COVID impacts

[litfan10]

That's just ludicrous. Another example of an out of control medical system. Without a prescription it runs about $160 in Canada. That translates to around $112 American. In the province I'm in, seniors get their drugs free.

I'd get on my soapbox here, but it will only end once enough of you say enough.

Here in America without insurance insulin costs at least $600 for a single pen which generally lasts a third to half a month depending on how serious the diabetes is. Don't forget, diabetics generally need a daily maintenance insulin pen and a fast acting insulin pen when blood sugar is high so that means two pens at $600 each and at best it will last half a month. One month supply of insulin costs the uninsured $2,400 at a minimum.

 

[gordo12]

Here in America without insurance insulin costs at least $600 for a single pen which generally lasts a third to half a month depending on how serious the diabetes is. Don't forget, diabetics generally need a daily maintenance insulin pen and a fast acting insulin pen when blood sugar is high so that means two pens at $600 each and at best it will last half a month. One month supply of insulin costs the uninsured $2,400 at a minimum.

The amount I quoted was for a month.

 

[litfan10]

The amount I quoted was for a month.

I know someone on a drug that would cost the uninsured over $6,000 a month.

It is crazy here

 

[gordo12]

Despite knowing the disease was hitting the US Trump allowed sales of PPE to go to China. Leaving the US short. More in some cases than the shortages needed by the health system now.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mar...virus-crisis-here/ar-BB125TUq?ocid=spartanntp

And US companies are still free to sell their PPE to anyone that pays the most. Every other country has banned sales like that.

"I’m now hearing from distributors that foreign governments are showing up with cash at these factories and bumping everybody else down the line who had orders pending,”

 

[litfan10]

Despite knowing the disease was hitting the US Trump allowed sales of PPE to go to China. Leaving the US short. More in some cases than the shortages needed by the health system now.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mar...virus-crisis-here/ar-BB125TUq?ocid=spartanntp

And US companies are still free to sell their PPE to anyone that pays the most. Every other country has banned sales like that.

"I’m now hearing from distributors that foreign governments are showing up with cash at these factories and bumping everybody else down the line who had orders pending,”

Yeah well now it turns out that great covid testing app from Google that Trump promised actually was from a firm heavily invested in by Joshua Kushner, Trump's son in law Jared Kushner's younger brother. It never came to be as it violates all kinds of ethics rules.

 

[oggbashan]

EBay

One of the effects I have noticed of Covid-19 is that the number of eBay sales offers has increased but prices are lower.

I had been acquiring books for a now-closed school where one of the family's friends is a librarian with NO library. I had already given her about three hundred books from my own collection but she needs modern teen fiction and up-to-date reference books for teenagers with limited reading ability.

I had left minimal bids on a number of items and have been successful more often than I expected. I now have another three hundred books for her to collect when she can.

 

[TxRad]

Friday, they closed the Corona Beer plants. Now the pandemic will stop.

 

[oggbashan]

Friday, they closed the Corona Beer plants. Now the pandemic will stop.

Guinness is good for you:

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/05/a6/19/05a619c466193e1aec003b8c5bfab7ea--vintage-posters-vintage-ads.jpg

Colman's mustard for the flu:

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/06/article-2717690-204CA3BD00000578-574_470x725.jpg

OR?

http://cbsnews3.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2014/07/26/82c78ace-246f-4806-b4f1-e5342946a611/resize/620x465/2ce115ee24795c07775a6c6b29c12666/cigarette-ads-asthma-cigarettes-stanford.jpg

 

[oggbashan]

One of our neighbours is sewing masks.

She ran out of elastic so asked if we had any. We were able to give her an unopened pack.

Another neighbour gave us a sealed 5-pack of masks made in China!

 

[NotWise]

One of our neighbours is sewing masks.

She ran out of elastic so asked if we had any. We were able to give her an unopened pack.

Another neighbour gave us a sealed 5-pack of masks made in China!

My wife is making masks, too. She made enough for the family before she ran out of some of the supplies. Resupplying so she can make more has been a pain in the butt.

 

[SimonDoom]

OR?

http://cbsnews3.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2014/07/26/82c78ace-246f-4806-b4f1-e5342946a611/resize/620x465/2ce115ee24795c07775a6c6b29c12666/cigarette-ads-asthma-cigarettes-stanford.jpg

"Asthma cigarettes" -- that's my favorite.

 

[oggbashan]

"Asthma cigarettes" -- that's my favorite.

https://www.superfoodly.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/healthy-cigarette-ad.jpg

https://editorial.designtaxi.com/news-smoke1804/10.jpg

https://americanhistory.si.edu/sites/default/files/blog_files/a/6a00e553a80e10883401a73d905f00970d-800wi.png

https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6205/6080120075_60ee3c7640_b.jpg

 

[JamesMiehoff]

Ogg, you missed a couple of my favorites.

They are included in this article.

Morphine for teething children. Heroin for coughs. Cannabis wine. Good all round healthy alternatives to that evil alcohol.

James

 

[oggbashan]

Ogg, you missed a couple of my favorites.

They are included in this article.

Morphine for teething children. Heroin for coughs. Cannabis wine. Good all round healthy alternatives to that evil alcohol.

James

My favorites as a youngster were gripe water made with almost neat gin, and in the 1960s Dr Collis Browne:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorodyne

Collis-Browne was fearsome and addictive.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7c/Chlorodyne_advert.png/220px-Chlorodyne_advert.png


https://i.pinimg.com/originals/24/77/d9/2477d91d0bc16adac2f8f127dcb55165.jpg

 

[JamesMiehoff]

My favorites as a youngster were gripe water made with almost neat gin, and in the 1960s Dr Collis Browne:

Yep, everything goes better with some form of opiate, alcohol and a pinch of cocaine.

James

 

[vanmyers86]

Tangential, but I am finding the situation is affecting my writing. I am about 23,000 words into a story in which one character, a sweetheart of a girl, was supposed to die. I don't like killing off characters at the best of times, and I am finding myself very reluctant to sit down and do my job, which is to tell the story.

Right now, I just don't have the heart for it. But I have so much time and effort invested in this tale that it's unthinkable to abandon it, either.

Not sure what I'm looking for here, but thought I would share.

 

[BelleCanzuto]

Tangential, but I am finding the situation is affecting my writing. I am about 23,000 words into a story in which one character, a sweetheart of a girl, was supposed to die. I don't like killing off characters at the best of times, and I am finding myself very reluctant to sit down and do my job, which is to tell the story.

Right now, I just don't have the heart for it. But I have so much time and effort invested in this tale that it's unthinkable to abandon it, either.

Not sure what I'm looking for here, but thought I would share.

I'm having a hard time concentrating long enough to edit happy stories that are basically complete. I understand where you're coming from. There's more than enough increased stress to go around. That'll effects all of us.

 

[oggbashan]

I'm having a hard time concentrating long enough to edit happy stories that are basically complete. I understand where you're coming from. There's more than enough increased stress to go around. That'll effects all of us.

I have been enjoying the sunshine today, out in my front garden looking out to sea. I think I have written about 50 words to one story.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I have been enjoying the sunshine today, out in my front garden looking out to sea. I think I have written about 50 words to one story.

I'm the opposite. I knocked out 2,500 yesterday, which for me is a lot in one day. I might do the same today. It's a Covid-19 story, with the characters from A Girl on the Bus.

 

[Javahead]

I'm the opposite. I knocked out 2,500 yesterday, which for me is a lot in one day. I might do the same today. It's a Covid-19 story, with the characters from A Girl on the Bus.

I’m having problems concentrating, but that may be as much essential laziness as the current situation.

I’ve one story completed, bits of a couple more, and notes for the one I intend to work on next, but I get about 80-90% done and have a hard time doing that last little bit. Even if it’s nothing more than a final edit.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I’m having problems concentrating, but that may be as much essential laziness as the current situation.

Mine is writing itself, another 900 words with my morning coffee. I've just resolved the conundrum, how does an occasional couple decide if/how/when to touch, so I can get on with it now and write the sex, just with a modified approach. Just as well we have E&V as a category, eh? I hope it's not swamped like some other categories seem to be.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I'm having a hard time concentrating long enough to edit happy stories that are basically complete. I understand where you're coming from. There's more than enough increased stress to go around. That'll effects all of us.

No joking. Got off my shift and even though it’s not that busy here, I just can’t focus. Maybe tomorrow. I have a couple of days off.

 

[gordo12]

Well, our stress levels went up today. One of the receptionists went home today with a temperature and sore throat. My wife was talking to her yesterday.

We're trying to divvy up the house now so we stay out of contact.

I went to Micky D's for takeout. MY milkshake was sitting on the table. My back was turned. Turning back, I had my suspicions. She never orders drinks, but has no problem helping herself to mine. (fries too)

"Did you take a sip out of that?"
"Yes."
"I guess it's yours now."
"I won't drink it."

One milkshake down the sink. Grrrrr!

 

[RejectReality]

Still utter panic mode on toilet paper, any kind hand sanitizer, any kind of disinfectant, and especially Clorox/Lysol wipes. You only get any of that stuff if you show up within an hour of the truck arriving at the store.

Everything else seems to be back to normal, but those are being perpetuated by the shortages and store imposed limits. Even the average person will snatch one up the moment they see it, even if they don't need it, because they so rarely see it. So everybody who didn't panic in the beginning is panicking now. Eventually, they'll be stocked up like the initial hoarders. Probably a couple more weeks.

In the meantime, everything else calming down has flipped how the lockdowns are affecting me at work. We've gone from working 2-4 hours longer for this time of year to working 2-4 hours less than normal for this time of year.

That tells me that a significant number of people are obeying the stay-at-home orders. Perfectly fine with me. The less time I have to spend out in public, the better. I only work three days next week, and then I'm off for a week on vacation. Pretty good timing, considering when the estimated peak for my home and work states is around that week I'm off. I planned the vacation in December, and added the Saturday next week sometime in about mid February.

In-classroom school was officially cancelled for the rest of the year a couple of days ago. Our district was a couple of weeks ahead of the state on shutting down, before even the first confirmed case in the area. 1 to 1 Ipads and having already started a pilot program for E-learning every so often + snow days meant our district was able to make the transition much more quickly and smoothly than many. Probably a part of why confirmed cases are less than 5 per county for several counties around us. We shut down in mid-March. Eliminating those germ factories has to have helped.

Most of the regional churches shut down services at about the same time the schools shut down as well. Pretty heavy on the bible-thumping, but also an element of you have to be self-reliant, so god expects you to take care of yourself and your neighbors as well. Not much of the crazy god can tame rattlesnakes and stop bullets stuff. Most people are still tithing even without services, so there wasn't much consternation about canceling services.

Once you eliminate schools and churches, there are very few places large numbers of people gather around here. Not much stir-crazy, because there was never anything to do anyway. People are used to it. LOL The two primary spring activities people engage in are mushroom hunting and fishing, and they're so secretive about where those spots are that there won't be large gatherings from that, either. Everybody is already trying to hide from everybody else to protect their secret spot.

 

[NotWise]

One milkshake down the sink. Grrrrr!

Really? I always thought that couples were in it together. If my wife has it, I have it, and so on. You can't cause anything but unnecessary friction if you try to do it some other way.