COVID questions

[Dave Gray]

Do you know anyone personally (not a friend of a friend) who has a confirmed case of COVID19?

Do you know anyone who knows anyone who personally lost someone from it?

Who is the most notable person for you that has died from it?

Are you working?  Just as much, reduced, not at all?  Are you working from home or at a business or a little of both?  Is your work easier/harder?  If you are working, is your business suffering financially from the hit to the economy?

Who are you most worried about getting COVID19 in your personal life?

Outside of things you have to do: work, laundry, cooking -- have you taken on any projects at home?  Like art or repair or anything?

[Fau Teixeira]

No

No

No thoughts on that.

Yes, just as much, remotely from home. I find it easier to work from home. My company is suffering of course, it makes travel booking software.

My parents, they're old.

I've ordered parts and am fixing nagging things on my car. I got rid of att altogether, (wireless, cable, internet) got google FI for wireless, comcast for just internet and am streaming anything i'm watching .. (that saved me a ton of money) We have a couple of 1000 piece puzzles we're working on together as a family.

[Sunstroke]

Yes, a cousin...and he is fine now.

No

No one that I know has died

I am working my normal hours at the office, and still working a little bit on moonlighting jobs at night from home.

My mother...it's the person I always worry about, regardless of the issue causing the worry.

I've added some solar lights in the backyard, gotten my bathroom so sparkling clean that I could use my bathtub as a large bowl for chili (or cereal, should it be breakfast time).

[Dave Gray]

It might be in bad form but I'm going to answer my own questions:

Do you know anyone personally (not a friend of a friend) who has a confirmed case of COVID19?

No.

Do you know anyone who knows anyone who personally lost someone from it?

No.

Who is the most notable person for you that has died from it?

This is not a famous person, but there was an Internet story from several years ago where this grandma accidentally texted a young black guy on Thanksgiving.  In a twist, he ended up going to Thanksgiving and have been having Thanksgiving with that family every year.  It was just a nice story.  I just saw today that her husband died from it.  For some reason, that was a sad one....just made it a little bit real, because I'd gotten happiness from their story in the past.

Are you working?  Just as much, reduced, not at all?  Are you working from home or at a business or a little of both?  Is your work easier/harder?  If you are working, is your business suffering financially from the hit to the economy?

I'm working as much, but I'm able to do it easier.  A lot of my job requires being available but I don't have to grind every day.  (Only days when I have a project to do.)  Because of that, I am able to get my work done in what I perceive to be a shorter amount of time -- plus taking away the commute and getting kids to school and all that.  It's way easier for me.  Our business has clients that are struggling and now with so many jobs lost, the cashflow is hurting.  The silver-living (if you can call it that) is that our business will likely do very well once things start to recover.

Who are you most worried about getting COVID19 in your personal life?

My mother in law.  She (like me) gets respiratory issues when she's sick.  And she lives alone and cares for not just our kids but her other grandchild.  She's really out of her routine.  I worry that she'll be rushing to get back to normal and put herself at risk.

Outside of things you have to do: work, laundry, cooking -- have you taken on any projects at home?  Like art or repair or anything?

I have sold some things on Ebay (not sure that counts as Corona time but I probably wouldn't have done it otherwise.  My big thing is I'm hanging cabinets in my garage and re-organizing that space.  Plus, all my other projects (fish tanks, composter, etc) are taking up time here and there.  I'm also taking my other pop-culture stuff, like TV and video games and doing a little every day, where I used to skip here and there.

[stinkfish]

Yes

Not yet

Nobody

I'm "essential" so yes. Wish I were paid like I'm "essential"

My father, my wife who is an RN and my 4 year old daughter and my 8 month old daughter

No

[Phishfan]

No one personally but we quarantined someone from work whose sister, they live together,  tested positive.

No death experience yet.

John Prine is the most notable so far.

I am in an essential industry so I am working as much as always.  There has been some slowdown though.

I worry most about my parents.

Since I am working as much as always I don't have any additional time for projects.

Thanks Dave.  I wanted to do something similar but hadn't gotten to it.

[CF DolFan]

Do you know anyone personally (not a friend of a friend) who has a confirmed case of COVID19?

No

Do you know anyone who knows anyone who personally lost someone from it?

Not that I know of

Who is the most notable person for you that has died from it?

Would have to say John Prine.

Are you working?  Just as much, reduced, not at all?  Are you working from home or at a business or a little of both?  Is your work easier/harder?  If you are working, is your business suffering financially from the hit to the economy?

Still working on a construction site in an Orlando neighborhood. It's business as usual onsite.

Who are you most worried about getting COVID19 in your personal life?

In-laws

Outside of things you have to do: work, laundry, cooking -- have you taken on any projects at home?  Like art or repair or anything?

Not really. We've been riding our motorcycles or going out on the boat on the weekends and ride our bicycles during the evenings.

My life is hindered by not eating out with friends, doing group events on the water or Harleys and shopping almost anywhere. Small price to pay for staying healthy thru this IMO.   

[CF DolFan]

Does anyone else think death numbers are ridiculously higher than they should be? I swear I heard nurses discussing this a couple of weeks ago and now it seems to be more prevalent. They said that they declare almost anything as a corona-virus death. Now people are trying to figure out why heart attacks and pneumonia deaths have completely dropped off. It's pretty obvious they are putting them into the rona category.

[Pappy13]

Do you know anyone personally (not a friend of a friend) who has a confirmed case of COVID19?

Yes, my daughter has tested positive. She works in the medical industry and had a fever of 103 last week and was tested positive. She really didn't get that sick, but she's quarantined now.

Do you know anyone who knows anyone who personally lost someone from it?

No.

Who is the most notable person for you that has died from it?

None.

Are you working?  Just as much, reduced, not at all?  Are you working from home or at a business or a little of both?  Is your work easier/harder?  If you are working, is your business suffering financially from the hit to the economy?

Working from home. Same hours. Work is pretty much the same although we are not as busy just because the airline industry has lost about 90% of our business.

Who are you most worried about getting COVID19 in your personal life?

My Wife. She has diabetes and smokes plus she's in her 50's like me.

Outside of things you have to do: work, laundry, cooking -- have you taken on any projects at home?  Like art or repair or anything?

I'm still working so I haven't changed anything really except eating out. We have only eaten out once since this started. I went through the drive through at a local Chick Filet and 2 days later it was shut down because someone tested positive there. Haven't eaten out again.

[Brian Fein]

Do you know anyone personally (not a friend of a friend) who has a confirmed case of COVID19?

Not yet. I know 2 people that think they had it but one never got tested and one is waiting on the test result.

Do you know anyone who knows anyone who personally lost someone from it?

Not yet

Who is the most notable person for you that has died from it?

No one, really.  Yet...

Are you working?  Just as much, reduced, not at all?  Are you working from home or at a business or a little of both?  Is your work easier/harder?  If you are working, is your business suffering financially from the hit to the economy?

I have been working from home, but my company has been shut down this week.  Forced Vacation.  Will resume working next week, from home.

Who are you most worried about getting COVID19 in your personal life?

MY wife is on immunosuppressant drugs.  My mom turns 70 and a cancer survivor.  My grandmother is 96 and undergoing cancer treatment now.  Pretty much everyone around me is high risk.

Outside of things you have to do: work, laundry, cooking -- have you taken on any projects at home?  Like art or repair or anything?

I have been working on a few art projects.  I am trying to learn airbrush.  I have a few home improvement projects going and i cleaned half of my garage.  Overall, pretty productive.

[BuccaneerBrad]

1. Do you know anyone personally (not a friend of a friend) who has a confirmed case of COVID19?

2. Do you know anyone who knows anyone who personally lost someone from it?

3. Who is the most notable person for you that has died from it?

4. Are you working?  Just as much, reduced, not at all?  Are you working from home or at a business or a little of both?  Is your work easier/harder?  If you are working, is your business suffering financially from the hit to the economy?

5. Who are you most worried about getting COVID19 in your personal life?

6. Outside of things you have to do: work, laundry, cooking -- have you taken on any projects at home?  Like art or repair or anything?

1. No I don't but some of my friends have relatives who do.

2. One friend hasn't yet lost her relative yet, but it's only a matter of time.   Her aunt was in the final stages of Alzheimer's when she came down with it.  She is now in a coma and on a respirator.

3. The pastor who said that COVID-19 was a hoax to take down President Trump.  While I don't appreciate the leftists who blame Trump for every little thing to do with this whole mess (and anything else), COVID-19 was definitely not a hoax.  

4.  I've been furloughed from my job.   They are at least paying my health benefits.  My job is open on a limited basis and we are taking customers one at a time (I'm a hearing aid specialist at Audibel).     I've found a side gig to get me by and I'm doing very well with it.  I shop and deliver groceries for Shipt and Instacart.   Business is booming in that category.

5.  My mom and stepdad.  They are both in their 70's and my mom's health is starting to deteriorate.   My stepdad is diabetic.  

6.  I'm re-doing the landscaping in my front yard.   Tore up the grass about a foot from the front edges of my house and put in a rock bed.  Then I put solar outdoor lamps in the rocks, the kind that you just stick in the ground.  They give off a nice glow at night.   My next project is to paint both my guest bedrooms.  

[Dave Gray]

Does anyone else think death numbers are ridiculously higher than they should be? I swear I heard nurses discussing this a couple of weeks ago and now it seems to be more prevalent. They said that they declare almost anything as a corona-virus death. Now people are trying to figure out why heart attacks and pneumonia deaths have completely dropped off. It's pretty obvious they are putting them into the rona category.

I had heard similar things, but for different reasons.  There are fewer heart attacks because people aren't doing stuff that would trigger a heart attack -- they're chilling at home.  Same with other illnesses.  Pneumonia that you might catch from getting out and getting sick, you're less likely to catch.  Car injuries are almost down to nothing.

[CF DolFan]

I had heard similar things, but for different reasons.  There are fewer heart attacks because people aren't doing stuff that would trigger a heart attack -- they're chilling at home.  Same with other illnesses.  Pneumonia that you might catch from getting out and getting sick, you're less likely to catch.  Car injuries are almost down to nothing.

I get the accident things but I would think heart attacks would be higher now as I can't think of a time when so much of the country has been severely stressed out. In my experience it's bad health and stress which cause heart attacks and not so much the act they were doing. I've had several friends have them after going to sleep but I can't think of one that had it while running etc.

Florida Blue is accepting phone calls from everyone, regardless of coverage, just to try and calm peoples fears and help them deal with the stresses of today. 

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

Does anyone else think death numbers are ridiculously higher than they should be? I swear I heard nurses discussing this a couple of weeks ago and now it seems to be more prevalent. They said that they declare almost anything as a corona-virus death. Now people are trying to figure out why heart attacks and pneumonia deaths have completely dropped off. It's pretty obvious they are putting them into the rona category.

There is no uniformity.  And numbers can go both ways.  If you test positive for covid-19 and have a heart attack, that might get recorded as Covid 19, even if the heart attack wasn’t actually caused by covid 19.  OTOH, in NYC it is believed the deaths from covid 19 are actually much higher than reported.  As in hundreds a day.  If someone dies at home even if they had 100% of the covid symptoms they aren’t recorded as covid 19 unless tested and nyc can’t spare tests to test deceased.

[stinkfish]

Here’s a vivid question. Are you ready for the world wide baby boom that’s going to happen over the next few months because of all of this staying at home orders?