COVID impacts

[_Lynn_]

Enough of this talk about writing and posting and favouriting, what I want to know is: when can I get a haircut? I'm disappearing under this silver thatch.

My hair is normally short (similar to how Jamie Lee Curtis wears hers). By the time the salons are open, they'll be so busy it will takes weeks to get in. I could cut the top and sides myself but not the back so I'll let it grow.

 

[_Lynn_]

The little village I live in now has a confirmed case of Covid-19.

 

[oggbashan]

The little village I live in now has a confirmed case of Covid-19.

Four of my wife's friends have had it and are now recovering...

 

[A_Bierce]

Thomas Stearns Eliot claimed April is the cruellest month. Let's all hope to hell he was right.

 

[Javahead]

When they are back in action they will need an angle grinder.

In England, would it be legal to wear sandals and file them sharp?

Ever since learning that my Swiss Army knife is now illegal there since it has a locking main blade I’ve been looking for alternative solutions.

 

[litfan10]

Our county in New York just had its first Covid-19 death. We are up to 49 confirmed cases.

 

[Javahead]

Our county in New York just had its first Covid-19 death. We are up to 49 confirmed cases.

You’re in the upstate area, right? Since NYC’s numbers are ... rather higher.

Here in Santa Clara County, CA, the numbers are currently 47/1442

When we go walking, we try to stay well away from anyone - walking briskly past one another with a six foot separation makes most people uncomfortable.

M’lady and I have been speculating how long people will remain cautious afterwards. She thinks I’m cynical when I say “probably less than a month”

 

[litfan10]

You’re in the upstate area, right? Since NYC’s numbers are ... rather higher.

Here in Santa Clara County, CA, the numbers are currently 47/1442

When we go walking, we try to stay well away from anyone - walking briskly past one another with a six foot separation makes most people uncomfortable.

M’lady and I have been speculating how long people will remain cautious afterwards. She thinks I’m cynical when I say “probably less than a month”

Yeah, I'm near the Canada border.

 

[Javahead]

Yeah, I'm near the Canada border.

The good part of the state, then.

I’ll admit I’m not a fan of cities. Even if I’ve lived in one for most of my adult life.

 

[litfan10]

You’re in the upstate area, right? Since NYC’s numbers are ... rather higher.

Here in Santa Clara County, CA, the numbers are currently 47/1442

When we go walking, we try to stay well away from anyone - walking briskly past one another with a six foot separation makes most people uncomfortable.

M’lady and I have been speculating how long people will remain cautious afterwards. She thinks I’m cynical when I say “probably less than a month”

The good part of the state, then.

I’ll admit I’m not a fan of cities. Even if I’ve lived in one for most of my adult life.

I grew up near the city, much prefer up here.
Oddly I prefer city people. I find a lot more rudeness up here, but I generally avoid the people.

 

[KeithD]

I generally avoid the people.

There's been a lot of that going around lately.

 

[RejectReality]

Still 3 confirmed cases for my home county and 7 for my work county here. Zero deaths. Living in bum-fuck Egypt doesn't have many advantages, but this is one of them.

Something must have scared the management at the salt mine, or more likely, something scared national management elsewhere. They pulled in a restroom trailer and parked it by the receiving door, installed a paperwork drop-off box, and banned all outside carriers from the building today. They blocked off the edges of one half of the breakroom with plastic walls, and starting Monday, we all have to go through the maze and a "health screening" upon entering the building. Supposed to be three questions and a temperature check.

Thankfully, I'm on vacation next week, so they'll have worked out most of the clusterfuck that is going to cause before I have to deal with it.

We may have turned the corner on the great toilet paper shortage. When I stopped to do my shopping at the small town supermarket after work today, there had to be almost two cases of Charmin double roll 12-packs on the shelves, where I've seen only empty shelves in all but one stop since this started.

Still no sign of disinfectant spray or wipes, though.

 

[loquere]

I thought maybe we'd get more readers. More writers follows, too.

I thought more readers as well. I should start writing though.

 

[oggbashan]

Sod's Law

I won the First Prize in my local Heritage Railway's Christmas Draw - a day's loco driving experience.

But they wrote to me asking to contract them to arrange a date. At first I couldn't because I was expecting urgent radiotherapy treatment which would be on five consecutive days. I wasn't worried because they don't normally start running trains until this Easter weekend and the loco driving experience would have to be later in April or May.

I finished radiotherapy on 25 March but the Covid-19 shutdown came into effect on 21 March. As someone at severe risk, I have to stay at home for 12 weeks.

The shutdown also closed the railway and we/they don't know when it will reopen. When it does, providing me with a loco driving experience will be a very low priority.

Will I ever get my prize? I don't know.

 

[gordo12]

I won the First Prize in my local Heritage Railway's Christmas Draw - a day's loco driving experience.

But they wrote to me asking to contract them to arrange a date. At first I couldn't because I was expecting urgent radiotherapy treatment which would be on five consecutive days. I wasn't worried because they don't normally start running trains until this Easter weekend and the loco driving experience would have to be later in April or May.

I finished radiotherapy on 25 March but the Covid-19 shutdown came into effect on 21 March. As someone at severe risk, I have to stay at home for 12 weeks.

The shutdown also closed the railway and we/they don't know when it will reopen. When it does, providing me with a loco driving experience will be a very low priority.

Will I ever get my prize? I don't know.

You might like these: My aunt in England's half brother, Don Bilston

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuaHgC2_fVg
Farewell To Steam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3BpBKkGSpY
Night Freight

 

[JamesMiehoff]

I won the First Prize in my local Heritage Railway's Christmas Draw - a day's loco driving experience.


Will I ever get my prize? I don't know.

That brought a smile to my face. Around here, "a day's loco driving experience" is any commute into the city by car.

James

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Will I ever get my prize? I don't know.

Lemme see.

You’re supposed to have been dead now from lung cancer. Absolutely unavoidable, you said. That didn’t happen.

And you’re ‘not young’ in the midst of the worst plague in a century - and still ticking.

I gave up believing in certainties when they discovered the coelacanth, but I have a certain amount of confidence you’ll be blowing that horn before the summer ends, Ogg.

 

[litfan10]

The little village I live in now has a confirmed case of Covid-19.

Be safe and well, sweetie!

 

[litfan10]

There's been a lot of that going around lately.

Just a mental shift, I went from being considered rude and antisocial to health conscious and smart.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Just a mental shift, I went from being considered rude and antisocial to health conscious and smart.

And you never moved from the couch .

 

[litfan10]

And you never moved from the couch .

Damned straight - I'm hunkered down for the long count with a pile of books at my side

 

[oggbashan]

Lemme see.

You’re supposed to have been dead now from lung cancer. Absolutely unavoidable, you said. That didn’t happen.

And you’re ‘not young’ in the midst of the worst plague in a century - and still ticking.

I gave up believing in certainties when they discovered the coelacanth, but I have a certain amount of confidence you’ll be blowing that horn before the summer ends, Ogg.

Lung cancer? I am in 'remission'. The medics expect it to be back soon and if the hospitals are full of Covid-19 patients I won't get treatment.

But I might live long enough to drive a loco - a diesel one. I couldn't stand on a steam engine's footplate safely now and they only have one steam engine that is very unreliable.

When I was ten years old, a friend's father took me on a footplate of a tank engine from London to Southend and back. Health and Safety wouldn't allow that now.


In my twenties I drove a steam engine around Devonport Dockyard at eight miles an hour. I enjoyed that.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Well damn. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52262490

TBT was part of my childhood.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Well damn. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52262490

TBT was part of my childhood.

Yup. And Stirling Moss. But not by C19

 

[A_Bierce]

Yup. And Stirling Moss. But not by C19

Also my boyhood hero: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-medi...l_progressive,q_80,w_800/17hmxk61gh3hojpg.jpg