Self-quarantine plans

[lermgalieu]

I could have said “based on my direct evidence”, but I chose less learned tact. You’re welcome.

You could have said it, but it wouldn't have been true. You have examples from one district, as I read it. If those are multiple districts, it still doesn't prove what you are saying it does. I have examples from two, well, three different states if you include another example in Colorado, where my brother in law is a teacher.

 

[fishdreams]

Flew cross country for the client site on Sunday only to be ordered to return immediately.
Been working from home since Tuesday. Had another 4 consecutive weeks of flying to 3 destinations lined up that all now gonna get cancelled.

Still easy for me. My wife, who is the pro around the house, had a record release tour and a week in a prestigious jazz series in the city planned this month that is now pretty much all cancelled. That's months of hard work (composing, rehearsing, organizing, travel) down the drain - pretty devastating.

I guess we'll be doing a lot of composing and practicing.

 

[bassinplace]

I plan on living my life, same as any other day. If a government imposed lock down in my home is what occurs (I seriously doubt it), then it's me and you, bass. We've been through a lot together and we'll get through this as well. But honestly, I don't see that happening. No point in creating doomsday scenarios about something that hasn't happened and you can't control. You only live this life once. Live it to it's fullest, take it one day at a time, and when your final day does come (which you also have no idea when that will be) die happy. That's my plan, which remains unchanged from before all this broughaha started.

 

[bassinplace]

Flew cross country for the client site on Sunday only to be ordered to return immediately.
Been working from home since Tuesday. Had another 4 weeks consecutive week of flying to 3 destinations lined up that all now gonna get cancelled.

Still easy for me. My wife, who is the pro around the house, had a record release tour and a week in a prestigious jazz series in the city planned this month that is now pretty much all cancelled. That's months of hard work (composing, rehearsing, organizing, travel) down the drain - pretty devastating.

I guess we'll be doing a lot of composing and practicing.

Damn, that's so sad. Sorry to hear that, fishdreams. Brighter days ahead.

 

[petrus61]

You could have said it, but it wouldn't have been true. You have examples from one district, as I read it. If those are multiple districts, it still doesn't prove what you are saying it does. I have examples from two, well, three if you include another example in Colorado, where my brother in law is a teacher.

Three separate school districts, including, oh, I don’t know, an aunt in North Dakota if you want to add four. See where we’re going here?

 

[lermgalieu]

Three separate school districts, including, oh, I don’t know, an aunt in North Dakota if you want to add four. See where we’re going here?

Not really unless you ignore the three completely disparate examples I provided.

 

[petrus61]

Not really unless you ignore the three completely disparate examples I provided.

And you could ignore the three + I provided. Comprehension. Internet much?

Goodnight

 

[lermgalieu]

goodnight

Dude! You said "Most schools in the US that aren’t collegiate are pretty much handling it the same way as of today." And now you are acting as if I am being unreasonable for pointing out you are totally exaggerating and couldn't possibly have evidence to support that claim. You must be a real treat in an actual argument.

 

[fishdreams]

Damn, that's so sad. Sorry to hear that, fishdreams. Brighter days ahead.

Thanks man - I'll let her know. It helps.

While the assumption is that those gigs and tour are just postponed - she dont know that either. And who knows if the musicians are available then? And that week of jazz series for example typically gets booked 1-2 years in advance. So there's a lot head scratching ahead in the very best of scenarios.

It just sucks. But we'll live and make the best of it.

 

[lermgalieu]

And you could ignore the three + I provided. Comprehension. Internet much?

Uh, you are not very good at reading. I didn't say the opposite is true. I said WHAT YOU SAID IS NOT TRUE.

EDIT: Fyi, there are 13,506 school districts in the US. Step off.

 

[petrus61]

Dude! You said "Most schools in the US that aren’t collegiate are pretty much handling it the same way as of today." And now you are acting as if I am being unreasonable for pointing out you are totally exaggerating and couldn't possibly have evidence to support that claim. You must be a real treat in an actual argument.

Ill be your huckleberry

 

[casualmadness]

When we first moved to our current locale, there was a massive storm and hundreds of thousands of people in the area were without power for a couple weeks. People had to throw food out because refrigerators weren't working. It was miserable. We had been in town literally a day or two when the storm hit so we didn't have a place yet. We were staying with friends.
A few months later, I bought about 2-3 months worth of long shelf life, dehydrated food. Enough to feed the whole of us for said 2-3 months-if necessary. My wife rolled her eyes and muttered something about "crazy preppers." Today she went to costco (as her school is now closed.) She sent me some pictures of the bare shelves and the signs listing what all they had sold out of. Oh and the sign explaining only two of any product were allowed. She followed with "I've never seen anything like this." Next text from her was "So...a few years ago you bought all that dehydrated food. Do we still have that stuff?"

Cue the schadenfreude.

One of the "hats" I wear at my job is incident management/continuity of operations. I'm no scientist nor am I a doctor. SO maybe I'm ignorant but from an incident response standpoint, I'm not at all worried about coronavirus. I am, however, terrified of people who are panicked due to coronavirus. It's because of the overreaction of people, I'm planning to stay at home as much as humanly possible. Much like a black Friday sale, this will bring out the worst in humanity.

 

[Real Soon]

The dayjob's been letting me work from home a lot more in the last year, which is challenging because it's busy (and in healthcare support/communications), but I keep looking at the bass on my wall and pedalboard on the floor. *sigh*

But in the evenings, I've got a few more lessons in Roy Vogt's TMBG series that I'm picking back up on, and wanna really dig in on the Gwizdala Chordal Harmony & ii-V-I books. Going thru all 12 keys on everything like a disciplined student.

Also, I just got my hands on a sweet Yamaha digital piano with fully weighted keys, so I've got Hanon and a few other books to spend time on at the keyboard. And an electric drumkit to practice simple patterns and subdivisions on haha

The problem for me will be knowing when the quarantine should end, cuz as long as I have food and certain herbal ingredients, and also cat food for Deckard, I could happily stay in the house for weeks.

 

[pcake]

los angeles unified - one of the largest school districts in the U.S. and where i am - is not closing their schools. in some cases they're teaching online, but not most. they are shutting down large events.
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[Cutter8]

Glad you made a recovery!

Thanks.
I’m grateful (and lucky) to have gotten through it OK. In hindsight, I really should have been hospitalized. There were a dozen or more occasions when I was very close to going to the ER because I was having so much trouble breathing, but I stubbornly resisted. My wife’s not gonna get over being pissed off about that for a long time, and I can’t fault her for that. My dad was a world class athlete and military officer who very much raised me with the “rub some dirt on it and walk it off” mindset, and I have a terrible (and admittedly hypocritical) tendency to convince myself I don’t need medical attention for anything that doesn’t involve a helluva lot of blood or visibly broken bones. So, definitely don’t follow my example, but do heed my advice — Take the COVID-19 threat seriously, and if you or someone you know is sick and starts experiencing respiratory distress, don’t just wait and see how it goes, get medical attention!

 

[fishdreams]

Thanks.
I’m grateful (and lucky) to have gotten through it OK. In hindsight, I really should have been hospitalized. There were a dozen or more occasions when I was very close to going to the ER because I was having so much trouble breathing, but I stubbornly resisted. My wife’s not gonna get over being pissed off about that for a long time, and I can’t fault her for that. My dad was a world class athlete and military officer who very much raised me with the “rub some dirt on it and walk it off” mindset, and I have a terrible (and admittedly hypocritical) tendency to convince myself I don’t need medical attention for anything that doesn’t involve a helluva lot of blood or visibly broken bones. So, definitely don’t follow my example, but do heed my advice — Take the COVID-19 threat seriously, and if you or someone you know is sick and starts experiencing respiratory distress, don’t just wait and see how it goes, get medical attention!

Now that is the kind of advice we need, and more importantly, very glad to hear you made it through ok.

 

[lermgalieu]

Thanks.
I’m grateful (and lucky) to have gotten through it OK. In hindsight, I really should have been hospitalized. There were a dozen or more occasions when I was very close to going to the ER because I was having so much trouble breathing, but I stubbornly resisted. My wife’s not gonna get over being pissed off about that for a long time, and I can’t fault her for that. My dad was a world class athlete and military officer who very much raised me with the “rub some dirt on it and walk it off” mindset, and I have a terrible (and admittedly hypocritical) tendency to convince myself I don’t need medical attention for anything that doesn’t involve a helluva lot of blood or visibly broken bones. So, definitely don’t follow my example, but do heed my advice — Take the COVID-19 threat seriously, and if you or someone you know is sick and starts experiencing respiratory distress, don’t just wait and see how it goes, get medical attention!

We came back from Florida a few weeks ago and I was sick starting a couple of days later - terrible cough, shortness of breath, chills, aches, fever. I was diagnosed with flu type A. However, my wife and daughter both got "it", and it must have been the same thing, but both tested negative for flu. I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that my flu test was false positive and we actually all had COVID-19. My wife is still recovering from the coughing and shortness of breath symptoms - and those were by far the worst aspect for all of us. My daughter was barely sick - she had a bit of a cough and she had a fever one night, but she rebounded super quick.

 

[dalkowski]

I have half a mind to go out and get intentionally infected, and get the darn thing over with.

Can't say that hasn't crossed my mind. Mrs. would be displeased.

I'm a partner in my little startup company so I'm working from home trying to keep the business afloat. This "practice" thing you talk about sounds like a good idea for breaks. I'll look into it.

 

[LBS-bass]

if you're going to wipe down your counters, how about your door knobs, part of your doors you touch coming home and light switches that you turn on before you wash your hands?

and always wash your hands after handling money or cards that are always touching your cash. i cut down my illnesses dramatically by doing that and using wipes on shopping carts. used to average 5 illnesses per year; after i made those changes, down to two per year, and those are mostly from my husband's job where he has to talk to sick coworkers face to face in small spaces.

The doorknobs, cabinet handles, light switches and other handles that are frequently touched are what i concentrate on. Though I'm semiretired, the work I still do is petsitting and I can't take a day off because when my clients are out of town their pets still need care.

So when someone in my household is sick, I disinfect all of those things at least twice a day and try to make sure I am not touching surfaces the sick person has been around without cleaning them first. I'm not a germaphobe; when I had paid sick leave in my real job I didn't care so much, but this strategy has kept me from getting any of the colds that go around here so far. I'm just asking everyone here to do all of this on a regular basis now, so we'll see how it goes.

 

[Hambone70]

Lots of bass practice. Joined SBL. Beautiful weather for mountain biking. Income taxes. Might even clean out the garage.

The hysteria is going to take a while to end. Best of luck to all in the health care industry, and to anyone adversely affected by the panic.