Instead of Friday fun.

[fridi]

I'm curious as to what others are doing to prepare for what's coming. We're far from seeing the worse of this yet. I know that many have been stockpiling food and other non-perishables but I want to know what steps others are taking to help prevent the spread of this virus.

Here's my advice. Make a plan, a long-term one, for yourself and your family. God help everyone, I hope we can all survive this.

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[asthfghl]

I'm using the last opportunities to set up an outdoors office (with an office assistant, obvs), before they block everything starting from tomorrow.

[abomvubuso]

Practicing social distancing, heh :)

[dewline]

Working through this day by day. I can't afford to stop the job search, and there's a quote from the first MCU Avengers movie that I like for my mental health's sake. You may remember it as one of Nick Fury's early statements:

Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.

[mikeyxw]

Working from home and not going out too much. I go to the park with the dog to go walking or running. I have to occasionally go meet with people, but we can keep our distance. I've done it for a week and it doesn't bother me too much, but then I'm a pretty dedicated introvert.

The kids are out of school until further notice. Their school is trying distance learning, which should keep them busy. There's always duct tape if that doesn't work. ;)

I didn't stock up much, but then I've always bought in bulk, so I always have quite a bit on hand. There are still big trucks delivering stuff to the store every day, so I can't see the concern there. Friends from China are offering to send me surgical masks, but I'd feel weird walking around with them here.

[johnny9fingers]

I'm semi-retired but I do still gig and record from time to time. I've had all the wedding band gigs cancelled. I've lost a couple of festival gigs, and all other occasional session work has dried up.

I no longer teach; so when the music biz has shut down what I do that isn't concerned with my kids or my books is pretty perfunctory. The 82 year old mother looks to be vulnerable; but I suspect if she caught Covid19, it would either be browbeaten into submission, or she'd welcome it; depending on her mood. But getting her to adapt her behaviour to include social distancing isn't really going to work.

Some old folk would rather die than change, it appears. And trying to be stern with a 5ft 1in force of nature doesn't really work either: the trick is to try to anticipate her needs; but her whims are another matter.

The lunatics bulk-buying perishables irritate the hell out of me.

[nairiporter]

I sew face masks out of silk cloth. :-)

[dancesofthelight]

My family has two months' worth of food and a relatively isolated neighborhood that gives plenty of room for a two mile walk or just being outside in the yard to mitigate cabin fever. I have been making a good faith effort to keep my white trans ass home and not going out anywhere, because I don't need it.

My plans are for at least two months in an immediate sense, if not in a higher one.

Louisiana, according to the governor, literally has one of the highest rates of infection worldwide. Fear may be the appropriate response to that but all I can do is go from day to day aiming to survive and pace myself in a marathon. Including hopefully being able to start my first novel well before NaNoWriMo.

[duskpeterson]

I began making my plans in late February, because I was listening to scientists and doctors talk on Twitter and was thinking, Oh god. Here was my plan, which I finalized the day before we went into self-isolation, March 7:

https://duskpeterson.dreamwidth.org/297424.html#cutid2

I and my companion are quarantined now - turns out we weren't quick enough to self-isolate :/ - but the plan worked out beautifully in terms of supplies. The only things I ended up having to buy (aside from regular groceries) were (1) a pulse oximeter and (2) chocolate. Lots of chocolate.