Aside from not being able to find eggs or TP at the store yesterday my day to day life has not been impacted at all by this. My company claims we're essential. There were zero cases confirmed in the county I live in last I checked. Hell I went and got my tags renewed at the DMV a couple days ago. Everyone that I know has been maintaining a business as usual mentality. It's surreal seeing everyone else around the country talking about lockdowns and everything. If it wasn't for social media I really couldn't tell anything is going on.
In reply to Nick Comstock :
Aka not being able to follow simple instructions
In reply to ChrisLS8 :
To my knowledge no one is doing anything they aren't supposed to be doing.
Mndsm
MegaDork
3/29/20 8:38 a.m.
Nick Comstock said:
Aside from not being able to find eggs or TP at the store yesterday my day to day life has not been impacted at all by this. My company claims we're essential. There were zero cases confirmed in the county I live in last I checked. Hell I went and got my tags renewed at the DMV a couple days ago. Everyone that I know has been maintaining a business as usual mentality. It's surreal seeing everyone else around the country talking about lockdowns and everything. If it wasn't for social media I really couldn't tell anything is going on.
You've been in my area enough times. We went to Epcot together. It's a ghost town around here. So bizarre.
A lady at the convenience store down the road takes the cake for me. This lady sucks to begin with; before all of this, she would act like she owned the place (it's a big Northeast chain store), rudely bosses both customers AND coworkers around (she's not a manager) and she doesn't even wear a uniform like the rest of the employees.
A couple days ago, the wife and I were grabbing a few things in the store and a line started forming behind us. Instead of hopping behind a register and helping out, she belittled the poor guy ringing us up for not "ringing the bell" that gets other associates up to ring people out. Then, she went outside to rip a cig instead of helping out. We felt so embarrassed for the poor guy; their job right now is hard enough as it is!
On the way out, my wife mentioned to me how rude the lady was, and she overheard us talking about it. She said "Who was being rude, I want to know!" and the wife said not to worry about it. I said to the wife, "I don't even know if she really works here; she's always here but never wears a uniform". And she did NOT like that. She started getting rude with me, saying "Oh, I don't work here? Ok pal! Get outta here!". I didn't respond.
Again, these workers do not need any other added crap, and neither do the customers. This miserable sow had no right to belittle people and act the way she did. I hate to be "that guy" but their corporate office was called. Again, she was doing this long before the current situation arose; it's just the way she is.
Having been one of those lovely essential workers because I work construction. I think a lot of the owners are abusing the essential details of it. We are deemed essential only because I was at SeaTac airport working on the New International Arrivals Facility. What did that get me well a few more weeks of regular pay. Kick ass traffic as in there was none. If anyone lives or has been to Seattle lately it's worse than New York I wish I was kidding. Well it finally happened two of the framers tested positive for the virus. This was Thursday I took a Standby for the 2 week duration as my luck would have it. I just happened to be working with one of the two that was infected. Now any other normal operation is to shut down for two weeks mandatory. Hahaha yeah right there back up and open as of tomorrow Monday the 30th having supposedly sanitizing the whole site. My ass that happened. Believe me the majority of construction workers don't want to be out there risking the chance of catching this. The problem is all the stupid loopholes that the government puts out for there jobs to be construed as essential.
Duke
MegaDork
3/30/20 9:39 a.m.
According the governor of Delaware, florists are considered an essential business.
Duke said:
According the governor of Delaware, florists are considered an essential business.
Obviously for all the funerals that will happen shortly.
Well all being essential got me (well actually my wife and then subsequently me) was an involuntary 2 week 'ronaed up unpaid vacation. I don't think I've ever had a fever last this long.
In reply to Mndsm :
Yeah it's day 4 for me 5 for my wife. Her temp hasn't really gotten high at all but she lost her sense of smell and taste. So far it's just been a rough case of the flu for me. temp was 99.5 thursday morning and has settled back down to around that after peaking at 102.3 late Friday night. It's not the end of the world, but I'm sad I won't get to buy car parts with my stimulus check now 
In reply to minivan_racer :
I wish you and your wife good health. Losing sense of smell is a telltale sign from what I've read.
I'm essential somehow as an architect. My current project is a $275M office building.. in week 53 of 120. Last month they billed $11.5M and it was mostly concrete structure. That's a LOT and it equates to about 450 heads on site daily.
They've instituted distance rules and you can't enter the site without having your temperature taken. I have only been on site once in the last five weeks, and I arrived 4pm to try to avoid a crowd. But it's definitely a crowd and I'm concerned for the well being of these tradespeople. But I'm thankful as hell for my paycheck even though it's been cut by 15% (as an austerity measure to keep more of my co workers employed).
In reply to OHSCrifle :
She's a healthcare worker, she heard through the grapevine about a week ago that there was a possible exposure, she heard official word that someone tested positive Monday or Tuesday and had symptoms Wednesday. Test came back Friday for her. I'm trying to find testing for myself now because my work wants me to be tested even though I was exposed and have symptoms.
In reply to minivan_racer :
Best to both of you. My wife is likewise a HC worker.. in a major metro hospital. She's had contact with "rule out" and confirmed Covid-19 patients. The "relaxed" PPE rules they keep changing are bullE36 M3. Lucky so far. It's berkeleying scary.
In reply to OHSCrifle :
Her unit was the "clean" unit, she most likely caught it from a co-worker although they were having issues with ED sending patients to them that were symptomatic though, and they were having to advocate for testing. Her current hospital is the in the smallest of our state's major healthcare providers. I'm just glad she wasn't at a downtown hosipital anymore, i'm sure it would've happened sooner.
Stupidest? That'd be me because I still have to work as an essential employee.
they are painting the apartment building across the street ,
must be "essential"
Stuipdest essential worker?
Mike. Mike's a berkeleying idiot.
