It’s official. My county has issued a shelter in place order for the next three weeks. We’re supposed to stay at home except for necessary stuff like groceries.
Interesting thing: The college has postponed classes until April 6th. The shelter in place order is until April 7th.
We went to the market this morning.
Saw only one person wearing a mask.
All the tellers who handled the money wore gloves.
The lady who let us into the banking hall made a brief speech about corona and said that you should not store your money in your bra, panties/underwear or shoes. WTF.
Since cash is also a vector for transmission (told my wife this, picked it up on my trawlings through reddit) we now handle cash with gloves, then put it in a plastic baggie (plastic which get disposed of sensibly and responsibly) so we have been minimizing our contact with possible COVID-19 viruses.
Some stalls give you the opportunity to squirt sanitizer on your hands, others are not there.
Hopefully people will be more aware the next time we go.
As of today, our count is 116 infected.
Shit is getting real here.
Government have zipped information up, and will be controlling it tightly.
Now, it can be a good thing… sorting the wheat from the chaff so to say…
or … the situation is out of control.
Stay safe. I’m going to stay home for the most part, but I will need to venture out for veggies, cat food, and quail food. I will probably reduce the size of my covey again in the next week or so.
You too must stay safe 
Oz has closed it’s borders (for the most part) and anyone arriving has to enter a 14-day “self isolation” period. Except it’s not enforced, as far as I can tell, and newly arrived people can just wander around. 
Similarly, a level 4 “Do not travel” rating has been issued to the rest of the world.
Work is getting prepped for everyone to work from home for the foreseeable future. Which annoys me as I prefer the distinct separation between “work” and “home”. Not to mention the better bandwidth at work and the coffee machine… 
As for the current count of people infected? 565 so far, and hitting the exponential curve now. As we roll into winter, that number will skyrocket.
Oh, and our supermarkets have been emptied. No pasta, flour, rice, tinned vegetables, fresh meat, long-life vegetables like potatoes, frozen pre-packaged meals, tissues, toilet paper, soap, hand sanitiser, shampoo, toothpaste…
I’m waiting for the crossbow-wielding punk gangs to sweep out of the wastelands and start looting…
Go outside, get some air and sunshine, they said. It’s healthier not to be sitting in front of the TV or computer, they said. The times, they are a’changin’.
At work this morning, a person was playing some sort of covid rap song. I didn’t hear all of it but I think one part had the singer saying that if he learned people were going out to places where they could get or transmit the virus, he’d find them, with the implication of a severe beating for the stupidity of the action.
The joke in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy about the Golgafrinchans shipping out the useless third of their population and dying from a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone is sounding less and less like a joke.
Mad Max…
Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.
Yes. We’d been talking about this last week when the Dragonlady told me about the plan to sterilize all the books that came into the library. I figured that she’d be on Ark B.
WFH instituted by my company for non-store employees as of this past Monday. All our stores were shut down effective end of day Tuesday - we are continuing to pay our staff. Minimal back of house staff working to fulfil online orders. I suspect there won’t be a lot of online orders as I work for a “luxury retailer” and there probably aren’t a lot of people buying $5,000 dresses right now. Management has been pretty good about communicating during the period leading up to this. Right now, all measures are “until further notice”.
All of CA is under stay at home orders now.
Wonder how long before other will start doing the same?
High possibility that my parents (dad and stepmom) got the bug.
Last time I have seen them was a month ago.
My company has always encouraged WFH, and I was relying on that to work after my surgery. (Boy do I hope I can avoid a coughing thing. My split chest is still healing!)
Now EVERYONE is doing it… except my wife’s company. They have small, two-or-three person stores that sell directly to a trade, no retail sales.
One of her two coworkers does NOT get the “cover your mouth” and “stay off my desk” rules, and she has to keep going or 1) lose pay or 2) lose her job, maybe.
I told her I’d rather she lose pay than get sick… if they’d institute a rotational thing, maybe… each one works 2 days out of 3, or even 1 in 3.
At least they seemed to get the social distancing, a little. The one who’s the worst at hygiene parked himself in their little warehouse, leaving my wife in the office on the phones.
My take on that as well.
May everything works out for you guys.
Indeed. Both of my roommates are now temporarily laid off because of this. One is because he works for a manufacturing facility of some sort (think pipe cutters and CNC machines) who closed down and “laid off” most of the people so they could collect unemployment and will bring them back on when they reopen. The other works as a contractor through a temp agency for some other form of manufacturer and doesn’t get sick time, so her contract is basically dead in the water since they’re closing and she can’t work from home.
Looks like we may be going to split teams to try and stay open. Limited staffing. Hopefully get the team with my bff or it’s gonna be a miserable time. She keeps me sane. 
