up on products that will be of limited to no use.

Are you ready if your town is put on lockdown? Do you have food, meds, and personal care products to last at least 2 weeks?

Love the drinking game!

Like everyone else, we have been discussing this a LOT lately. I don't want to seem really dense or ignorant but what is the deal with the bottled water? DH was at Costco and he said where they usually have pallets full from floor to ceiling, the cases of bottled water (like the 20 oz ones) were depleted.

Full disclosure--- I normally have very ample provisions around- I just find it efficient and comforting so I understand some of this. But the bottled water--- what's up with that?? Please enlighten me.

Salonva, the doomsday people think everyone is going to be sick or dead at the same time and there will be nobody at the plant to treat and produce fresh clean water. And the same goes for the people who work at the electric company. No electricity to pump the water.

Maybe the store should put up a sign.

I went to the grocery store yesterday, and it was completely out of toilet paper, which I needed to buy. Fortunately I could buy some at the CVS next door. I didn't even think to buy distilled water, which I need for my CPAP machine, but I'm not out yet. I'll look for it next time. It did not occur to me that people would think that there would be no tap water available. We do have earthquake supplies on hand at all times, and so we are prepared for that, but we are not quite prepared for an apocalypse, like some people seem to be expecting. It's starting to remind me of the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and some other sci-fi movies from the 1950s.

I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow morning. I'll see what he has to say about it. This disease has a low mortality rate for most people, especially people under 60, and so I do not expect people who work for the electric company to be decimated. I do think that people over 80 should perhaps limit their contact with large crowds, but that's about it.

I went to church this morning ... shook hands with the minister on the way out.

We had twelve tables, with a cake on each for people with birthdays in each month. Ours, January's, had a regular sized table as used in a public place, slightly over maybe 7 feet long, I think, with four seated down each side ... and one at one end, two at the other ... so no way were we giving each other three feet of space.

Hope we all survive.

I've been around for a number of years, and am taking what I feel to be valid precautions, but we have about 20 victims in our province of something like 10 million, all but one or two connected with recent distant travel.

Debbie of Calgary ... do you have enough reserve staff to fill in for the increased number of times that each server will need to visit the bathroom?

ole joyful

I believe part of the problem is a misunderstanding of what the word Pandemic means. It does not mean that everyone dies. It means lots and lots of people all over the world will get the disease and a percentage of them will get very sick and need medical care and some of those will die and if too many people need medical care and there isn't enough to go around more people will die. Perhaps explaining pandemic will help if you can get anyone to listen. We have been being prepared for this for some time. Each time we have had a disease with pandemic possibilities like SARS or what ever it has been contained. Not this time. So wash your hands and keep them away from you face.

And if it does reach the point as it has in parts of Italy where they are going into total shut down you need supplies to see you through that.

In the event your water is not treated and fresh I suspect you could just boil it before drinking. Slightly inconvenient but certain doable. Sheesh 😏!

If your minister is frequenting hospitals, I wouldn't take it so lightly joy. It's ok to be convivial, but even when I have a cold, I refrain from handshakes. This isn't a time to ignore it all. Some things make sense. I hope everyone stays well

I didn't wake early enough to hear local reports this morning, but yesterday we had report of about 20 that they are aware of being ill, with all but one or two having travelled internationally recently, in this province of something over 10 million.

And ours is rather a small community.

Maybe I'll decide within a few days to keep a metre away and bump elbows.

We welcomed new members by transfer to our congregation yesterday and I considered holding out my hand to a friend, as for handshake, a couple of feet away, saying "symbolic handshake", with a smile and a bit of a jocular demeanor. Actually, I touched his shoulder as I passed near him.

Being above age 90, I'm quite aware of being in the high risk category and the need to be extra careful.

ole joyful

((((joyful))))

You are too kind (for your own good). Stay well!!!