Starting to get scared

Just got home after a fifteen hour day, started a new project only to find out Project Manager back East has COVID.

There goes any chance of me working for at least three weeks. IDK.

Sucks true, all you bros take care of yourselves and loved ones. We have a great community, let's keep it that way.
 
It’s starting to sink in that I am going to lose people I know to COVID-19. Most of my friends and relatives are in the high risk age group including me. I’m scared but I always find a way to stay sane. When I’m down music always brings me back up. Spent some time banging out really loud chords on the SG Blackstar rig today. Spent some more time working on writing a new song on my LaPatrie Etude classical guitar. Ended up on YouTube watching Playing for Change videos.


This and, I feel like I'm about to lose myself. If I catch the virus I 'will' die.
I'm in that 2% group of underlying conditions which is deaths deemed insignificant. Not that many people die from the flu (but it's not flu they're dying from).
I am scared / afraid, and there's a good reason to be.
I also think your fear might save you if you let it.
 
This and, I feel like I'm about to lose myself. If I catch the virus I 'will' die.
I'm in that 2% group of underlying conditions which is deaths deemed insignificant. Not that many people die from the flu (but it's not flu they're dying from).
I am scared / afraid, and there's a good reason to be.
I also think your fear might save you if you let it.
....and I’m just the dumb-ass that would infect a “Cool Frood” like you...because I could easily walk around not knowing that I am actually a Petri dish. I don’t like the idea of, unknowingly, pulling the trigger on a fellow human.
 
It’s what keeps me sane right now. I’m not normally an outgoing social person but the isolation is getting to me. Online friends and phone calls are it for a while.
An official virtual handshake, and a look in the eye, to you sir...please know that you are a valued fellow human being! Please continue to exist, and interact, with us.
 
It’s what keeps me sane right now. I’m not normally an outgoing social person but the isolation is getting to me. Online friends and phone calls are it for a while.
We have a head start on the quarantine. I have never met any of you in person, but I consider you all good friends who I look forward to "seeing" every day. Let's keep each other company, play some riffs, and post some clips! Maybe we should start a thread with songs in which we all add a part. We can do multiple songs in different genres so everyone can join in!
 
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This and, I feel like I'm about to lose myself. If I catch the virus I 'will' die.
I'm in that 2% group of underlying conditions which is deaths deemed insignificant. Not that many people die from the flu (but it's not flu they're dying from).
I am scared / afraid, and there's a good reason to be.
I also think your fear might save you if you let it.
No death is insignificant. You are not going anywhere. Stay home and stay safe, and we will get through this together.
 
Anyone who's not worried about this, is living in an alternate reality.
Common sense and luck is all we have to guide us right now.
As usual the news media is slow to broadcast facts, opting instead for sensationalizing on the misfortune of others.
 
Keep washing your hands, folks!

Up until a few days ago, I thought that washing hands only washed the virus off your skin, and the virus was eventually killed in the water treatment plant. I did a little more research and discovered something more intriguing.

It turns out one of the best things to use is simple soap and water. The reason is that the outer "shell" of viruses is composed of lipids (fats ) and proteins. The "grease cutting" action of soap - all soap - everything from a simple bar of soap to more aggressive soaps like Dawn dishwashing liquid, dissolves the lipids in the outer shell and quite literally tears the virus apart and destroys it.

It's really quite impressive when you think about it!

Alcohol is effective (if at least a 60% concentration) because it does something similar, though it actually isn't as effective as soap and water, especially if you've got dirty hands. Interestingly, 100% alcohol is less effective because some water is necessary to help destroy the virus. Isopropyl and ethyl alcohol are the best.

I keep a small spray bottle of around a 90% ethyl alcohol mix in my car.
 
I'm still doing grocery deliveries. I wipe down every cart I touch and my hands as well. I don't know where this is going, but I have to keep a positive attitude.


You are really on the front lines and serving those in need. Thank you and Godspeed man!!

My wife is doing the same thing. She's shopping an order for a customer right now. I'm working from home.
 
I politely asked “what part of stay at home don’t you understand?”

THANK YOU!!!

It's driving me NUTS to see news reports of people casually disregarding directives to stay at home!

Here in the DC area, people were gathered downtown to look at the cherry blossoms. My governor, Larry Hogan, has had to get the police to ensure people don't gather in crowds. It's crazy. I mean, I am taking this seriously, though I'm not panicked. But, I've known all my life that the best way to slow the spread of a disease is cleanliness and isolation. It's just common sense.
 
THANK YOU!!!

It's driving me NUTS to see news reports of people casually disregarding directives to stay at home!

Here in the DC area, people were gathered downtown to look at the cherry blossoms. My governor, Larry Hogan, has had to get the police to ensure people don't gather in crowds. It's crazy. I mean, I am taking this seriously, though I'm not panicked. But, I've known all my life that the best way to slow the spread of a disease is isolation. It's just common sense.
Officials this morning preparing to enforce lock down in a much more aggressive way.
There is no way for our medical facilities to handle the influx of infected people....the infection rate must be slowed down.
There is no reserve of medical supplies to protect the medical workers, they are dangerously low on basic supplies such as masks and gloves.
There is only one million hospital beds in the USA and the numbers could easily reach 3-1/2 times that many by late April (do the math).
By April 24 there could be 120 million people infected world wide (it doubles every 3-4 days).

I don't watch TV, I don't watch network news.
I'm just watching this map:

If you think I am alarmist, consider again as unbelievable as this sounds: the above is the world I woke up in, this morning.
This is not media hype, it's a uncomfortable and stark reality that we are living inside of right now.
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I believe thing is try not to panic, especially if you have children. If the Children see this in you, it will put them under a lot of stress, which could be very harmful for them. Try to limit the news, The Press thrives on making people uncomfortable, that's what they like to do , its their job. Not saying there isn't some good that comes from them there is. But they like to hype things up. Maybe this is a wake up call for the World. When I was younger growing up people had respect for each other. Younger people had respect for their elders, for many years now this has not been happening. Now many are self serving don't care about anyone except themselves. Morality is disappearing, the Family unit is disappearing. For many years we all have been riding the wave. What about our parents who lived through the Great depression, they know what its like to worry to have stress . Us younger people, I say this younger than our parents, we now are experiencing a difficult time. We all have something to learn from this. Hopefully the World and its people that live in it will become better individuals, not take things for granted, be kinder to each other. This is a sign of the time when we have to ban together, help each other, no Country can stand alone, every country needs the help from one another. All the country's in the World are linked together, if one of those links is missing things stop functioning normally, which creates problems. All Country's are reliant on one another. So lets all work together to get through this life altering situation. Stay safe, stay healthy and stay home if you can or able.
 
We have some good friends that wanted to come up and visit us on Friday. I politely asked “what part of stay at home don’t you understand?” We’ll see them in a few weeks. We are on the edge of nowhere and I like it that way.

I've never ever been really comfortable being around people. When you go through life feeling like that - and growing up alone - you become comfortable there.

I think its because it is always playing in the back of my mind to not say the wrong thing or to have the wrong facial expression or the absence of expression. It's just part of Aspberger's Syndrome.

My wife and i are the best of friends, we talk a lot and she understands me. I've come a long ways because up until a couple of years ago, i wouldn't go anywhere outside of a music event. Now, i actually go places with her and say a few wise/friendly things and then just listen...remembering to smile at the right times.

I dig solitude, Man...here's our little spot in Central America...i am most at peace in these settings...

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THANK YOU!!!

It's driving me NUTS to see news reports of people casually disregarding directives to stay at home!

Here in the DC area, people were gathered downtown to look at the cherry blossoms. My governor, Larry Hogan, has had to get the police to ensure people don't gather in crowds. It's crazy. I mean, I am taking this seriously, though I'm not panicked. But, I've known all my life that the best way to slow the spread of a disease is cleanliness and isolation. It's just common sense.

There's as many people out in the malls as ever. Parking lots are full. Freeway traffic is better than it was a few weeks ago.

I stopped by a Home Depot Monday to buy parts to repair the toilet and it was packed too.

There are only 4 of us in the studio working on projects...but we are there all day every day.
 
Hi Guys, As we know like where certain members posted an entire thread of where I am, I am obviously less wordy than is normal for myself.

My answer in that thread was basically being super busy. In that vein, I also posted pics of my bathroom job I was doing for my friend and his wife and then mentioned my increased role of having to care for both of my parents. Dad here in Baltimore needs 24/7 supervision, and mom in Delaware is in a seniors Apartment building and sadly is worsening in her dementia.

No symptoms of sick feelings in the weeks since the virus and the isolating measures were advised and implemented. However, I also have had to have some contacts with various potential carriers, spreaders, sources of future contamination. In caring for my 83 year old dad, we have had 3 nurses and 2 Therapists plus my sister and her friend Tim come to attend to his needs in his house.

As for my travels, I have seriously limited those from my norm, too. A few trips to Home Depot, plus a couple trips to some materials sites to buy some chain link fencing about 2 weeks ago. A trip to get my tools off that bathroom job, and one or 2 trips to the grocery and to buy some lunches. From pulling most of the overnighters with dad to get him out of bed to toilet and get meds etc, I have had only about 6 or 7 nights to try to catch up on sleep at home with my fiancee over the time since dad got out of rehab on 3/5/2020.

Anyhow, I am about to face a scenario bridge that I already crossed without much thought the other week when I picked up my tools and finished installing a part in that bath job. The wife mentioned how her recently widowed father in law chose not to have visits from her husband, son, or daughter to isolate himself. This hit home because her husband works at a hospital which makes him the closest target to date for the virus to travel on and possibly pass on to me. So, during that trip, he mentions the kitchen countertop demo work we had arranged for tomorrow to ready it for a company to install a new top on Friday. NOW the rock and hard place scenario. I either wish him luck and tell him he is on his own to do the demo while I adhere to the ISOLATION measures. Or I go in all wrapped up in a sealed up suit. use masks and gloves and just do the demo, pitch the protective clothes and leave with more money in my pocket.

Nothing like real life complications to muck up all attempts at a peaceful life.
 
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